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Re: Cellular Fail

 

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> With no real knowledge of the system, my first guess is that something
> has failed to run the cellular stuff entirely, perhaps failing to
> initialise the gsm modem?
>

This was an issue that appeared intermittently due to a bug in urfkill.
Utopic image #71 should solve this.


> If this kind of situation happens, what is the network indicator
> supposed to do? From this experience, I expect that if this
> initialisation fails, the network indicator just shows the 0 bars icon.
>         If this is correct, I think we can say that this is the wrong
> behaviour, the indicator is thus explicitly telling me I have a phone
> connection, when in fact nothing is initialised. If the indicator had
> shown an error icon, no icon, or even no signal, I would have noticed
> the problem several hours earlier and not missed several attempts to
> contact me.
>

Agreed, if there is an issue with the modem the indicator should show
something accordingly.

Br,
Alfonso

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