Re: Battery levels on Nokia 3310

[BORBELY Zoltan]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:11:58PM -0000, address@hidden wrote:
> I have been setting up a nokia 3310 under Fedora Core 2 using Gnokki 
> version 0.6.4. Most things seem to be working fine. I can talk to the 
> phone, send and receive sms messages, check the phone book etc 
> etc. There are two things now that I need to achieve. the first is 
> checking the phone status, a lot of which can be done using gnokii --
> monitor, however for the 3310 that isn't telling me the battery status. 
> reading previous messages it suggested this was the way to achieve it 
> for other phone models. Is it something which doesn't work on the 
> 3310 or am I missing something obvious here?

Maybe your phone doesn't support the message which ask the current
status (it definitly works on a 6110 which is using the same driver).
Please send us the debug output.

> The other thing I'ld like is to set up a daemon style process to accept 
> sms messages (along the lines of gnokii --smsreader) but without 
> locking up the port so that I can still send sms messages. One thought 
> on this is that I can cron a shell script including gnokii --getsms. If 
> anyone has done stuff like this already I would appreciate any 
> examples or ideas.

gnokii --smsreader is broken, but you can use smsd. It will read
incoming messages and you can send messages easily. Look into the
smsd/README in the gnokii tarball.

Bye,
Bozo