All Phones Data Suite v. 2.72

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1. Requirements

All Phones Data Suite is very unassuming software. You can use it on the most currently used PCs.

1.1 Hardware requirements

1.1.1 Requirements to your computer

As you can see above, requirements are really unassuming and you can use APDS on most actual PCs.

1.1.2 Requirements to your phone and accessories

APDS 2.72 supports: (*) - NOTES:

For connection to PC you need either serial cable or infrared port on your PC (but only for models with this port and which APDS supports as mentioned above).

1.2 Operating system requirements

APDS requires some of 32bit Microsoft operating systems: Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000.

2. Installation/upgrade/remove

The installation is very easy. Run file APDS272ENG.exe and in the installation procedure choose directory (folder) where to install APDS. You can of course use default directory x:\Program Files. The installation procedure will create a link to program in the Start menu. Upgrade to higher version looks very similar: run APDS272ENG_U.exe and choose directory where you have APDS installed. This installation procedure doesn't create a link in the Start menu. If you want to remove APDS from your computer go to Control Panel and in Add/remove programs choose APDS to remove it.

3. Using APDS

APDS is very easy to use but we recommend at least short look to next notes and advices. It may be very useful for you.

3.1 APDS components

The APDS is a set of several components. The user will work with three of them: PhoneServ.exe, PBooks.exe and SMSs.exe (these names will be named without extensions below).
PhoneServ is a part communicating with the phone. While running it doesn't display any window but only icon on the system bar (mostly by the system time indicator).
PBooks is a program for phone books which it can edit, back up and synchronize (see chapter 3.1.2.5 Synchronisation of SIM cards/phones).
SMSs works with short messages. It looks like most e-mail clients. It can read, send (to more recipients at the same time) and archive messages to folders.
PhoneServ is communicating with your phone and PBooks and SMSs are "higher layer parts" communicating with PhoneServ. This configuration allows the run of PBooks and SMSs at the same time (for exapmle downloading SMSs and phone books at the same time). The most time-consuming operation is sending SMS such that we don't recommend any work with PBooks (but only upload/download entries - you can edit, synchronize and load/save files to/from file(s) - these are operations not requiring communication with the PhoneServ and phone).
If you have more than one phone (supported by APDS of course) and enough connections (serial or infrared ports) there is no problem to run PhoneServ several times and connect it to every connected phone. When you will run some SMSs and PBooks then you must by beware of belonging these instances to phones.

3.1.1 PhoneServ

This part is communicating with your phone and accumulates requests to it. Start menu has link to this program. When you run it you can see small phone icon on the system bar (mostly by the system time indicator) and the PhoneServ popup menu. This menu you can display by the left or right mouse button click on PhoneServ icon.

3.1.1.1 How to connect PhoneServ to the phone

For first you must set up type of connection by clicking Settings in the PhoneServ menu. This menu you can display by the left or right mouse button click on PhoneServ icon. Here you choose the serial port where you have your cable connected or the infrared port where runs communication. Next you must choose your phone's manufacturer and type of your phone. If you cannot find your type here try to choose any similar type but we don't guarantee correct work of APDS.
If you have your phone connected for long times you can check Reconnect at startup check box. In this case we highly recommend to have your phone always connected before you run PhoneServ especially if you have Nokia phone.
Connection of PhoneServ to your phone you can do by the clicking to Connect now button in the Settings dialog or clicking to item Connect in the PhoneServ menu. After a successfull connect is the text of this item changed to Dicsonnect. If you need to free a serial port for other application you must choose this item (the text will change to Connect back).
While connecting to the port you can see the information window. By some phones (for example Bosch) is the connection to the port very fast and this window is not visible in this case. By ohter phones the connection doesn't exceed several seconds. If the PhoneServ doesn't display any error message it means that opening the port is without any errors but communication with the phone is not running yet - so you can connect to any free serial port without any error message. But this is not the case of Nokia and Ericssons 6xx, 7xx and A1018. With these phones must PhoneServ initialize communication by special sequence of commands.
If you try to connect to any free serial port with or a port with some "foreign" cable (other than from P-EMTECH ltd.), the request for serial number will be displayed. If you have our cable correctly connected you never see this dialog box. But if yes, contact us. If you choose Cancel all functions of APDS will be available but you will be able to run PhoneServ only one time. If you will want to run PhoneServ for second time you must restart Windows.

