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WindowsMobileSync

This is a simple and straighforward How-To. I run a Cooked ROM from XDA-Developers on an AT&T HTC Fuze (ie. HTC Raphael). This is what I did to allow file syncs and transfers across these things.

Please Note that I did not get this to work on Fedora, only Ubuntu.

Synce Repository

I was optimistic and added the synce repository to sources.list before I began.

Edit

 sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the Line

 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/synce/ubuntu <your_ubuntu_version> main # presently intrepid

Run

 sudo apt-get update

Troubleshoot?

If you get an error like :

 W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B152F042D246C25D

You can manually add the gpg key. Take the last 8 digits (yes, it is a hexadecimal number, and so A-F are 'digits') of the NO_PUBKEY number replace as follows. DO NOT USE sudo for either gpg call.

  gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv <LAST-8-DIGITS>
  gpg --export --armor <LAST-8-DIGITS> | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo apt-get update

Install Packages

Note: \no kernel mods needed in Ubuntu 8.10 / Mint 6 or higher. If you see other websites saying they are, they are out of date and dealing with Ubuntu 8.04 / Mint 5.

 sudo apt-get install synce-hal librra-tools librapi2-tools

Connect!

Connect the phone!

Access!

Try this :

 synce-pls  

Troubleshoot?

I don't have my phone password protected, but if you do, the following is the alleged procedure. You will get a warning like:

 WARNING **: synce_info_from_odccm: Failed to get a connection for <device_name>: Not authenticated, you need to call 
 !ProvidePassword with the correct password. pls: Could not find configuration at path '(Default)'

Go to one of the reference pages and follow their procedure. I could copy it in right here, but I didn't have to do it, and so I can't verify that it works. Please note that they provide the procedure for gnome and kde and that you only need 1 of them. The trayicon is for Gnome, and the one with the K in it is for kde.

End of Time

This is now where I become unuseful to you all. I have used other syncing programs (NeuvaSync and, more recently, Google Mobile sync) to keep my stuff synced as I don't use on-compy email clients. Just for fun, I attempted to install opensync / multisync to see if I could get the google calendar plugin working, but it failed (possibly because I uninstalled the auto-installed evolution libraries), and I haven't retried it. Please check out the very excellent references.

References

• The very excellent Ubuntu Forums Post for Ubuntu 8.10
• The terribly outdated (outdated) Synce How-To.