Connecting my Nokia 6111 to my Debian

There are a couple of tools that you can use to connect from linux to a mobile phone over a bluetooth conection. Some of them that I tried include gammu, gnome-bluetooth. I was trying to install gnome-phone-manager. Of course, I did an apt-get to install gammu. I installed gnome-bluetooth from ubuntu repository. Wouldn’t debian maintain that? I am using sid after all!!

Most of these tools are not as simple to use as the nokia phone manager. Part of the reason is certainly the fact that I got used to the PC Suite well before other linux based tools. Nevertheless, I wanted to transfer some backgrounds on to my phone and these tools wont help me right away!

So, I decided to get my hands wet using these primary tools – hcitool, obexftp. Good ones and did the job! Here is what I did and the results.

abishek@ingeneur:~$ hcitool scan
Scanning …
������� 00:15:DE:11:6B:74������ Ingeneur’ nokia

That is my phone alright.

abishek@ingeneur:~$ obexftp -b 00:15:DE:11:6B:74 –put �splash.png
Browsing 00:15:DE:11:6B:74 …
Channel: 10
Connecting…
done
Sending “mac_osx_linux_splash.png”…|done
Disconnecting…done

That was the simple bg pic from my debian that I wanted on my phone. Getting files as simple as that too.

Interesting, right?