[guide] English FAQ , install guide

[muromec]

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Use this firmware like any other firmware, reflash / flash with RSD, to / from any other .sbf (at least "full AP", like most of the released fw).

Mini howto for E6, thanks to milanix for this,
(Everything is in the faq, particularly why you need to flash two files on E6)

FLASHING QTOPIA-EZX ON E6:

1. Download RSD lite from http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/a...-4.2-patch.zip
2. Press the camera button and turn on the phone and you'll see red color screen.
3. Download any of latest firmware from Index of /qtopia/firmwares/a1200/
4. Extract the file and you'll get the .sbf firmware
5. Connect you E6, and start flashing it from rsd lite
6. Download flash after qtopia from Index of /qtopia/firmwares/e6/
7. Press the camera button and turn on the phone and you'll see red color screen again and start flashing with "flash after qtopia"
8. Wait for a while and enjoy qtopia.

[nin3]

Thanks, this can be very usefull.

[vikasbn]

Hi Muromec,

Is there a way to test the release using qemu before flashing it on to the
phone? If yes, could you point me to some docs that I could read about
running the OS in qemu ?

Also, all the guides that I found about flashing the phone talk about using
RSD Lite. I use Linux as my primary OS and hardly use windows at all,
is there a way to flash the phone using some tool in Linux?

Aside, thanks for the great work on qtopia for E6. I see from your github
page that you are fixing stuff at awesome speed

-Vikas

[sabrod]

Yes, Muromec sent a link to an emulator in this thread:

http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/q...velopment.html

Also read the "Qtopia SDK" thread if you are interested.

You should be able to flash with genblob, an enhanced bootloader.

You can send genblob with the machid "0" using Gmzhuo's phonetools
a kind of opensource "graphical ramdownloader"

Sources in svn.openezx.org , i attach the tool with a readme.

[muromec]

>Is there a way to test the release using qemu before flashing it on to the
phone?

maby...

>Also, all the guides that I found about flashing the phone talk about using
RSD Lite. I use Linux as my primary OS and hardly use windows at all,
is there a way to flash the phone using some tool in Linux?

you can use boot-usb+gen-blob to flash it first time (kernel,mbtdload,angstrom root and qtopia). i`l write guide later.

after first install you can install updates just from phone using flashcp tool

[muromec]

>Yes, Muromec sent a link to an emulator in this thread:

this is emulator for application developers. it does not emulate any real hardware, it`s just qtopia build for x86 unstead of arm

[vikasbn]

Yes, Muromec sent a link to an emulator in this thread:

http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/q...velopment.html

Also read the "Qtopia SDK" thread if you are interested.

You should be able to flash with genblob, an enhanced bootloader.

You can send genblob with the machid "0" using Gmzhuo's phonetools
a kind of opensource "graphical ramdownloader"

Sources in svn.openezx.org , i attach the tool with a readme.

Thanks Sabrod! Thanks a bunch for pointing to genblob and thanks for attaching the phonetools

-Vikas

[vikasbn]

>>Is there a way to test the release using qemu before flashing it on to the
phone?

>maby...

My mistake here. I'm not sure if qemu supports the phone hardware. But is there an emulator for the phone available somewhere?

>you can use boot-usb+gen-blob to flash it first time (kernel,mbtdload,angstrom root and qtopia). i`l write guide later.
Thanks for the pointer. I'll google for these and see if i can beat you to the guide

BTW, what do you use to develop for the phone? I mean the code that you have hosted on github. is the arm-iwmmxt tarball enough to cross-compile the code for the ezx hardware?

[sabrod]

Please re-download phonetools, or build it from source, the one from yesterday was too much restrictive and didn't allowed to flash under "a0000" hexa addresses, (and qtopia reflash the kernel command line and partition table at the third codegroup "kct.bin" (at 0x60800) ).

But phonetools is still more restictive than boot-usb... and just seeing the http://www.mobilelinuxfans.com/qtopia4-ezx-map , we need to flash at 0x8000 , the "hacked bluetooth" CG...

[muromec]

>My mistake here. I'm not sure if qemu supports the phone hardware. But is there an emulator for the phone available somewhere?

there is _no_ emulator for all phone hw. you can use qemu to emulate cpu, flash, etc but it can`t emulate any sound, gsm and power related functions.

>I mean the code that you have hosted on github. is the arm-iwmmxt tarball enough to cross-compile the code for the ezx hardware?

yes. all needed included in arm-iwmmxt "all" tarball. only problem: it can`t build kernel.