Michal Čihař - Service menu in Alcatel 501

Service menu cas be shown typing 000000* in standby screen. Then menu with 5 items appears: Tracks, Stops, Cleanup stops, Load Control and Menu 2 access.

Tracks

Information about network, for aech cell are available several calues. For actual cell are shown all values, for next 6 with best signal only ARF, BSI, RXL, C1 and C2 and for remaining only BSI and RXL.

ARF

Active channel number (GSM 900MHz between 0001-0124, GSM 1800MHz between 0512-0885).

BSI

Base Station Identity Code. This 6bit number contains two 3bit parts - Base-station Color Code (BCC) and National Color Code (NCC). BCC distinguishes cells of one operator with same ARF and NCC separates cells into regions.

RSS

Recieved Signal Strength Indicator. After conversion into decimal system, dividing by 2 and multiply by -1 this shows value in dBm.

RXL

Received Level. Displays same as RSS, only converted into format used in GSM specification:

0 less than -110 dBm
1 -110 dBm -109 dBm
2 -109 dBm -108 dBm
...
62 -49 dBm -48dBm
63 -48 dBm and more

L1S

Layer 1 Status. Can have following values:

0 initialization
1 synchronization
2 standby
3 26-Multiframe (used for calls)
4 51-Multiframe (used for SMS)

L1P

Layer 1 Phase.

0 current phase
1 PLMN
2 RACH
3 RESET
4 handover

DSC

Downlink Signalling Failure Counter.

LAC

Local Area Code.

C1

Path Lost Criterion. When this value is negative, phone switches to another cell, which has highest C2.

C2

Cell Reselection Criterion. According to this value is selected cell that will be used. ostly same values as in C1, depends of network settings.

X

Transmitter status.

H

Frequency Hopping.

Stops

List of last 10 switch offs or resets with reason:

48 unknown
46 normal switch off
45 switch off when recharging
43 low battery
40 unsuccessful power on
10 batery removal
01 reset
00 internal error

Cleanup stops

Clear list of last switch offs and shows "Operation OK!".

Load Control

Information about battery and charging.

BTY

Battery type: LiP2 - Li-Polymer (780 mAh), NIX1 - Ni-MH (650 mAh).

DT

Unknown - 000.

DV

Unknown - 000.

ICH

Battery status in percent. Automatical switch off is made at about 7-8 . Indicator on standby display show state as described in following table.

61 - 100 % 3 tiles
41 - 60 % 2 tiles
21 - 40 % 1 tile
0 - 20 % none tile

NTP

Cycle counter in each state. Values are listed in next section.

STA

Battery state.

STA NTP Description
PR 0-10 prepair - prepairing for changing, takes around 20 seconds
AT 0-12 attached
IN ? interrupt - during call etc.
CH 0-? (depends on previous battery state) charging
EN 0-12 ending
RE ? regular

STD

I havent seen any value yet.

TC

Battery temperature during charging (CH), from C9 to DC.

TM

Ambient temperature during any phase of charging. After dividing by 5 we get value which could be battery temperature.

VMX

Battery voltage when charging.

VM

Battery voltage.

Vm

Charging vooltage.

MEA

There are two values with this name. One shows voltage and second probably some guess of length of charging.

Probably access to next menu, after entering of same values (25228353, 25228352, 83227423, 12345678) phone resets.