3.1.2 PBooks

This part is designed for the work with phone books located on SIM or in your phone's memory or in the file. For every phone book (or its logical group) is created separated window. The window with actual phone books downloaded from SIM and/or from your phone's memory can be opened only one times at a time to prevent from data unconsistency.

3.1.2.1 Read phone books

If you are successfully connected to your phone in PhoneServ you get access to its menu item Contacts. Clicking to it you can run PBooks.

WARNING: PBooks is an executable file and you can run it directly and not only by clicking to item Contacts from PhoneServ menu. Running it directly however PBooks will not communicate with PhoneServ and you'll be able to work only with phone books saved on the disk!

So if you run PBooks from the PhoneServ menu you can select menu item Phonebooks - Download (or by shortcut Ctrl+D or by clicking to the button with a phone and an arrow pointing out from it) and download phone books from SIM and/or your phone's memory. You can enable or disable downloading from several locations (SIM, phone and so on) in the Settings dialo

3.1.2.2 Edit existing entry

The Edit dialog box for given phone book entry you can open by double clicking on this entry or selecting this entry (left mouse button click) and choose Entry - Edit from the menu. Here you can edit name and/or phone number. Editation procedure confirm by clicking to OK. Changed entry will be drawn by italics text (and all other changed entries) till then you upload them back to SIM and/or your phone's memory by selecting Phonebooks - Upload (or by shortcut Ctrl+U or by clicking to button with a phone and an arrow pointing to it).

3.1.2.3 Delete entry

You are not able to delete one or more entries without selecting them. One entry you can select by left mouse button click to it. Continuous group of entries you can select by left mouse button click to the first of them and while you are holding the Shift key and left mouse button click to the last of them. You can also select uncontinuous group of entries: if you have selected a continuous group of entries and want to select other entry (without deselecting this group of entries) you must left mouse button click to this entry while holding the Ctrl key. If you want to select two or more continuous groups you must select first continuous group (as described above) and while holding the Ctrl key click to the first entry of other continuous group and then while holding Ctrl and Shift keys left mouse click to the last entry of the other group.
You can move on the current phone book using arrow keys (up and down) and Home and End keys too. If you want move the focus without selection change you must hold the Ctrl key while moving by up and down arroy keys. The currently focused entry you can select by pressing Space key.
So if you have selected one entry or a group of entries you can delete it by pressing the Del key or clicking to button from toolbar (it looks like big red X) or selecting Entry - Delete menu item. Selected entry (entries) is deleted from the phone book but if you want to delete it in SIM or your phone's memory you must save changes to it for example by the shortcut Ctrl+U (see above in the chapter 3.1.2.2 Edit existing entry).

3.1.2.4 Create new entry

You can create new entry by selecting Entry - New menu item and next selecting of location (mostly SIM or Phone) where to create a new entry. Now will be displayed the well known dialog box for editation an entry. The difference is that the edit boxes for name and number are empty. These edit boxes have reduced number of characters given by the concrete SIM card or concrete phone (in the case of the phone memory).
After clicking to OK button you can see the newly created entry drawn by italics in the phone book (same as changed entry). Now you may upload it to the phone for example by the shortcut Ctrl+U or clicking to the button on the tool bar.

3.1.2.5 Synchronisation of SIM cards/phones

If you use more SIM cards or phones with the memory for contacts this function will be very useful for you. So how to to this: for first you must download the source phone book from SIM and/or the phone (see chapter 3.1.2.1 Read phone books). Now you must save these entries to the file for a later use by selecting File - Save as where you must enter only a valid file name and choose some folder for it - this is the standard saving procedure.
Now you must end PBooks, in the PhoneServ menu disconnect from phone (in the case of Nokia phone you must end PhoneServ), change SIM card or phones, connect again in the PhoneServ, run Contacts from PhoneServ menu and download phone books from SIM and/or phone (for example by shortcut Ctrl+D. Now you must open previously saved phone book(s) by selecting File - Open menu item (or Ctrl+O shortcut). Switch back to the window with actual phone books and select Phonebooks - Synchronize with file menu item. In the displayed dialog box select a source file for synchronisation (you can find only one here in this case) and confirm by clicking OK. If there is all in right you will have all source entries transfered to target phone book(s).

