[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0013744]: Blackberry Pearl (8100) rarely initialises

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13744 
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Reported By:                ciaranm
Assigned To:                qwell
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   13744
Category:                   Addons/chan_mobile
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
Asterisk Version:           1.6.0 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2008-10-20 08:18 CDT
Last Modified:              2008-12-02 08:47 CST
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Summary:                    Blackberry Pearl (8100) rarely initialises
Description: 
Fedora 9, bluez-3.35-1 (rpms) Asterisk 1.6.0-beta9 from RPM and
asterisk-addons-1.6.0-rc1 from source.

When using a blackberry pearl (8100) I need to unload and load chan_mobile
multiple times before the state moves from Init to Free. Chan mobile
working great with other phones (e.g. Nokia).
Blackberry appears to not respond consistently to (or response may be
missed?) AT+CIND=? however if I attempt to work around this by issuing
AT+CMER=3,0,0,1 manually the BB appears to initialise but the connection is
lost when I recieve a call (has occasionally caused BB to reboot also!). If
the BB does (after repeated attempts) initialise properly then it works
correctly for the duration of that connection.
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 (0095672) davidste (reporter) - 2008-12-02 08:47
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13744#c95672 
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i have the following system:

debian 4.05 (etch)
kernel 2.6.26-1-686
Asterisk SVN-trunk-r160208 (latest as far as of today)
Asterisk-Addons (latest svn from today also).
Blackberry 8330 and 8830 (CDMA)
CSR Chipset BT dongle (HCI 2.0)

i have managed to solve the BB init issue which was a serious pain using
the following changes:

1. removed hcid daemon.
2. compiled bluez-4.21 from source (bluez.org) with enabling all the
features in the configure process
3. configured Class: 0x4a2404 in the main.conf (no more hcid.conf)

before making those changes, i have realized that the problem is not in
the chan_mobile code but in the bluez stack or the way it "talk" to the BB
machine because after issuing the AT+CIND:? - the adapter would not have
send this command to the Blackberry and of course the BB could not respond
back. this was the main core of the problem which was solved using the
above procedures.

everything is working perfect (5 phones concurrent), the only problem left
to solve is the FAS. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2008-12-02 08:47 davidste       Note Added: 0095672                          
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