[DEV] Try to make Earphone speaker work with Skype for HTC Devices

[amuneer]

We all know that with Skype only the rear loudspeaker works for calls. The aim of this project is to try to make the internal front speaker work for voice calls.

I am attempting this as a few years ago I had an Eten M600 PDA which had a software which could switch the call from the rear to the front speaker. And it worked very well.

But that software only worked with a few Eten devices. And it worked with an older version of skype, version 2.0.0.51.

The aim of this project is to investigate and, if possible, try to port the switch utlity to HTC Devices.

Skype version 2.0.0.51 can be found here http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Fax-Telephony/Skype-for-Pocket-PC.shtml and the switch utlity has been attached with this post.

I can see already that the xml in the CAB file points to a registry value for Eten devices. But there might be a lot more work to be done, including identifying what the Eten M600 has which is different to HTC models.

I have some programming experience (non windows mobile). I need to know how to extract the code from the 000Skype.001 and 00Switch.000 files to get started.

Any help is most appreciated, and hopefully with the expert help from this forum, we can get a good result.

[stepw]

See
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-220152.html
for a roundup of ARM disassemblers.

Not to discourage you, but htc and e-ten architecture is different, it's very unlikely that you can gain any information useful for htc from e-ten application.

[amuneer]

stepw..many thanks for the advice..Looks very challenging indeed.

The recently released version 2.71 of AgePhone does something similar for HTC devices. That could provide a better starting point. But it is shareware application protected under copyright license. Unless we have permission, we can not proceed.