Questions tagged [cdma]

Code division multiple access (CDMA): the channel access method. Also common name for mobile phone standards cdmaOne, CDMA2000...

More info:

  1. http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,1237,t=CDMA&i=39462,00.asp
  2. http://cellphones.about.com/od/phoneglossary/g/cdma.htm

CDMA, or Code Division Multiple Access, is a competing cell phone service technology to GSM, which is the world’s most widely used cell phone standard.

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Get Cell ID and LAC in CDMA BlackBerry devices (OS5 and greater)

I am stuck on how to get CellID and LAC in CDMA BlackBerry devices supporting OS 5 and greater. I have to get Latitude and Longitude without using GPS. So, i have implemented the solution for GPRS devices, but for CDMA devices i am unable to map…
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How to communicate App with Server without internet connection?

I want to know if there is any way to communicate users without internet connection to a server. I thought it might be possible through SMS and machine-readable encoding. However this question confirms that iOS apps allows sending but not reading…
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Range for signalStrength in dbm for CDMA devices

I am checking Signal Strength for CDMA devices. Can anyone specify the range signalStrength.getCdmaDbm() returns?. Lowest is -120 but for full signal strength what is the value? Highest I got is -52.
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Creating a local CDMA or GSM network?

I am developing a number of different mobile applications for a number of different mobile devices and I want to quickly test in a local development environment. I was wondering if it is possible (with some sort of hardware) to set up a local…
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Determine if LTE is turned on?

I am trying to write a widget so I can enable/disable LTE on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus without going deep into the settings menu to do so. However, I have yet to figure out how to determine if LTE is actually turned on. I can determine if my phone…
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How to check iPhone network type GSM or CDMA

In my application I need to check network type GSM or CDMA (for Verizon). I found CTCarrier class which contains property mobileNetworkCode, but I don't wanna hardcode value for each providers. Are there other ways to check it? Please help.
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Sending Data SMS's in Android on a CDMA phone

I'm having trouble with the sendDataMessage() method in SmsManager. Sending a data SMS between 2 GSM emulator's appears to at least partially work, but I get a NullPointerException when using the same method on a Verizon CDMA phone. I found this…
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Android: Programmatically Reset Phone Radio Network Signal

Is there a way to RESET Phone Radio Network Signal in android app ? (This might be equivalent to pulling out and in SIM card) One possible way is to enable airplane mode, but I think it is not the correct approach. …
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Decoding EVRC speech codec

I want to decode the EVRC speech codec. I have checked the ffmpeg library but it seems like, EVRC is not being currently supported by ffmpeg. Is there any alternate library which can be used to decode EVRC data? Or if anybody have some algorithm or…
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How reliable is TelephonyManager.getSimOperator() on CDMA devices?

This post indicates that this function is bogus: http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg69276.html But I tried it on 2 CDMA devices (Android 2.2 and 2.3) and both returned the correct MCC and MNC. Was there a bug in the…
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Determine if device can simultaneously call and stream data

My iPhone application needs to dial a phone number and send some data to a remote server. It's important that I: Trigger the call, and then set up a background task that will communicate with my server I've been developing/testing with an AT&T…
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Why is getNetworkOperator not reliable for CDMA?

Can anyone say why the documentation for the getNetworkOperator function of TelephonyManager states that this can return unreliable result for CDMA ? getNetworkOperator documentation Availability: Only when user is registered to a network. Result…
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Android - cdma snr or ber

Would like to determine via code whether the voice channel on an Android is experiencing noise. There is a list of functions at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/SignalStrength.html I see a function getGsmBitErrorRate() and…
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How can I get the country code for CDMA Android devices?

How can I retrieve the country code information for Android devices under CDMA networks? For all others, you can just use the TelephonyManager for that: String countryCode = null; TelephonyManager telMgr =…
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My iOS game launches fine on GSM but won't run on CDMA

We built a game (that's a couple of weeks away from being submitted to Apple) and all this time we've been play testing / debugging on GSM phones (AT&T). One of use got a new iPhone 4 on Verizon. When he's on the 3G network, the game will launch to…
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