Flash kernel image

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Big fat warning: Flashing a new kernel into your phone is irreversible at the moment.

The only known way to flash a new kernel image is from the original motorola system.

You need to get cyphs flashkit and the source for his rwflash kernel module.

The flashkit has a precompiled rwflash module onboard, but unfortunately this one has a bug don't allowing to flash a kernel image. This bug is fixed in the source of rwflash.

In order to get the kernel module compiled you need the motorola 2.4 kernel source and a working crosscompile toolchain. Please read Crosscompile.

Just replace the old module with the new one and follow the flashkit README.

If your phone is unlocked, you can flash your own zImage into /dev/mtd4 . But be aware that the size of you zImage could not be higher then 896kbyte.

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