Motorola Iden Nextel System Codes

To access the diagnostic mode on the I30 i60 i55 i85 i90 i95, i1000+ and most others:
#, *, MENU, JOYSTICK-RIGHT (Do these keystrokes fast)
 

Now, press down arrow until SYSTEM STATUS or FIELD TEST appears.  Select it and it the screen should look like this with different numbers:

Pressing the TRACE button will allow the screen to update and flash every 3 seconds. This is great to determine which side of a building the tower is on, or if any antenna or amplifier is actually working. It can also tell you why your calls drop in a particular area.  Following the same sequence above, and pressing the trace button again will stop it from flashing. Phone calls can be received and sent while in TRACE mode.

The value in the same position as the -94 shown above is the actual signal strength in dB of the tower at this cell phone.  -126 indictes no signal and is the worst value.  -51 is the highest signal level shown and is the best value.  We have found that calls can be made easily and clearly with the level from -51 to -90. Calls are problematic from -90 to -101. Anything lower than -101 is not reliable.

1.	The following test screens are based on the FIELD TEST MODE of an i1000plus. Other iDEN phones may give different screens.
	Phone Model i1000plus   Exit Trace	iDEN phone model Hitting the Trace button will cause the screen to alternate between normal mode and test mode every 2 seconds or so. Note that the screens shown while in test mode are static. Doing a trace will update screens to the lastest information.
2.	Hit the again to get to the next menu (and each subsequent menu):
	SW Version R28.01.01	Software version
3.	CP Version 06.02/08.00	CodePlug Version An authorized iDEN representative or service center can upgrade your codeplug version by doing a 'phone write' from within an iDEN RSS (Radio Service Software) Agent Version.  The newest release of iDEN RSS is called 'Super Agent RSS' and can perform flash upgrades of the phone's software version (a function not available from within RSS Agent). RSS is not available to the general public as it allows changes to the phone's codeplug that can adversely affect the network.
4.	IMEI[0] 0001004	IMEI prefix number Gives first 7 digits of Internation Mobile Equipment Identification number. Hit MENU then NEXT to view the next seven digits. Entire IMEI is 15 digits with the 15th digit always being a '0'. the 15th digit sometimes is a 1, which he suspects to indicate NAM2. This seems to apply to iDEN handsets in both Brazil and Argentina.
5.	29.09 3F9-9 -00db -94 0 +22 +0 0	Signal strength, paging channel, and other signal values. More detail is given in screens below. Line 1: Signal Quality, a combination of RSSI and BER; Current channel in use by unit Line 2: Automatic transmit power reduction from full power of 0.6 watts; RSSI (received signal strength indicator) in dbM; "time advance" - probably a timing parameter related to distance from site and delay? Line 3: Power amplifier temperature in degrees Celsius; Temperature change in last two seconds; Power cutback, where 0=full, 1=16% cutback, 2=33% cutback, 3=50% cutback or -3db, 4="full cutback" (probably an "off" condition) all due to temperature increases only.
6.	SQE/Carrier 29.09 3F9-9	Signal Quality Estimate. SQE is based on a calculation of: RSSI, FWD BER, REV, and BER. SQE ranges between 0 and 35: 28+ are very good, below 22 are very poor. Carrier is the Broadcast control channel (BCCH) that the phone is currently idling on. This number is in hexidecimal and corresponds to a particular sector of a cell site. These numbers are shown on some of this site's maps as spines off the Telus Mike cell locations with the hexidecimal BCCH numbers (black lettering on orange background).
7.	Tx/Rx Power -00db -94db	Transmission and Receiving power levels of handset
8.	Time 0/Freq 863712500	Frequency that handset is tuned to. In this case 863.712500 MHz
9.	Build Date Fri Oct 22	Date of software build
10.	SW Type MS-PDGY-GOL	Software Type.
11.	Disp Grp ID 000000	Dispatch Group ID
12.	Disp Ind ID 200523	Individual Dispatch ID
13.	RF Xtal 74	RF XTAL is a factory frequency set parameter
14.	Xtal Offset FF	XTAL OFFSET is a frequency temperature compensation parameter
15.	Level Set 4B	LEV SET is a transmit power output set parameter
16.	RESETS[0] List Empty	Reset log. Programming is 400; TX problem is RAAAA.
17.	ER Log[0] 0059AB07	ERROR LOG is a log of software errors
18.	Fatal Error/# 000000 00	Fatal error code number
19.	Radio Usage 42	Number of minutes that Direct Connect has been used for.
20.	Disp Log acpt 0000d1 f3	If your phone is outside a service area it will display rjct (Reject) in the second line then the phone is either broken or needs to be pushed through a DAP
21.	Int Log acpt 0000d1	INT LOG is a log of registration errors when the unit connects
22.	PD Log No Info Available	PD LOG is a Packet Data registration error log
23.	MIP Log No Info Available	MIP LOG is a Mobile IP registration error log