Making a call from Denmark: done!
Bernhard Kaindl
bkaindl at ffii.org
Tue Nov 20 00:34:30 CET 2007
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Mikkel Meyer Andersen wrote:
>
> I explicitly described the steps I did on my blog (
> http://www.scienco.org/2007/linux/openmoko/calling-from-neo1973openmoko-in-denmark
> ).
If you have GTA01v4, and would like to try it thru the GUI, you can try
the 20071113 snapshot images from my description here:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Phase_1_Software_Testing#Official_20071113_rootfs_with_20071113_.28r3238.29_kernel
With this, I am able to make calls in Germany and even receive calls
with a slightly uncomfortable tweak which requires a stylus while
receiving the call.
My findings (cut and paste from the above URL) are that it
* does ask for PIN after boot, but does not register to network
automatically, you have to do this after each boot by:
1. clicking on the GSM antenna icon in the top nav bar and
select "Autoregister to network" or by
2. executing "echo r|libgsmd-tool -m shell"
* Note: After this, you should see a message box which says
"Connected to GSM Network" popping up. Unless you see this message,
you are NOT registered with the network!!!
* after this, you can make calls, but if the called side hangs up
the call, the dialer does not notice this (you should notice that
you hear no audio anymore and you have to hangup yourself after
that to continue using the dialer) and gsmd or the GSM part might
be confused as well, at least in one instance making subsequent
calls didn't work and once, gsmd exited or crashed, but restarting
it didn't solve the issue, had to reboot.
and
* You can receive a call, but neither side hears the other. To make
audio on receiving a call work, you have to save the mixer
settings with "alsactl store -f call.ctl" while making a call and
restore them while or during answering the call with "alsactl
restore -f call.ctl"
I tried a the 20071118 Unofficial snapshot but in it, the terminal is
a bit broken and it didn't ask me for the PIN (but I had's removed
console=ttySAC0,115200" from bootargs_base) when I tested that other
snapshot.
I hope that we can get these dialer issues fixed and then I'm happy
to give OpenMoko a test as my primary phone. Kudos for the nice work
to everyone contributing!
Bernhard
PS:
I also tried the 20071118 Openmoko-qtopia snapshot, from buildhost.it
and while looking rather neat, its SIM applications didn't see a SIM
card and the Dialer was hung in "Please wait..."
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