Guest stargate Posted January 19, 2006 Report Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) Greetings! I am a Connex (Vodafone) customer. I used to have an old Siemens A50 that showed me the location where I was using the operator's service called (Connex Compass). To activate the service I had to enable channels and add the channel 50. It was a neat feature... especially when I was traveling outside town. A while back, I bought the SPV C600 (fine piece of hardware). After unlocking and de-certing it I managed to switch from Orange to Vodafone. So, I naturally tried to get my beloved feature working again... but to my dissapointment, my current location wasn't displayed anywhere. So, I went about my bussiness with it. I am a software developer and recently I started tinkering with .net compact framework. In the CF2.0 SDK I stumbled accross something called CellBroadcast. I remembered my quest to get this feature working and started to dig a little deeper. First I modified my homescreen to accept cell broadcast info (added the CellBroadcast plugin in the XML file). However, nothing happened, but after enabling channels and receive channel list and adding the 50 channel I noticed that the backlight on my phone is getting lighter from time to time... like the phone receives some info... but nothing is shown on the homescreen. This leads me to believe that the phone has hardware support for this. I looked again in the CF2 SDK and found out that CellBroadcast info is available in the registry - HKLM/System/State/Phone/CellBroadcast. Naturally I opened my registry editor and searched for this key. It wasn't present. I added myself as a string value and assigned it the value "a". To my surprise the homescreen now displays "a" under the clock - where I modified the xml to display the channel data. HOWEVER, nothing happens... it is stuck on "a" and the backlight gets stronger from time to time. I just don't get it... it should of worked! It is my belief that Orange disabled this feature on purpose (since they don't offer this to customers). Notice how the enable channel checkbox gets disabled after reboot (also, the registry key created by me gets deleted). I am wondering if there is something else that I can do, or perhaps try another ROM version. Please don't tell me about the cell-track project that gets the cell-id. With the help of this project I actually managed to get myself the cell-id in my own program. However, I want to make this channel thing work. Thank you for any info you may have on this issue. Edited January 24, 2006 by stargate
Guest stargate Posted January 21, 2006 Report Posted January 21, 2006 Come on... no one knows or cares about Channel Broadcast?
Guest John Smith Posted January 21, 2006 Report Posted January 21, 2006 Why not, in Estonia every cell have name, and regular cellphones (nokia) shows the cell name (plac where you are). I have qtek 8310 and if i enable channel 050 i get SMS every time if cell change. So i get 13 SMS while i drive to work?? Its annoying and not necessary. I to not find any solution to see the name of cell on display?
Guest stargate Posted January 21, 2006 Report Posted January 21, 2006 If only I could make my phone get SMSes when changing cells... I could write an application that intercepts those messages and does something with them (like displaying them on the homescreen silently).
Guest OKA133 Posted January 22, 2006 Report Posted January 22, 2006 First I modified my homescreen to accept cell broadcast info (added the CellBroadcast plugin in the XML file). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Could you post the xml changes and the plugin?
Guest stargate Posted January 22, 2006 Report Posted January 22, 2006 http://www.airfagev.com/forum_view.asp?msg_id=170178
Guest John Smith Posted January 22, 2006 Report Posted January 22, 2006 The the plugin is made for SP2002/WM2003 – only MPx200? The SPV C600 and qtek 8310 uses WM 5.0 maybe that is the problem?
Guest stargate Posted January 22, 2006 Report Posted January 22, 2006 No, I don't think so. Read my first post - I am 100% sure that the OS and the hardware do support this feature. I am not, however, sure about the Orange ROM.
