Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Wong
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com wrote: When the calypso is off (and it's always off unless GSM resource is requested), it's perfectly ok to swap SIM cards. Thanks, Paul! That's exactly the information I was looking for. I'll try this next time, $ mdbus -s

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Ben Wong lists.openmoko@wongs.net writes: By the way, the slowest part of the process was rebooting the FreeRunner between each SIM. I didn't want to risk my FreeRunner by hot-swapping the SIM (and SD card since that's in the way). Does anyone know if it would have been safe to do that?

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-22 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jan Vlug jan.pub...@famvlug.nl wrote: I would like to transfer my old SMSes from my previous Windows Mobile phone to my Openmoko FreeRunner. I vaguely remember to have seen instructions on a user page on the wiki about how to do this. But I cannot find

How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-20 Thread Jan Vlug
Hi all, I would like to transfer my old SMSes from my previous Windows Mobile phone to my Openmoko FreeRunner. I vaguely remember to have seen instructions on a user page on the wiki about how to do this. But I cannot find this page any more. Please, let me know how to do this if you know.

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Wong
My older brother, a world traveler, had a box full of SIM cards from which he wanted to back up all the old SMS and address books. We used my FreeRunner to do it using a quick hack script I wrote that dumps the info to a text file. The result was not in UTF-8, so I wrote a tiny C program to fix