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Android RIL Driver
User Guide
GSM/GPRS/UMTS/HSPA/LTE Module Series
Rev. Android_RIL_Driver_User_Guide_V1.5
Date: 2016-08-23

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About the Document
History

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Revision

Date

Author

Description

1.0

2015-02-27

Carl YIN

Initial

1.1

2015-03-25

Carl YIN

Updated supported products

1.2

2015-04-07

Kent XU

Added Zero Packet feature in Section 3.3.3.

1.3

2015-07-10

Kent XU

1.
2.

Added GSM modules in Supported Products
Added Android 5.x in Supported Android Versions

1.4

2016-06-21

Carl YIN/
Neo HOU

1.
2.

Added EC21&EC25 in Supported Products
Added FAQ

1.5

2016-08-23

Kent XU

Added EC20 R2.0 in Supported Products

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Contents
About the Document ................................................................................................................................ 2
Contents .................................................................................................................................................... 3
Table Index ............................................................................................................................................... 4
Figure Index .............................................................................................................................................. 5
1

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1. Directory Structure ..................................................................................................................... 6

2

Overview of Android RIL Driver ....................................................................................................... 7
2.1. Supported Products ................................................................................................................... 7
2.2. Supported Functions ................................................................................................................. 7
2.3. Supported Android Versions ...................................................................................................... 8

3

RIL Integration ................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1. RIL Driver Structure ................................................................................................................... 9
3.2. PPP Configuration in Linux Kernel .......................................................................................... 10
3.3. USB Drivers for UC15/UC20/UGxx/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0 ......................................... 10
3.4. RIL Driver Integration .............................................................................................................. 10
3.5. System Configuration ...............................................................................................................11
3.5.1. Configure "init.rc" ............................................................................................................11
3.5.2. Modify the Right of RILD ................................................................................................ 13

4

Debugging Method .......................................................................................................................... 14
4.1. Method of Catching LOG ......................................................................................................... 14
4.2. Some Common LOG Tags ...................................................................................................... 14

5

FAQ .................................................................................................................................................. 16
5.1. How to Set APN ....................................................................................................................... 16
5.2. Quectel RIL Does Not Work .................................................................................................... 17
5.3. Cannot Send or Receive Short Message ................................................................................ 17

6

Appendix .......................................................................................................................................... 18

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Table Index
TABLE 1: SUPPORTED PRODUCTS ....................................................................................................... 7
TABLE 2: SUPPORTED FUNCTIONS ...................................................................................................... 7
TABLE 3: SUPPORTED ANDROID VERSIONS ....................................................................................... 8
TABLE 4: TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .............................................................................................. 18

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Figure Index
FIGURE 1: RIL DRIVER STRUCTURE ..................................................................................................... 9
FIGURE 2: RIL FILES .............................................................................................................................. 11
FIGURE 3: EDIT ACCESS POINT .......................................................................................................... 16

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1

Introduction

This document mainly introduces how to integrate RIL Driver into Android OS of your target machine and
how to modify the configuration files for starting RIL service and PPP dialling.

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1.1. Directory Structure

The file structure of Quectel RIL Driver Package:
├──
├──
├──
├──
├──
├──
├──
├──
├──
├──
└──

Android.mk
atchannel.c
atchannel.h
at_tok.c
at_tok.h
misc.c
misc.h
ql-pppd.c
gsm0710muxd_bp.c
quectel_ril_porting_guide.txt
reference-ril.c

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Overview of Android RIL Driver

2.1. Supported Products

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Table 1: Supported Products
Product
UC20
UC15
UGxx

Support or Not
YES
YES
YES

EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0

YES

Quectel GSM Modules

YES

2.2. Supported Functions

Table 2: Supported Functions
Function
SMS
VOICE CALL

Support or Not
YES
YES

DATA SERVICE

YES

SIM TOOL KIT

NO

PHONEBOOK

YES

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2.3. Supported Android Versions
Presently, Quectel RIL driver supports the following Android versions:

Table 3: Supported Android Versions
Versions

Support or not

Android 2.x
Android 3.x
Android 4.x
Android 5.x

YES

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3

RIL Integration

The first part describes the RIL driver structure. The following parts introduce how to set up Android
system with the RIL driver.

