Cell ID

[Guest michaelj]

Does anyone know if Cell ID is a feature within the MPX220? If so how do you turn it on?

[Guest zero_divide_1]

I've been trying to figure the same thing out. Technically speaking, if you access the engineering mode on the MPx220, you can issue an AT command to the GSM modem that gives you the correct result, but unfortunately you can't access this feature in software mode (or the normal operation mode of the phone). The only other way to access the GSM modem is through the RIL, but unfortunately the functions are not exposed and no official documentation exists on how to use it other than the kludge-coded information used for HTC-based phones. My last option is to do use engineering mode to get what current cell-id my phone is connected to, then do a memory dump of the phone, and search the dump for the offset where the cell-id information is stored similar to the way the CellTracker finds the information in memory, but I don't think that will work either. The only for-sure way is to figure out how to work the RIL. If you figure it out, please let me know because I've been trying to work on a new version of CellTracker that works on MPx220s (as are a lot of other people).

[Guest Paraklas]

I've been trying to figure the same thing out. Technically speaking, if you access the engineering mode on the MPx220, you can issue an AT command to the GSM modem that gives you the correct result, but unfortunately you can't access this feature in software mode (or the normal operation mode of the phone). The only other way to access the GSM modem is through the RIL, but unfortunately the functions are not exposed and no official documentation exists on how to use it other than the kludge-coded information used for HTC-based phones. My last option is to do use engineering mode to get what current cell-id my phone is connected to, then do a memory dump of the phone, and search the dump for the offset where the cell-id information is stored similar to the way the CellTracker finds the information in memory, but I don't think that will work either. The only for-sure way is to figure out how to work the RIL. If you figure it out, please let me know because I've been trying to work on a new version of CellTracker that works on MPx220s (as are a lot of other people).

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I' had been using my mpx220 with Vodafone and no cell id appeared anywhere. When I changed provider & country a couple of days ago, the cell ID appeared below "profile" on main screen and has been showing ever since. Yesterday, I clicked on the Cell ID and it disappeared and I can't get it back. Weird or not?

[Guest zero_divide_1]

I' had been using my mpx220 with Vodafone and no cell id appeared anywhere. When I changed provider & country a couple of days ago, the cell ID appeared below "profile" on main screen and has been showing ever since. Yesterday, I clicked on the Cell ID and it disappeared and I can't get it back. Weird or not?

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Yeah, kinda wierd, but we're not talking about that Cell Brodcast ID info. The thing we're talking about is when you go into engineering mode (*#**364#[send]), and sending the GSM Modem an AT+CREG? command, which results in the cell-tower's identification number (there's other AT commands which will give you extended information, but I can't remember where I put my note on my computer which told me that information).

[Guest michaelj]

Actually I was talking about the cell broadcast of the cell site name. i have since discovered that you enable Channel no 50 on the Phone Setup menu no 6. However, the cell ID stays there until you either move to another cellsite or network which has cell broadcast enabled. It is not very smart as far as I can see.