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I think there are a lot of people jumping to conclusions here about the driver issues. Nobody has any "real" information from HTC to conclude anything. HTC is a very capable company and must have reasons for the lack of video drivers.
The only thing that is for sure, is that HTC is aware of the problem.
With that being said, I will be chatting with a good contact at HTC later this week regarding the video issues. I will share whatever my contact deems non-confidential and allows me to share.
Do we really need *another* thread on this?
ray6 said:
I think there are a lot of people jumping to conclusions here about the driver issues. Nobody has any "real" information from HTC to conclude anything. HTC is a very capable company and must have reasons for the lack of video drivers.
The only thing that is for sure, is that HTC is aware of the problem.
With that being said, I will be chatting with a good contact at HTC later this week regarding the video issues. I will share whatever my contact deems non-confidential and allows me to share.
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you are wasting the internet.
Be sure to read everything at www.htcclassaction.org before.
It's a serious website, with information gathered all along the way.
jym04 said:
Be sure to read everything at www.htcclassaction.org before.
It's a serious website, with information gathered all along the way.
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Ya I'm aware of that site and have read through everything. I'm sure HTC has too.
Hi all
Anyone out there come across any FAXing utility that actually works on the Kaiser? I have tried both Mfax and TrueFax and neither work. Now, I mean true faxing utility using the phones radio not Faxing via internet.
Thanks, Kyri.
I always thought that was carrier dependant. If I remember correctly when I used to in the past long ago with Cingular I was only able to when I had Circuit Switched Data (CSD) enabled on my account that alloed my phone to be used as a dialup modem. But I haven't seen Cingular/ATT offer that service for some time now. Not sure about other carriers.
Please refer to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=380509
Hi guys
Thanks for the feedback, I checked out the threads, but other than confirming that others have had the same problems, not much help.
Even after enabling CSD, there is a need for FAXing software that works on the Kaiser.
I questioned Trufax support and here is their answer…
Unfortunately we cannot support the WM 5.0 / 6.0 Pocket PC Phones at the moment. The problem is that we need technical support from the respective device manufacturers and this support is not given at the moment. We were working together with High Tech Computer for their devices (MDA, XDA, i-mate, etc.) but this was only for WM 2003 OS and they stopped supporting us with WM 5.0 cause faxing was not an issue of importance for HTC and the net providers anymore.
(another round of applause for HTC I guess. Shame on you for laughing at me, again. I will take my money elsewhere next time. I have noticed over the past year that the professional end Nokia phones are looking good and getting better all the time.)
Regarding Mfax, well that software just locks the phone a reset is required, hmmm!
So please the question remains, Does anyone out their know of any FAX software that actually works on the phone (CSD aside that is)?
Thanks, Kyri.
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Hi guys
Thanks for the feedback, I checked out the threads, but other than confirming that others have had the same problems, not much help.
Even after enabling CSD, there is a need for FAXing software that works on the Kaiser.
I questioned Trufax support and here is their answer…
Unfortunately we cannot support the WM 5.0 / 6.0 Pocket PC Phones at the moment. The problem is that we need technical support from the respective device manufacturers and this support is not given at the moment. We were working together with High Tech Computer for their devices (MDA, XDA, i-mate, etc.) but this was only for WM 2003 OS and they stopped supporting us with WM 5.0 cause faxing was not an issue of importance for HTC and the net providers anymore.
(another round of applause for HTC I guess. Shame on you for laughing at me, again. I will take my money elsewhere next time. I have noticed over the past year that the professional end Nokia phones are looking good and getting better all the time.)
Regarding Mfax, well that software just locks the phone a reset is required, hmmm!
So please the question remains, Does anyone out their know of any FAX software that actually works on the phone (CSD aside that is)?
Thanks, Kyri.
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I don't want do be annoying but your question belongs to the software section and should therefore be asked in the thread I mentioned above. Why opening a redundant thread in the wrong section?
Hey (not so) deep thought. Wrong section may be, redundant only with hind site. Rude yes, Annoying certainly! unnecessary definitely.
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Hey (not so) deep thought. Wrong section may be, redundant only with hind site. Rude yes, Annoying certainly! unnecessary definitely.
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I just stated my opinion. You are attacking me personally, so everyone can decide for himself who is rude. But continue your redundant thread in the wrong section. I don't have to read it anyway and maybe you can flame with the mods. I'm not available for that ****.
eFax on wireless
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Hi all
Anyone out there come across any FAXing utility that actually works on the Kaiser? I have tried both Mfax and TrueFax and neither work. Now, I mean true faxing utility using the phones radio not Faxing via internet.
