Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread Nick
Quoth Michael Spacefalcon: Nick openmoko-commun...@njw.me.uk wrote: The phone that works is 3G, and it doesn't seem to have a 'force 2G' option anywhere. The option in question often goes by different names: it may also be named network type or network selection etc, with the choices

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread joerg Reisenweber
Please consider that - it seems / I heard - several 850/900 and 1800/1900 cells are getting reassigned in USA from GSM to UMTS or even LTE during last year. Ongoing. good luck! jOERG On Mon 19 May 2014 08:27:15 Nick wrote: Quoth Michael Spacefalcon: Nick openmoko-commun...@njw.me.uk wrote:

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote: Please consider that - it seems / I heard - several 850/900 and 1800/1900 cells are getting reassigned in USA from GSM to UMTS or even LTE during last year. Ongoing. Yes, I heard that too. Dunno about Boston area, as I'm nowhere near there, but at

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Schenck
On 5/19/2014 12:28 PM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote: I may end up doing that, but there isn't a T-Mobile store very conveniently located for me, I've heard that MetroPCS and Simple Mobile are T-Mobile resellers. If you spot either of these two in your

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
There is one more way to test/observe what 2G and 3G services and carriers are available at a given location: by giving that AT+COPS=? query command to a 3G USB modem stick that speaks AT commands. I've got a Huawei E303 (South American Claro branding), it is supported by recent versions of the

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 19 May 2014 20:08:36 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: - full name in quotes - short name in quotes - the true numeric ID sent by the cell network (the decoded names in the previous two fields come from a look-up table in the modem fw); Nope they shouldn't, that LUT-name is a 3rd way to get

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread Nick
Alright, I'll go to a T-Mobile shop (or reseller) in the next few days to get a test SIM. In the meantime, I tried running the AT commands with socat, but didn't get very far. Maybe I'm using socat incorrectly - I haven't done it before, so forgive my ignorance. Following is the transcript

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Nick openmoko-commun...@njw.me.uk wrote: In the meantime, I tried running the AT commands with socat, but didn't get very far. I've never used socat (I use my own tool, see below), so I don't have much to comment on that part, but the transcript you've posted shows that you managed to catch