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3.1. RIL Driver Structure

Android RIL (Radio Interface Layer) provides the abstract layer between Telephony service and Radio
hardware.
The following illustration describes the RIL‟s position in the Android architecture.

Applications

Phone Application

Call Tracker

Application
Framework

SMS Dispatch

Service Tracker

Data Tracker

Phone
Java/android/telephony

RIL
Java/android/telephony/gsm

Unix

Libraries
(User Space)

Radio Daemon (rild)
/commands/rild

Vendor RIL
System/libs/libril-vendor.so

Packet Service

Linux Kernel

Linux IP Stack

Voice and
Control

Baseband

Packet Driver
PPP.for example

Baseband

Figure 1: RIL Driver Structure

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The RIL in Android is located between Kernel and Application Framework. It is divided into two parts, one
is RILD and the other is Vendor RIL.
RILD is responsible for the communication between Socket and Application Framework.
Vendor RIL is responsible for communication with Radio via AT command channel and Packet data
channel (PDCH). AT command channel is used for communicating with Radio directly and PDCH is used
for data service.
The java framework of RIL is divided into two parts too. One is RIL module and the other is Phone module.
The RIL module is used to communicate with the lower RILD. The Phone module directly provides phone
function interfaces to application through which you can call to realize the phone functions.

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3.2. PPP Configuration in Linux Kernel

You need to configure the kernel to support PPP dial up.

For detailed operation procedures, please refer to chapter 3.6 Configure Kernel to Support PPP in
Quectel WCDMA<E Linux USB Driver User Guide.

3.3. USB Drivers for UC15/UC20/UGxx/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0
If you are using Quectel GSM modules, please skip this section.

You need to configure the kernel to support UC15/UC20/UGxx/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0 modules.

For detailed operation procedures, please refer to the following chapters in Quectel WCDMA<E Linux
USB Driver User Guide:
3.2. USB Serial Driver for UC15/UC20/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0
3.3. CDC ACM Driver for UGxx
3.4. GobiNet Driver for UC20/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0
3.5. QMI WWAN Driver for UC20/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0

3.4. RIL Driver Integration
Presently, Quectel provides RIL driver in the form of source code. You only need to copy the RIL driver
source code files to the correct path on your project directory, and then recompile the Android system.

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The source path of the RIL driver files in RIL Driver package is:
Driver package/reference-ril
The destination path in Android system is:
($Android_src)/hardware/ril/
Please use following command to update these files‟ date stamp to make sure they will be compiled.
touch hardware/ril/*

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After you recompile the Android system successfully, please make sure the following files exists in folder
"out/target/product/($your_board_name)/system".

Figure 2: RIL Files

NOTE

Quectel would not give the PPP script, because we have integrated the PPP script in the source code of
the RIL driver. And the chat, ip-up and ip-down would be generated when the RIL driver has been
compiled.

3.5. System Configuration

In order to use the RIL driver normally, you also have to modify some Android system configuration files.

3.5.1. Configure "init.rc"

Add service "ril-daemon" in "init.rc":
If you are using UC15/UC20/UGxx/EC20/EC21/EC25/EC20 R2.0 modules which are accessed by USB
interface, please add the following service in "init.rc":
service ril-daemon /system/bin/rild -l /system/lib/libreference-ril.so
class main

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socket rild stream 660 root radio
socket rild-debug stream 666 radio system
user root
group radio cache inet misc audio sdcard_rw log
If you are using GSM modules which are accessed by UART interface, please add the following service in
"init.rc":
service ril-daemon /system/bin/rild -l /system/lib/libreference-ril.so -- -d  –B
 –C 
class main
socket rild stream 660 root radio
socket rild-debug stream 666 radio system
user root
group radio cache inet misc audio sdcard_rw log

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The following parameter needs to be configured:


-d 

The name of UART port you are using. For example: /dev/ttyS1
It is optional to configure the following two parameters:


-B 

The speed of UART port. For example: 115200, 230400, 460800bps. The default baud rate is 115200bps.


-C 

1: open hardware flow control
0: close hardware flow control

Hardware flow control is closed by default.

