Sun, 17 Feb 2008
My K750i and Linux
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.
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