Comments on: Charging my Blackberry 8700 On Ubuntu 7.04 with bcharge

By: Anthony Valentine

Anthony Valentine — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:44:25 +0000

Oops. I put the ‘is running’ code inside the loop by mistake.

Here is the script again, slightly better:

#!/bin/bash

MYPID=$$
MYNAME=$(basename $0)
RUNNING=$( ps -ef | egrep -v “${MYPID}|grep” | grep -i ${MYNAME} )

### Start a new instance only if one isn’t currently running
if [ -z "${RUNNING}" ]; then

while true
do
### Stop the loop when the /dev/bb device(s) go away
if [ -e "$(ls /dev/bb* 2> /dev/null | tail -n1)" ]; then
bcharge &> /dev/null
else
exit 0
fi

sleep 1
done

else
exit 0
fi

By: Anthony Valentine

Anthony Valentine — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:30:47 +0000

Also, If you copy the udev rules file from the barry tarball to /etc/udev/rules.d, you won’t have to start bcharge manually. You will need to change the “RUN” parameter in the file to match whatever you name your loop script.

As root:
cp barry-0.8/udev/10-blackberry.rules /etc/udev/rules.d

By: Anthony Valentine

Anthony Valentine — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:24:27 +0000

Thanks for your script. I have improved upon it a little:

#!/bin/bash

while true
do
MYPID=$$
MYNAME=$(basename $0)
RUNNING=$( ps -ef | egrep -v “${MYPID} | grep” | grep -i ${MYNAME} )

### Start a new instance only if one isn’t currently running
if [ -z "${RUNNING}" ]; then

### Stop the loop when the /dev/bb device(s) go away
if [ -e "$(ls /dev/bb* 2> /dev/null | tail -n1)" ]; then
bcharge &> /dev/null
else
exit 0
fi

sleep 1
else
exit 0
fi

done

By: smoosh

smoosh — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:25:08 +0000

“Not pretty but functional”

Much like myself

By: richard williams

richard williams — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:26:29 +0000

works for me with debian etch and bb 8703
not pretty but functional.

thanks.

By: smoosh

smoosh — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:55:56 +0000

Jetpeach: Not sure about the Synching….all my synching is doen wireless through the enterprise server, so I really only plug it in to charge it.

Ashwani: Glad it worked for you

By: Ashwani

Ashwani — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:38:36 +0000

Works great. Thanks.. rudimentary script? dude.. your simple script just saved a life here..

cheers.

By: jetpeach

jetpeach — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:35:11 +0000

thanks for the tip. does syncing and other functions work well with ubuntu 7.04? i am thinking of getting a 8700g but want to make sure it works well with ubuntu…

By: aaron

aaron — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:33:03 +0000

works for me. thanks alot.

By: smoosh

smoosh — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:26:44 +0000

You only say that because you didn’t live it man.