Tuesday 1 February 2005

HOWTO download files from your Nokia 7250i using Linux


This is on my computer with an infrared connection: Debian Sarge on a Portege 7020CT.


Mostly stolen from here.


1) Download the gammu software. (There are packages for most distributions. The deb files worked for me.)


2) Get your infrared connection working:


turn the infrared on the phone on, put it next to your infrared port.


> irattach irda0 -s


You may need to do


> irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s


instead - see here for an explanation of the difference (also read "man irattach").


Now your lowlevel infrared connection is working. Check it with


> cat /proc/net/irda/discovery


look for the name of your phone, and something like Daddr: 0x00001234


and do


> irdaping 0x00001234


to see if you can connect (obviously, using the hex number you found in /proc/net/irda/discovery)


You now need to make the highlevel irda interface work. I had to manually create /dev/ircomm0 as root:


# cd /dev


# mknod ircomm0 c 161 0


Then "modprobe ircomm-tty" (you may need to "modprobe ircomm" manually too, not sure). There is probably a way to automate all this stuff.


3) Create a ~/.gammurc file. Mine looks like


[gammu]


port = /dev/ircomm0


connection = irda



4) Play with gammu:


> gammu --identify


should show you your phone (check it still has infrared on!)


> gammu --getfilesystem


should list your filesystem. But for me, it didn't work: I just got the first (root) folder of my phone, repeated ad infinitum. So a workaround is to do


>gammu --getfile


starting at 1,2,3; each time it should tell you the name of the folder. (It's complaining that you can't download a whole folder.) When you find the folder with your photos in (or whatever) just do


> gammu --getfilefolder X


where X is the relevant number.


5) Donate to the gammu team for being cool and providing you with a free way to do what Windows people charge £25 for.



2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:14 pm

    hi david

    not sure if you remember me but i was searching colchester and ran into this blog of yours by fluke. I ended up dropping out of my PhD but am now living very happily in birmingham and working for citizens advice bureau.

    shaun alleman (does that name ring a bell? studied IDA back in 2003)esotericgnosis@yahoo.co.uk

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  2. Anonymous5:15 pm

    hi david

    not sure if you remember me but i was searching colchester and ran into this blog of yours by fluke. I ended up dropping out of my PhD but am now living very happily in birmingham and working for citizens advice bureau.

    shaun alleman (does that name ring a bell? studied IDA back in 2003)esotericgnosis@yahoo.co.uk

    ReplyDelete