• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

First post in english, maybe its of some use for somebody else.

I finally got around setting up backups of my Sony Ericsson phone again. First, I added an udev-rule to fix the permissions of the /dev/rfcomm0 device which gets set up automatically by Gentoo if configured right.

• /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

   rfcomm0 {
    # Automatically bind the device at startup
    bind yes;
  
    # Bluetooth address of the device
    device 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE;
  
    # RFCOMM channel for the connection
    channel 1;
  
    # Description of the connection
    comment "description";
   } 

• udev-rule

   KERNEL=="rfcomm[0-9]*",GROUP="dialout"

• Now we can access the phone via /dev/rfcomm0 as soon as we turn on bluetooth and plug in the adapter.

I tried some applications with this:

• Gammu: this Gnokii-Fork also supports non-Nokia phones. There is a good GUI available (wammu), but I wasn't so lucky so I sticked to plain gammu.

  • ~/.gammurc:

    [gammu]
    connection = at
    port = /dev/rfcomm0
    logfile = gammulog
    logformat = textall

  • A backup of the whole phone can be done with:

    gammu backup <filename>

This will dump everything in one file.

• OpenSync: this is the successor of MultiSync, the GUI for it did not build for me, but the commandline client msynctool does work. First, I tried a group of syncml for the phone, kdepim for Kontact and file for something 'solid' ;), like this:

  • Configuration was pretty easy once I figured it out:

    # create group
    msynctool --addgroup jan_private
    msynctool --addmember jan_private kdepim-sync # -> member 0
    msynctool --addmember jan_private file-sync # -> member 1
    msynctool --addmember jan_private syncml-obex-client # -> member 2
    # discover capabilities
    msynctool --discover jan_private 0
    msynctool --discover jan_private 1
    msynctool --discover jan_private 2
    # disable everything beside contacts
    msynctool --disable-objtype jan_private event
    msynctool --disable-objtype jan_private note
    msynctool --disable-objtype jan_private data
    msynctool --disable-objtype jan_private todo

  • Config for the plugins:
    • kdepim has no options

    • File: msynctool --configure jan_private 2

        <directory>
          <path>/home/ja/docs/sync</path>
          <objtype>contact</objtype>
          <objformat>vcard30</objformat>
        </directory>
      </config>

    • SyncML (see OpenSync wiki): msynctool --configure jan_private 3

      <?xml version="1.0"?>
      <config>
        <bluetooth_address>00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE</bluetooth_address>
        <bluetooth_channel>8</bluetooth_channel>
        <identifier>Sony Ericss</identifier>
        <version>1</version>
        <wbxml>1</wbxml>
        <username></username>
        <password></password>
        <type>2</type>
        <usestringtable>0</usestringtable>
        <onlyreplace>0</onlyreplace>
        <onlyLocaltime>0</onlyLocaltime>
        <recvLimit>0</recvLimit>
        <maxObjSize>0</maxObjSize>
        <database>
           <name>Contacts</name>
           <objtype>contact</objtype>
           <objformat>vcard21</objformat>
         </database>
      </config>

  • Now we can sync (I need to try twice so it does the slow sync):

    msynctool --sync jan_private

This gave me a duplicates everytime I synced.

Since it was a long time since I used my old addressbook, it took quite some time to hand-merge the backuped contacts (one for each number - wtf sony?) with the two other addressbooks (in Kontact). After that, I deleted all my contacts on the phone, tried - and it fucked up, because there were all the duplicates still in the file-backend. Ok, new group, only kdepim and syncml in it, delete all contacts on the phone again, sync - and everything is nice. Even syncing seems to work. Only Kontact doesn't show the Names of new synced contacts until you save them again. ]]>