Re: Prelim LG-VX5300 patches

Logan,
The VX5300 patch worked for me on the most recent developer build (OS X 
version).  I have the option of selecting "VX5300" in the setup page and 
files transfer normally.  Are you using a USB cable or the Bluetooth 
connection?
I have repeatedly tried to contact the author of the patch ("Bart"?) but 
to no avail.  Until I (or you, or some other altruistic hacker) can get 
through to him, we will not have the authority to put the patch in the 
distribution. 

Michael,
Sorry to hear about your family problems.  I have not used the 8300 
profile, but by the patch author's own admission most of the 5300 
profile is a find and replace (s/8300/5300).   To echo Steve's request, 
(and then my own "didn't read the archive" post) it might be very 
helpful to have a user selection option for the VX 5300 that simple 
points to the 8300 profile. 


Best,

Sean

Logan Graves wrote:
> 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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Sean Patrick Burke
Imaging Analysis Specialist
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University


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