Comments on: Synchronize Sony Ericsson K610i with Mozilla Sunbird on Ubuntu

By: mihai

mihai — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:23:45 +0000

Hi there.
Thank you for your tutorial. It worked well for me with Sunbird and (still) SE K750.
I had to perform one extra step:
Since Sunbird uses *.sdb (SQLite) to store the calendar, you need to publish the calendar to an *.ics file on your local machine. I used publish to: file:///var/www/html/calendar.ics and then reported this location to #1 configuration.

Thank you again!

By: gronbaek

gronbaek — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:25:59 +0000

Hi Blahde

I haven’t actually tried Lightning in a long time, but I’m guessing that you can use the sunbird plugin as well. As long as Lightning uses the same kind of file for storing the calendar as sunbird does. As I remember it, I used both Lightning and Sunbird on the same .ics file stored on a webdav server, so it should be no problem just using the sunbird plugin and configuration for Lightning as well.

I have dropped sunbird in favor of Evolution, since I no longer have to maintain my calendar in Windows, which was my primary reason for using sunbird in the first place, so I can’t help you with testing the configuration. Let me know if it is wrong, and maybe I’ll try to make it work when I get some time.

By: blahde

blahde — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:53:59 +0000

Hi Gronbaek,
what Plugin would be needed for synchronizing with the Lightning Plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird? Also the Sunbird-Plugin? Would be nice to know…

By: gronbaek

gronbaek — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:55:34 +0000

Hi Gena. Yeah, I get this a lot my self. Usually it’s a problem with the pairing of the devices. I often happens for me, if I’ve used either of the devices in another pairing. I sometimes use Windows XP under VMware for development, and if I give Windows access to the bluetooth interface, it’s almost certain I will get the same error as you describe, the next time I try to synchronize. The solution so far seems to be to delete the pairing on both the computer and the phone, and the re-pair the devices again.
Sometimes, if a synchronization has failed, e.g. not terminated correctly, this will also happen. It usually helps to restart the phone, but it’s not enough to just disconnect the bluetooth connection.

Hope this helps you.

By the way… if you often get this problem after a synchronization has failed, because on of the members didn’t hang up, try auto resolving your conflicts. Sometimes it’s like the fail happens if the connection is open for to long, while you try to figure out what side of the conflict is the right one to use. In general the conflict messages is worthless anyway, so I’ve just set automatic resolve to use the newest entry.

By: Gena

Gena — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:02:01 +0000

Great tutorial! exactly on needed details etc, however I get some error here:

gena@Desktop:~$ msynctool –sync SyncMe –filter-objtype note –filter-objtype contact –filter-objtype todo
Synchronizing group “SyncMe”
Member 1 of type sunbird-sync just connected
Member 2 of type irmc-sync had an error while connecting: Broken Pipe
Member 1 of type sunbird-sync just disconnected
All clients have disconnected
The sync failed: Unable to connect one of the members
Error synchronizing: Unable to connect one of the members
Pipe closed! Exiting.

Any ideas whats causing it? browsing the phone, detecting its mac worked flawlessly just like you said…

By: gronbaek

gronbaek — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:42:00 +0000

Just wanted to point to a blog post with the same information for a Sony Ericsson K750i, using plain files, rather that Sunbird: http://mozoft.com/opensync.html