Re: [SHR-U] GoPhone Alerts

2009-06-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, The Digital Pioneer wrote:
 OK, forgive the idiot, but how? I read the link, but I don't know how to
 use that. I have no experience programming with DBus.

First up just try sending your operator's code for requesting your balance. 
It's usually some code starting with * or #, and I think the dialler 
recognises this and sends it as USSD. From what I remember of the other post 
the messages started appearing after every call from that point on.

If that doesn't work you can send a USSD from the command line or a script 
using:

mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM 
org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.SendUssdRequest '*1234#'

This assumes you want to send *1234#

I think mdbus has a similar syntax for listening for signals like IncomingUssd 
but I'm not in a position to check at the moment. If you enable logging in 
frameworkd you should also see any arriving USSD messages in the log.


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[SHR-U] GoPhone Alerts

2009-06-22 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Hey, I have an ATT GoPhone plan, and that means I pay for each call
individually. On a normal phone, you get an alert after each call saying how
much that call cost and how much money is left in your account. I had these
alerts work once, but the next upgrade and they failed. Is there any way to
get those back? They were really quite handy...

I'm not sure what kind of protocol they used, just that they popped up in a
window described as Service Data. Apparently it isn't SMS.

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Re: [SHR-U] GoPhone Alerts

2009-06-22 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, The Digital Pioneer wrote:
 Hey, I have an ATT GoPhone plan, and that means I pay for each call
 individually. On a normal phone, you get an alert after each call saying
 how much that call cost and how much money is left in your account. I had
 these alerts work once, but the next upgrade and they failed. Is there any
 way to get those back? They were really quite handy...

 I'm not sure what kind of protocol they used, just that they popped up in a
 window described as Service Data. Apparently it isn't SMS.

Sounds like USSD. Someone said they started receiving them after having once 
sent the code to request their account balance. If that doesn't work you could 
listen for the IncommingUssd signal in case nothing else is listening for it.

http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.html;hb=HEAD#IncomingUssd


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Re: [SHR-U] GoPhone Alerts

2009-06-22 Thread The Digital Pioneer
OK, forgive the idiot, but how? I read the link, but I don't know how to use
that. I have no experience programming with DBus.
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