Re: Validity period

[Pawel Kot]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:50, Davide Berra <address@hidden> wrote:
> i need to send a message with a accurate validity period, so i would like to
> fill TP-VP field
> with Absolute value and not with Relative value (default by gnokii).

OK, but...

> So i edited common/phones/nk6510.c (my phone) sms_encode() function...
>
> first, i changed TP-VPF (bit 4 and bit 3 of first octet) with 01 (means
> Enhanced format) instead of 10 (Relative format)

.. why you use enhanced format instead of absolute format?

>               if (data->raw_sms->validity_indicator)
>                 {
> //                      req[pos] |= 0x10;
>                         req[pos] |= 0x08;

Absolute format is:
                          req[pos] |= 0x18;

>                 req[pos++] = 0x99; /* year */
>                 req[pos++] = 0x20; /* month */
>                 req[pos++] = 0x21; /* day */
>                 req[pos++] = 0x50; /* hour */
>                 req[pos++] = 0x75; /* minute */
>                 req[pos++] = 0x03; /* second */
>                 req[pos++] = 0x21; /* timezone */

This is not enhanced validity period format. Please refer to GSM 03.40
spec (not too old, enhanced format is pretty new).

> the result is..... phone can't send message.... =(

It may not support enhanced validity period format.

> What "data length" and "block length", in validity period block, means?

You used them correctly.

pkot
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Pawel Kot