Mobile terminal and a network searching method for overcoming crystal aging issue

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10069484-B2
Application number	US-201715696235-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 6, 2017
Priority date	Sep 9, 2016
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

This invention provides a mobile terminal and a network searching method for overcoming crystal aging issue. The method includes the step of: searching network by invoking parameters stored in a first area of a volatile RAM; if the searching is failed, searching network by invoking parameters stored in a second area of the volatile RAM; if the searching is failed and the number of network searches is larger than a first predetermined value, reacquiring parameters and searching network; if the searching is succeeded, updating the parameters in the first area with the reacquired parameters. By this method, the invention can effectively solve the problems caused by crystal aging or defective crystals, and increases the robustness of the network searching.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A network searching method for overcoming crystal aging issue, the method comprising:
searching network by invoking parameters stored in a first area of a volatile RAM;
if the network searching is failed, searching network by invoking parameters stored in a second area of the volatile RAM;
if the network searching is failed and the number of network searches is larger than a first predetermined value, reacquiring parameters and searching network with the reacquired parameters; and
if the network searching is succeeded, updating the parameters in the first area with the reacquired parameters.

2. The network searching method of claim 1 , wherein initial values of the parameters stored in the first area are the same as the parameters stored in the second area.

3. The network searching method of claim 1 , wherein the parameters comprise a capacitance of a capacitance array and a capacitance of a varactor diode, and the capacitance of the capacitance array is changed for coarse tuning of the parameters; while the capacitance of the varactor diode is changed for fine tuning the parameters.

4. The network searching method of claim 3 , wherein the step of reacquiring the parameters and searching the network comprises:
adjusting the capacitance of the capacitor array at a preset step and performing the network searching to minimize the frequency error; and
calibrating the capacitance of the varactor diode and performing the network searching so that the frequency error approaches zero.

5. The network searching method of claim 4 , wherein the step of calibrating the capacitance of the varactor diode comprises:
adjusting the middle value of a variation range for the capacitance of the varactor diode to be located in the middle position of the variation range if a difference between the value of the capacitance of the varactor diode and the middle value of the variation range for the capacitance of the varactor diode has exceeded a predetermined range.

6. The network searching method of claim 1 , wherein if searching the network by invoking the parameters stored in the second area of the volatile RAM is succeeded, the parameters of the first area are updated to the parameters of the second area.

7. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a first network searching module configured to search a network by invoking parameters stored in a first area of a volatile RAM;
a second network searching module connected to the first network searching module for searching the network by invoking parameters stored in a second area of the volatile RAM if the network searching is failed;
a third network searching module connected to the second network searching module for reacquiring parameters and searching the network if the network searching is failed and the number of network searches is larger than a first predetermined value; and
a parameter updating module connected to the third network searching module for updating the parameters in the first area with the reacquired parameters if the searching is succeeded.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7 , wherein initial values of the parameters stored in the first area are the same as the parameters stored in the second area.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 7 , wherein the parameters comprise a capacitance of a capacitance array and a capacitance of a varactor diode, and the capacitance of the capacitance array is changed to perform coarse tuning of the parameters while the capacitance of the varactor diode is changed to perform fine tuning of the parameters.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9 , wherein the third network searching module is further configured to:
adjust the capacitance of the capacitor array at a preset step and perform the network searching to minimize the frequency error;
calibrate the capacitance of the varactor diode and perform the network searching so that the frequency error approaches zero.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10 , wherein the third network searching module is further configured to:
adjust the middle value of a variation range for the capacitance of the varactor diode to be located in the middle position of the variation range if a difference between the value of the capacitance of the varactor diode and the middle value of the variation range for the capacitance of the varactor diode has exceeded a predetermined range.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 7 , wherein the parameter updating module is further configured to:
update the parameters of the first area to the parameters of the second area if searching the network by invoking the parameters stored in the second area of the volatile RAM is succeeded.

Assignees

• Mediatek Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Pei Weiwei

Classifications

• H04W48/18

  Selecting a network or a communication service · CPC title

• H03J3/185 Primary

  with varactors, i.e. voltage variable reactive diodes · CPC title

• H03J2200/09

  Calibration of oscillator in receiver, using an external carrier frequency as reference · CPC title

• H03J3/04 Primary

  Arrangements for compensating for variations of physical values, e.g. temperature · CPC title

• H04M1/72448 Primary

  with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions · CPC title