Complete E680i Linux Package

[thundershadow14]

Okay people...I think i've beated my brain on this too long. I officially give up...motorola obviously tried really hard to prevent any kind of syncing...*phew* talk about killing the spirit of linux! Oh well....should I work for a realplayer sync application though? There's a flat text file for that (thanks to swifty for finding it) and syncing for that would be really simple. Should I? Let me know....

Frustrated
-Chad

[peje]

Maybe it is much easier to use libopensync with syncmlplugin to sync our phones under linux....

[thundershadow14]

libopensync....does anyone have experience? And does anyone know how this phone really syncs in windows??

-Chad

[flammenwerfer]

well, syncing through GNOME's Opensync has always been possible, I thought you were aware... To do so, you have to use the Mack connectivity Pack to route the traffic from your GPRS connection through a Bluetooth PPP with your linux box. A fake GPRS data connection has tobe created on the phone, usin the IP data of the peer, and then, use the over the air sync tool. Overall, a lot of hacking just for syncing!!!!!

But there are problems:
The sync tool of the phone itself is really bad, fails to clanly sync. I tried GPRS syncing with Over the Air with free Internet syncing servers to test the program under ideal conditions, as this is the way it was designed to work, and it sucks...
Opensync is only officially present on GNOME.
For KDE, actually, Kitchensync is gonna use opensync as its syncing engine, but I think this is going to be implemented on KDE4. Of course, you can try the svn versions. I was unable to compile them and ran into binaries for SuSE, wich resulted in a nightmare of dependencies, and when finally installed, the program created the pair, but did nothing when pressing the sync button...

[cesarcardoso]

To do so, you have to use the Mack connectivity Pack

Hm... forgive the n00bness moment, but where's Mack Connectivity Pack? I searched but haven't found it

[swifty]

it is a sticky in A780:
http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1577