retrieve prefix codes automatically from SIM

[spaetz]

Given Ainulindale's announcement that we handle international number resolution in dialer and messages now:

/etc/frameworkd-phonegui.conf:
[local]
international_prefix = 00
national_prefix = 0
country_code = 33
home_prefix =

Can we leave the default commented out and scrape it from the SIM card? We have the home phone number on it, so it should be possible.

[dos]

root@om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.GetCountryCode?
('+48', 'Poland')
root@om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.GetHomeZones?
[]

That methods can be usable ;)

[mrmoku]

ok, so the only thing we get from frameworkd is the country code. We don't get international_prefix and we don't get national_prefix. And apart from home_prefix not being used right now, we don't get that neither.

So I would suggest to just get the country_code from frameworkd and leave the other three as is. 00 and 0 for international/national prefix is a quite common thing I think.

[spaetz]

Agreed. Defaulting international/national to 00 and 0 sounds sensible. I don't know any situation where it would be different, so I think defaulting to that is a safe bet for now.

[dos]

mrmoku: I don't have home zones here, that's why reply is []. Can you check that method?

[spaetz]

I don't have hoe zones either and it's also empty for me. sorry I can't help more with that. But leaving it empty by default for now seems ok to me.

[ThomasW]

For me, the method returns the following values:

root@om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.GetHomeZones
[('home', 350748, 540117, 55225)]

How should this information be interpreted? Is it about my O2 Homezone?

[spaetz]

thanks for the home zone information. Does anyone know how it is constructed? Cell IDs or something?

[TAsn]

Replying to dos:

root@om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Network.GetCountryCode?
('+48', 'Poland')
root@om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.GetHomeZones?
[]

That methods can be usable ;)

No these won't since you chose the wrong one for Country code :)
We want the country code info of our HOME country, not the current country, therefore we should use
mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.GetSimInfo?
{ 'country': 'Israel', 'dial_prefix': '+972', 'imsi': 'XXXXX'}

which returns the correct values as registered in your sim card, not the network, this is a much better behavior, and you can for instance go abroad without worrying it might change the prefix... :) we should btw re-get these values on boot, since we can for instance, switch sims for instance...

[spaetz]

Fixing this would be nice indeed. But it's not going to hold up Milestone 1.

[TAsn]

Aleardy retrieved automatically (if sim is available) in shr-wizard, and we'll also add choosing a country using a combo box.

[morphis]

Milestone MS2 deleted