Re: Phone Info Dialog

> What do you all think of the idea of a simple Phone Info Dialog 

The original BitPim used to do that (using AT commands) until I 
couldn't get out of diagnostics mode and took it out.

It is actually very difficult to do these days for LG phones 
since when accessed via USB they actually show up as two
different com ports.  (One is the modem/AT stuff and one is
the diagnostics interface)

If you thought it was tough getting people to pick one port
accurately, two is even more fun :-)

But don't let that stop you :-)

What I really want to do is beef up BitPim detecting phones and
storing settings.

For the phone detection, we should be able to interrogate all
ports and find the phones there.  We should even be able to
interrogate the phones to find the ESN/IMEI and then label
them "Jack's Phone" "Jill's Phone" etc.

In cases where we can't, I'd like the detection to be more
sophisticated.  Imagine a dialog that has fields for
carrier, manufacturer, model, com port etc.  We get the user to 
fill out what they know for sure and try to work out the
rest.  I'd even like to get images from phonescoop in there
to help out.

So put all of the above into what you are thinking about and
maybe make some mock screenshots of new user interface for
it.

I really would love not having to tell BitPim what phone I
have or where it is plugged in, and have it automatically
adapt if I unplug one and plug in another.

As a safety feature I would also like the various phone
modules to verify (eg in getfundamentals) that the phone
is actually the correct model.

Roger


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