[FSO] Wake on cell

Esben Damgaard maillist at hvemder.dk
Thu Jun 25 14:44:14 CEST 2009


Thomas Gstädtner skrev:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:27, Esben Damgaard<maillist at hvemder.dk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if I could make the Freerunner wake up from suspend when
>> a specific gsm-cell is seen. This is a thought experiment when using FSO
>> (if that is a help).
>>
>> This gives us an easy way to save battery and have a proximate location.
>> Then it is easier to make a program that changes profile when on work or
>> at home. Just wake up the phone when you see one of the cell when at
>> work and then change profile, etc.
>>     
>
> Not possible.
> The only thing that knows about the cell-id is the modem.
> To do such stuff the modem would either need this functionality
> already in the firmware (pretty sure it isn't), or you would need to
> be able to run code on the modems CPU (impossible).
>   
My hope was also on the firmware. I've heard that for instance the 
accelerometers can be used to turn on the phone, so maybe the gsm-chip 
had some cool feature.
Can someone (de)confirm it?

Esben



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