HTC Sync for Linux?

[Guest alex_hk90]

As the title - does anyone know any (offline) sync applications for Linux that are compatible with the HTC Desire? I just ditched Windows and while I know I can use Google to sync via the Internet I'd rather just keep this data between my phone and my PC.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. :)

[Guest cypherpunk]

As the title - does anyone know any (offline) sync applications for Linux that are compatible with the HTC Desire? I just ditched Windows and while I know I can use Google to sync via the Internet I'd rather just keep this data between my phone and my PC.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. :)

Just set USB debugging on your phone and use a nightly cron script to do your syncing manually. I bet there's a way to make it activate when the phone connects but I'm not sure what that would be.

Off-hand, I guess your shell script would load adb in usb mode and maybe an expect script would detect whether the adb command succeeded. If it does then just adb pull/push to sync whatever files you want.

[Guest alex_hk90]

Just set USB debugging on your phone and use a nightly cron script to do your syncing manually. I bet there's a way to make it activate when the phone connects but I'm not sure what that would be.

Off-hand, I guess your shell script would load adb in usb mode and maybe an expect script would detect whether the adb command succeeded. If it does then just adb pull/push to sync whatever files you want.

Yeah, that could work I suppose. I was thinking more how I would sync contacts and calendar with an application on the PC, which might be difficult depending on how the phone stores this data.

[Guest alex_hk90]

Right, I've got access to the phone using adb on Linux, does anyone know where the contacts, messages, calendar and other phone data is stored on the filesystem?