Thanks, Kyri.
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How about eFax?
Hi Cushcalc
Thanks for the efax link. It’s not quite what I had in mind. See I travel lots, go for months without needing a fax and then along comes a need to use fax for a couple of weeks until something else is arranged.
So I don’t want to start an online service and have the overhead/time/think about keeping up the subscriptions for months until I next need it.
Ideally I want to send/receive faxes via radio direct without all this overhead, you know satisfy the need for those couple of weeks and then forget about it till next time.
Mfax and TrueFAX have the right idea. It seems at least for one company however, that the non disclosure policy of HTC has basically prevented them from upgrading their products to run using Windows Mobile version 5 and 6. Sad and petty on HTC’s side I think. From my perspective, well no one likes a bully do they.
Regards
fax
do any of these programs help?
http://www.mobilefan.net/Pocket-PC.nsf/Download-Free-Software/Printing-Fax
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So I don’t want to start an online service and have the overhead/time/think about keeping up the subscriptions for months until I next need it.
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Well, I made an eFax account something like 3 years ago for fun, never used it, and it still exists and I receive a reminder email about it every few months. I wouldn't consider that as having to spend time to keep it up...
I remember sending a fax with an HTC device, but it was indeed still on PPC2003 with my BA a few years ago.
And I'm pretty sure the software vendor you mention is a bit quick at blaming HTC, they could as well get the WM5/6 API info from Microsoft.
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I don't want do be annoying but your question belongs to the software section and should therefore be asked in the thread I mentioned above. Why opening a redundant thread in the wrong section?
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Perhaps you should let the mods decide what belongs where.
I too have had problems finding a suitable solution for faxing on my Tilt... AND editing the PDF format I get the faxes in...
You can at least receive faxes on your phone by email with Ringcentral.... I havent found a good email to fax program that might be the best you can do
So much for any support from iNavCorp! Here is the time line of events which began with the opening of a Service Request with iNavCorp on Thursday, August 28th.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Description of Problem - I have Windows Mobile 6.1 on my AT&T Tilt Pocket PC. iGuidance recognizes my internal GPS, obtains signal lock on satellites without a problem, but does not automatically refresh the map. I know for a fact that this is not an issue between iGuidance and the devices\'s \'built in\' GPS receiver because the GPS Info screen displays in \'real time\' (speed/coordinates etc. all match up with movement and speed of vehicle). It appears to only be an issue with the map display, which will no longer display movement in \'real-time\'. It will capture a given map location and speed, and hold them until the screen is manually refreshed. I am familiar with the \'panning mode\' for the map, and am certain that it is not the issue as I am not viewing the map in panning mode. I see no updates available, other than your recent v4.02 update, which I have applied. The problem still remains. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated, as I am sure there are many others with this identical issue. I have paid good money for navigation software that is at this time, completely useless. I look forward to your prompt response. Sincerely, Jeff Spencer~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...followed by their reply, received late afternoon on Friday, August 29th
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hi Jeff:
iGuidance worked fine w/ the built-in gps in HTC until recently after HTC released their new ROM w/ wm6.1. W/ this new ROM on your Tilt, iGuidance will now only work w/ either an external GPS, or w/ the built-in gps but by using the universal serial port driver provided through a 3rd party program such as GPSGate from www.franson.com instead. If you choose to go w/ the 2nd option, please note that the basic version would be sufficient.
Thank you and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Support Team
www.inavcorp.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~....and finally my reply to them
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The very reason that I picked up the Tilt was so that I would not be required to carry around additional components.
Thanks for what you ridiculously refer to as support.
To tell you the honest truth, I am now highly dissatisfied with iNavCorp and your product. I would expect at the very least (at least from a reputable company that stands behind it's product) a forthcoming patch, or work with the phone vendor to provide a patch, that would provide a no-cost universal serial port driver to correct the issue with your application. I now see how well you stand behind iGuidance and will invariably sell it off. Furthermore, as a Systems Administrator with [national company name omitted]., I will have no trouble whatsoever going out of my way to disparage your product and use this instance as an example as to just how poor the support is with your company and how inflexible your product is.
Furthermore, as a member of such forums as; GPS Passions, AT&T, and XDA Developers, I fully intend to post both my request for support and your reply, as stated below to each and every one of these forums and strongly urge others to do the same.
