Operating your old Nokia with Ubuntu/Mint

Pairing the devices with Blueman

Install Blueman instead of MATE’s built-in Blueberry (right-click -> quit) tool,

sudo apt install blueman
blueman-manager

Note. also disable it at desktop’s startup (Blueman is already added).

And link your phone with the PC,

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Create pairing with the device

Administrating the phone with Wammu / Gammu

sudo apt install gammu wammu
wammu

Guided configuration
Bluetooth
Nokia phone
Nokia proprietary protocol
Phonet tru Bluetooth
<enter MAC address>

Retrieve -> Contacts all
Retrieve -> Calendar

Wammu feature requests

• match message’s from with contacts
• Ctrl-A (select all) doesn’t work
• no rows color

Trash

old draft

as root (change vendor & product id accordingly adding an x),

lsusb
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x421 product=0x802
apt install wvdial
wvdialconf create

note the line e.g.,

ttyACM0<*1>: Max speed is 230400; that should be safe.

tune the tool,

cd /etc/
cp -pi wvdial.conf wvdial.conf.dist
vi wvdial.conf

Resources

Connect your nokia phone with linux without pc suite!! https://tareqalam.com/2008/07/11/connect-your-nokia-phone-with-linux-without-pc-suite/

(deprecated) Nokuntu: Ubuntu-Nokia connection Suite https://sourceforge.net/projects/nokuntu/

How to Configure Gammu https://www.drupal.org/node/1806030