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configs/* except classic and hybrid-gpf: all parts of TCS211 GPF for which we found exact corresponding sources are now rebuilt from those sources; only OSL and OSX remain as blobs, plus CCD for non-hybrid configs
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1 Running FreeCalypso firmware on Motorola C1xx phones
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2 ====================================================
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4 Before we begin, it needs to be noted that running FreeCalypso fw on a C1xx
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5 phone is very much akin to xenotransplantation: Mot C1xx hardware is an alien
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6 to our FreeCalypso family (our native hw targets are those made by TI, Openmoko
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7 and us, not Motorola or Compal), and our non-Compal-based, non-Mot-based
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8 FreeCalypso fw is equally alien to the C1xx phones. The xenotransplantation
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9 procedure of converting a C1xx phone to FreeCalypso is highly unnatural, and
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10 involves a large number of cumbersome manual steps - you've been warned.
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12 Preparing the host system
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13 =========================
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15 Firmware flashing on Mot C1xx phones is accomplished through the headset jack
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16 via a special cable. There is no need to disassemble the phone in any way or
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17 to do any soldering or other hardware surgery, but you will need a host system
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19 procedure. You will need to begin by installing FreeCalypso host tools: the
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20 current version of our FC-to-C1xx xenotransplantation procedure for the lower
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21 C1xx subfamilies (the additions from the previous version are RF calibration
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22 data migration and battery charging configuration) requires fc-host-tools-r8 or
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23 later, or if you are working on a C155 or C156 phone, you will need our very
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24 latest fc-host-tools-r9a release:
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26 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/fc-host-tools-r9a.tar.bz2
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28 You will also need our battery charging configuration files:
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30 https://bitbucket.org/falconian/fc-battery-conf
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32 Run 'make install' in the fc-battery-conf tree to add the battery charging
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33 configuration files to your FC host tools installation under /opt/freecalypso.
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35 Flash backup and data gathering
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36 ===============================
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38 Before you begin the actual conversion of your C1xx phone to FreeCalypso, you
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39 will need to gather the following pieces of information:
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41 * The phone's IMEI - we don't know how to extract it out of Mot/Compal's non-TI
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42 flash data structures, so you will have to reset it manually after the
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43 firmware change. Of course you can set your "new" FreeCalypso IMEI to
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44 whatever you feel like, but if you wish to keep the original factory-assigned
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45 one, you will need to note it down manually, either from the sticker inside
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46 the battery compartment (*very* hard to read!) or by booting the phone up
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47 with its original fw prior to the conversion, entering *#06# and reading it
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48 from the display.
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50 * Your specific phone's factory RF calibration values: you will need to make a
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51 dump of your phone's flash memory (also serves as a backup, always a good
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52 thing to have) with fc-loadtool and extract the numbers of interest with our
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53 c1xx-calextr utility, which is part of the new FC host tools.
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55 * You need to know whether your phone has 900+1800 MHz or 850+1900 MHz bands -
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56 you will need to communicate this information to the new fw after the
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57 conversion. To the best of our knowledge, all C11x/12x and C140 phones have
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58 900+1800 MHz bands, but C139 phones have been made in both versions. On the
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59 phones that have passed through our hands so far, the first two digits of the
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60 IMEI have been 35 on 900+1800 MHz phones and 01 on 850+1900 MHz ones.
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62 * For the lower C1xx subfamilies only: you need to know whether your phone has
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63 2 MiB or 4 MiB flash. To the best of our knowledge, all C139/140 phones have
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64 4 MiB flash, but C11x have been seen with both 2 MiB and 4 MiB flashes. The
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65 flash memory size will be autodetected by fc-loadtool as part of making the
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66 flash dump. C155 and C156 phones have 8 MiB flash.
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68 The Mother's method for keeping track of these per-phone bits of information is
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69 to create a separate directory for each phone with the IMEI as the directory
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70 name; the flash dump and the RF calibration bits extracted from it will then
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71 reside in that directory, while the IMEI is in the name of the directory itself.
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73 Once you have created your per-phone directory and cd'ed into it, you are ready
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74 to run fc-loadtool to capture the flash dump. The phone needs to be off, but
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75 the battery needs to be present and have some charge in it; with the phone off,
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76 connect the serial cable between your host computer and the phone's headset
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77 jack, and run fc-loadtool as follows:
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79 C11x/12x: fc-loadtool -h compal /dev/ttyXXX
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80 C139/140: fc-loadtool -h compal -c 1004 /dev/ttyXXX
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81 C155/156: fc-loadtool -h c155 /dev/ttyXXX
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83 Change /dev/ttyXXX to the serial or USB-serial device corresponding to your
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84 serial cable. With the serial cable connected, the phone in the powered-off
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85 state and the fc-loadtool process running and waiting for the phone, press the
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86 red power button on the phone - a momentary press is sufficient and recommended.