Honestly, did you see NVIDIA say "sorry" to Windows customers who had upgraded to Microsoft Vista? I don't think so. Stand behind and support your product, or face the backlash of the consumer.
Sincerely,
Jeff Spencer
Verona~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I have made good on my words to iNavCorp. I now urge anyone else as irritated (perhaps mentally disturbed) as I am, to make their voices heard by opening service requests on their own. Sure we can install GPSGate on our devices, or purchase an external GPS receiver, but what kind of response is it from a company to direct customers of their product to do so!! As stated in my reply to them, would NVIDIA have told it's customers "too bad", but you can purchase something else because you chose to upgrade to Windows Vista and now our graphics card won't work as advertised? HELL NO!!!
...okay, time for me to grab a beer and cool off.
Regards,
Spence
Here is an update - iNavCorp's reply to me
Hi Jeff:
Please note that the incompatibility is not between iGuidance and windows mobile OS, but only between iGuidance and the HTC driver. Further, HTC's new ROM was released much later after iGuidance v4 was released, and being a small company, HTC will not be able to work us on our request. Our programmers have been looking at this issue and if a solution may be determined, we will make sure it's included in iGuidance 2009. If not, we will continue to include the incompatiblity w/ HTC on our website as we do now to minimize their inconvenience.
Thank you.
Support Team
www.inavcorp.com
My reply
iNavCorp,
Please excuse my error, it is indeed HTC and not AT&T's hardware, however HTC is far from the small company that you described as "being a small company, HTC will not be able to work us on our request".
HTC makes over 80% of mobile phones running the Windows OS. Please read up on HTC and educate your staff on this 'small company'.
http://www.htcamerica.net/about/default.html
I shall contact HTC and pursue this with them, and ask them why they are too small to work with correcting an issue with your product.
As for my chances of purchasing iGuidance 2009 if you can't support your current product? ...I'd say the chance of that is about as good as my chance at winning a write-in campaign for the 2008 presidential elections.
Thank you for providing me with another opportunity to post and ridicule your poor customer support.
Jeff Spencer
a second reply that I had received while typing my reply
Hi Jeff:
Please note that the incompatibility is not between iGuidance and windows mobile OS, but only between iGuidance and the HTC driver. Further, HTC's new ROM was released much later after iGuidance v4 was released, and being a small company, HTC will not be able to work us on our request. Our programmers have been looking at this issue and if a solution may be determined, we will make sure it's included in iGuidance 2009. If not, we will continue to include the incompatiblity w/ HTC on our website as we do now to minimize their inconvenience.
Thank you.
Support Team
www.inavcorp.com
My follow-up reply
I apologize for the terse nature of my prior message. I have just realized that I have mis-understood your comment about being a small company.
I believe the reply you had sent me (below) was worded in such a way that left the impression that you were referring to HTC as a small company.
I have later received a message indicating that you are working on identifying the incompatibility and provide a fix. I appreciate that, I really do, however please don't preach to me about not being able to be 100% compatible. iGuidance 4 was compatible with my AT&T Tilt, and now it is not. As a customer, I do not care, who made what driver change at what point in time. The fact of the matter, as your product, you are obligated to support it. Simply removing every device that changes from your list of compatible products will do little other than shrink your install base and alienate your paying customers.
I thank you for your attention to this issue, and look forward to an agreeable solution.
Jeff Spencer
Verona
I'm done for now. I am planning to contact HTC, to make them aware of the issue and ask if they can put one of their support team members in touch with iGuidance, but I've a 5 year old to put down for the night, followed shortly after by myself.
Cheers,
Spence
Joe has already corrected this.
Search iGuidance in these forums and you will find it.
cyjeff said:
Joe has already corrected this.
Search iGuidance in these forums and you will find it.
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Thanks cyjeff, I had done that, but hadn't seen anything recent. I must have been too specific in my search. I've checked iNavCorp's site and the now have the issue listed as an incompatibility that they are working on.
**** Note: iGuidance is incompatible w/ the new ROM released by HTC which enabled the internal gps chip. iGuidance will continue to work with an external gps receiver while using PPC6800/Mogul, but in order for iGuidance to work w/ the internal gps, user will need to download/purchase Franson's GPSGate (express or standard version) via http://franson.com/gpsgate/
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Regards,
Spence
Thanks again cyjeff!
