Nokia S60 3rd Ed. On-Phone Debugging
I have been searching for a while now, how to access the TRK on-device debugging promised for the new 3rd edition phones. It turns out it’s an add-on which has just been released on Nokia Forum.
Previously, on-device (Nokia) debugging was limited to the few privileged people with special Nokia phone builds or reference boards. In comparison, Windows Mobile has had on-device debugging, for all developers, since the first release in 1996!
The Symbian based emulators are very good and most of the time applications run on the actual phones with very few problems. However, for the cases when the program runs on under emulation but not on the device, a debugger is much faster than setting up and analysing textual trace. Also, for some hardware specific applications, for example those involving the camera, being able to debug on the phone becomes very important.
However, there’s one slight gotcha. You need to use at least the Professional edition of Codewarrior 3.1 - and this costs over 1200 Euro.