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1 FreeCalypso host tools suite includes a large number of different tools, many
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2 of which are quite specialized and rarely needed. The following tools are the
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3 most essential ones:
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5 fc-loadtool This is the tool used to read and write the non-volatile flash
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6 memory of supported GSM devices. It can be used to reflash
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7 these devices with new firmware (whether pre-existing or new
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8 firmwares developed within our project), and to save and restore
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9 flash backups. This tool operates on the target device (phone
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10 or modem) while its regular firmware is shut down.
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12 fc-iram, Reprogramming the non-volatile flash memory is not the only way
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13 fc-xram, to run your own code on a Calypso GSM device. If your code is
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14 fc-compalram small enough to fit entirely into the available RAM on the
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15 device, and you would like to just run it without flashing it
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16 permanently, these tools do the job of loading code images into
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17 different kinds of RAM through different download protocols.
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18 Some phones have large enough RAM to allow a complete functional
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19 firmware image to be run via fc-xram without flashing.
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21 rvinterf This program is our engine for communicating with up & running
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22 TI-based firmwares through the RVTMUX binary packet interface.
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23 It receives and decodes all debug trace and other packets
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24 emitted by the target fw, and allows the options of printing
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25 them on the terminal, saving them to a log file, and/or passing
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26 them to other programs that connect to rvinterf as local socket
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27 clients. In the other direction those latter client programs
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28 can send arbitrary command packets to the target fw.
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30 fc-fsio Going through rvinterf, this tool connects to GSM devices
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31 running one of the supported firmware versions while the fw is
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32 running (unlike fc-loadtool which operates on a device while
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33 its regular fw is shut down) and allows you to manipulate
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34 (read and write) the device's flash file system. It is thus a
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35 higher-level tool than fc-loadtool. It is intended primarily
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36 for working with our own firmwares, but it also works with
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37 Pirelli's original fw.
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39 fc-shell FreeCalypso firmwares have a feature of our own invention (not
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40 present in any pre-existing ones) to accept AT commands over
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41 the RVTMUX interface. It is useful when no second UART is
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42 available for a dedicated standard AT command interface.
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43 fc-shell is the tool that allows you to send AT commands to the
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44 firmware in this manner; it also allows a few other kinds of
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45 asynchronous commands to be sent. It works through rvinterf.
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47 And here is a listing of all other tools in mostly-alphabetical order:
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49 arfcn2ti These two utilities convert back and forth between standard
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50 ti2arfcn ARFCNs and TCS211 L1 radio_freq numbers - see ARFCN-mapping
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51 article for the explanation.
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53 c139explore This is a run-from-RAM (no flashing) program for Mot C139/140
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54 phones that exercises their peripheral hardware: LCD, keypad
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55 backlight, buzzer and vibrator.
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57 c1xx-calextr This utility extracts the factory RF calibration values for
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58 Mot C1xx phones from the records contained in a special sector
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59 of their flash and converts them to FreeCalypso format, to be
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60 used when running our own firmware on these phones. See the
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61 Compal-calibration article for more details.
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63 compile-fc-batt This utility compiles a table of battery thresholds for our
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64 FreeCalypso battery management code (FCHG) from ASCII source
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65 into the binary form suitable for uploading into /etc/batterytab
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66 (v1 binary format) on a FreeCalypso device. It is rarely used
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67 directly, instead fc-fsio write-battery-table-v1 command invokes
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68 compile-fc-batt behind the scenes.
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70 compile-fc-batt2
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71 This utility is like the original compile-fc-batt, but generates
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72 v2 binary format for uploading into /etc/batterytab2. This new
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73 binary format is needed for the new FC Tourmaline version of
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74 FCHG. It is rarely used directly, instead fc-fsio
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75 write-battery-table-v2 command invokes compile-fc-batt2 behind
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76 the scenes.
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78 compile-fc-chg This utility compiles a FreeCalypso battery charging
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79 configuration file from ASCII source into the binary form
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80 suitable for uploading into /etc/charging on a FreeCalypso
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81 device. It is rarely used directly, instead fc-fsio
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82 write-charging-config command invokes compile-fc-chg behind the
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83 scenes.
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85 ctracedec GSM firmwares built in TI's Windows environment (official ones
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86 as well as our own hacks based on the TCS211 semi-src) have a
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87 "compressed trace" misfeature whereby many of the ASCII strings
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88 in debug trace messages get replaced with numeric indices at
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89 build time, and these numeric indices are all that gets emitted
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90 on the RVTMUX serial channel. This numeric trace output can be
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91 turned back into ASCII strings if you have the str2ind.tab file
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92 corresponding to the fw version that emitted the output in
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93 question; this ctracedec utility performs that decoding.
