Handy, IrDA, 3gp
Today I had to copy a “video” recorded by my phone to a notebook. Never did such, but got a good hint: OBEX.
Here is what you need:
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!IrDA
I used an old IBM T21 notebook, just enable IrDA in the BIOS and it shows up in Linux either as ttyS0 or ttyS1, depends on what you set. I used port 2f8, irq 3 as ttyS1. The irda-utils package in Debian has a configuration menu, where I choose “Fast FIR”, “adapter: None”, “device: /dev/ttyS1”. It works.
!OBEX tools
Either download them from [OpenOBEX site|http://openobex.sf.net/] or as I did, use Debian and install openobex-apps and obexftp.
Actually I used only the program obexftp. Tips:
- List current working directory: “obexftp -i -l” (it’s Gallery on my Nokia 6220)
- Download file: “obexftp -i -g “Gallery/Video clips/Video001.3gp” (it looks like specifying a full path is needed)
The -i switch means IrDA, -l is list and -g is get. For bluetooth use -b and for sending -p. Also it is needed to get filenames from the phone while looking at the file manager or gallery viewer’s details window.
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