Version History
- Bug fix: Unknown command line parameter crashes BitPim.
- New phone support: LG VX-8600.
- New phone support: Sanyo SCP-200.
- New phone support: LG VX-9900 (phonebook, wallpapers, and ringtones).
- New feature: T9 User Database maintenance. Initially, only the LG VX-8500/8600 supports this feature.
- Bug fix: Adding mp3 ringtones crashes BitPim (LG-VX8300)
- Windows: Fixed issue where BitPim would silently fail if My Documents
didn't exist (eg on an external USB drive that isn't plugged in).
- Sanyo phones: Read "Sent" messages as well received messages when
reading SMS. Add auto-detection for newer Sanyo phones (SCP-3100,
SCP-6600, and MM-7500) and Bell SCP-8100.
- Bug fix: Timezone issues with Samsung A930/A950 calendar events.
- Sanyo SCP-6600 (Katana): Reading the phonebook now supported.
- Bug fix: bad BREW file date crashes BitPim.
- New feature: Added Splash Screen Time duration to the Config Dialog.
- New feature: Calendar Import Preset.
- Added Sanyo MM-5600 support.
- Show libusb device Product ID and Vendor ID in the Comm Port Settings dialog.
- Handled media unicode file names for the LG-VX8300/VX8500.
- Clarified phonebook writing error message.
- Fixed deleting nonexisting media files bug (LG-VX8100).
- Fixed iCal import DTEND property.
- Fixed support for adding 3g2 video files.
- Added the Replace All and Merge options to the Contacts Import dialog.
- Support for Telus SPH-A840, phonebook and calendar only, added.
- Sanyo SPH-6600 (Katana): Phonebook and wallpaper/ringtone writing
not supported. Camera images read with wallpaper.
- Added file infor support for WMA file type.
- For LG VX phones: ignore invalid calendar events read from phones.
- Added the capability to export BitPim calendar data to iCalendar format.
- Improved display of non-recurrent calendar events that span more than 1 day.
- Added an option to reformat contact names during the contact import process.
- Bug fix: BitPim crashed due to corrupted config file.
- Bug fix: BitPim crashed due to corrupted Call History file.
- Bug fix: Bad phone contact entry crashes BitPim.
- For Sprint Samsung phones, include location in event name.
- New feature: display calendar events inside a Tool Tip window.
- New feature: copy/paste of SMS text to the clipboard.
- Bug workaround: Unicode characters crash CSV contact export.
- Fixed phonebook and filesystem splitter display.
- On Windows, sync the current help topic with the TOC.
- Sanyo phones: Improve setting of alarms for calendar
- Renamed menu item AutoSync to Auto Calendar Import, and moved it to under Import menu item.
- Fixed adding media files decode exceptions.
- Added support for the LG VX8500 phone. See the Help for more details.
- Increased A930 max ringtone size to 290K.
- Capability to read ringtone files for the LG VX8500.
- Added MS Windows Media Player Play List (wpl) files import.
- Fixed Shift+Add feature for Linux.
- Fix crash on reading SMS messages from Sanyo phones
- Added Import Calendar Wizard feature.
- Handled local filesystem file names.
- Added unicode support to the Samsung A930/A950.
- Fixed calendar support for the LG VX8300.
- Fixed various Help screen shots.
- Raise bitpim phonebook group limit from 10 to 30 on LG-VX5200/8100/9800.
- Fixed Set Phone wizard for Linux plaform.
- Fixed auto-detection to include libusb ports for Linux.
- Fixed bug: BitPim does not always terminate on Linux.
- Fixed bug: get calendar data raised exception.
- Add support for calendar on LG-VX8300 (Verizon).
- Fixed vCard Photo field import problem.
- Added support for Samsung SCH-A930 phone.
- Add support for LG-VX8300 (Verizon). Calendar not supported.
Phonebook ringer and wallpaper assignment not supported.
- Fixed bug: Calendar read raised exception.
- Fixed bug: LG VX7000 media read raised exception.
- Yet another attempt to fix LG VX6000/6100 auto-detection.
- Added a work-around that allows storing ringtones on miniSD cards for the VX9800 (V2+), which was inadvertently left out from release 0.9.03.
- Added Call History and SMS support to the A950.
- Fix bug:Exception in wallpaper pane when it contains unrecognised image formats.
- Fixed SMS feature for V3c(m) phones.
- Fixed backup dir bug.
- Added Calendar Read Merge feature.
- Fixed bug: phonebook preview with bad image.
- Fixed bug: BitPim crashes when VX9800 fails to read media files.
- Improved phone detection scheme for VX6100.
- Linux ISO 8559-1 encoding is now found
- Added a work-around that allows storing ringtones on miniSD cards for the VX8100 and VX9800.
- NOTE: If you run this version going back to an earlier version
will cause all the wallpaper/ringers in BitPim to disappear.
- Fixed media view toolbar bitmap problem.
- Fixed status bar redraw problem.
- Fixed bug: calendar entry dialog color coded fields not working properly.
- Added auto-detect current phone model first.
- Added Sanyo MM-7500 support. Wallpaper/ringer writing are currently
disabled. Playlist and call history support are not yet available.
- Added phone detection status indicator.
- NOTE: If you run this version going back to an earlier version
will cause all the wallpaper/ringers in BitPim to disappear.
- Fixed A950 Phonebook reading problem.
- Added phone detection for the Motorola E815.
- Increased the size of the phonebook from 500 to 1000 entries for the V3c and E815.
- Fixed V170(m) SMS reading problem.
- Fixed Data Recording playback bug.
- Fixed Linux Unicode alias error for the Motorola phones.
- Added support for Sanyo SCP-3100 (Sprint). See the SCP-3100 model notes
for driver information.
- Added A950 Phonebook write.
- Added iCalendar import feature.
- Added Google Calendar import feature.
- Fixed bug: cannot shutdown PC while BitPim is in the System Tray.
- Fixed bug: undocking laptop crashes BitPim.
- Fixed bug: run minimized does not go to System Tray.
- Added color coded program status.
- New GUI layout for media, separate nodes for all origins.
- Added summary screen to show size and quantity of media.
- Add right-click menus to media-related items in tree view.
- Add feature to move media from one origin to another (right-click file to move).
- Add support for media files of the same name in different origins.
- Add ability to add media to all origins, note: some origins are read only so updates in
BitPim will not appear in the phone, check phone help.
- Add feature to export media files (right-click in tree view) to zip file and filesystem.
- Add list view for media panel.
- Fixed incorrect wallpaper sizes on LG-VX8100.
- Fixed bug in preview window for wallpaper editor which cause it to be cropped in some cases.
- Add support for preserving media file timestamps (not implemented on all phones).
- Internal storage of media moved to database, media files now stored in origin directories.
- Added patch to prevent 0 size ringers when getting ringers from phones which block reading (e.g. 8100)
when the ringers were previously uploaded using bitpim.
- Fixed auto-detection for phones that have 2 comm ports.
- Fixed BREW file timestamp issue.
