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1 Running FreeCalypso firmware on Motorola C1xx phones |
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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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18 to run the multitude of special software tools that are involved in the |
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19 procedure. You will need to begin by installing FreeCalypso host tools, and |
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20 the current version of the FC-C1xx xenotransplantation procedure (the additions |
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21 from the previous version are RF calibration data migration and battery |
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22 charging configuration) requires the use of some new features that (as of this |
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23 writing) have not yet made it in a packaged release of FC host tools - hence |
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24 you will need to install and use the current "bleeding edge" development |
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25 version from: |
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27 https://bitbucket.org/falconian/freecalypso-tools |
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29 You will also need the battery charging configuration files: |
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31 https://bitbucket.org/falconian/fc-battery-conf |
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33 Run 'make install' in the fc-battery-conf tree to add the battery charging |
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34 configuration files to your FC host tools installation under /opt/freecalypso. |
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36 Flash backup and data gathering |
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37 =============================== |
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39 Before you begin the actual conversion of your C1xx phone to FreeCalypso, you |
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40 will need to gather the following pieces of information: |
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42 * The phone's IMEI - we don't know how to extract it out of Mot/Compal's non-TI |
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43 flash data structures, so you will have to reset it manually after the |
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44 firmware change. Of course you can set your "new" FreeCalypso IMEI to |
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45 whatever you feel like, but if you wish to keep the original factory-assigned |
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46 one, you will need to note it down manually, either from the sticker inside |
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47 the battery compartment (*very* hard to read!) or by booting the phone up |
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48 with its original fw prior to the conversion, entering *#06# and reading it |
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49 from the display. |
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51 * Your specific phone's factory RF calibration values: you will need to make a |
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52 dump of your phone's flash memory (also serves as a backup, always a good |
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53 thing to have) with fc-loadtool and extract the numbers of interest with our |
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54 c1xx-calextr utility, which is part of the new FC host tools. |
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56 * You need to know whether your phone has 900+1800 MHz or 850+1900 MHz bands - |
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57 you will need to communicate this information to the new fw after the |
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58 conversion. To the best of our knowledge, all C11x/12x and C140 phones have |
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59 900+1800 MHz bands, but C139 phones have been made in both versions. On the |
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60 phones that have passed through our hands so far, the first two digits of the |
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61 IMEI have been 35 on 900+1800 MHz phones and 01 on 850+1900 MHz ones. |
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63 * You need to know whether your phone has 2 MiB or 4 MiB flash. To the best of |
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64 our knowledge, all C139/140 phones have 4 MiB flash, but C11x have been seen |
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65 with both 2 MiB and 4 MiB flashes. The flash memory size will be autodetected |
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66 by fc-loadtool as part of making the flash dump. |
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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 fc-loadtool -h compal -c 1004 /dev/ttyXXX |
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81 Change /dev/ttyXXX to the serial or USB-serial device corresponding to your |
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82 serial cable. The -c 1004 option (adds a little inefficiency which is required |
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83 for C139/140) phones can be omitted if your phone is C11x/12x, but it is also |
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84 harmless to always add it. With the serial cable connected, the phone in the |
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85 powered-off state and the fc-loadtool process running and waiting for the phone, |
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86 press the red power button on the phone - a momentary press is sufficient and |
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89 Once the phone boots the loadagent code fed to it serially by fc-loadtool and |
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90 you land at the loadtool> prompt, issue the following command: |
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92 flash dump2bin flashdump.bin |
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94 Given this command, fc-loadtool will autodetect whether your phone has 2 MiB or |
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95 4 MiB flash, then make a dump of the complete content of this flash memory and |
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96 save it in a file named flashdump.bin in the current directory. When this |
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97 operation completes, exit the loadtool session with the exit command - it will |
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98 also cleanly power the phone off. |
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100 The next step is to extract the RF calibration values. Run a command of the |
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103 c1xx-calextr -b rfbin flashdump.bin <offset> |
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105 Change <offset> to 0x1FC000 if your phone has 2 MiB flash (the size of |
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106 flashdump.bin is 2097152 bytes) or 0x3FC000 if it has 4 MiB flash (the size of |
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107 flashdump.bin is 4194304 bytes). 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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115 Selecting and building the desired firmware config |
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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 there are 3 to choose from: |
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122 subfamilies, although the actual fw images are different |
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123 between the two. In this configuration the converted phone |
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124 acts not as an end user phone, but as a voice pseudo-modem that |
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125 needs to be controlled by a host computer via a serial cable to |
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126 do anything interesting. See the Voice-pseudo-modem article |
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129 l1reconst-chg This config is available only for the C139/140 subfamily - its |
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130 XRAM usage won't fit into C11x's 256 KiB even if your phone has |
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131 4 MiB flash. This config is also a voice pseudo-modem just like |
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132 hybrid-vpm, but it uses the older TCS2 version of the G23M PS |
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133 and ACI firmware components, which may be needed for debugging. |
