GSM Power off
Paul Fertser
fercerpav at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 20:27:04 CET 2009
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> writes:
>> > - echo "AT at POFF" >/dev/ttySAC0
>>
>> This is supposed to ask modem firmware to power off itself. Was
>> necessary because GTA01 has no physical power switch. I don't know
>> exact results of this command though.
>
> IIRC it issues a controlled shutdown including deregistration from the
> network and shutting down RF.
But is it really necessary? One can as well suddenly go out of
coverage without any deregistrations. Does it really matter for the
network?
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