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jheiner
10-15-2003, 22:35
Simple question, hopefully...

Is there any way to create an SBN/ARM file for use with DIV software?

-Justin
GSMVN
10-15-2003, 22:43
Creat ??? I think there will a way. But I never heard before ...
SFlood
10-15-2003, 23:06
Sure. But if you power enough to create phone's firmware, you'll never need any DIV software to upload it :)
jheiner
10-15-2003, 23:20
I'm referring to reading the firmware off of an existing phone into SBN/ARM files.
KoTsK
10-16-2003, 10:05
yeah, like other phone ... download the flash image from a phone and save it into a file ...
SFlood
10-16-2003, 10:48
Oh.
Yes, SBN is only record-type binary file, like s-rec or hex.
i don't know much about arm (my T300 phone doesn't have it), but i think its pure binary, maybe with start address added.
KoTsK
10-16-2003, 18:08
is there any program to do that?
SFlood
10-16-2003, 19:00
i heard about some converter by cage but didn't saw it and don't know about supported formats.

Such converter is very easy to create by yourself at home :)
jheiner
10-16-2003, 19:31
it is if you know the format of an sbn, which i don't :)
SFlood
10-16-2003, 19:53
try to search the net for S-record format. Its industry standard (presented by Motorola) for binary data framing - like HEX format by Intel.
SBN is completley like s-rec, but only 'S' record identifier and next coming record type are ASCII-symbols, all other data is binary. S-rec have all its data in readable ASCII format, but its eats almost twice the size of sbn and have no another benefits except clear-as-a-text readability.
Thats why ericsson's format called sbn, or s-binary.
KoTsK
10-16-2003, 20:30
thx for your info, SFlood ;)

i'm wondering if there is any program to read & save the flash image directly from SE phone ... e.g. like V_KLay for Siemens phone, for example :rolleyes:
SFlood
10-16-2003, 22:09
i don't know any free or commercically available software for reading flash image.
jheiner
10-16-2003, 23:05
Are there any tools that will convert motorola S-Record to Ericsson S-Record?
jheiner
10-24-2003, 22:40
So, I made a converter to convert regular 1 to 1 firmware .bin files to .sbn format, and made sure that the format matches DIV's format. The phone still won't accept the firmware (it goes through the flashing about twice as fast and doesn't turn on).

It seems the DIV firmware leaves out certain address ranges. Unfortunatly, I don't think it is easily possible to convert a .bin file to a .sbn file that the t68 will accept.