[Bitpim-devel] Summary of AudioVox CDM8900 commands

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

The phonebook commands for this phone are real simple.  The command
is one byte, typically followed by a one or two byte slot/entry
number and relevant data.  Unfortunately they didn't design it
with any thought towards synchronization.

command  description
0x80     write group
0x81     read group
0x82     write phonebookentry
0x83     read phonebookentry
0x84     write slots
0x85     read slots

(See a pattern :-)  The Curitel PC-Sync program also sends
some other commands that don't seem to be useful, but may work
on their phones.  I think it may be to do with the calendar.
The packet begins with the following 3 bytes:

   0x26 0xf7 0x03

The Sanyo also has commands starting with 0x26 so maybe they
are common to all the phones.  This is why I want the hexeditor
completed so I can hook it in to compose arbitrary commands.

The PC-Sync program also reads the SMS messages by reading
the sms_0000, sms_0001 etc files directly off the filesystem.
The same files are on the LG phones and I did figure out
most of their format, but don't know if the contents are the
same between phones.  I suspect it may be because it should
be Qualcomm code running in both cases.

If anyone has access to a program that plays with the
calendar on the CDM8900, then please let me know.

The CDM8900 also has some quirks that annoy the heck out of
me.  

 - It won't let you enter events in the past in the 
   calendar, so you can't use it to record stuff that
   has happened.  There are also no repeats etc.  The
   calendar is very basic.

 - The voice dials don't hook into the phonebook entries. 
   You enter numbers for the seperately.  Consequently if
   you have a voicedial for someone and their number changes,
   in addition to changing their phonebook entry, you also
   have to change the voice dial entry.

 - The phonebook has a total of 7 groups of which one is
   reserved for the 'All' group.  It also only lets you
   rename/edit 3 of the remaing groups.  Why?

Other than that, the UI is largely the same as the LG 
phones.  I would rank the CDM8900 a little lower than
the LG phones because of stupidity like the above and
lack of design to making syncing easier.  But both
companies definitely need to send their user interaction
designers on training courses.

Roger