ALDLDroid Android App

[3400tZ]

I've worked on some code tonight, I should have time to test it tomorrow and push a new version to Play later this week hopefully. I tried enabling local echo on my FT232RL chip but it seems like the option to enable is only available on the FT232R or something... Anyway, I should be able to simulate echo on the software side and hopefully it will be a reliable way of testing this.

[3400tZ]

I was thinking about this some more... Right now, what I did is try to figure out if the response has echo or not. I read byte by byte and compare with the command that was sent. Once a character doesn't match, if the length of the command is reached, I suppose there was no echo and the second byte of the response is used for expected response length. Otherwise, if the whole command match the beginning of the response, I strip that out, and same process apply for the rest.

I wonder if I just do an "echo test" at the beginning of a tuning session, send some random bytes like "0xAA 0xAA 0xAA 0xAA 0xAA" and see if I get that back and then set a global variable for the rest of the session about if the interface has echo enabled or not... , just thinking out loud here

And yes, I might be overthinking this a tad but I'm trying really hard not to have an "echo" checkbox setting

[Jayme]

that idea makes sense to me. you only need to test it once per session and just leave your echo variable true for the rest of the session. its a good way of majorly simplifying the actual read code.

[3400tZ]

Yep, I went ahead with that solution which I couldn't test, so lets hope for the best :/

Version 0.81 has been pushed to Play:
- Fixed log viewer regression introduced into 0.80
- Improved NVRAM echo handling

[Jayme]

ok so much success, hi 5!
I can now detect and download a bin from 11P.

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there is a catch.... I cant open the 11P xdf. this is because it is password protected by VL400, which means it is encrypted. presumably only mark mansaur has the key to decrypt password protected files. (otherwise how would tunerpro be able to display the xdf)
I can only see 2 ways around this.

1- approach mark for the decryption key and hope he trusts you enough to give it to you.
2 - ask VL400 to unprotect his XDF.

I would prefer option 1.

a few feature points:
I wouldnt mind automatically selecting a freshly downloaded bin, as selecting the file you downloaded is an easy step to miss and can lead to bad things if you have the wrong bin loaded and start emulating
I would like to see the tunepro 'category' view to be enabled, its like a tree view of folders to better organise xdf items. the 11P xdf is categorised, but is locked so a bad example for you to load in aldldroid.
http://pcmhacking.net/forums/download/file.php?id=5248 this xdf is also categorised and not locked, so you can see how it works.

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[antus]

Great news. This is very rapidly becoming a most excellent tool!

[3400tZ]

Sweet!

As for encrypted files, option 1 is not possible, Mark doesn't answer my emails anymore... Not exactly sure why, I think he hates me but really not sure why. He was really nice and helpful at the beginning of development of this app and then he vanished. I'm not sure option 2 is realistic, we would have to ask VL400 I guess Option 3 could be to come up with a different encryption in ALDLdroid and have VL400 send me my encrypted version of his file... Don't really like that option to be honest. Or we try to figure out the encryption method/key and whatever for TunerPro. There is a lot of people that are good at reverse engineering here it seems so maybe they can help

As for the XDF categorization, it's in the TODO list for some time now. Never got around to do it, it's a significant amount of work as there is no native tree view in Android and last time I looked the existing third party libraries weren't doing what I wanted but we will see once I get to that what I can come up with.

[antus]

Yeah Marks a busy guy. He likes to help but seems to go quiet when hes run out of tunerpro support time (fair enough). If you dont know why its probably not personal.

[VL400]

I am happy to send you the password to the XDF if you want to try and work out the encryption?

The background of why its there is so we could add a message to the XDF...

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This was done because 12P (released a few years before 11P) was being sold by various people as part of cloned hardware bundles. The message in the XDF was to let people know who bought the clones where 11P came from and that it was in fact free.

[VK_3800]

I just updated to the latest version and now emulation is not working with the Autoprom any more...

When I go to the Tuning screen, it shows up "Found hardware Autoprom..." at the bottom of the screen for around a second, then it changes to "No real-time tuning hardware found..." (or whatever the exact message is) and of course then I can't upload the bin from the menu or anything.