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Enhancement so if there's no file argument, the GUI will pop up!

We need to add a wiki page explaining the use of the program and also the
work-around with the bad formated ipd's

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. start ipdump
2. open an ipd file
3. The status is --> Working... be patient after the complete of percentage bar 
(right low) and I don't have output Previously version (0.2.5) works very well 
on the same computer

What version of the product are you using? --> 0.3 RC2

 On what operating system? WinXP and Win 7

Please provide any additional information below.

Sorry I'm completely lost.
What about a Makefile or something?

Parse tasks

After opening the ipd file (its about 9 megs), the process hangs at 74% on the 
latest version. Version 2.5 processes all the way, but shows no data.

Hello, 
   I love your software and think it does an absolutely brilliant job of parsing .ipd files! However there is one feature I would love to see, just a simple filter! In my ipd files i have messages from parents, friends, girlfriend, siblings etc, and id like a way to be able to filter out certain numbers so i can export all the sms' from one contact to xml files! Obviously i could go through every single message and higlight just the ones i want, but i have 36900 messages, and a computer would do it alot faster than i could! Hahaa
Thanks again for making this software available!
Alex

Parsing the time zones db

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Backup with Desktop Manager
2. Open with the wonderfun ipddump
3. Not all contact information showing

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The phone numbers (home, work, fax...) of at least 50% of the contacts aren`t 
showing. The names are, just not the other information. When I use certain ABC 
conversion programs, all the info is there. When I look on my phone itself, all 
the info is there. Just not in ipddump.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3RC3 on Windows Vista

Please provide any additional information below.
I could send in the ipd file if it helps. So long as, you know, the phone 
numbers are kept private.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On the BlackBerry 8300, set the czech input language with alt+enter.
2. Write an SMS. Save it.
3. Backup the SMS database and open it with ipddump

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output is to see the written SMS. I see the SMS with every 
character preceded by a "@" instead.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3 RC3 on Windows XP SP3

Please provide any additional information below.

Example:
-----8<---------------------------------------------------------
From: My Phone
To: +420XXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Sun Aug 01 11:49:42 CEST 2010
Received: Sun Aug 01 11:49:42 CEST 2010
Text:
@T@o@ @j@e@ @m@o@j@e@ @c@e@s@k@e@ @c@i@s@l@o@.
-----8<---------------------------------------------------------

The same problem is seen on some SMSes received by a czech contact.

Parsing Call Log

The phone numbers except the 'obvious' numbers they consist of, they also
have the + sign. This is the code fix.. on the SMSmessage.java line 155 

  case 2:
            builder = new StringBuilder();
            for ( char c : data )
            {
               if ( Character.isLetterOrDigit( c ) || c=='+')
               {
                  builder.append( c );
               }
            }

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. FOLLOW THE STEPS GIVEN BY CREATORS
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?WHEN I OPENED THE IPD 
FILE, USING YOUR SOFTWARE, IT WAS EMPTY. NO DATA


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? TRIED 3.0 
FIRST, THEN 2.5


Please provide any additional information below.

UCS2 use 2 bytes for 1 character and the output SMS messages from those
looks like ("¥§¥΅¥�¥�¥™¥‘). I suppose that one of the fields on 
the .ipd
you chose not to parse (either the case:1 or case 11????) contains that
info.. dunno..
The only SMS's that this seems to be are
-1892381440,Thu Jan 01 02:40:40 EET 2009,Thu Jan 01 00:40:32 EET
2009,false,+306937554947,"¥§¥΅¥�¥�¥™¥‘

-1894616784,Thu Jan 01 02:02:52 EET 2009,Thu Jan 01 00:03:17 EET
2009,false,+306942937398,"

-1201805004,Fri Jan 09 02:30:32 EET 2009,Fri Jan 09 00:30:08 EET
2009,false,+306974526091,"¥�¥·¥Δ¥Γ¥Ώ

I have 116 contacts as listed in the blackberry but only the 108 get
parsed. the rest contain greek and they are in the ipd somewhere but not in
the "Contacts"... weird...

This was first reported by garreth.tinsley on Apr 19, 2009.  This should be
very easy.

In one sms record, in the XML and in the CSV output, I had a negative UID: 
  <SmsMessage UID="-386064680"> 
    <sentDate>Mon Apr 27 22:10:15 CEST 2009</sentDate>  
    <receivedDate>Mon Apr 27 21:11:23 CEST 2009</receivedDate>  
    <wasSent>false</wasSent>  
    <to>xxxxxxxxxx</to>  
    <text>xxxxxxxxxx</text> 
  </SmsMessage>  

Maybe a classic signed/unsigned problem?

Hope this helps.

Version 0.2.5 on Windows XP


P.S. It seams that it has been received BEFORE sent. Wrong time setting or
did I found a bug?

