Can't get the phone registered (ticket #1766)

[Måns Malmberg]

Alexey Kurochkin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 20:11 +0200, Måns Malmberg wrote:
>>>> Basically most of the time (more than 9 out of 10) you can't get the
>>>> phone registered after the PIN code is entered. This means you can't
>>>> make a call but strangely you can always receive calls. 
>> I have the exact same problem with 2008.8. Both before and after I 
>> started using Zecke's feed. After I had the phone suspended it usually 
>> register that the GSM is online after a minute or so.
> 
> You guys are lucky. Mine does not receive calls at all on startup. I do
> not have any PIN, so it does not ask me for one. Moreover it does not
> wake up after suspend - the screen is blank. I am not even sure it
> suspends properly, cause I still able to ssh into it and if I issue apm
> -s at that time it gives me apm: Device or resource busy. Only reboot is
> the solution. I saw it register only tree/four times. All when I was
> playing with default GPS program, but it may be only coincidence. Qtopia
> also suffers from it, but not at that extent - it usually recovers
> signal after awhile.
>

You can try setting the LCD brightness of the display manually throught 
you SSH connection. While it's no solution to your suspend problem it 
might save you from rebooting.

echo 63 > 
/sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/backlight/pcf50633-bl/brightness