Introduction

I think I could post just a line about this, but i feel verbose:

run minicom on /dev/tty.debug !

That's the baseband and you DON'T NEED to kill commcenter :)

Details

Possible applications are:

1) manipulating the baseband in parallel with the system.

2) enabling trace and debug to see what the iphone does.

3) redirect /dev/tty.debug on a bluetooth connection (any phone does that).

4) use your own fantasy :)

P.S. Why do I seem to be tho only one curious about anything in the system ? That could really be found by anyone!! Zibri.

Comment by tivol...@gmail.com, Oct 26, 2007

Yeah, the benefit of tty.debug is you can query commands whilst the commcenter is still running, the downside is its very un-responsive sometimes and to get minicom talking again, you have to hold a key like space bar down until you start to see the cursor move. Then you know you are good to type your command in (quickly) before it goes unresponsive again.

For these reason's most people prefer to shutdown commcenter and have exclusive access to the baseband.

I used tty.debug a lot when we were getting the voicemail button to work originally using the AT commands before we found out you could do it via the phone interface with 5005*86 :-)

Comment by thomas.d...@gmail.com, Nov 1, 2007

Is there a way to script the minicom? I mean, I would like to run a batch-job on /dev/tty.debug and get the results back in some other script. This way one could build a small script to check for new (voicemail) SMSs on the SIM card...

Comment by PmgRiPh...@gmail.com, Nov 10, 2007

Zibri: running minicom 2.2 on /dev/tty.debug in 1.1.1 hangs... doesn't even send the initialization string.

Comment by david.m....@gmail.com, Sep 17, 2008

1)what do you mean by 'redirect' on bluetooth connection

2) has anyone been able to communicate directly (in HCI) to the bluecore[4,6] chip?

Comment by josecabe...@gmail.com, Jan 6, 2009

I have an Iphone and a Macbook. I´m trying to use minicom or sendmodem but i realised that i don´t have /dev/tty.debug. How can i get it? Or what am I missing?

Thanks!

Comment by fabien.s...@gmail.com, May 2, 2010

Tried to cat /dev/tty.debug but nothing gets displayed on incoming calls or SMS. Only is displayed the local response to minicom commands.

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