OBEX (abbreviation of OBject EXchange, also termed IrOBEX) is a communications protocol that facilitates the exchange of binary objects between devices. It is maintained by the Infrared Data Association, but has also been adopted by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and the SyncML wing of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
OpenOBEX is an open source implementation of the Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol. This protocol is optimized for ad-hoc wireless links and can be used to exchange all kinds of objects like files, pictures, calendar entries (vCal) and business cards (vCard). OpenOBEX supports the following
links:
￭ IrDA
￭ Bluetooth
￭ USB
For a list of
supported devices, click
HERE and select your phone manufacturer from the left menu. If you found your phone model on the list, you may carry on with this guide.
Installing OpenOBEXTo manage files on your mobile phone, you'll need two applications:
OpenOBEX and
ObexFTP. You can either try to install it using your package manager (yum, apt-get etc) or, download the sources from Softpedia:
OpenOBEX and
ObexFTP.
If you decide to install them from sources, you will need to have the following packages installed on your system:
gcc make automake1.4 autoconf libusb-dev libtool.
Finally, follow these steps:
OpenOBEX:
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$ mkdir ~/usbobex
$ tar xfz openobex-1.3.tar.gz
$ cd openobex-1.3
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usbobex --enable-apps
$ make
$ make install
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$ bzip2 -cd obexftp-0.20.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
$ cd obexftp-0.20
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make instal
- Open a terminal and type
lsusb.
- Look for a line similar to this:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0421:0428 Nokia Mobile Phones- In this example, 0421 is the VendorID, while 0428 is the ProductID.
- Add the following line to
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules in
Ubuntu:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="VendorID", SYSFS{idProduct}=="ProductID", GROUP="plugdev", USER="yourUserName"- Replace VendorID, ProductID and yourUserName with the correct values.
Using ObexFTP- Open a terminal and type:
CODE
$ ~/usbobex/bin/obex_test -u
Your should see something like:
CODE
Using USB transport, querying available interfaces
Interface 0: Nokia Nokia 6230i (null)
Interface 1: Nokia Nokia 6230i (null)
Interface 2: Nokia Nokia 6230i (null)
:
(Run command as normal user with Ubuntu and as root with everything else)
-u 1 connects to interface 1, while
-l will list directories and files in the root directory.
Downloading filesLet's say we want to get
011.mp3 from the
Music files directory:
CODE
$ obexftp -u 1 -c 'Music files' -g 011.mp3
To upload
file.txt from Desktop to
Documents directory on the phone:
CODE
$ obexftp -u 1 -c 'Documents' -p path/to/Desktop/file.txt
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