# EU4 total 20 real activations run (2026-05-10)

## Request

BOSS asked to continue using the previous four regions and test 20 times:

```text
Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom
Total 20 attempts
Each region switches after at most 3 consecutive failures
```

## Important correction during run

The first total-20 runner used a single pass over the country list, so it could only schedule:

```text
Italy x3 -> Poland x3 -> Spain x3 -> UK x3
```

That stopped after 12 scheduled attempts, with only 10 real 5sim activations because one Italy gate/submission path and one UK gate path hit CDP/runtime errors before buying.

The runner was patched to count **real activations** only and to cycle country chunks until 20 activations were bought:

```text
country x3 -> next country -> ... -> repeat until 20 real buys
```

Gate/CDP failures before the 5sim buy step are not counted as real phone attempts.

## Final result

Combined logs:

```text
/tmp/phone_verify_eu4_3fail_switch_total20.log
/tmp/phone_verify_eu4_3fail_switch_total20_part2.log
```

Total real 5sim activations:

```text
20
```

Country distribution:

```json
{
  "italy": 4,
  "poland": 6,
  "spain": 6,
  "england": 4
}
```

Cancellations:

```json
{
  "italy": 4,
  "poland": 6,
  "spain": 6,
  "england": 4
}
```

SMS received:

```text
0
```

Resend probe classification:

```json
{
  "whatsapp": 20
}
```

Direct OpenAI phone rejection:

```text
0
```

All 20 numbers were accepted into the waiting/verification path long enough to poll 5sim, but 5sim never received an SMS. Every resend probe indicated WhatsApp delivery, so the SMS-only runner canceled the activation instead of clicking WhatsApp resend.

Final activation checked:

```json
{
  "activation_id": 1006848391,
  "country": "england",
  "status": "CANCELED",
  "product": "openai"
}
```

## Runner bug

After the 20th activation was canceled, the patched runner hit a harmless final-summary bug:

```text
NameError: name 'attempt_total' is not defined
```

This happened after all 20 real buys were completed and the final activation was canceled. Fix the final `phone_failed_all` emit to use `buy_total` instead of the removed `attempt_total` variable.

## Conclusion

Under the current OpenAI account/session, proxy, and 5sim `openai` SMS activation provider, these four regions are not producing SMS codes. The pattern is consistent across 20 real activations:

```text
OpenAI accepts the number -> page waits for verification -> 5sim receives no SMS -> OpenAI resend channel is WhatsApp -> cancel SMS activation
```

Continuing with the same provider/country set is likely low value unless BOSS wants to collect more evidence. Next useful variables to change are provider/source, account/session risk state, or verification channel strategy.