Re: Nokia 6300 working functionality

[Pawel Kot]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 14:01, Victor Engmark <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've tested gnokii with a Nokia 6300 extensively using a Bash script
> <http://l0b0.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/howto-copying-vcard-address-books-to-nokia-6300-via-bluetooth-on-ubuntu-linux/>
> (disclaimer: I wrote it), so I'm absolutely sure that deletephonebook
> and writephonebook work, with a few caveats:

Which gnokii version?

> * If two actions (e.g., deletephonebook followed by writephonebook) are
> run shortly after each other, gnokii will sometimes report that the unit
> is busy, and exit. Can this be safely avoided somehow?

Not sure you'd need provide more details on your setup. Bluetooth? USB?

> * writephonebook correctly stores vCard properties TEL (with their
> types), EMAIL, NOTE and FN (stored in the phone's "Last name" field). It
> does *not* store N, NICKNAME, PHOTO, URL, ADR, ORG, BDAY, TZ, GEO, or
> CATEGORIES. Does anyone have tips for updating the code to handle these?
> I'm mostly familiar with shell and Python programming.

Well, it's a matter of putting this into the frame. Shouldn't be hard,
but still some C programming.

> * writephonebook always exits with error code 20 *after* finishing. Can
> anyone explain why?

Any details, again?

> Could someone please update the wiki page
> <http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/Nokia6300Config> or give me write
> access there? My user name is l0b0 (that's zeroes, not Os)

Done.

take care,
-- 
Pawel Kot