Today I tried to connect my phone to my laptop to get all my messages off it. However, when I came to plug the serial cable in I found it lacked the neccessary parts. (A similar thng happened a few weeks ago when I grabbed a floppy disk and tried to find where it went, and realised that it didn’t have a 3.5″ drive).

So, the laptop was out of the question and I had to use my desktop. However, my desktop does not have windows on it, and the software to connect to the phone is windows only.

Looking at the mobile programs for linux, I descovered quite a few. I installed kmobiletools via the Ubuntu software manager and tried to get it to talk to my phone via the serial port, /dev/ttyS0. The screen on the phone dimmed (as it always used to, don’t know why) but the software did not connect. I tried to change the software ‘port’ to /dev/ttyS1 and ended up making the software refuse to run – and I could not run the software to change it back. I then deleted all the files in my home directory that had been created by the software, and in addtion deleted the relevant files in the /usr/share/ directory. After reinstalling, again via the software manager I reran the software on /dev/ttyS0. After changing a few settings, I still did not manage to make it work and gave it up for a bad job. When I get time I might try out some of the other programs.

Moral of the story: Don’t buy dodgy serial port phone connectors off ebay.

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