Deciphering the Call & Battery Status Screens on CDMA Digital StarTAC's (776x, 786x)

Thanks to Richard Ness for providing a good chunk of this information. I haven't cleaned up most of it yet, and I'm still trying to fill in the last section... E-mail me if you have any info: ryang@trideja.com


USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
IT IS STRONGLY SUGGESTED THAT CAUTION IS USED

First, Get into Test mode: FCN 00 ** 83786633 STO

Then, enable the Debug Menu Feature:
5509# then changing bit 6 from 0 to 1 (i.e.01000100 STO)
And Reboot the Phone:
01#

Now just press FCN FCN to get the new menu.
Use standard scroll and select buttons. CLR or END to exit.

The only selections that should be used are:
Battery Status Mode
Call Status Mode
Vocoder


Call Status Mode - CDMA
AAA PseudoNoise Offset of strongest active pilot
BBB Ec/Io of strongest active pilot
CCC Number of pilots in active set (Soft-Handoff Candidates)
1-3 on Lucent-based networks, 1-6 on Nortel.
DD Number of pilots in neighbour set
xEEE Current CDMA Carrier channel (eg 384, 426, 468, 510 for Cellular)
7760 Shows only Channel Num. 786x will show C for Cellular Band,
or P for PCS band before number - See PRL)
FFF PseudoNoise Offset of strongest neighbour pilot
GGG Ec/Io of strongest neighbour pilot
H Number of pilots in candidate set
(shows 1 briefly as SH candidates are added)
III Call processing state
JJ Last call indicator
KKK Current RF RSSI in dBm
LLL Current transmit power in dBm (N/A if idle)
MM.MM Frame error rate
NN Dropped call counter
OOO Current service option
PPPP Current SID (in HEX in Canada)
Q Current NID
RR Call counter
AAA BBB C DDxEEE
FFF GGG H III JJ
KKK LLL MM.MM NN
OOO PPPPx   Q RR
Call Status Mode - Analog
AAA Current channel
BBB RSSI
CC ?1 on B side, 0 on A Side?
DDD Current RF Channel (0 in analog)
EEE Word Syncs
FFF Bad Words
GGG Call Processing State
HH Last Call Indicator
II Dropped Call Count
JJJ Seconds until retry for Digital
KKKK Current SID
AAA BBB x CC DDD
EEE FFF x GGG HH
xxx xxx x xxx II
JJJ KKKKx
Battery Status Mode - Not Charging
AAA Temp in C
B 0 = Discharging main
1 = Charging main
2 = Discharging Aux
3 = Charging Aux
C.CC Voltage of B+ rail
DD percentage of battery remaining
E 0 = Discharging/destroyed
1 = battery detect
2 = waiting to charge
3 = Rapid charge
4 = Top off charge
5 = Maintenance charge
6 = Paused
F L = Lithium
N = NMh
U = Does not recognize
AAA`CB C.CCV
DD%      EF
Battery Status Mode - Charging
AAA Temp in C
B 0 = Discharging main
1 = Charging main
2 = Discharging Aux
3 = Charging Aux
D F = Fast charge
S = Slow charge
E.EE Voltage of B+ rail
FFF Unphased charge current
GGG Phased charge current
H 0 = Discharging/destroyed
1 = battery detect
2 = waiting to charge
3 = Rapid charge
4 = Top off charge
5 = Maintenance charge
6 = Paused
I L = Lithium
N = NiMh
U = Does not recognize
AAA'CBDE.EEV
FFFmAGGGmAHI

I have not seen any official documentation on the various status displays that appear in the following lists, so currently they are only educated guesses to the ones I have seen myself.

Call Processing State
IDL Idle
PAG Page - Incoming Call or Short Message
VOH Analog (?) Virtual Off Hook
TIM Synchronizing Phone's Clock with Network
CON Connection In Use
ORG Originating (Outgoing) Call
UOH Analog (?)
REL Mobile Releasing Call
RPM  
RPW  
AWT Await Channel Assignment
SEZ Seize Paging Channel
NA No Info Available
AWR  
WFO Analog (?) Just before Incoming Call
WFA Analog (?) Just before Incoming Call
Last Call Indicator
BR Base Release
MR Mobile Release
SM Short Message
NI No Information
?? No Information (Analog)
L2 Call Dropped?
N5 -
TC Return to D. from A?
MP -
RR -Remote Ring Release?
NC -
   
   
   
Current Service Option
13V Qualcomm 13Kbps Purevoice Codec
8V Original 8Kbps Codec
8EV Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC)
AD2 Asynchronous Data Mode 2
FD2 Asynchronous Fax Mode 2
8L 8Kbps Loopback
13L 13Kbps Loopback
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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Ryan Goolevitch - ryang@trideja.com
Last Modified August 22, 2001