Activating a sim card

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I tried to activate a new un-activated AT&T PrePaid sim card in my Brave Heart phone with Mobian running on it without succeeding.
 The phone does see the new AT&T sim,  but it will not dial out to the 611 number to activate.

The B.H. phone does function with a sim card I removed from my Android phone.
 But,
         The Android sim card does have a problem with data,
> an AT&T tech had previously suggested replacing that sim card when I called AT&T to fix the Android phone.

So I was hoping I could just activate a new sim card in my BH Pine phone directly.

Apparently Android has an app that makes it possible to activate the sim card.?

Is there an app I can put on Debian to activate a new sim card, or should I activate the card in the old Android phone, then move it to my Pine phone..?

Thanks,  B.C.

Your best bet might be activating the guarunteed to work old Android phone. After the SIM card works successfully on that, transfer that SIM card into the Pinephone and boot it up. Myself I used a working AT&T SIM card which I had switched multiple times on different Android cell phones.

I have heard of users on this forum talking to the *right* AT&T representative and giving them the IMEI directly from the Pinephone for activation directly. If you try this make sure to make clear you know it is a compatible phone for AT&T. Some less educated employees might say "it's not on their list" but they should have no problem activating with the IMEI if they know what they are doing.

There is a webpage for activating SIM cards for AT&T. You could try that and input the pinephone imei number while selecting a phone on their list.

Knowing there could be problems depending on the staff member, might be easier to activate that Android and transfer it over to make it go as smooth as possible.