VoLTE support progress

[amarok]

OK, I guess I don’t know how to use that.

[dos]

Just run socat and while “nothing happens” type AT+BMRAT

[amarok]

@dos

AT+BMRAT

purism@pureos:~$ sudo socat - /dev/ttyUSB3,crnl
AT+BMRAT

+BMRAT: FDD LTE

OK

Thanks, @dos!

[amarok]

@Captain_Morgan

See: BM818 Modem Firmware version

you maybe using the newest firmware using the commands shown whats your output?

In the terminal:

mmcli -L

then with output … /Modem/1…

mmcli --modem=1

Output:

firmware revision: MPSS.J0.2.0.2.c1.1-0032-9607_GENNS_PACK-1 1 [Feb 25 2019 01:00:00]

Which is the newest firmware for my US based modem as of Feb 2023.

My result:
purism@pureos:~$ mmcli --modem=0
firmware revision: MPSS.JO.2.0.2.c1.1-00032-9607_GENNS_PACK-1 1 [Feb 25 2019 01:00:00]

---

and with AT:

AT+BMSWVER

+BMSWVER: M100E_1.0.0_190426,BMC_M100E_1ACD_B325_V1.0.0.0_20190510,M100E_1.0.0_190910

[tomoqv]

According to my carrier (Telia Sweden), VoLTE is included in my subscription. I have enabled it through the bm818-tool and rebooted, but I only get:
+BMRAT: UMTS

I am in Spain and use roaming, is there a chance it can work anyway?

Edit: firmware revision: MPSS.JO.2.0.2.c1.1-00032-9607_GENNS_PACK-1 1 [Feb 25 2019 01:00:00]

Edit 2: It seems as if most Spanish carriers offer VoLTE:

[Captain_Morgan]

@Zimmy

The firmware revision from my newly installed BM818-A1 card (that I recently purchased because I was experiencing unsolvable SMS/MMS problems, and which solved my problems) is:

firmware revision: MPSS.J0.2.0.2.c1.1-0032-9607_GENNS_PACK-1.351938.1 1 [Nov 26 2020 02:00:00]

Based on your date Nov 26 2020, there appears to be an updated firmware at least. I haven’t had issues on SMS/MMS myself (other than MMS images never deleting when message is deleted). What were your SMS/MMS issues specifically? Do you use the Purism service or other service for mobile?

[Zimmy]

“What were your SMS/MMS issues specifically?”

See my posts in:

State of MMS on Librem 5

My situation: Network: T-Mobile Network Mode: 3G, 4G (Preferred) APN: fast.t-mobile.com MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc (APN/MMSC settings match in both the Mobile Settings and in the Chatty preferences) Using Chatty 0.7.0.rc5 Using Byzantium: Linux pureos 6.1.0-1-librem5 As of today: I can receive images and text from others in a group MMS but if I reply with text only, my reply is NOT received. Images that I send individually or to a group are NOT received. SMS messa…

Recently can't send MMS anymore

I reflashed my L5, with updated chatty version 0.7.0rc5, mmsdtng version 1.13.0, system: Linux pureos 6.1.0-1-librem5 and sending and receiving SMS/MMS began working with T-Mobile. However, about a week ago, my ability to send SMS abruptly stopped, although I could still receive SMS. When I took the SIM card out of the L5 and reinserted it back into the iPhone, interestingly the SMS generated on the L5 was then subsequently received by the other party.

[Captain_Morgan]

Did support say this firmware update was for t-mobile only, or is it something more of generic update for the modem that could work on other mobile providers. How did you upgrade?

[Zimmy]

Purism support did not have me update any firmware. I have not done any firmware updates. Out of frustration I reflashed the entire phone, but that didn’t help, so I bought a new BM818 card, which did help. As I indicated elsewhere, I don’t know if the original BM818 card had a hardware or firmware problem. I hope this answers your question.

[Captain_Morgan]

Oh nice good taking initiative! Yes that helps.

[carlosgonz]

@Zimmy

so I bought a new BM818 card, which did help

Yeah because newer modem card come with newer/diferent ADSP Blobs firmware which you got to working, but buying another card was not necessary, it was simply reprogramming a new firmware with Purism team @joao.azevedo

[raenrfm]

But that won’t get you HSP with the old card.

[Zimmy]

@carlosgonz

buying another card was not necessary, it was simply reprogramming a new firmware

You might be correct. However, there didn’t seem to be too many people experiencing the problems that I had, so I cannot exclude some hardware failure unique to me.

[carlosgonz]

@raenrfm

But that won’t get you HSP with the old card.

You mean Bluetooth profile HSP? if so HSP will work good in both controller like Redpine or SparkLan but in GNU PureOS Octarine i confident…

[raenrfm]

@dos implied that hsp wont work with the redpine card unless i misunderstood what he said.

[JR-Fi]

Shoutout to updated bm818-tool. Icon update too

[Captain_Morgan]

Any way i can test and flash the 2020 firmware for the A1 baseband 1 modem type (i am glutton for punishment)? For example the modem will never automatically connect to data after restart (with VPN selected to autoconnect - it does connect automatically with VPN off so maybe a new version of Network Manager, Modem Manager will fix this?), as well as experiencing random disconnects, i am wondering if this may help at even just a little would be good.

[Zimmy]

@Captain_Morgan

Any way i can test and flash the 2020 firmware for the A1 baseband 1 modem

I’d also like to see what’s involved in doing this!

[antonis]

[purism@pureos ~]$ sudo socat - /dev/ttyUSB3,crnl
[sudo] password for purism:
AT+BMSWVER

+BMSWVER: M100E_1.0.0_190426,BMC_M100E_1BAD_3117_V1.0.0.0_20190426,M100E_1.0.0_190910

OK
AT+BMRAT

+BMRAT: EDGE

OK

So it does not work for me. Do I need to update somehow the firmware?

[bear454]

So… here’s my socat during a call:

# socat - /dev/ttyUSB3,crnl

OK

RING_BACK

CONNECT

AT+BMRAT

+BMRAT: FDD LTE

OK

+DISC: 4,0,0,0,"REDACTED",129

Looks like VoLTE is working for me. This is, again, the BM818-A1 on a T-Mobile MVNO.