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backlight evolution: API between Condat driver and MFW With this change, the API between the Condat backlight driver and its user in MFW now carries more abstract backlight state codes (fully off, fully on, in call, charging boot mode) instead of 0-255 levels. This change is needed in order to more properly support different hardware targets with different capabilities and approaches in terms of backlight handling.
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date Fri, 23 Apr 2021 23:52:02 +0000
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1 Back when TI's TCS211 fw existed in the traditional world of phone handset and
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2 cellular modem manufacturers, there were only two principal classes of target
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3 devices for it: handsets and modems. The former have local UI hardware (LCDs
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4 and keypads) and run firmware that works with this UI hw, the latter have no
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5 such hw and run firmware that expects to be controlled by an external host via
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6 AT commands.
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8 But the peculiar circumstances under which our FreeCalypso family of projects
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9 operates give rise to a third possibility: what happens if one were to run
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10 non-UI-capable firmware that expects control via AT commands on a hardware
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11 target device that was originally designed to be an end user phone handset, in
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12 our case either Motorola C1xx or Pirelli DP-L10? The result is what I call a
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13 voice pseudo-modem (VPM): the phone's LCD stays dark, the buttons do nothing
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14 and the device expects to be controlled via AT commands as if it were a modem
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15 like the one in GTA01/02 smartphones, but there is no practically usable way to
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16 make use of any data services, only voice and SMS, hence my VPM term.
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18 It needs to be noted clearly that the VPM hack described in this article is NOT
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19 a substitute for proper modem hardware - if your area of interest is Standard
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20 Modem functionality (the full set of GSM and GPRS services accessed via AT
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21 commands), then you need a proper hardware platform for it, either FCDEV3B or
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22 Caramel2. However, support for VPM operation in FreeCalypso exists for the
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23 following purposes:
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25 * On some hw targets the VPM configuration can be an intermediate stepping stone
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26 toward potential future UI-enabled firmware - this situation holds on the
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27 C139.
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29 * Being able to run FreeCalypso fw in the VPM configuration on Mot C1xx hw that
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30 many people already have and that may still be readily and cheaply available
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31 makes our firmware accessible to those who are not able to buy new FreeCalypso
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32 hardware.
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34 * If you have a Pirelli DP-L10 phone (now very rare and hard to get, but were
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35 readily available in early 2013 when I started FreeCalypso): while there is
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36 unfortunately very little chance of being able to turn it into a practically
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37 usable Libre Dumbphone with FreeCalypso (the unwanted extra chips sans docs
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38 which we don't know how to power down are a killer), running FreeCalypso fw
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39 on the Pirelli in the VPM configuration is so easy and convenient that I do
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40 it all the time during development and testing.
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42 Playing with FreeCalypso VPM on C1xx phones
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43 ===========================================
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45 If a Mot C1xx phone is flashed with a FreeCalypso firmware image in the VPM
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46 configuration, it will behave as follows:
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48 * The LCD will remain dark and the buttons will do nothing no matter what.
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50 * If you plug in Motorola's charging adapter (it's a regulated 5 VDC power
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51 source, but with a non-USB connector) and you had properly installed the
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52 charging config file when creating the aftermarket FFS for FreeCalypso, the
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53 battery will charge. When you unplug the charging adapter, if there is no
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54 host computer running FC host program rvinterf connected to the phone
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55 serially, the phone will power off some 15 to 20 s after the charger unplug.
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57 * If you press the power button while the phone is off, even momentarily, the
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58 phone will power on and boot (with nothing on the LCD as usual), but if the
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59 headset jack serial port is not connected to a computer running rvinterf, the
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60 firmware will execute a power-off after at most 20 s.
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62 * In order to make the phone-turned-VPM do anything useful, you will need to
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63 connect the headset jack serial port to a host computer running FC host tools,
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64 run rvinterf to keep the phone alive (keep it from automatically powering
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65 off), and use FC host utility fc-shell to issue AT commands to it over the
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66 RVTMUX channel managed by rvinterf.
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68 * The phone will remain on (i.e., the fw won't execute an automatic power-off)
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69 for as long as there is either a charging power adapter plugged in or a
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70 connected host computer running rvinterf - if there is no charging power,
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71 the fw will send periodic keepalive queries to check for the presence of a
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72 connected rvinterf process.
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74 Playing with FreeCalypso VPM on a Pirelli DP-L10
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75 ================================================
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77 There are two ways in which one can play with FC VPM firmware on a Pirelli:
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79 * FC VPM fw can be flashed into the phone just like on Mot C1xx. To make this
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80 approach sensible, you will also need to craft and install a charging config
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81 file that will cause our FCHG driver to initiate the charging process
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82 automatically when the battery voltage falls below some sensible threshold,
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83 without requiring manual charging start via AT@CHG=1. In this case the
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84 reflashed phone will behave like C1xx in the previous section, except that
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85 the charging power source and the host computer connection are one and the
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86 same in the case of Pirelli's USB.
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88 * The other approach is to keep Pirelli's original fw in the flash, let the
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89 phone function normally when not in the middle of a FreeCalypso VPM session,
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90 and load our FC VPM fw into RAM via fc-xram, making use of this phone's huge
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91 RAM that can hold an entire functional fw image without flashing. This is
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92 the Mother's preferred method.