File Manager Component

[jools]

As we now have a plethora of C and Java developers I am expecting great things in the File Manager

Currently 'Nutter' has done some ground work in creating a command line accessible tool to allow ftp style function to the phone and local drive.

This is to emulate the EFS functions but to manage them in the tool. So when a user selects a new set of icon/theme/settings, the tool will compile a list of changes required. This list will be ordered and carried out via the CLI of he file manager comp. This will report back to vuite and the user will see a list of changes complete and then the phone will restart.

No more yellow torches or expensive bricks

Nutter's time is a little limited, I hope he pops in here soon, as his initial ground work will be very useful and further on. But as he has proven this, in a fairly short space of time, as well as the sms access from the desktop, then it should be possible for all you C/Java devs to discuss what approached to use for this and what may be best.

So..... any questions just ask.

Cheers
Jools

[jools]

Is anyone working on this at the moment? Not asking for results, just if you are putting a stick in the water, I would like to know?

Cheers.

[Nutter]

Hi Jools yes still working on it. Ill give a little status update...

I can place the phone into diagnostic mode and communicate using raw brew protocol to view the file system. Theres quite a bit to this as I am reverse engineering but for me this is the ideal stand alone route. The delivered product can be either an exe, dll or just raw code for integration with the VUITE interface.

However if push comes to shove I believe I can recompile bit pim with direct support for the viewty (as it seems not to have it currently) and supply the required code to invisibly wrap its command line interface. I believe the bitpim license would allow this.

Any comments are appreciated.

[jools]

Out of a quality per post ratio you are no.1 on this site

Bitpim does look good, but whatever is best and suits your work, the two options for the interface, one has good support for send command line instructions to a exe, but haven't tried working it with a dll.

The one thing we will want to do it, send single command and and get response to success tests. This way we can build the full set of custom commands based on the users customisation requests. Some tasks will require specific orders to tasks, which is another reason to work this way.

Good work.

Jools

[Nutter]

Originally Posted by jools

Out of a quality per post ratio you are no.1 on this site

I tend to go on a bit once I get started so im holding back a little LOL

A little update iv had a few hours well basically since I last posed looking deeper at the packet structures of the brew protocol and am pretty much able to get a directory listing from the phone. Im not 100% certain on all the packet payload and the CRC but that shouldnt take too long.

Basically once I have the structure of each response and request packet related to copying files, listing folders etc then we can do just about anything with the file system with in reason.

Expect some sort of simple directory listing util in the next day or so (time pending) itd be nice to get some feedback to check if it works on other handsets etc.

[jools]

Originally Posted by Nutter

<snip> then we can do just about anything with the file system with in reason.

great can we have a 'make it better button'?

Sorry did you say you go on a bit, only four posts and already the nuts and bolts of our much prized file transfer comp. !

When ever you want me to test in another setup, there are few experienced C coders waiting in the wings too.

Lots of new people here, who are keeping very quiet??

[fisch88]

Hi there,

I'm sorry for being "quite" so long
I've a couple of free hours during these days, so...
could anyone send some sort of source code, so that I can have a look at it and understand what is to do (just reading the posts I do not understand very much...)

Thanks

[Nutter]

REMOVED

Problem with CRC solved.

[recklessness]

Originally Posted by jools

great can we have a 'make it better button'?

Sorry did you say you go on a bit, only four posts and already the nuts and bolts of our much prized file transfer comp. !

When ever you want me to test in another setup, there are few experienced C coders waiting in the wings too.

Lots of new people here, who are keeping very quiet??

we need people to share their source code if there's going to be any action.

I'm digging around in the nyx_documented_menu right now, but there's a good chance you allready did most of the things i did so far.
Also, nutter's tool is awesome, but only nutter himself has the source code and knows exactly what it does.

I think we need something CSV-ish.

[chrisdaniels]

Any news on the source? or the prog used to create it?