opensync-users

[Opensync-users] new cell phone

[Florian P. <Flo...@gm...>]

hello everybody,
Sorry for contacting the list , but i want to buy a new cell phone and
in that case i want synchronize it with my linux box. 
has anybody of you experience with one of those devices?

Siemens S65
Motorola L6
Sagem my300x

I couldn't find any of those devices in the Hardware Compatiblity List.

maybe you can send me your experiences?

thanks in advance,
flo

Re: [Opensync-users] new cell phone

[daniel f. <dan...@gm...>]

hi flo,

here is such list: http://www.opensync.org/wiki/DeviceCompatibilityList=20
feel free to test your phone and post your results :-)

best regards,
daniel

Am Samstag, den 22.07.2006, 10:31 +0200 schrieb Florian Preinstorfer:
> hello everybody,
> Sorry for contacting the list , but i want to buy a new cell phone and
> in that case i want synchronize it with my linux box.=20
> has anybody of you experience with one of those devices?
>=20
> Siemens S65
> Motorola L6
> Sagem my300x
>=20
> I couldn't find any of those devices in the Hardware Compatiblity
List.
>=20
> maybe you can send me your experiences?
>=20
> thanks in advance,
> flo
>=20
>=20
>=20
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Re: [Opensync-users] new cell phone

[<bu...@gm...>]

Dnia 22-07-2006, sob o godzinie 10:31 +0200, Florian Preinstorfer
napisał(a):
> hello everybody,
> Sorry for contacting the list , but i want to buy a new cell phone and
> in that case i want synchronize it with my linux box. 
> has anybody of you experience with one of those devices?
> 
> Siemens S65

I've been struggling to get S65 to sync properly with both multisync and
opensync. My experiences - they're not perfectly representative:

1. I haven't tested syncml (at least not after it got support for <1.2).
I'm not even sure if s65 supports syncml over bluetooth or usb (http is
supported). I want to test it, but I don't have enough time...

2. Irmc in general promises to work (at least transfers contacts
properly to Evolution), but:
- Polish characters (it may also break other languages) are lost when
syncing phone back from Evolution
- tasks and calendar entries are messed up 
- I don't know if it possible to sync notes (evolution 2.6 features
memos module)

Perhaps with proper amount of trial and error it is possible to get it
working, but I don't really have time to test it (it involves manual
editing of config files and manual removal of broken contacts from the
phone). I decided to give up and next time get a device with better (out
of the box?) support... 

If you're interested in Siemens (R.I.P.), you might take a look at 75
series - S75 and SL75 (and maybe others) come with linux support (XMPM -
phone manager for linux), which relies on opensync. I haven't tested
those, XMPM can't recognize S65. There is a better chance to make them
work, especially with syncml though. 

Siemens phones have at least one advantage - easy access to phone memory
(via FUSE and SieFS) via irda, cable or bluetooth. 

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Rafał Próchniak

Re: [Opensync-users] new cell phone

[Daniel G. <dg...@su...>]

On Sunday 23 July 2006 19:11, Rafa=C5=82 Pr=C3=B3chniak wrote:
> 2. Irmc in general promises to work (at least transfers contacts
> properly to Evolution), but:
> - Polish characters (it may also break other languages) are lost when
> syncing phone back from Evolution
Can you try to reproduce this with the irmc-development branch? Also with=20
enabled OSYNC_TRACE to get more detailed information.=20

((
export OSYNC_TRACE=3D/tmp/osync_trace;
mkdir /tmp/osync_trace;
msynctool ---sync *yourgroup*
))

In the trace log files are information stored about the used encoding which=
=20
should help to fix your encoding problems.

Christopher has done many work to fix encoding problems.

> - tasks and calendar entries are messed up
> - I don't know if it possible to sync notes (evolution 2.6 features
> memos module)
should work with the irmc-sync plugin.

>
> Perhaps with proper amount of trial and error it is possible to get it
> working, but I don't really have time to test it (it involves manual
> editing of config files and manual removal of broken contacts from the
> phone). I decided to give up and next time get a device with better (out
> of the box?) support...
The irmc-sync config for the S65 via Bluetooth should look like this:

<connectionmedium>bluetooth</connectionmedium>
<btunit>FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF</btunid>
<btchannel>5</btchannel>

>
> If you're interested in Siemens (R.I.P.), you might take a look at 75
> series - S75 and SL75 (and maybe others) come with linux support (XMPM -
> phone manager for linux), which relies on opensync. I haven't tested
> those, XMPM can't recognize S65. There is a better chance to make them
> work, especially with syncml though.
>
> Siemens phones have at least one advantage - easy access to phone memory
> (via FUSE and SieFS) via irda, cable or bluetooth.
so far as i know siefs works also with obex like the irmc-sync plugin.

best regards,
Daniel

Re: [Opensync-users] new cell phone

[<bu...@gm...>]

Hi, 

Dnia 26-07-2006, śro o godzinie 15:58 +0200, Daniel Gollub napisał(a):

> Can you try to reproduce this with the irmc-development branch? Also with 
> enabled OSYNC_TRACE to get more detailed information. 

I have seen a lot of development and tested irmc development branch
several weeks ago - more less with the same results as before. I decided
it was a work in progress needing more time, but I will do more testing
including OSYNC_TRACE this weekend. I already created a ticket on
encoding including part of the trace several months ago
(http://www.opensync.org/ticket/155). Is it better to send new traces to
the list or use the ticket system?


> > - tasks and calendar entries are messed up
> > - I don't know if it possible to sync notes (evolution 2.6 features
> > memos module)
> should work with the irmc-sync plugin.
Do you know how to set up config files to include notes? As for tasks
and events I'll try to check it again. They always synced well for the
first sync and broke with updates (resulting in double entries etc.). 


-- 
Regards
Rafał Próchniak