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135 2092 This config is not a voice pseudo-modem, but includes the demo |
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136 or prototype or proof-of-concept UI code we've got with our |
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137 version of TI's TCS211 fw. However, please be warned that this |
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138 proof-of-concept UI is nowhere close to being practically |
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140 l1reconst-chg, this config is only available for the C139/140 |
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141 subfamily, not for C11x/12x: not only does it has the same |
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142 issue of needing large flash and XRAM, but also we have the LCD |
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143 driver implemented only for the SPI/MicroWire LCD on the C139, |
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144 not for the I2C one on C11x. |
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146 Thus we have a total of 4 possible build configurations, one for the C11x |
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147 target and 3 for the C139: |
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149 ./configure.sh c11x hybrid-vpm |
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150 ./configure.sh c139 hybrid-vpm |
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151 ./configure.sh c139 l1reconst-chg |
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154 See the Compiling article for more information on how to compile your own |
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155 firmware image in one of the above configurations. |
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157 If this is your first time converting a given C1xx phone from its original |
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158 firmware to FreeCalypso (as opposed to updating from an earlier FC firmware |
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159 version), you will also need the compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin bootloader image |
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160 in addition to the main fw image you just built: |
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162 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin |
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164 Mot C1xx phones are brickable - because the Calypso boot ROM is disabled by PCB |
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165 wiring, the ability to reflash a phone with new firmware critically depends on |
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166 there being a particular kind of boot code in flash sector 0 at all times - a |
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167 particular kind of boot code that allows the boot process to be interrupted and |
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168 diverted to external code loaded via the headset jack serial port. |
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170 The FreeCalypso family of projects has adopted one specific version of the |
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171 flash sector 0 boot code (produced by applying a binary patch to one of |
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172 Compal/Motorola's original versions) for use with all of our firmwares for |
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173 these phones. We use the same FC-C1xx bootloader on both C11x/12x and C139/140 |
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174 phones: the official bootloader versions are different between the two (and |
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175 moreover, each particular official fw version comes with its own bootloader |
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176 version), but the simpler bootloader version which we took from one particular |
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177 C11x fw version works perfectly well on the C139 as well, hence we've adopted |
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178 it for all combinations. |
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180 Once you have our compal-flash-boot-for-fc.bin image flashed in sector 0, you |
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181 can then flash whichever FC firmware image you like at offset 0x10000 without |
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182 having to touch the dangerous boot sector. |
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184 Converting the phone to FreeCalypso fw |
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187 If you are starting with an unhacked C1xx phone running one of the official |
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188 firmware versions, the procedure for flashing and bringing up FreeCalypso for |
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189 the first time is as follows - *after* you have done all of the preparatory |
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190 steps described in the preceding sections: |
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192 * Have your phone's battery fully charged - although you will regain the |
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193 ability to charge it with FreeCalypso fw when the conversion is fully |
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194 complete (not just the flashing part, but also the subsequent FFS |
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195 initialization), your phone will not have this charging ability while you are |
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196 in the middle of the xenotransplantation procedure. |
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198 * Get in with fc-loadtool just like you did when you made the dump of your |
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199 phone's flash memory for backup and RF calibration data extraction. |
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201 * Once you are in with fc-loadtool, i.e., at the loadtool> prompt, reflash the |
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202 boot sector with the FreeCalypso version: |
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206 * To flash whichever FreeCalypso firmware image you would like to play with, |
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207 execute the flashing script which the fw build system produced along with the |
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212 * Erase the flash sectors to be used for the FFS (flash file system) by |
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213 FreeCalypso firmwares; the specific command depends on whether your phone has |
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214 2 MiB or 4 MiB flash. On 2 MiB flash phones: |
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216 loadtool> flash erase 0x1C0000 0x30000 |
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218 Or on 4 MiB flash phones: |
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226 Reflashing between different FreeCalypso firmwares |
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229 By the conventions established in the FreeCalypso family of projects, all of |
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233 boot code in the same manner (boot entry point at 0x10058, exception vectors |
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235 going from one FC firmware to another. |
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237 * They all use the same aftermarket FFS configuration of 3 sectors of 64 KiB |
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238 each (64x3) at 0x3C0000 on 4 MiB flash phones, or at 0x1C0000 on 2 MiB flash |
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239 phones. This FFS location is deliberately different from the one used by |
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240 Mot/Compal's firmwares, eliminating the possibility of one fw trying to use |
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241 the FFS created by the other, and by putting our FFS toward the end of the |
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242 flash we maximize the amount of flash space available for our firmware code |
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243 images. But even though we don't share our FFS with Mot/Compal's official |
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244 firmwares, we do share the same FFS between all of FreeCalypso firmware |
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245 projects - thus once you have initialized your FFS (see below) with one FC |
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246 firmware version, it will work with the others as well. |
