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Hi there,
does anybody know where Nokia (3650) stores the SMS?
I'd like to read such messages - I guess there are not "objects" I can already use for this operation.
Are those messages stored in a Symbian database or is it a structured file? How can I locate it?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated! :)
Regards,
Matteo
The proper method would be to use a Python module that talks to the Messaging Service; However, since that's not available yet, you'll probably have to hack something together by scanning the files in "c:\system\Mail\".
You might want to use something like FExplorer <[url]http://www.gosymbian.com/[/url]> to help explore the file system if you don't have a good file browser yet.
Cheers!
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by eriksmartt [/i]
[B]The proper method would be to use a Python module that talks to the Messaging Service; However, since that's not available yet, [/B][/QUOTE]
Thank you for the suggestion: is it possible to write such module in Python or it should be written in C++?
How does the Messaging Service interact with the rest of the system?
Many thanks,
Matteo
At least part of the module will need to be Symbian C++ to hook into the OS API's for the Messaging Service. You basically need a bridge to expose the system API to Python.
If you're a Symbian C++ developer, there should be more examples coming soon on how to do this. Otherwise we'll have to wait for Nokia to release a module for this, and there's no info yet on when that might be.
A full Messaging module should support reading the inbox, sending sms, and receiving sms (ie., event callbacks), so doing it right is a little more complicated then just reading messages. However, these are all native API calls...
I was exploring the file system my self and found the SMS store in c:/system/Mail/
I copied the os.listdir() example and tweaked it to dump a list of the whole file system to a file with sizes and last modified date
it writes it out to e:/filelog.txt for copying to somewhere to make it easier to read.
Here's the script :
[url]http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/s60_file_enum.py[/url]
The messages are stored in a binary format but it shouldn't be too hard to extract the useful data.