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David Grosse | 10 Dec 22:02
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getting bitpim to talk to a palm pre

Hi I just downloaded bitpim and am totally lost when trying to get it to find my palm pre. I've read through the troubleshooting several times and have no idea where to start.

Troubleshooting says i MUST use device drivers on windows. i know what a driver is but have no idea what this is telling me. do i need a particular driver for my phone?

any help is greatly appreciated





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d.vanheeckeren@hotmail.com | 11 Dec 06:53
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Re: getting bitpim to talk to a palm pre

Find the model # of your palm, usually under the battery.  Go to the manufacturer's website, and search for that model in the support section to see if they offer drivers, download and install them.  If you are unsuccessful, email me the model # and windows version and I'll see if I can locate some drivers for you.
You can email me personally if you'd like, d.vanheeckeren <at> hotmail.com.

-Daniel


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Date: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 15:02


Hi I just downloaded bitpim and am totally lost when trying to get it to find my palm pre. I've read through the troubleshooting several times and have no idea where to start.

Troubleshooting says i MUST use device drivers on windows. i know what a driver is but have no idea what this is telling me. do i need a particular driver for my phone?

any help is greatly appreciated





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Steve Gallo | 25 Dec 15:41
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LG LX-225 Rave and some interface issues

I have recently purchased an LG LX225 phone from STI Mobile. STI provides cheap (9 cents/day and 9 cents/minute) pre-paid service. The phone came without a data cable. At a cell phone kiosk in a nearby mall I purchased a MyBat LGVX6100RPDCB02 data cable. It came with a CD of Win XP drivers. During installation Windows 7 found the correct driver on the MS driver site. So I needed a utility to upload and download the phonebook, calendar, etc. A google search found BitPim. I applaud the developers of this software. Thank you for making this available.

 

The software installed easily on Win7 64 bit and was immediately useful. I have a 160 person phone book. After downloading the phonebook to a CSV file, I put my phonebook entries into the CSV file and uploaded it to the phone. I found a few problems. I have been able to work around all of them. Here is what I found.

 

1)      The LX-225 is detected as an LG PM-225. This is not a problem as far as I can tell. BitPim works except for some annoyances noted here.

2)      The phone number type field must be all lower case. In the LX-225 the type (Home, Cell, Business, etc. appear with an initial capital letter). In the CSV file the “numbers_type” field the data must be all lower case or there is a type not defined error reported during upload.

3)      When the phone reboots after the phone book is uploaded, the phone detect routine runs too soon. The detect routine runs as soon as the USB driver detects the phone which is several seconds before the phone has completed its reboot. Therefore the phone is not detected. The workaround is to manually detect the phone after it completes its reboot. There should be a longer delay after the USB driver detects the phone so that the reboot can finish before the phone detect routine runs.

4)      Groups in the phone book for each entry are not downloaded or uploaded. BitPim has a field name Categories but this does not map to the Groups data in the phone. Category 1-5 do not map to Groups. The workaround is to manually enter Groups in the phone and then download and save the pim folder from the phone’s file system.  The good news is that is relatively easy to set the Group using the phones UI. Would it be possible to obtain the data structure for the PM-225 and the transfer protocol? I might want to try to fix this.

 

Thank you to the developers of BitPim

 

Steve

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Barb Strange | 30 Dec 21:39
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SMS subject & memo fields in received messages - LG VX8700

Hello,

This is more feedback than a question.  My problem is that SMS messages received in my Inbox are copied to the Subject field in BitPim, and when the character limit is reached in the Subject field, the message appears to be continued in the Memo field; however, it appears as garbled, nonsense characters there.  The message will look like this:


Subject field:

Can you pick me up from

Memo field:

!X-be^u
, <at> m2HWLr7[$ft6$#=nn9H


In contrast, the messages in my Sent box also start in the Subject field, but are copied in full in the Memo field, with the correct characters.


My specs are:

BitPim version - "1.07 Test"

LG 8700 - recognized as LG VX8700 by BitPim (a choice I believe I set manually)

Carrier - Bell

USB cable - labelled as LG VX8500

Mac OS X 10.7.2 - however, the problem existed when I had both Leopard & Snow Leopard.

Sender's carrier: Rogers


I think the problem might have something to do with the sender's carrier, as I do have messages in my Inbox from senders I believe are with other carriers and that are not garbled in the Memo field.

My research on the internet and these forums didn't find anything about this problem that I could see.

Barb





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