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Re: Copying calendar and address book to/from flip phone



On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
>
> I have a TCL Flip 2 phone (model 4058G).  I've just switched to this
> phone, having gone through a few phones to find one I like.  And, of
> course, my calendar and address book are lost each time.  I've been able
> to hook up a USB cable to the phones and access pictures and music
> files, but apparently the calendar and address book are hidden someplace
> secret.  On the older phones, I was able to configure the USB port as
> mass storage and just copy files back and forth, but I don't see that
> option on this phone.  However, I found the gmtp utilitiy, which is able
> to look through the phone and copy picture and music files using MTP.
> However, I see no filesystem entries for the calendar and address book.
> Is there a way to access these files, or are they customarily hidden in
> a restricted area?
>
> I'm running Debian Bookworm (12.11) on an Intel Core i5-4690.
>
> I tried plugging my phone into my wife's Macbook, but got nowhere there
> either.

Try on the XDA Developers forums, <https://xdaforums.com/>.


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