Re: [Bitpim-devel] Audiovox CDM-8600 (Brew-enabled)

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

> In looking through the Sanyo and LG scripts, they rely on a manufacturer 
> proprietary phonebook protocol and do not work through
> the BREW file system for manipulation of the phonebook data. 

The LG phones also store the information in the Brew filesystem.
 
> At my current level of understanding, I don't see why the CDM-8600's files 
> couldn't be manipulated directly through the BREW file system. Is this a 
> good assumption? 

If there is a sync protocol then it should be used.  This is because that
is how the phone's internal software will have been designed to operate
and bypassing it could have unforseen consequences.  On the LG phone
the internal software is not notified about file system changes and
happily carries on operating with old contents.  (You can see that if
you update the groups file).  You can get around that by rebooting the
phone after writing to it (and hope the internal software doesn't write
stale information on shutdown to any files).

On the LG there are actually quite a number of other files that index
into the phonebook files (for example voicedials and speeddials).  Going
direct to the filesystem and bypassing the sync protocol would screw them
up royally.

Generally the sync protocol is very similar (and sometimes the same) between
different models from the same manufacturer.  If you have software from
someone else that can talk to the phone, do some serial port sniffing and
take it from there.

If you do use someone elses software, please ensure you are properly licensed
and abiding by the license agreement.  I am not the slightest bit interested
in stolen or violated software, nor in using information from them.

Roger