On 08/02/11 22:09, Simon Elliott wrote:
On 8 February 2011 13:17, Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
I've just bought my wife a new phone, a Nokia C6 and want to make sure that everything is off the old phone, a Nokia N95.
Nokia's don't run Linux...! We only support Android phones on this list. ;)
Like others here, I too have an N900 but my wife doesn't like it so I would never buy one for her. I personally don't think it lives up to its initial promises and I'm disappointed with it but that's a discussion for another place.
But how do I see what's on them?
Normally the phone will ask if you want to connect it in "PC Suite" mode or just Mass Storage Device. Choose Mass Storage and copy/cut paste stuff off it. The PC Suite backup, restored to another Nokia handset should have all the messages and contacts
My wife tells me that there are some important messages and pictures on the N95 which she doesn't want to lose.
They can't be that important if she hasn't already got them backed up elsewhere!! Argh, I'm in tech support mode from work...! I tell this to so many students. Perhaps don't mention that...
She's a 'user' so why should she be expected to do backups etc?
Nokia do help with their latest version of the Ovi Suite as that seems to do more but let's not pursue that one either. I just want to move the stuff off and move on.
So, in summary, I would take a wild guess that the phone might be set to automatically run as "PC Suite" mode which is utterly useless on a Linux box. Find the bit in the Connectivity settings where you can set it to ask you what mode to connect with when USB is plugged in..
It was. I've now set it to Data Transfer mode and have in connected again.
Use the file manager app on the phone to move stuff off the C: phone memory, onto the E: memory card so you can get at it in the Mass Storage mode. Although 95% of gumf on the phone memory is all part of the Symbian system and not any use. All images should be on the E: memory card.
I now find that she wants to save some MMS messages with images encapsulated within them. But now that I've enabled the Data Transfer mode, I can now save the 'Object' and I've sent them to my N900 using Bluetooth. I can certainly see everything on the N900 via Mass Storage mode so I can now recover all the things I need.
Worst case scenario, fire up bluetooth on both devices and send stuff over that way.
I've put a SIM card of my own in the N95 and had it switched on so that I could forward the MMS message to the C6 but although they sent, the C6 never received them. But the N95 has just had 3 messages from Vodafone with some configurations settings so perhaps they realise that something is amiss somewhere and are trying to help. But as I've now oevercome the problem, perhaps a visit to the Vodafone store in the Castle Mall by my wife will sort that out.
Once the N95 is empty, format the SD card (several times, zeros/ones writes i.e. dban if you're mega paranoid) and factory reset the device, send it off to one of those phone recycling type companies and collect your cheque for ~£70-80. Do not pass go.
I was going to give the N95 away to a friend but I already have the code to do a factory reset on it first.
Hope this helps..
Sure does. Many thanks.