[All] FR survey and locations

[Ed Kapitein]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:12 +0200, Margo Koppelmann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Otterbein <th.otterbein at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> > To take part in the survey click here:
> >> > http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p2ZQdcRSVg9XfYLwBVsZicg
> >>
> >> I can't answer the question "What band does your provider use",
> >> because mine uses both 900 and 1800.
> >
> > But the FR uses only one of them at the same time, doesn't it?
> > And of course you could add two records. I mean in case the answers to the
> > other questions would change depending on the band you use.
> >
> > Regards
> >  thomas
> >
> 
> I'm not sure what the FR uses, because 2008.12 doesn't display cell
> info (if I could see the cell info I could tell which one the phone is
> currently using (900 or 1800) because, when it uses 1800 there's
> number 8 in the cell name). But with other phones it's so that it
> changes when I move around. When 1800 MHz is available then it uses
> this and otherwise it uses 900 MHz.
> 
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Hi Margo,

You can find out the cell id with the following chat script.
( asuming you use gsm0710muxd )

       TIMEOUT 15
        "" ATE0
        ABORT BUSY
        ABORT DELAYED
        ABORT "NO ANSWER"
        ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
        ABORT VOICE
        ABORT ERROR
        ABORT RINGING
        OK AT+CMGF=1
        OK AT+CREG=2
        OK AT+CREG?
        OK AT+CREG=0
        CLR_ABORT
        ABORT OK

Save it to /tmp/chatscript and run

MODEM=$(dbus-send --system --print-reply --type=method_call
--dest=org.pyneo.muxer /org/pyneo/Muxer
org.freesmartphone.GSM.MUX.AllocChannel string:$identvar | grep string |
awk -F '"' '{ print $2 }')
# the above is 1 line
chat -s -S -V -v -f  /tmp/chatscript > "${MODEM}" < "${MODEM}"


This will give you the cellid and LAC in hex.
Is this the same as the cell name?

Kind regards,
Ed