GSM Power Control

[Joel B. Land]

> The phone's actual transmitted power level does change - I tested this
> in the past while looking at the "gsm buzz" problem:
>
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/2008-August/001121.html
What about the Freerunner?



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> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:16:56 -0400
> From: "Joel B. Land" <jland2 at gmail.com>
> Subject: GSM Power Control
> To: support at lists.openmoko.org
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> Hi,
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> Is the phone?s GSM modem doing power control?
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> ?.was playing around with the AT commands and wondering why the following
> never changes:
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> Serving Cell Information (2,1)
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> Parameter no.   Name   Meaning
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> 8                       txlev     Transmit Power Level
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> I can change the received field strength (rxlvl) by moving in and outside,
> but not the txlvl.
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> This because the power is always the same?  Anyone know what the values
> mean?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:29:35 +0100
> From: "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey at vanille-media.de>
> Subject: Re: GSM Power Control
> To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners <support at lists.openmoko.org>
> Message-ID: <200903211329.36092.mickey at vanille-media.de>
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> On Saturday 21 March 2009 13:16:56 Joel B. Land wrote:
> > Serving Cell Information (2,1)
> >
> > Parameter no.   Name   Meaning
> >
> > 8                       txlev     Transmit Power Level
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> Isn't this referring to the cell's power level rather than to the phone's?
>
> :M:
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:11:55 -0700
> From: Mike Montour <mail at mmontour.net>
> Subject: Re: GSM Power Control
> To: support at lists.openmoko.org
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> Joel B. Land wrote:
> > Is the phone?s GSM modem doing power control?
> > [...]
> > I can change the received field strength (rxlvl) by moving in and
> > outside, but not the txlvl.
> > This because the power is always the same?
>
> The phone's actual transmitted power level does change - I tested this
> in the past while looking at the "gsm buzz" problem:
>
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/2008-August/001121.html
>
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