Problems syncing evolution & WM6.1 Pro

[Andrew S. T. <as...@at...>]

Hi,

I've recently purchased a WM6.1 device (HTC Touch Diamond) as an upgrade
to my Nokia 6680.  I'm running Ubuntu Hardy x86_64 with all the latest
updates.  I successfully synced the 6680 with Evolution using opensync,
and then configured a separate sync group for the HTC according to the
guide here: http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceWithUbuntu.  I also installed
usb-rndis-lite according to information I found here:
http://www.nabble.com/following-the-instructions-but-not-getting-the-results-:-(-td17717049.html.

However....

It seems that when syncing from evolution to the HTC, I have some
problems:

1) Some of the phone numbers present in evolution don't synchronize to
the phone.  The entry gets created, but there is no information.
However, most work correctly--even ones with values in the notes field.

2) This is the biggest one:  it appears that each time I sync with
evolution, I get no updates to the device and I get complete duplicates
of the existing contacts in evolution.  This is a *major* issue for me
as I have several hundred contacts.  Calendar entries don't seem to sync
at all, and I also get duplicate todo items.  None of the other
categorized items (other than 'Personal' in Evolution) seem to be
considered during the sync (probably an evo2 plugin issue, but thought
I'd ask anyway).

3) Photo information associated with the contacts on the device are not
correctly displayed in evolution.  I've exported an individual vcf (via
beam to linux with bluetooth) and it uses VCARD1.2 with the
ENCODING=Base64 whereas the exported VCF of the same contact from
evolution doesn't have any encoding at all--not even the b: value that's
supposed to be there according to the VCARD3.0 spec.  This isn't too
crucial, but it's annoying.

Here's my sync related software:

$ dpkg --list '*sync*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libopensync0   0.22-2         Synchronisation framework for email/pdas/and
ii  libpisync1     0.12.3-4ubuntu synchronization library for PalmOS devices
ii  libsynce0      0.12-0ubuntu0~ Helper library for SynCE, a tool to sync Win
ii  libsyncml-util 0.4.5-1        SyncML protocol library utilities
ii  libsyncml0     0.4.5-1        SyncML protocol library
ii  multisync-tool 0.92.0~svn355- PIM Synchronization Command Line Tools
ii  multisync0.90  0.92.0~svn355- PIM Synchronization Tool
ii  opensync-modul 0.22-1         Python module for OpenSync
ii  opensync-plugi 0.22-2ubuntu1  Evolution plugin for opensync
ii  opensync-plugi 0.22-2         Opensync file plugin
ii  opensync-plugi 0.11.1-1ubuntu SynCE plugin for OpenSync
pn  opensync-plugi <none>         (no description available)
ii  opensync-plugi 0.22-2         Opensync SyncML plugin
ii  opensyncutils  0.22-2         Command line utilities for libopensync
ii  python-opensyn 0.22-2         Python bindings to the opensync synchronisat
un  python2.4-open <none>         (no description available)
un  python2.5-open <none>         (no description available)
ii  rsync          2.6.9-6ubuntu2 fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
ii  synce-dccm     0.9.1-3        Daemon to keep a connection to your WinCE de
pn  synce-hal      <none>         (no description available)
un  synce-serial   <none>         (no description available)
ii  synce-sync-eng 0.11.1-1ubuntu Synchronization engine for Windows Mobile de

Since there's so many moving parts here, I'm not sure where to start.
However, I think some of the issue may be in the synce side since I've
had previous success with the existing evo2 plugin from the 6680.

Any ideas as to how best to get everything working?

Thanks in advance,

ast
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Andrew S. Townley <as...@at...>
http://atownley.org