New members Guide

[ndpndnt16]

this guide is for those who dont know how to install the applications to phones. just follow this and you will be able to add those applications to your phone

requirements:
linloader.mtf
mpkg.lin & mpkg.mpkg
neo-install.lin & unzip
applications you want to be added


Installation:


Linloader

tap "linloader.mtf" and wait for a few seconds,there will be a pop up information"operation successful" reset your phone.now you have the main application

Mpkg installer

tap and hold "mpkg.lin" and click "open with" find the new icon smily and click "always open this program to open this filetype",wait for a few seconds after you hear a voice,go to phone memory browser.find the new chinese file.its a jar file install it,and you will have the mpkg installer

note:there will be two icon will appear an "flower icon" and a "exe icon"same with the image on computer's softwares.the usage of the flower icon is to install the pkg file to your phone.

Neo installer

first put the neo-install.lin and unzip in phone memory (note:you should put those files in the main not on a folder) .then tap and hold "neo-install.lin" and wait for a few seconds.then go out in phone file browser,and go back.there will be a new file called "startup.lin"
now you can delete the neo-install.lin and unzip (note: dont delete the startup.lin).you will need to tap the startup.lin every boot up of your phone.

more applications

there are two types of application pkg file and neo.jar file

pkg app installation

tap and hold the file and click "open with"find the the "mpkg installer"that you installed earlier and click "always open this program to open this file type" and go to phone memory browser and find the "jar file" again, and install it.

neo app

all neo files are in jar format so you only need to install this


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[chiennk]

If you are total new to E680i, read my explanations below. I try my best to help you understand basic terms regard to this phone.

Operation System:

In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. Additionally, it provides a foundation upon which to run application software such as word processing programs and web browsers

Every Personal Computer (PC) needs Operation System (OS) to run. Our lovely phone E680i uses Linux as its Operation System (OS) just like Windows PC uses Microsoft windows as its OS.

Firmware:

In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. It is often provided on flash ROMs or as a binary image file that can be uploaded onto existing hardware by a user.


Firmware is defined as:

1. the computer program in a read-only memory (ROM) integrated circuit (a hardware configuration is usually used to represent the software);
2. the erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) chip, whose program may be modified by special external hardware, but not by [a general purpose] application program.

You can consider firmware is a binary image of Operation System. When we talk about upgrade firmware for E680i, we are talking about upgrade OS for E680i.

Why firmware is often provided on flash ROMs (read-only memory)? Because it will save cost. Instead of inserting a windows installation CD to CD tray and run setup program to install/upgrade windows OS for PC, we just flash/copy the whole image of OS (firmware) to our phone without any installation process.

Flash:

Flash is a process to copy the whole image of OS (firmware) to the phone. we don't install firmware, we copy firmware directly to our phone's flash ROM.


Product Support Tool (PST):

PST is a program provided by Motorola and it is installed worldwide in any Motorola Customer Service Center. Motorola's customer service staff uses it to perform the standard processes such as initialization, configuration, subscriber information update and testing that have been applied to Motorola phone products.

If you bring your phone to Motorola Customer Service Center and ask them to upgrade firmware for you, they will use PST to do that.

How to upgrade E680i firmware?

Use PST to flash new firmware to E680i.

Telnet

TELNET is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network LAN connections.

The purpose of the TELNET Protocol is to provide a fairly general, bi-directional, eight-bit byte oriented communications facility.

It is typically used to provide user oriented command line login sessions between hosts on the Internet. The name is derived from the words telephone network, since the program is designed to emulate a single terminal attached to the other computer.

If you work with Unix/Linux machine before, you know that from windows PC we can telnet to Unix/Linux to key in comand line as you sit in front of Unix/Linux machine and key in the command.

Same thing happens to our phone. E680i runs Linux and it is real Linux machine. From PC we can telnet to E680i and see its file system structure, key in Linux commands like we use a Linux machine.

Why we need to telnet to E680i?

Default file management program does not let us access to system folders such as /ezxlocal, /usr ...

We need to telnet to E680i to explore file system structure, to key in linux commands, to work with E680i as real linux machine...

How to telnet to E680i?

In order to telnet to E680i from PC, E680i must be connected with PC through USB cable.

We need Belcarra driver which enables an Embedded Device to communicate with Windows system using TCP/IP. Belcarra driver will make our PC understands our E680i as a linux machine with a specific IP address.

Shell script:

In DOS and Windows, a batch file is a text file with a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter (see command line interface). When the batch file is run, the shell program (usually command.com or cmd.exe) reads the file and executes its commands. A batch file is analogous to a shell script in Unix-like operating systems.

DOS batch files have the filename extension .BAT or .CMD
Unix and Linux shell script files have the filename extension .sh or no extension.

In our E680i, somebody has choosen the shell script's filename extension is .lin

If you put a shell script .lin in memory card and use file management to open it, will it be executed? No, it will not. Because shell script is very powerful (we almost can do everything with a shell script) so motorola prevents us from using file management to run it directly.

How to run a shell script in E680i?

We need a small shell script installed as an application in the phone. This shell script is call lin loader. Lin loader will read and execute our shell script files.

After install Lin loader, if you put a shell script .lin in memory card and use file management to open the .lin with lin loader, our shell script .lin will be executed.

to be continue if I have time...




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[butcher]

wow very nice guide ndpndnt16 and chiennk for ur hard work. But..Any 1 can translate this in French for me? lol my english not that good.LOL thx in advance if any 1 have time.Cuz i tried Web Translator and its sucks.

[akhaliq]

chiennk, a well done effort.
i hope our users can get something out of this thread. what else can be a super noob guide?

i mean, if users look at your and ndpndnt16's post, can they still say that ppl on this forum dont know how to guide... or this forum needs better guides...

sigh...

[ndpndnt16]

yeah akhaliq@
i posted a super noob guide and still there's a questions
just try to look at my guide....
thats a super duper noob compositions ive'd made.but still they dont understand

to those who posted earlier@
sorry if i deleted your post,because i need to move chiennk's post to help you guys...anyways this is a guide

[qrsy2k]

greate guide... but after i have installed the .pkg files, how can we uninstall it?

[kicomco]

when I run pkg with MPKG , nothing happened, i can't find any file jar ? So, have i do?

[aldo]

same problem as above...any suggestions..???

[eboy44]

tap and hold "mpkg.lin" and click "open with" find the new icon smily and click "always open this program to open this filetype",wait for a few seconds after you hear a voice,go to phone memory browser.find the new chinese file.its a jar file install it,and you will have the mpkg installer

i cant find the smiley face icon??? any help?

[azn_damien]

eboy44, you need linloader. another linloader icon is a green arrow pointing down. if you have that, use that instead of the smiley icon. either way you need linloader first.