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95 fc-add-ramps This program is a developer tool, specifically for engineers
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96 working on RF Tx tract tuning. It reads a table of Tx ramp
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97 templates in FreeCalypso RF table ASCII format, adds up each
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98 ramp and reports the resulting sums.
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100 fc-bin2rftab This program is a developer tool: it reads a binary RF table of
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101 the user-specified type from a binary file (at a user-specified
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102 offset, allowing extraction of tables from alien firmwares and
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103 whatnot) and emits it in FreeCalypso ASCII format.
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105 fc-buzplay This program plays Calypso buzzer melodies (BU or PWT) on an
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106 actual Calypso device equipped with such a buzzer (Mot C1xx,
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107 TI's D-Sample board, our next planned development board) by
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108 loading a buzplayer agent onto the target and feeding melodies
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109 to be played to it. See the Buzzer-melodies article for more
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112 fc-cal2bin This utility takes an RF table in FreeCalypso ASCII format and
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113 converts it to the firmware's native binary format. See the
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114 RF_tables article for more details.
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116 fc-cal2text This utility takes a dump of TI's /gsm/rf flash file system
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117 directory subtree as input (either extracted in vitro with tiffs
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118 or read out in vivo with fc-fsio) and converts all RF tables
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119 found therein into a readable ASCII format. See the RF_tables
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120 article for more details.
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121
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122 fc-dspapidump This utility uses ETM in synchronous mode (going through
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123 rvinterf) to read and dump the contents of the DSP API RAM in a
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124 target Calypso GSM device while the firmware is running.
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126 fc-dspromdump This utility feeds a dump agent program (dspdump) to the target
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127 Calypso device's ARM boot ROM and then commands this dump agent
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128 program to perform a complete dump of the chip's DSP ROM. See
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129 the DSP-ROM-dump article for more details.
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130
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131 fc-e1decode This utility decodes a melody in TI's Melody E1 format from the
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132 the native binary format to our own ASCII-based representation;
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133 see the Melody_E1 article for more information.
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134
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135 fc-e1gen This utility compiles an E1 melody from our own ASCII source
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136 format into binary bits to be loaded into a FreeCalypso phone;
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137 see the Melody_E1 article for more information.
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139 fc-fr2tch This hack-utility converts a GSM 06.10 speech sample from the
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140 de facto standard libgsm format (which can be recorded with
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141 standard tools like SoX) into an uplink play file that can be
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142 played with the tch play command in fc-shell; see the
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143 TCH-bit-access article for more information.
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145 fc-gsm2vm This utility converts a GSM 06.10 speech sample from the same
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146 libgsm source format into a voice memo file that can be
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147 uploaded into the FFS of a FreeCalypso device and played with
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148 the audio_vm_play_start() API or the AT@VMP command that
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149 invokes the latter.
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151 fc-imy2pwt This program converts monophonic ringtone melodies from iMelody
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152 interchange format into our own native PWT format. See the
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153 Buzzer-melodies article for more details.
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154
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155 fc-imyplay Shell script for quickly playing IMY melodies: the script runs
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156 fc-imy2pwt | fc-pwt-comp pipeline, compiling the melody into
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157 PWT binary format (under /tmp), then uploads the binary melody
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158 (via fc-fsio) to /buz/test.bz on the running FC phone or
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159 devboard, and then plays it via AT@BUZ command via fc-shell.
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161 fc-lcdemu Moved to freecalypso-ui-dev repository; look there for more
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162 info.
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163
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164 fc-lcdpoll New companion utility to fc-lcdemu; look in freecalypso-ui-dev
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165 for more info.
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167 fc-meltest-e1 Shell script for quickly playing E1 melodies: the script runs
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168 fc-e1gen, compiling the melody from ASCII source into binary
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169 format (under /tmp), then uploads the binary melody (via
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170 fc-fsio) to /mel/test.e1 on the running FC phone or devboard,
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171 and then plays it via AT@E1 command via fc-shell.
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172
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173 fc-meltest-pwt Shell script for quickly playing PWT melodies: the script runs
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174 fc-pwt-comp, compiling the melody from ASCII source into binary
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175 format (under /tmp), then uploads the binary melody (via
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176 fc-fsio) to /buz/test.bz on the running FC phone or devboard,
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177 and then plays it via AT@BUZ command via fc-shell.
