HOWTO: Access Motorola phones through USB on Hoary using Moto4Lin

[tlaloczint]

I have a v180 too, trouble is, has only 1.9 MB of space, not only you have to cut, but also encode the mp3s at like 64 kbps.

I am not sure if anything less than or greater than 64 kbps works.

I can encode it to 128 kbps still will play it, it will make it a bigger file do
you can try it and let me kow

[gorkhal]

yes 128 kbps works now...weird dont know why it wasnt working before...

[Lupine]

Does anyone know where to go to request info on if a phone is supported or not? I just got the popular E815 and I can't seem to get moto4lin to connect to it. p2ktest comes back with "No phone found", however it is showing up under lsusb :

 
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 22b8:2a61 Motorola PCS

The moto4lin mailing list seems dead, and I don't see any forum for the project. Anyone got their E815 working, or have a suggestion of where I should go to get help on that project?

Sorry if this is a little OT....GREAT HOWTO....thx!

[Seth]

Good tutorial, worked great for me.

1) I would suggest using "checkinstall" instead of "make install" so you have a deb that is easy to remove. I hate compiling from source since it breaks apt; this is the way around that.
2) If you transfer an mp3 ringtone to your phone but you can't get it to play it:
- Navigate to your Audio SubFolder (/a/mobile/audio).
- BACKUP MyToneDB.db and TempToneDB.db to your computer!
- Delete MyToneDB.db and TempToneDB.db.
- Upload new ringtone.
- Power cycle phone

This will rebuild your Audio database and is needed when using moto4lin to upload things.

[Lupine]

Great....what phone model?

[gorkhal]

hey anyone know...how to retrieve the addressbook (phone book) from your motorola phones?? using moto4lin. More specifically which file stores all that information ??

appreciate it...thanks.

[Seth]

hey anyone know...how to retrieve the addressbook (phone book) from your motorola phones?? using moto4lin. More specifically which file stores all that information ??

appreciate it...thanks.

Much easier to use KMobileTools. I'm working on debs but they won't make it into Breezy methinks.

[galder]

Thanks for the howto.

I have a Motorola v1050, and it seems that the phone is recognized, because I can get the Vendor ID 22b8 and the product ID 3002, but when I switch to P2k i get this error:

[error] Unable to open device
[error] Check preferences
[error] Unable to connect

Could anyone help me? Any hint?

Thanks in advance!

[chunk]

It's not working for me. I have a Motorola v265 phone.

Vendor ID: 22b8
Product ID: 2a22

Sometimes Product ID also shows as 2a21.

I get the following messages in the main window of moto4lin after trying "switch to P2K":

[info] Phone is unpluged. Please connect it
[info] Phone pluged as P2K
[info] Phone pluged as AT
[info] Switching device /dev/ttyACM0 to P2K mode...
[info] Phone is unpluged

Any advice"

[ubuntu4everyone]

i managed to start it and get my p2k and at numbers and save it, but now as soom as i connect my phone in the terminal it says

Form1
PhoneMan
New mode: 2
Killed


any ideas ?