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NRF9160DK PCA10090 0.8.5 - not able to connect to LTE tower at austria vienna

dear folks,

I bougth my dev kit last week from digikey. I tried the asset tacker demo out of the box without success. I tried nearly everything. Updated the modem to v1.0.0 recompiled the demo application flashed it but the kit will not connect to an lte tower. than I flashed the at_client and stepped through every single at command and figured out that the modem remains in lte network searching by +CEREG: 2,4,"FFFE","FFFFFFFF",7. This state will not change anymore. I tried A1 Sim card and the iBasis which both can connect to an LTE tower with an quectel modem but not with the nrf9160dk.

Are there any other suggestions I can try, or does anyone need more information to keep going?

best regards,

schnuckelg

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  • Hi schnuckelg.

    Can you try to set the modem to NB-IoT mode by running xsystemmode=0,1,0,0 before you start the modem?

    Best regards,

    Andreas

  • Dear AndreasF,

    i sent modem to flight mode using at+cfun=4 then i set systemmode with at%ysystemmode=0,1,0,0 

    to working at PS mode 2  (LTE Cat-NB1 supported) after all at commands this results in

    AT+CEREG?
    +CEREG: 2,2,"C372","000C7BD0",9 (eps not registered, searching)
    OK

    with both Sim cards (A1 and iBasis). Signal strength is -93dBm but there is no EPS network registration.

    At this point I'm not very familiar with LTE mechanism maybe I have to learn more about ist.

    Best regards,

    schnuckelg 

  • Hi.

    Can you please provide me with the full log of the procedure you're doing?

    Best regards,

    Andreas

  • Hi AndreasF, 

    this is the log from booting up with the asset_tracker demo till eps registration unknown.

    best regards,

    schnuckelg

  • Hi.

    Can you try to add these two configurations to your prj.conf file as described here?

    Best regards,

    Andreas

  • Dear Andreas,

    this is the log after adding the 2 configuration lines to prj.conf of the asset_tracker demo and rebuilding it. Now the demo starts with PS mode 2 but also there is no eps registration.

    Best regards,

    schnuckelg

  • Hi.

    Do you have CONFIG_NEWLIB_LIBC=y also defined? Could you please remove this and then try?

    Best regards,

    Andreas

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  • Dear Andreas,

    this is my actual prj.conf of the asset_tracker demo app

    and this ist the nrf Connect log after changing and rebuilding.

    Best regards,

    schnuckelg

  • Hi.

    I see that you say that you're using the asset_tracker demo.

    Can you instead try with AT_client?

    Try to do the same steps as before, plus one extra step:

    And run the AT commands:

    at%ysystemmode=0,1,0,0

    AT%XEPCO=0

    Does this work?

    Best regards,

    Andreas

  • Dear Andreas,

    there is no change.

    This is the log from the new nRF Connect v3.1.0. 

    and this is the prj.conf of the at_client sample

  • Hi

    Can you try to open the log by pressing on the button?

    It appears that it is not possible to copy the output log from the "big black window".

    Can you paste the log from when the log file opens after you pressed on the button so that it is correctly formated?

    Best regards,

    Andreas

  • Dear Andreas!

    I modified my last post.

    Kind regards,

    schnuckelg