Re: gnokii and Nokie N95 8GB

[Arnold Troeger]

I thought I'd summarize this thread to sort out my own understanding of 
the current status of gnokii, gnapplet, and the N95 8GB.

Gnokii was written to use the FBUS and AT protocols.  The current 
generation of Nokia phones, the N series phones all(?) use Symbion OS 
which has no support for FBUS and limited AT command support.  Gnapplet 
was written to address this change.

The N95 8GB runs Symbion OS 9.2, S60 rel 3.1.  Gnapplet was written for 
Symbion S60, and the current version (0.6.2[45]) was written for S60 rel 
2.x. Current attempts to port gnapplet to S60 rel 3.x have not been 
successful.  Among other things S60 rel 3 requires applications to be 
digitally signed, but this is not the only issue.

The current versions of gnokii and gnapplet work somewhat with S60 
version 3.  However, you must debrand and jailbreak the phone (links are 
here:
Debranding:
http://clear-nokia.blogspot.com/2007/05/nokia-n95-debranding-guide.html

Jailbreaking:
http://www.finestfones.com/2008/03/symbian-92-has-been-hacked.html
http://www.finestfones.com/2008/04/how-to-install-any-applications-using.html
Thank you Andraz!)
I'm not comfortable doing the above to my phone considering that the 
functions I'm interested in (phone book & sms) don't work well on S60 
rel 3 with the current version of gnapplet.

Borbely Zoltan, the original author of gnapplet, is planning to buy an 
S60 3rd edition phone in the near future (soon I hope :-) and this may 
get us to a gnapplet running on S60 rel 3.

How can I help?  I reasonably confident I could help with the testing. 
I've had a look at the GnuPoc website, but I don't see anything about 
S60 Rel 3, and I'm forbidden from the GnuPoc wiki.  I'll keep looking 
for developer information, but any shortcuts will be greatly appreciated :-)

Thank you and very best regards,
Arnold


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Arnold Troeger                          
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