Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110

30 points by anupray · 14 comments

I was using this mobile to reduce my screentime. Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it. Started with installing android, but failed as it has only 48MB RAM. Then reverse-engineered for few days and finally able use AI Agent in this and automated few actions.

Thanks

14 comments

butz

Is there any way to add custom apps to this series of Nokia phones? It's so annoying that 20 years ago mobile phones were running Java apps (J2ME), and now - nothing.

anupray OP

For this NOKIA, the firmwire is written in C, unlike previous versions, where the firmwire was written in JAVA. yes, we can change the firmwire and add custom apps, but as of my current progress, your change will get reset once you have done restart.

RexHuang

Great work! Though the hard part for me is even finding a Nokia 110 :)

anupray OP

Haha

samaltmanfried

Could you share some details about the reverse engineering?

anupray OP

I extracted the firmwire and analyzed how built-in apps are working and how they are using screen, keypad, network and other phone functions.

Then I wrote a small C app, that will show "PDP" in calculator, if I press any key. once that worked, I changed in calculator code and added more and more functionality of a basic app. Then added deepseep api call that will answer the question, but I was not able to capture api response.

The tricky part were handling API call responses, it was not fitting in small memory and the answer was stored somewhere in buffer which is difficult to findout. Once I figured that out, then added a small custom AI agent, that will connect deepseep API to native phone tools.

sshussain270

That's a fun thing you did there!

anupray OP

Thanks

moshetanzer

quite cool! keep up the good work!

anupray OP

Thanks

BenzeneDream

The video demo is epic!

anupray OP

Thanks

sparkling

Where is the "AI" in agent this, exactly?

anupray OP

The question answering and tool calling from normal text, was done by AI Agent only. Basically created a very simple loop to call deepseek API to return JSON and using that JSON, I am invoking native NOKIA functions or answering the questions.