I have traced the problem with the SMS control. It has to do with the PIN NUMBER function of the SonyEricsson modems. The cards do not have a PIN number requested. And I should have worked this out a lot faster. When no PIN is needed, the phone will tell you that you need to enter a PUK2 code when you ask if a PIN is needed. This is strange behavior, but when you realise this things work better. Since I need a few other things changed I have just let the programmer know so that he can change the code on his end.

Once this has been changed things will be working a whole lot better. Better debugging capabilities are needed in the server control too. That is a minor thing to improve really. And it will not need much effort.

Oh. Yesterday I asked for a price for a developers kit for some software. They said 29.000 euro for the license, and then 3.000 Euro each year. Fine. 29 Euro was not too bad. Then I found today it was 29,000 euro. That is not acceptable. So I spoke to the Australian customer service person today and was told that I could get much support if needed subject to some limitations. So thanks to google and customer support I have just saved 29,000 Euro. Well, not really. I would NEVER have paid that much, but you know what I mean.

Why so much? I do not know. Probably to restrict access to the information. And stop people like me developing applications that are significantly cheaper than their own solutions…