- Fix bug writing the phonebook to the LG-VX9800.
- Got around V3cm reading ringtones issue.
- Fixed A950 reading non-existing index file issue.
- Organized-by-size GUI update.
- Allow access to 'My Sounds' on LG-VX5200.
- Added suport for the SCH-A950 phone. See the Help section for more details.
- Added phone detection for Motorola V3c/V3cm phones. Support for V3c/V3cm is indentical to the V710/V710m phones.
- Fixed bug saving wallpaper and ringtones in rightclick menu.
- Fixed bug requiring restart after phone model change.
- LG-PM325 Add write support for phonebook, calendar, wallpaper
and ringtones.
- Add support for iso-8859-1 characters on, LG-VX4400, LG-LX5450, Toshiba VM4050, LG-PM225, LG-PM325.
This will allow phonebooks with names with accented characters and other non-ascii characters supported by the phone to work.
- Added support for the Motorola V710 phone. Supported features include phonebook, calendar, ringtones, wallpapers, and SMS. See the Help section for more details.
- Added support to the Motorola V710m, which is the V710+OBEX.
- Add support for LG-LX5550 (Alltel).
- Add support for LG8100 (Telus Mobility).
- Sprint Samsung phones Increase limit on ringers to 250K.
- Fixed Task Bar Icon discrepancies.
- Improved Data Recording playback.
- Fixed bugs introduced with new GUI, phone reboot, standby, todolist send/get, call history stats, drag and drop.
- Add support for iso-8859-1 characters on, LG-VX5200, LG-VX6100, LG-VX7000, LX-VX8100, LG-VX9800.
This will allow phonebooks with names with accented characters and other non-ascii characters supported by the phone to work.
- Added System-Tray-On-Closed feature.
- LG VI125: Add readonly phonebook support for this Sprint phone.
- Fixed bugs with new GUI, getting call history, phonebook column picker and outlook import filter.
- Fixed exception when outlook is not installed for Windows.
- Fixed exception when trying to access blocked files.
- LG VX7000: Cope gracefully when updating ringtones and the index says a file exists that doesn't actually exist.
- Add support for LG6190 (Bell Mobility).
- Fix bug writing phonebook on LG-PM225.
- Added Data Recording feature.
- New look and feel for BitPim main screen
- Fixed bug in 0.8.09 that caused exception in media conversion
- Samsung A620/A740/A840: Add capability to upload wallpaper
to phone. Fix writing of calendar alarm times. (Rounds down
to 0, 10, 30, or 60 minutes).
- Add read support for LG-PM325 phonebook, calendar, wallpaper
ringtones, call history and SMS.
- Added new toolbar to main window.
- Added Call History export to CSV format.
- Add phonebook read/write support for LG VI-5225 (STI-Mobile).
- Import Outlook Contacts:Added contact category priority filter.
- Add support for LG6200 (Bell Mobility).
- Added Phone Setting Wizard feature.
- Windows libusb is no longer looked for on Windows. (To use libusb on Windows,
you had to have a device driver first. And if you had a device driver, you'd have no need for libusb.)
- Mac The native Mac online help system is used for BitPim help.
(Note: if the help viewer is slow or has other issues then that is a known issue
and nothing to do with BitPim)
- Mac The top pane of the comm port selection dialog would startup zero sized so you wouldn't know it is there. Now forced to be
shown.
- Add support for Samsung VI660 (SPH-A660).
- Fixed the issue of BitPim not being aware of passing midnight.
- Added color coded labels to editable fields.
- Add support for LG C2000 (Cingular).
- Added phone detection at BitPim startup.
- Added Call History historical data viewing capability.
- Allow Media filenames to contain hyphen, underscore and brackets on LG-VX8100/9800
- Add support for LG-PM225 (Sprint).
- Samsung A740/A840: On writing phonebook to phone, use default
ringer and wallpaper. (Instead of Boardwalk and "People 20").
- Added SMS historical data viewing capability.
- Added phonebook read support for the Samsung SPH-N400.
- Add support for Sanyo RL-4930.
- Add support for Samsung SPH-A840.
- Fixed bug importing repeating all-day events from Outlook
- There is now a help page for when CRC errors are detected
- Added Playlist Management feature.
- Added Playlist support to the LG-VX9800.
- Added a work-around for not being able to read ringtone files
from the LG-VX8100(V6/7).
- Added a feature that allows Window users to minimize BitPim into
the System Tray (Task Bar Icon). Users can enable/disable this
option from the Settings dialog.
- Samsung Sprint Phones: Fixed group assignments for
phonebook writes.
- Added support for the Toshiba VM4050 phonebook writing and fixed
bug in phonebook read, added VM4050 to help screens
- Fixed bug that hid autosync feature added in previous version
- Added support for LG-VX6100 Memo (notepad) read/write
- Fixed Help display bug on Mac & Linux.
- Added the Preset Duration parameter to the Calendar Import Filter
Dialog.
- Added the feature that allows the Calendar Import Filter Dialog to
remember its previous settings.
- Added the capablity to set Category, Ringtone, or Wallpaper to
multiple contacts. Please see the Howtos section of the Help
file for more details.
- Fixed bug that prevented writing wallpaper and ringtones to the LG VX5200
- Displayed expanded view of the SMS tree upon initialization.
- Improved Phone Contact Editor part 2.
- Added support for the Toshiba VM4050 (phonebook reading and auto detect only)
- Add 'AutoSync' feature to automate synchronizing PC calendar with phone
- Fixed LG-VX3200 phonebook read/write exception.
- Added Import Outlook Notes feature.
- Samsung A620/A740: Can now write ringtones to phone. Calendar fixes.
- Fixed LG-VX8100/9800 phonebook speed dial bug.
- Added Import Outlook Tasks feature.
- Fixed Outlook Calendar all-day events spreading to the next day.
- Add support for Sanyo VI-2300.
- Sanyo Phones: Add reading of sms and todo.
- Fixed bug that prevented writing memos to the LG VX5200
- Added support for multiple data directories feature. Please see the Howtos section for more details.
- Added a feature to the Phone Contact Editor that allows users to
navigate to the next/previous contact item.
- For calendar events, combined the description and location with the
format 'description[location]'.
- LG VX8100/VX9800:
- Added a feature to to get/send My Sounds media files.
- Preserved previous ringtone and image IDs.
- Fixed failed-to-write-contact-entry exception.
- Fixed failed-to-read-media-file exception.
- In the Today tab, fixed the order of the SMS and
Call History items.
- Sprint Samsung Phones: Fixed calendar writing.
- Sanyo Phones: Fix phonebook writing that was broken
in 8.03. Avoid exceptions when writing media to phone.
(Occured with MM-8300).
- Fix problem with pager and none numbers causing exceptions on
LG VX5200, LG VX8100 and a few other LG phones.
- Added full support for the LG LX5450 (Alltel).
- Fixed SMS Deletion exception.
- Added SMS Export to CSV and mbox formats.
- Update filesystem tab with new look and feel. Supports drag and drop
for copying files into the phone's file system.