It took a bit to find it, but after searching on "iGuidance" and "Joe", I've got Joe's work-around.
Here it is for anyone else stumbling upon this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2114969&postcount=40
Thanks,
Spence
SpenceJT said:
Thanks again cyjeff!
It took a bit to find it, but after searching on "iGuidance" and "Joe", I've got Joe's work-around.
Here it is for anyone else stumbling upon this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2114969&postcount=40
Thanks,
Spence
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You are welcome.
It works like a champ... I have used it myself.
Funny iNavCorp appears to have been out-done by an enterprising developer posting in forums!
I've installed the cab and am off to do some testing. I have no doubt it will work. I am thankful that we've got a forum such as this, where people can assist each other. I'll have to donate or send a 'cookie' to this "Joe" guy!
Regards,
Spence
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Funny iNavCorp appears to have been out-done by an enterprising developer posting in forums!
I've installed the cab and am off to do some testing. I have no doubt it will work. I am thankful that we've got a forum such as this, where people can assist each other. I'll have to donate or send a 'cookie' to this "Joe" guy!
Regards,
Spence
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Well, you can put them in the same boat as the guys from ATT, HTC, Microsoft and a multitude of other software providers that get "help" from the volunteers here.
Good luck getting any kind of real support from iNav. After spending a couple hundred on what they call "updates" which are minor bug fixes, I will never spend a dime on this company. When I purchased version 3, WM6 came out which was incompatible with this version. Instead of releasing a fix, iNav released version 4 which is no different than version 3 (slightly newer map), and charged $80. When I initially had problems with version 4 getting to work, I always got generic email telling me that it was either my phone or the OS i was running.
I am not even sure how many programmers they have. It might be a one person venture under the disguise of "Corp". If they are such a small company, they should not call themselves a Corporation.
actually, v4 is a big step forward w/ TTS. But with a big step backward by taking out the option to cut map.
BTW, where do you get 4.02 update and what's being update/fix in this release?
Did you guys also notice the single post in that thread about the DNS server change that also corrects the problem. There is another thread out there about this as well. If you change your DNS servers to Open DNS, vs using the default that ATT is providing, for whatever reason it fixes the issues w/ iGuidance. I'm still running 3.0.1 but planning on upgrading to 2009 when it's available.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention that, it's the route I went rather than the other options...using Open DNS isn't such a bad idea anyway.
Chris
Thanks This worked great for me. I will have to rethink my next iguidance purchase. I think they are going to force the ole' extra SD Card like garmin does.
AT&T plus iGuidance = Headache
verendus said:
Good luck getting any kind of real support from iNav. After spending a couple hundred on what they call "updates" which are minor bug fixes, I will never spend a dime on this company. When I purchased version 3, WM6 came out which was incompatible with this version. Instead of releasing a fix, iNav released version 4 which is no different than version 3 (slightly newer map), and charged $80. When I initially had problems with version 4 getting to work, I always got generic email telling me that it was either my phone or the OS i was running.
I am not even sure how many programmers they have. It might be a one person venture under the disguise of "Corp". If they are such a small company, they should not call themselves a Corporation.
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I agree so much with everything you said. I spent $69.00 on my program about 3 years ago and I'll never give them another dime. Thank God for Joe and if I had it to do over again, I'd buy CO-PILOT LIVE. What a nice looking program that is.
Hi folks,
you might have noticed, that there's some interesting progress in porting the linux kernel to the Xperia X1 (a.k.a htckovsky).
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=541002
Once the kernel has nice hardware support, we are able to run some alternative OS on our device.
The most popular is obviously the Android system.
There's already some Android package you might call a proof of concept, but there's much more work to do. Mostly on hardware support.
At some level of development it maybe very helpful to get some deep insights of the hardware.
This sometimes leads to a helpful and useful project.
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=391047
The best i could think of is getting access to one of the debug interfaces of the X1.
I already got some assumptions about that but i really need some hardware to fiddle with!
See here for details about the hardware:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=569111
So if you got a hardly damaged device, a bricked/broken X1 mainboard, please tell me.
Maybe we'll find an arrangement to put this piece of electronics into the service of science
Many thanks in advance!
Cheers,
scholbert
Hi,
i've been following the progress on Milestone hacking quite a while now.
Some days ago i started intensive research on the Milestone hardware myself
So here's the some interesting discovery.
Thanks goes out to XVilka for putting this down on the wiki so fast
Of course this is just the starting point for a new hunting....
