Hi friends

I have a Nokia 6600 phone which was making hell a lot of
troubles. So i flashed the phone and now the situation is much worse.
None of my applications are working and the service guy says that my
phone's life has ended. So I'm planning to ressurrect it by installing
embedded linux in it. Is it possible to install linux in the phone.
Throw me some light on this aspect.

This is Nokia 6600 specs:

* Runs Series 60 v2 (based on Symbian 7.0s)
* Runs Java (J2ME with CLDC v1 and MIDP v2)
* Supports IR and Bluetooth
* Does GSM (triband), HSCSD and GPRS
* 176 x 208 65536 colour screen
* Runs on an ARM processor (104 MHz ARM9 cpu, probably a ARM920T),
on the ARM Integrator platform
* Internally mounted MMC Card (full size, normal 3v)
* Sound card which does mono, 8 bit, 16kHz sound

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J Suresh Kumar
Google Hacks

Why so you will have even more trouble?
I am half joking here as I have no experience or info on this.
But as far as I can tell embedded linux on mobiles has not become mature
yet. I could be wrong here though.

if you are up to the task go ahead.
But bear in mind that the project cannot be taken lightly.
Do you have any websites that give more info on how to do this?
Remember one thing. With the advent of Internet these days if something
is popular and doable it is very likely someone has posted something
about it.

Thanks
N N raja

Alright, so I had plans to resurrect my ngage qd with similar specs as
well but the problem is, hacking tux on to a hardware with zero docs
regarding the same is quite difficult.

For example, things like flashing bootloader in the correct place.
AFAIK, the memory blocks where bootloaders and stuff are flashed are
magic "numbers" known only to the manufacturers. Correct me if I am
wrong with this.

And some other problems might crop up as well, The most obvious of these
is of course device drivers to talk to the kernel.
Sure, you can talk to the gsm modem of your phone through plain serial
(if at all you want to speak in "AT"), assuming you are able to boot to
some initlevel first. Ah, and who can forget the display driver of the
mobile.
So, IMO without the comprehensive hardware docs, its very "unpossible" .
But yes, if you are feeling geeky,
gumstix - dream, design, deliver

And OpenEmbedded (OE) Project to know more about the fat penguin on your
mobile devices,
OpenEmbedded | Metadata for building Distributions - preferably Embedded target platforms

And the first freed phone (neo1973) running Openmoko, which derives from OE
Openmoko.org Portal Site

Thanks
Satheesh

Oh great.. Thank you Satheesh for your help.. Seems like a very
tough job.. Yet i'll check out the websites and get back to you,
By the way were you able to finally install linux in your nGage

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Google Hacks