RomRaider

With so many cell phones running Java, and most now using USB for charging, data transfer with PC's, etc, has anybody thought of working on a tactrix driver for cell phone use and a simplified version of the romraider logger that maybe has a reset function and can show only a few preset functions? Just seems like a natural port that I can't find much info on.

I had this same thought exactly when I was playing with my HTC Verizon phone the other day. It would be a nice tool but as far as realtime gauges or anything of the sort I wouldnt rely on it. The processor in these phones just cant keep up yet. And the screens wouldnt be big enough to show the full value tables in a read-able manor. But im sure one day this will be possible but still not as easy as a laptop.

On a side note the iPhone has a developer working on a realtime gauge cluster/data log app for all OBD-II cars. However it not having a usb port you need to buy some expensive off the wireless LAN OBD-II adapter that I just dont think is a good enough solution. Their website suggest an alternative that they have been working on though. So in hopes they will produce something worth using. Then ill have to buy my wife and I new phones!

Every iPhone comes with a USB cable that you can sync with, I don't understand why they didn't just use that with a USB to OBD-II converter that you could buy or make yourself.

pfff why deal with pesky wires... doesnt OP 2.0 have bluetooth?

Bluetooth would be great for logging, but I wouldn't trust anything wireless for flashing. Unless you could send the whole ROM wirelessly and have the flash happen after it was transmitted.

Also note that USB cables are directional. Most phones know how to work at the "device" end of the cable, but not at the "host" end.

Yes, I considered making a bluetooth wireless phone GUI for datalogging ever since 2003 when I first used a DSMLink which is also open source. DSMLink is for Mitsubishis. The phone is the perfect user interface. Everybody has one already, and the bluetooth wireless adds a major convenience factor which beats using wires which are a pain in the neck.

It's not that I can't make it. I make a living writing software like this.

Let me put it this way: If 400 people would pay you zero dollars to write something, versus someone else paying good $$ to write something else, which projects would you choose to spend your time doing, the one that gets you cash, or the one that doesn't?

I'm getting payment for my time my friend.

400 copies of $29 each is still peanuts for me, especially considering how many hours of my time would be diverted from making money writing software. And I don't think 400 of you will even pay me $29, more like 5 to 10 people. And then another 10 people would be bitching that it's not totally free.

Life is too short. But it would be fun, no doubt. I would use it myself b/c I hate all those wires.

OK That said, let's see what happens after my G1 phone arrives.

I did this something like this with the Microsoft Compact Flash based phones back in 2004. They sucked so bad that I ultimately abandoned my GPS application which I wrote for that thing. The hardware kept losing the battery charge due to a glitch and kept erasing all the user-loaded software and returning to the software that was loaded in flash memory from the OEM.