Nokia 8310: Supported? xgnokii SMS deletion fails.

[svante eriksson]

Hi all,

First, to the concerned: thanks for an useful piece of software.

I'm successfully using gnokii (CVS update from 2002-08-13) with my
model=8310 over connection=irda (port=/dev/ircomm0) under debian
unstable (2.4.18).  For the IRDA connection I bought a HP IRDA
transciever chip and connected it to my A7V motherboard IRDA header,
and it works fine.

The primary need for me was to backup some SMSs, and this worked fine
from within xgnokii [2].  The only problem I've had was to delete
SMSs.  I don't have any logs available from the attempts, but will
provide it (and any other necessary info) upon request.

I did not find much information on the level of the 8310 support in
the documentation, but some other features seem to work well.  My
question is basically if someone's actually working on making gnokii
work with the 8310.  Should I expect all features in gnokii/xgnokii to
work?  Is the 8310 sufficiently similar to any other (maintained)
model to use that model id instead (while 8310 support is being
developed)?

I have not (yet) been digging through mailing list archives to find
out about other peoples experiences of the gnokii/8310 combo, but
would appreciate any pointers to more information.

Again, thanks for the work, and for providing the software for free.

Kind regards,
Svante

[1]
xgnokii output excerpt when compiled with debugging enabled:
Message sent: 0x08 / 0x0005
00 01 00 11 00                                  |                 
Message received: 0x08 / 0x000a
01 4d 00 12 05 12 00 00 00 00                   |  M              
Message sent: 0x1b / 0x0006
00 01 00 07 01 00                               |                 
Message received: 0x1b / 0x002e
01 2b 00 08 00 01 58 29 00 22 56 20 30 35 2e 30 |  +    X) "V 05.0
36 0a 30 37 2d 30 33 2d 30 32 0a 4e 48 4d 2d 37 | 6 07-03-02 NHM-7
0a 28 63 29 20 4e 4d 50 2e 0a 41 00 00 00       |  (c) NMP. A     

[2] With one small exception that caused erroneous dates in the stored
SMSs, due to xgnokii_sms.c apparently not handling the 4-digit years
in the dates of the SMSs received from the 8310.  This is circumvented
by the patch below.

*** xgnokii_sms.c.~1.43.~       Fri Jul 26 15:59:53 2002
--- xgnokii_sms.c       Tue Aug  6 19:40:21 2002
***************
*** 606,611 ****
--- 606,613 ----
                t.tm_mday = atoi(text);
                t.tm_mon = atoi(text + 3) - 1;
                t.tm_year = atoi(text + 6);
+               if (t.tm_year > 1900)
+                       t.tm_year -= 1900;
                if (t.tm_year < 70)
                        t.tm_year += 100;
***************

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Svante Eriksson