NAME

       bidentify - Barry Project's program to identify BlackBerry handhelds

SYNOPSIS

       bidentify [-B busname][-N devname][-c][-m][-s][-h][-v]

DESCRIPTION

       bidentify  scans the USB system for available BlackBerry devices and probes each one it finds, then sends
       the identifying information to stdout in a computer‐friendly format.

OPTIONS

       -B busname
              Specify the USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on.  This is the first  number  displayed  in
              the  output  from the lsusb command, such as 002.  If the busname is numeric on your system, 2 and
              002 are equal.  See also the -N option, which can be used together with this option  to  precisely
              select the device to work with.

       -N devname
              Specify  the  USB  device  name.  This is the second number displayed in the output from the lsusb
              command, such as 005.  If the device name is numeric on your system, 5 and  005  are  equal.   See
              also the -B option.

       -c     If  used  with  the -m option, ESN numbers will be displayed in both hex and decimal formats where
              possible.  If -m is not used, this option has no effect.

       -m     Also show the device's ESN / MEID / IMEI number.  This requires desktop database access, so is  an
              option.  It will only work on devices that have no password.

       -s     Also  show  the  device's  USB  serial  number.   This is the same serial number that is available
              through the lsusb command line tool, and may not always be what you expect.

       -v     Dump verbose protocol data during operation.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

RETURN STATUS

       If bidentify detects a BlackBerry device, but cannot access it for some reason, it will  write  an  error
       message  to stderr describing the access problem, and return a count of the number of such failed devices
       as the error code.  A return code of 0 means there were no BlackBerry devices found  that  could  not  be
       probed.

       In the event of a fatal error, the message will be written to stderr, with an error code of 1.

AUTHOR

       bidentify is part of the Barry project.  This manual page was written by Chris Frey.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry

                                                November 22, 2012                                   BIDENTIFY(1)