[plug] mounting mobile phone filesystem - update

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 19:20 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 19:01 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> 
> -snippie snip-
> 
> Getting slightly OT here, but still linux-relevant :-)
> 
> > > BTW: I just discovered of this new phone that it automatically charges
> > > off the usb port. geeee, ahhh :-) Maybe old hat for you people but this
> > > is first new phone I've bought in _8_ years. LOL. I gave up on the
> > > expense of getting a Treo or similar smartphone (see previous
> > > postings). 
> > 
> > If that phone's a ZTE 850, and you get it working, please let me know
> > how. I was totally unable to. My desktop is set up to automatically
> > mount anything plugged in and give me an icon on the desktop. It doesn't
> > give me anything.
> > 
> > It also charges from the USB hub.
> 
> No, mine is a ZTE F272 - the standard, basement model available 'free'
> with a $20/mth telstra plan. I am about to take delivery of a 1GB
> micro-SD card to suit and use its mp3 player capability :-) For that
> card I also have a usb adapter/thumdrive so that part of getting files
> _into_ the phone will be easy. What I was hoping to do was access the
> internal memory to backup/update the contacts, etc. There is s/ware that
> came with it for windoze that I haven't tried under wine since I'm no
> wine expert. But that s/ware does promise a lot of PC<->phone syncing
> options - if only it was possible in linux :-(
> 
> Gavin. 

Hmm, that's what I was wanting to do, and I got the 850 as an upgrade
from CDMA on a $20 Telstra plan.

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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