Hi
I also tested this and saw the same beheviour.After giving AT+CCED=1,11 command i removed the antenna.Subsequently i got the following indications
+CSQ: 8,99
+CSQ: 7,99
+CSQ: 4,99
+CSQ: 2,99
But never did i receive +CSQ:99,99
AT+CCED=1,3 should give periodic unsolicited +CCED: responses containing the Main Cell dump, and Neighbours 1-6 dumps.
If the signal is poor - but not so poor that registration is lost (ie, still CREG 1 or 5) - the unsolicited +CCED: responses stop.
The unsolicited +CCED: responses resume when the signal improves.
Investigating further:
a manual single-shot request AT+CCED=0,3 in this state gives +CME ERROR: 30
a manual single-shot request AT+CCED=0,1 in this state gives a +CCED: responses containing the Main Cell dump
a manual single-shot request AT+CCED=0,2 in this state gives +CME ERROR: 30
So it seems that the unsolicited responses from AT+CCED=1,3 stop when there is no neighbour cell info - even though the Main Cell info is still available.
+CME ERROR: 30 is “No network service”, which seems misleading/unhelpful in this case - since there clearly isNetwork service
Again, is this the intended behaviour
And, again, if it is - it should be clearly documented!
This was observed with Firmware version 6.63 - haven’t tried it yet with anything more modern…
Maybe they don’t regard it as a “problem” and, therefore, not something that needs fixing
There is a certain logic to it - so it could actually be that Wavecom (it dates back to then) intenteded it that way. But, if that is the case, it is highly unintuitive and not something that one would realise from reading the documentation!
Therefore if this is, indeed, the intended operation then it needs to be very clearly and explicitly documented.
This is a known problem and a tracker already exists for the same.Will update you on this when the tracker is resolved. I know that it would be
helpful to you guys, if you could have track of the trackers. Since the
resolution of the trackers depends on various factors , Sierra would like
to keep it internal and inform the users when the tracker is used.
To be perfectly frank, it would be much more “customer focussed” for Sierra Wireless to keep an open tracking list. The reason is that it would save developers much anguish and wasted time in trying to resolve issues that are known to Sierra Wireless engineers but not to developers in general.
The software quality gurus will tell you that there’s no such thing as complex functional software that’s “bug free”, so admitting that you have some defects to resolve in your products shouldn’t present an issue. Publishing the list would only become an issue if the bugs are never resolved, or are not perceived to be resolved in a timely fashion.
Yes, that’s certainly true, but as you said earlier it doesn’t give one any visibility of issues until the new release happens.
Lets face it, there is a huge degree of frustration experienced when you “burn the midnight oil” on trying to resolve an issue only to find out later that its an issue in common with other developers or a known problem that’s under active consideration by the vendor.
Are you just tracking a documentation issue (ie, the current operation is as you intended, but the documentation does not describe it adequately), or
Are tracking a functional issue (ie, the current operation is incorrect)
Or, to put it another way, should we expect the behaviour to stay the same (because it is what you intended), or should we prepare for it to change to something more “intuitive”
All these problems will be addressed in the functional tracker which is already raised. As mentioned earlier, the information about the trackers disclosed in release notes is internal to Sierra.