Re: Prelim LG-VX5300 patches

Has this "5300 Patch" found its way into the latest build?  I now have 
access to a couple of these phones, along with an VX8300.

I updated to the most recent BitPim release (0.9.09), but it couldn't 
detect either one of the VX5300's & this model still didn't show up in 
the Big List o' Phones.


I tried accessing the phones using the 8300 profile with some success: 
the contacts & sounds seem to have transferred fine, but I think this 
model uses a slightly different scheme for its Pix database (which you 
probably already knew...)

The added Pix failed to show up in the phone once it was disconnected 
from the PC, even though BitPim showed them being slowly transferred to 
the phone.  This resulted in database corruption to the existing images, 
during renaming operations (renamed image displayed 'Pix not Found' 
graphics).

Rebooting the phone rebuilt the database index & restored the original 
image names, but the added ones were still absent.  Subsequent renames 
worked correctly.

Thanks,

-Logan


Steve Brown wrote:
> Hi folks --
> 
> I've been tinkering on the trunk with support for the VX5300, based on
> a tutorial at http://fob.po8.org/node/254 .  The phone architecture is
> almost identical to the 8100 / 8300 series, just a few trivial changes
> and I have a nice, clean interface to this phone.  Mainly I have
> removed features that Verizon broke in their software.   The thing is
> a great cheapie bluetooth phone, now I just wish BitPim had a clean
> interface to the OS Bluetooth layer.  Also, it may be worth having the
> 5300 show up in the menu just for new users who plug in their phone:
> "OMG I can't find it on the list MY PHONE IS TEH BRICKED!"
> 
> The vx5300-init.patch should be applied against __init__.py, the other
> two files go in /src/phones/ and then run protogen.  If you are
> familiar with the codebase then I hope you can get this to work
> easily.
> 
> Please let me know if anyone has success with this.  Hope I've helped
> someone.  I will continue work on this if youze'all can send me bugs.


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