The "init.rc" file may be located in different paths according to different projects, for example:






system/core/rootdir/init.rc
device/fsl/imx6/init.rc
device/ti/am335xevm_sk/init.am335xevm.rc
device/generic/x86/init.rc
device/samsung/smdkv210/init.smdkv210_sdmmc.rc

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3.5.2. Modify the Right of RILD
RILD (ril-daemon) requires root privilege. So you need to comment out the function switchUser() in the
file "($Android_src)/hardware/ril/rild/rild.c":
OpenLib:
#endif
//switchUser();
dlHandle = dlopen(rilLibPath, RTLD_NOW)

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4

Debugging Method

4.1. Method of Catching LOG
1)

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Catch the log of RIL module by typing the following command in window‟s CMD tool:

adb logcat –b radio –v time
2)

Catch the log of Android system by typing the following command in window‟s CMD tool:

adb logcat –v time
3)

Sometimes, you may want to make tests on lots of devices or for a long time, and it is not convenient
to connect all devices with PC via USB cables. In this case, you can log file by the following
command:

adb shell
logcat –b radio –v time –f  &

The character „&‟ makes the „logcat‟ process running in background, so you can disconnect your devices.
4)

When you finish your tests, you can fetch log files from devices to local directory by the following
command:

adb pull  

4.2. Some Common LOG Tags

RIL

/hardware/ril/reference-ril/refereince-ril.c

AT

/hardware/ril/reference-ril/atchannel.c

RILD

/hardware/ril/rild/rild.c

RILC

/hardware/ril/libril/ril.cpp

RILB

/frameworks/base/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/BaseCommands.java

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RILJ

/frameworks/base/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/gsm/RIL.java

GSM

/frameworks/base/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/gsm/GSMPhone.java

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FAQ

5.1. How to Set APN

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If the dialling process cannot go on, it is quite possible that the APN has not been set yet. The APN can be
set in Android UI:
Settings  WIRELESS & NETWORKS  More…  Mobile Networks  Access Point Names

If you see nothing in Access Point Names, it indicates that the APN has not been set. In such case, you
should add a new APN to the system. The following is an example which shows the access point editing
interface. Please note that the Access Point Name varies with the operator and SIM card.

Figure 3: Edit Access Point

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5.2. Quectel RIL Does Not Work
There are many reasons why Quectel RIL does not work. The following are some common causes.
1.

RIL daemon is not running

Use command “getprop init.svc.ril-daemon” to check RIL daemon status. If non-value, Stopped or
Restarting is returned, it indicates that RIL daemon is not running. The expected return value should be
Running.
2.

RIL library is not loaded correctly

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Check the RIL-daemon service definition in init.rc through command “cat /init.rc | grep ril-daemon”. The
expected result should be “service ril-daemon /system/bin/rild -l /system/lib/libreference-ril.so”.
Check the arguments, word spelling, blank space, etc. to make sure the RIL library is loaded correctly.
3.

Cannot access USB serial port device file





Use command “ls –l /dev/ttyUSB*” to check the access right of the device file.
Use command “getenforce” to check whether the SELinux has been enabled.
Command “setenforce 0” can disable the SELinux.

4.

The RIL library is not provided by Quectel

Use command “getprop gsm.version.ril-impl” to check Quectel RIL version, and the return value should
start with “Quectel_Android_RIL_SR”. If not, the RIL library is not provided by Quectel.

5.3. Cannot Send or Receive Short Message

Use command “getprop telephony.sms.receive” or command “telephony.sms.send” to check whether
the system has disabled SMS receive/send function.



If the return value is false, it indicates that the SMS receive/send function has been disabled.
If non-value is returned, you should check frameworks\base\core\res\res\values\config.xml (first
check the manufacturer override config file) to see config_sms_capable. If the config_sms_capable
config in the config.xml is false just like false, change it
to true.

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Appendix

Table 4: Terms and Abbreviations
Abbreviation
GSM
MS
PID
RIL
TA
VID
WCDMA

Description

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Global System for Mobile Communications
Mobile Station
Product ID

Radio Interface Layer
Terminal Adapter
Vendor ID

Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

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