Originally Posted by tickerguy

Yes but there is no audio (at all) due to a driver problem of some sort at present. Getting the radio to come up far enough to receive and send a SMS or make/accept a call occurred several days ago - getting the phone to come up into data mode was considerably more difficult.

Getting the code working to that point led me to dig through most of the radio-related code (the related parts are all in the framework, incidentally, which is interesting in and of itself) and at this point I understand the conditions that must exist for Android to attempt starting a data session. Note that by default the debugging statements are off in the log, so a logcat on the radio will imply what the problem is but likely won't TELL YOU which state condition is prohibiting the start - I had to add several debugging statements to discern that and be able to trace it down.