Samsung E760 data cable or bluetooth?

nic01

Hi there

I just bought a new Samsung E-series phone. It supports bluetooth and SyncML. It came with a USB cable that can even be used to charge the phone.. Pretty neat.

Anyhow, has anybody had any luck with connecting their Samsung phone through the USB cable? lsusb gives me:

nic01 · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:17 am Post subject:

Alright, status so far:

Bluetooth works like a charm. Can't sync my evolution yet, but that's another issue.

No luck on usb cable. As far as I can see it's some sort of USB -> Serial driver I need.

I'll post any updates.

/Nic

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

How far did you get with this, nic01?

The phone supports SyncML, and there is ongoing development of a SyncML plugin for Evolution, have you tried that?
For the USB I think it's stupid these manufacturers don't adhere to standards more. The Samsung E760 only has USB 1 as far as I can tell, and I can't find any statement that it supports USB mass storage, so I suppose it doesn't. If you would take a rival Sony Ericsson model, the Z550i for instance, which has USB 2.0 and mass storage, then this model doesn't have SyncML so again there is a standards problem.

Thanks for the info!

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

Just wanted to add this:

- This is a long shot but maybe you can give this a try: http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114123666628592&w=2.

- The evolution plugin is multisync.

nic01 · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:

I eventually gave up and bought a Palm Pilot to handle my PIM's (It's soo great!).

The usb -> serial driver looks very interesting. I'll give it a try one of the following days.

I was hoping that the opensync framework (opensync.org) would be able to solve some of all the sync problems, but the homepage is down, so I'm not sure about the projectstatus. Any body knows?

Cheers,

/Nic

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

Just to let you know. I recently bought that mobile phone and I already got the usb cable to work. It gets automatically detected as /dev/ttyACM0 (a ACM modem) and I can connect to it and interact quite a lot thorugh gnokii (as an AT model). More later if interested ...

A little less luck on the bluetooth side. Gnome-bluetooth-manager doesn't seem to want to send anything to the phone. I suppose it's just a bug because I have seen it work before on different phones. Also, I can't make a connection from the phone to my laptop, but I'm not sure I'm supposed to. Can you help me with that?