My word on GPRS

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 00:20:07 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
> Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 23:02:07 schrieb Clinton Ebadi:
> > "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey at openmoko.org> writes:
> > > b) If you want to receive calls, the connection needs to be idle. You
> > > can safely have an activated context (i.e. i was able to log in via
> > > SSH) being idle and then you will get your incoming call notifications.
> > >
> > > Note though, once someone wants to call you while you are not idling,
> > > i.e. during a long wget, you will not get any call notifications.
> > > Instead, the network will think you are not reachable and -- if
> > > configured -- send you to the voice mailbox.
> >
> > Is this a limitation of the chipset or the software stack?
>
> To be honest, I have no clue (yet). Perhaps there are some additional
> configuration options which I do not have explored yet. This is just my
> first results.

Uh oh, I read a bit up on that and apparantly a lot of people (even with new 
handsets) can confirm that incoming calls very rarely come through an active 
gprs connection.

The net is full of discussions about that, see e.g. 
http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=1493

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