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[Wally80]

Hi!

I am sorry for repeating the question.
But this is the most comprehensive forum on i900 that I have found on the internet... I hope you can help me...

Has the Omnia the capability to switch into a sort of monitor mode/engineering mode/fieldtest mode/celltrack mode/ or whatever it is called, so that the signal strength from connected and neighboring cells is tracked and logged?
(E.g. *#*#364#*#* in HTC products, fieldtest in symbian Nokia Phones, etc)

If not, is there an application that does it? I have seen a competition in this forum on the topic, but no results were posted...

Thank you,
Danilo

[Ingvarr]

Use *#0228# code to enter GSM monitor mode on Omnia

Edited by Ingvarr, 23 September 2008 - 04:58 PM.

[respider]

Ingvarr, on Sep 23 2008, 16:57, said:

Use *#0228# code to enter GSM monitor mode on Omnia

where can I find a list of these codes?

[Ingvarr]

On the Internet For example, here - http://hotfilms.org/...odes-91287.html

Notably some other that work on i900:

*#1111# S/W Version
*#1234# Firmware Version
*#2222# H/W Version

[Wally80]

Ingvarr, on Sep 23 2008, 16:57, said:

Use *#0228# code to enter GSM monitor mode on Omnia

Thank you.
By using the code as key for the search I have found a post in this forum:
---------------
Monitor GSM:

Antenna RSSI - 96
Antenna Bar -3
Serving Cell: WCDMA
Read Therm ADC 62
Current Temp: 33.3c
Batt Type 1440mA Stand
Battery Bar 4
(this ones fluctuates) ADC 101-110/PDA 2 = 107-1110
Voltage 3.866
---------------

Does Monitor GSM provide only this information or also other pages/information?

Thanks again,
Danilo

[pidsw]

It has a lot of pages you can access from there.  Hit the back button and see the menu.
There are many settings here, I have no idea what they do.  I knew many CDMA settnings from my Titan, but these seem a listtle mysterious to me.
Some interesting ones:
- Fake Security On/Off  (Off by default)
- Hedge/Wedge (two types of edge?)
- RRC ver is 5, but there is an option to change it to 99?  This is under WCDMA
- I wonder if there is anything to control the recieve/Send channels for WCDMA (I seriously doubt it, but that would be quite amusing).  You can do that sort of thing on a number of WIFI devices with approriate software/firmware (although your signals will likely be poor if you go too far out of the normal ranges that your device and antennae were designed to support)  I have no idea if this would work on Cell phones given that you have no control over the towers, but a tip for anyone who might figure out how to change your cell frequencies:  Avoid the channels reserved by the military.

[Wally80]

Wow...
That is what I wanted to hear...
If this is the case, I will buy the Omnia today... Already curious to look at all those fields...

(anyway I wonder that one can switch back to the RRC release 99. Why should someone disable all the features introduced in R5... mhmmm)

One more question:
Is it possible to see the signal strength from the neighboring cells (or all the cells on which we are connected)?
In my old mitsubishi phone I could monitor up to 6 cells, but it was GSM only, so just one connected cell.

thanks,
Danilo