@Badgerconda wrote:Hey, I'm an existing PM customer and my phone is starting to crap the bed.... looking at replacements and I'm wondering if this phone would work on the network:
I'm kind of clueless when it comes to figuring this out, so apologies if this is a dumb question.
I use a site called Kimovil, which is a good site to look up info about phones. It has a section that lists all the bands working on each network and if the phone has those bands.
Public Mobile uses mostly Band 4 for LTE Data, and Band 12,13 in Metro areas
Public Mobile also uses 3G Bands, B5 - 850Mhz and B2 - 1900Mhz for Voice/Text and 3G data.
The phone supports every available band in Canada and should be fully supported by Public Mobile, aswell as most providers in North America.
Oh you definitely don't need to run it for more than a few seconds if the app is working correctly! Here's a sample from my phone:
I filtered out a lot of the messaging (paging, RRC messaging, etc), just to focus on the attach procedure. To do this, I filtered only for NAS > EMM messages.
This shows the attach sequence. You can see clearly with my SIM, the first thing is my phone sends ATTACH REQUEST to network (orange direction is uplink [phone to network]; blue direction is downlink [network to phone]).
Then network asks me to authenticate myself in the AUTHENTICATION REQUEST message. I respond, and network moves to establish security for NAS messaging (messages exchanged between phone and Telus core network. These become encrypted such that even the base station cannot read their contents after this point).
After the security procedure is done, I am eventually given ATTACH ACCEPT and am allowed to set up bearers (sort of like tunnels) with the network. Once I'm done doing that, I send ATTACH COMPLETE message and the procecure is finished.
The very last message is me enabling airplane mode, which actually is the phone requesting a DETACH from the network 🙂
@sheytoon I just quit the app, it has been running for many hours now with nothing new.I had overlooked that all teh mesages were prefeced by RRC though! Here is a screen shot of what I am seeing:
I have sent the Mods another message iquiering about "confirming the status of SIM provisioning", but I am a am afraid that I am out of my league and not sure I can ask overly inteigent questions or provide usfull details yet! 🙂
I am hoping to be able to try the SIM in my sister or brothers phone when I see them next Thursday as they have working Public Mobile acounts (and their SIMs in my phone). Hopfully I can find another phone to borrow befor that!
