GTA02 Setting time from phone network using NITZ ?

[Neil Jerram]

Adam Ward <caysho at internode.on.net> writes:

> I have a GTA02 which I acquired a few years back and until now I have not 
> really done anything with it.  Now I want to use it as my main phone.
>
> The automatic setting of the date/time from the providors network (in this 
> case it is Optus) does not work in qtmoko.  The provider does support this as 
> I have a another phone that gets this information.
>
> I see there is an old bug from the Nokia days:
> http://docs.huihoo.com/qt/qtextended/4.4/release-4-4-3.html 
> BUG 231983
>
> According to 
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/30428306/54/AT-CTZU-Automatic-Time-Zone-Update 
> I should be able to chat to the modem to get some information.

Time and time zone are two different things.  In my (patchy and
non-scientific) experience, mobile networks often do tell you the time
zone, but not the time.

Do you know that NeronGPS can sync both time and time zone for you? -
obviously, subject to having a GPS fix.

> But the following command does not return anything:
> root at neo:~# chat -vse '' 'AT+CTZU=?' '' '' > /dev/ttySAC0 < /dev/ttySAC0
> send (AT+CTZU=?^M)
> send (^M)
>
> syslog shows:
> Jan  1 08:13:45 neo chat[1109]: send (AT+CTZU=?^M)
> Jan  1 08:13:46 neo chat[1109]: send (^M)
>
> Is there a way to automatically log the AT chat commands ?
> Do I have the correct /dev/tty ?
>
> More generally, is this a problem with the calypso firmware, or qt extended / 
> qtmoko or something else ?

I'm afraid I don't know about those points.

       Neil