3.1.2.5.1 Particular synchronisation

If you don't want you must not synchronise all entries but only number of needed. You can do this via the Clipboard: select the target group of entries (selecting describes chapter 3.1.2.3 Delete entry) and choose Edit - Copy or hotkeys Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert. Now we have target entries in the Clipboard. Next switch to the window where you want to put target entries. You can use function for display empty entries here (by selecting View - Empty entries or by clicking to the button on the tool bar) so you must not put target entries only to existing entries. When you have selected target entries you can put it from Clipboard to their places by Edit - Paste or by shortcuts Ctrl+U or Shift+Insert.

3.1.2.6 Justify texts in columns

You can set justification of all columns in dialog by clicking on Settings - Columns justification.

3.1.3 SMSs

This part of APDS works with short messages (below only SMS). It looks like most e-mail clients.
The window is devided to three parts. In the left part you can work with folders, in the top right part you will see the list of messages in current folder and in the right bottom part is a space for displaying text of selected message.
Messages from SIM and phone (if it has a memory for saving SMSs) are loaded just after running SMSs. But you may disable it in the Settings dialog box.

3.1.3.1 Read messages

If you have enabled loading messages at start up you can read messages just after running SMSs (by clicking to SMS menu item in the PhoneServ menu). While you don't move SMS to other folder or you don't delete it this SMS remains on SIM or in the memory of your phone respectively.
Loaded messages are distributed to four folders: Incoming, Delivery reports (this is the "child" folder of Incoming), Sent and Unsent. These two last folders are child folders of Outgoing folder. When you run SMSs the active folder will be Incoming and its messages you'll see in the top right part of the window.
You can read a message very easily: click to it or move to it using keys Home, End or arrow (up and down) keys. If you have some selected message you can see its text in the bottom right part of the program window. When you select more than one message the text disappears.

3.1.3.2 Delete message

When you want to delete any message you must select it firstly. You can do it as you can read it: left mouse button click on it or move to it using keys Home, End or arrow (up and down) keys. If you want to delete more than one message you can do it by the same action(s) as described in the chapter 3.1.2.3 Delete entry. When you have selected some message(s) choose SMS - Delete from SMSs menu or press Del key or click to the button with big red X on the to toolbar. If you confirm your action by clicking to OK the messages will be deleted as described next: You can of course move messages from Trash folder back to other folders (see chapter 3.1.3.4 Move message to other folder) but these messages will be saved only in "PC" location - not on SIM or in your phone's memory.

3.1.3.3 Send message

To send message choose SMS - Send new... menu item or click to the button with the envelop and little yellow star on the toolbar or by hotkey Ctrl+M. In the dialog box now displayed you must enter the text of your message and the recipient(s).
SMSs allow you to send one message to more recipients at a time (you pay for every message sent of course). You must create list of recipients. If you downloaded your phone book at least once you will have LastData.DAT file created in the current directory. This is the file with the actual phone books from your SIM and/or phone memory. These phonebooks entries you can use by clicking to Add from phonebook... button. You can select as many recipients as you need. Selected recipient(s) are added to Recipient list box by clicking to OK button. If you want to send a message to a number not contained in your phone book you must enter it to Number not present in the phonebbok edit box and then click to Add button.
When you start typing the text of your message you'll be informed about number of characters remaining.
Whenewer you have displayed the Send dialog box you can change SMS settings by clicking to button Change... in the part marked Settings. In the Settings dialog box you can change the SMS center number (it depends on your GSM operator), validity period of your message (for this time the SMS center of your GSM operator will be attempting to deliver your message. If the delivery fails the message will be lost) and requesting answer (this choice can display probably only Ericsson phones).
If you have entered the text of your message and its recipient(s) you can click to Send button. In the most cases you will see "Message successfully sent" message box and the message will be saved in Sent folder. If sending of some message(s) failed you will be warn by error message and these messages will be saved in Unsent folder (this is mostly the case when the outgoing message "meets" in your phone with some incoming message). Unsent messages from this folder you can send by choosing SMS - Send unsent or by right mouse button clicking to one unsent message and choosing Send from the its local menu.

3.1.3.4 Move message to other folder

Messages you can move between folders only by mouse by the "Drag & Drop" method: moved message you must drag by moving the mouse cursor over it, clicking and holding the left mouse button. Now while all the time you are holding the left mouse button move the cursor (message) over the target folder icon in the left part of the program window. When the target folder is selected (inverse) you can release the left mouse button and the message will be moved to this folder.
If you are moving messages from SIM or Phone location these messages will be deleted from there and remain only in the target folder (in the disk file)!