- Sanyo phones: Added reading of call history.
- Sanyo picture phones: On reading camera pics, rename
duplicate filenames. This prevents smaller "saved to phone"
pictures from clobbering the original "in camera" pictures.
- LG VX8100/VX-9800: Added the capability to retrieve video files.
These files can also be played by an appropriate software player (if installed).
- Fixed apparent program frozen issue.
- Fixed Filesystem Backup exception.
- Sanyo MM-7400 Add calendar write support.
- Sanyo MM-8300 Handle clear of unused events properly
when writing the calendar.
- Fixed problem with writing wallpapers and ringtones to the LG-VX9800.
- Fixed problem with parsing SMS outbox messages from the LG-VX9800.
- Added every-nth-month capability to the Calendar feature.
- Fixed exception generated when a calendar event with a long description is read.
- Allowed the LG-VX8100 to access wallpapers and ringtones files stored on the miniSD card, similar to the LG-VX9800.
- Add support for Samsung SPH-A740 (Sprint). Read/write of phonebook
and calendar, and reading of wallpaper/camera and ringtones
supported.
- Fixed LG-VX7000 Call History feature.
- Added full support to the LG-VX9800.
- Added Calendar, Call History, Memo, and SMS support to the LG-VX3200.
- Add calendar write support for MM-8300
- Improved phonebook writing feature of the LG-G4015.
- Fixed LG VX8100 wallpaper size.
- Added phone detection for unknown CDMA phones.
- Added full support for the LG VX5200.
- Improved UNICODE support
- Added full support for the LG VX4500.
- Added support for the Sanyo MM-8300
- Fixed Calendar tab background redraw problem.
- Fixed Phone File System Dir Listing problem.
- Samsung SPH-A620 Wallpaper readout now includes pictures
in wallet and downloaded images/screensavers
- Preserved "_HELP_NAVTREE_ID" in Help htd files.
- Fixed LG VX8100 PhoneBook support to allow 'W' character (Wait) in dialstrings.
- Added LG G4015 phone support.
- Accommodated .ics file extension for vCalendar Import.
- Added Calendar and Memo support to the LG VX8000 phone.
- Fixed and improved 'bad cache dir' problem.
- Turned on protocol log during auto-detection process.
- Adapted several Palm's vCard extensions.
- Added phonebook read/write support for the SPH-N200.
- Added full support for the LG VX-6000.
- Added phone file system emulation for development.
- Provided a temporary fix for LG VX8100 BREW file system listing.
- In the SMS tab, display the messages in the order of received
date/time.
- Added Calendar support to LG-VX4400.
- Added a warning message dialog if a ringtone being added is
too big.
- Added a dialog to display Outlook Calendar Items that failed to
import.
- Added the capability to retrieve Voice Memo data from the
LG VX-4650.
- Completed all Help files.
- Fixed bug that caused the horizontal scrolled-bar of the
phonebook tab to disappear after turning on & off the
preview panel.
- Fixed a bug that caused old monthly event data to generate
exceptions.
- Added the Today tab.
- Added Volume Adjustment feature to mp3 media conversion.
- Added a file caching capability when reading BREW EFS files from
the phone. This feature avoids reading unchanged media files
repetitively from phone.
- For SMS messages, added field 'Read' and 'Delivery Confirmation'.
- For Calendar Events, added field 'Vibrate'.
- For CAll History, added field 'Duration'.
- Added support to LG-VX8100 phones: phonebook, calendar,
wallpapers, ringtones, text memo, call history, phone info,
and auto-detection.
- Added support to LG-VX4650 phones: phonebook, calendar,
wallpapers, ringtones, text memo, call history,
and auto-detection.
- Sanyo MM-7400 Increase wallpaper upload size to 176x220.
- Fixed shift+Add wallpaper feature.
- Improved Hex Editor.
- Fixed media name change notification to Phonebook contacts and
Calendar events. When users rename wallpapers or ringtones, the
changes will be propagated to all Phonebook contacts and Calendar
events, which may require (re)syncing data between BitPim and the
phones.
- Added TimeZone capability to vCalendar Import.
- Added "nth *day (ie 1st Monday) of every month" repeat feature
to Calendar Events. Also extended this feature to other
Calendar Import/Export capabilities.
- Added BCI file support (work-around) to wallpaper tab. Waiting
for a wxPython fix to fully integrate BCI with wxPython & BitPim.
- Fixed Samsung SCH-A650/A670 SMS parsing error.
- Fixed Samsung SCH-A650/A670 Contacts Names Unicode error.
- Fixed Contacts & Calendar print problems.
- Fixed exception caused by righ-click in the File System View
window.
- Fixed bug 878876: Toggle Phonebook Preview pane.
- Added the capability for users to view historical phonebook data.
- Added a feature that would allow BitPim to download (and upload)
wallpapers and ringtones which file names may be illegal on the
host system.
- Added numerical input fields for Clip Start, Clip End, and QCP Clip
Volume to the Ringtone Conversion Dialog.
- Added sound/size optimization for QCP conversion to the Ringtone
Conversion Dialog.
- Fixed a bug which raised an exception when trying to print out
Calendar Events that have '&'s in its summaries/descriptions.
- Made some improvements to the HexViewer feature.
- Fixed a resizing bug in the Contacts Import Dialog.
- Updated several bits of help including a section on the LG VX8000.
You can now get Mac Prolific PL2303 drivers from the Prolific website.
Thanks to David Hechtman for the information.
- LG VX-3200 Some support added for this phone. Make sure
you read the help notes first. This functionality was contributed
by Bruce Schurmann.
- Added a simple List View and Monthly View calendar events print
capability.
- For any phone that can be auto-detected, users now can assign
an owner's name to it.
- In Windows, added the capability to drag-and-drop wallpaper and
ringtone files from BitPim to other Windows applications.
- For the Wallpaper and Ringer tabs, added the 'copy', 'paste',
and 'rename' menu items (and capability) to the context menu
(right click) and the main menu.
- Added 'Expand All' and 'Collapse All' context menu items to the
SMS tab.
- Added 'Organize Items by', 'Expand All', and 'Collapse All' to
the Call History tab. The Call History items can now be
organized by type, by date, or by number/contact.
- Add auto-detection Sanyo phones and Samsung SPH-A460 and SPH-A620.
- Add reading and write todos (task list) for SPH-A460 and A620.
Reorganized some A460 and A620
code to make supporting other Samsung phones easier
- Sanyo MM-7400 Should now read all media from the phone.
- Added CSV Calendar Import/Export feature.
- Updated versions of various components used by BitPim
- Added the Call History tab to the main BitPim display.
- Added an initial implementation of the Phone Auto-Detect feature.
Currently, the only phones that support this feature are the
Samsung SCH-A310/A650/A670.
- Minor display improvement to ther SMS Tab display.
- Samsung SCH-A670 Some bug fixes:
- Better transition from mode Modem to Brew and back.
