The Handbook
is an application for synchronizing data on a mobile phone with the data on the desktop.

Using

The Terminal Window
The terminal window provides a low level interface for controlling the mobile phone via AT modem commands. You can type in commands in the upper middle field. The lower middle fields shows the direct response of the mobile phone. In the right side of the main window the processed output is shown.
On the left side you have the list of available commands. You can execute them by double-clicking or pressing the Execute button. The modem response output fields show what happens. If you have typed in a new command you can add it to the list of available commands by pressing the Add button. A dialog pops up, which lets you select name and parameters for the command.
The command list is saved to an file by selecting Save from the menu or pressing the corresponding toolbar button. You can load an existing file by selecting Open from the menu.

Mobile Interface Window
By choosing Mobile GUI from the Show menu of the terminal window you open the Interface Window for your mobile phone. This shows a comprehensive view of the status and data present on the phone including the phonebook. There are two list of phonebook data, one representing the address book and the other representing the data on the phone.
You can read the phone books by pressing the Read button right under the corresponding list. By pressing the Write button you write back the data shown in the list to the corresponding phonebook. By pressing Save to File you can store the mobile phonebook as list of comma-seperated values to disk. After loading the phonebook data using the Read buttons, you can merge the phonebooks by pressing the Merge button. This will put data only present in one of the phonebooks into the other and vice versa. If conflicts occur during this process, a dialog pops up.
The Sync button combines all the actions needed for syncing the phonebooks. It reads the data from the addressbook and the mobile phone, does the merge and writes it back.

Configuring
By selecting the entry Configure Kandy from the menu you get the preferences dialog of . You can set the name of the serial device where your mobile is connected in this dialog. Examples for the name of the serial device under are /dev/ttyS0 for the first and /dev/ttyS1 for the second serial interface of your computer. You can also set which windows are opened per default when starting .