Nokia 6234 + Gnokii 0.6.26 = data loss

[Gauthier]

Hi all,

I'm not asking for help, but giving a user report.  I have a Nokia 6234. 
A few months ago (October 2007), I couln't connect it to my GNU/Linux box 
using Gnokii 0.6.18.  I decided to give it a second try with Gnokii 
0.6.26.

Here's my ~/.gnokiirc :

port = /dev/ttyACM0
model = 6233
initlength = default
connection = dku2libusb
use_locking = no
serial_baudrate = 19200
smsc_timeout = 10
[gnokiid]
bindir = /usr/sbin/
[connect_script]
TELEPHONE = 12345678
[disconnect_script]
[logging]
debug = off
rlpdebug = off
xdebug = off

I had to add the following three lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to 
avoid the cdc_acm module to take control of the connection before Gnokii:

blacklist cdc_acm
blacklist cdc_ether
blacklist rndis_host

As root, I could successfully run "gnokii --identify", "gnokii 
--getphonebook SM 1 end", and "gnokii --monitor", which showed a line "SMS 
Messages: Unread 0, Number 1006".  But when I ran "gnokii 
--showsmsfolderstatus", I got the following output:

No. Name                             Id #Msg
============================================
  0 Inbox                            IN   36
  1 Outbox                           OU   42

With "gnokii --getsms IN 1 end" and "gnokii --getsms OU 1 end" I got 
indeed 36 and 42 messages, but these were very old messages which had been 
deleted a long time (two years!) ago and were not visible with the phone 
itself...  (Note that I did not change the phone or the SIM card for more 
than two years.)  I thought (don't know if I was wrong) that these 
messages were stored on the SIM card, and that the actual 1006 messages 
were stored in the phone memory (which, I thought, is not accessible with 
Gnokii, since you cannot retrieve the messages), so I ran "gnokii 
--deletesms IN 1 end" and "gnokii --deletesms OU 1 end" to clean up the 
messages in the SIM...  This deleted those 78 already deleted messages, 
but also deleted the 1006 "real" messages, without even warning about it!

I don't know if I did something wrong (except issuing a "deletesms" 
command, but how could I guess that "deletesms" deletes messages that are 
not shown by "getsms"?), or if something went wrong.

This is, of course, very annoying, and, of course again, I cannot join a 
debug trace or reproduce the error...  And yes, I read §§ 15 & 16 of the 
GPL again and again to calm down...

Gauthier