- Eliminated the "Cannot seek large file" error message. To avoid
this error message, users would need to re-download camera
images from the phone (Get Data -> Wallpapers)
- Fixed bug with adding jpeg and GIF wallpaper images.
- Added speed dial, wallpaper, and ringtone info to vCard Import/Export.
- Added Contacts CSV Export.
- Added Phone Info Dialog feature. Supported phones include the
Samsung SCh-A310/SCH-A650/A670.
- Added a feature that allows users to add raw/unprocessed image files.
This feature is invoked by pressing a shift key while clicking on the
'Add' button. On the Samsung SCH-A670, this feature can be used to add
GIF or animated GIF files, which are not directly supported by BitPim.
- LG Phones When corrupt data is detected on the phone
you will be given a detailed help page about it rather than
just an exception.
- Samsung SPH-A460 Can read/write phonebook and calendar.
See the Samsung
model notes
for information about oddities when writing the phonebook to the phone.
- Samsung SPH-A460 Read todolist from phone
- LG VX6100 Set maximum filename length for ringers and
wallpaper to 20 characters. (John O'Shaughnessy)
- LG VX6100 Increased wallpaper size from 128x148 to
132x148 (and 132x160 for fullscreen) (John O'Shaughnessy)
- LG TM520/VX10 Support for these phones will be removed in
0.7.31 unless someone steps forward to maintain them.
- BitFling now works with SPH-A620 and probably other Samsung phones.
- Added the Task Todo tab to the main BitPim display.
- Added the SMS tab to the main BitPim display.
- Cosmetic and usability tweaks from Adit Panchal
- There is now a table in the online help
that lists which BitPim features are supported by which phones. The page also
points to what features will be supported and when.
- LG VX8000 Initial support for this phone added
- Samsung SCH-A650/A670Added Task Todo and SMS support.
- Samsung SPH-A620/VGA1000 Camera picture filenames now
use caption name instead of timestamp based filename.
- Many cosmetic and usability tweaks from Adit Panchal
- BitFling has been fixed.
- When adding images you can tell BitPim what you intend to
use the image for (eg fullscreen startup image or outside LCD
callerid). This is all part of a display that lets you select
exactly what part of the image you want imported. Note that we
don't have all the sizes for phone models. If you have details
on specific image sizes for various uses for phone models, then
read
this set of messages and then post to tbe bitpim-user
mailing list.
- Sanyo MM-7400 Disabled calendar writing.
- Added 2 more filtering parameters to Calendar Import function.
- Added phone textual memo/note feature.
- Added a feature that allows users to check for any BitPim
program updates.
- Added the capability to import data from vCalendar data files.
- Mac Now have the Metal appearance. Will not be
getting an 'i' prefix. Download is reduced in size by a third.
- Sanyo SCP-7300 Increased wallpaper size from 132x144 to 132x176.
- Sanyo MM-7400 Reading and writing of calendar should work
- Samsung SPH-A620/VGA1000Work around buggy phone software that
caused the apparent number of numbers in phone to increase with
repeated writes of phonebook. Preserve birthdays, where possible,
when writting phonebook.
- LG Phones The length of memos has been increased to
what each phone model supports (64 chars on VX4500 and VX6100,
48 on VX4600, 32 on all other models.)
- SK6100/SK Music Slider (Pelephone, Israel) Added basic
read-only access to the phonebook.
- Samsung SCH-A670 Some fixes and enhancements:
- Create media directories if they do not exist.
- For contact names, if Full name is not specified, will use
"First Middle Last" combination.
- jpeg is now the default wallpaper format, which will allow
these images to be reliably used as contact pix id.
- Video clips can now be downloaded with other wallpaper images.
- There is now a read-only mode, set in the preferences. If
you turn read-only on then BitPim won't do anything that does
modifications to your phone. If you turn read-only off, then
you have to restart BitPim for it to take effect.
- Mac Many changes:
- Fixed various issues so that the ringer format
conversion (except PureVoice/QCP) can happen.
- Wallpaper and ringtone pane background forced to white
- Items in the wallpaper and ringtone panes can be double
clicked on (or right click menu - Open) and they will be
launched in the appropriate program.
- Samsung SCH-A670 Fixed ringtone format conversion process.
- Samsung SPH-A620/VGA1000 Can now write the phonebook to the phone.
Ringtone and wallpaper assignments are not preserved.
- Sanyo Phones Calendar code has been updated to newer BitPim internal
calendar format. Please note any problems.
- Bitmap (BMP) images with less than 236 colours are saved in
the smaller 8 bit format (ie using a palette).
- The wallpaper and ringtone displays have been replaced with
an improved user interface in both functionality and appearance.
The wallpaper display now works out image information directly
from the file (eg you could rename a jpeg to .png and it will
see work out that it is jpeg). You can also organize in various
ways (try the right click menu). The ringtone display also uses
the new interface but doesn't have the file type recognition or
organizing implemented yet.
- The matching of imported/incoming phonebook entries against
what you already have has been sped up. (A C implementation of
the Jaro Winkler algorithm is used.) There is also a progress
dialog with estimated remaining time displayed if there is a lot
of matching to do (multiply the number of incoming items with
the number of existing items to get an idea of how much work is
done).
- The phonebook and calendar data is now stored in a
transactional database (we use SQLite behind the scenes) which
allows for implementing undo, archiving of old entries,
concurrent instances of BitPim, storing old data so we can
calculate changes for doing syncing and various other goodness.
The other types of data (eg wallpaper and ringtones) will also
be changing to use this database.
- There is now an improved user interface for adding and
editing calendar events. Most of the phone modules do not (yet)
support the extra fields available, but will do so over the next
few releases.
- SCH-A670 Phonebook contacts now fully support wallpaper
and ringtone assignments. Uploaded wallpapers are automatically
converted to 128x96 24-bit BMP format and can be used for
phonebook wallpaper assignments. Better transition in and out of
File System mode. Calendar repeat events are now supported.
- SCH-A650 Wallpaper images with 256 colors or fewer are
converted to 8-bit PNG format. Others are converted to 24-bit PNG
format. Better transition in and out of File System mode. Calendar
repeat events are now supported.
- Sanyo MM-7400 Disable reading of ringer/wallpaper
assignments (which are really not handled properly for Sanyo phones
anyway) so that phonebook read will work. Disabled calendar options
as they seem not to work.
- Added option to filesystem browser (Brew mode) to return phone
to modem mode (AT commands). Known to work for some Samsung and
Sanyo models. Use with caution on other phones.
- Outlook When importing contacts, only email addresses
with a a type of SMTP are imported. Other ones, such as those
used for X.400 email, are ignored.
- SCH-A650 Correctly retrieve and save ringtone
assignments in phonebook entries.
- Sanyo MM-7400 Please do not use 0.7.23 for this phone,
use 0.7.24 or a later version.
[Added option for this phone. Assumes
that this phone is similar to the PM-8200. If you find
bugs, or experience timouts and are willing to help debug
the driver for this phone, please post on one of the
mailing lists.]
- LG VX6100 Support for this phone has now been
added courtesy of John O'Shaughnessy.
