[BitPim-devel] LG-LX260 on Virgin Mobile Canada

[Derek J. <de...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to read SMS messages from the phone over the USB cable on
an LG Rumour on Virgin Mobile Canada. I had hoped to use the AT codes
to do so, and when I spoke to the Virgin Mobile customer support folks
before buying the phone they assured me that they weren't doing
anything to block this. I think they are wrong. I installed the bitpim
sources and forced it into the Sprint LG-LX260 profile that had been
previously created to import/export phonebook entries.

When trying to pull the phonebook off the phone (or anything else
except the filesystem, actually) I get the message "Access to the
file/directory has been blocked on this phone by the phone provider"

I guess my questions are as follows:

1) is this actually the case, or is there something else that could
lead to this error message since I'm using a profile that doesn't
quite match.
2) in a terminal program I also receive an error to the command
"AT+CSMS?" which should list the supported SMS services. Is this
correct and more confirmatory evidence that I'm just hosed and
customer support lied to me?
3) so I think I'm down to using the filesystem interface to read the
.dat files in the sms directory and extract the message text from
there. I don't see any way to get the date and time out of those .dat
files, though. Any thoughts?

It sure would have been easier to use the modem commands to do this
than to go fishing through files... I'm not terribly happy with Virgin
at the moment.

Thanks!

--Derek