Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread ian douglas
Mike confirmed that my home address is in an 850/1900 area, which gave me decent T-Mobile coverage, and weak-but-present coverage with AT&T. Ian Mike Hodson wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian, I checked the map, and I'm in the same situati

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Hodson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian, > > I checked the map, and I'm in the same situation as you: 1900 and 850. > > But I notice the maps are not maintained by the providers. How do we > know they are up to date? > > Michael If you need, I can get a ve

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Excellent info, again. Thanks. You ask: > Is there a way to tell on the Neo which frequency band it's currently > using? That might be kind of handy... I think there is. I'm trying to locate it. I had thought it was an "em" command. I'll try to find it tomorrow. Michael ian douglas wrote:

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread ian douglas
Michael Shiloh wrote: I checked the map, and I'm in the same situation as you: 1900 and 850. But I notice the maps are not maintained by the providers. How do we know they are up to date? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile "The US T-Mobile network predominately uses the GSM/GPRS 1900 MHz f

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Ian, I checked the map, and I'm in the same situation as you: 1900 and 850. But I notice the maps are not maintained by the providers. How do we know they are up to date? Michael ian douglas wrote: According to AT&T's map, zoomed in at my street address: MODERATE: The areas shown in the li

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Extremely helpful information, Ian. Thanks. I'm going to that site to see what it is for my neighborhood. Michael ian douglas wrote: According to AT&T's map, zoomed in at my street address: MODERATE: The areas shown in the light orange should have sufficient signal strength for on-street or

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-11 Thread ian douglas
According to AT&T's map, zoomed in at my street address: MODERATE: The areas shown in the light orange should have sufficient signal strength for on-street or in-the-open coverage, but may not have it for in-vehicle coverage or in-building coverage. This AT&T owned network provides GSM, GPRS,

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Do you know offhand what bands are used by TMobile and AT&T in your area? Michael ian douglas wrote: If it helps any, using the March 4th daily build, my Neo registers just fine on both my TMobile and AT&T SIM's and both receive SMS messages and can place phone calls. Mind you, I can connect

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread ian douglas
If it helps any, using the March 4th daily build, my Neo registers just fine on both my TMobile and AT&T SIM's and both receive SMS messages and can place phone calls. Mind you, I can connect to TMobile from within my apartment to make/receive a phone call and receive SMS messages. Inserting m

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread joerg
Am Di 11. März 2008 schrieb Michael Shiloh: > > Jae Stutzman wrote: > > Weird. > > > > I suppose this same SIM works in other phones (non neos)? > > Yes; it works perfectly in the AT&T provided Nokia. > You activated hardware-password on the GSM-module? I never heard of SIM-cards remembering

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Jae Stutzman wrote: Weird. I suppose this same SIM works in other phones (non neos)? Yes; it works perfectly in the AT&T provided Nokia. Do you have another AT&T sim to try? Sadly, no, so the single SIM is a concern. Does the SIM keep track of what phones it is inserted into? Tha

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread Jae Stutzman
Weird. I suppose this same SIM works in other phones (non neos)? Do you have another AT&T sim to try? Does the SIM keep track of what phones it is inserted into? And if so, perhaps it's "memory" is full? I have not read the GSM spec in great detail, but perhaps it is plausible :) Maybe you sim is

Re: Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread Bobby Martin
Hey Michael, I use AT&T as my service (since they bought out Cingular). I had an Cingular SIM (63689 G 4004) that wouldn't work. You upgraded my GSM firmware and it worked fine afterwards. (Thanks!) It still works now. Thanks, Bobby aka wurp2 > Subject: > Hello, > > As most of you know, ther

Question for those of you for whom I've done a GSM firmware upgrade

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hello, As most of you know, there was a bug in earlier GSM firmware on Neo 1973 which prevented certain AT&T 3G SIM cards from working in the Neo 1973. As most of you know, the upgraded GSM firmware that fixed this problem could only be installed by an employee of Openmoko. I peformed this