issue after rechargin SIM card - at_host: Error while processing AT command

[fabocode]

Hi! 

I've been working with the Thingy 91 and I've found that the SIM card was running out of data, so we decided to buy more data to keep working. The board was working as usual with the ncs master branch.

In the process to buy data we do not turn off the thingy board, we simply follow the process to buy more data. Nothing wrong with this. 

When the process was done, I decided to keep the workg with what I was working on and I've found that what I only get from the terminal window is the following message: 

at_host: Error while processing AT command

I decided to upload the asset_tracker application from the master branch but this message is simply printed again, and again after a while. The curious thing is... That when I checked in the nfr cloud, the dashboard was telling me that the thingy was sending data to the nrf cloud. 

So basically this process do not stop the LTE communication, but the whole process is stopped after this message is printed out. 

In my other application, my loop works only one iteration and then it stops after this message is printed. 

I decided to upload different samples, from asset_tracker to my own application and the result is the same. 

I decided to:

turn off the thingy
unplug the SIM card

plug the SIM card again 

turn on the device 

and the result is the same. I also decided to reboot my computer and nothing works. Do you know why I keep getting this message after we bought new data for the SIM card? 

I have only uploaded firmware for nRF9160_pca20035ns, but I've not touched the nRF52 which is also embedded in the device, do I need to do something with it ? What options do I have? 

Thanks

[Heidi]

Hi!

You're getting that error because you're using the AT command incorrectly. My best guess is that your modem is in offline mode when running +CPINR. Try running

AT+CFUN=1
AT+CPINR="SIM PIN"

and see if that fixes it.

Best regards,

Heidi

[fabocode]

Hi Heidi, 

I tried your suggestion but this is the output from the terminal window:

AT+CPIN?
+CPIN: READY
OK
AT+CPINR="SIM PIN"
%XSIM: 1
%XSIM: 1
+CPINR: "SIM PIN",3
OK
AT+CIMI
204080813516494
OK
%CESQ: 57,2[00:06:54.007,324] [1;31m<err> modem_info: modem_info_parse failed to parse CESQ notification, -11
[0m%CESQ: 255,0[00:06:59.204,254]
[1;31m<err> modem_info: modem_info_parse failed to parse CESQ notification, -11[0m

%XSIM: 1
AT+CPIN?
+CPIN: READY
OK
AT+CPINR="SIM PIN"
[00:06:59.301,086] [1;31m<err> at_host: Error while processing AT command: -8[0mERROR

[fabocode]

Keeping update this issue:

This is the log that I get from my project which will be attached here too. 

Hopefully you could help me out because I don't know exactly what's going on.

