Re: [Opensync-users] SonyEricsson K750i Irmc-Sync <-> KDEPIM works .... for the most part

[Christopher S. <ope...@ch...>]

Hi,

sorry for this late answer. Some of your reports are already reported 
but there are still a few issues which have no ticket.

Am Samstag, 29. Juli 2006 21:06 schrieb Achim Spangler:
> Hi,
>
> I reported some weeks ago on still existing problems with German
> Umlauts, Resetting mobile phone and bad sync conflicts.

http://www.opensync.org/ticket/288 ?

> [...]
> At first I was a irritated, as my mobile was STILL resetted with the
> new merged irmc-sync plugin. But some evaluation revealed, that the
> sync-group CACHE had some VERY VERY BAD DATA CACHED in my
> $HOME/.opensync/ SO THAT MY MOBILE PHONE WAS CRASHED BY SOME RUBBISH
> FROM OLDER TRIES!!!! ==>
> 1) The OpenSync programs shouldn't cause problems, when the current
>    version of both sides don't contain any reference to broken cached
>    entries (in my case it was probably a event at date, where neiter
>    my mobile phone nor KDEPIM listed an event!!)
> 2) there should be a call parameter option to multisync to clear any
>    cached data for a sync group.
>    At least I had to create a complete new group, to get a fresh
> start.

Please create a ticket, thanks!

> OK - after I had created a new syncgroup, had cleared the complete
> mobile phone contact list (after backing it up) and had initially
> filtered everything but contacts OUT, I got my first successfull
> sync!!! Yippie
>
> I was also able to successfully sync later with all parts including
> notes, calendar ..
>
> Here some comments which I fill with debug information in the
> anonymized attachement.
> 1) It would be very fine, when debug messages on broken utf8 encoding
> would list also the affected words (or line), so that I have a chance
> to search KDEPIM and my mobile for those illegal data.
>    EVEN BETTER:
>    msynctool would immediately stop at thos positions, and would
> allow the user to define a corrected text

The problem is that your phone exports some data as ISO-8859-1. This 
cause the broken characters. I hope that we can fix this in the 
devel-branch.

http://www.opensync.org/ticket/288

> 2) There are still several <tag> types for events and contacts, which
> are differing between KDEPIM and irmc-sync/K750i, so that the user
> gets lots of erroneous conflict reports.
>    I attache several conflict reports, where I replaced all personal
> data I was aware of

Please create a ticket.

>
> PLEASE PLEASE DEAR developers check the attachement and derive
> decision plans to let opensync ignore in future those differences.

Thanks again for your feedback. We'll do our best :)

Best regards

	Christopher