Sierra Wireless AirPrime MC8775 User manual

2130616
Rev 2.9
MC87xx Modem
Extended AT Command Reference
Proprietary and Confidential
Includes:
MC8775 / MC8775V
MC8780 / MC8781
MC8785V
MC8790 / MC8790V
MC8791V
MC8792V

Preface
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Important Notice Duetothenatureofwirelesscommunications,transmission
andreceptionofdatacanneverbeguaranteed.Datamaybe
delayed,corrupted(i.e.,haveerrors)orbetotallylost.
Althoughsignificantdelaysorlossesofdataarerarewhen
wirelessdevicessuchastheSierraWirelessmodemareusedin
anormalmannerwithawell‐constructednetwork,theSierra
Wirelessmodemshouldnotbeusedinsituationswherefailure
totransmitorreceivedatacouldresultindamageofanykind
totheuseroranyotherparty,includingbutnotlimitedto
personalinjury,death,orlossofproperty.SierraWireless
acceptsnoresponsibilityfordamagesofanykindresulting
fromdelaysorerrorsindatatransmittedorreceivedusingthe
SierraWirelessmodem,orforfailureoftheSierraWireless
modemtotransmitorreceivesuchdata.
Safety and Hazards DonotoperatetheSierraWirelessmodeminareaswhere
blastingisinprogress,whereexplosiveatmospheresmaybe
present,nearmedicalequipment,nearlifesupportequipment,
oranyequipmentwhichmaybesusceptibletoanyformof
radiointerference.Insuchareas,theSierraWirelessmodem
MUSTBEPOWEREDOFF.TheSierraWirelessmodemcan
transmitsignalsthatcouldinterferewiththisequipment.
DonotoperatetheSierraWirelessmodeminanyaircraft,
whethertheaircraftisonthegroundorinflight.Inaircraft,the
SierraWirelessmodemMUSTBEPOWEREDOFF.When
operating,theSierraWirelessmodemcantransmitsignalsthat
couldinterferewithvariousonboardsystems.
Note: Some airlines may permit the use of cellular phones while the
aircraft is on the ground and the door is open. Sierra Wireless
modems may be used at this time.
Thedriveroroperatorofanyvehicleshouldnotoperatethe
SierraWirelessmodemwhileincontrolofavehicle.Doingso
willdetractfromthedriveroroperatorʹscontrolandoperation
ofthatvehicle.Insomestatesandprovinces,operatingsuch
communicationsdeviceswhileincontrolofavehicleisan
offence.
Limitation of
Liability
Theinformationinthismanualissubjecttochangewithout
noticeanddoesnotrepresentacommitmentonthepartof
SierraWireless.SIERRAWIRELESSANDITSAFFILIATES
SPECIFICALLYDISCLAIMLIABILITYFORANYANDALL
DIRECT,INDIRECT,SPECIAL,GENERAL,INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL,PUNITIVEOREXEMPLARYDAMAGES
INCLUDING,BUTNOTLIMITEDTO,LOSSOFPROFITSOR

