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
libopensync-plugin-irmc
libopensync-plugin-jescs
libopensync-plugin-kdepim
libopensync-plugin-ldap
libopensync-plugin-moto
libopensync-plugin-opie
libopensync-plugin-palm
libopensync-plugin-python
libopensync-plugin-sunbird
libopensync-plugin-synce
libopensync-plugin-syncml
libopensync0
libpisync0
librsync1
libsynce0
libsyncml0
msynctool
multisync
multisync-gui
opensyncutils
python-opensync
- using
multisync-gui, set the syncml-obex-client plugin for the source with
<bluetooth_address>xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</bluetooth_address>
<!-- your sync ml channel -->
<bluetooth_channel>1</bluetooth_channel>
<identifier>PC Suite</identifier>
<version>1</version>
<type>2</type>
and set another plugin for the destination
multisync-gui syncs but it hangs at the end.
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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 suppose that this switch is due to the changes made in Edgy/Feisty and that it is not on the K family side).
Using this new device, you can call pppd using this script.
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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 (I use a Sony-Ericsson K700i K800i) I set up the following GPRS Account.
External ID: 3
APN: ibox.tim.it
Username: 335XXXXXXX
Password: XXXXXX
Password request: Off
Allow calls: Automatic
IP address: ...
DNS address: ...
Normal
Data compression: Off
Header compr.: Off
Update (2007-03-10) everything works with my new K800i (I’ve just changed 3 with 4 as External ID on the account and on the tim file).
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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 the job done.
First bind the serial of your GSM mobile/modem with
rfcomm bind 0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2 # 2 is my first serial channel
then, in a loop, use something like
gsmsendsms -d /dev/rfcomm0 $NUMBER "Dear $NAME, I wish you a Happy New Year"
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