README.txt
1 This package contains classes used to manage a DataConnection.
2
3 A criticial aspect of this class is that most objects in this
4 package run on the same thread except DataConnectionTracker
5 This makes processing efficient as it minimizes context
6 switching and it eliminates issues with multi-threading.
7
8 This can be done because all actions are either asynchronous
9 or are known to be non-blocking and fast. At this time only
10 DcTesterDeactivateAll takes specific advantage of this
11 single threading knowledge by using Dcc#mDcListAll so be
12 very careful when making changes that break this assumption.
13
14 A related change was in DataConnectionAc I added code that
15 checks to see if the caller is on a different thread. If
16 it is then the AsyncChannel#sendMessageSynchronously is
17 used. If the caller is on the same thread then a getter
18 is used. This allows the DCAC to be used from any thread
19 and was required to fix a bug when Dcc called
20 PhoneBase#notifyDataConnection which calls DCT#getLinkProperties
21 and DCT#getLinkCapabilities which call Dcc all on the same
22 thread. Without this change there was a dead lock when
23 sendMessageSynchronously blocks.
24
25
26 == Testing ==
27
28 The following are Intents that can be sent for testing pruproses on
29 DEBUGGABLE builds (userdebug, eng)
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31 *) Causes bringUp and retry requests to fail for all DC's
32
33 adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.internal.telephony.dataconnection.action_fail_bringup --ei counter 2 --ei fail_cause -3
34
35 *) Causes all DC's to get torn down, simulating a temporary network outage:
36
37 adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.internal.telephony.dataconnection.action_deactivate_all
38
39 *) To simplify testing we also have detach and attach simulations below where {x} is gsm, cdma or sip
40
41 adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.internal.telephony.{x}.action_detached
42 adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.internal.telephony.{x}.action_attached
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44
45 == System properties for Testing ==
46
47 On debuggable builds (userdebug, eng) you can change additional
48 settings through system properties. These properties can be set with
49 "setprop" for the current boot, or added to local.prop to persist
50 across boots.
51
52 device# setprop key value
53
54 device# echo "key=value" >> /data/local.prop
55 device# chmod 644 /data/local.prop
56
57
58 -- Retry configuration --
59
60 You can replace the connection retry configuration. For example, you
61 could change it to perform 4 retries at 5 second intervals:
62
63 device# setprop test.data_retry_config "5000,5000,5000"
64
65
66 -- Roaming --
67
68 You can force the telephony stack to always assume that it's roaming
69 to verify higher-level framework functionality:
70
71 device# setprop telephony.test.forceRoaming true
72