Phone information

Request from some developers moved here from gammu.org

KMobileTools is a userfriendly GUI for accessing your mobile phone, using an own AT based engine and a gammu engine. It offers a nice API itself and will be directly integrated into KDE's PIM stuff.

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Last week wasn't the best for me (when we speak about coding). First - it was horrible hot in Poland, second - I had many tasks, which had to be done first (some repairs, exchanges, making some things, etc.). Happily I have passed everything.

But now it looks, that I have (and will have) things much more stable. I updated gammu.org to MediaWiki 1.7.1, my eyes like much more new screen settings, etc. etc. I decided, that:

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Another report, where are some private and project things...

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Well, this report will be rather personal. I write it here, because it's connected with development too...

• studies: I'm waiting for 2 results, 2 things to write (and pass)
• work: I should (or rather: I have to) go somewhere to practise. I had company, but this is probably not actual. So, I don't have any job place for now. I will have to search again for it.

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• spammers don't like us, we will not like spammers - I will try to avoid making gammu.org good place for spam. Some first results are visible.

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• like Michal notified here Gammu tarball is bigger than 1 MB :-)
• Michal wants to rewrite Wammu - read here about this project future

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I would like to pronounce new MileStone release:

20060521 - 1.06.15
[+] new -smsname for --savesms
[+] partial support for decoding EMS text formatting
[+] 6170/7270 ID                                                      (unknown)
[+] Series 60 1 and 2 devices:
    * added compiled gnapplet 0.6.12 (and source 0.6.2)
    * new connection "bluerfgnapbus"/model "gnap" (stable) and new
      connection "irdagnapbus"/model "gnap" (experimental) for communication
    * implemented:
      * identification
      * getting phone time

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It's time to speak about short and long time roadmap for now:

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Long weekend in Poland, a lot of time... I have finally found time to play with gammu.org and software.

First few words about site:

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• 2 April - Gammu in Debian (hurray !)
• 13 April - Gammu.net lost. There is registered Gammu.org instead
• 18 April - Gammu 1.06.00 released. I have done many small steps inside:
  

  20060418 - 1.06.00
  [!] No more gammu.net. There is gammu.org instead. We release
      this version as 1.06.00, because we want force people to upgrade
      link
  [+] Some new texts in Polish localisation (Tomek Fizyk)
  [*] SMSD DB updated to version 6. There should be "real" UTF8 used now
  

In first Nokia phones with GPRS (like 8310, 6310, 6310i, 6510, 3510 and maybe some other) phone was able to display "G" char instead of char displayed below network level. It was clear, that phone is in continuous GPRS session and downloading some data won't be connected with starting new session (in many networks connected with new money for operator). If phone end GPRS session after leaving WAP browser or data connection (no "G" char), it had disabled continuous GPRS sessions (it was done for example after upgrading firmware in service). Simple "gammu --nokiasetphomenus" "repaired" it.

The best is always the most simple device. So, I think that using Nokia 3310 or 3410 can be very good choice. They have removed some SMS bugs (for example, 3330 has buggy firmware - you have to flash it with 3310 firmware to avoid any problems). Especially 3410 is interesting - has got LiIon battery.

More expensive Nokia phones (with own SMS memory) are more complicated and using them is not always good idea (of course, Gammu can do it).

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In March there was gammu.net domain lost and Italy server not bought for next year.

I started to search new place for this www. It's located now on LiveNet.pl provider server. I payed for one month - if there won't be problems with hosting, I will continue it.

The biggest problem was with moving this Wiki. In old place database was using latin1 to UTF8 conversion, in new it doesn't work. I had to convert database to real UTF8:

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After few days in bed I have a lot of power :-D :

1. I started making real & actual manual for command line options.It will be put in the future instead of gammu.txt into source tarball.

'''Firmware''' is the phone's ''operating system'', the program which allows the phone to work.

A mobile phone is really just a computer which can handle voice communications between two (or more) users, and - just like any other computer - it needs programs to work. This is called the ''firmware''.