qmicli - LTE band preference

[Leo K]

Cool, thanks Aleksabder!

Unfortunately I ran into another issue for mmcli and I have started another
thread to check if it is due to my setup.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 4:30 PM Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es>
wrote:

> Hey!
>
> >
> > My device seems to support LTE-FDD bands 1, 3, 5 but the system
> selection preference is not able to show them:
> >
> > pi at okamoto:~ $ qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --dms-get-band-capabilities
> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Device band capabilities retrieved:
> > Bands: 'gsm-dcs-1800, gsm-900-extended, gsm-900-primary, wcdma-2100,
> wcdma-900'
> > LTE bands: '1, 3, 8, 38, 39, 40, 41'
> >
>
> The "DMS" capabilities show bands 1, 3 and 8 supported (not 5)
>
>
> > pi at okamoto:~ $ qmicli -d /dev/cdc-wdm0
> --nas-get-system-selection-preference
> > [/dev/cdc-wdm0] Successfully got system selection preference
> > Emergency mode: 'no'
> > Mode preference: 'lte'
> > Band preference: 'gsm-dcs-1800, gsm-900-extended, gsm-900-primary,
> wcdma-2100, wcdma-900'
> > LTE band preference: '38, 39, 40, 41'
> > TD-SCDMA band preference: 'a, f'
> > Roaming preference: 'any'
> > Network selection preference: 'automatic'
> > Service domain preference: 'cs-ps'
> > GSM/WCDMA acquisition order preference: 'automatic'
> > Acquisition order preference: lte, cdma-1xevdo, cdma-1x, td-scdma, umts,
> gsm
> >
>
> And the "NAS System Selection Preference" shows that those previous
> bands are really not enabled yet, as you found out.
>
> >
> > I have been doing some searching online but only found something like
> "qmi_message_nas_set_system_selection_preference_input_set_lte_band_preference"
> so I wonder if there are actually any command line options which I can use
> to enable those LTE-FDD bands please?
> >
>
> Not with qmicli I'm afraid, qmicli has
> --nas-set-system-selection-preference=[] but we didn't implement band
> preference setting in the CLI yet.
>
> You could do this with ModemManager instead, which does use "NAS Set
> System Selection Preference", so you would need ModemManager daemon
> running and then use mmcli --set-current-bands.
>
> --
> Aleksander
> https://aleksander.es
>
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