[Bitpim-devel] bitpim with non-supported phones

[DanW]

I have had some success using .62 to access the file system of my Kyocera KX414. I don't really care to even use the other features. I have been attempting to use the .7 betas, but I have gotten different results. Bitpim actually recognizes and communicates with the phone much more consistently and reliably with the new version, however, it doesn't appear that the file system is read correctly. File names are not displayed correctly, and even the number of files in a directory is not correct.

I would just like to know if this is because the code to read a phones directory has actually changed this drastically, or if it's possible there is a bug in the code that performs this function?

Thanks,

Dan

[Roger Binns]

Post by DanW
I would just like to know if this is because the code to read a
phones directory has actually changed this drastically, or if
it's possible there is a bug in the code that performs this function?

The substance of the code is the same. However before 0.7 the packets
were decoded "by hand". That meant that particular byte ranges were
extracted, byte swapped and understood.

In 0.7 the various packets are described at a higher level (and then
code is generated from that). Here is an example:

http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/bitpim/bitpim/p_brew.p?view=markup

Turn on protocol logging, and then when you have some data in the
protocol log, press Ctrl-Alt-P and you will get an analyser (another
benefit of the descriptions). That should give you a better idea of
what is going on.

You will need to manually compare against 0.6 but maybe you will spot
the difference.

Roger