[Opensync-users] opensync, syncML, openobex and Nokia E61 => what's broken?

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Dear All,

I've been happily and gratefully exploiting opensync for years (and before it, SYnCE). I have three NOKIA phones (6630, E61, 6220 classic). 
I've been using opensync 0.22 for the last years with some troubles (doubling of entries at each slow sync) but...hey, it's beta! And after all, it is still possible to avoid the problem through some tricks.

Recently something broke. Everytime I try to sync my E61 I get a system error on the phone and an infinite loop on multisync (0.90). 

My OS is Linux Ubuntu 9.10.

Please note that everything goes fine with the other phone, the 6220 classic. I suppose because until now, I did not need to perform a full sync with the latter, only fast syncs. But I fear that I might get the same issue next time I need to perform a slow sync for some reason.

I was wandering Whether there might be a solution to my problem. I really hate even the idea of reverting to windoze just for this. 
From my point of view, opensync is one of the most significant projects in the opensource area. Really.

I read today that a new version of libwbxml has come. Could this be a fix?

Please help

Giancarlo

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>    3. Re: Timezone trouble (Chris Frey)
>    4. libwbxml 0.10.8 (Michael Bell)
>    5. N900 sync with opensync 0.22 (Rajil
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:28:14 -0400
> From: Chris Frey <cd...@fo...>
> Subject: Re: [Opensync-users] Timezone trouble
> To: ope...@li...
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> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> I don't know the answer to your specific query, but I do
> recall that
> timezone support is weak... if not in the library itself,
> then sometimes
> in the plugins.
> 
> Especially in 0.22.
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 02:09:15PM +0100, Wolfgang Klein
> wrote:
> > I am still trying to make my Palm and my KDE Desktop /
> Mozilla Lightning
> > work together. I had some success in setting up
> opensync to sync kde-pim
> > and my Palm, but still I encounter some serious
> problems, one of which
> > is concerning timezone info: each time I sync, the
> timezone ID is
> > deleted from the local vcal file.
> > 
> > When I enter a new event, there is a timezone info
> included:
> > 
> > BEGIN:VEVENT
> > ...
> > DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20100402T173000Z
> > DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20100402T210000Z
> > END:VEVENT
> > 
> > 
> > After synchronizing, the same event will look like
> this:
> > 
> > BEGIN:VEVENT
> > ...
> > DTSTART:20100402T173000Z
> > DTEND:20100402T210000Z
> > END:VEVENT
> > 
> > The timezone info has been deleted and this event will
> be shifted one
> > hour. Strangely, this does not happen to every event
> in calendar: only
> > repeating events are affected when they cross the days
> when daylight
> > saving time starts or ends.
> > 
> > Has any one else noticed this? Is this a know problem?
> If so: is there a
> > patch available and will this be fixed in the next
> release?
> > 
> > 
> > Wolfgang Klein
> > 
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:50:11 +0100
> From: Wolfgang Klein <kle...@we...>
> Subject: Re: [Opensync-users] Timezone trouble
> To: ope...@li...
> Message-ID: <4BA...@we...>
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> 
> Hello Chris,
> 
> thanks for your answer. Now I know that there are still
> some souls
> around who read this list. It has become very quiet, I was
> beginning to
> worry if it was still active.
> 
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> > I don't know the answer to your specific query, but I
> do recall that
> > timezone support is weak... if not in the library
> itself, then sometimes
> > in the plugins.
> 
> I hope they fix it very fast, because now that KPilot has
> become
> abandoned and unsupported, all of us "old-fashioned" Palm
> users need
> OpenSync really badly. Right now, I am feeling like back in
> the stone
> age again: I have to synchronize my Palm and my Linux
> desktop by hand,
> because right now there is *no* synching software that
> works     faultless,
> without messing up my calendars.
> 
> I'm sure you can imagine how frustrating this is. And it
> gets even more
> frustrating every time Windows users look at you with this
> kind of pity
> in their faces...
> 
> > 
> > Especially in 0.22.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, this is the only version available for my
> system. I tried
> to compile version 0.39 but I failed. :-(
> 
> It seems to me, compiling OpenSync is much more complicated
> than
> compiling a Linux kernel. The scripts that should do the
> trick are very
> old and they don't work on my system (KUbuntu 9.10). I am
> not very much
> into developing software, so I can't really tell why they
> don't work. I
> guess it must be some dependencies that don't match, but
> how do you
> solve dependencies for a script of that age?
> 
> If anyone has a working script, that downloads and compiles
> OpenSync on
> (K)Ubuntu9.10 or if anyone even has a working package
> (.deb) for this
> system, I would very much appreciate a copy of it.
> 
> 
> 
> Wolfgang Klein
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:20:14 -0400
> From: Chris Frey <cd...@fo...>
> Subject: Re: [Opensync-users] Timezone trouble
> To: ope...@li...
> Message-ID: <201...@fo...>
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> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:50:11AM +0100, Wolfgang Klein
> wrote:
> > I hope they fix it very fast, because now that KPilot
> has become
> > abandoned and unsupported, all of us "old-fashioned"
> Palm users need
> > OpenSync really badly. Right now, I am feeling like
> back in the stone
> > age again: I have to synchronize my Palm and my Linux
> desktop by hand,
> > because right now there is *no* synching software that
> works     faultless,
> > without messing up my calendars.
> 
> It's good that 0.22 users post here, so that people realize
> that
> 0.22 is still needed.  But to be honest, there is
> little possibility
> that timezone support will be improved in 0.22.