Guest stargate Posted January 24, 2006 Report Posted January 24, 2006 (edited) I've made some progress. After some digging on the msdn I managed to write a program in .net that gets the cellbroadcast string from the phone. Naturally... the string returned by my phone was empty... However, I want to know if I am on the right track with this, so please.... try this little program that I've uploaded, press Get and tell me if the textbox shows your current location. Don't forget to mention your phone model. Don't forget to enable channels and to add channel 50 to the list. Also note that this program requires .net compact framework 2.0 installed. You can grab it from here - http://www.fightersoft.ro/downloads/NETCFv2.wm.armv4i.cab Thanks for your help.cellbroadcast.zip Edited January 24, 2006 by stargate
Guest Arbait Posted January 24, 2006 Report Posted January 24, 2006 Happy to hear that the winmobile version of the GSM-Tracker is on the way ;) This is what i get on my spv c600 ORANGE RO:
Guest stargate Posted January 24, 2006 Report Posted January 24, 2006 Damn... I'm sorry, I forgot to test the app and that was a mistake when working at late hours. In my previously uploaded file I called the wrong function that returned 45. That works on my phone too. I've modified my post and uploaded the file that calls the correct function. Please try it again. You will either get your current location or an empty string (nothing).
Guest John Smith Posted January 24, 2006 Report Posted January 24, 2006 i try, but it show nothing at all. Instead my phone recives SMS with cell name ;) Qtek 8310
Guest stargate Posted January 26, 2006 Report Posted January 26, 2006 Damn.... this should of worked. Anyone else can confirm this?
Guest OKA133 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Posted May 4, 2006 The changelog from the I-mate AKU2 rom states: Cell Broadcast display is now supported. Anyone managed to get this working?
Guest OKA133 Posted May 5, 2006 Report Posted May 5, 2006 Works now ok for me with latest ROM. You have this working on your Qtke 8310 with AKU2-rom? Which homescreen are you using, and how is it being displayed? Is it required to configure something?
Guest pawr Posted May 5, 2006 Report Posted May 5, 2006 You have this working on your Qtke 8310 with AKU2-rom? Which homescreen are you using, and how is it being displayed? Is it required to configure something? I also have Qtek 8310 and want to confirm that channels are working with new AKU2 rom. All you have to do is to activate it in Settings->Phone->Channels and add one channel number 50 (do not forget about some description - it must be present!) I use 'wireless home screen' and broadcasted messages are displayed beetween profile name and sms info. There is only one problem... battery... everytime the phone receives new message the LCD backlight turns on.
Guest GraviticVortex Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 It doesnt work for me using Qtek 8310 with Aku2 ROM. Nothing appears on home screen, i get a sms with cell name instead - very annoying. Am i doing anything wrong? Ive tried all homescreens and also checked that plugin is present in Windows Default homescreen xml.
Guest OKA133 Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 It doesnt work for me using Qtek 8310 with Aku2 ROM. Nothing appears on home screen, i get a sms with cell name instead - very annoying. Am i doing anything wrong? Ive tried all homescreens and also checked that plugin is present in Windows Default homescreen xml.Did you?All you have to do is to activate it in Settings->Phone->Channels and add one channel number 50 (do not forget about some description - it must be present!)
Guest GraviticVortex Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 Did you? Yup. When i enable channels, add channel 50 and give a description, i start to recieve sms with cell name every time i move to next cell, if i disable channels or remove channel 50 - no more sms
Guest kam_ Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 Which network u on? The cell broadcast messages can be flagged to do different things.
Guest GraviticVortex Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 Which network u on? The cell broadcast messages can be flagged to do different things. Elisa network in Estonia. Point is that cell info works perfectyly with other phones. For example all Nokia phones i have had previously, i could always have cell info on screen, but not with that "not-so-smart-as-it-should-be" Qtek 8310...
Guest sporkguy Posted May 9, 2006 Report Posted May 9, 2006 Tried this on my Qtek 8310 (SP5 AKU2 rom) with an Orange, O2 and Vodafone UK sim - all failed except the Voda sim, which displayed my area code on the homescreen. Shame Orange UK have disabled this.. I found it most useful when in Australia.
Guest kam_ Posted May 10, 2006 Report Posted May 10, 2006 Tried this on my Qtek 8310 (SP5 AKU2 rom) with an Orange, O2 and Vodafone UK sim - all failed except the Voda sim, which displayed my area code on the homescreen. Shame Orange UK have disabled this.. I found it most useful when in Australia. O2 use channel 200, Voda use channel 50 or 51, Orange i have no idea! and T-mobile don't support it.
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