bitpim-devel

[Bitpim-devel] Motorola 730

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

I have a new CDMA Motorola 730.  I believe this is a Brew type phone. I'm trying
to access the address/phone book data from Linux. So far I have got the USB
modem working. From that I can send AT+MODE=8 which turns on all of the other
USB devices. This enables the USB modem and a USB audio device.  I believe
interface 5 supports reading/writing the phonebook data.

Can anyone tell me if I'm on the right track? Does anyone have the documentation
for the USB interfaces? How can I convince BitPim to access USB on Linux?

I'm doing this on the 2.6 kernel. The 2.6 kernel USB support needed some patches
to make the Motrola USB devices appear.  Motorola didn't follow the USB spec
exactly and some adjustments were needed. These patches should go into
mainstream 2.6 sooner or later. I can send them to anyone interested.


    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        5
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           0
      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class
      bInterfaceSubClass      1
      bInterfaceProtocol    255
      iInterface              9 Motorola Accessory
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        6
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           0
      bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class
      bInterfaceSubClass      2
      bInterfaceProtocol    255
      iInterface              6 Motorola Test Command
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        8
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass        10
      bInterfaceSubClass      2
      bInterfaceProtocol    255
      iInterface              5 Motorola MCU Data Logger
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x8a  EP 10 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               none
        wMaxPacketSize         64
        bInterval               0


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Re: [Bitpim-devel] Motorola 730

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

I got wxPython installed and ran usbscan.py. It seems to have found what it was
looking for:

usb::003::006::1:
 active: 1  available: 1
 description: USB Device - Vendor Motorola PCS Product #2821 (Interface #01)
 libusb: 1  protocol: Data / Generic  usb-interface#: 1  usb-product#: 10273
 usb-productstring: Motorola T720c   usb-vendor: Motorola PCS
 usb-vendor#: 8888  usb-vendorstring: Motorola Inc.
 


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Re: [Bitpim-devel] Motorola 730

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

>  usb-productstring: Motorola T720c 
>  usb-vendorstring: Motorola Inc.

Incidentally those two values came from the device itself.
I can't imagine why they couldn't be bothered to update the
product string.  

The other strings come from the USB data base bitpim ships with.
Once you are a bit more familiar with the device, it would
be nice to update the strings.

Roger

Re: [Bitpim-devel] Motorola 730

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> I have a new CDMA Motorola 730.  I believe this is a Brew type phone.

It will be if from Verizon.  Motorola have a habit of shipping phones with
the same model number, but significantly different inside (ie some are GSM,
some are CDMA, some are J2ME, some are Brew)

> I'm trying to access the address/phone book data from Linux. 

If you have a CDMA model, the filesystem view should work.  The phonebook
will need new code written.  The good news is (IIRC) all the Motorola
phones use the same sync protocol and it isn't binary like the existing
phones BitPim deals with.  It is more like dealing with Comma Seperated
Values.  I believe it is also the basis for the OBEX protocol which is
used by GSM phones as well as Palms and PocketPCs when doing infra-red
exchanges.

> So far I have got the USB
> modem working. From that I can send AT+MODE=8 which turns on all of the other
> USB devices. This enables the USB modem and a USB audio device.  I believe
> interface 5 supports reading/writing the phonebook data.

I see from your following message that you got it working.  What you posted
in this message won't work as you need two endpoints on an interface (IN and
OUT).

> Can anyone tell me if I'm on the right track? Does anyone have the documentation
> for the USB interfaces? How can I convince BitPim to access USB on Linux?

BitPim automatically accesses USB on Linux.  (In fact you can't prevent it
from doing so :-)  There is some useful documentation starting at
http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/testhelp/hoto-usbintro.htm

Roger

Re: [Bitpim-devel] Motorola 730

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

I don't have it working yet. When I run bitpim I only see the com port choices
in the settings dialog. It doesn't find the USB device.

The other output was from running usbscan.py directly.

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