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help me decode my phone's service screen

Discussion in 'GENERAL Wireless Discussion' started by cryogenic, Sep 23, 2005.

  1. cryogenic

    cryogenic Bronze Senior Member
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    ok, so I have an LG PM-325 and I regularly check the service screen to see just what kind of signal I really have as opposed to just checking the bars of signal... well, that and I'm a geek. Anyway, there's some stuff on it I don't quite understand. When I pull it up right now, here's what I see:

    CP State: IDLE (I know what this means)
    SCI: 2 (I've never seen this change)
    SID: 4694 (self-explanatory)
    NID: 00090
    CH#: 0350
    ACT: 488
    NGH: 276
    NGH2: 340
    Rx, Po... -080,A075 (this fluctuates)
    Rx, Ec/Io -31.5, P000 (31.5 seems to be what it stays at quite a bit)
    Tx, Adj... -61,194,441
    FER: 01.6

    I know what a fair bit of this means... The ones that I'm most curious about explanations for are the ACT, NGH, NGH2 and the stuff after the Rx's.
     
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    #1 cryogenic, Sep 23, 2005
  2. wgray8231

    wgray8231 I don't work here.
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    The Rx, Po... would be your phone's signal and Rx, Ec/Io is the signal on the non-call channel. That's about all I an help you with.
     
    #2 wgray8231, Sep 23, 2005
  3. pbw

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    Hola,

    CH# is the control channel the phone is idling on. SCI is the Slot Cylce Index (I think). NID is the network id and used to segement a SID for billing or capacity purposes. Sorry can't help with the rest unless the NGH deals with neighbor pilots...

    ACT might be the Active pilot...

    Do these phones display PN Offsets and Base IDs?
     
    #3 pbw, Sep 23, 2005
  4. cryogenic

    cryogenic Bronze Senior Member
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    Well, I knew what SID & CH were. Those were quite obvious. I knew NID as well. Sprint uses it because they use the same SID for huge areas of service and they use the NID to segment the networks.
     
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