linux and file transfers

[Guest iainp999]

anyone transferred files between their C500 and linux using BT or the USB cable? if so, was it difficult to get up and running? any issues?

cheers,

Iain

[Guest Taoski]

I never managed to get my SPV to sync with Linux.

I plugged it in - and...... nothing.

No indicators that anythng was connected at all!

Then again, the C500 is using a Mini USB connection - so it might be better.

[Guest siliconslave]

i pluged it into a dell c series laptop the other day to charge it and suse mounted it as a cdr drive, so theres hope. Not had a chance to play around with it yet...

[Guest Taoski]

Were you able to actually "see" anything on the phone though?

[Guest siliconslave]

unfortunatly not, i don't know if the c500 uses a standard file system type, or infact if there is vaguely standards based interface to it so i imagine untill someone reverse engineers active sync properly we'll be out in the dark ^_^

[Guest Taoski]

What would be better would be an application on the SPV that made it emulate a "USB Mass Storage" device.

Then it could be utilised in 100s of ways without pesky ActiveStink getting in the way.

Windows, Mac and Linux would all be happy bunnies then!

[Guest abdulwahid]

I have my C500 talking to my Linux fine. It took me about 20 mins to setup. I used SynCE which creates a PPP connection the the phone. There are good instructions on their page in getting it working. There is also a plugin for gnome-vfs so I can now browse the file system on my phone from the gnome file manager.

There is also a SynCE plugin for Multisync that should allow the synchronisation of the contacts etc with Evolution. I haven't tried that yet but will do sometime in the next couple of days.

Let me know if you need any help in getting it going. ^_^

[Guest abdulwahid]

Just to add some further information to this discussion. I have now got my C500 to synchronise contacts, calender, tasks etc with the Evolution. Now that truly rocks ^_^

The instructions on the SynCE page are quite straight forward.

[Guest Coolbox]

Do you think it will work for mpx200 too?? I use Mandrake 10 and prefer rpm-packages....which ones should I download??

[Guest iainp999]

thanks guys, i had actually forgotten about this :oops:

i will give the suggestions a go when i get some time!

[Guest abdulwahid]

Do you think it will work for mpx200 too?? I use Mandrake 10 and prefer rpm-packages....which ones should I download??

I think you need the ones listed here...It seems to support many different devices.

SynCE RPMS

Are you using KDE or Gnome? or something else.

BTW, the mutlisync plugin doesn't work with evolution 2.0.x yet unless you use the CVS version. I think there will be a new version soon though.

[Guest moo]

Couple of things which can *all* be found at the respective pages, RTFM:

* SynCE requires a quick kernel fix to communicate with the C500, 1 line IIRC no big deal

* On connecting the phone, a connection is established automatically - you can set it up so it automatically shows an icon on your desktop but I find Gnome's trayicon more useful.

* Integration is superb, there is an Evolution 2 plugin and it works nicely (Contacts, ToDo, Calendar(s)).

* Naturally you can back up the phone's contents with the right plugin or send them to another phone etc - there are several useful plugins, I use the SynCE one but SyncML works, too

* Browsing the phone's files is a breeze, the gnome-vfs plugin mentioned above works well (there are some, *rare* glitches)

* IIRC there is a kio_slave, too, so KDE users should experience the same ease of use as Gnome users

Debian carries up to date packages - the synce-trayicon and gnome-vfs module are easily compiled and installed with checkinstall.

[Guest hecatae]

I'm running suse 9.1, what will I need to use to sync?

[Guest wugger]

Here is what I found:

As pointed out above, the checkinstall method works well on Debian. However, the latest packages pose a problem in so far das udevd creates /dev/ttyUSB0 after the ppp daemon tries to connect. This can be fixed in the hotplug scripts or by issuing pppd call synce-device.

InfraRed syncronisation works, too, however you have to press "Sync via IR" in ActiveSync on the C500 - if done via USB, there is no need for this. It also seems that the USB connection is more stable and certainly much faster.

If you want proper integration with gnome, consider the following:

1) execute synce-in-desktop-folder

2) write the following into /home/USERNAME/.synce/scripts/manual.sh:

#!/bin/sh


case "$1" in


        connect)

                (sleep 1; synce-trayicon) &

               ;;


        disconnect)

                killall synce-trayicon &

                sudo killall pppd &

               ;;

        start)

               ;;

        stop)

               ;;


        install)

               ;;


        uninstall)

               ;;


        *)

                echo "Help!"

               ;;

esac

That way, each time you plugin the phone, the device shows up on your desktop and the trayicon appears. Each time you disconnect, both disappear again.

Have fun

wugger