- Wallpaper reading (including camera images) and writing works.
- Ringtone reading and writing works.
- Phonebook reading and writing works with the exception that wallpapers
set in BitPim are ignored when sent to the phone.
- Calendar reading works. Calendar writing does not.
- Fix a bug in the import process when two imported entries
matched the same existing entry. Now the best import entry is
always chosen, and the underlying data consistency is
maintained.
- Fixed SF bug #1062904: users cannot close calendar editor
dialog.
- SCH-A650 Fixed bugs in reading and writing phonebook,
calendar, wallpapers, and ringtones.
- SCH-A670 Added support for download of camera pictures
as part of wallpaper gets. Partial support for caller-id assignments
in phonebook: assignments of ringers and gallery photos (not other
wallpapers) made on phone are preserved in BitPim.
- eGroupware Workarounds for various bugs in
eGroupware. Note that eGroupware has an issue with categories,
and you may experience issues when editing in both BitPim and
the eGroupware web interface.
- There are some visual glitches in the phonebook import
dialog. Resize the window and they will go away. (Long story).
- You can now export to eGroupware
- Windows 95/98/Me The Microsoft Layer For Unicode is
now installed with BitPim so you won't get random crashes in
MSVCRT.DLL
- Samsung Phones Preliminary support for various features has
added for the following phones. Various features may be incomplete
or buggy.
- SCH-A310 Reading and writing of the calendar and phonebook
- SPH-A620 Reading of the phonebook. Reading and writing
of the calendar. Reading of photos from the phone's camera.
- SCH-A650 Reading and writing of the phonebook, calendar,
ringtones and wallpaper.
- SCH-A670 Reading and writing of the phonebook, calendar,
ringtones and wallpaper.
- You can now import phonebook contact information from eGroupware
- Windows The Microsoft CHM (Compressed HTML) format
help file is now used from within BitPim, and so you will get
the standard Microsoft Help viewer instead of the wxWidgets one.
As a bonus the Microsoft Viewer understands stylesheets so you
will see the help text in all its green glory!
- Mac py2app is now used for packaging BitPim up. Let us know
if you see any issues.
- Sanyo Phones Wallpaper written to Sanyo phones is now
more likely to be accepted by the phone. The PNG files are
converted to 8 bit colour and the size of the colour map is
reduced to make the file size less than 16K.
- Various minor tweaks and cleanups.
- Sometimes Outlook comma separates the Categories field
instead of semi-colon like normal. BitPim now deals with this
in the import.
- Fixed omitted field that was caused by importing vcards with
a "uid" field.
- LG VX7000 Support for this phone has now been added
thanks to a phone loan by RPI Wireless. LG took the
opportunity to make the firmware functionality and quality worse
than their previous phones. There may still be some problems
where the code assumes the phone won't be as stupid as it
actually is.
- The phonebook reading and writing works, although there
may be some minor issues with the writing due to the new
restricted fields available. It also looks like the speed
dials might not be written exactly right due to the phone
re-arranging some phone numbers some of the time.
- LG halved the number of phone number types available.
Phone number types that the phone doesn't have (eg Pager)
are ignored.
- The phone is very reluctant to reveal how many phonebook
entries are present. BitPim works around this, but the
workaround will fail if you have no entries at all.
Consequently do not ask BitPim to read the phonebook if it
is empty.
- Calendar reading/writing doesn't work. (They tweaked
some of the fields since prior phone models).
- Wallpaper and ringtone reading and writing work. The
BitPim code currently limits you to 50 of each. If anyone
knows what the real limit is, or why the phone goes to the
trouble of storing the total amount of space used by the
ringtones and wallpapers then please post on bitpim-devel.
- Sanyo Phones Allow entries with no name.
- Linux BitPim is now packaged using cx-Freeze 3.0
- You can now filter by categories in the import dialogs.
- Your previous settings for the filters (eg requiring a name,
number, email address etc) as well as the categories are
remembered.
- vCard import now understands charsets instead of always
using ISO 8859-1. It also correctly deals with vCards already
in a Unicode file as Apple Addressbook likes to do.
- All the standard character set converters are now included
with the binary distribution of BitPim instead of just two or
three. This allows almost any charset to be used in vcards.
- An issue with transparency and black backgrounds on 16 bit
colour displays on Windows was fixed (thanks to Kevin Swan for
providing the test files and screenshots).
- We decided to stay with wxPython 2.5. Currently the Mac
version is not Unicode, but the other platforms are. That will
be addressed in the future.
- Many minor tweaks and fixes for GUI issues reported on the
mailing lists. Thanks to all those who took the time to give
accurate reproducible reports.
- Fixed a filesystem protocol issue where the LG VX7000 was
behaving differently than all the other phones. This will fix
some Motorola V710 issues as well.
- Sanyo Phones
- For some Sanyo phones, the default (first)
phone number for each name will be preserved for reads and writes.
- Deleting call alarms read from phone won't cause exception.
(Pre 0.7.18 calendar data must be overwritten by reading from phone.)
- Samsung A620 Added support for downloading camera
pictures. No support yet for phonebook, calendar, wallpapers
etc.
- The only change in this version is that BitPim now uses
wxPython 2.5. wxPython is the library BitPim uses for the user
interface (GUI). This is a significant stability and
compatibility upgrade against the previous version of wxPython.
Mac users in particular should notice a big difference. For
Linux users, the underlying library is changed from GTK1 to GTK2
which is nicer as well. Note We have not made any bug
fixes or any other behavioral changes. This is so that we can
distinguish issues being with the upgrade to wxPython 2.5 vs
generic in BitPim.
- With the upgrade to wxPython 2.5, BitPim now also uses
unicode for the user interface. We have not yet tested how the
phones will deal with this. They likely won't like it. We will
be fixing this is future BitPim releases. You are advised not
to try non-ascii characters until we fixed the various phone
modules to cope with it correctly.
- The correct entries are used when you use "selected entries"
for phonebook printing or vCard export.
- You can now select all with Ctrl-A, delete with the Del key
and add new with Ctrl-N in most panes.
- Speed dials are now shown in [square brackets] in the
various phonebook views.
- The dialog that helps show how newly read phonebook data is
merged with existing data is back with completely new user
interface. Please click the Help button to understand what it
is showing and how to change things.
- US phonenumbers are now normalised and formatted in a
standard way. Other phone numbers are left alone.
- Improved vcard output. Unfortunately several programs
refuse to import them despite following the standard to the
letter. Any assistance in figuring out how the other programs
are broken would be appreciated.
- Some changes to the underlying code for escaping and
unescaping characters in the protocols. This was needed because
the Samsung SCH-A650 was unnecessarily escaping data which the
code didn't account for. Thanks to Stu Grossman for discovering
this.
- When you double click on a field in the phonebook, the
editor starts up with focus on that field.
- More columns are available in the phonebook view. They are
of interest if you have entries with lots of data (eg more than
5 phone numbers). Note that BitPim has always stored all data,
it just didn't have columns pre-defined for all of it.