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88 Once the phone boots the loadagent code fed to it serially by fc-loadtool and
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91 flash dump2bin flashdump.bin
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93 Given this command, fc-loadtool will autodetect whether your phone has 2 MiB or
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94 4 MiB flash (for the lower C1xx subfamilies), then make a dump of the complete
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95 content of this flash memory and save it in a file named flashdump.bin in the
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96 current directory. When this operation completes, exit the loadtool session
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97 with the exit command - it will also cleanly power the phone off.
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99 The next step is to extract the RF calibration values. Run a command of the
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100 following form:
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102 c1xx-calextr -b rfbin flashdump.bin <offset>
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104 For the lower C1xx subfamilies, change <offset> to 0x1FC000 if your phone has
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105 2 MiB flash (the size of flashdump.bin is 2097152 bytes) or 0x3FC000 if it has
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106 4 MiB flash (the size of flashdump.bin is 4194304 bytes). For C155/156 the
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107 correct offset is 0x7E0000. The stdout scribbles from c1xx-calextr will
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108 indicate which per-band calibration records it finds (from which you can tell
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109 if the phone has 900+1800 MHz or 850+1900 MHz bands if you didn't have this
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110 knowledge already), and a directory named rfbin will be created, containing the
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111 correct subtree of directories and files which will need to be uploaded into
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112 the new FreeCalypso flash file system (FFS) under /gsm/rf after the firmware
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113 change.
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115 Selecting and building the desired firmware config
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116 ==================================================
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118 There is only one FC Magnetite firmware configuration for C11x/12x phones, but
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119 for the better C139/140 phones (or for C155/156) there are several to choose
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120 from. The following two configs are the currently recommended ones:
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122 hybrid-vpm This config is available for all 3 C1xx subfamilies, although
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123 the actual fw images are different for each. In this
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124 configuration the converted phone acts not as an end user phone,
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126 host computer via a serial cable to do anything interesting.
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127 See the Voice-pseudo-modem article for more information.
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129 hybrid-ui-vo This config is available only for the C139/140 target, not for
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130 the other two. This configuration includes the UI layers, thus
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131 when a C139/140 phone runs this firmware, it is able to function
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132 as an untethered phone without a host computer connection.
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133 However, please be warned that this proof-of-concept UI is
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134 nowhere close to being practically usable - see the
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135 Handset-goal article for more info.
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137 Both of the above are hybrid configurations in that they use the new TCS3
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138 versions of the G23M protocol stack and ACI (Application Control Interface)
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141 UI layers BMI and MFW in the UI-enabled hybrid-ui-vo config also come from the
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142 new TCS3 source, not the old version of unknown origin. They are "voice only"
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143 configs in that CSD, fax and GPRS functions are disabled - these functions
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144 cannot be made use of on Mot C1xx phones, and disabling them significantly
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145 reduces the weight of the firmware.
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147 For the C139 and C155 targets (but not for C11x/12x), it is also possible to
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148 build some of the older configs that use the old binary blob version of the
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149 G23M PS component and the corresponding old versions of ACI, MFW and BMI on top
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150 of it - however, those configuration are now officially deprecated except for
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151 only two remaining use cases which do not apply to Mot C1xx targets, hence they
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152 are no longer supported officially.
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154 Thus we have a total of 4 possible build configurations, one for the C11x/12x
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157 ./configure.sh c11x hybrid-vpm
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158 ./configure.sh c139 hybrid-vpm
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159 ./configure.sh c139 hybrid-ui-vo
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160 ./configure.sh c155 hybrid-vpm
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162 See the Compiling article for more information on how to compile your own
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163 firmware image in one of the above configurations.
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165 Bootloader change on the lower C1xx subfamilies
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166 ===============================================
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168 This section applies ONLY to C11x/12x and C139/140 subfamilies; it does NOT
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169 apply to the C155/156 subfamily.
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171 If this is your first time converting a given lower-C1xx phone from its original
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172 firmware to FreeCalypso (as opposed to updating from an earlier FC firmware
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176 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin
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178 Mot C1xx phones are brickable - because the Calypso boot ROM is disabled by PCB
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179 wiring, the ability to reflash a phone with new firmware critically depends on
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180 there being a particular kind of boot code in flash sector 0 at all times - a
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181 particular kind of boot code that allows the boot process to be interrupted and
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182 diverted to external code loaded via the headset jack serial port.