3.1.3.5 Using keyboard

You need not use only mouse to work with SMSs. Using keyboard may be faster in lot of cases. You can switch between three basic program panes by key F6 clockwise or by Shift+F6 counterclockwise respectively.
In the pane with the message text you can use copy to clipboard function using Edit - Copy or Ctrl+C or Shift+Ins. If you didn't select any part of the message the whole text will be copied to the clipboard. If you want to copy only a part of the text you can select it by the mouse or by arrow keys with Shift key combination as in any text editor.
In the pane with list of messages you can select any one and then copy or cut them to the clipboard using standard keys or menu items. Warning: when you cut any messages from SIM and/or from your phone memory they'll be erased from there and remain only in the program! Now you can switch to the pane with the folders tree and using the arrow keys select a folder you want and paste messages from the clipboard to it. You can copy or move as many messages you want - that is other advantage using keyboard against mouse.

4. Detailed description of APDS components

This chapter describes all menu items of all APDS parts.

4.1 PhoneServ

PhoneServ has only one pop-up menu. This menu you can display by the left or right mouse click to PhoneServ icon in the system bar (mostly by the system time indicator). Here are described items from bottom to up:

4.2 PBooks

This chapter describes all menu items of PBooks which works with phone books.

4.2.1 File menu

The links to files marked by a number (under Exit item) are links to recently used phone books.

4.2.2 Edit menu

This menu is most usable for particular synchronisation. See chapter 3.1.2.5.1 Particular synchronisation.

4.2.3 View menu

4.2.4 Phonebooks menu

4.2.5 Entry menu

4.2.6 Settings menu

This menu item directly displays the Settings dialog when you have no phone books window displayed. Here you can enable or disable downloading of phone book entries from all supported locations. If you are going to edit only SIM entries you cannot wait to download entries from internal phone memory. If you have at least one phone books window displayed then you can click to Download phonebooks (mentioned above) or Columns justification where you can set justification of all columns.

4.2.7 Window menu

Next menu items marked by numbers are links to all child windows. You can switch between them without using your mouse.

4.2.8 Help menu

APDS topics... displays this help. About... item displays the version of PBooks. In the parenthesis there is a version of the whole APDS set.

4.3 SMSs

4.3.1 File menu

Exit ends SMSs.

4.3.2 Edit menu

4.3.3 View menu

4.3.4 SMS menu

4.3.5 Settings menu

This menu item directly displays the Settings dialog. Here you can enter the SMS center number, validity period of the sended message, displaying the "send question" message, requesting answer and the directory for saving SMS folders.

4.3.6 Help menu

APDS topics... displays this help. About... item displays the version of SMSs. In the parenthesis there is a version of the whole APDS set.

5. APDS PRO

Here are listed all features you get when purchase the APDS PRO (see www.p-emtech.cz).

5.1 PBooks PRO

In PBooks PRO you can:

5.2 SMSs PRO

In SMSs PRO you can:

6. Known bugs

In this chapter you'll be warn to bugs which we know and which we solve. So it's useless to write us about them.

7. FAQ - Frquently asked questions

Why is not supported my phone?
It may have two reasons:

Why APDS doesn't work with logos and user melodies?
We are currently concentre to support plenty of phone models and these "extras" we will add later.

Why APDS doesn't allow to unlock phones?
Unlocking phones is very difficult and wide domain - we are not able to cover it. We recommend to unlock your phone by specialists who solve these problems for long time. You will be guaranteed that you phone will be OK after the unlock. Unlock is not only connection a phone to PC and pressing Enter!

I worked with APDS and when I try to connect now I get a message Error opening port! What can I do?
You probably run PhoneServ for second time and the first instance of PhoneServ is blocking the serial port. One of PhoneServs you must end.
You can run as much PhoneServs you need. This is not disabled because you may need to work with two or more phones connected to your PC. You must only be careful when using PBooks and/or SMSs and know what instance works with what phone.

I installed the Siemens driver for phones with the hardware modem but the diagnostics in Control panel doesn't work and when I try to dial any number the system messages No answer from modem.
Basally all phones (excluding Bosch 9xx) has no hardware handshaking signals implemented. So you must in serial port settings disable hardware handshaking and choose software handshaking (XOR/XOFF) or no handshaking. Especially for Siemens there is no wrong to set the communication speed do 19200 b/s. When you set this the diagnostics will not work howewer (this is caused by absence of hardware handshaking signals) but when you try to dial some number it'll be OK now.

8. How to contact the APDS author