- You must use a device driver instead of direct USB
access to phones modem interfaces or USB to serial devices.
Although the help makes this somewhat clear, many users
try anyway. BitPim will now mark those interfaces as unavailable.
- Windows Some of the packages BitPim uses started
leaving off version numbers on their DLLs. This caused the
installer to not replace the older files with the new ones. The
installer has now been told to always replace files in the
BitPim program files directory. That will ensure upgrades and
downgrades always work as expected (as of 0.7.16 anyway).
Thanks to Allen Day for finding the underlying cause.
- Sanyo phones Fixed reading of calendar which was broken in
0.7.15.
- Sanyo SCP-4920 Really actually fix the ordering of
phone number types.
- There is no longer any console output on Linux or Mac,
and there shouldn't be the I/O errors on Windows which
were indirectly caused by console output issues when
a console isn't present.
- vCard reading sped up considerably
- If the files supplied for CSV or vCard import are in Unicode
(eg UTF 16) then they will be read correctly
- You can now import contacts from Qtopia Desktop (eg as used
with the Sharp Zaurus)
- The dialog used to confirm a phonebook being read in/imported
is now not shown. It was coming up blank for many Mac users
and was somewhat user unfriendly anyway. Any UI designers out
there want to help work on a replacement?
- LG VX4500 Speed dials now read/written correctly
- Sanyo Phones Reduce WALLPAPER_HEIGHT for several
phones so that wallpaper uploads won't fail
- Sanyo SCP-8100 (Bell Canada) Initial support for the Bell
(Canada) version of the SCP-8100. The firmware in this phone
is somewhat different from Sprint 8100. This release can read the
phonebook, wallpaper and ringers from the phone. However, writing
to the phonebook and reading/writing the calendar will crash BitPim.
- You can now import contacts from Outlook. The importing
should work well.
- You can import contacts from Evolution. You may experience
some issues. Please include an exported vcard of any problem
records if you make any bug reports. The Evolution importer
uses the vCard importer behind the scenes so please read the
notes below.
- You can import contacts from vCards. You may experience
some issues. Please include the vcard if you make any bug reports.
Note The vCard import code is very slow
and the vCard "standard" is a great big hairy mess that
no program implements correctly. BitPim does its best
(part of the reason the code is slow). There will be
speed ups in future releases.
- BitPim no longer makes any attempt to convert
ringtones you add to be in a valid format. That
functionality will be added in the next major release.
- Considerably sped up the display of images in the
right hand pane for wallpaper view
- LG Phones If the phonebook has multiple entries with the
same serial number (which is a serious problem) then BitPim detects
this and raises an alert.
- Sanyo Phones Added ability to write wallpaper and ringers for
all Sanyo phones.
See the Ringer/Wallpaper section
of the Sanyo notes
for further information.
- Sanyo SCP-4920 Fixed ordering of phone number types so that
they agree on the phone and in BitPim.
- Version number system is now sane. The development
series is now 0.7.12.
- Keystrokes work correctly again in the calendar
- Some tweaks in the filesystem directory reading protocol as some
phone models added a spurious extra byte (eg Kyocera KX414)
- Sanyo phones qcp ringtones are now also transferred from the
phone.
- Sanyo SCP-4900 Preliminary support to transfer ringers
and images to the phone. This may work for the SCP-5300 and
SCP-7200 if you set the phone to the 4900 in BitPim.
- Sanyo PM-8200 Can now write phonebook and calendar to
the phone.
- Sanyo RL-4920 Added support for this phone. Please
provide feed back if there are problems.
- Started code to import Outlook Contacts (disabled in
this build)
- Various minor tweaks and bug fixes for issues commonly
occurring in the mailing lists
- Tweaked where the settings that remembered window sizes
and positions is stored to make the config file/registry a
little cleaner. The first time you run this version it
will use the default sizes/positions, and remember them
from that point on.
- Sanyo phones Transfer of ringtones from phone fixed.
(For those phones that support media downloads, namely everything
except 4900 and 5300.) Sanyo PM-8200 is still read-only.
- The routines to switch into Brew mode and LG phonebook mode
have been tweaked and should be more reliable.
- Mac The preferences and About dialog are now in the
normal place for Mac applications.
- Audiovox CDM8900 This phone is no longer supported by
BitPim. Do not use this phone with BitPim. Do not ask for
support. The internal software in this phone is very fragile,
and the phone can be rendered completely inoperable through trivial
operations.
- LG TM520/VX10 The code has been re-instated for this
phone. The other LG items in this change log do not apply to
this phone which uses different code.
- LG VX4600 Reading/writing wallpapers and ringtones
for this phone added. Status of phonebook and calendar is not
known.
- LG phones BitPim previously required that entries
have at least one phone number to write them to the phone. This
has now been relaxed to fit the phone's requirement that there
is at least one phone number or at least one email address. (ie
previously BitPim wouldn't write an entry with only an email
address and no phone numbers. Now it will).
- LG phones LG phones now use slightly different code
for determining the number of phonebook entries. It now also
works correctly with phones that can have more than 255
phonebook entries and you actually have more than that number of
entries.
- LG phones Speed dials are now read and written.
- LG phones If the speed dials or group information
change (ie different than what is already stored on the phone),
then the phone has to be rebooted for the change to take effect.
BitPim does this automatically.
- LG phones You no longer get an exception if the
description for a calendar entry is too long.
- Sanyo phones Phonebook on phone no longer messed up
if duplicate names are written to phone.
- Sanyo SCP-5400 and SCP-7300 Broken in test9, now
fixed.
- Sanyo SCP-5400, SCP-5500, SCP-7300, SCP-8100 Improved
media reading from these phones. Images and ringtones from the
camera, Vision download, and cable upload areas can now be read
from the phone. Filenames for camera images have "$camera_"
prepended so they are not overwritten by wallpapers made from
pictures. Mp4 videos on SCP-5500 won't crash BitPim.
- Sanyo PM-8200 Untested, read-only support added.
Reading of the phonebook will probably work. Reading the
calendar, camera images, wallpaper and ringers may work.
- You can now save the selected items from the wallpaper and ringtone
views.
- You can drag and drop items out of the wallpaper and ringtone views
(drag out not supported on Linux)
- BitFling is finally available
- Started wallpaper download support for Sanyo SCP-8100 and
SCP-5500. Only camera pictures on the phone will be
downloaded. Wallpaper on the phone that was uploaded with Vision or by
cable is not yet transferred. Videos (on the SCP-5500) will be
transferred but will cause all sorts of exceptions/errors. The videos
can be found in the BitPim files directory. Please do not report
bugs yet. Use at your own risk.
- Any combinations of carriage returns and newlines can be used
to terminate the end of line for importing CSV files.
- The ringers pane now uses the same layout and underlying code
as the wallpaper pane. This makes it usable under Mac and
Linux. Double clicking items has no effect any more though as
that code is incomplete.
- LG VX6000 BitPim converts images to BMP. It was
converting them to JPG, but although the phone previews them
correctly, it won't set them as wallpaper correct0ly.
