Hi all, I’d like some advice please.
I am still fairly new to all this so please treat me as a noob.
This weekend I removed all traces of Windows from my two computers at home. It is now entirely Linux powered
It is also upgrade time for me with my phone network (02 in the UK) and I’d like to get a phone that syncs up to one contacts list and does email. Wifi is a must, so I was thinking of the 02 xda Orbit, or maybe the Graphite (when it comes out)
I have also recently set up a gmail account. Busy time!
So now I am not sure what the next step is.
If I ran CrossOver office, would I be able to sync contacts/tasks/mails with (either) devices?
Should I just use gmail on the phone? (Trying to get my PST files into Gmail is proving a *massive* headache though!) and it looks like then the phone would have two contact lists? One for email and one for the phone.
Is there a better solution? I am quite happy to run thunderbird/evolution/something else on the computer, and or phone.
Nothing is set in stone here. I am completely flexible.
I am keen to hear whatever you recommend is the best solution.
Thanks in advance,
John
As ActiveSync would require direct access to the USB or Bluetooth, i doubt it unless the APIs are there (not to sure with CrossOver, but its not done for Wine).
Syncing in Linux with WM5 is a pain, at best you'll have to hand compile Synce and the OpenSync plugin, then setup OpenSync and Evolution. I currently export my info to vcal/vcf, do some script fu on them and bluetooth over to my mobile and use SkTools to remove any dupes.
Another option is to have QEMU running with Windows and ActiveSync on, then forward the USB device onto QEMU to use. I had this half working last night but the XP install i've got has issues with loading new drivers, i'll try again tonight
Thanks for that response - very very helpful.
I thought about the idea of using a host operating system, but I was concerned about processor speed and system load.
This would be for a laptop that is a few years old, and a mail client is the sort of thing I'd always have running. I am very keen to hear the results of your XP tests. If QEMU works, it may be the solution.
If not, I guess the alternatives are using a java gmail app on the phone and manually keeping the contacts inline.
Or wait to see what happens with this OpenMoko project.
I custom patched QEMU 0.8.2 with the USB Multi-interface mod (needed to pickup a HTC device) and tried to set it up, Devices is detected in WinXP but then errors like a hardware issue. It'd possibly work with VMWare as you can specifically assign a device to the VM but i dont think QEMU is up to the job quite yet.
Thanks for the update. I'll keep hacking, and if I have any success, I'll post about it here.
cheers
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone happens to connect to the RILOE Remote Integrated Lights-Out on a Compaq Proiant server with their device?
I'm putting together a system and hoping I can get it set up and working decent, I found out there was Ipaq/Pda support with a webbrowser, but it is a limited interface, but the full interface is accessable with IE 4.0 or any browser with Java 1.2 installed..I think it is.
Well with the new Netscape with Java, I am thinking I could get to the full web interface..but now that I think about it..on this smaller screen it will likely look terrible.
But anyhow..if anyone has any experience with the RILOE on pda's and thinks they have some info that might be helpful, or don't mind me bugging them for info, please let me know, I'm sure I'll run into few problems that will havin me pullin my hair out, setting up a headless server is all new territory to me, honestly I'm still wondering about the setup since the RILOE runs a mini webserver and I will also have server 2003 on the machine runnin a webserver, do I just run one on a non standard port? I dunno.
Sorry to get off topic, and thanks.
Here it goes.. I have had Vista Ultimate installed and running on my desktop four times already.. its only been a year and each time it would crash and give me an error that the kernel gets corrupt and headers don't match.. now .. with that said..
I am a Linux user.. I have my computers running from Xubuntu to LinuxMint..
I tried out Vista and liked it because I got the disc for free straight from Microsoft and figured why not.. it just doesn't stay working for me.. so I reverted back completely to linux..
I understand that active sync is made for windows...
But..is there any alternative for Linux that anybody out there has been using? I would like to install ROMS onto my phone on Linux and wondering if anybody out there has been successful in doing this..
