[INFO] Syncing A1200 with Linux

[EliasKesh]

So, I'm trying to sync my A1200 with linux and running into a dead end at every new path I take. Here is what I have tried.

Using multisync and the syncml-obex-client over bluetooth sends a command to the phone that the phone rejects.
Received an transport error: Request not successfull: 79
I'm using channel 3 but I'm not sure this is correct. In any event I wrote a script to try up to 100 and they all fail somehow. I've also noticed that the obexd daemon is not running, problem ?

I have not tried obex over usb because the phone doesn't seem to present a USB obext interface. Running:
# syncml-obex-client -u
Found 0 USB OBEX interfaces
So that doesn't seem to be working.

Last shot is to try and run the syncml sever locally on my machine and have the phone direct traffic over the usbnet and not GPRS. I've tried to run mackconnectivitypack.tar.gz but it requires insmod and I do not seem to have permission to run that.

At this point if I could just get to the raw files I can handle doing the sync manually but those are also projected under the ezx user, so not accessible.

Any ideas, comments ? Anyone know the ezx password or how to run commands as ezx. The commands generally run but obexd for example need to access the libobex.so and that is owned by ezx so the app can't load it.

I'm stuct with a PDA phone that I can't put digital information on. I've tried Mobical and would prefer a simpler method.


Thanks,
Elias

[EliasKesh]

Quick update.
I still have not been able to get my A1200 to sync with linux directly. However, I just started using ScheduleWorld.com . Wow, what an improvement from Mobical.net . These guys have Java clients that run on the PC and the phone is you want. If not, I'm syncing from Kontact to the my a1200 calender and address book and it seems to working very nicely so far.


Elias

[Dark_T]

Hi,

how do you proceed to syn Kontact with your a1200 exactly ?

Thanks,

[EliasKesh]

I wasn't able to sync with the A1200 directly, via usb or bluetooth. Now I use scheduleworld.com . I import the vcf file form kontact and then do an OTA sync from the a1200. Not my favorite method but it works.

Elias

[ohli]

may be you wanna try this http://www.ohli.de/?J2MESync it works perfectly well for me with multisync and evolution.

it's a java applet which will send contacts and events via bluethoot to multisync/opensync. it's not very fast but will do the job

[EliasKesh]

Hey thanks for the info on this. I managed to get everything installed. The only question I have is how do you determine the Bluetooth channel . I tried 7 and it fails to connect. Can you tell from the phone what channel to use ?

Elias
linux@kesh.com

[ohli]

i'm using channel 7. so it should be your channel too. have you upgraded you permissions of the midlet to something more than "untrusted" ? you should be asked if you want grant the midlet permission to enable bluetooth if the midlet have access to it. at leat i have to do this. if your bluetooth is offline the midlet should upgrade it to discoverable. this is another sign that the midlet is working

[ohli]

i just remembered that you should be able to configure the channel yourself. there should be a config button at the bottom of the midlet. If it isn't then try the opensync(multisync 0.9x) j2mesync-midlet not the one for multisync 0.8x. it's the same protocol but it should be more advanced then the 0.8x one.

[Dark_T]

hi, all this sounds *really* interesting to me. But I can't get it connected. I'm using msynctoll in CLI. I get

[alban@W3H00A ~]$ msynctool --sync ming
j2mesync: ENTRY         get_info
j2mesync: EXIT          get_info
Synchronizing group "ming"
j2mesync: ENTRY         get_info
j2mesync: EXIT          get_info
j2mesync: ENTRY         j2mesync_initialize
j2mesync: ENTRY         j2mesync_load_cfg
j2mesync: EXIT          j2mesync_load_cfg
j2mesync: EXIT          j2mesync_initialize
j2mesync: ENTRY         j2mesync_connect
j2mesync: INTERNAL      got socket
j2mesync: INTERNAL      pre bind
j2mesync: INTERNAL      got bind
j2mesync: INTERNAL      00:19:2C:55:CE:4B 7
j2mesync: INTERNAL      pre bind2
ScimInputContextPlugin()
~ScimInputContextPlugin()
ScimInputContextPlugin()
WARNING: please edit ~/.scim/global and change /DefaultConfigModule to kconfig
Member 2 of type kdepim-sync just connected
j2mesync: EXIT          j2mesync_connect
Member 1 of type j2mesync-plugin had an error while connecting: unable to bind remote
Member 2 of type kdepim-sync just disconnected
All clients have disconnected
The sync failed: Unable to connect one of the members
j2mesync: ENTRY         j2mesync_finalize
j2mesync: ENTRY         j2mesync_save_cfg
j2mesync: EXIT          j2mesync_save_cfg
j2mesync: EXIT          j2mesync_finalize
~ScimInputContextPlugin()
Error while synchronizing: Unable to connect one of the members

forget about the scim stuff, it's for writing Chinese.
j2mesync was difficult for me to conf and make, notably because it kept installing all to /usr/local/... while my opensync stuff are in /usr/...
I ended by installing it manually, but normally it should be ok.

What is this midlet you talk about ? And the secure mode ? Do you have a step by step procedure ?

Thganks a lot for your help, there's at last light in view, my hopes of actually syncing my ming start to raise

Alban

[ohli]

the source code of the midlet is included in the tars, but i've uploaded a compiled version http://www.ohli.de/download/j2mesync_midlet.tar.bz2

the write access to the calendar and contacts and bluetooth access you have to disable the access controls of the a1200 java interpreter:
1) mount your phone in usb mass mode.
2) go to .system/java/DownloadApps/MIDLet<somenumbers>/
3) edit registry.txt and change the values to these ones
DRM-Mode: Allowed
Is-Trusted: 1
Domain: Manufacturer

than reboot your phone and your midlet has every permission it can get