[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
Well, I had not considered all of that frankly.. The guy bricked his phone completely and wanted mmblk0p0. I'm, different than the majority of everyone out there, in that I don't use a smart phone as a phone much. Only smart phone that is used as a phone, is a Y538 with freedom pop free plan, and the gps antenna blocked with a piece of plastic. Now that I have two H1711, one of them is going to come apart, while I hunt down the gps antenna (It doesn't work like others with the antenna on the back plate that can be removed. Once I figure out how to kill the gps antenna, then that will become my cell phone. If I knew which I2C or Uart port was used for the gps, and where it lives in this phone, I would simply disable it, and make a task that ran every 100 ms to make sure it was dead.

You have to realize that these are NOT used or considered as phones for me. I will be activating one eventually, but there is nothing private on them, no contacts, no nothing, other than some pictures, which are not geotagged.

Certainly nothing personal, and the one I would activate would not have that mmblk0. Anyrate, it is a moot point as I can't find a place to host the file... I figured the IMEI and mac addresses are held in other Nonvolatile memory, that is certainly the way I would do it as an embedded firmware engineer. I've been working in the embedded firmware world for nearly 30 years now, 14 of it on medical devices, running 8051's. It would be interesting indeed to find those partitions.

Eventually we will be creating a device that uses a tablet as the interface, and we want only our app to run on the tablet, and no connectivity. So I am poking

around android, trying to figure out how to do that. And I think the solution is to delete all the google stuff, hook the boot process to run our app, and password protect access to the settings app, and kill off all of the apps, including auto update, and the google core gms. Indeed, I'd like to know exactly the name of the settings app so I could kill it on one of my devices for testing purposes.

Basically, we want a standard tablet that is so locked own that no one can connect it to the internet, via phone or wifi, because it will hold Protected Health Information....

It is interesting however, that you pointed that out. What that means, is if I could take that image and flash it into another H11711 I would have an absolute clone

of the phone as a backup?

I am still using a flip phone by the way. And I have maybe 15 or 20 android phones laying around. The flip phone is dying, so I will probably port it over to one of the H1711's as AT&T assures me that if I have two phones, the sim card can be moved freely between the two, as long as they are AT&T locked. The thing is, for me, I have never used more than 1 gb data and never burned up 200 min a month. In fact, I put 600 minutes on my flip phone, good for 90 days, and am struggling to get it all used up before it expires, so I can transfer the number to an AT&T phone, and that is only so I have a functional texting phone. Freedom pop text seems to only work over wifi, and it is frustrating the GF. So....

Here is my thing. I want GPS DISABLED IN IT'S ENTIRETY on ANY phone that I use as a real cell phone. I have a freedom pop Y538 that I use for texting, and actually never use up the free time. I'm not a heavy data user over a cell phone. I carry two or 3 android phones most of the time. One is packed to the gills with tools that I use, like frequency counters, function generators, bluetooth analyzers, spectrum analyzers, fractional calculators and a ton of other tools. IT is a portable, electronic tool box with a camera as far as I am concerned.