Re: Re: New A700 firmware (XL08) enables access under bitpim

>> 1. Get a source mode environment going to run tests (start at
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitpim).  Fresh coding will be another
>> matter but I'm fairly good at debug work.  I'll look at the SPH-A620
>> profile to get started (my wife has this phone anyway).  Is the A620
>> profile pretty robust already, or should I avoid letting her edit her
>> phonebook/photos/ringers with it (for her, a working phone is priority #1,
>> 2, and 3 ... I'm in enough trouble when I mess with the TiVo :D )?
>I would get the source code running in the background and focus on the
>protocol first.   But the MM-A700 will be based on the A620 code,
>unless the phones are wildly different.
>
>The A620 code is fine for reading the phonebook and wallpaper.  I do
>not recommend writing to the A620 phonebook with any existing BitPim
>version, (see my post earlier today on crappy firmware for why).
>Phonebook writing will either be fixed or disabled for the next BitPim
>release.

I saw the note regarding firmware.  Point taken.  Good for getting
pictures though since no vision!  Much of the 620 profile seems to work,
but obviously with some errors.  Wall papers (pictures) try to download
from the phone, but error pop up (the A700 doesn't name with an extension,
i.e., no '.jpg' on the names).  It downloads them, but then doesn't know
what to do with them.  It doesn't grab the videos, but those come down in
filesystem view.  Phonebook errors right away (I'll dig into the reasons,
just my first pass).

>> 2. Find a reasonable way to test the modem/filesystem mode switching.  I
>> don't have vision (don't use the browsing enough to justify the monthly
>> charges), so I can't test modem mode cheaply.  Any pointers here to
>> another test method?  I don't have snapsync and I don't see a trial
>> version of the website.  Datapilot doesn't seem to have support for the
>> A700.
>Just click the right mouse button on a filename in the filesystem view
>and select go to modem mode.  Then immediately quit BitPim and try
>talking to your phone with a terminal program.  If you can send AT
>commands (e.g. AT&V) and get responses, then you are in modem mode.

Got it.  First report is it works like a charm (so far).  I'd been using
file system mode (read-only).  Attempted using wallpaper and calendar mode
(filter issues from above).  Then did the jump out after using the "go to
modem mode" and fired up hyperterminal (I'm on Win2k). Worked like a charm
for all the AT commands I've tried so far including pulling a number of
the AT#PBOKR=nn that I bothered to type.  I get the entries correctly. 
The only one that didn't seem right was AT#PBOKR=? which just returns an
OK (I'll post a summary of these later once I can get through all of the
known responses).  I have gone back and forth from BREW mode (filesystem
mode) and modem mode a couple of times now.

Thanks for the quick help getting me bootstrapped.  I'll give it some time
over the weekend if possible and work on the protocol responses.

Jerry




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