request for documentation page and location to put it

Michael Shiloh michael at openmoko.org
Sat Aug 2 04:55:48 CEST 2008


Many people come to the wiki when something doesn't work. I've been 
trying to figure out the best way to help them, and I've come up with 
this idea. Please tell me what you think:

1. Have a "known issues" section prominently displayed on the main page, 
perhaps near the top.

2. Each known issue should include the symptoms and a diagnostic (so 
that a user can determine whether the problem they are experiencing is 
in fact this known issue). Diagnostics might be sparse when an issue 
first becomes known, and will become clearer as we learn about the issue.

3. Each known issue will also (hopefully :-) feature a solution section, 
although initially it might be empty.

4. After a known issue is solved, and the patches are present in daily 
builds, and enough time has elapsed to prove it is really solved the 
issue must be removed from the "known issues" section so that the wiki 
remains uncluttered.

This also raises the question of historical items. Once things are over 
and done, removing from the wiki would avoid confusion. On the other 
hand, history is good. Not sure how best to handle this, but it's lower 
priority I think.

Michael

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: FW: Sim card is not working, how do I run diagnostics?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:32:02 -0700
From: steve <steve at openmoko.com>
To: William Lai <will at openmoko.com>,	Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu) 
<tony at openmoko.com>,	Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org>
CC: Sean Moss-Pultz <sean at openmoko.com>


We need a place where people can go to get this informtion

Wiki is NOT good enough

Mailing list is a nightmare, like asking the sphinx.


-----Original Message-----
From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Adam Talbot
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:23 PM
To: List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: Sim card is not working, how do I run diagnostics?

And I am stuck
I have 3 brand new sim cards.
71234G
71234O
71234D
None of which work in my FreeRunner. What does the reading of the SIM?
How do I look at that for bugs, and perhaps a bug fix.  What is needed on
the SIM, is it just the S/N?  Can I reprogram a S/N for an unactivated card
to one of my old working chips? Then call AT&T and get it activated?
Any ideas?
-Adam



On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:39 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote:
> I am a tinker, left on my own (+google) I can figure out almost 
> anything :-)
> 
> Sim cards.  Here is the "how to" check.
> Follow this until you get an OK prompt.
> http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GSM
> 
> >From there your first command should be at+cimi.  If it returns the 
> >S/N
> of your card, you have a working card.  If not (ERROR), you are out of 
> luck.
> Here are the cards I tested:
> AT&T, blue front, purple/blue-green back.   Worked.
> AT&T, All white. Worked.
> Cingular, 73000O (4021)  Worked.
> Cingular, 63512A (1002)  Worked.  FR hung on boot, may be unrelated.
> Reboot fixed it.
> AT&T, 71234G (3022)  I have two, both failed.
> Should there be a global SIM card compatibility section? Like this, 
> just MUCH bigger?
> http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Carriers/ATT
> 
> I am running a Freerunner +
>
Openmoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080710-om-gta02.rootfs
.jffs2, my provider is AT&T, out of California.
> Hope this helps. 
> -Adam
> 
> 
> http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GSM
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:59 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote:
> > My sim card is not working, how do I run diagnostics? I was looking 
> > on the Wiki, but searching for sim turns up nothing worth while.  I 
> > have a pile of sim card to work with, each different.  Would love to 
> > test them out.  Where is the "how to"?
> > -Adam
> > 
> 
> 
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