Re: gnokii-users Digest, Vol 92, Issue 6

[Victor Engmark]

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On 10.07.2010 18:00, address@hidden wrote:
> 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?

$ gnokii --version
GNOKII Version 0.6.28
...
Built 09:21:36 Dec  8 2009

>> * 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?

$ cat .gnokiirc
[global]
model = 6510
port = 00:1C:35:50:73:79
connection = bluetooth

>> * 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?

Here are the last lines of output when running
gnokii --writephonebook --overwrite --memory-type ME --vcard
in the script mentioned:

Write Succeeded: memory type: ME, loc: 336, name: Removed Removed, number:
Write Succeeded: memory type: ME, loc: 337, name: Removed Removed, number:
Write failed (Data format is not valid.): memory type: ME, loc: 338,
name: , number:

[at this point $? is 20]

>> 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,

Thanks, you too.

- -- 
Victor Engmark <http://l0b0.wordpress.com/>
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Philip K. Dick <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick>
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