status of GSM firmware

Michael Shiloh michael at openmoko.org
Wed Apr 23 12:45:52 CEST 2008


Sean,

I have both GTA01 and GTA02, and I know how to upgrade. Please send me a 
link to gta01bv4-moko8 and gta02bv5-moko8.

I will test before I upgrade any customer GTA01 handsets (I have a few 
waiting for this upgrade).

Thanks,
Michael


Sean Chiang wrote:
> all,
> 
> moko9-beta1 is available now, which is for oscillating re-camping 
> problem [#bug 1024].The lib patch is provided from TI, which not yet 
> official approved by TI RD. When we confirm the problem be solve and no 
> side-effect. An official moko9 will be available. If you have gta device 
> on hand and know *how* to upgrade the firmware or *who* could help you 
> do that, please take a try, field testing, especially users in *Europe*.
> 
> 1) The patch include lib and some not so important text file. Hency I 
> could not know what's the root cause for #1024 or workaround from them.I 
> would like to ask TI after the patch approved by TI *or* could really 
> solve our problem, maybe post the partial code on list.
> 
> 2) There are different GSM firmware version for different hardware 
> version, for example, gta01bv4-moko8, gta02bv5-moko8. Actually, the GSM 
> firmware is completely the same except a few strings. That's because 
> there are hw specific info displayed when we send +CGMM and +CGMR. We 
> had this since gta01 and my concern is "it could be possible that 
> different hw version with the same GSM module will use different gsm 
> firmware"  But now, it seems I think too much and it won't happen. So 
> when official moko9 is available , only one version will be released, 
> that is moko9, not gta01-moko9 or anything else.
> 
> 3) Because moko9 is still unofficial version, so for all gta series 
> device, moko8 is the best choice.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Sean Chiang
> 
> 
> 
> 



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