Brad Midgley wrote: > Steve >> I wonder why this update can't be done in the field. The only cellular >> phones I can think of that had radio code which wasn't field updatable >> were AMPS phones with the firmware in (OT/E)PROMs. Surely the radio >> firmware in the Neo 1973 is stored in some sort of reprogrammable >> non-volatile memory. > > the phone OS is a separate firmware from the gsm module. This is a > module that is supposed to "just work" so that may be why there's no > update path worked out.
The iPhone seems to be structured the same way. I think this is common in phones these days. see bbupdater: http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/694-5259-38.dmg#usr.2Flocal.2Fbin.2Fbbupdater ...and their page on the baseband chipset: http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Baseband Just look at all the trouble these guys are going to in order to free their phone! -Steve _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
