Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

[LaneLester]

I used to use Windows software to load addresses to the SIM card on my Motorola cell phone. Is there any way to do this in Feisty?

Lane

[SheeEttin]

Re: Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

There's Wine.
Easiest way to get it is to do "sudo apt-get install wine".
After you have it, to run the program, run "wine [executable]".

[LaneLester]

Re: Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

There's Wine.
Easiest way to get it is to do "sudo apt-get install wine".
After you have it, to run the program, run "wine [executable]".

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Of course, I'm always hoping for Linux solutions.

Lane

[monte48lowes]

Re: Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

You might also give kmobiletools a try. It does work with my phone as much as Verizon will allow.

Mike

[LaneLester]

Re: Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

You might also give kmobiletools a try. It does work with my phone as much as Verizon will allow.

Thanks, Mike. I'm on Cingular, FWIW. It looks like a neat app, but I suspect I'm going to have the same problem that's keeping me from syncing my Palm: getting the right /def/device name in there. I don't have a /dev/mobile, the default.

As with the Palm, usbview shows the phone connected, but unfortunately, usbview doesn't tell you its device assignment... assuming there is one:

Motorola Phone (V220)
Manufacturer: Motorola Inc.
Speed: 12Mb/s (full)
USB Version: 1.10
Device Class: 02(comm.)
Device Subclass: 00
Device Protocol: 00
Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8
Number of Configurations: 1
Vendor Id: 22b8
Product Id: 4902
Revision Number: 0.01

Config Number: 1
	Number of Interfaces: 2
	Attributes: c0
	MaxPower Needed: 20mA

	Interface Number: 0
		Name: cdc_acm
		Alternate Number: 0
		Class: 02(comm.) 
		Sub Class: 2
		Protocol: 1
		Number of Endpoints: 1

			Endpoint Address: 89
			Direction: in
			Attribute: 3
			Type: Int.
			Max Packet Size: 16
			Interval: 10ms

	Interface Number: 1
		Name: cdc_acm
		Alternate Number: 0
		Class: 0a(data ) 
		Sub Class: 0
		Protocol: 0
		Number of Endpoints: 2

			Endpoint Address: 01
			Direction: out
			Attribute: 2
			Type: Bulk
			Max Packet Size: 32
			Interval: 0ms

			Endpoint Address: 82
			Direction: in
			Attribute: 2
			Type: Bulk
			Max Packet Size: 32
			Interval: 0ms

Lane

[SheeEttin]

Re: Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

After plugging it in, try "dmesg | tail" (it'll help if you've got a few lines of unrelated things in there, i.e. haven't plugged it in in at least an hour). This might or might not give a few lines of generic helpfulness.

[LaneLester]

Re: Access to Motorola Cell Phone SIM card?

After plugging it in, try "dmesg | tail" This might or might not give a few lines of generic helpfulness.

It certainly did, and I thank all of you for your suggestions! Dmesg told me the port was /dev/ttyACM0, and that got me connected with both moto4lin and kmobiletools.

I see that moto4lin is good for managing ringtones and wallpapers.

And I see that kmobiletools could be good for managing the phonebook. I'm hoping for a way to enter contacts into kaddressbook and upload them to the phone, but some fiddling didn't accomplish that, although kmobiletools does list the numbers stored on the phone. Is it possible to add to the phone from kaddressbook or kontact?

Lane