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately, this is the only version available for
> my system. I tried
> > to compile version 0.39 but I failed. :-(
> 
> I believe that 0.39 is in the Debian unstable tree. 
> So you could try
> grabbing the source packages, and compiling them to .debs
> yourself.
> 
> I'm not sure if that would be easier than compiling from
> tarball or not.
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:26:39 +0200
> From: Michael Bell <mic...@cm...>
> Subject: [Opensync-users] libwbxml 0.10.8
> To: OpenSync-users <ope...@li...>,
>     OpenSync-devel <ope...@li...>
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> libwbxml 0.10.8 release notes
> 
> Download:https://sourceforge.net/projects/libwbxml/files/libwbxml/0.10.8/
> 
> Minor Changes
> =============
> 
>   - Added a fix for the broken vFormat handling in the
> SyncML
>     specification. All LFs are replaced by CRLFs
> in every vFormat
>     object inside a SyncML message (ticket #38).
>   - Added Nokia ConML support (ticket #35).
>     There is no public documentation available
> from Nokia. The
>     transformation tables were created from
> sniffed WBXML documents.
>     The patch was supplied by Anton D. Kachalov.
> 
> Internal Changes
> ================
> 
>   - Removed OMA DM tests because the OMA did not grant
> a permission
>     for the inclusion (ticket #36).
> 
> Special thanks goes to Anton D. Kachalov who added the
> Nokia ConML support.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:21:24 +0100
> From: Rajil Saraswat <ra...@gm...>
> Subject: [Opensync-users] N900 sync with opensync 0.22
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> Hi all,
> 
> Can somebody help me in getting opensync to working with
> Nokia N900. I
> am getting the following error:
> 
> 
> #syncml-obex-client -b xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 25 --slow-sync
> text/x-vcard
> Contacts --wbxml --identifier "PC Suite" --dumpinfo
> Received an transport error: Link Error: 0x0
> Received an transport error: Unable to get answer
> Received an transport error: Link Error: 0x0
> Didnt receive the devinf though it was requested
> 
> The device supports the following:
> 
> #sdptool browse xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> 
> 
> Service Name: SyncML Client
> Service RecHandle: 0x10005
> Service Class ID List:
>   UUID 128: 00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002
> Protocol Descriptor List:
>   "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>   "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>     Channel: 25
>   "OBEX" (0x0008)
> Profile Descriptor List:
>   "" (0x00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002)
>     Version: 0x0100
> 
> Service Name: Nokia SyncML Server
> Service RecHandle: 0x10006
> Service Class ID List:
>   UUID 128: 00005601-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001
> Protocol Descriptor List:
>   "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>   "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>     Channel: 26
>   "OBEX" (0x0008)
> Profile Descriptor List:
>   "" (0x00005601-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001)
>     Version: 0x0100
> 
> Service Name: Object Push server
> Service RecHandle: 0x10007
> Service Class ID List:
>   "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
> Protocol Descriptor List:
>   "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>   "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>     Channel: 9
>   "OBEX" (0x0008)
> Profile Descriptor List:
>   "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
>     Version: 0x0100
> 
> Service Name: File Transfer server
> Service RecHandle: 0x10008
> Service Class ID List:
>   "OBEX File Transfer" (0x1106)
> Protocol Descriptor List:
>   "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>   "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>     Channel: 10
>   "OBEX" (0x0008)
> Profile Descriptor List:
>   "OBEX File Transfer" (0x1106)
>     Version: 0x0100
> 
> Service Name: Nokia OBEX PC Suite Services
> Service RecHandle: 0x10009
> Service Class ID List:
>   UUID 128: 00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001
> Protocol Descriptor List:
>   "L2CAP" (0x0100)
>   "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
>     Channel: 24
>   "OBEX" (0x0008)
> Profile Descriptor List:
>   "" (0x00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001)
>     Version: 0x0100
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:24:06 +0100
> From: Mark Ellis <ma...@mp...>
> Subject: [Opensync-users] bug tracker / bug 1131
> To: "ope...@li..."
>     <ope...@li...>
> Message-ID: <1274775846.2696.11.camel@mark06>
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> 
> Hi All
> 
> I guess I'm being especially dumb today, but how does one
> comment or
> anything else on an existing bug report ? I've got a patch
> to explain
> and attach and I can't see how it's supposed to work ??!!
> 
> Mark
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:21:22 +0200
> From: Michael Bell <mic...@cm...>
> Subject: Re: [Opensync-users] Hi michael bell. Some
> question about
>     libwbxml.
> To: ?? <el...@na...>
> Cc: OpenSync-users <ope...@li...>
> Message-ID: <4BF...@cm...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="euc-kr"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please always send such requests to ope...@li....
> This is
> the official support list.
> 
> On 05/25/10 04:42, ?? wrote:
> >
> > i have some ploblem. I want to decode Exchange 2003
> Active Sync email.
> > So use libwbxml 0.10.8.
> > But i don't compile libwbxml 0.10.8 for vs2003. and I
> use CMake 2.8.1
> >  
> > this url same ploblem -> http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472535
> 
> 1. You must run cmake in the top level directory. Do not
> run it directly
> in the directory src/.
> 
> 2. If there are functions which are not available under
> Windows (e.g.
> index) then please report this to the bug tracker of
> libwbxml or to the
> mailing list. Actually there are no open bugs for compile
> problems.
> 
> https://libwbxml.opensync.org/report/1
> 
> So please use cmake and open a bug if there are compile
> problems.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> -- 
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