Quoth Michael Spacefalcon: > Nick <openmoko-commun...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > > I tried the SIM in another phone and it does work, and another SIM > > in this one does not (both the same network). > > OK, good observation. The problem is now narrowed down to the FR, > rather than network coverage in your area, your service subscription > or the SIM issued for it. > > There is one more thing we need to check before proceeding further, > though. That other phone you used to confirm your SIMs as good, what > kind of phone is it? Is it 2G or 3G? If the latter, please look > through its menus and see if there is an option to force 2G mode. > The reason for this exploration is to eliminate the possibility that > GSM (aka 2G) service in your geographical area stopped working, > knocking out Free Firmware phones while closed proprietary Apple/ > Samsung/GTA04/etc still work on UMTS..
The phone that works is 3G, and it doesn't seem to have a 'force 2G' option anywhere. I'm in the Greater Boston area, so I can't imagine the phone company could just have turned off 2G here yet; there are too many subscribers around. > Assuming that your email TLD matches your location, you are doing this > in the UK, right? Do you know if your service provider operates a > 900 MHz GSM network, a 1800 MHz one, or both? As I said, I'm in the USA now, and I'm on ATT, FWIW. > > Revision is: > > GSM: gsm_ac_gp_fd_pu_em_cph_ds_vc_cal35_ri_36_amd8_ts0-Moko11 > > So Moko11, I guess ;) > > Any particular reason you have not yet upgraded to leo2moko-r1 aka > moko12? While it is very unlikely that performing this fw update will > fix the problem, running fw with a published Corresponding Source and > a linker map listing will likely be a prerequisite for some of the > more advanced troubleshooting steps, so you might as well do it now.. The only reason is laziness. I like following your work very much, and am glad you're doing it, and planned to upgrade eventually. I might as well do it now indeed... Will do so tomorrow, when I debug this further. > > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GSM > > [...] > > That's a good idea. I'm hitting a snag before I get very far, > > though. Namely that I don't know which process is in charge of the > > GSM, so which one to kill to stop the phone accessing. > > According to this web page: > > http://winterveldt.co.za/leo2moko-p3.html > > the command you need is: > > /etc/init.d/qtmoko-neo stop > > (Whether the intent is to talk manual AT commands to the modem or to > reflash it, the step of stopping QtMoko should be the same.) Ah great, thanks, that sounds like just the ticket. > > lsof would probably tell me, but I can't install it because it's > > tough to get the wifi to work (which I generally don't care about). > > Huh? WiFi? While you do need an ssh connection into the Neo, why > does it have to be WiFi? Doesn't QtMoko support eth-over-usb > networking like the others? It does, I expect, I just haven't set it up to do that yet. Basically because I just want a dumbphone that works, really, so tend towards laziness regarding my phone nowadays. > HTH, It certainly does, thanks, I'll report back tomorrow. Nick _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community