GSM no longer registers on GTA02 - how to troubleshoot?

[Paul]

I received the same behavior when I updated to the latest testing images.

I revered to the old 2008.9 images and things are working again.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | Hi everybody,
> |
> | I have been using Freerunner as a daily phone for some months now, and
> | yesterday it suddenly stopped registering the GSM network. It was
> | working fine in the morning, sending/receiving SMS, making phone
> | calls, etc., then in the afternoon suddenly the phone portion was
> | completely dead. I restarted qpe (running Om2008.9) a few times, then
> | rebooted the phone, pulled out the battery and SIM and reseated
> | everything, etc., but got nowhere. When I got home, I reflashed a
> | couple of known good kernel/rootfs combinations, but got nowhere. I
> | even tried an FSO image, since it uses a different phoneserver, but it
> | didn't work either. I put my SIM into my old dumbphone (which is a
> | little bit broken, in that it only works on speakerphone) and it was
> | able to register with no problems.
> |
> | How can I troubleshoot GSM registration to see at what point the
> | process is failing? I would hate for this to be a hardware problem,
> | but I don't know what to do when reflashing doesn't work.
> |
> | I do have another issue, which I don't think is related: my NAND
> | u-boot seems to be borked. Whenever I boot the GTA02 without booting
> | it from the NOR u-boot, I get a scrambled image on the screen and the
> | device is frozen. Often, the scrambled image that appears is whatever
> | was in the framebuffer right before powering off. If I boot into NOR
> | u-boot, I can boot into the OS fine, but if I just try to turn it on
> | without holding down the AUX button or try booting into NAND u-boot, I
> | get a freeze. I've tried reflashing u-boot several times, but it
> | doesn't help. I download u-boot from downloads.openmoko.org and the
> | md5 sum of my u-boot image is 40b8f908649f78e7d70358239da96f98. Is
> | this a known good image? Why would u-boot fail after reflashing?
>
> Your U-Boot environment can have some issue, that's why the problem
> behaviour is so sticky.  You are into trying to get a USB serial
> connection on ttyACM0 on your host and meddling from there.
>
> About your main problem not much idea except confirm the SIM still works
> on another phone I guess.
>
> - -Andy
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