- I have problem and difficulties in using the tool, who should I contact to?
- How can I get the card admin tool training?
- How can I upgrade my Card Admin?
- How to get a license for my Card Admin? What is the activation procedure?
- Card Admin is sold together with a free license? How long the license is included?
- How can I order Card Admin?
- What is card extension?
- What is the system requirement for installing card admin?
- May I know more about the Card Admin’s functionalities?
- What kind of add on is available for the Card Admin?
- Card Admin only supports Gemalto cards?
- What is Card Admin?
Support contact for external is support.gemalto.com.
If Card Admin 1.5 is already installed and licensed on your PC , you can download the Card Admin 1.6 Upgrade.
1. Start Card Admin
2. The License Key Manager window appears with the list of the Card Admin licenses status
3. Click on Export to export your XML profile Send your XML profile by email to your Gemalto contact (or to CardAdmin.registration(at)gemalto.com )
4. You will receive by e-mail in a few days a License XML file
5. Open the License Key Manager window: go in the Card Admin menu, click on Help then on License Management
6. In the License Key Manager window, click on Import button and select your License XML File received by email
Card Admin is sold with a 2 years license including upgrades. At the end of the 2 years license you can buy a license extension.
You may directly buy your Card Admin on the Gemalto Online Web Store: store.gemalto.com
The aim of the CaE is to provide an easy update of Card Admin in order to support the new cards. The small size of the CaE will allow a faster download and a faster installation (avoiding uninstall/install issue).
Hardware requirements The following hardware is required to install and use Card Admin:
- Intel® Pentium® III processor, 500 MHz or faster.
- A minimum of 512 MB of RAM (1 GB is recommended).
- 600 MB of available disk space
- An additional 50 MB of available disk space for each Java Development Kit (JDK) you install (see “JDK” on page2).
- A graphics card supporting 800 x 600 pixels screen resolution. 1024 x 768 pixels is recommended.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- A card reader (such as the PC Twin Q7).
- Microsoft® WindowsXP (with Service Pack 2) or Microsoft Windows® 2000 (with Service Pack 4)
- The TCP/IP networking protocol must be installed.
- JDK - Card ADMIN requires the Java™ 2 Platform, Standard or Enterprise Edition. Version 1.4.2 of the Java 2 Software Development Kit (formerly called the JDK) is required. These are provided on the CD-ROM, or can be downloaded from java.sun.com/products.
- Other Software - Microsoft XML Parser version 4 (with Service Pack 2), Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0., Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 or later (to read PDF files).
Yes, it offers file system administration, card content comparison, SIM Toolkit & Java Card Applet Administration, Authentication, Check standard compliance, Phonebook Interpreter and etc. For more detail please visit our Gemalto official Card Admin web site www.gemalto.com/products/card_admin/
CDMA Option: A product from the Card Admin range which addresses the card administration needs of a CDMA card. Its main features include: Interpreted and binary file representation, support for the CDMA card command set and a generic APDU exchange feature, a trace scripting tool to record and display actions and results , display of all applications installed on the card, including C-CAT (CDMA Card Application Toolkit applications and GSM SIM Toolkit applications.
NO, Card Admin supports all the latest evolutions in Gemalto and Java Card based smart card technology.
Card Admin offers a range of tools administrating the card whatever the telecommunication technology used: 2G, 3G, CDMA. It provides all the necessary fundamentals to FULLY (Proprietary files, Proprietary commands etc...) administrate any 2G and any 3G card (Gemalto & Competition).

