Hi everybody, I have been using Freerunner as a daily phone for some months now, and yesterday it suddenly stopped registering the GSM network. It was working fine in the morning, sending/receiving SMS, making phone calls, etc., then in the afternoon suddenly the phone portion was completely dead. I restarted qpe (running Om2008.9) a few times, then rebooted the phone, pulled out the battery and SIM and reseated everything, etc., but got nowhere. When I got home, I reflashed a couple of known good kernel/rootfs combinations, but got nowhere. I even tried an FSO image, since it uses a different phoneserver, but it didn't work either. I put my SIM into my old dumbphone (which is a little bit broken, in that it only works on speakerphone) and it was able to register with no problems.
How can I troubleshoot GSM registration to see at what point the process is failing? I would hate for this to be a hardware problem, but I don't know what to do when reflashing doesn't work. I do have another issue, which I don't think is related: my NAND u-boot seems to be borked. Whenever I boot the GTA02 without booting it from the NOR u-boot, I get a scrambled image on the screen and the device is frozen. Often, the scrambled image that appears is whatever was in the framebuffer right before powering off. If I boot into NOR u-boot, I can boot into the OS fine, but if I just try to turn it on without holding down the AUX button or try booting into NAND u-boot, I get a freeze. I've tried reflashing u-boot several times, but it doesn't help. I download u-boot from downloads.openmoko.org and the md5 sum of my u-boot image is 40b8f908649f78e7d70358239da96f98. Is this a known good image? Why would u-boot fail after reflashing? Is there a way to wipe out my entire NAND and reflash everything, without a debug board? I know there is the lowlevel image, which apparently requires a debug board to flash. I have no idea how my u-boot got so screwed up or why restoring it doesn't help. Any advice on either of these two problems (more importantly, GSM registration) is much appreciated. _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
