How can I use AT-Commands?

[blackwinged]

Hi,
How can I use AT-Commands (like getting current gsm provider etc) with basic4ppc? Do I have to use the serial commands?
Does anybody have an example or a usefull libraray that can ?
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[Erel]

Do you have a modem connected to your device?
You can use the Serial library to send AT commands (send it like a regular string).

[blackwinged]

Nope, I want to send the commands to the gsm device of my HTC Prophet. Do I have to use serial communication however it is not an external device?
Btw, any idea which COM-port, baud rate etc I have to use?

[Erel]

Assuming that the internal modem exposes a virtual port you could use the serial library to communicate with it.
If the port is described in the registry, you can use the code from this post to find it:
Reading com ports information from the registry

What are you trying to achieve? Maybe there is a simpler way to do it.

[blackwinged]

First of all, thanks a lot for your help!
I´m trying to get the current CellID of my mobile. With this information (and maybe some more) I´ll try to calculate the current position. This is of course not exact, but at least in cities the tolerance is only ~50m.
So I could 'emulate' a GPS device or build a simple location based service... there are many possibilities ; )
I already used the program you mentioned, but it only displays that COM1 is my Communication port (well, ASync I guess) and COM4 is my Infrared Port. 0,2,3 and 9 are displayed but without a description.
I´m currently playing around with serial commands, but the port does not seem to open or send any information...
I´ll try different ports and baud-rates now, maybe I get it working.

EDIT: Hey, sometimes the port opens. And immediately after that, the program crashes (including b4ppc)...

[dzt]

Hello,

I think that there is not a virtual com port for a windows mobile (phone) targeting the GSM module.
So, can't send directly AT commands.

It should ne some other way to read relative info.

[blackwinged]

So...when I connect from a windows machine to my mobile I should be able to send the commands (should - didn´t work for me either). At least I read so. But I can´t do this from the device itself? I don´t hope so...

[blackwinged]

I found a dll on an older website that makes it possible to get the cell information I need.
its here
I manage creating an object from the file MDAGetCellDll.dll, but it doesn´t return the information I need.
Now I´m quite new to basic programming languages - in case that anyone has tried (or is going to try) this with success, please tell me.

I found that many ppl are looking for a solution to get cell ids, so this would be very helpful.

[Erel]

I haven't tried it, but you should try to put the native dll mdaatcom.dll in basic4ppc folder: \Program Files\Basic4ppc

[blackwinged]

I just don´t get any results... Only empty Strings are returned from the functions.