Hello Marius!

I would like to thank you for writing us this great tutorial! It's very nice to see that my project - ObexFTP front-end - is helping so many people! When I started coding it I never imagined that it would happen. :-)

Cheers,
Daniel.

Hello Daniel!

You're welcome! ObexFTP front-end is wonderful and easy to use!

Kind regards,
Marius

Thank you for a very informative tutorial Marius!
I have followed every step of yours but after clicking on the first icon in the main window in OBEX ftp, i get the following error message

'The Following Command has failed: Listing files under the / folder'

I am unsure how to fix this. I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and a Nokia N70

At the very last written step by the author, try manipulate the numbers as in instead of 1 as suggested by author, try 001.

If not try 000 or 002.

If all three doesnt apply change your cable to another usb port and do as above again. To know whether you succeed or not, simply test for each trial.

Keep transport as USB if you are using cable connection (do not change).

I amusing DKU2 cable for my Nokia 7600. I was able to connect after manipulating the numbers.

To the author, GREAT tutoring!

I've got the same problem as Jack:
'The Following Command has failed: Listing files under the / folder'

I think it is a permissions issue (probably file /etc/udev/rules.d/040-permissions.rules)
I solved the problem launching the gui as root.

Sorry for the bad English... ;)
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and I've got the same problem too:
'The Following Command has failed: Listing files under the / folder'
I tried manipulate the numbers, but it not worked...
I tried using the "Test connection" button on the ObexFTP configuration dialog, and obtained
"Error: Can't connect to the device"
I tried using "lshw" on the terminal, and obtained this:
"...
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 10.1
bus info: pci@00:10.1
version: 81
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=64
resources: ioport:d880-d89f irq:16
*-usbhost
product: UHCI Host Controller
vendor: Linux 2.6.20-16-generic uhci_hcd
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2
logical name: usb2
version: 2.06
capabilities: usb-1.10
configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=2 speed=12.0MB/s
*-usb UNCLAIMED
description: Generic USB device
product: USB to UART
vendor: ArkMicro
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:1
version: 0.01
capabilities: usb-1.10
configuration: maxpower=500mA speed=12.0MB/s
..."
This Generic USB device is my ArkMicro CA-42 cable.
I'm using a Nokia 3220. My cell shows a message confirming the cable connection. I used it on Windows XP SP2 with Nokia PC Suite without problems.
Launch the GUI as root has no effect.
Thanks for the help.

Hi Marius,
Your tutorial really helped. Thanks!
I faced one problem though, i didn't have Java SDK installed and the front-end wouldn't start at all. Was able to figure by a little googling though :).
~Ajay

Hello Marius
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. I have been trying to figure this out with wammu, gnokii..etc without success.
However,with bluetooth connection, can i use the same procedure?
Thanks again,
Paul

Thanks Marius for such a nice post. Now I can say that I can move to linux completely with me being able to connect my nokia N91 to the machine. And also thanks to Luca for pointing that the error can be fixed by sudo'ing. Thanks again and godspeed.

thanks for the tut mate.... it helped a lot!!

Thanks for the tutorial, was hoping for a few more advanced functions than just sending receiving files (like auto sync), but it's a start.

I noticed my phone (5610i) only works in pc suite mode, whereas most people for other programs suggest data storage mode.

Hey, thanks for the tutorial but the GUI didn't work for me either (also N70). Same errors as mentioned previously. With USB "The Following Command has failed: Listing files under the / folder". With Bluetooth, it's "failed to find device".
I tried SUDO launching the GUI. I also tried using Bluetooth as the transport in the Obexftp GUI config. I tested as 1,2 & 3.
(Also with zero's in front, but to honest that makes no sense. Any integer can have as many zero's as you want in front and it makes no difference, obviously).
Anyway, thanks anyway, anyone finding solutions to these issues may end up posting here in the comments.
Regards
Donal

Thanks for this, really good. One less reason for me to ever have to use Windows.

Nick

Thank you for the Tutorial it worked with no problem this is the reason I have moved to Linux to learn from the likes of you and all those in the Linux world! My mobile phone is a Nokia6275i.
Thanks again and Best Wishes for Christmas & New Year.

Junior

Hi

I'm trying this with Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 and when firing up openftp-frontend all the characters making up the menus are squares only the two tabs are readable.

Thanks

im having trouble with my ubuntu (intrepid) wheen i double click the launcher that i have created it gives me a error message that said "Failed to execute child process "java" (No such file or directory)" can somebody hel please

Thanks for this tutorial, its saved most of my hair! I had the initial problem with my Nokia N96 of the "Listing under / Files folder" error but changed the connection to PC Suite on my nokia and used 001 instead of 1. Brilliant! 1 million kudos to you!

Hello. I put de luncher and nothing happens.
Please upload the instruccion for UBUNTU 8.10 and thanks

Hi Marius:

Thank you very much for this complete tutorial. All links and applications listed here worked OK in Ubuntu 8.10 Server (Intrepid Ibex).

I was trying to connect my 5200 to my notebook running Intrepid but all other solutions I found in other sites (Wammu, Gammu, etc) didn't work. The solution you provided is the only one I can recommend to other Ubuntu Intrepid users.

I one follow carefully the steps you wrote, the application works at once. There are some little details about permissions for some folders/files we have to research on, but the overall functions do their job as expected.

Thank you very much to marius and others! In order for it to work for me I had to run this command. sudo java -jar /home/rizz/obexftp-frontend-0.6.1-bin/OBEXFTPFrontend.jar &
Thanks again.

I was having the same 'The Following Command has failed: Listing files under the / folder' &&
"Error: Can't connect to the device"

to solve this, i just started the connection at Pc Suite mode

connected with nokia E50 :)

Thanks a lot, Cheers for the persons loke you.

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="VendorID", SYSFS{idProduct}=="ProductID", GROUP="plugdev", USER="yourUserNname"

salut mariu am facut exact ceea ce ai zis de 3 ori si tot nu imi merge , cand dau dublu clik pe aplicatie nu mi se deschide ca sa o configurez :( , folosesc ubunut 9.04

Salut, incearca sa deschizi aplicatia direct din terminal... cu comanda:

java -jar OBEXFTPFrontend.jar

Cu conditia sa te afli in folderul unde este executabilul...