[Community] [Gta04-owner] What software are we still missing on GTA04 distributions?

[Radek Polak]

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:52:15 AM NeilBrown wrote:

> Reliable firmware for the GSM module?

Me too ;-) 

> I've recently started noticing the problem where an incoming call causes
> the firmware to crash on occasion.  I think Radek avoided that by
> disabling 3G or similar (Radek: what was the command to do that?).

This is from QtMoko's modem plugin [1]:

	chat("AT_OPSYS=0,2");       // disable UMTS, use only GSM


I also added many other workarounds in QtMoko for the GSM. I think it's 
working quite good now, but not perfectly. Here is list of problems and 
workarounds:

* restart QtMoko after modem crashed. AT_OPSYS=0,2 does not completely solve 
the crashing and after the crash the serial line stops working, so i restart 
whole QtMoko [2].

* sometimes after resume the serial line is silent - i am closing the serial 
port before suspend and open it after resume and doing CLCC and SMS poll after 
opened.

* very rarely the modem after resume simply disappeared - the serial port file 
/dev/ttyHSO_Application was not existing at all.

* cant detect other side hangup in outgoing call - i do CLCC polling.

I am running the phone mostly with AT logging on. But sometimes you dont have 
time to analyze what happend.

Currently the modem with above workarounds works quite good, but i think many 
people expect it to be 100% perfect...

Regards

Radek

> So if there were some way to try out a newer firmware, I'd be keen to give
> it a go.
> 
> NeilBrown

[1] 
https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/devices/gta04/src/plugins/phonevendors/neo/vendor_neo.cpp

[2] 
https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/devices/gta04/patches/restart-
when-modem-stops-working.patch