Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote:
> Johann Spies wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:50:16PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote:
> >>I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to
> >>my computer my mobile phone
> >>(http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gsm/sgh_z170.asp) via USB. The
> >>mobile phone is correctly detected :
> >>
> >>Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04e8:6601 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Z100
> >>Mobile Phone
> >>
> >>Which software to use for managing my pictures, videos of my mobile
> >>phone ? There aren't a lot of information on Google about !
After years of having given up on accessing anything in my phone,
I recently tried again. Bitpim has evolved a lot lately and even
the version in Etch is almost there. It still doesn't work with
my phone so I'm trying the versions at http://www.bitpim.org but
I'm having trouble with them too. The debs have dependency issues and
I can't yet build a deb from the svn source code. I'm still at it.
> >I have Samsung Z540 and never had any success with managing the
> >information on it using Debian. I could use it as a modem using a
> >USB-cable and one of the programs I tried (maybe Gammu but I cannot
> >remember) could copy some stuff from the phonebook but nothing else.
> >
> >I will probably not buy a Samsung again because of this.
> >
> >Regards
> >Johann
> >
>
> Ok. After searching and after many trying, I can't connect my phone via
> USB to the computer.
There are variuos issues here. If "dialup" is disabled in your phone,
your computer won't see it as a modem. In my phone I had to enter the
code "##DIALUP" to enable it. That part works for me but my carrier
has disabled so many features that to this day I can't use the phone
for anything except to talk and as a modem. Bluetooth to connect to
the computer has been disabled, web access has been crippled so that
it only works with Verizon's portal (and that means $$$ every time
you use it), email only works with their email gateway (more $$$), etc
etc... I haven't even been able to get my pictures out of the phoen (it
has a camera) because I refuse to be held for ransom so I don't send
them by email to myself. So what your carrier does is as important
as the capabilities of the phone.
>
> Too bad. :-(
>
> Thank you for your help, I hope that this problem will be fixed soon. ;-)
Have you checked the list of compatible phones at bitpim.org? There
might be something you can do.
A.
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