Foo - Cellphone Software

Does anybody know where a person can find software for a cellphone that is free? I have a Motorola V260 phone that i want to connect to PC for synching Phone #'s, getting mp3 ringtones etc. But I am too cheap to buy the software. Anyone know where it is free? I've got the cable already.

and while we're at it, does anyone know where I can get a free meal, internet connection and cable?
oh and free rent wouldnt be bad too.. hehe, sorry.. couldnt resist..

and while we're at it, does anyone know where I can get a free meal, internet connection and cable?
oh and free rent wouldnt be bad too.. hehe, sorry.. couldnt resist..

and while we're at it, does anyone know where I can get a free meal, internet connection and cable?
oh and free rent wouldnt be bad too.. hehe, sorry.. couldnt resist..

1. Free Meal= Salvation Army

2. Free Internet= Steal your neighbor's wireless.

3. Cable= Tougher but if you are resourceful, you will find a way.

Next...

I'd resort to google or yahoo. I'm not big on cell phones, in fact I don't have one and when my company gets me a crackberry Ill purposefully forget it :p

I learned this week that leaving your cell phone in the seat pack with the zipper unzipped = lost cell phone. Damn, that made me mad! I retraced the 20 mile route but no phone!

I learned this week that leaving your cell phone in the seat pack with the zipper unzipped = lost cell phone. Damn, that made me mad! I retraced the 20 mile route but no phone!
lol call it while retracing the route.

Cell phone companies try to enact every possible loop to prevent anything free from being put on a cellphone. I looked into developing some GPS tracking software. Just getting information on developing for phone platforms was a zoo. It turns out it is possible, but complicated...especially if your service provider locks their phones into BREW. In order to even test a BREW application on a phone it has to be signed by a developr license, or the phone won't run the program. A license costs $1500. I think that illustrates why not very many people bother to write free software for cellphones.

lol call it while retracing the route.

Seriously thought about that but I was afraid that someone had already picked it up. I know it had to land in the roadway and likely stay there. So someone probably found it and picked it up. Oh well, gotta new phone and onward and upward.

I can't seem to keep a phone longer than 12 months. Last one went swimming in the toilet. :D

Its pretty easy actually. For the most part every cell phone on the market has a crack for it and matching pirated software. It just requires a little know how and the resources to find the illegal software. It really varries from phone to phone and company to company. Start with google looking for a crack for the phone and work from there.

I can see it now... people bringing they're virus infected cell phones in to our store to get disinfected.

What takes one mouse click to infect can take hours to undo.

Does anybody know where a person can find software for a cellphone that is free? I have a Motorola V260 phone that i want to connect to PC for synching Phone #'s, getting mp3 ringtones etc. But I am too cheap to buy the software. Anyone know where it is free? I've got the cable already.
Sorry for an ignorant question but don't the phones come with the software. Mine came with two discs to load onto my PC, cables and POD. I was under the impression it was standard practice. FYI my mobile is a casio.
Steve.

If you have a cable, try bitpim www.bitpim.org. It is for CDMA phones so if you use Verizon or Telus, it may work if you set it to "generic CDMA phone."

bitpim is free software, there are lots of non-free programs out there for download, but that's illegal of course. If you're resourceful, you can find them on google.

I can see it now... people bringing they're virus infected cell phones in to our store to get disinfected.

What takes one mouse click to infect can take hours to undo.

Cellphones are considered deeply embedded OS devices. In the past, these types of platforms were generally considered immune to such things as software virii as they were a closed non-extensible (without the SDK) single-image system. Although most did have some form of writable non-volatile memory, it was usually restricted to just storing application data and user configuration settings.

However, as handsets started to become more and more extensible, they were given the ability to have applications downloaded to them. About 18 months ago, the first widespread mobile phone virus started to appear. Curiously enough, it targetted the SymbianOS Series-60 platform rather than the Windows Mobile/SmartPhone platform. This particular virus called Gavno was capable of crashing or disabling an internal OS stack that governed the placement of calls. It was transmitted as an OTA (On The Air) message via MMS or via Bluetooth and masqueraded itself as a software patch. In general, in order to get destructive down to the phone's fundamental level, the virus needs to basically rewrite the flash device on the phone. This can usually only be done through a software upgrade procedure. The original phone image is wiped out in favour of a new modified image that includes the virus code.

I'm fairly certain that more and more virri will appear for mobile handsets. Since the release of Gavno, over a half-dozen varients have appeared as well as another half-dozen species of copycat virii that act similarly. Windows Mobile/SmartPhone is certainly not immune either. A couple of years ago, a demonstration virus was made known to show how a WinCE device could be exploited. Although traditional WinCE/PocketPC and Windows Mobile/SmartPhone share a common WinCE codebase, they do differ in many places so that particular demo virus could only infect the PocketPC based handsets and not the SmartPhone handsets. However, I'm sure it would not be all that difficult to modify the virus code to make it effective against all WinCE based devices.

Now WinCE and SymbianOS are some of the more popular embedded OSes out there deployed on new generations of handsets but they are far from the only ones. Linux and LynxOS are but just two alternative embedded OSes that sometimes go into mobiles. And while it takes a fair bit more knowledge to write a virus which can effect an embedded device than it does to write an Exchange/Outlook virus, it's still doable and no doubt someone's spending late nights hacking bytecode into a ARM-processor simulator in an attempt to create one right now.

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