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179 fc-memdump This tool captures a memory dump from a GSM device whose
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180 firmware implements one of TI's Test Mode memory read commands,
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181 either the old TM3 version or the new ETM one. It works with
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182 FreeCalypso Citrine, with TCS211-based firmwares including
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183 FreeCalypso Magnetite, with really old TI firmwares which
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184 predate ETM, and with Mot C1xx original firmwares. It works
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185 through rvinterf.
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187 fc-pulse-dtr This trivial utility opens a serial port, asserts DTR for 50 ms,
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188 then negates it and exits. See the DUART28-boot-control article
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189 for the explanation.
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190
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191 fc-pulse-rts This trivial utility opens a serial port, asserts RTS for 50 ms,
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192 then negates it and exits. See the DUART28-boot-control article
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193 for the explanation.
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194
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195 fc-pwt-comp This program compiles a FreeCalypso PWT melody from our ASCII
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196 source format into the compact binary format that will be
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197 uploaded into FC device FFS for use by our BUZM melody player
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198 engine. See the Buzzer-melodies article for more details.
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199
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200 fc-readcal This program attempts to read a bunch of RF calibration tables
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201 out of a running firmware through Test Mode commands: first
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202 tms 1, then rfpw 7 for each band, then rftr and ttr commands to
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203 read various tables. The primary intended purpose is extracting
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204 RF calibration or static configuration data from alien
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205 firmwares. Please beware that the tms 1 and rfpw 7 commands
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206 sent by this tool are highly disruptive to normal GSM operation.
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208 fc-rftab2c This program is a developer tool: it takes an RF parameter
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209 table of one of the supported types in FreeCalypso ASCII format
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210 and converts it into a C code snippet suitable for insertion
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211 into the firmware source in the L1 RF "customization" code
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212 where compiled-in default RF parameter tables are defined.
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214 fc-rgbconv A simple aid for phone UI development that converts RGB color
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215 values between human-intuitive 8:8:8 format and the 5:6:5 format
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216 used by the color LCDs in the phones targeted by FreeCalypso.
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217
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218 fc-ringlist-comp
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219 This program compiles a list of ringing tone or message alert
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220 tone melodies from ASCII source into the binary format (.mls)
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221 that will be uploaded into FreeCalypso device FFS and read by
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222 the UI layer of FC phone firmwares. See the Buzzer-melodies
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223 article for more details.
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225 fc-serterm This tool is a trivial serial terminal program. Its special
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226 feature is that any output coming from the serial port that
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227 isn't printable ASCII is displayed as by cat -v. It is useful
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228 for talking to serially-interfaced devices that mix ASCII with
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229 binary in their serial talk.
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231 fc-simint This program is a specialized front end to fc-simtool, allowing
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232 the latter tool to operate on SIM cards inside Calypso phones
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233 and development boards. fc-simint loads and runs simagent on
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234 the Calypso device in the manner of loadtools, then passes the
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235 open file descriptor to fc-simtool.
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236
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237 fc-simtool Maintained in a separate fc-sim-tools repository, fc-simtool is
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238 our tool for operating on SIM cards. Its primary mode of usage
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239 is operating on SIM cards inserted into special smart card
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240 reader/programmer devices, without going through any kind of
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241 phone or other GSM device, but fc-simtool can also be invoked
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242 indirectly via fc-simint, in which case it operates on SIM cards
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243 inside Calypso devices.
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244
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245 fc-tch2fr This hack-utility takes a TCH downlink recording produced with
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246 the tch record command in fc-shell and converts it to a playable
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247 libgsm file which will most likely contain some garbage by
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248 disregarding the non-understood DSP status words; see the
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249 TCH-bit-access article for more information.
216
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250
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251 fc-tmsh TI-based GSM firmwares provide a rich set of Test Mode commands
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252 that can be issued through the RVTMUX (debug trace) serial
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253 channel, used for L1/RF test functions, production line RF
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254 calibration, FFS (flash file system) access, audio configuration
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255 and other miscellany. fc-tmsh is our test mode shell for
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256 sending these Test Mode commands to targets and displaying
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257 decoded target responses; it works through rvinterf. fc-tmsh
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258 supports all Test Mode commands (both TM3 and ETM) implemented
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259 in our target firmwares except FFS access; use fc-fsio for the
311
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260 latter. fc-tmsh is fully asynchronous in that the issuance of
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261 commands to the target and the handling of target responses are
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262 fully decoupled.
