Re: Prelim LG-VX5300 patches

Hello,

Thank you all for responding so promptly.  I really didn't mean for this 
to turn into a "please help me find my phone" -post.  Just trying to 
uncover any bugs, before code integration...  *sigh*


Some answers:
I don't have an SD card in this 8300 & I don't think the 5300's are 
equipped to use them.

I encountered the Wallpaper problem on a vx5300 phone, which was 
manually set to use the 8300 code.   I was attempting to "Send Data To 
Phone" to "Add" several wallpaper images to its existing ones.

When I first grabbed the new wallpapers into BitPim from my harddrive, 
the program forced me to resize them.  Could this have been a factor? 
It's not something I'd encountered before.  (I now know how to bypass 
that "feature," btw...)

It's also possible that my troubles were due to user error.  See below.


Below:
I had a chance to exercise the VX8300 code today.  One thing I noticed 
was that sometimes BitPim didn't do what I wanted it to on the first try.

For example, when I first pulled data from the phone, the sizes on about 
half of the existing ringers showed "0 Kb" and I had to "Get Data" a 
second time for them to appear correctly.  (Data cable problem?)

Another example:  when I tried to "Add" several new ringtones onto the 
phone at once, BitPim only uploaded *one* of them, and then indicated 
that it was finished.  Since I was familiar with USB upload times, it 
was obvious that something was off and I had to "Send Data To Phone" a 
second time for all of the new ringers to transfer correctly.

This is where 'user error' may have come into play.  When I checked the 
ringtone pane in BitPim, that single ringer from the first attempt was 
still highlit.  However, I didn't expect the program to restrict the 
Send Data/Add operation to the selected file(s) only.

The reason I bring this up is that my earlier troubles with Wallpapers 
may have been due to similar problems--the program not responding as 
expected.  Guess I need to Re-read The Fine Manual...

And since the 5300's here, happen to belong to family members and 
they're not exactly rushing up to the "brick my phone, please" -queue, I 
don't really have a chance to experimentally recreate that error's 
conditions.

So, I'm going to have to restrict testing to the single 8300.  At least 
there were no database corruption errors, this time.  (Previously, I had 
a VX7000, which transferred everything flawlessly thru BitPim with an 
older vx6000 cable.  I'm using that same cable with these newer phones, 
if that makes a difference?)


Thanks again,

--Logan



Michael C. wrote:
> Logan,
> 
> I cannot speak for the 5300, but I have done some of the development of 
> the VX8300, with a lot of help from a former guru, Simon.  I know that 
> the code is not 100% correct, but I am not familiar with any issues with 
> uploading wallpaper images to the phone; in fact, it works 100% for me.  
> I do know that the code as written right now does not support direct 
> downloading/uploading directly from/to the micro SD card.  Are you 
> saying there is a problem with the VX8300 and images, or using the 
> VX8300 code with a VX5300, there is a problem?
> 
> Due to family issues that I have to deal with, and a whole list of other 
> problems I have had to face these past couple of months, I will be 
> unable to look at finishing the VX8300 code before the beginning of 
> February.  The only outstanding issue with the VX8300 is getting the 
> wallpaper assignment to phone number working correctly.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael C.
> 
> 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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