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ARISINGOUTOFTHEUSEORINABILITYTOUSEANY
SIERRAWIRELESSPRODUCT,EVENIFSIERRAWIRELESS
AND/ORITSAFFILIATESHASBEENADVISEDOFTHE
POSSIBILITYOFSUCHDAMAGESORTHEYARE
FORESEEABLEORFORCLAIMSBYANYTHIRDPARTY.
Notwithstandingtheforegoing,innoeventshallSierra
Wirelessand/oritsaffiliatesaggregateliabilityarisingunderor
inconnectionwiththeSierraWirelessproduct,regardlessof
thenumberofevents,occurrences,orclaimsgivingriseto
liability,beinexcessofthepricepaidbythepurchaserforthe
SierraWirelessproduct.
Patents Portionsofthisproductmaybecoveredbysomeorallofthe
followingUSpatents:
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6,339,405 6,359,591 6,400,336 6,516,204 6,561,851
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6,985,757 7,023,878 7,053,843 7,106,569 7,145,267
7,200,512 7,295,171 7,287,162 D442,170 D459,303
D599,256 D560,911
andotherpatentspending.
Thisproductincludes
technologylicensedfrom:
LicensedbyQUALCOMMIncorporatedunderoneormoreof
thefollowingUnitedStatespatentsand/ortheircounterparts
inothernations:
4,901,307 5,056,109 5,101,501 5,109,390 5,228,054
5,267,261 5,267,262 5,337,338 5,414,796 5,416,797
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5,544,196 5,568,483 5,600,754 5,657,420 5,659,569
5,710,784 5,778,338
ManufacturedorsoldbySierraWirelessoritslicenseesunder
oneormorepatentslicensedfromInterDigitalGroup.
Copyright ©2008SierraWireless.Allrightsreserved.
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trademarksofSierraWireless.Watcher®isatrademarkof
SierraWireless,registeredintheEuropeanCommunity.
SierraWireless,theSierraWirelesslogo,theredwavedesign,
andthered‐tippedantennaaretrademarksofSierraWireless.
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Incorporated.Usedunderlicense.
Othertrademarksarethepropertyoftherespectiveowners.
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Revision History
Revision
number Release date Changes
2.4 Jul 2007 •Fixed !SCPROFSWOPT syntax (page 52)
•Added new RxD parameters to !DAWINFO (page 76)
•Fixed !GBAND supported bands values (page 58)
•Updated !CUSTOM customization descriptions, and added new custom-
izations (HSDPATEST, CSDOFF, AUTONETWORKMODE) (page 33)
•Added !BPLMNTIMER (page 31), !HSUCAT (page 39),
!SCANTHRESH (page 52), !UOOS (page 54)
•Updated !NVMUXMODE (page 44)
•Added list of HSUPA categories to HSDPA / HSUPA Categories
(page 169)
2.5 Jan 2008 •Added !GPSCLRASSIST(page 117), !GPSCOLDSTART (page 118),
!GPSENABLE (page 119), !GPSIPADDR (page 122), !GPSNIQOSTIME
(page 124), !GPSPORTID (page 125), !GPSPOSMODE (page 126),
!GPSPROTOSEL (page 127), !GPSSATINFO (page 128),
!GPSTRANSSEC (page 132), !GPSXTRADATAENABLE (page 133),
!GPSXTRADATAURL (page 134), !GPSXTRAINITDNLD (page 134),
!GPSXTRASTATUS (page 135), !GPSXTRATIME (page 136),
!GPSXTRATIMEENABLE (page 137), !GPSXTRATIMEURL (page 138),
!GPSCOLDSTART (page 118)
•Added !MXPORTMAP (page 41), !NASREL (page 42)
•Deprecated !NVENGPS (page 138) for MC878x
2.6 Feb 2008 •Removed references to MC8755, MC8755V, MC8765
•Added references to MC8785V
•Updated !NVOEM (page 45) options
•Updated $QCPDPP (page 59) parameters for CHAP
•Added new format for !CMEN (page 32)
•Added query list (=?) variations for !GPSFIX (page 121), !GPSTRACK
(page 131), !GPSXTRATIME (page 136), !GPSENABLE (page 119),
!GPSPOSMODE (page 126), !GPSPROTOSEL (page 127),
!GPSXTRADATAENABLE (page 133), !GPSXTRATIMEENABLE
(page 137)
•Removed !MICGAINSEL

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2.7 Mar 2008 •Updated ‘supporting modules’ lists
•!NVPORTMAP (page 46) and AVEXTPCMSEL (page 99) flagged as
not supporting MC8785V
•Added clarification to !NVDEF (page 85) and !NVRESTORE (page 86)
descriptions
•Added new audio profile IDs (6 and 7 for external PCM profiles
•Format changes for !GPSXTRASTATUS (page 135)
2.8 Jul 2008 •Deprecated !GPSENABLE (for MC8780 and newer),
!CUSTOM=”SKUID”, !GPSIPADDR, !GPSPORTID
•Removed !CUSTOM=”NOATTACH”
•Updated !CUSTOM=”GPSENABLE”), !GBAND, !DTMEN
•Added !GPSMTLRSETTINGS, !GPSSUPLURL, !NVPLMNCLR,
!CUSTOM=”CSVOICEREJECT”
•Updated ‘Supporting Mini Cards’ for all commands
•Updated minimum firmware revision requirements
2.9 Oct 2008 •Updated modules list (added MC8791V, MC8792V)
•Updated minimum firmware revision requirements
•Added !GPSAUTOSTART
•Added SIM Application Toolkit chapter with commands: !STKC,
!STKGC, !STKCR, !STKPD, !STKMS, !STKPLI, and details of !STKN
notifications
•Updated !AVSETPROFILE
•Updated !LEDCTRL
Revision
number Release date Changes

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Table of Contents
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Command timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Result codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Terminology and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Current firmware versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Document structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
AT Password Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Modem Status, Customization, and Reset Commands . . . . . . . .29
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Diagnostic Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Test Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sample AT command sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Turning on the TX in WCDMA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Turning on the TX in GSM mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Turning on the RX and reading RSSI in WCDMA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Turning on the RX and reading RSSI in GSM mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Memory Management Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Voice Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Audio profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Profile activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
GPS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
STK Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143