I went through the barajas bugs, but can't find a clear dup. John, could you attach a bug number?
The only situation when the Technology and the Bearer properties differ is when the mobile broadband connection speed is limited by the operator to be _lower_ than the cellular networks normal technology; voice might go through 3G but mobile data is limited to 2G. So the user gets a lower internet connection speed than actually reported by the indicator. Then on the other hand, even though if the user has an actual 3G or even 4G mobile broadband connection the actual data transfer speeds sometimes drop to the equivalent levels of 2G connections depending on the loads on the carrier network, so the whole icon is more or less a hint of the ideal connection speeds you _might_ get. Sadly for the customers there are no definitive requirements for the carriers on minimum throughput. Anyway, that is a real bug, but there should be no "surprises" for the user in terms of billing. Hence Medium. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-network in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245951 Title: Wrong oFono property used for data technology indication Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products: New Status in Network Menu: Triaged Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Image: Touch #100 ( aka v1.0 ). The current indicator-network code uses the ofono's NetworkRegistration interface's "Technology" property to determine which mobile data connection icon to display on the status bar. The code currently compares the value of "Technology" to: - "gsm" -- this causes "2G" ( or a tortoise ) to be displayed - "umts" -- this causes "3G" to be displayed - "edge" -- this causes "E" to be displayed - "hspa" -- this causes "H" to be displayed - "lte" -- valid, but currently not supported in the ofono/rilmodem driver ( LTE isn't yet 100% supported ) The code instead should be examining ofono's ConnectionManager interface's "Bearer" property. This is not currently being set by the ofono/rilmodem code ( see bug #1245954 for more details ). The valid values of the "Bearer" property ( with associated icons in parentheses ) are: "none", "gprs" ( 2G ), "edge" ( E ), "umts" ( 3G ), "hsupa"/"hsdpa"/"hspa" ( H ), and "lte" ( L ). oFono doesn't currently support reporting HSPA+, whereas RIL does, so if have the need for differentiating between HSPA and HSPA+, then we'll need to patch ofono so that the value "hspap" is valid for "Bearer". - To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1245951/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
