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doc/Flash-boot-defect article removed (no longer relevant) This article is no longer relevant because the issue in question only affected one (1) defective FCDEV3B board which was not and never will be sold.
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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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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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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 c139explore This is a run-from-RAM (no flashing) program for Mot C139/140
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50 phones that exercises their peripheral hardware: LCD, keypad
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51 backlight, buzzer and vibrator.
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53 c1xx-calextr This utility extracts the factory RF calibration values for
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54 Mot C1xx phones from the records contained in a special sector
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55 of their flash and converts them to FreeCalypso format, to be
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56 used when running our own firmware on these phones. See the
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57 Compal-calibration article for more details.
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59 compile-fc-batt This utility compiles a table of battery thresholds for the new
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60 FreeCalypso battery management code from ASCII source into the
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61 binary form suitable for uploading into /etc/batterytab on a
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62 FreeCalypso device. It is rarely used directly, instead
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63 fc-fsio write-battery-table command invokes compile-fc-batt
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64 behind the scenes.
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66 compile-fc-chg This utility compiles a FreeCalypso battery charging
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67 configuration file from ASCII source into the binary form
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68 suitable for uploading into /etc/charging on a FreeCalypso
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69 device. It is rarely used directly, instead fc-fsio
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70 write-charging-config command invokes compile-fc-chg behind the
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71 scenes.
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73 ctracedec GSM firmwares built in TI's Windows environment (official ones
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74 as well as our own hacks based on the TCS211 semi-src) have a
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75 "compressed trace" misfeature whereby many of the ASCII strings
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76 in debug trace messages get replaced with numeric indices at
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77 build time, and these numeric indices are all that gets emitted
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78 on the RVTMUX serial channel. This numeric trace output can be
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79 turned back into ASCII strings if you have the str2ind.tab file
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80 corresponding to the fw version that emitted the output in
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81 question; this ctracedec utility performs that decoding.
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83 fc-buzplay This program plays piezoelectic buzzer melodies on an actual
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84 Calypso device equipped with such a buzzer (Mot C1xx, TI's
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85 D-Sample board, our planned future HSMBP) by loading a buzplayer
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86 agent onto the target and feeding melodies to be played to it.
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88 fc-cal2bin This utility takes an RF table in FreeCalypso ASCII format and
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89 converts it to the firmware's native binary format. See the
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90 RF_tables article for more details.
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92 fc-cal2text This utility takes a dump of TI's /gsm/rf flash file system
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93 directory subtree as input (either extracted in vitro with tiffs
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94 or read out in vivo with fc-fsio) and converts all RF tables
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95 found therein into a readable ASCII format. See the RF_tables
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96 article for more details.
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98 fc-dspapidump This utility uses ETM in synchronous mode (going through
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99 rvinterf) to read and dump the contents of the DSP API RAM in a
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100 target Calypso GSM device while the firmware is running.
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102 fc-e1decode This utility decodes a melody in TI's Melody E1 format from the
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103 the native binary format to our own ASCII-based representation;
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104 see the Melody_E1 article for more information.
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106 fc-e1gen This utility compiles an E1 melody from our own ASCII source
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107 format into binary bits to be loaded into a FreeCalypso phone;
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108 see the Melody_E1 article for more information.
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110 fc-fr2tch This hack-utility converts a GSM 06.10 speech sample from the
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111 de facto standard libgsm format (which can be recorded with
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112 standard tools like SoX) into an uplink play file that can be
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113 played with the tch play command in fc-shell; see the
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114 TCH-bit-access article for more information.
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116 fc-gsm2vm This utility converts a GSM 06.10 speech sample from the same
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117 libgsm source format into a voice memo file that can be
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118 uploaded into the FFS of a FreeCalypso device and played with
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119 the audio_vm_play_start() API or the AT@VMP command that
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120 invokes the latter.
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122 fc-lcdemu Moved to freecalypso-ui-dev repository; look there for more
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123 info.
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124
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125 fc-lcdpoll New companion utility to fc-lcdemu; look in freecalypso-ui-dev
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126 for more info.
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128 fc-memdump This tool captures a memory dump from a GSM device whose
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129 firmware implements one of TI's Test Mode memory read commands,
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130 either the old TM3 version or the new ETM one. It works with
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131 FreeCalypso Citrine, with TCS211-based firmwares including
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132 FreeCalypso Magnetite, with really old TI firmwares which
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133 predate ETM, and with Mot C1xx original firmwares. It works
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134 through rvinterf.