-- Gianmarco

This was first suggested by bradley.will on Aug 12, 2008.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create back up of address book via blackberry desktop software
2. Save as ipd file
3. Attempt to open with ipddump

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output is replication of entries in address book.  I am getting 
nothing.  Attempted to use another program that was a trial only and it 
was able to pull up information.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 0.5.2
OS Windows Vista


Please provide any additional information below.

Any help would be so greatly appreciated.  I know you are not available at 
the moment but was hoping to catch you to see if this is an easy fix.

I am desperate to get my contacts into a file to enter into a non-
blackberry phone.  I have used your program previously without issue and I 
love it.  Am hoping to get this extracted asap.

Thanks again!!

Ali

Parse calendar record type

On the IPD parser

case DATABASECOUNT:
numberOfDatabases = input.read() << 2;

the database number bytes is 2. Not 8
------------------------------------
Also can you please expalin me what this << 8 ,16 and 24 times do? 
\\\\\\\\\\\\\
case RECORDLENGTH:
                  recordLength = input.read();
                  recordLength |= input.read() << 8;
                  recordLength |= input.read() << 16;
                  recordLength |= input.read() << 24;
                  recordRead = 0;
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

For some reason all spaces are stripped from strings when contacts are 
exported in xml files.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Send or receive an SMS message that contains a double-quote i.e. "
2. Back up the SMS Messages from the BlackBerry to an IPD file.
3. Use IpdDump to create a CSV from the IPD.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected result: The entire SMS message should be contained in a single 
cell in the "text" column.
Actual Result: When a double-quote punctuation mark is present in the body 
of the SMS message, IpdDump splits the body of the SMS message across 
multiple cells and lines.
I can provide specific examples, if necessary.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
IpdDump 0.2.5
Windows XP Pro (32 bit), SP3
Blackberry 8900, BBOS v4.6.1.231

Please provide any additional information below.
I believe this should be a simple fix involving escaping out the " symbol 
when parsing the file. Without digging into the code, however, I'm just 
guessing.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.???? appear for arabic messages
2.unicode support for these lanaguges could fix the problem
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
i should see the message, instead i see ???????? ???

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest, on windows 7 professional

Please provide any additional information below.

I hope that this software may import information into IPD files.

Thanks a lot

Use java native library for building the xml, in order to save 300kb of the
dom4j library

When exporting a CSV (comma separated values) file, the save dialog shows 
with a filter of .cvs and no .csv files are shown in the dialog.

When exporting memos as XML, I have some memos which only have a title and 
no text.  This throws an exception when adding a null text.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
Adding text to an XML document must not be null
    at org.dom4j.DocumentFactory.createText(DocumentFactory.java:174)
    at org.dom4j.tree.AbstractElement.addText(AbstractElement.java:899)
    at 
org.quaternions.ipddump.writers.MemosWriters.MemosToXML(MemosWriters.java:1
72)
    at 
gui.IpdDump_NewGUI.saveAsMenuItemActionPerformed(IpdDump_NewGUI.java:700)
...

I need to have access to certain sms message. 
i cannot request for instance 
record.getSmsMessage(msgIndex);

It is really needed if its not to much hustle to implement. 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. SMS, text input language is chinese simplified, option->sms text->data 
coding is UCS2.
2. Backup the SMS database, and open it with ipddump


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
In main window, All the sent out text is displayed incorrectly, but the 
received text is ok

--------------------8<------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UNICODE"?>

<SMSmessages TotalSMS="2">
  <SmsMessage>
    <sentDate>Sat Oct 23 11:08:08 CST 2010</sentDate>
    <receivedDate>Sat Oct 23 11:08:08 CST 2010</receivedDate>
    <wasSent>true</wasSent>
    <to>+8613761393379</to>
    <text>c/?v?!??l?S???g&#27;nXVí??@3@ ??@ @1</text> **not correctly
  </SmsMessage>
  <SmsMessage>
    <sentDate>Sun Oct 24 03:17:59 CST 2010</sentDate>
    <receivedDate>Sat Oct 23 11:18:07 CST 2010</receivedDate>
    <wasSent>false</wasSent>
    <to>+8613761393379</to>
    <text>望湘园~</text>    **but display ok here
  </SmsMessage>
</SMSmessages>
--------------------8<------------------------------------------------
maybe it's the cellphone OS cause the problem??  as it doesn't use UNICODE 
encoding with SMS text??---I just guess~

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3 RC3 on Windows XP SP3


Please provide any additional information below.
black berry 8900, OS 5.0.0.822

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Doubleclick on the downloaded jar

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Running the program instead of a JVM error saying "could not find the main 
class"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3RC3

Please provide any additional information below.
Looking for documentation how to run in the project pages but did not find...

if you pass as an argument a 'whatever' file, the program will parse it
anyway, even thought that it will find nothing.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Save on the BlackBerry a contact with a non ISO-8859-1 (e.g.:
Name: Šárka  (where the first char should be a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH 
CARON aka U+0160)
2. Backup the contact database, and open it with ipddump


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
On the main page, and in the "View in XXXXX" windows the contact is displayed 
correctly. Saving the contact in an XML file gives instead:

--------------------8<------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UNICODE"?>

<Contacts TotalContacts="1"> 
  <Contact> 
    <Name>?árka</Name>  
    <MobilePhone>+420XXXXXXXXXXX</MobilePhone>  
  </Contact> 
</Contacts>
--------------------8<------------------------------------------------

Saving on a Plain text file gives wrong results as well.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3 RC3 on Windows XP SP3

Is there any possible way to sort the database file by phone number so I can 
extract each person's total conversation separately? I really appreciate the 
application! Thanks.

