[Bitpim-devel] Re: Sanyo Sprint phones -- Sanyo SCP-8100 info

[Loren P. <mic...@us...>]

Hi,

Thanks to Roger's excellent help, I can report success in accessing the 
internal filesystem of the Sanyo SCP-8100.
My main goal in doing this is to be able to use BitPim to access/backup 
my phonebook info, and I've found the file that contains that 
information, so that's a start.

Details:
-Phone is attached by generic USB cable for this phone (purchased on 
ebay from eforcity.com)
-I installed the free software provided by Sprint 
(http://sprint.com/pcsbusiness/gettechnical/applications/pcs_connection.html) 

-At this point, the phone appears as a modem in the Control 
Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager
-Right click/properties on "Sanyo USB Phone".  Select "Modem" tab in 
dialog, and note port (in my case, COM3)
-Now launch BitPim. Go Edit/Settings and enter the com port in the 
appropriate field, e.g. "COM3"
-From View menu in BitPim, make sure "View Filesystem" is checked
-now, on BitPim's Filesystem tab, you can explore the filesystem of the 
phone.

Filesystem:
-I extracted the whole filesystem using the very useful "Backup Entire 
Tree" option available by right-clicking on the directory tree in the 
filesystem tab.
-I located my contact information in directory /nvm/nvm/nvm_0008
-/nvm/nvm/nvm_0020 also has some contact information, perhaps the call 
history?

I'm interested in working to integrate reading of this info into BitPim. 
I haven't started to look at the code, but wanted to go ahead and post 
this info.

Roger, thanks again for your help.

-loren