Hey Rony,
i agree with you man, but lets t= ake this one step at a time. If we can flash a simple Nokia 3310, then obvi= ously Bluetooth, Infrared, etc. will follow.
The main idea beh= ind using the Nokia 3310 is that it will be cheaply available as a second h= and phone and also there is maximum tools and info available about this par= ticular model.
Once we have achieved our target on this model= , doing it on another model will be simply a matter of porting.
= So, lets get this underway and then follow up on ur idea .
= Raseel.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 Rony Bill wrote :
The 33= 10 and 3315 are old phones with hardly any features other
than telephone an= d sms. Do they really need re-programming that badly? Instead if the phones= with gprs and wap browsing along with infrared and bluetooth are selected = for the experiment, then ringtones, games and other applications can be loa= ded into them from a normal pc by the users using blue tooth or infrared, i= nstead of the current method of downloading from the service provider at a price. Just as pictures are shrunk to fit into the mobile's screen for net = surfing and wallpapers, you could create an application that shrinks video = output of normal low Mb pc games and applications so that they can be downl= oaded directly from a computer into a mobile.
If big c= ell manufacturers refuse to give their hardware details,
how about approach= ing the Chinese or Koreans for their locally designed handsets? They are se= eking markets in India and this would be a mutual give and take for each ot= her.
Regards,
Rony.
----- Original Message ----- From: <sherlock@vsnl.com= >
if u can flash one byte u can flash the w= hole device.
These devices are segmented into sectors. One se= ctor (in some
devices) is known as the boot block and requires special inst ructions to permit reprogramming. The idea is that u should be able t= o recover from a failed reprogram. There are write protection registers too= that determine which blocks can be reprogrammed.
And yes i a= m absolutely sure that those cables are pieces of
wire with a max232 (or eq= uiv) ic for fbus / mbus connection to the pc (i made several). since these = are the only pins in the 3310 (and from the pics of flash adapters on the l= inks u provided), I am certain.
= Raseel Bhagat
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