Re: [gentoo-embedded] CellPhone Hacking

[Ned Ludd]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 08:53 -0400, wireless wrote:
> Ned Ludd wrote:
> > So I've had a fun past few weeks.
> >
> > I've had a HTC Wizard (arm926ej-s) phone for a while now that runs
> > Windows Mobile 5. It's a nice little piece of hardware but it's WM5
> > based so... A user joins the #gentoo-embedded channel asking for
> > some help a few weeks ago saying he is trying to get linux running
> > on the Wizard. I kinda laugh to myself. The user comes back a day
> > or two later and is still working on it. We talk for a little while
> > and he suggests I join #linwizard. Everything went downhill from
> > there. Before I knew it I was completely redoing the entire
> > userland and hacking up touchscreen ebuilds, keywording for ~arm
> > left and right and making current gpe overlay ebuilds that
> > cross compile. Anyway it's been going good and we just have a
> > little more hardware to figure out before we can completely replace
> > the WM5 image. I now have 423 pkgs cross compiled for
> > armv5te-softfloat-linux-gnueabi.
>
> Hello Ned,
>
> Do you know which cellular carriers offer service, with this phone,
> here in the US? My current provider is Alltel.

The Wizard is sold by Cingular as the 8125, T-Mobile carries the phone
as the "MDA". Sprint and Verizon carry the phone under another name.
It's also sold rebranded as a Qtek S200. People have reported success
with the Wizard's kernel on the HTC Prophet.

Newer models use a PXA270 chip at ~400Mhz vs the omap850/200Mhz I'm
using.

Note. for cellular service we have only been able to successfully make
calls via issuing AT commands to the modem directly. IE.. We can make
calls but have no sound driver yet..

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