RE: Re: LG PM-325 Development

if you directly manipulated the filesystem for the phonebook you would have
to reboot the phone every time you made a change, there are some commerial
clones of bitpim that do this, with this method you do not have to reboot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jerad
> Clark
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:33 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [BitPim-devel] Re: LG PM-325 Development
>
>
> Any reason in particular the phone book is handled in that manner?
>
> On 9/8/05, Simon C <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Good luck,
> >
> > One thing that will help to know is that the phonebook is
> not read directly
> > from the filesystem on the lg phones, it is read via a set
> of command and
> > responses to and from the phone, the structure of the
> responses do not line
> > up with the filesystem. You can see the actual "packets"
> when you look at
> > the protocol log in bitpim.
> >
> > For everything else on the phone, calender, sms, memo and
> call history you
> > do read the filesystem and that is where the hex editor
> comes in very
> > useful.
> > Also follow the developer page settup instructuctions,
> there are several
> > packages that have to be installed carefully for it all to work.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf
> > Of Brent Roettger
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:44 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [BitPim-devel] Re: LG PM-325 Development
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I am willing to help out with this.  I have had the phone
> for about a month
> > and I am in the process of trying to install and figure out
>  cvs, python,
> > etc.  I am a visual studio.net developer during the day,
> but have worked
> > with many different languages over the years.  Any
> suggestions on how to get
> > up an running in the shortest time would be appreciated. :)
> >
> > I have dumped the entire contents of my phone and started
> looking at the
> > files in the pim folder in order to figure out the phonebook stuff.
> > I also have a vx4400 and vx4650 that I can use to compare
> things that are
> > known to be working on those phones.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brent Roettger
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