Re: gnokii breaks nokia 6100

[Johannes Zellner]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:37:22AM +0000, José Fonseca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:05:14 +0100 (CET), Pawel Kot wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Henning Stoll wrote:
> [...]
> >> > Does Nokia 6100 provide any possibility to connect with the cable?
> >> Yes it does, via nokia DKU-5 cable but you have to buy it separatly.
> >
> > Well, there's still the possibility that you could fix this using the
> > cable. But first we need to find out what is the reason.\
> 
> I have the DKU-5 (not Nokia brand) and it works fine with Nokia PC Suite
> under VMware. The reason I bougth it was that my USB IR device was not very
> well supported under Linux and gnokii failed to properly connect to the
> phone (I was a bit annoyed at the time, but it probably was for the
> best, considering the current circunstances).
> 
> Anyway, I still wanteto test gnokii now with the DKU-5 cable on the phone,
> but I'm afraid of the same happening to me and I really can't afford having
> my phone damage now (I'm studying abroad and not only I would have to
> wait until easter vacations to go to have it fixes, but I would loose
> touch with my folks for all that time).
> 
> Do you think this problem is IR-specific (and therefore safe to use it
> with the DKU-5), or do you think is phone related and it could happen
> regardless of the communication method? Has anybody sucessfully used the
> phone with the cable?

I did meanwhile with my 6100 (new firmware 'V 05.16') over the IR
connection:

- read the phonebook with 'model = AT'
- read entire memory with 'gammu', a gnome clone.

both didn't break the phone.

-- 
Johannes