Re: sony-ericsson p910i

[Walter Cazzola]

Dear Daniele,

On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Daniele Forsi wrote:

> > old sony-ericsson p910i

> > It connects to my laptop (where I'm running Fedora 20) through a craddle
> > and a usb cable but the KDE "device notifiers" (I don't know the
> > application name) don't recognize its presence not mount it
> > automatically.

> according to your lsusb the cradle has only a vendor specific
> endpoint, not something handled by generic drivers, did you check in
> phone menus if you need to enable the use of the phone as a modem
> and/or as mass storage?

inside the «control panel» menu under the entry «cable» I've two
options: «PC connect» and «modem». The lsusb's result I sent in the previous
message was realized with the «PC connect» option but now I'ǘe tried the
same with «modem» and diffing the two files I get exactly the same
result.

> > Googling around seems that the tool to connect to a smartphone (also old
> > generation as mine) is gnokii

> old? it's unlikely that you will get anything interesting from your
> phone with gnokii because the Symbian phones supported by libgnokii
> are older than yours and Symbians do not support the commands
> supported by older and newer Nokias; you may have better luck with
> SyncML if supported by the phone

I don't know what SyncML is or how to install it on my PC/phone.

> so your best bet is if you can to a backup on the memory stick and
> read it on your PC

The p910i phone supports stick duo pro that don't fit in my sd reader.

Anyway I was able to get a backup as a .ecs files that at the end is a
zip file but ieven though I can open it the only things I can get from
are photos, music and videos all the rest (SMS and phone numbers) is in
a proprietary format that I don't know how to read on linux (or windows). 
Do you know how to deal with them?

> it's also worth trying to use Bluetooth

unfortunately I don't have a pc with bluetooth capabilities.

> however I think that neither --getphonebook nor --getsms will work
> because they didn't work with phones similar to yours

I see, do you know any alternatives to this?

> P. S. there is/was Python port for Symbian that could be able the read
> some data from the phone but I don't know if it's compatible with your
> phone and how much hassle would be for you to learn it and write a
> program to dump your data

Any url to point out? I would give it a try.

Thank you

Walter

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