bidentify(1) [debian man page]
BIDENTIFY(1) General Commands Manual BIDENTIFY(1) NAME
bidentify - Barry Project's program to identify BlackBerry handhelds SYNOPSIS
bidentify [-B busname][-N devname][-h][-v] DESCRIPTION
bidentify scans the USB system for available BlackBerry devices and probes each one it finds, then sends the identifying information to stdout in a computer-friendly format. OPTIONS
-B busname Specify the USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on. This is the first number displayed in the output from the lsusb command, such as 002. If the busname is numeric on your system, 2 and 002 are equal. See also the -N option, which can be used together with this option to precisely select the device to work with. -N devname Specify the USB device name. This is the second number displayed in the output from the lsusb command, such as 005. If the device name is numeric on your system, 5 and 005 are equal. See also the -B option. -c If used with the -m option, ESN numbers will be displayed in both hex and decimal formats where possible. If -m is not used, this option has no effect. -m Also show the device's ESN / MEID / IMEI number. This requires desktop database access, so is an option. It will only work on devices that have no password. -v Dump verbose protocol data during operation. -h, --help Show summary of options. RETURN STATUS
If bidentify detects a BlackBerry device, but cannot access it for some reason, it will write an error message to stderr describing the access problem, and return a count of the number of such failed devices as the error code. A return code of 0 means there were no Black- Berry devices found that could not be probed. In the event of a fatal error, the message will be written to stderr, with an error code of 1. AUTHOR
bidentify is part of the Barry project. This manual page was written by Chris Frey. SEE ALSO
http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry February 24, 2011 BIDENTIFY(1)
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BCHARGE(1) General Commands Manual BCHARGE(1) NAME
bcharge - program to set BlackBerry handhelds to 500mA SYNOPSIS
bcharge DESCRIPTION
bcharge is a program that sends a special handshake to all BlackBerry devices it finds on the USB bus. This handshake causes the device to reset itself, and then request 500mA instead of the usual 100mA. This allows proper charging on Linux. It is safe to run this command multiple times, as it only changes devices that are not already set to 500mA, or are not in the desired mode. OPTIONS
-o For Blackberry Pearl devices, using this switch causes bcharge to set the Product ID to 0001. When the Pearl is in 0004 mode, two USB interfaces are presented: one for database access and one for mass storage. In 0001 mode, only the database access is available. Before bcharge is run, the Pearl shows up with a Product ID of 0006, which only gives mass storage functionality. You must run bcharge for the Pearl before using btool. -d This switch is for the Blackberry Pearl to switch it back to 0004 dual mode after having run bcharge with the -o option. Alter- nately, newer devices (such as Storm with product ID of 8007) will be switched to 0004. Since a Pearl in mode 0001 is practically indistinguishable from a classic Blackberry, the -d switch is needed to tell bcharge that you really are working with a Pearl. -g Guess whether Dual mode is needed. If USB Interface Class 255 is not found on the device (the class used for database access), then dual mode is set. Otherwise, the device is left as is. -h Help summary. -p devpath If your system runs a kernel with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled (some Ubuntu kernels have this turned on, as well as some Fedora 7 ker- nels), then you also need to adjust the suspend state to avoid going into power saving mode. This option is used when run from udev, using a rule such as: BUS=="usb", SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fca", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0001", SYMLINK+="bb-%k", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660", RUN="/usr/sbin/bcharge -p %p" When using this option, you will almost always need to be root. -s path Specify the mount point for the sysfs filesystem. On most systems this is mounted at /sys which is the default. AUTHOR
bcharge and this manual page were written by Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net> for the Barry project. http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry October 7, 2010 BCHARGE(1)