![]() Select ‘Connection’ in the left pane and then select ‘Connect via…’ to be ‘Bluetooth’ and enter “COM2” (upper case, and without the quotes) and click on ‘OK’.ġ1. Select ‘Connection’ in the left pane and then select ‘Phone type’ to be ‘Phone with Google Android-OS’.ġ0. Tick ‘Stable connection (some features are deactivated)’.ĩ. Select ‘Connection’ in the left pane and then select ‘Phone type’ to be ‘SonyEricsson phone with modeminterface’. in KDE this would be: Kickoff > Applications > Wine> Programs > MyPhoneExplorer > MyPhoneExplorer), then press F2 (or select File > Settings).Ĩ. $ mv $/dosdevices/com2 # you may not need to do this, as the permissions may already be 777.ħ. $ cp $HOME/Desktop/MyPhoneExplorer_Setup_1.8.1.exe. $ export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-myphoneexplorer Install MyPhoneExplorer on your PC under WINE: Open a Konsole/Terminal window and perform all the following steps in the same window.Ĥ. Surf over to the MyPhoneExplorer Home Page and download MyPhoneExplorer_Setup_1.8.1.exe to ~/Desktop/ģ. Use the Android Market to install MyPhoneExplorer Client on the phone.Ģ. However, I was able to connect MyPhoneExplorer to my HTC Desire via WiFi at home (but not in a hotel, as connection depends on the router and internal network IP address space), and via Bluetooth (anywhere).ġ. This may be because, despite what I have read on the android developers Web site (see Using Hardware Devices and OEM USB Drivers), as is the case with Windows it is necessary in Linux to install ADB USB drivers (the ADB drivers can be installed in Linux by installing the Android SDK). I installed MyPhoneExplorer with its own WINEPREFIX but, despite following the instructions in the MyPhoneExplorer forums, I was unable to get MyPhoneExplorer to connect to the HTC Desire via a USB cable in Linux. The MyPhoneExplorer forums include a thread on using it with WINE, so MyPhoneExplorer looked like my only option (although it is a pity it is not FOSS). The price for MOBILedit! is not extortionate but I wanted to find a cost-free solution if possible, and, more importantly, I could find no evidence on the Web of MOBILedit! having been used with WINE in Linux to edit the phone books in the HTC Desire. This is a pity, as Wammu and Gammu look well-designed, and Wammu has a professional feel to it. Web browsing told me that Gammu/Wammu does not yet work with the HTC Desire (see the bug report Don’t get any connection to HTC Desire via bluetooth in Wammu/Gammu). Not only does MyPhoneExplorer allow you to edit the phone book, it also provides a host of other features such as: viewing the phone’s call logs, messages, hardware status, files and applications sending messages via the PC etc. MyPhoneExplorer (Version 1.8.1), closed-source ‘donationware’ for Windows, recommended in various forums and that has been used with WINE in Linux. MOBILedit!, a closed-source commercial product for Windows.ģ. Gammu (CLI) and Wammu (GUI front-end), FOSS with versions for both Linux and Windows.Ģ. My search turned up three applications that appeared to enable a user to edit the phone book (phone and SIM):ġ. So I set about searching for an application to do the job. That is all very well, but I don’t want to import my phone contacts into GMail and thus have them stored in ‘The Cloud’, plus I don’t see why I should be forced to do that just to make it easier for me to tidy a phone book in my phone. The advice is to synchronise the phone’s phone book with GMail on your PC, edit the contacts in GMail on the PC and then the contacts will be updated in the phone when the phone next synchronises with GMail. So, naturally, I thought it would be possible to do something similar from a PC running Linux.Īn indirect method of editing a phone book in an Android phone is recommended in many Web forums. Back then I used a shareware application called Mobile Navigator on a laptop running Windows XP. These days I’m using the same SIM in an Android smartphone: the HTC Desire. Now, the last time I tidied up my phone book was back in 2003 when my SIM was in a Sony Ericsson T68i. I decided recently to tidy up the phone book, and looked for a way to do it from Linux. Over the years, the phone book on my SIM became cluttered with duplicate entries, inconsistently-named contacts, and so on. A mobile phone stores contacts in the phone itself and/or on the SIM.
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