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248 If you need to reflash your C1xx phone from one FC firmware version to another, |
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249 simply get in with fc-loadtool -h compal (no more need for the inefficient |
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250 -c 1003 or -c 1004 options or for tfc139) and reflash just the fw image part: |
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257 Connect the serial cable, but instead of running fc-loadtool, run rvinterf. |
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258 Press the red power button on the phone briefly just like you would for |
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259 fc-loadtool entry. Because there is no fc-loadtool running on the host end of |
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260 the serial cable, the boot path will *not* be diverted in the bootloader, and |
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261 the main fw image will run - and this time it will be the FreeCalypso firmware |
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262 you have compiled and flashed. If the fw you have flashed is the UI demo |
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263 configuration, the phone must have *NO* SIM in it the first time you boot it. |
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264 UI-enabled fw configurations automatically bring up the GSM radio and try to |
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265 connect to the default network on boot if there is a SIM present, and you don't |
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266 want your firmware trying to connect to a real live GSM network when you haven't |
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267 initialized your FFS yet. If the fw you have flashed is one of the AT-command- |
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268 controlled pseudo-modem configurations, then you don't need to worry if the SIM |
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269 is there or not on your first boot - just don't command it to connect to a |
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270 network until you have initialized the FFS. |
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272 If you have flashed a non-UI firmware version, the phone's LCD will remain dark |
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273 as there is no LCD driver code in this firmware, but you will see trace output |
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274 in the rvinterf window, telling you that the fw is running. |
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276 Before you do anything else, you will need to run fc-fsio and initialize the |
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277 aftermarket FFS for our firmware: |
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279 fsio> format / |
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280 fsio> mk-std-dirs |
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281 fsio> set-imeisv fc XXXXXXXX-YYYYYY-ZZ (punctuation optional, place anywhere) |
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282 fsio> set-rfcap dual-eu (if you have 900+1800 MHz hardware) |
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284 fsio> set-rfcap dual-us (if you have 850+1900 MHz hardware) |
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288 fsio> upload-subtree rfbin /gsm/rf |
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289 fsio> write-charging-config /opt/freecalypso/charging/c1xx/standard |
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291 The last two commands are new with the 2018-01 revision of the FC-to-C1xx |
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292 xenotransplantation procedure. The upload-subtree command uploads the RF |
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293 calibration values which you had extracted earlier with c1xx-calextr (the |
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294 instructions assume that you are running from the same directory where the |
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295 rfbin directory subtree had been created earlier), and this step is necessary |
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296 in order for your phone to continue to transmit at the correct power levels |
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297 after the conversion. The write-charging-config command uploads the |
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298 configuration settings for the FCHG battery charging driver, without which it |
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299 cannot charge the battery; you must have the charging config files from the |
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300 fc-battery-conf tree installed under /opt/freecalypso in order for this command |
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303 It needs to be noted that the battery charging config settings uploaded with |
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304 fc-fsio write-charging-config take effect only on the next boot cycle of the |
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305 firmware, i.e., until the next reboot after the write-charging-config operation, |
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306 the firmware won't charge the battery even if there is a charging power source |
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309 After you've initialized your FFS as above, you should exit fc-fsio, and your |
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310 next steps will depend on which fw configuration you are playing with. If it's |
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311 the sans-UI pseudo-modem configuration, run fc-shell and try some AT commands: |
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313 AT+CMEE=2 -- enable verbose error responses |
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314 AT+CFUN=1 -- enable radio and SIM interfaces |
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315 AT+COPS=0 -- register to the default GSM network |
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317 When you are done, you can power the phone off by sending a 'poweroff' command |
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318 through fc-shell, or you can kill rvinterf and wait for the firmware to power |
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321 If you are playing with the UI demo firmware, after you have initialized your |
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322 FFS, you can power the phone off with the power button, insert a SIM, power it |
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325 Updating from previous versions |
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328 If you had previously initialized your aftermarket FFS using an earlier version |
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329 of these instructions, before we added the RF calibration and charging config |
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330 upload steps, you need to add these bits to your FFS. Update to the latest FC |
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331 host tools, extract the factory RF calibration values from a dump of your |
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332 phone's flash with c1xx-calextr, add the battery charging config files to your |
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333 /opt/freecalypso installation, boot the phone with rvinterf, get in with fc-fsio |
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334 and run the last two upload-subtree and write-charging-config commands as above. |
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336 Recalibration |
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339 In the interest of completeness, it needs to be noted that extracting Motorola's |
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340 original factory RF calibration values and reusing them for FreeCalypso is not |
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341 the only way: the other alternative is to perform a fresh calibration using a |
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342 Rohde&Schwarz CMU200 RF test machine and FreeCalypso RF calibration software |
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343 (fc-rfcal-tools). This approach will yield superior results, but the |
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344 requirement of having a CMU200 instrument which is itself properly calibrated |
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345 and a cabling setup with the right adapters whose insertion loss at particular |
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346 GSM frequencies is precisely known makes this approach feasible only for |
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347 professional FreeCalypso service shops, not for ordinary individual users. |