The invention relates to a
cell search method in a GMR
system, and belongs to the technical field of implementation of mobile terminal devices. The method comprises the following steps: in a BCCH frequency point search process during startup of a terminal, dividing BCCH frequency point search into several steps, and carrying out search according to a sequence of priorities from high and low, and the sequence of priorities from high and low is as follows: A, a
cell frequency point corresponding to RPLMN; B, a neighbor
cell frequency point
list of cells corresponding to RPLMN; C,
system message broadcast Concurrent BCCH
List; D, a NV storage BCCH frequency point
list; E, and all frequency point lists supported by the terminal. In the method, as long as the terminal cannot normally interprets the
system message on the BCCH channel, the BCCH frequency point search process of the next step is started; and in the search process of each step, the terminal does not search the searched frequency points. By adoption of the method, the problem that the GMR terminal carries out blind frequency point search to waste a long time can be well solved.