I would like to use your excellent library in a Mac application.
However, since I am planning to publish it in the Mac App Store, I cannot 
accept libraries written in java (as they requires jre to run, they cannot be 
approved by Apple).

Why don't you port your library to C/C++ language?
Not only because of the Mac App Store, but in this way it will be possible to 
bundle it everywhere!

Will you be implementing support for .bbb files?  (These are the backup files 
created by the Mac 
version of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager)

I am specifically interested in extracting SMS from a .bbb

Thanks!

The JavaDocs are missing and should be writen in various classes

Exporting contacts as CSV gives the same column headers as exporting SMS 
records.

Unicode support with the Arabic language. I am getting ? instead of the actual 
text in the saved files. Any recommendations to fix this issue?

nice work by the way :)

The list of arguments for this application.

Usage: java -jar ipdump.jar <path to ipd> :normal usage
Usage: java -jar ipdump.jar               :GUI usage
Usage: java -jar ipdump.jar <path to ipd> -<argument1> -<argument2>
-<argument-n>
Argument: -txt: writes a txt file in the same path and name as the ipd.
Argument: -doc: writes a doc file in the same path and name as the ipd.
Argument: -xml: writes a xml file in the same path and name as the ipd.
Argument: -help: List of Usages


example: java -jar ipdump.jar <path to ipd> -txt -doc
this will make a txt file  and a doc file of the dump.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run IpdDump
2. change the backup file from .bbb to .zip, unzip file.
2. Attempt to open 'Databases.ipd' on IpdDump

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect it to run through and extract the info...but instead the status 
bar gets stuck on 2%! I've tried running it a few times with no success....

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3 RCD, Mac OS 10.6.6, 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add a Contact to the address book (I am using Outlook on WinXP, syncd 
to my BB)
2. Add a value in the Notes field (and other values in Work Address and 
Email info) for that contact
3. Use the Blackberry Desktop Manager to Backup the contacts to an IPD
4. Use IPDdump to view the contact (and save to CSV file)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Some basic fields are saved ok (Name, Email etc). Beyond the Notes field 
the fields are jumbled. A Tab character in the Notes field seem to cause 
lots of problem.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.2.5 on WinXP SP3

Please provide any additional information below.

Thanks!

Hi
I appreciate your work, it's an extremely interesting project counting on
the number of blackberrys that are used nowadays.

I had a problem running your jar with those parameters

java -jar ipddump-0.1.0.jar Backup-\(2009-05-18\).ipd 

on this platform

java version "1.6.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06-153)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_07-b06-57, mixed mode)

but got this error (it seems it tried to access an index array which is
bigger than the maximum allowed one)

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 395,
Size: 78
        at java.util.LinkedList.entry(LinkedList.java:365)
        at java.util.LinkedList.get(LinkedList.java:315)
        at org.quaternions.ipddump.data.Database.createRecord(Database.java:85)
        at org.quaternions.ipddump.Main.parse(Main.java:177)
        at org.quaternions.ipddump.Main.main(Main.java:36)

Could you easily point me to the problem so that I could fix it by myself?
It's not a really huge backup (1,6MB, like 1000 SMS archived)

Thanks
Nicola

When we enter filename.csv or filename.txt, the save dialog will still add 
.csv or .txt to the filename, resulting in a written file as being named 
filename.csv.csv or filename.txt.txt.

I have a IPD backup that 0.2.5 will open, but 0.3 will not.

Under 0.3, it simply says "WORKING... be patient!" in the status bar, and sits 
there indefinitely (at least 10 minutes, I didn't wait longer than that).

Under 0.2.5, it opens near instantly.

I've tried this with both a full IPD backup, as well as only the SMS messages, 
as that's what I wanted to extract from this backup. I suspect it may be the 
SMS messages causing issues, I'm not sure if this is a known regression, but I 
can send you the IPD file if that would help. (Not going to attach it here 
publicly, obviously...lol).

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Some of my text messages has the persons name of who i am texting while some 
just display the phone numbers. It be nice if all of them showed the name of 
the person i am texting.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Windows 7
Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

Add the ability to export an XML formatted dump of the data.  The specific
names of the tags aren't important, except that they're human-readable and
it's clear from context what data they represent.

Building a new and more rich GUI, considering not only the SMS as in the
old one but Contact, calendar etc..