# Cannot use active eSIM, OpenEUICC crashes

**URL:** <https://community.iode.tech/t/cannot-use-active-esim-openeuicc-crashes/8677>\
**Category:** Closed\
**Tags:** MotorolaG32, eSIM\
**Created:** [8 September 2026 14:52 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/cannot-use-active-esim-openeuicc-crashes/8677 "2026-09-08T14:52:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![klic](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/6bbea6/32.png) [@klic](https://community.iode.tech/u/klic)\
**Post date:** [8 September 2026 14:52 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/cannot-use-active-esim-openeuicc-crashes/8677/1 "2026-09-08T14:52:56Z")

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I got me an eSIM but fail to activate it. The provider’s app fails with “device does not meet Google play criteria”, I cannot use SIM in settings, it’s grayed out, and an installation of OpenEUICC succeds, but I cannot start it, it crashes with this logcat. There are a few topics already, but I fail to extract any useful information from them, so sorry for duplicates, because I may be too dense …

Edit: cannot find OpenEUICC under preinstalled apps, which might cause the problem, because this way I cannot install it as a system app,I think

> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: Process: im.angry.openeuicc, PID: 19366  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create application im.angry.ope  
> neuicc.PrivilegedOpenEuiccApplication  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityTh  
> read.java:8144)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(U  
> nknown Source:0)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.j  
> ava:2690)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:132)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Looper.dispatchMessage(Looper.java:333)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:263)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:367)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9287)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run  
> (RuntimeInit.java:566)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:929  
> )  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Caller does not have permissi  
> on.  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:3373)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:3357)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3340)  
> 09-08 13:19:07.603 19366 19366 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3282)

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**Author:** ![klic](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/6bbea6/32.png) [@klic](https://community.iode.tech/u/klic)\
**Post date:** [8 September 2026 19:53 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/cannot-use-active-esim-openeuicc-crashes/8677/2 "2026-09-08T19:53:45Z")

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Oh my, just realised this device does not support esim…not sure how I got this idea

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**Author:** ![Taurus-II](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Taurus-II](https://community.iode.tech/u/Taurus-II)\
**Post date:** [8 September 2026 22:29 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/cannot-use-active-esim-openeuicc-crashes/8677/3 "2026-09-08T22:29:10Z")

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If you don’t want that eSIM to go to waste, and _if_ it can be used without the company’s app, you could buy an eSIM adapter (i.e. a writable SIM card), and with the JMP SIM Manager from F-Droid, and an eSIM reader/writer (the size of a USB thumb drive), write that eSIM and a few more besides, to the eSIM adapter card.

Then you could use eSIMs (on the card) in your phone, and move the card to a different phone if you want. Depending on the eSIM adapter you buy, and your phone, you might need to use the eSIM writer again when you want to enable/disable/install an eSIM. Or it might be that you can do that in the JMP SIM Manager app without needing the eSIM writer again.