Question: I have an Oracle RMAN backup that was created on a Solaris SPARC box and is therefore in big-endian format. I wish to restore this backup to a Windows x86-64 based machine but have hit a roadblock due to the endianness issue.

I have read on Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_in_files_and_byte_swap> that it's not possible to do a generic conversion of the endianness of a file as the legnth of the variables stored in the binary file are not known, which I can understand.

I have discovered that RMAN will convert the endianness of datafiles or tablespaces using the CONVERT command, however to get this far I have to have the datafiles in place which means restoring from the control file has to have already taken place (which is in big-endian so can't even do that). The following seems to suggest that it's not possible <http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2008/08/rman-06172-no-autobackup-found.html> and that I must have the control file in the correct endian to begin with.

I know that I can import the above RMAN backup onto a Solaris SPARC machine then do an exp/imp process but I'm really interested in getting a one-machine restore process in place.

Can anyone suggest a route to achieve what I'm looking for? - which is; a big-endian RMAN backup from a Solaris SPARC system restored to a little-endian Win32 x86-64 platform?

Answer: 
Although this question was left unanswered for a while, I kinda found a way back then, just forgot to post. 
however I got the original MMS app and crippled the binary classes and added corresponding requirements to finish since most of them were private to the build system. 
The ONLY way do make an mms sender in android (that I know of) is to build the app with the source tree. In that manner you will have access to the restricted MMS functions and it is generally very easy since there is a MMSManager in the source it's self, although this is not public in the sdk. 
I know my answer is a bit vague, but for those of you going down this path.. prepare for some bumps on the road.. :)
```
 private void sendSMS(String phoneNumber, String message)
    {        
        PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
            new Intent(this, SMS.class), 0);                
        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
        sms.sendTextMessage(phoneNumber, null, message, pi, null);        
    }    
}

```

try this