SynCE, Raki, and MultiSynk

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: SynCE, Raki, and MultiSynk

I have all three of these working apparently, but my PDA is stuck mid-sync. Do I need to have another piece of software to syncronize information, other than Kontact and KOrganizer? Should I use a different set of software?

EDIT: MultiSynk crashes whenever I start Kontact, but not KOrganizer.

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject:

This might have something to do with it:

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:47 am Post subject:

The connecting itself works now, but MultiSync won't connect to Evolution. Backtrace:

Keepoer · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject:

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

I see on this page that I should use syncekonnector with KDE 3.5, but not multisync because it will crash. Could this be your problem?

On the other hand it mentions Raki - what do I need to emerge to get that?
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MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

Thanks, in total I have emerged app-pda/syncekonnector, app-pda/synce-kde, app-pda/synce-serial. I can now see my HTC Alpine's (marketed as an Xda IIi on an O2 contract in the UK) files when I enter rapip:/ in konqueror, but I cannot synchronise with Kontact either. Perhaps the synchronisation software is not yet developed?

[EDIT: BTW, I can confirm that multisync does not work with KDE 3.5 and the HTC Alpine. It crashes everytime.]
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soviet/funk · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:52 am Post subject:

BUMP on this. I am emerging synce-kde right now, and need to sync my new Qtek 9100 with Kontact adressbooks, calendar and tasks. I'll report back if successful or cry help if not.
FYI, This is on an amd64 running kde3.5 on 2.6.15-gentoo-r5. Had to add a number of ~amd64 packages to /etc/portage/package.keywords.
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soviet/funk · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

No success yet. Haven't found all the problems yet, but some are because my device (Qtek 9100 aka HTC Wizard aka iMate K-Jam) runs Windows Mobile 5. Had to follow this guide for the basic USB connection:
http://www.synce.org/index.php/Connecting_your_Windows_Mobile_2005_device_via_USB

Then i tried following this guide, as it claims to be necessary for syncing:
http://www.synce.org/index.php/Building_SynCE_with_Windows_Mobile_2005_support_from_Subversion

I had problems linking the libraries, and it seemed that the ~amd64 versions in portage were nearly as recent. I did figure out the linking problems later(app-pda/synce-libsynce didn't seem to update pkg-config correctly) and installed vdccm from svn, since the synce-kde package doesn't include the "triggerconnect" app, which was referenced in this guide:
http://www.synce.org/index.php/Starting_A_Connection

I get a handshake going with the device, but the command "pls", which should give a content listing of the device, returns:

chrisashton84 · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Hi, I was wondering if you'd made any progress on this. I spent all yesterday trying to get my tmobile dash to connect and was pointed to http://www.synce.org/index.php/Building_SynCE_with_Windows_Mobile_2005_support_from_Subversion on their irc channel, however I also get linking problems against libsynce from svn. I honestly don't know too much about how libs and all that are installed and called by make, but I've tried a few things w/o success. Did you ever manage to get this working?

Also, I tried the plain old usb-rndis driver (not -ng) and also got up to the point where I had to call triggerconnect (which means the device actually connected and everything). I'm going to try usb-rndis and the svn vdccm, which should get that. Hopefully it works, but I'm pretty doubtful at this point.

EDIT: Yep, can't get it to work - I need pls from librndis from what I can tell, and I just can't get it to link correctly.

soviet/funk · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:53 am Post subject:

I did get it to work, but I can't remember exactly how. Either I ran pkg-config "manually" or I created symlinks. But all I could do was to browse my device using pls or raki, syncing contacts and calendars seemed a dead end at the time. I set up ifupdown (or was it ifplugd?) to configure the interface and run triggerconnection whenever i connected the device, but in the end it was much easier to just use a card reader for the SD card.

Shortly thereafter I ran into more quirks with my laptop and was forced to migrate to kubuntu to actually get any work done. And the desktop i was installing SYNCE on has been wiped clean to run MythTV. Now I wish that I had written down the things i did to get it working, since it might've been useful to others as well. Sorry. Sooner or later I will try again, and even though my main machine runs kubuntu now, my heart is close to gentoo so I'll try to share anything here too. Kubuntu is nice but most things were snappier in gentoo. And the gentoo forum is still the best.
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