[P3600 Software Upgrading] Des:
I know this issue. Similar one exist on breeze bl.

From technical side mostly because of that flashing without any integrity check is dangerous. It works for sspl but just because sspl is used by most users to flash shipped or somebodys cooked (and tested) updates. Potential users of standalone bl (wich claims to be crashproof but if signatures are fu*ked up or absent it is NOT) are seems to be more hackers than consumers wich means that they would flash not just shipped updates. I know about dozen of devices bricked (full of bads) due to incorrect signature size or absence of it. Do you whant more ?

"tomorrow I'm doing it for Trinity" (c) Olipro.

So while it would be released I prefer to release it myself.

Looks like my position need be explained bit clearer.

At first - here I do not hack or code for resulting effect or profit (I have a job for such things). I do this just for my own fun. And yes, for comunity benefit as well (because making community happy is a fun too).

And it is more fun for me to make things more featureful rather then make them fast (While community may benefit more from fast one. In short term.).

Surely you have noticed long pause between my promise to bring SSPL to all platforms where such tool is needed and present days. And that SSPL was not introduced even for platforms I have access to (and where it is actualy working as a proof of concept). And why standalone bootloaders for trinity and hermes was not released while it would not take any time for me at all. What happened ?

Does I have no time to code during last month ? Or have I been bribed by HTC not to do so ? Or maybe I'm going to post "give me 1000$ and you would get SSPL for your device" ?

No.

After some feedback 'bout several bricks and thoughts about new wave of upcoming HTC devices I came to certain decisions about what future version of SSPL would look like. It was designed that there would be no device speciefic versions of SSPL and SSPL itself would not contain any (HTC copyrighted) binary blobs. Instead it would be universal (PXA/OMAP/S3C) loader and universal patcher (which (with some good luck) may be able to produce patced bl for new device in couple of clicks) and set of romimage manipulating tools (to [re]sign and check for software bads) too. I do not mention bootloader patches improvement for more safe flashing and may be software bads recovering. As you can see this is quite complex job wich can not be done in couple of hours. And more - hacking is almost always fun for me, coding - just when I'm not too tired with my main job :)

Many (if not most) parts of this is done: loader successfully works on all three platforms, fuzzy ARM patcher algo is near to completion, image manipulating tools are not a problem at all (but even so they need to be coded and this needs time).

But as for now I lost fun in providing universal solution - most users won't notice any difference and developers... now there is a porter among us so there is no need to worry about new device support any more :)

(non-universal) SSPL for breeze and wizard as well as standalone bootloaders (with slightly renewed patches) would be released in days, for other devices as soon as I'll get access to them for testing purposes. As this is much more sooner than planned release of universal loader+patcher then community benefit (for now).

Let me explain: I have some relations with darker side of the force than hacking htc pda is. Among siths taking somebodys ***ck or ****en and "porting" it to newer(older) version of program called ripping. Siths do respect copyrights in their odd way and pay no respect to rippers. Nothing more :)