As you might see many signals are not identified yet.
Essential:
TDO
TDI
TMS
TCK
RTCK
Possible:
EMU0
EMU1
Optional:
DEBUG_UART_RX
Someone needs unsolder the CPU and trace these signals on the mainboard.
So if you got a broken mainboard it would be welcome for scientific examination
This of course would not give us an open bootloader, but might open the door for some promising attempts to debug the platform more intensely.
UPDATE:
All signals had been identified. Unfortunately JTAG access to ARM core and other units is blocked.
EDIT:
O.k. now that xvilka had put my detailed pics in the droid-developers wiki, no need to hide it anymore
Find my updated pics attached.
In fact JTAG access is blocked by the security mechanism on the Milestone.
So all that is accessible is the main TAP controller... everything else is blocked.
No access to the ARM core... nothing except ID could be retrieved.
Have a look at my resignation post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11759352&postcount=54
Anyway the journey was a fun thing and i learned a lot of the ARM core internals including TAP units inside OMAP
The craziest thing was, to realize that all this incredible security stuff really depends on one hard-coded bit... called the "HS-Bit".
If you need more infos tell me!!
Cheers,
scholbert
Software tool
We might use the famous OpenOCD for debugging, once we got the full pinout.
Look here for further details about it:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardOpenOCD
Have fun!
scholbert
This looks very much fun, but how is this going to benefit an end user?
^^ How does "unlocked bootloader" sound to you
Well said and nice to see some reaction here also.
Sure that's fun... at least for me... and it's to widen your knowledge
I've joined this forum some time ago and it is still called xda-developers.
Maybe i'm little old-fashioned but that's what is still driving me... development
By initiating this thread i was aware there's no benefit for the end user right now,
but the more people stumble over here, the more there's a chance to find some other enthusiasts following this path.
I'm aware that the magic parts are missing.
We need someone willing to do wicked stuff and equipped with professional equipment to unsolder parts from the mainboard.
Once to the remaining signals could be traced, there's a lot play with.
Unlike other devices the core elements of the hardware residing in the Milestone are pretty well documented and lot of software tools exist.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to find a nicer backdoor on this locked down device.
The market is fast though and maybe some day there'll be a device you could use to fly with... even as an end user
Anyway, would be nice to talk about.
Best regards,
scholbert
if thats true, then that'd be great. but the guy says "This of course would not give us an open bootloader" in his first post.
good luck scholbert!!
AbdouRetro said:
if thats true, then that'd be great. but the guy says "This of course would not give us an open bootloader" in his first post.
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Yes, having a working JTAG is not going to open the bootloader. But will give something very important - access to the CPU and flash without having any working code - read "bootloader development".
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
scholbert, if u have flash access then u can write to some very privileged areas, does that mean u can make the processor boot into general purpose mode?
AbdouRetro said:
scholbert, if u have flash access then u can write to some very privileged areas, does that mean u can make the processor boot into general purpose mode?
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Privileged areas is a nice word
....but yes, if it's in NAND you may access it easily using JTAG.
AFAIK the HS mode is hard coded into OMAP3430, so booting into GP mode will never happen i guess.
EDIT:
Just had a short glimpse at the OMAP3430 TRM, there's the register CONTROL_PRODUCTION_ID @ 0x4830_A210 to check for GP mode (ID = 0xF0).
On milestone this ID is obviously different and it is hardcoded with efuse.
The ROM bootloader checks this register and could not be rewritten because it's OTP.
Regards,
scholbert
scholbert said:
Privileged areas is a nice word
....but yes, if it's in NAND you may access it easily using JTAG.
AFAIK the HS mode is hard coded into OMAP3430, so booting into GP mode will never happen i guess.
EDIT:
Just had a short glimpse at the OMAP3430 TRM, there's the register CONTROL_PRODUCTION_ID @ 0x4830_A210 to check for GP mode (ID = 0xF0).
On milestone this ID is obviously different and i guess it's hardcoded.
The ROM bootloader checks this register and could not be rewritten because it's OTP.
Regards,
scholbert
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Sir, I was wondering if a bricked device would be okay for this (by bricked I mean someone [not me of course ] flashed some ****ty firmware and it doesn't boot now), if it is so then I think I visit a few shops and ask around in the "black" market for a bricked device.
I don't think motorola has the capacity to manufacture things so different for the milestone and droid. its enough cost that they use different radios!!
