Modding a Linux Phone with Linux?

[drdreus]

The cruel irony not withstanding, I fear I may be unable to flash my linux phone with my linux box. I have for a bit been lurking in the forums looking for some user to have successfully modded his/her phone without using windows. Unfortunately, I have yet to find said person.

Gratuitous preamble aside, has anyone been able to successfully mod without the use of windows? Currently I am running Ubuntu Feisty and don't have access to another pc. And radiocomm, it appears, only runs on windows. I've even gone so far as to try and Wine it, but with no luck due to dependencies on .NET framework, which do not work at all in Wine.

Are there any other options or am I out of luck until I get a hold of another pc?

[killdog1]

I think I have the solution but i haven't tried it yet.

Make a Bart PE disc! Make sure you put all of the necessary Motorola drivers and USB drivers on the disc and also add Radiocomm on the disc.

[drdreus]

Make a Bart PE disc! Make sure you put all of the necessary Motorola drivers and USB drivers on the disc and also add Radiocomm on the disc.

Interesting. Admittedly I had not heard of such a thing, but with preliminary googling it seems I would be creating a live cd windows environment. I see how that could work... I just have to figure out how.

But at least it gives me a direction.

You said you've not tried it before. Does that apply to modding the phone, or making a cd in general? If you have made a Bart PE disc, how difficult is it?

Thanks for the idea.

EDIT: Yeah, I don't think that will work. According to the Bart PE webpage, you need windows drivers from the install cds as well as a windows os to build the cd. I have neither.

Alas, alack.

[killdog1]

When i saw i haven't tried it yet i mean that i haven't modded the phone using a BartPE live cd.

I have done mods to my phone and have made a BartPE disc.

1)As for install cds all you need are the windows xp home,etc. files not exactly a cd because there is an option to use windows installation files saved on the hard drive. (I have used this method).

2)Finding the windows xp, etc install files online isn't too dificult

I tried to make a cd and didn't have any luck but i'll play with it because i really think this can be pulled off.

[srawat_itpro]

IMHO, you can't add just any program to Bart's PE. The program needs to release its standalone copy (Bart PE specific) for the program to run as it is a highly customized windows environment.

If you guys are able to do that... good luck with it.

Rgds
Sandy

[drdreus]

The program needs to release its standalone copy (Bart PE specific) for the program to run as it is a highly customized windows environment.

In addition to that, I would also need to be using a windows box in order to run the Bart PE program. In essence, I would need windows to make windows. And that's no guarantee that it would actually work as srawat_itpro stated.

[srawat_itpro]

Goes to show what a some $ gates said once...

"...many people hail linux, blast windows...and go back to there PC's and boot windows..." or something like that.

Sadly we ARE still living in a M$ dominated world...if only some popular alternative

[drdreus]

Sadly we ARE still living in a M$ dominated world...if only some popular alternative

I just find it so ironic that I can't mod my linux phone with a linux box... I need to rely on windows for that.

What do the Mac people do??

[swifty]

i dunno if this works on E6, but have a look at flashkit:
http://www.motorolafans.com/index.ph...ng_without_pst

[wyrm]

The cruel irony not withstanding, I fear I may be unable to flash my linux phone with my linux box. I have for a bit been lurking in the forums looking for some user to have successfully modded his/her phone without using windows. Unfortunately, I have yet to find said person.

Gratuitous preamble aside, has anyone been able to successfully mod without the use of windows? Currently I am running Ubuntu Feisty and don't have access to another pc. And radiocomm, it appears, only runs on windows. I've even gone so far as to try and Wine it, but with no luck due to dependencies on .NET framework, which do not work at all in Wine.

Are there any other options or am I out of luck until I get a hold of another pc?

All the people at OpenEZX use a Linux only environment to mod the phones.
We use ezxflash to flash the phones. http://svn.openezx.org/trunk/src/host/ezxflash/

You just found the person (the group) who do not use windows at all to work on EZX.