Re: nokia 6230i missing functionality

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Pete,

2005/10/16, Peter Robinson <address@hidden>:
> > > The Nokia 6230i has "notes". gnokii does not appear have an option to
> > > retrieve this information.
> >
> > Is it something else then todo?
>
> Yea, its basically a text string similar to that of memos (from
> memory) in the Palm PDAs, but its different to todo (and I find very
> useful).. I use them to take down random web addresses etc of
> newspapers and random stuff that I read in random locations.

It shouldn't be hard just need to find out new frames to do it...

> > Thanks for spotting. Yeah, sysdate feature would be nice and fairly
> > easy to implement. Anyone to submit a patch? ;-)
>
> Agreed :-)

Agreed to submit a patch? ;-)

> > > Another small problem: why does "gnokii --getphonebook SM 1 end --raw"
> > > have to write out "Empty memory location. Skipping." so many times? I
> > > know that there are empty locations and I don't care.
> > > "--getcalendarnote" also writes out "The calendar note can not be read:
> > > The given location is empty." which isn't very interesting.
> >
> > Yes. But IMHO it is important to have this in the output. If you don't
> > want to see any warnings use:
> > $ gnokii --whatever [options] 2>/dev/null
>
> Would it be possible to disable this output unless your specify a
> debug or verbose mode?

It would. Again: anyone to submit a patch? ;-)

> > > xgnokii allows the "caller_group_number" of each phone book entry to be
> > > stored in the phone.  Does anyone know how to access this information
> > > using a Nokia 6230i?
> >
> > This is a caller group -- you can assing to an entry group Family, Friends, 
> > etc.
>
> The 6230i also allows an arbitary number of groups as well. I'm sure
> there must be a limit but I haven't seen it. It also allows you to add
> each contact to more than one group.

Mhm. That will require more rework of the code.

take care,
pkot
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Pawel Kot
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