- Sanyo SCP-5400 Add support for reading and writing the
phonebook and calendar.
Changes in 0.7 - test 7
- Sanyo Phones Reboot phone after calendar writes. Reboot
now doesn't cause device name to change.
- Sanyo SCP-5500 Fix calendar writes. Phone put in offline
mode before calendar writes.
- Sanyo SCP-7200 Phone put in offline mode before calendar
writes.
- Sanyo SCP-7300 Add support for reading and writing the
phonebook and calendar. Phone put in offline mode before calendar
writes.
Changes in 0.7 - test 6
- Added 'Other CDMA Phone' type that you can select if your phone uses
the Brew filesystem protocol, but the other features are not supported
in BitPim.
- Started Audiovox CDM 8900 support
- BitPim has changed to the GNU GPL license (details in the LICENSE file
in the source code)
- Characters special to HTML such as ampersand (&) no longer
cause exceptions in the phonebook
- Sanyo SCP-5300 Added builtin ringers list.
- Sanyo SCP-5500 Fix write phonebook to phone failure. Add
calendar support.
- Sanyo SCP-7200 Reading and writing the phonebook is supported.
Calendar is untested.
- Windows BitPim will now work with ports numbered higher than
com9.
- Windows BitPim now finds the location of My
Documents using the correct API call instead of looking in
the registry (a bad way of doing it for various reasons).
Changes in 0.7 - test 5
- Saving of position/size for the following windows:
- Main Application
- Config Dialog
- Comm Browser Dialog
- Print Preview Window
- When saving to JPEG, the quality is set to 100 (ie almost lossless)
- Sanyo Phones Added data integrity measures like used for
Brew and LG phones.
- Sanyo SCP-5500 Added initial support for this phone (aka
VM4500.) Phonebook reading and writing work.
Changes in 0.7 - test 4
- You can now print from the phonebook.
- The wallpaper tab is now based on a new 'media' displayer
which will also be used for ringtones, voice memos etc. This 3
pane layout lets you see thumbnails, and detailed information at
the same time. There is also a preview area on the right where
many actions will be available (eg format conversions, mass
resizing). Please report any problems you see in the interface.
The following are known to be incomplete:
- Rename
- Preview area
- Double clicking/Open launching an external program
- Wallpapers: The format to convert added images to, the maximum name
length and filename characters (as well as case) now come from
each phone's profile rather than being hardcoded to BMP, 19
characters and lower case alphanumerics. VX6000 users will now
appreciate the default format for them being JPEG.
- Windows Now using py2exe 0.5 and InnoSetup 4.1.5.
The new LZMA (aka 7zip) compression in the latter results in a
700kb smaller setup file.
- LG VX4500 This phone has been added but testing of
writing the phonebook is not complete. Additionally some values
may still be wrong for builtin wallpaper names, sizes and
formats etc. If you have some developer ability (eg you can
convert between decimal and hexadecimal) then please join
bitpim-devel mailing list and help complete support for this
phone.
- Sanyo Phones Fix calendar saving which was broken in test 3.
Changes in 0.7 - test 3
Changes in 0.7 - test 2
- You can now clear the contents of the log panes from the
view menu
- Fixed several nasty issues that would affect first time
users with poor interaction between config dialogs, splash
screens and the help tour appearing.
- The get and send dialogs now adjust to what features are
supported between BitPim and your phone. For example it
won't allow you to select wallpapers on Sanyo phones since
we don't have that code (yet).
- Several updates to the CSV import, including implementing
the "Private" and "Category" fields, adding a "Categories"
field, adding a toggle so you can say whether the first row is
headers or not (the DSV library guesses weren't too reliable),
none of the filters are ticked by default.
- You can now sort by any column in the phonebook
- There are now first, middle and last name columns available in
the phonebook
- Implemented missing code that will derive a full name from its
pieces (and vice versa). This is relevant where an entry was
imported as pieces (f,m,l) but phones write out only a full
name (or vice versa).
- You can double click in the phonebook entry preview (on the
right) to edit the entry.
- When using libusb, we have a builtin database of vendor, product and
interface information as well USB protocols. This is used to give
more detail in the port browser.
- Modems are now also listed along with serial ports (and workalikes)
in the com port browser. This means that auto-detection of Sanyo
phones should work.
- Devices that are likely to be the selected phone are now marked with
an asterisk in the com port browser
- The com port browser and auto detect code are now passed the phone
module and only pay attention to devices that are that phone (before
they would notice any phone supported by BitPim)
- Windows Generate a dotted quad style version id for bitpim.exe
otherwise upgrades can leave old versions of the executable in place
when upgrading.
- LG VX4400 BitPim now works correctly if your phonebook is
completely empty.
- LG VX4400/VX6000 BitPim now copes if the calendar exceptions
file is not present.
- LG TM520/VX10 These phones are no longer being maintained
and cannot be selected. If you would like to maintain them, please
follow the instructions on the BitPim developer page.
Changes in 0.7 - test 1
- You can save the contents of the com port browser as HTML
so other people can see what you see.
- Protocol descriptions are now used throughout making
maintenance and coding a lot easier.
- Exceptions have their details copied to the Log window
- Exceptions now include local variables from the last 6 frames
making it easier to diagnose what happened
- If a protocol decoding exception occurs, then buffer
details are dumped to the ordinary log
- Introduced a 0.3 second delay after grabbing each file
when making a backup. If this isn't done the phone eventually
gets overwhelmed and returns truncated buffers amongst other
things
- Support for Sanyo 4900/8100 added
- Support for LG VX6000 added. Thanks to www.rpiwireless.com for
the loan of a phone and cable.
- There is incomplete support for the LG TM520 and VX10.
Developers are welcome to contribute the remainder of the
support.
- Totally revamped phonebook pane
- Phonebook entry editor that allows ordering and editing
of all fields
- Groups can be edited in the phonebook entry editor
- Phonebook entries can be imported from CSV with predefined
profiles for Palm Desktop, Mozilla and Outlook Express
- Import dialog with intelligent matching against
existing entries (in a similar manner to how you do reconciliation
with banking programs).
- The wallpaper view resizes all images when viewing (note the
files on disk are not modified. This means that you
will see complete camera images rather than just the top left
corner.
- BitPim can now access appropriate devices via direct USB
even if a driver is not installed. This allows using straight
USB cables on all platforms. Note however that the VX4400 has
a timeout issue in its USB implementation that also affects
direct USB access. The VX6000 and other phones do not have
this problem.
- Windows Fixed a bug in comscan that could result in
not completely enumerating registry keys. This would result
in some COM ports not being found that were perfectly valid.
- Windows Updated to InnoSetup 4
- LG VX4400/VX6000 When writing out wallpaper/ringtones,
files to be written are only actually written if they are
a different length than the one on the phone. This makes it
considerably quicker to update wallpapers and ringtones.
- LG VX4400/VX6000 The groups file on the phone is
now updated based on the categories you use in your entries.
Please see the phone specific notes in the online help for
important information about this. Support requests where the
notes have obviously not been read will be ignored.
