BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones. The matrix of supported phones and features is in the online help.
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License and Warranty
BitPim is distributed as open source and free software under the GNU General Public License (aka GPL).
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.There are no warranties as stated above (ie this software may damage your phone). This software is in no way associated with Audiovox, LG Electronics, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sanyo, Sprint, Verizon Wireless or any other handset manufacturer or wireless carrier. It has not been certified or endorsed by them, nor was it written using information directly supplied by them.
The only location for the downloads of official versions of BitPim is the BitPim website hosted by SourceForge: http://www.bitpim.org/
If you find a version of BitPim elsewhere, it must comply with the GNU General Public License. It should note if it has been modified, document how it has been modified, and offer the source code (amongst other things).
We do not offer any support or other resources for versions of BitPim that are not downloaded from the official site. You need to go to whomever distributed whatever it was it you got.
Note that we do not have any kickback agreements with vendors who also supply BitPim. You can read about how you or anyone else can contribute and where credit is due.
15 May
BitPim 0.9.00 development release is available.
08 May
BitPim 0.8.14 development release is available.
24 April
BitPim 0.8.13 development release is available.
18 January
BitPim has now had over (strike a Dr Evil pose) "" downloads!
Older news removed ...
To be notified of new releases, subscribe to the bitpim-announce mailing list. You can also get BitPim to notify you - look in the settings dialog and say how often you want it to check.
All downloads are at the SourceForge download site or you can select below.
This lets you track the code improvements that will lead up to the next stable version. See (list of changes). Please note that the code includes several features that have not been completed yet. You can supply feedback on the bitpim-devel or bitpim-user mailing lists. READ THE FOLLOWING NOTES FIRST
My
Documents\bitpim on Windows and $HOME/.bitpim-files on
Linux and Mac). If you do not do this, you will get lots of dialog boxes and
exceptions and wish you had really paid attention to this section. The reason
is that the code for upgrading old settings is not complete.
The
Linux distribution is an RPM file built on Redhat 9 and can be used as is on RPM
based distributions: rpm -U file.rpm. On Debian
use alien to convert it and then dpkg to install. On
Gentoo emerge rpm and lib-compat, and then
rpm -U file.rpm
Downloads:
Hover your mouse over an image to get a description. Click to get a larger view. The screen shots are from Windows, Linux and Mac. The BitPim functionality is the same on all platforms, with the user interface tweaked to be appropriate for each platform.
Straight USB cables for the LG VX4400 phone WILL result in errors.
If you want to know how/when your phone will be supported, what phones the developers have and other frequent questions, look in the FAQ.
For other questions or issues follow the steps below.
Before posting anywhere, please take the time to read this article on How to ask questions the smart way (Note they do NOT provide support, just guidelines on how to ask questions/get support and get the best responses).
BitPim includes online help. You can also browse a copy at www.bitpim.org/help.
See the support page for details on how to get support.
If you do not follow the instructions on the support page then your request will not be useful. The steps to take and information needed are crucial to help you since BitPim supports a wide variety of phones, cables and operating systems.
For other general discussion, or to contact the developers, please ONLY use the mailing lists. You can subscribe to the mailing lists or view the archives from sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=75211.
This list is for users of BitPim. Please direct your issues, questions and comments to this list. (For support issues please make sure you have followed the instructions above, otherwise there won't be sufficient information to address your issues).
This list is for discussions about and people making technical contributions to BitPim.
BitPim 0.62 only works with the LG VX4400 and is outdated.
BitPim 0.7 works on lots more on more phones. You can read about 0.7's phone support at www.bitpim.org/help/phones.htm
If you would like to have another phone supported, you need to find someone with some developer skills. In particular they will need to have the target phone, and will need to be able to figure out information on the phone (usually by browsing the filesystem view and analysing protocol traces). Most importantly they will need to have time to dedicate to this.
If you are such a developer, please consult the developer information. I would welcome BitPim working with other phones, and the code and design intent is to allow this.
