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Rockbox as mobile phone soft?
Jennifur:
--- Quote from: RavMahov on May 22, 2010, 03:00:31 PM ---Thanks for some info. Hmm, if these mobiles can be upgraded with soft from PC (some key needed to be hold) it shouldn't be that hard to install new soft. Worse if I'll broke something xD Is there any W300i owner interested in work on it? Any help will be appreciated :)
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The main problem would be, the cellphone/text/multimedia messaging and camera. That would need to be written from scratch.
Chronon:
In the original post, RavMahov mentioned that retaining phone and messaging functionality was not important. Rockbox doesn't have any support for cameras either, but if the intention is to just install an audio player firmware on it then it doesn't appear any more prohibitive than other devices that Rockbox has been ported to. (On the surface, supporting the camera doesn't seem like a prohibitively difficult extension if someone put the work in.)
One of the problems with this is that most other people who own this device will probably not be eager to sacrifice the phone/messaging/camera functions of the device. RavMahov, if you want to see this happen you may be on your own.
torne:
Most cellphones have secure flashing mechanisms; some can be bypassed but many can't. You'd need to find out what is involved in flashing the device first.
RavMahov:
Yeah, for now I should get rid of phone addditional functionality. But about this, I know just some ASM basics (for some microprocessor, not ARM), C even worse (I was learning some C++, but given up because of lack of time and dead motivation). If it works, I will be very happy :)
Jennifur:
I've flashed a phone or two. The actual flashing of the phone isn't all that hard. Getting the firmware and the tools may be a problem. Not every phone has the OF available for it. You also run the risk of bricking the device if things do go wrong, but this is also true of other devices rockbox runs on.
Also, I think I have found the OF of the phone. It is here http://www.badongo.com/file/2285739
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