- LG VX4400/VX6000 The algorithm for ordering and
values of the indices for wallpapers and ringtones was changed.
If you read in everything, you can delete the index files from
the filesystem view and write out your phonebook, calendar,
wallpaper and ringtones. The new indices will start from zero
and all phonebook entries etc will be updated. It appears that
the VX4400 is less stupid with the new number allocation scheme.
- LG VX4400/VX6000 Wallpaper and ringtone index files
will be created if they don't exist already.
- Developer A protocol analyser is available. Press
Ctrl-Alt-P in a Log pane to see it. You can also run the
standalone version.
- Developer Protocol examples are in the examples
directory in CVS
- Developer There is code to interface with the
Windows Address Book using COM/MAPI in
native/wab
Changes in 0.62
- Scrolling in the log windows now always leaves text visible
- Absurd dates on files in filesystem view no longer cause an exception
- Work around the LGE buggy driver which has difficulty with the concept
of timeouts
- Updated to pySerial 2, wxPython 2.4.2.4 on all platforms and
Python 2.3.2 on Windows
Changes in 0.61
- Com port detection works correctly on Windows 2000
- Device drivers with incorrectly formatted dates are handled without generating an error
Changes in 0.6 - test 5
- Fixed reading file contents to be more stringent. This corrected
an issue seen with the LG VX6000 that returned extra nonsense on the
end of read file requests.
- Added *, #, P and T as the list of allowed characters in phone numbers
for the VX4400
- You can now paste from the clipboard into wallpaper tab. (Not too useful
since you will probably want to crop the images yourself, as well as give them
a sensible name.)
- Hid the File Print/Print Preview menu items since they don't do anything
either
- John Franklin figured out the ?internal field for calendar entries
Changes in 0.6 - test 4
- BCI (Brew Compressed Images) are now supported. They will be displayed
in the wallpaper view, and correctly uploaded to the phone etc.
- Filesystem view now shows file sizes and last modified dates
- You can backup and restore directories/trees from the filesystem view
- All issues in open SourceForge bug reports fixed
- Updated to newest pySerial
Changes in 0.6 - test 3
- Removed the 'Version Information' setting from get phone
data, as it isn't possible with the straight USB cable, and
requires the phone to be in RS232 mode with the USB to serial
cable. You can easily get this information from the phone
itself.
- Removed the File Save/New/Open menus as they did nothing,
and some users may have been lead to believe they did
- Splash screen
- Online help is hooked in
- Include a manifest file so that Windows XP users will
see all the widgets in their hideous XP style glory
- Removed the separate version history html file since it
is now part of the online help
- Updated to Python 2.3 on Windows
- Tour is now shown on startup if it is the first time you
have run BitPim
- Auto comm port detection and recovery on comms errors.
- Config dialog no longer pops up on first use as sensible
decisions are made. You can now browse the com ports in the
config dialog
- Filesystem view being on/off now remembered
- The notebook page/pane you were last viewing is remembered and set
on startup
- The files stored on disk are now versioned so if the format
changes on an upgrade, old ones can be dealt with appropriately
- Huge numbers of minor usability and functionality fixes
Changes in 0.6 - test 2
- Now make two attempts to open commport with a delay as it sometimes fails on first
open
- Added a half second delay when switching baud rates as the phone may not be able
to switch as quickly as the host
Changes in 0.6 - test 1
- Can now read and write files bigger than 64kb
- Calendar is now shown
- Worked around Python bug that joins("f:\", "subdir") giving "f:\\subdir"
which is not a valid pathname. This should only have affected users who
told BitPim to use the root directory of a drive, or who mapped their
My Documents folder to the root directory of a drive.
Changes in 0.53
- Also ignore ZbThumbnail.info in the BitPim wallpaper directory (some camera software
litters the directory with it)
Changes in 0.52
- The ringtone tab was also refreshed if you selected to only get wallpaper
- Reading images/ringtones from the phone ONLY uses the index now. The
brew/shared directory could also contain other stuff such as scores from
games that BitPim should have been ignoring.
- You can now do merging as well as overwriting when sending wallpapers
and ringtones to the phone.
- Increased precision of calculation for scaling since it was sometimes
out by one pixel
- Added refresh to the context menu of directories in filesystem view.
You can refresh anyway by closing and opening the directory, but this
wouldn't work with empty directories.
Changes in 0.51
- Index generation for ringtones and wallpapers corrected
Changes in 0.5
- If you change the comm port while BitPim is running, it will
actually pick up the change (in earlier versions you had to exit
and restart due to a bug).
- If mode transition fails, you now get a helpful dialog explaining
possible steps to resolve.
- Files in the root directory in filesystem view are now listed
- Files are displayed in the wallpaper and ringtone view in alphabetical order
- The wallpaper and ringtone index files are somewhat cleaner, although the
phone still misbehaves is you delete an entry on the phone (this is a bug
in the phone and happens no matter what tool you use)
- No more than 30 index entries are added for the wallpaper and ringtone indexes (the limit of the phone)
- Added a guid in the installer setup so that previous versions are uninstalled
correctly. It is recommended that you uninstall versions before 0.5 before
installing 0.5 to keep your add/remove programs entries clean.
- Wallpapers and ringtones are written out in alphabetical order
- BitPim now has an icon
- We now send a generic initialization command. This allows the filesystem
view to work on other Brew phones (AudioVox 9500 and Motorola T720 are known
to work). The wallpaper and ringtone stuff should NOT be used on these
other phones.
- If you add an entry in the phonebook, the label for that
row is now updated when you change the name.
- Ignore the files Windows dumps in the BitPim directories (thumbs.db,
desktop.ini etc)
- Update to wxPython 2.4.0.6
- Changed field sizes in status bar so that they are less likely to
truncate on smaller screens
- Group strings are now read from the phone
- Pressing enter in phonebook moves selection to the right rather than down
- Updating log text and protocol log is now down in an OnIdle handler. This
means the user interface remains usable even when large amounts of logging happen.
Feel free to watch as much logging as you want when you want
Changes in 0.4
- Serial numbers on phonebook entries are now preserved when
writing to the phone. This means you won't lose speeddials and
voicedials (as happened with 0.3).
Changes in 0.3
- Cope with ringtones directory not existing on phone
- Cope with wallpapers directory not existing on phone
- Can now write out your phonebook.
- Can now crudely edit your phonebook
- Changed wallpaper size to be 120x98 instead of 120x100 so
that it comes out correctly centered vertically
- The ondisk format of the phonebook has changed. If you
used 0.2, please delete any stored phonebook (defaults to
My Documentsbitpimphonebookindex.idx)
otherwise BitPim may refuse to start.
Changes in 0.2
- Fixed the issue of wallpapers inside a certain size range
causing image load failures in the user interface.
- Wallpapers that are resized won't have a one pixel wide
black line in the framing area.
- Phonebook is now saved to disk when read.
- The underlying plumbing for the phonebook has been sorted out which will make
editing it possible soon
Changes in 0.1
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