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135
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136 fc-readcal This program attempts to read a bunch of RF calibration tables
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137 out of a running firmware through Test Mode commands: first
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138 tms 1, then rfpw 7 for each band, then rftr and ttr commands to
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139 read various tables. The primary intended purpose is extracting
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140 RF calibration or static configuration data from alien
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141 firmwares. Please beware that the tms 1 and rfpw 7 commands
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142 sent by this tool are highly disruptive to normal GSM operation.
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143
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144 fc-rgbconv A simple aid for phone UI development that converts RGB color
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145 values between human-intuitive 8:8:8 format and the 5:6:5 format
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146 used by the color LCDs in the phones targeted by FreeCalypso.
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147
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148 fc-serterm This tool is a trivial serial terminal program. Its special
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149 feature is that any output coming from the serial port that
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150 isn't printable ASCII is displayed as by cat -v. It is useful
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151 for talking to serially-interfaced devices that mix ASCII with
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152 binary in their serial talk.
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153
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154 fc-tch2fr This hack-utility takes a TCH downlink recording produced with
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155 the tch record command in fc-shell and converts it to a playable
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156 libgsm file which will most likely contain some garbage by
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157 disregarding the non-understood DSP status words; see the
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158 TCH-bit-access article for more information.
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159
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160 fc-tmsh TI-based GSM firmwares provide a rich set of Test Mode commands
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161 that can be issued through the RVTMUX (debug trace) serial
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162 channel, used for L1/RF test functions, production line RF
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163 calibration, FFS (flash file system) access, audio configuration
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164 and other miscellany. fc-tmsh is our test mode shell for
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165 sending these Test Mode commands to targets and displaying
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166 decoded target responses; it works through rvinterf. fc-tmsh
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167 supports all Test Mode commands (both TM3 and ETM) implemented
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168 in our target firmwares except FFS access; use fc-fsio for the
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169 latter. fc-tmsh is fully asynchronous in that the issuance of
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170 commands to the target and the handling of target responses are
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171 fully decoupled.
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172
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173 fc-tmsync This program reimplements a small subset of fc-tmsh commands in
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174 a synchronous manner; it was written together with fc-readcal
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175 for the same purpose of extracting "in vivo" data from alien
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176 firmwares.
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177
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178 fc-vm2hex This utility converts the old-fashioned (non-AMR) voice memo
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179 files read out of FFS into hex strings that can be analyzed by
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180 a human or further fed to fc-tch2fr.
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181
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182 fcup-* FreeCalypso User Phone Tools; see the User-phone-tools article.
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183
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184 imei-luhn A simple utility for computing or verifying the Luhn check
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185 digit of an IMEI number.
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186
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187 mokosrec2bin This utility converts "moko-style" S-record files (those
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188 produced by TI's hex470 tool with -memwidth 16 -romwidth 16
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189 options) to straight binary.
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190
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191 pirexplore This is a run-from-RAM (no flashing) program for Pirelli DP-L10
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192 phones that exercises their peripheral hardware, primarily their
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193 LCD.
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194
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195 rvtdump This tool produces a human-readable dump of all output emitted
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196 by a TI-based GSM fw on the RVTMUX binary packet interface. It
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197 can also log this dump to a file.
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198
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199 sms-pdu-decode This utility is part of FC User Phone Tools; see the
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200 User-phone-tools article.
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201
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202 tfc139 This tool breaks into Mot C1xx phones via shellcode injection,
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203 a method that works despite any bootloader locks, allowing you
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204 to reflash locked phones with new firmware with fc-loadtool.
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205 The name of the utility is historical: previously it was
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206 specific to TFC139 phones (C139s sold with TracFone branding),
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207 but the current version is expected to work with all Mot C1xx
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208 firmware versions.
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209
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210 tiaud-compile This utility compiles an audio mode configuration table for TI's
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211 Audio Service from our own ASCII source format into the binary
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212 format for uploading into FreeCalypso GSM device FFS with
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213 fc-fsio.
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214
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215 tiaud-decomp This utility decodes TI's audio mode configuration files read
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216 out of FFS into our own ASCII format. It is the reverse of the
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217 operation performed by tiaud-compile.
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218
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219 tiaud-mkvol This utility is a companion to tiaud-compile that generates the
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220 *.vol binary files which need to accompany the main *.cfg ones.
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221
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222 tiffs, These tools perform "in vitro" analysis of flash file system
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223 mokoffs, (FFS) images read out of GSM devices with TI-based firmwares.
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224 pirffs You can list and extract the FFS content captured as a raw
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225 flash image, and even perform a few "forensic" operations along
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226 the lines of reading deleted files and seeing the history of
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227 FFS modifications. tiffs is the main program, whereas mokoffs
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228 and pirffs are convenience wrappers for the common FFS
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229 configurations from Openmoko and Pirelli.