03 0x18000 0x20000 Non-Securerwxl
AT+CFUN?
04 0x20000 0x28000 Non-Securerwxl
05 0x28000 0x30000 Non-Securerwxl
06 0x30000 0x38000 Non-Securerwxl
07 0x38000 0x40000 Non-Securerwxl
08 0x40000 0x48000 Non-Securerwxl
09 0x48000 0x50000 Non-Securerwxl
10 0x50000 0x58000 Non-Securerwxl
11 0x58000 0x60000 Non-Securerwxl
12 0x60000 0x68000 Non-Securerwxl
13 0x68000 0x70000 Non-Securerwxl
14 0x70000 0x78000 Non-Securerwxl
15 0x78000 0x80000 Non-Securerwxl
16 0x80000 0x88000 Non-Securerwxl
17 0x88000 0x90000 Non-Securerwxl
18 0x90000 0x98000 Non-Securerwxl
19 0x98000 0xa0000 Non-Securerwxl
20 0xa0000 0xa8000 Non-Securerwxl
21 0xa8000 0xb0000 Non-Securerwxl
22 0xb0000 0xb8000 Non-Securerwxl
23 0xb8000 0xc0000 Non-Securerwxl
24 0xc0000 0xc8000 Non-Securerwxl
25 0xc8000 0xd0000 Non-Securerwxl
26 0xd0000 0xd8000 Non-Securerwxl
27 0xd8000 0xe0000 Non-Securerwxl
28 0xe0000 0xe8000 Non-Securerwxl
29 0xe8000 0xf0000 Non-Securerwxl
+CFUN: 1
OK
AT+CGSN=1
+CGSN: "352656100837312"
OK
AT+CGMI
Nordic Semiconductor ASA
OK
AT+CGMM
nRF9160-SICA
OK
AT+CGMR
mfw_nrf9160_1.0.0
OK
AT+CEMODE?
+CEMODE: 2
OK
AT%XCBAND=?
%XCBAND: (1,2,3,4,5,8,12,13,14,17,18,19,20,25,26,28,66)
OK
AT+CMEE?+CMEE: 0
OK
AT+CMEE=1
OK
AT+CNEC?
+CNEC: 0
OK
AT+CNEC=24
OK
AT+CGEREP?
+CGEREP: 0,0
OK
AT+CGDCONT?
+CGDCONT: 0,"IP","","",0,0
OK
AT+CGACT?
+CGACT: 0,0
OK
AT+CGEREP=1
OK
AT+CIND=1,1,1
OK
AT+CEREG=2
OK
AT+CEREG?
+CEREG: 2,2,"9909","06F1C00F",7
OK
AT%CESQ=1
OK
AT+CESQ
+CESQ: 99,99,255,255,255,52
OK
AT%XSIM=1
OK
AT%XSIM?
%XSIM: 1OKAT+CPIN?
+CPIN: READY
OK
AT+CPINR="SIM PIN"
+CPINR: "SIM PIN",3
OK
AT+CIMI204080813516494
OK+CGEV: ME PDN ACT 0,0[00:00:06.841,400]
[0m<dbg> lte_lc.at_handler: recv: +CGEV: ME PDN ACT 0,0[0m[00:00:06.848,693]
[1;31m<err> lte_lc: Could not parse AT+CEREG response, error: -11[0mAT+CGDCONT?[00:00:06.856,658]
[1;31m<err> lte_lc: Could not get network registration status[0m+CNEC_ESM: 50:00:06.865,844] 
[0m<dbg> lte_lc.at_handler: recv: +CNEC_ESM: 50,0[0m[00:00:06.872,650]
[1;31m<err> lte_lc: Could not parse AT+CEREG response, error: -11[0m[00:00:06.880,615]
[1;31m<err> lte_lc: Could not get network registration status[0m+CEREG: 5,"9909","06F1C00F",7[00:00:06.891,052]
[0m<dbg> lte_lc.at_handler: recv: +CEREG: 5,"9909","06F1C00F",7[0m[00:00:06.899,078]
[0m<dbg> lte_lc.parse_nw_reg_status: Network registration status: 5
[0m+CIND: "service",1+CIND: "roam",1
Connected to LTE network
HTTP to webserver 
id=123456&lat=37.100479&lon=-113.569511&timestamp=10&hdop=42&altitude=23&speed=33

HTTP exampleget addrinfogetaddrinfo err: 0
send_buf is: POST /? HTTP/1.1Host: 178.128.78.97
Connection: keep-alive
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: 81
id=123456&lat=37.100479&lon=-113.569511&timestamp=10&hdop=42&altitude=23&speed=33
send err: 215
socketclient_fd: 3
bind err: 0
+CGDCONT: 0,"IP","ibasis.iot","10.160.157.155",0,0
OK
AT+CGACT?
+CGACT: 0,1
OK
connect err: 0
send err: 215
Reply from the webserver HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-length: 0
%CESQ: 255,0
%XSIM: 1
AT+CPIN?
+CPIN: READY
OK
AT+CPINR="SIM PIN"
[00:00:15.647,399] [1;31m<err> at_host: Error while processing AT command: -8[0mERROR

as.zip

[Heidi]

Hi, can you make sure the modem is in online mode by running AT+CFUN=1 before running AT+CPIN="SIM PIN".