I'm hoping its an external chip/trace that controls which mode it boots.
in the chip block diagram on the site, there's an internal boot rom, do we have that??
reminds me of the xbox360...
Quintasan said:
Sir, I was wondering if a bricked device would be okay for this (by bricked I mean someone [not me of course ] flashed some ****ty firmware and it doesn't boot now), if it is so then I think I visit a few shops and ask around in the "black" market for a bricked device.
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Sure a bricked device would do, even a partly physical damaged device will do. As i said before the CPU needs to be unsoldered to trace some signals.
EDIT: Just a remark, because you talk about "black" market.... please don't buy any stolen phones or something.
AbdouRetro said:
I don't think motorola has the capacity to manufacture things so different for the milestone and droid. its enough cost that they use different radios!!
I'm hoping its an external chip/trace that controls which mode it boots.
in the chip block diagram on the site, there's an internal boot rom, do we have that??
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Of course there's a boot ROM, all modern OMAP got this OTP memory implemented.
Have a look at:
https://www.droid-developers.org/wiki/Main_Page
You'll find very interesting and useful information....
Concerning capacities...
Sure they have and obviously Motorola is one of the big customers of Ti.
Apart form the device ID there are also different boot ROMs for different platforms.
This is simply called customizing
TI does it, Qualcomm does it, whoever builds ARM SoC's may do it.
Also Ti's eFuse technology gives the customer (e.g. Motorola) the opportunity to block certain parts of the chip by software setup.
And that's what they did on the Milestone.
Regards,
scholbert
when i said "do we have that"
i meant, do we have a dump of that code that is disassembled and looked into.
by checking here
Code:
droid-developers.org/wiki/Booting_chain
its obvious this has already been done
Hi again,
seems less interest here.... sure this is a very technical thread....
Anyway, see this picture of the mainboard.
https://www.droid-developers.org/images/d/dd/Photo-1.jpg
Seems to be taken from one of the first mass production units, or even a developers phone.
You see there's a FPC connector soldered on the mainboard (underneath the microSD connector).
After doing a little research, it seems that these connectors are used for professional environment:
http://www.hirose.co.jp/cataloge_hp/e58004008.pdf
Part.-No. FH19C-17S-0.5SH
Cheers,
scholbert
I have a dead phone. If someone can provide me with a pinout for the processor, I will be glad to trace out the rest of the jtag header.
Hi eustice!
eustice said:
I have a dead phone. If someone can provide me with a pinout for the processor, I will be glad to trace out the rest of the jtag header.
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Wow, that 's great, let's crack that nut
I just created a map, bit small though, but i think everything could located...
BTW, on Milestone they seem to have used a OMAP3430 in CBC (S-PBGA-N515) package with POP-memory (see attached datasheet of the package).
Had to digg a little to find that out...
Tell me if you need further information!
Please be careful while removing the CPU, these little pads will easily rip of...
Good luck!!
scholbert
scholbert said:
Hi eustice!
Wow, that 's great, let's crack that nut
I just created a map, bit small though, but i think everything could located...
BTW, on Milestone they seem to have used a OMAP3430 in CBC (S-PBGA-N515) package with POP-memory (see attached datasheet of the package).
Had to digg a little to find that out...
Tell me if you need further information!
Please be careful while removing the CPU, these little pads will easily rip of...
Good luck!!
scholbert
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Sir, well, I'm not sure if this is of intrest to us but
http://allegro.pl/okazja-jak-nowa-motorola-droid-i1386494285.html
This guys sell's DROIDs for 200 polish zloty, it's cheap. The main problem is that the guy says they were flooded during the transport, he also claims that they were not switched on since then. Are we interested in getting one and disassembling it?
Hey Qintasan,
thanks for the link!
Quintasan said:
This guys sell's DROIDs for 200 polish zloty, it's cheap. The main problem is that the guy says they were flooded during the transport, he also claims that they were not switched on since then. Are we interested in getting one and disassembling it?
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Indeed the price is nice, but it's your decision, wether to buy one or not.
Personnally i got two working devices and i'm not willing to rip them apart.
By starting this thread i intended to draw some interest about this JTAG stuff and to collect information to gain access on the Milestone.
It is yet unknown, if it will ever work on this platform.
It might also be possible that the JTAG signals are physically connected, but had been disabled by e-fuses on the production units.
..... but if no one ever tries we'll never know.
Best regards,
scholbert
milestone jtag board and connector pic
attached are the pics for the jtag board and the connector on the phone.