RDS Lite for Linux?

[rubyinthedust]

Has anyone attempted to create a Linux version of RDS Lite?
or is there another flashing utility available?

[sabrod]

Hello,

There is a (new) solution to flash / backup the EZX phones, now without even the use of any motorola proprietary tools. Many thanks to Daniel Ribeiro, who did it.

See: Backups - OpenEZX , a ./boot-usb without any arguments is self speaking. And you also need a recent gen-blob (around the svn rev. 2386).
(find out how to compile genblob at the "dual boot" page of the wiki, and bootusb, at "getting started" page.
Actually, be very carefull with that, as it could perfectly write anywhere in a crucial place on the memory...
No real flashing software has been released yet, but playing with such tools and script a custom thing for your personal use should be very easy.

What should be necessary for doing such flashing software is :

- a new flash format or an (opensource ) solution to extract properly any tracks that come in the SBF's or SHX's files. This part is hard because there are some kind of clean cramfs files, some have offsets, some are cutted with some hexas chars..., if we mess with the bootloader, it's quite dangerous, BP, and flex are afaik, signed parts....
-also each phones have it's own partition table, and for a cool flashing software, we should need to build the partition layout we want to flash in the phone into the built 'firmware file', to secure and ease the flashing process, and not let the user kill his phone by writing to the wrong place in flash because of a corrupted downloaded text file, etc...

A solution can be found, i'm ok to help, as far as i can, if someone want to speak about it and work together with me.
I lack of experience in firmware files extractions...
Maybe some desbf (shxcodec) sources could help, as it's quite good at that task, but the main decision would be what file format to use...
I would vote for a simpler and free one, of course!

The openezx svn repo is also containing some great extraction softwares ready to be re-used, and waiting to be upgraded! (unshx, unsbf?, parseheader, ezxflash...)

I have all the compiled sofwares if one want to try, some extraction, and re-build scripts for the sbf format (that the damn rds hate, btw ), well nothing an hacker or a good modder would envy, i guess... but if it can help, i will post them.

oh, another good news: i have heard that some have compiled a windows bootusb successfully.

[neilhhw]

although i don't know what you exactly mean,but i should say thank you~