Michal Čihař - Blog Archives for Gammu

I just released new version of Gammu. This release brings lots of bug fixes especially in OBEX code and adds initial support for Sharp GX series. Full list of changes:

• Sony-Ericsson module renamed to AT + OBEX as it better describes what it does.
• Initial support for Sharp GX Series phones.
• Added deliveryreportdelay parameter to SMSD to allow later received delivery reports to be correctly detected.
• Fixed calculation of OBEX file names, could lead to crash on OBEX upload (Debian bug #435875).
• Fixed time stamp receiving in SMSD.

As it looks like I will be sent to business trip to Japan, I found out that I will need to buy yet another phone. I'm quite happy with my Sony-Ericsson K750i right now and I will continue to use it after I return, so I need just short term replacement.

From this comes my requirements:

1. It must work in Japan. This means 3G phone is needed.
2. I don't want to spend lot of money.
3. Should be available on Czech or Japanese market as I don't have time for buying somewhere else.

Currently I have Nokia 6151 and Sony-Ericsson K610i in my viewfinder as they seem to be cheapest 3G solutions available here on market. If you have better tip for cheap 3G phone, just write me on michal@cihar.com, thanks!

PS: Of course I will try my new phone with Gammu. If you want to have support for some special 3G phone in Gammu, just drop me a note. Donations for such phone is welcome :-).

PS2: As I'm already in Japan I also have the phone. At the end I choose Nokia 6234, which was cheapest available solution I could find. Thanks for all hints, one of them guided me to this phone!

I just released new version of Gammu. This release brings lots of bug fixes and should allow to compile Gammu using MSVC and CMake. Full list of changes:

• Huge gammu/gammu.c split to smaller files.
• Lot of fixes to allow compilation using MSVC + CMake.
• Support for push to talk ids (thanks to Pavel Kostromitinov).
• Fixed PPM parsing (thanks to Pavel Kostromitinov).

I just released new version of Gammu. This release brings lots of improvements in vCard parsing and is first which includes some (although very limited for now) test suite. Also some more parts of AT driver has been converted to new parser. Full list of changes:

• Added simple bash completion script.
• Added some compile time testing.
• Improved vCard parsing.
• Fix wint_t and wchar_t detection.

I finally managed to learn CTest enough to be able to add some test cases to add some automatic testing to Gammu. Well there is not much to test until we have some fake driver for phones which can be used to feed custom data, but at least some parsers can receive testing.

First thing I try to focus on is vCard parsing. I know this is currently tricky and I'm trying to collect as many problematic vCards as possible. For now I have collected some from issues in bug tracker and my emails when people reported some problems. So if you have some vCard which Gammu parses wrongly, please send then to me.

For now 3 of 5 vCard tests fail, but I hope to resolve those problems until release will happen :-).

I just released new version of Gammu. This release brings lots of changes in AT phones driver, so please report any regressions from previous releases! Also experimental support for notes over OBEX has been added, but I din't have phone to actually test these, so again testing is very welcome! Full list of changes:

• Introduced more generic parsing of AT replies, please report any regressions with it!
• Improved support for Samsung phones.
• Support for reading network name from AT phones.
• Add deletememory command line.
• Experimental support for notes over OBEX.
• Man page is now partially autogenerated from online help.
• Elson compatibility, thanks to Bernd Feige.
• Fix UCS detection, thanks to Bernd Feige.

When you connect Gammu to phone, it does several checks on phone (I'm currently talking especially about AT based connections). Some of these checks might result in suggestions on improvements in configuration either in code or configuration. However they are a bit hidden - you need to enable debug log to actually see them.

One of those hints might allow Gammu to do much more with your phone:

HINT: Please consider adding F_OBEX to your phone capabilities in common/gsmphones.c

F_OBEX will tell Gammu, that phone can be switched to OBEX mode, which might provide access to more features than generic AT mode. The word might is important here, because for some phones OBEX does not bring anything new and using it only hides some AT functionality. This is also reason, why switch is not done automatically and you must change sources to do this. I'd gladly accept patches, if you have successfully tested F_OBEX with your phone!

Thanks to suggestion by Georg Lehner, Gammu Phone Database now support additional searching by supported features. So from now, you can easily search which phones support MMS (well I think this list contains few false positives, but that's what users have entered).

In addition to this, you can grab data in CSV format. It does not contain everything what is displayed online, especially emails are not exposed at all, but it might be useful to do some more complex statistics or queries. Format of this file might change in future, so please be smart enough when writing some parser for it ;-).

I just released new version of Gammu. This release adds various fixes to AT phones driver and fixes various other crashes. Full list of changes:

• Initial support for Motorola phones (bug #15 and #310).
• Avoid work on uninitialized buffer when checking firmware.
• Use HTTP/1.1 requests for getting firmware and version info.
• Improve charset handling for AT phones.
• Fix crash on broken CPMS response.
• Fix reading of memory not starting from 1 (thanks to drgerafe).
• Fix pressing of keys on phones who do not support IRA charset.

As I recently got yet another round of requests to make Gammu work with 3rd generation of Symbian phones. I know there is still more and more of them, but none of developers have possibility to port gnapplet to work with these phones.

Basically all required steps are described on Nokia website, so it should not be that hard. It only needs somebody who is able to write in C++. You can get CDK for Symbian phones for free (eg. from Nokia, but I guess that from any phone vendor) and start to port gnapplet. Any contributions in this area are welcome, because I can't do much without Symbian phone.