[G1 Android Development] andrewjames:
thankfully I use data with my HTC device seldom. For that reason I have passively observed the events of e911 Rogers and deferred the call to Rogers.

The only problem for me, until today when my phone calls were redirected, was that I received a plury of calls and messages per day to 'remind' me of the state.

The only result of the rogers 'reminders' was that I was reminded to convert my system to the most recent cyanogen, yesterday, now it is cyanogen 4.2.14, that is android version 1.6.

Per what I read, the e911 problem was in android 1.5. any later versions (1.6) or patched version 1.5 (like rogers sent to users), have no problems with 911 calls.

finally, today I could not call a friend, the call was redirected to rogers instead. I politely told the persons at rogers that I must have called the wrong number then ended the call.

I decided that the only solution before I talked with rogers was to call 911. If there was an emergency sometime I wanted to know if the phone would save someone.

Then I called 911 to check if that was redirected to rogers or an e911 problem, my 911 call was NOT redirected to rogers and was answered by an police operator. I apologized to the operator and he hung up quickly, obviously he had better things to do.

Later I talked with rogers technician who told me, as I had suspected , that rogers has no developers who program for the open source system that they sell, android. He stated, that rogers relies to the manufacturers, to develop the system.

for a brief of the e911 problem read www litui net. that interludes to my conclusion of why you dont need to lie to rogers, worry of 911 calls, or revert to any old system if you use android 1.6 (that is newer cyanogen).

In conclusion, I told Doug the technician at Rogers that I 'got the update' that has no problems with 911 calls.

Doug informed me that my device, HTC dream, will receive data connection after the rogers system has scanned it to validate that it has the 'update'. I clarified that the system I use is a version 1.6 that has no problems with 911 calls, and that I talked with a 911 operator earlier. I never even said cyanogen.

I told Doug that he should communicate through Rogers that there are other android systems in use, other than the ones that rogers distributes.

Then I asked Doug if he needed any values from my android system to add to the rogers validator system and prevent any more problems for all users of the specific android system (cyanogen 4.2.14). He asked me the 'firmware version' and 'build number' only. I told him both values, he told me that he would permeate those values in the rogers validator system.

I expect no more problems.

As a result of my conversation with rogers, you may regain service and experience no further interrupts like messages or calls, this is not a miracle, you only have to ask, and sometimes demand, intelligently.

I think there are plenty of busy persons about who lack the time or resource to research all these technicalities to form an intelligent response to a problem that rogers disrespectfully unloaded to its open source user clients. I hope I have helped you.

For your reference, the system values that I told Doug are

firmware version 1.6

build number DRC83

find the values in menu > settings > about phone

If your device system has the same values, expect no problems.

to be determined if the rogers validator system was reprogrammed, its the least they can do...

andrew james

andrew systemssingular.com