On Thursday 12 June 2008 06:27:25 Mike (mwester) wrote: > I have been unable to receive SMS messages. > > The problem is that Qtopia does not retry long enough to send > the AT+CNMI message before giving up. (This message instructs > the GSM to send an unsolicited message upon arrival of an SMS.) > > Notes in the code indicate that some modems will be busy for a > while after the AT+CPIN transaction, and Qtopia retries 5 times, > each time one second apart. > > However, the docs for the Enfora Enabler, which have been noted > to be more similar to the Calypso than others, make a specific > note that it may take 20 seconds or more after power-up before > the SIM is read, and certain SIM-related commmands can be run. > (The error we get from the Calypso is "SIM BUSY".) Various tests > here confirm that the magic number for the Calypso with the SIM > in question (a T-Mobile SIM) is 20 seconds. > > The patch below changes the 5 retries to 25 -- which solves my SMS > problems completely, and is large enough that it should work for > others as well. There is no impact for SIMs that worked before.
thanks, I'm going to apply this. z
