ALS and Line 2 [Archive] - xda-developers

mls2000

02-03-2006, 03:27 PM

Does anybody know if there is a application out there that caters for this service. I am thinking about getting this activated on my Orange SIM and from what I have read I will be able to receive calls but maybe not be able to make them.

Anyone’s views experience on this is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

gemx

03-07-2006, 10:39 AM

I am very interested in this too.
Pleasy, does anybody know this?

Thanks

gwassef

03-07-2006, 01:36 PM

Can anybody calrify what does the ALS service do

gemx

03-07-2006, 02:53 PM

ALS stands for Alternate Line Service.
That means you have 1 SIM card with 2 different numbers.
You are always reachable under both numbers but for outgoing calls you can choose the line/number to use.
Therefore your company can give you a sim card for company calls and you can use the same sim for private calls too by just switching the outgoing line. So there are 2 different bills. One goes to your company for the company calls and the other goes to you for your private calls.
Currently E-Plus in Germany and Orange UK offer such contracts to business customers.
In Windows Mobile Smartphone Edition 2003 (SE) you have a small "1" / "2" in the middle of the top line.
Smartphones with Windows Mobile 2005 also support this feature, in some firmwarez you have to change a reg-key to enable this feature.
The answer is now if WM5 PocketPC also supports ALS because I am thinking about buying a Wizard device and this function is essential for me.
So, anyone any clues?

gwassef

03-07-2006, 04:27 PM

thanks gemx for ilustrating

inte

16-10-2007, 12:02 AM

Smartphones with Windows Mobile 2005 also support this feature, in some firmwarez you have to change a reg-key to enable this feature.
The answer is now if WM5 PocketPC also supports ALS because I am thinking about buying a Wizard device and this function is essential for me.
So, anyone any clues?

Did anyone ever try to utilize a smartphone-dll in a PPC device in order to activate the menus? I guess copying dlls is not to much a problem, as it is possible to sign them with developer keys. Much more a point could be missing hardware support. However, in case of the Treo 750, I'm very confindent, as all the PalmOS Treos support this feature.
Some hints are very welcome!
Regards,
Chris