Syncing Sony Ericsson agenda with OpenSync
I succeeded (one way) in syncing my Sony Ericsson K800i using the OpenSync Ubuntu packages: as stated on their website, they are in a very early stage of development! You could find the following notes useful. add deb http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/opensync-0.21/ feisty main to your /etc/apt/sources.list install libmultisync-plugin-backup libmultisync-plugin-evolution libmultisync-plugin-irmc libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth libopensync-plugin-evolution2 libopensync-plugin-evolution2-dev libopensync-plugin-file libopensync-plugin-gnokii libopensync-plugin-google-calendar libopensync-plugin-gpe [...]
K800i UMTS modem over USB
I previously described how to PPP over GPRS via Bluetooth to a Sony-Ericsson K family mobile modem. With my previous K700i, using Dapper (I didn’t try with Edgy), talking to the modem via USB was very simple because the modem was reachable at /dev/ttyUSB0: the modem of my new K800i is reachable at /dev/ttyACM0 (I [...]
PPP over GPRS via Bluetooth
This post describes what I’ve done to let my mobile phone connect to the Internet using PPP over GPRS on GNU/Linux. This tim_gprs_bt is a Bash script that sets up the serial cable over Bluetooth and starts pppd. This tim file is the sequence of AT commands sent to the GPRS modem. On the mobile [...]
Wishes with a script and Bluetooth
At the end of each of the last few years I sent a short message to my friends with a text like “Dear Name, I wish you a Happy New Year”. It was not possible to send a custom message to each of them using my mobile, so with a bit of scripting I got [...]
