I'm not wholly convinced Phone Manger is the one I'm after or if PC Suite will work happily with Ubuntu. (Actually on looking at PC Suite, it's got more features than I want or need.) My phone is a Sony Ericsson W205. All I want to do is save text messages onto my computer when my phone gets too full. Ta. Bev.
So, I discover that, actually, the usb cable I got for my mobile does work after all which gives me hope. But only temporarily as it does not enable me to transfer texts. Anyone have any ideas? (Sorry if you were wondering why I hadn't RTM first time round. Hope this is a better question.) Bev. On 19 February 2011 18:24, Bev Nicolson <lumos60@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not wholly convinced Phone Manger is the one I'm after or if PC Suite will work happily with Ubuntu. (Actually on looking at PC Suite, it's got more features than I want or need.) My phone is a Sony Ericsson W205. All I want to do is save text messages onto my computer when my phone gets too full. Ta.
Bev.
Hi Bev, I have no experience of connecting computers to mobile phones, so this is perhaps conjectural. But: since apparently you do get a connection using the USB cable, have a look at the output from lsusb -v and perhaps, for experimental/investigatory purposes, set up a dedicated directory and, when in that directory, do: lsusb -t which, according to 'man lsusb': Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree. This may give you enough information to go further with. Also, you should be able to locate where the USB device (mobile) is mounted (look at the ouput from 'mount'). In that case (perhaps with the help of 'lsusb -t') you should be able to find your text messages, and copy them down. Maybe Ubuntu deven puts up an icon on your desktop when the device is mounted? Hoping this helps! Ted. On 20-Feb-11 18:24:46, Bev Nicolson wrote:
So, I discover that, actually, the usb cable I got for my mobile does work after all which gives me hope. But only temporarily as it does not enable me to transfer texts. Anyone have any ideas? (Sorry if you were wondering why I hadn't RTM first time round. Hope this is a better question.)
Bev.
On 19 February 2011 18:24, Bev Nicolson <lumos60@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not wholly convinced Phone Manger is the one I'm after or if PC Suite will work happily with Ubuntu. (Actually on looking at PC Suite, it's got more features than I want or need.) My phone is a Sony Ericsson W205. All I want to do is save text messages onto my computer when my phone gets too full. Ta.
Bev.
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Well I tried that but on the last ( lsusb -t ) it just said there was no such file or directory. It does show an icon when I plug it in, but while all the other folders are there, the ones for texts are not. If I try using Phone Manager it doesn't recognise that it's plugged in. <sigh> Bev.
But: since apparently you do get a connection using the USB cable, have a look at the output from
lsusb -v
and perhaps, for experimental/investigatory purposes, set up a dedicated directory and, when in that directory, do:
lsusb -t
which, according to 'man lsusb':
Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree.
This may give you enough information to go further with.
Is anyone able to let me know whether that means it won't ever play ball or if I need to do something else? (Beginning to wonder personally.) Ta. Bev. On 4 March 2011 16:54, Bev Nicolson <lumos60@gmail.com> wrote:
Well I tried that but on the last ( lsusb -t ) it just said there was no such file or directory. It does show an icon when I plug it in, but while all the other folders are there, the ones for texts are not. If I try using Phone Manager it doesn't recognise that it's plugged in. <sigh>
Bev.
But: since apparently you do get a connection using the USB cable, have a look at the output from
lsusb -v
and perhaps, for experimental/investigatory purposes, set up a dedicated directory and, when in that directory, do:
lsusb -t
which, according to 'man lsusb':
Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree.
This may give you enough information to go further with.
On 06/03/11 20:39, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Is anyone able to let me know whether that means it won't ever play ball or if I need to do something else? (Beginning to wonder personally.) Ta.
I think you will find that the messages are stored in some proprietary format of db rather than being plain text in the file system. Without specific tools to access and work with that format I think you are probably going to struggle, just having FS access to the phone isn't going to be enough. Sony being Sony you just know it isn't going to be straightforward.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 20:39:57 +0000 Bev Nicolson <lumos60@gmail.com> allegedly wrote:
Is anyone able to let me know whether that means it won't ever play ball or if I need to do something else? (Beginning to wonder personally.) Ta.
Bev You could try one of the specialist USB mountable sim card readers rather than just trying to mount your phone. I had some (partial I admit) success using such a device with a sim card a while back. The device I have only works on windows but I managed to get it working under wine. You are welcome to have it if you think it will help. I certainly don't use it any more. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On 06/03/11 22:18, mick wrote:
You could try one of the specialist USB mountable sim card readers rather than just trying to mount your phone. I had some (partial I admit) success using such a device with a sim card a while back. The device I have only works on windows but I managed to get it working under wine. You are welcome to have it if you think it will help. I certainly don't use it any more.
A good portion of modern phones don't store the SMS's on the SIM card
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