Since I’m not a developer, at least not in Python, I
didn’t feel it was appropriate to post this in the dev group.
Using Bitpim 0.7.34 for Windows. The cable is from the
Verizon Mobile Office Kit.
Ok, Bitpim will connect to my phone, read the phone book
properly however doesn’t read the wallpaper or ringtones correctly. First
of all, I’m not exactly sure what Bitpim is looking at for wallpaper and
ringtones. If I had to guess for the Wallpaper, Bitpim is looking at /download/wallpaper.bit.
However, it’s doesn’t display the image and gives me an error
saying, No handler found for image type. So primarily right now I use Bitpim
simply to access the file sytem. Here’s what is on my phone and currently
working on my phone.
In:
/user/sound/ringer
I’ve got 4 midi files I downloaded off the net. All 4
files work properly on the phone, including the volume level. But for some
reason Bitpim doesn’t register the ringtone. I couldn’t tell where
Bitpim is looking for the ringtones.
/brew/shared
This is where I’ve been putting my wallpapers, or
proper term I guess would be my user images. I know that the wallpaper.bit file
uses some odd file format with regards to the 565 bits and the special header
and so forth. I guess my question is why bother with wallpaper.bit file at all.
So far I’ve been able to use jpg, true 24bit bitmaps and those altered
bitmaps as my user images. It seems the only limitation is that you can’t
capitalize the first character of the image files. Whenever I did, the names
displayed but the images would not. The images display properly and the phone
converts the image over to wallpaper.bit should you set it as a wallpaper thru
the menu system. One thing I do notice is that when viewing the user images or
Graphics as the phone calls it, jpg images while they display properly take a
second to load. The plus side is that the files are smaller, usually a third of
the size of the 32k bitmaps.
If I could program it myself I would, so my input would be
to drop working with the wallpaper.bit file. And set it up to allow bitpim to
upload properly sized jpg and bitmaps to the brew/shared folder instead. Then
the user can simply go to the Graphics folder in the Wallpaper section on
the phone and set their wallpaper(s). Note: gifs and animated gifs may work,
have yet to try them. As for why the ringtones don’t work properly on my
Bitpim, no idea on that one, but I can upload them just fine thru the file
system.
Also noticed the call log is disabled for importing on the
VX3200. I’m sure you guys probably already know it, that the dat files
for the call log are in the /pim folder. I guess it’s just a matter of
time for parsing the file for use in bitpim.
So if all this has been said before or you dev folks already
know it then no harm no foul. Kepp up the great work on bitpim.
-Patrick
