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Poisonblack

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

How to connect Motorola phone to Arch.?

Hi.!
I have Motozine ZN5 which I want to connect with my Arch box via USB so that I can transfer files,SMS etc. between the two.I tried out Wammu but it couldn't detect my phone.I can see my phone listed when I run lsusb command.How do I go about from here.?

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tomk

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Re: How to connect Motorola phone to Arch.?

Can we assume you've already ruled out using it as a standard USB storage device? If not, check dmesg when you plug it in for details about the device name.

I'm not familiar with Motorola devices, but if it uses obex, you could try obexftp/obexfs.

Mr Green

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Re: How to connect Motorola phone to Arch.?

Had a quick look at list for gammu your phone is not on it, can you give us link to it please?

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Mr Green

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

Re: How to connect Motorola phone to Arch.?

My mum has a RAZR V3 and I've susccessfully gotten bitpim to work for it with no configuration necessary. Should be in the AUR.

Bitpim is for CDMA phones... not sure if yours is, but it very well could be.

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Poisonblack

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Re: How to connect Motorola phone to Arch.?

Thanks for quick responses.
I tried connecting as a mass storage device.Here is the relevant part of dmesg output:

usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2                                     
usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice                                                      
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...                                                             
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices                                                 
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage                                                
USB Mass Storage support registered.                                                                
usb-storage: device found at 2                                                                      
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning                                           
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Motorola MSnc.            0101 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2                        
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk                                                      
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0                                                        
scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Motorola MSnc.            0101 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2                        
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk                                                      
sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0                                                        
usb-storage: device scan complete                                                                   
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] 804324 512-byte hardware sectors (412 MB)                                         
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off                                                              
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00                                                           
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through                                               
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 3920639 512-byte hardware sectors (2007 MB)                                       
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off                                                              
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00                                                           
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through                                               
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] 804324 512-byte hardware sectors (412 MB)                                         
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off                                                              
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00                                                           
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through                                               
 sdc:                                                                                               
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 3920639 512-byte hardware sectors (2007 MB)                                       
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off                                                              
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00                                                           
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through                                               
 sdb:                                                                                               
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2                                   
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: Sense Key : 0x2 [current]                                       
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: ASC=0x3a ASCQ=0x0                                               
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3920384                                                     
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920384                                               
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: Sense Key : 0x2 [current]                                       
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: ASC=0x3a ASCQ=0x0                                               
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3920385                                                     
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920385                                               
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920386                                               
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920387                                               
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920388                                               
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920389                                               
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920390                                               
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3920391                                               
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Device not ready: Sense Key : 0x2 [current]                                       
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Device not ready: ASC=0x3a ASCQ=0x0                                               
end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 804308                                                      
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 201077                                                
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial                                                  
usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic                                                
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic                                          
usbserial: USB Serial Driver core

Here, /dev/sdb is my memory card and /dev/sdc is phone memory.
When I run either mount /dev/sdb /mnt/phone or mount /dev/sdc /mnt/phone, it says "mount: No medium found".

@Mr Green:
Here is the link to phone specs page:
http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/produc … jectId=242
OR
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_zn5-2432.php

@Square:
Thanks, but mine's a GSM phone.

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Poisonblack

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 46

Re: How to connect Motorola phone to Arch.?

bump...

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