Oct 30

I got a GPE mobile Desktop

LinWizard, Linux, kernel No Comments »

I finally converted the mobile phone in to a desktop!

I borrowed the source code from Linwizard and cross compiled on my openSuse. I borrowed the initrd file also from linwizard.

I copied zImage and Initrd to my SD card and booted using HaRET.

The journey was smooth and in about 30 seconds, the HTC Wizard booted into Linux and the login prompt appeared. I logged in as root. There is no password for this account!!

When I issued the command “startx”, the GPE came alive with a touch screen caliberation screen. On completion, it started the GPE desktop - the GPE-enabled mobile phone is ready for operation, but without any phone functionality :-)

I am looking under the hood to understand the complexities involved.

One thing you can expect - I will log everything.

This is what I did to boot HTC Wizard using Linux

  1. git cloned gnimirror http://mirrors.gni.com/mirrors/linwizard/polaris/linwizard-kernel.git
  2. Created a local branch
  3. make htcwizard_defconfig
  4. Changed the CROSS_COMPILE option to reflect the prefix of the command
  5. Make zImage
  6. Copy the zImage to SD card
  7. Copy the initrd from linwizard site
  8. Booted using Haret

Share/Save/Bookmark

Sep 23

Windows Mobile webserver

Webserver No Comments »
We have been accessing Internet through mobile phones for the past several years. Mobile phones have always been used as a client and used to pull information. Considering many power-packed phones, such as Nokia N-Series or Microsoft Windows mobile phones, it is quite possible that many of these high-end phones, are capable of serving as mobile web servers. Web servers of the early 1990s had configurations comparable to that of the current high-end mobile phones. Nokia has been toying with this idea and had released a web server for Symbian S60.Is it possible to convert a Windows mobile into a web server with minimal effort? Here is the first experimentAn Imate-KJam running the Windows mobile became my target. I do not want to spend too much time in writing a web server. I want to “put together” a few open source pieces to build a web server. And here is what I did.

  1. Downloaded PythinCE onto my mobile
  2. Downloaded a simple webserver code written in python.
  3. Connected my mobile to my wireless hotspot to get an IP address
  4. Wrote a few html files to test the web server
  5. Connected to my mobile from a desktop client
  6. Voila, my mobile became a webserver and started serving basic html pages

Please watch this page for more updates. I have created a cabinet file (.CAB) that includes PythonCE and webserver and some sample html files. I will post the CAB soon.

If you require assistance contact  info@mobileoss.netThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Creative Commons License This articlle on Windows mobile web server by mobileoss.net is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at pythonce.sourceforge.net and by John Berg .

Share/Save/Bookmark

WP Theme & Icons by N.Design Studio
Entries RSS Comments RSS Log in