There is a linux rom flasher developed by pof in the development and hacking forum. He has also made a linux rom kitchen. There are many sync programs available (coldsync, kitchensync, etc) if you can get your phone to talk to the OS. A search would have revealed most of this information
its possible to get your phone connected to linux, a little tricky i had it setup once.
try searching google for open sync
My ubuntu Heron Box Gave me a bunch of problems when trying to install Opensync. I've given up on that.
I will try these other options. If anyone would like to share their success stories, please do.
I'm using XDA Diamond with OpenSuse 10.3:
- USB storage and Bluetooth worked instantly
- I successfully created an ad-hoc WLAN connection
- opensync was quite a struggle but is working now well - I'm syncing calendar and contacts with "Kontact"
Perhaps this thread can help, they have been testing since time ago: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=251584
I personally have not tested linux, but hope in the near future Android can be ported on Universal!
Cheers
Couple of questions so please bear with me. I was an avid winmo user and now, I've delved into the Android realm and am completely lost. I know this has likely been addressed elsewhere but hoping you could direct me in the right direction:
1) For office documents with full editing capablity, which one? docstogo vs quickoffice? Hear mixed reviews about both. Any input? I don't mind buying an app, just want one that is fully functional and easy to use.
2) How do I sync my documents with my windows 7 computer? for example. If I have documents on my computer (.docx, .pptx. .pdf) that I want on my phone, how do I have a sync. For example, in winmo if you edit your doc on your phone, it will save the edits to the pc when synced via activesync. Is there a way I can do that on android?
3) Also, along the same lines, how do I sync any documents? Such as photos taken on my phone, how do I automatically have these things synced to my computer when I plug it in?
Again, I know a lot of these questions are super NOOB but bare with me since I've just switched OS's here and am a little insecure.
Hi this may be my first post here, don't know, so hi everybody
Currently I have Pidgin IM running on my PC with multiple different IM protocols, all set up nicely.
I currently haven't thought much of it, but recently I had the desire to sync my chatlogs to a IM software on my Android Phone.
I have drop box running on my Phone and PC and I already created a Symbolic Link from my Pidgin chatlogs to my Dropbox, but I don't even know whether or how I could go on from this approach, since it's just HTML chatlogs from Pidgin in there now. Not to mention, this is not really appropriate because of sync delay...and what if my PC is broken (no IM)?
It would be awesome if there was some sort of central IM service on the Internet that could integrate everything IM into one central HUB.
I already thought of settings up 2 seperate IM clients for phone and PC and I did actually do this in the past. But the big problem is then I have some chatlogs split between phone and PC (except for some protocols, e.g. Gtalk which have them server-side). So this has to be done better. It just sucks, kind of.
Would be real cool if someone could help me make an elegant solution and I'm sure a lot of people have this annoyance bugging them, not just me
Hi guys,
I´ve got one question, is it possible to create file transfer on wifi? I want create wifi network something like family group in Windows 7. And if its possible do this betwen WP and android phone or WP and windows 7 PC.
Thanks a lot.
No, not possible; but you can try DFT Bluetooth file transfer if you have a fully unlocked or rooted phone and see if that works. Currently there is no way of doing what you are asking via email, MMS or Wifi.
It doesn´t working via e-mail too ?
Root Webserver (see my sig) allows easily taking files off (or putting them on) a Windows phone via WiFi. It's not the most elegant approach, but it's easy to use.
There has been talk of somebody implementing SMB (the network protocol that is used for Windows networking) using the sockets APIs in WP7, but I'm not even sure the official APIs are complete enough and even if they are, it'll be quite a bit of work to implement (the SAMBA project has been trying on Linux for years, and is only mostly there).
I'm quite certain it's possible to attach arbitrary files to email, but nobody has found the way *yet* so that's not currently possible. Also, the email client isn't going to let you save attachments to arbitrary locations, because it's designed to work with the very low permissions of the OS by default.