TRK on E90 shows error -21 "Failed to open debug trace port."

Hi,

I have an E90 and want to use on-device debugging with Carbide.c++ on it, but I am unable to establish a connection.

The phone's version number as shown when typing *#0000# into the phone is:

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V 07.40.1.2
03-10-2007
RA-6
Nokia E90 (206.03)
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I installed s60_3_1_app_trk_3_1_2.sisx on the phone. I have TRK started and switched to USB connection in the TRK settings. But when I try to connect it always shows me the following message (I tried restarting the phone and restarting the TRK, with and without USB cable connected, no change):

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Welcome to TRK for Symbian OS

Status: Not connected

Failed to open debug trace port.
Error Code: -21
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I am running Windows XP and ADT 1.4 with all updates installed as a VMware guest system on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.2. I can access the E90's memory card via USB from the XP guest system, so basically the connection to the phone is working.

I looked through the forum and googled for the error but did find nothing of help. Maybe you've got an answer or can point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,
Robert.

Are you connected to the Nokia PC Suite? No Nokia PC Suite, no cookie - mass storage mode doesnt do it.

thank you! that helped. Just in case someone else gets stuck on a similar problem, this is roughly what i have done:

I installed PC Suite on my Windows XP System.

Then I had to switch to "PC Suite" mode on the phone, by going to the Menu -> Connectivity -> USB -> USB Mode

After testing the connection with PC Suite, I deleted the TRK I had already installed on the phone and reinstalled it through Carbide / PC Suite.

Then I launched the TRK on the phone, selected USB as connection and got the message (on the phone's display):

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Status: Connected
Connection: USB
Port: 1
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After that I went back to Carbide, selected "Debug" which brought up the "New Connection" dialog, clicked on the "initiate service testing" button and got the "Installed TRK is latest available version..." message in the dialog's window.

That step was pretty much like explained on [url]http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Debugging_on_the_Device[/url]

But I didn't get a "TRK SIS Selection dialog" (which is described as next step on the aforementioned page)

Instead I had to select from Carbide's menu: Project -> Properties -> Carbide.c++ -> Build Configurations -> SIS Builder -> Add

Then I selected the appropriate PKG file and closed the Properties-Dialog.

Next I went to the menu: Run -> Debug Configurations... -> Symbian OS Application TRK -> MyProject Phone Debug (GCCE) -> there in the "Installation" tab I selected the SISX file that is generated by the PKG file (if you have never run a Build there will probably not be a SISX file and you'll have to enter the name manually).

Additionally I checked the box "Install each launch even if installer file has not changed".

Now it works! :-)

Thanks again to tamhanna for the help!

Bye,
Robert.

Hi,
a pleasure!

If it ever stops working, do another detect cycle in the connection window!