CentOS - Nov 2015 - how do I download pictures from a dumb phone?

How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?

I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart.
According the the front, it worships Verizon.
Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind.

If I use a real USB connector to connect it to my PC,
CentOS sees it as a character special device.
What, if anything, I can do with that device, I do not know.
I've not found any settings related to USB.

In case it helps, from menu->settings->phone info:
S/W V. U365.GG01
H/W V. U365.04

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On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?
>
> I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart.
> According the the front, it worships Verizon.
> Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind.
As I should have mentioned earlier:
If there is a way to install software on this phone,
I do not know it.
> If I use a real USB connector to connect it to my PC,
> CentOS sees it as a character special device.
> What, if anything, I can do with that device, I do not know.
> I've not found any settings related to USB.
>
> In case it helps, from menu->settings->phone info:
> S/W V. U365.GG01
> H/W V. U365.04
-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
                                                              --  someeecards

On 11/27/2015 3:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?
>
> I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart.
> According the the front, it worships Verizon.
> Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind.
>
> If I use a real USB connector to connect it to my PC,
> CentOS sees it as a character special device.
> What, if anything, I can do with that device, I do not know.
> I've not found any settings related to USB.
>
> In case it helps, from menu->settings->phone info:
> S/W V. U365.GG01
> H/W V. U365.04 

I've used a program called BitPim on MS Windows to copy stuff to/from 
'dumb' phones like that, it specifically supports Verizon phones.   I 
see there's a Linux version, but no idea what it takes to get working.   
In addition to letting you at the pictures, it will backup and restore 
and edit the address book on the phone.

http://www.bitpim.org/


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 05:40:50PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:

If I understand what you are asking, just:
 - make a 'contact' on the phone that is the Email address of an account
   on some machine you want to send the picture to, or any host that 
   can receive Email with attachments..
 - Use the phone to forward the photo to that contact.
 - That works on mine.  I seem to have to make a contact and use that.
   It doesn't let me to just enter the Email address when I forward the
photo.

////jerry    
  
> How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?
> 
> I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart.
> According the the front, it worships Verizon.
> Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind.
> 
> If I use a real USB connector to connect it to my PC,
> CentOS sees it as a character special device.
> What, if anything, I can do with that device, I do not know.
> I've not found any settings related to USB.
> 
> In case it helps, from menu->settings->phone info:
> S/W V. U365.GG01
> H/W V. U365.04
> 
> -- 
> Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
> "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
> a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
>                                                              -- 
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/27/2015 3:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?
> I've used a program called BitPim on MS Windows to copy stuff to/from
'dumb'
> phones like that, it specifically supports Verizon phones.   I see
there's a
> Linux version, but no idea what it takes to get working.   In addition to 
> letting you at the pictures, it will backup and restore and edit the
address
> book on the phone.
>
> http://www.bitpim.org/
That might work.
The latest rpm is for CentOS 4.5,
so I will need to use the source.
So far, it's not going well.

The e-mail idea wold be good if I were willing
to pay for e-mail just to move pictures.

bitpim seem to be the most likely prospect at the moment.
Anyone have a plan B?

-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
                                                              --  someeecards

On 11/27/2015 4:04 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 05:40:50PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> If I understand what you are asking, just:
>   - make a 'contact' on the phone that is the Email address of an
account
>     on some machine you want to send the picture to, or any host that
>     can receive Email with attachments..
>   - Use the phone to forward the photo to that contact.
>   - That works on mine.  I seem to have to make a contact and use that.
>     It doesn't let me to just enter the Email address when I forward
the photo.
dumb phone services have no email at all unless you pay Verizon or 
whomever $$ per email message sent.



-- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

* Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> [2015-11-27
17:44]:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 
> >How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?
> >
> >I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart.
> >According the the front, it worships Verizon.
> >Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind.
If it has a Micro SD memory card slot, you can insert a SD (or SDHC)
memory card in it, copy the pics to the card, and then read it on your
computer.  All of the dumb phones I've had or seen in the past 5-8 years
or more have had such a slot.  It may be internal, near the battery or
SIM card slot.

--Phil


-- 
Philip Amadeo Saeli
psaeli at zorodyne.com

Inserting anything other than a USB cable into the phone seems to be a no-go.
There is one slightly wider and thinner recess,
but no metal is in it.
It looks like a slightly less dumb model would use
the same outer case and a somewhat different inner case.
>From lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 04e8:6640 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Usb Modem
Enumerator

[root at localhost ~]# file  /dev/bus/usb/002/007
/dev/bus/usb/002/007: character special

I found my Service Guide.  My phone is a Samsung Gusto 2.
A link near
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/gusto-2/#Camera,%20Photos%20&%20Videos
tells me that Samsung Gusto SCH-u360's,
among others,
do not support picture transfer.

Anyone know better?

Anyone know for sure whether bitpim would work if I could make it go?


On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> How do I download pictures from a dumb phone?
>> 
>> I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart.
>> According the the front, it worships Verizon.
>> Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind.
>
> As I should have mentioned earlier:
> If there is a way to install software on this phone,
> I do not know it.
>
>> If I use a real USB connector to connect it to my PC,
>> CentOS sees it as a character special device.
>> What, if anything, I can do with that device, I do not know.
>> I've not found any settings related to USB.
>> 
>> In case it helps, from menu->settings->phone info:
>> S/W V. U365.GG01
>> H/W V. U365.04
-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
                                                              --  someeecards