HTC Shift Embedded Controller Toolkit
I am proud to release hsect , the HTC Shift Embedded Controller Toolkit :D

Features:

  • Turn on and off WLAN
  • Turn on and off Bluetooth
  • Enter and exit CE (ARM) Bootloader mode (SPL)
  • Enter Radio Bootloader / OEMSBL*
  • Reboot Windows CE
  • Switch To CE / SnapVUE
  • Change the LEDs*

* features only available via command line

This means you don’t need to boot Vista anymore to enable Wifi or Bluetooth after removing the battery, now you can do it on Linux or WinXP :)

Download binary package

Ubuntu / debian package: hsect_2.1-1_i386.deb
Windows cygwin executable (no GTK support): hsect-2.1win32.zip

Download source

hsect-2.1.tar.gz
hsect-2.0.tar.gz
hsect-1.0.tar.gz

Many thanks to Esteve Espuña who helped me with Syser, the Vista kernel debugger we used to understand how the EC Controller driver (ecdrv.sys) works, and to cmonex who told me the DeviceIoControl she uses in her windows program to enter and leave bootloader mode and reboot CE, which translate directly to the EC commands used in this tool.