Debugging the 6680: Forum Nokia's Remote Device Access

There is a longstanding bug in the S60 2nd editon port of GNUGoS60 that affects the 6680. I think it is probably also the same as reported by several people (including Dániel again a couple of days ago) for 6630 since those phones are basically identical in SW terms, the 6680 just having non-hideous mechanical design :)

• [ 1651164 ] can't install/run on nokia 6680

The symptom is that it installs, but doesn't run. I have been wondering how I can begin to solve this, since I don't have access to a 6680 or 6630 to try and debug it on. I remember reading a while ago about Forum Nokia's Remote Device Access program before, but at the time it was only for S60 3rd devices. I checked back today though, and the have a couple of 2nd edition devices now, including the 6680:

I was able to logon to the server, connect the phone and install GNUGoS60v20-0.1.sis to the 6680, all through a java interface. It's pretty neat.

And yes, I was able to reproduce the bug easily, since the program does not start at all despite the successful installation. Well, now I have to go and create a test build with some logging enabled to start to track the problem. Unfortunately I also need to recreate a 2^nd edition SDK build environment, since I had a hard disk fail, and my old one is kaput. I've been only working on 3^rd edition for the last few months while adding the new features.

Anyway, I recommend any developer to use the Forum Nokia RDA service. It seems really useful. It would be nice to have more S60 2nd devices though.