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Revision 3 (unrznbl, 10/31/2018 05:14 AM) → Revision 4/7 (unrznbl, 03/04/2020 03:22 PM)

h1. Accelerate3g5 -- unrznbl 

 h2. Participants 

 Just one: <unrznbl@unreasonablefarm.org>. 

 I camp on freenode IRC #osmocom so feel free to get on there and ask a question. Might take a day or two for someone to reply but if you stay on they usually will answer. 

 h2. Goals 

 * Help with documentation, testing, troubleshooting via email/irc. 
 * Research and develop 3G baseband on mediatek chips 
 * Test postmarketos/ofono on Moto E (surnia) and LG Nexus 5 (hammerhead) 
 * Play around with qualcomm quectel modules 

 h2. Details 

 * debian linux 
 * EC20 module modules 
 * iPhone 4 
 * various other 3G+ phones to test with 
 * ZTE Obsidian phone - MT6735 - GSM, UMTS, GPRS, HSPA+, HSUPA, TD-SCDMA, EVDO, LTE Cat 4 (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek) 

 h2. Journal 

 * 03/04/2020  
   04/19/2017 - restarting my efforts to use this setup. Working on a raspberry pi built all required projects with packages to setup 3g network for 
   - wireless connectivity between a kindle DX few warnings and other devices in the home 
   details 
 * TODO - testing sms/mms/group/image/attachements with my hack for command line support take build notes and suggest changes in termux android app: https://github.com/craigcomstock/termux-api/tree/smsmms-send-receive 
     - will need to find something for MMS on the backend 
   - hope to have 2-3 devices working with linux/ofono/postmarketos to test with 
     - hammerhead 
     - surnia (MSM8916 supports mainline but needs device support) 
     - Alcatel Go Flip (4044W, MSM8909), will work on after surnia mainline is done 
   - haven't even worked on 2G mediatek baseband/re lately so will tackle that FIRST before getting into 3G docs, fix warnings in builds? 
 * 10/31/2018 - rebuilt all NITB sources, configured DHCP, NTPD, got ip.access nano3g connected to nitb laptop and able to register phones on network. sms/calls don't work yet. Phones get kicked off periodically. 
 * 04/19/2017 - built all required projects with a few warnings and details 
 * TODO - take build notes and suggest changes in docs, fix warnings in builds? 
 * TODO - finish setting up and run the network 
 * TODO - test voice, text, data 
 * TODO - leverage fernly mediatek bootloader and various mediatek baseband sources to create 3G baseband, osmocom-bb? 
 * TODO - setup EC20 modules and test 

 h2. Code 

 https://github.com/unrznbl/osmocom-bb/tree/mtk-layer1 (can boot a simple firmware that only spits out a bit of data on the USB serial port on fernvale) 
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