Re: Anyone working on Fusic (LG LX550)? Seeking help

Wei Hu wrote:
> The generic brew file system interface worked fine, but access to the
> nvm directory was blocked by the provider.
> I'm wondering if this directory is important?  

That varies by phone model.  Some phones store everything below nvm.

> I understand bitpim
> uses it to read the unique ESN, but are there other significant files
> under that directory? 

There may be the wallpaper and ringtones as well as their index files.

> I tried to make sense out of the file system structures. Some looked
> easy, while others are harder to figure out.

That is because they just keep hacking the code.  Software isn't a
profit centre fro these phones, so they do the minimum amount of
spending necessary to make them functional.  It shows when you see what
is under the hood.

> Then I
> hit an out of boundary access when the module read the phone book. I
> eyeballed the pbook_group.dat file and feel this is a pretty simple
> structure. But it's hard for me to modify the python code since I'm
> totally new to  python. And I expect more problems along the road.

You'll need to understand the analyser as well as packetdescription.txt
in the dev-doc directory.  Note that LG does like to change the size of
almost every phonebook field between releases.

Roger

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