[Bitpim-devel] Re: Phone book conversion questions

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

> 1. The Sanyo SCP-4900 can hold 7 phone numbers per name, up to one of
> each of the following types "Home, Work, Mobile, Pager, Data, Fax, No
> Label".  In putting the data into Bitpim structures, should these types
> be normalized to a bitpim standard?  I am guessing these would be "home,
> office, cell, pager, data, fax, none".

They are documented in 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bitpim/bitpim/phonebook.py?view=markup

One change I think I am going to make is removing the number suffix.
This is because the list is ordered anyway, and so the second 'home'
is already implicitly 'home2'.

> 2. For the LGVX4400, phonize is called before writing a number to the
> phone to remove all characters except digits, P, T, * and #.  For the
> 4900, the allowed characters are digits, dash, H, T, * and #.  H is a
> hard pause and T a two second pause.  Is H the same meaning as P?
> Should I convert H's to P's when going to bitpim structures, and P back
> to H when writing to the phone?

The 4400 will truncate the number written to it at the first non-acceptable
character.  The UI on the phone then tries to put dashes back in when
displaying numbers (that was one of the fixes in the original firmware
releases).  BitPim doesn't place any meaning on the numbers and other
characters in there.

It will be somewhat relevant when "importing" entries since it will have
to decide if two numbers each from a different source are the same.  I
will do that by just stripping out all non-digits while doing the
comparison.

> 3. When writing a bitpim phonebook to a phone, it seems that two
> conversion steps are done to put the data into a format suitable for the
> specific phone.  First the convertphonebooktophone method of the Profile
> class is done, and then makeentry is done to put the data into the
> structure defined in the protocol definition file.  Can you explain why
> these two steps are done, and which conversions belong in each place.
> (for example, why is phonize done in makeentry and not
> converphonebooktophone?) 

All of the communication with the phone is done in a background thread.
You can't do any GUI operations from that thread.  The purpose of the
first pass (convertphonebooktophone) is to do any preparations it
wants and then have the ability to do some gui operations.

On the 4400, it re-reads the wallpaper and ringtone index files.
It could also check there is enough space for all the entries
or similar things.

The second stage (savephonebook not makeentry) then actually
commits the data.

Roger