Signal strength

[Guest 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

[Guest Ingvarr]

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

Edited September 23, 2008 by Ingvarr

[Guest respider]

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

where can I find a list of these codes?

[Guest Ingvarr]

On the Internet ;) For example, here - http://hotfilms.org/non-windows/universal-...odes-91287.html

Notably some other that work on i900:

*#1111# S/W Version

*#1234# Firmware Version

*#2222# H/W Version

[Guest Wally80]

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:

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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

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

Thanks again,

Danilo

[Guest 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.

[Guest 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