Tinkering with the qcrilhook functions available on modern Qualcomm-based Android phones. These are implemented through Java libraries in /system/framework, that communicate with a Intent endpoint living in the com.android.phone process, which sends a RIL_REQUEST_OEM_HOOK_RAW to the native RIL code.
So far, I've implemented a wrapper around a few methods in the closed-source and undocumented Java libraries. Unfortunately there is not much exciting that really works (yet?) I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, need to enable a debug flag somehow, need engineering-mode binaries, etc.
TODO Do some more testing with qcril_log_adb_on = 1 in the RIL .so (it's a 1-byte debug flag exported in libril-qc-qmi-1.so's symbol table, which causes extra output to the logcat log)
You'll need some variant of the following, depending on your exact usage:
<uses-library android:name="com.qualcomm.qcrilhook" android:required="true" />
<uses-library android:name="com.qualcomm.qcnvitems" android:required="true" />
<uses-library android:name="semcrilextension" android:required="true" />These refer to libraries that are installed in /system/framework, so the compiled app requires a ROM that includes them (such as many shipped ROMs for Qualcomm devices -- AOSP etc. probably won't have these libraries.)
- Query "auto answer" configuration from NV memory ("generic failure" from RIL on my device)
- Query arbitrary NV items ("generic failure")
- Enable a "field test" mode. Works, but the format of the response packets is currently unknown. They can be seen in the radio log (adb logcat -b radio). I believe there's an Intent you can listen for to receive the packets into the app, but I haven't implemented it since I can't do much with the responses.
- Get available "configurations" (?) ("not supported" or something similar on my device)
- Cipher indicator ("generic failure")
- Get active bands - generic byte array, unknown meaning, but could probably be reversed from the service menu app (dial
*#*#7378423#*#*on Sony Xperia Z1 Compact) - Get speech codecs - same as above
- Sony-specific field test mode - similar situation as the generic Qualcomm field test. I see an intent "semc.intent.action.ACTION_UNSOL_SEMC_FIELD_TEST_MODE" with extra "payload" (byte[]), but have not implemented reception.
- Sony-specific NV reading - doesn't work on my device
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