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263
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264 fc-tmsync This program reimplements a small subset of fc-tmsh commands in
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265 a synchronous manner; it was written together with fc-readcal
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266 for the same purpose of extracting "in vivo" data from alien
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267 firmwares.
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268
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269 fc-vm2hex This utility converts the old-fashioned (non-AMR) voice memo
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270 files read out of FFS into hex strings that can be analyzed by
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271 a human or further fed to fc-tch2fr.
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272
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273 fcup-* FreeCalypso User Phone Tools; see the User-phone-tools article.
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274
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275 imei-luhn A simple utility for computing or verifying the Luhn check
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276 digit of an IMEI number.
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277
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278 l1trace-filter This program connects to rvinterf as a client and displays only
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279 certain filtered L1 traces; it was written for the purpose of
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280 isolating specific traces of interest out of the noise.
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281
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282 make-imeisv This utility is intended for use in shell scripts: it constructs
9e3b1ef1f440 make-imeisv utility documented
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283 a 16-digit IMEISV from a 15-digit IMEI (which must have a valid
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284 Luhn check digit) and a 2-digit SV field.
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285
413
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286 mokosrec2bin This utility converts "moko-style" S-record files (those
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287 produced by TI's hex470 tool with -memwidth 16 -romwidth 16
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288 options) to straight binary.
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289
601
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290 pcm-sms-decode Some TI-based vendor firmwares (not TI's original and not
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291 FreeCalypso) implement SMS storage in their FFS in a file named
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292 /pcm/SMS in the same format in which SMS records are stored in
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293 SIM cards (EF_SMS elementary file). Pirelli's firmware is one
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294 major user of this mechanism. This /pcm/SMS file can be read
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295 out in vivo via fc-fsio or extracted in vitro via tiffs; the
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296 new pcm-sms-decode utility decodes the stored SMS content from
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297 this binary file similarly to sms-pdu-decode.
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298
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299 pirexplore This is a run-from-RAM (no flashing) program for Pirelli DP-L10
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300 phones that exercises their peripheral hardware, primarily their
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301 LCD.
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302
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303 rvtdump This tool produces a human-readable dump of all output emitted
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304 by a TI-based GSM fw on the RVTMUX binary packet interface. It
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305 can also log this dump to a file.
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306
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307 sms-pdu-decode This utility is part of FC User Phone Tools; see the
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308 User-phone-tools article.
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309
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310 srec-regions This utility parses a firmware image file in S-record format,
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311 identifies the set of discontiguous regions into which this
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312 SREC image deposits bits, and lists these identified regions.
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313
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314 tfc139 This tool breaks into Mot C1xx phones via shellcode injection,
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315 a method that works despite any bootloader locks, allowing you
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316 to reflash locked phones with new firmware with fc-loadtool.
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317 The name of the utility is historical: previously it was
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318 specific to TFC139 phones (C139s sold with TracFone branding),
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319 but the current version is expected to work with all Mot C1xx
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320 firmware versions.
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321
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322 tiaud-compile This utility compiles an audio mode configuration table for TI's
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323 Audio Service from our own ASCII source format into the binary
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324 format for uploading into FreeCalypso GSM device FFS with
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325 fc-fsio.
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326
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327 tiaud-decomp This utility decodes TI's audio mode configuration files read
244
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328 out of FFS into our own ASCII format. It is the reverse of the
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329 operation performed by tiaud-compile.
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330
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331 tiaud-mkvol This utility is a companion to tiaud-compile that generates the
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332 *.vol binary files which need to accompany the main *.cfg ones.
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333
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334 tiffs, These tools perform "in vitro" analysis of flash file system
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335 mokoffs, (FFS) images read out of GSM devices with TI-based firmwares.
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336 pirffs, You can list and extract the FFS content captured as a raw
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337 tiffs-8m flash image, and even perform a few "forensic" operations along
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338 the lines of reading deleted files and seeing the history of
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339 FFS modifications. tiffs is the main program, whereas mokoffs,
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340 pirffs and tiffs-8m are convenience wrappers for the common FFS
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341 configurations from Openmoko, Pirelli and Tango.
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342
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343 tiffs-mkfs This utility constructs a TI flash file system (TIFFS) image
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344 completely from scratch "in vitro", containing initial directory
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345 and file content given by a Unix directory and file tree on the
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346 host system. The resulting image can then be flashed into a
718
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347 Calypso GSM device running FreeCalypso firmware.
747
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348
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349 tiffs-mkfile This utility is intended for use in shell scripts: it generates
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350 certain types of binary files that go into TIFFS, for subsequent
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351 feeding to tiffs-mkfs.