923740 - Support loading preloaded contacts customization data when no SIM is present

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System, defect)

Description

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

Currently we don't have a way to specify customization data to be loaded when no SIM is inserted. We could use MCC/MNC pair "000-000", or "default", or "nosim", or something.

Comment 1

[Marina Rodríguez [:mai]]

IMHO, i'm not sure if adding a new default configuration have sense, because the build have one. What's the added value to add another?

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to marina rodríguez [:mai] from comment #1)
> IMHO, i'm not sure if adding a new default configuration have sense, because
> the build have one. What's the added value to add another?

The one in the build isn't a true default customization for no SIM - it acts as a default customization right now applied in all situations, not when the SIM isn't present or isn't detected.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Blocking because default customizations have to work. I will look into to how many customizations are affected here to determine severity, but don't let that hold back trying to fix this.

Comment 4

[Aus Lacroix [:aus]]

First we'll figure out which customizations do not have defaults applied when there is no SIM. For some customizations, it may be normal and desired that _no_ defaults are applied. For others, there should be _no_ customizations applied before there is a _valid_ SIM. This may be a no-op.

Comment 5

[Aus Lacroix [:aus]]

Customizations that will have build time defaults with NO SIM PRESENT:

* Bookmarks
* Support Contacts


Customizations that will NOT have build time defaults with NO SIM PRESENT:

* Contacts
* Data APN
* Cell Broadcast
* SUPL / A-GPS
* Messaging APN


Out of the items that will NOT have build time defaults, it feels like Contacts *may* deserve a re-visit so that some default contacts can be populated into the contacts db without a sim card present. However, once a valid sim is inserted, contacts will be populated based on run-time mcc/mnc values for said sim.

Peter, let me know how we should proceed. :)

Comment 6

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

(In reply to Ghislain 'Aus' Lacroix from comment #5)
> Customizations that will NOT have build time defaults with NO SIM PRESENT:
> * Contacts

FYI, Contacts right now implements this feature with the old contacts.json mechanism, so not having it in FTU just means it'll be done differently (and possibly in a more confusing way).

Comment 7

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

(In reply to Ghislain 'Aus' Lacroix from comment #5)
> Customizations that will NOT have build time defaults with NO SIM PRESENT:
> 
> * Contacts
> * Data APN
> * Cell Broadcast
> * SUPL / A-GPS
> * Messaging APN

Thanks for the summary Aus.  When the SIM gets inserted, I assume that data APN, cell broadcast, A-GPS and Messaging APNs are then configured at that point.  Is that accurate?

Comment 8

[Aus Lacroix [:aus]]

(In reply to Peter Dolanjski [:pdol] from comment #7)
> (In reply to Ghislain 'Aus' Lacroix from comment #5)
> > Customizations that will NOT have build time defaults with NO SIM PRESENT:
> > 
> > * Contacts
> > * Data APN
> > * Cell Broadcast
> > * SUPL / A-GPS
> > * Messaging APN
> 
> Thanks for the summary Aus.  When the SIM gets inserted, I assume that data
> APN, cell broadcast, A-GPS and Messaging APNs are then configured at that
> point.  Is that accurate?

Peter, that is correct. Those settings are always updated/re-applied when a SIM card is inserted for the first time or when the SIM card changes regardless of how many times the device was booted up *without* a SIM card.

Comment 9

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

FWIW - When I tested this out with preloaded contacts, what I saw was that it was currently not possible to ever have a true default customization. You can either a SIM variant preloaded contacts customization or a preloaded contacts customization that applies to all customizations. The default case doesn't exist.

Comment 10

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

This also affects partner app customizations - it's currently not possible to specify a default homescreen app customization.

Comment 11

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

This bug is being scoped specifically to preloaded contacts loading with no SIM present, which currently doesn't work - we can either apply preloaded to contacts to all customizations or variants. Talking in the systemsfe, we've decided to not block on this, as TEF is okay with only supporting variant preloaded contacts for 1.2.

Comment 12

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Going to file a separate bug for the homescreen issue.