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Old 09-16-2003, 05:39 AM   #1
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Question Nokia 3300


Hi everybody,

Does someone know (or even have an idea) about how I could get Linux to mount the MMC card of my Nokia 3300 phone using the provided DKU-2 USB cable ?

Thanks in advance,

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Old 09-16-2003, 07:53 PM   #2
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If it bevahes like a proper external storage device, then you should be able to plug it in and mount it (something like mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/nokia). My guess, however, is that it will use a propriatery (sp?) protocol for transferring files. In which case, your best bet would be to get an MMC reader (you can get 7-in-1 readers quite cheap) and do it that way.

If you need more info, look around for stuff relating to Digital Cameras since they usually suffer the same problem.

Hope this helps.
 
Old 09-17-2003, 03:18 AM   #3
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Thanks for your reply,

I don't think it uses any special or proprietary protocol. When I plug it in on a Windows box, it is automatically detected and bound to a new drive.

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Old 09-17-2003, 07:22 PM   #4
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Yeah, that's no guarantee of it not using propriatary protocols though. When I plug my digital camera into my Windows box (alright, so I haven't got a Windows box, but I did when I bought the camera) it is recognised as a 'USB mass storage device' and I can access it nicely. No previous drivers had been loaded, so it should be a truly well behaved device? Not a chance! Plug the very same camera in under Linux and it shows up as a removable SCSI disk alright, but it doesn't have any recognisable partitions on it so there's no way to retrieve the data. I had to use a card reader.

Now, it is entirely plausible that the 'phone does work like a well behaved USB mass storage device - the only way to tell (unless you can get hold of some very technical specs) is to try it. If it doesn't work, then you've got to spend a few Euros and get a card reader for it to work.

Good luck.
 
Old 09-18-2003, 04:25 AM   #5
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I finally got it to work ... It wasn't so hard in fact ...
I had to load the usb-storage kernel module and mount it as a SCSI drive.

# modprobe usb-uhci
# modprobe usb-storage
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/nokia

If someone reads this and tries to put data on the memory card, he/she should not forget to wait that the message "Transferring data" has disappeared on the screen of the phone, even when you are unmounting it.
I had put some mp3's on it and it unmounted it directly, unmount was like 'frozen', I didn't take a look to the screen of the phone and I just removed the cable . The mp3's were on the card, but they were unreadable and undeleteable
So what I had to do to delete these files is : mount the card, backup everything but the corrupted mp3's on a folder on my hard drive, unmount it, format the card with the phone, remount it and copy the backuped data back to the card ...

So ... you don't need to be any kind of wizard to get your Nokia 3300 to work under Linux. I started the post because I had absolutely no idea, but finally, it was not so hard ... did it ?

Thanks for your help.

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Old 10-15-2003, 06:09 AM   #6
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Backslash,

I also have a Nokia 3300. To make sure I do everything the right way, a couple of questions:
- I have to enter those three commands in a terminal window?
- Do I have to repeat this procedure everytime I want to browse the Nokia 3300?
- What exactly does the "modprobe" command do?

Thanks,

Koen.
 
Old 10-15-2003, 09:31 AM   #7
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Hi Koswo,

"- I have to enter those three commands in a terminal window?"
--> Yes, besides of that I forgot to mention you must be root to enter this commands.

"- Do I have to repeat this procedure everytime I want to browse the Nokia 3300?"
--> Yes, but, it's much simpler to write a small shell script once and for all, so you just need to type one command instead of three. You can also add a launcher in your menu to execute the script by clicking on a button.

"- What exactly does the "modprobe" command do?"
--> modprobe loads a kernel module and all of its dependencies. It's a kind of wrapper around insmod which avoids you to insmod all the modules that the module you want to load depends on.

I hope this answers your questions the way you expected it.

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