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compal/audio: results of simple experiments
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sat, 09 Oct 2021 23:20:00 +0000
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1 It appears that the only way to bring up audio volume control (as opposed to
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2 ringer volume) on a C139 phone running Mot official fw is to be in active call,
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3 implying the need for a valid SIM, a GSM network, working service with that
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4 SIM+network combination and a party one can test-call. When you do get into
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5 the necessary active call state, navigation left and right buttons bring up the
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6 audio volume control screen and move this volume up or down. However, instead
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7 of seeing just 5 possible volume levels as would be available if Iota ABB
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8 downlink volume controls were used in TI's simple way, we see 8 possible volume
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9 levels being offered by Motorola's fw, numbered from 0 through 7. Level 0 is
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10 not mute - downlink audio is still present in the earpiece speaker, albeit
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11 quiet.
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13 It appears that Compal did something similar to Foxconn/Pirelli, probably
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14 manipulating both volume and PGA gain settings in Iota VBDCTRL in order to
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15 offer more than 5 possible volume levels to the user. However, because Compal
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16 firmwares don't have ETM and their oabbr TM3 command is broken (returns
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17 garbage), we don't have a way to just read out the register settings for each
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18 volume level. Furthermore, because the audio volume setting is so difficult to
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19 get to (requiring not only a SIM, but also network registration and a call),
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20 doing a tfc139 break-in for each possible volume level would be too much work.