Re: Fwd: How to figure out how to add support foranother phone
"Roger Binns" <[email protected]>
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> Is there anything written down about a methodology or procedure to figure > out how to add support for a phone? You make it sound like a defined > process. Standard error codes? Does the log indicate what the communications > problems are? The reverse engineering is a process of trial and error. You try something, see if it works. If it doesn't, guess some reasons why and try fixes for those. Rinse and repeat. There are a large number of things the handset developers do for each and every firmware. If you are a professional developer, it is easier to guess what some of them are. And once you have done a few phones it gets quicker and quicker (aka your guesses get luckier :-) But there is no defined process. Roger