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183
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184 The FreeCalypso family of projects has adopted one specific version of the
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185 flash sector 0 boot code (produced by applying a binary patch to one of
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186 Compal/Motorola's original versions) for use with all of our firmwares for
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187 these phones. We use the same FC-C1xx bootloader on both C11x/12x and C139/140
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188 phones: the official bootloader versions are different between the two (and
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189 moreover, each particular official fw version comes with its own bootloader
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190 version), but the simpler bootloader version which we took from one particular
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191 C11x fw version works perfectly well on the C139 as well, hence we've adopted
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192 it for all combinations.
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193
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194 Once you have our compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin image flashed in sector 0, you
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195 can then flash whichever FC firmware image you like at offset 0x10000 without
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196 having to touch the dangerous boot sector.
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198 On C155/156 phones the situation is a little different: they are also brickable
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199 with the Calypso boot ROM disabled, but Motorola's original bootloader on these
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200 phones is significantly different from the one on the lower C1xx subfamilies,
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201 and they use a different flash layout: the bootloader in the first 8 KiB sector,
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202 unused flash space between 0x2000 and 0x20000, and the main fw image starting
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203 at 0x20000. Our FC firmwares for the C155/156 target are built to be flashed
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204 at 0x20000 just like Mot's official ones, and they are designed to receive
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205 control from Mot's original bootloader on this target.
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206
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207 Converting the phone to FreeCalypso fw
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208 ======================================
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209
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210 If you are starting with an unhacked C1xx phone running one of the official
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211 firmware versions, the procedure for flashing and bringing up FreeCalypso for
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212 the first time is as follows - *after* you have done all of the preparatory
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213 steps described in the preceding sections:
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214
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215 * Have your phone's battery fully charged - although you will regain the
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216 ability to charge it with FreeCalypso fw when the conversion is fully
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217 complete (not just the flashing part, but also the subsequent FFS
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218 initialization), your phone will not have this charging ability while you are
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219 in the middle of the xenotransplantation procedure.
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220
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221 * Get in with fc-loadtool just like you did when you made the dump of your
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222 phone's flash memory for backup and RF calibration data extraction.
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224 * If you are operating on a C11x/12x or C139/140 phone, reflash the boot sector
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225 with our FreeCalypso version:
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227 loadtool> flash erase-program-boot compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin
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229 DO NOT flash compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin into C155/156 phones, it is ONLY
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230 for the lower C1xx subfamilies!
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231
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232 * To flash whichever FreeCalypso firmware image you would like to play with,
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233 execute the flashing script which the fw build system produced along with the
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234 actual image:
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236 loadtool> exec flash-script
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237
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238 * Erase the flash sectors to be used for the FFS (flash file system) by
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239 FreeCalypso firmwares; the specific command depends on whether your phone has
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240 2 MiB, 4 MiB or 8 MiB flash. On 2 MiB flash phones:
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242 loadtool> flash erase 0x1C0000 0x30000
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244 Or on 4 MiB flash phones:
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246 loadtool> flash erase 0x3C0000 0x30000
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248 Or on 8 MiB flash C155/156 phones:
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250 loadtool> flash erase 0x700000 0xD0000
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253
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254 loadtool> exit
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255
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256 Reflashing between different FreeCalypso firmwares
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257 ==================================================
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258
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259 By the conventions established in the FreeCalypso family of projects, all of
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260 our firmwares for C11x and C139 targets have the following in common:
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261
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262 * They all stay out of the boot sector and expect to receive control from the
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263 boot code in the same manner (boot entry point at 0x10058, exception vectors
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264 at 0x10000), thus there is no need to reflash the dangerous boot sector when
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265 going from one FC firmware to another.
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266
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267 * They all use the same aftermarket FFS configuration of 3 sectors of 64 KiB
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268 each (64x3) at 0x3C0000 on 4 MiB flash phones, or at 0x1C0000 on 2 MiB flash
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269 phones. This FFS location is deliberately different from the one used by
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270 Mot/Compal's firmwares, eliminating the possibility of one fw trying to use
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271 the FFS created by the other, and by putting our FFS toward the end of the
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272 flash we maximize the amount of flash space available for our firmware code
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273 images. But even though we don't share our FFS with Mot/Compal's official
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274 firmwares, we do share the same FFS between all of FreeCalypso firmware
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275 projects - thus once you have initialized your FFS (see below) with one FC
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276 firmware version, it will work with the others as well.
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277
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278 If you need to reflash your C1xx phone from one FC firmware version to another,
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279 simply get in with fc-loadtool -h compal (no more need for the inefficient
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280 -c 1003 or -c 1004 options or for tfc139) and reflash just the fw image part:
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281
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282 loadtool> exec flash-script
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283
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284 First boot of the firmware
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285 ==========================
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286
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287 Connect the serial cable, but instead of running fc-loadtool, run rvinterf.
