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the Start-up State Aware (SSA) Behaviour</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>This page describes how to configure how ECom behaves during system boot.

It is intended for Symbian Developers optimising or troubleshooting the boot

process for a phone. </p>

<p>The Symbian platform has a Staged Start-up Architecture, driven

by the Application Framework's System Starter component, which provides a

consistent and customisable method of starting components at device boot.

The architecture divides the start-up process into a number of <i>states</i>,

which allows components to perform only those start-up actions which are necessary

to the state. This allows the start-up sequence to be optimised, so that functionality

that is immediately important to the user starts first. Components that use

this architecture to manage their start-up are called Start-up State Aware

(SSA). </p>

<p>By default, ECom is SSA. It loads registration files for plug-ins on read-only

internal drives first, while start-up is in the "Critical" state. Registration

files for plug-ins on other drives (i.e. installed third-party plug-ins) are

loaded later, when start-up moves to the "Non-critical" state. </p>

<p>ECom's SSA behaviour can be disabled, in which case all plug-in registration

files on all drives are loaded when ECom is started. To disable the SSA behaviour,

place a file called <filepath>EComSrvr.ini</filepath> in either of the directories <filepath>C:\private\10009D8F</filepath> or <filepath>Z:\private\10009D8F</filepath>. The file can have any contents or be empty: its existence alone disables

the SSA behaviour. To reenable SSA, remove <filepath>EComSrvr.ini</filepath> from

both directories. </p>

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