Re: [Bitpim-devel] fyi... wrote 3.5mb .mp3 ringtone to vx4500

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

> I hope this information is usefull.

Not really :-)

> dont know what
> effect it will have on the phones operating system if
> I exceed memory using bitpim. 

I tried it on my phone once.  In the protocol the first 
packet says how big the file is going to be, so the phone
does know in advance if it is going to be too big.  Except
they don't anything about it.

You can quite happily start writing a too large file until
the file system fills up, at which point the phone crashes
and goes into offline mode.  You can reboot it and then
delete the file.

If the phone goes into an infinite reboot cycle (rare, but
can happen with the older models) take it back to Verizon
and they will replace it.

This stuff is even discussed in the Brew developer forums.
There is no way programmatically to find out the amount
of free memory, or to be defensive about its use.  The
only known technique to find out how much is free is to
fill it up.

Roger