[BitPim-user] LG LX-225 Rave and some interface issues

[Steve G. <sg...@ve...>]

I have recently purchased an LG LX225 phone from STI Mobile. STI provides
cheap (9 cents/day and 9 cents/minute) pre-paid service. The phone came
without a data cable. At a cell phone kiosk in a nearby mall I purchased a
MyBat LGVX6100RPDCB02 data cable. It came with a CD of Win XP drivers.
During installation Windows 7 found the correct driver on the MS driver
site. So I needed a utility to upload and download the phonebook, calendar,
etc. A google search found BitPim. I applaud the developers of this
software. Thank you for making this available. 

 

The software installed easily on Win7 64 bit and was immediately useful. I
have a 160 person phone book. After downloading the phonebook to a CSV file,
I put my phonebook entries into the CSV file and uploaded it to the phone. I
found a few problems. I have been able to work around all of them. Here is
what I found.

 

1)      The LX-225 is detected as an LG PM-225. This is not a problem as far
as I can tell. BitPim works except for some annoyances noted here.

2)      The phone number type field must be all lower case. In the LX-225
the type (Home, Cell, Business, etc. appear with an initial capital letter).
In the CSV file the "numbers_type" field the data must be all lower case or
there is a type not defined error reported during upload.

3)      When the phone reboots after the phone book is uploaded, the phone
detect routine runs too soon. The detect routine runs as soon as the USB
driver detects the phone which is several seconds before the phone has
completed its reboot. Therefore the phone is not detected. The workaround is
to manually detect the phone after it completes its reboot. There should be
a longer delay after the USB driver detects the phone so that the reboot can
finish before the phone detect routine runs.

4)      Groups in the phone book for each entry are not downloaded or
uploaded. BitPim has a field name Categories but this does not map to the
Groups data in the phone. Category 1-5 do not map to Groups. The workaround
is to manually enter Groups in the phone and then download and save the pim
folder from the phone's file system.  The good news is that is relatively
easy to set the Group using the phones UI. Would it be possible to obtain
the data structure for the PM-225 and the transfer protocol? I might want to
try to fix this.

 

Thank you to the developers of BitPim

 

Steve