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288 Press the red power button on the phone briefly just like you would for
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289 fc-loadtool entry. Because there is no fc-loadtool running on the host end of
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290 the serial cable, the boot path will *not* be diverted in the bootloader, and
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291 the main fw image will run - and this time it will be the FreeCalypso firmware
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292 you have compiled and flashed. If the fw you have flashed is the UI demo
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293 configuration, the phone must have *NO* SIM in it the first time you boot it.
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294 UI-enabled fw configurations automatically bring up the GSM radio and try to
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295 connect to the default network on boot if there is a SIM present, and you don't
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296 want your firmware trying to connect to a real live GSM network when you haven't
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297 initialized your FFS yet. If the fw you have flashed is one of the AT-command-
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298 controlled pseudo-modem configurations, then you don't need to worry if the SIM
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299 is there or not on your first boot - just don't command it to connect to a
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300 network until you have initialized the FFS.
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301
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302 If you have flashed a non-UI firmware version, the phone's LCD will remain dark
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303 as there is no LCD driver code in this firmware, but you will see trace output
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304 in the rvinterf window, telling you that the fw is running.
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305
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306 Before you do anything else, you will need to run fc-fsio and initialize the
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307 aftermarket FFS for our firmware:
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308
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309 fsio> format /
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310 fsio> mk-std-dirs
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311 fsio> set-imeisv fc XXXXXXXX-YYYYYY-ZZ (punctuation optional, place anywhere)
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312 fsio> set-rfcap dual-eu (if you have 900+1800 MHz hardware)
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313 or
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314 fsio> set-rfcap dual-us (if you have 850+1900 MHz hardware)
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315
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316 then additionally:
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318 fsio> upload-subtree rfbin /gsm/rf
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319 fsio> write-charging-config /opt/freecalypso/charging/c1xx/standard
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320
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321 The last two commands are new with the 2018-01 revision of the FC-to-C1xx
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322 xenotransplantation procedure. The upload-subtree command uploads the RF
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323 calibration values which you had extracted earlier with c1xx-calextr (the
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324 instructions assume that you are running from the same directory where the
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325 rfbin directory subtree had been created earlier), and this step is necessary
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326 in order for your phone to continue to transmit at the correct power levels
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327 after the conversion. The write-charging-config command uploads the
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328 configuration settings for the FCHG battery charging driver, without which it
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329 cannot charge the battery; you must have the charging config files from the
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330 fc-battery-conf tree installed under /opt/freecalypso in order for this command
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331 to work as given.
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332
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333 It needs to be noted that the battery charging config settings uploaded with
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334 fc-fsio write-charging-config take effect only on the next boot cycle of the
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335 firmware, i.e., until the next reboot after the write-charging-config operation,
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336 the firmware won't charge the battery even if there is a charging power source
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337 plugged in.
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338
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339 After you've initialized your FFS as above, you should exit fc-fsio, and your
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340 next steps will depend on which fw configuration you are playing with. If it's
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341 the sans-UI pseudo-modem configuration, run fc-shell and try some AT commands:
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342
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343 AT+CMEE=2 -- enable verbose error responses
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344 AT+CFUN=1 -- enable radio and SIM interfaces
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345 AT+COPS=0 -- register to the default GSM network
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346
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347 When you are done, you can power the phone off by sending a 'poweroff' command
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348 through fc-shell, or you can kill rvinterf or unplug the serial cable and wait
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349 for the firmware to power off by the keepalive timeout after some 15 to 20 s.
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351 If you are playing with the UI demo firmware, after you have initialized your
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352 FFS, you can power the phone off with the power button, insert a SIM, power it
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353 back on and play with the primitive UI.
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354
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355 Updating from previous versions
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356 ===============================
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357
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358 If you had previously initialized your aftermarket FFS using an earlier version
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359 of these instructions, before we added the RF calibration and charging config
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360 upload steps, you need to add these bits to your FFS. Update to the latest FC
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361 host tools, extract the factory RF calibration values from a dump of your
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362 phone's flash with c1xx-calextr, add the battery charging config files to your
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363 /opt/freecalypso installation, boot the phone with rvinterf, get in with fc-fsio
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364 and run the last two upload-subtree and write-charging-config commands as above.
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365
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366 Recalibration
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367 =============
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368
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369 In the interest of completeness, it needs to be noted that extracting Motorola's
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370 original factory RF calibration values and reusing them for FreeCalypso is not
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371 the only way: the other alternative is to perform a fresh calibration using a
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372 Rohde&Schwarz CMU200 RF test machine and FreeCalypso RF calibration software
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373 (fc-rfcal-tools). This approach will yield superior results, but the
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374 requirement of having a CMU200 instrument which is itself properly calibrated
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375 and a cabling setup with the right adapters whose insertion loss at particular
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376 GSM frequencies is precisely known makes this approach feasible only for
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377 professional FreeCalypso service shops, not for ordinary individual users.