Dimitri wrote: > Are you able to make and receive calls? > > If not, perhaps the sim isn't touching all the phone's connections. > > At least, that's the problem I had when I tried to connect to AT&T. It would > show that I had 5 bars, but it would always say "Registering...". > > I was able to wiggle the sim a little, reboot the phone, and have it > properly connect to the ATT network (i.e., it changed from "Registering..." > to "AT&T" and I was able to make/receive calls and text messages). > > D > > > Paul Buede wrote: > >> So, I picked up a tmobile sim, and signed up with them (I have another >> week to cancel), and so the phone registers with tmobile. I am finding >> the coverage isn't great in the rural areas I find myself. When driving >> around, if out of reach of tmobile, it will say "registering" as if >> there is no sim card. But, on the little image of the antenna, that >> shows how strong my connection is, I still have 2 bars. Is that a bad >> guage of connectivity? Is it wrong? Or does that maybe tell me that it >> has 2 bars of strength with some sort of other gsm network? Is there a >> way I can query the phone from the cli to have it show me the different >> carriers it can sense network for? I am interested in running a little >> cron to pipe all carriers it detects into a file every minute as I drive >> around the countryside, so I can see who i will get the best coverage >> with. >> >> Thanks >> >>
Yes, I am able to make and receive calls when it reads T-Mobile in the upper left. But then, as I get further away from civilization it switches to Registering, but a bar or two remain in the upper right. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
