Re: [SLE] Mobile phones: How to get photos off a Nokia 6230 via USB

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:06:14PM +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Hello,

I have a Nokia 6230 mobile phone (not the 6230i) and a USB cable to connect
it to the computer. I don't have a serial cable. I'm looking for a way to
download pictures from the phone.

When I connect the phone to the USB bus, lsusb lists the phone correctly,
the module cdc_acm is loaded, and a device /dev/ttyACM0 is created. That
made me hope that at least some support is there. Up I go in search for an
application.

I searched on Google, but didn't find anything in the first 60 or so
matches.

I tried digikam, but that doesn't recognize the phone. Autoscan doesn't
work, and manually adding some arbitrary cameras that look like phones
doesn't work either.

gphoto2 is only for serially connected cameras, AFAICS.
The same with gnokii.
If that is not true, I would appreciate experience reports to know that I
have to dive deeper in the documentation than I did.

Then I stumbled over gammu. The example configuration file had the
information that the 6230 phone has actually no USB chip and needs to be
accessed over a protocol called dku2 or dku2phonet and via the /dev/ttyACM0
that got created. I thought `great', configured and tried it -- but to no
avail: gammu --identify outputs a message that the phone does not answer.

My 2.5 questions:
-- Has anybody had success to connect this phone via USB and access it
on Linux? If yes, with which application?
-- Which applications are supposed to work with USB-connected phones or
cameras? I.e., for which application is it sensible to investigate
further?

Some phones use "OBEX" transfers. obexftp might be your friend here.

Some USB things might provide USB Mass Storage, just like any USB stick.ftp

Ciao, Marcus

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