Comments on: S685IP and the VCard format

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:35:42 +0000

Seconded! However if you export from Outlook (using something like vCard Wizard) then you may find you have to remove all the non number fields as the importer chokes on these. To get ~40 cards imported I had to renove all but the N, FN and TEL entries. I’ll produce a script at some point to do this and I’ll think about how to make it work for anyone…

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:08:49 +0000

According to the latest firmware readme for the 11/09 update (2214 I think). The vCard problem is fixed, about time. I just tried a transfer with a single entry and it split the name correctly with no ; showing. Hurrah!

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:42:56 +0000

The same goes for the 675IP. Does anyone know where I can download the previous firmware verion (.bin file) ? The gigaset page only contains readme files.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:51:09 +0000

Yes; the S685IP web configurator vCard transfer is a bit of a disaster (at least in the current firmware 02191). If you download the directory and then upload it again you end up with every entry duplicated since the transfer is not symetrical. The unload merges the phones’ Surname and First Name fields into the vCard N: field, separated by a semicolon. But the upload just moves the N: field contents back to the Surname field without taking account of the semicolon field separator.

Also, the upload automatically translates a prefix plus sign in the phone number TEL field to the currently set International Access Code (usually 00 in western Europe). From my perspective it would be better stored as + and substituted on-the-fly as it is in most cell phones.

There doesn’t seem to be anyway of getting something into the First Name field through the web configurator route at present. There may be a way of loading the directory properly via the bluetooth interface but the quirky client software (Gigaset QuickSync) only seems to work with Windows Address Book or Outlook Contacts files, and I haven’t fiddled about with that yet.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:56:17 +0000

I tried a round trip using the VCARD facility on the S685IP Web Interface – saved a directory to my PC – transfered the VCARD back to the handset. The VCARD name format was correct (N:Last;First) but when it was read back the directory contained a Last Name of “Last;First” and no First Name. Is any body else seeing this?

By: Alan Lord

Alan Lord — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:20:41 +0000

Thanks for the info Stephan, can you provide the source so someone could try to create a cross-platform version (perhaps in Java, or Python or something?) I don’t use Windows or Mono (The .net framework for Linux) so unfortunately I can’t use it. If you release it under a GPL or similar license, then anyone can improve your programme but they must give the improvements back to the community if they distribute it.

Thanks again,

Alan

By: Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:31:02 +0000

I had a similar problem and wrote a small tool – maybe this is also interesting for you: http://www.stephan-brenner.com/?page_id=211