How-To: Set up and use Synce

[Trab]

hmmm
wat this issue is is the ttyUSB0 is where the computer trys to find your pocketpc (at the 1st usb port). this is what the first part of the howto is about, you need to make sure u have the right port.....
if it was able to detect it the second time (When you removed and reattached it to the cradle) then its a different error, actually quite common...)
you have to make sure u ran all those commands before u try to get it up...(did u run synce-trayicon??)
then, remove and soft restart your pocketpc (make sure u know wat ur doing, otherwise u'll erase everything...)
let it boot up, then after running all those commands, put it in your cradle...

understand, synce-trayicon only needs to be running once,
dccm needs to be running once (tho if something goes wrong, a good idea is to killall dccm and restart it)
sudo synce-serial-start needs to be run EVERY TIME you want the pocketpc to connect (After its been removed)
cheers
good luck
lemme know how it goes
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[amgadpasha]

ok, its not working for me..

i use ppoa adsl to access internet with my speed touch 330 usb modem, i use this script http://steve-parker.org/speedtouchconf/
to configure the driver and set the connection..
now when i tried to set up my qtek 9090 it gives me this error when i run synce-serial-start
"
amgad@home:~$ sudo synce-serial-start

synce-serial-start encountered a problem with your /etc/ppp/options file:

The 'usepeerdns' option is not compatible with SynCE. Please edit
/etc/ppp/options and remove this option before running this script again.
"

these are the contents of my /etc/ppp/options file:
"
#------------------ /etc/ppp/options Beginning -------------
noauth
usepeerdns
lock
noipdefault
#------------------ /etc/ppp/options End ------------------
"

so what should i do now??

[Trab]

remove usepeerdns from your ppp/options file...

i dunno wat this will do to ur DSL modem, i think it should still work fine...
if not, then u can always put it back in...
cheers
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[trapangle]

understand, synce-trayicon only needs to be running once,
dccm needs to be running once (tho if something goes wrong, a good idea is to killall dccm and restart it)
sudo synce-serial-start needs to be run EVERY TIME you want the pocketpc to connect (After its been removed)
cheers
good luck
lemme know how it goes
-Trab

Thanks, it works now. No idea what happened at the first time, but the icon didn't appear when I typed synce-trayicon. Now it does. Meanwhile I just rebooted my ubuntu, nothing else.
Thanks for the howto, now let's see the connection with evolution...

This for the ones who'll be searching this later : Connection between QTek 9090 (HTC blueangel) and Ubuntu works.

[Trab]

glad to hear it.
sometimes all it takes is a restart!
the connection to evolution is via a plugin called multisync, google for it. there are how-tos, i just never really got into it... it didnt work for me, and it wasnt something i really cared about.
cheers
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[JNik]

Although the icon on my Acer n50 shows established connection, the synce-tray says (No Device Connected) and after a while I get a Communications Error on my PDA.

I'm on Dapper by the way. Any ideas?

Edit: I just tried synce-pstatus and I get the "Unable to initialize RAPI: An unspecified failure has occurred" message.

[cypresstwist]

Exactly the same problem on my Dapper Beta. Yakumo Delta 400 shows up as a "Mobile Device" in "Places", the tray icon is started, but shows "No Device Connected". Same with raki. But I got this far and that is SOMETHING

[Trab]

im sorry i havent worked on it for dapper at all...
sorry :-/ this is beyond me... try checking the synce forum, and/or google...
cheers
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[kai_schroeder]

synce works on my dapper system. i guess the important step to make it work was to follow the advise in this bugreport https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...kde/+bug/37658

Quote from it:

I've also found in Internet this file for UDEV that enables the serial connection when the PDA is connected to my PC. It must be called '60-ipaq.rules' and must be located at '/etc/udev/rules.d'. The only thing I can say is that it runs fine for me

# udev rules file for SynCE
BUS!="usb", ACTION!="add", KERNEL!="ttyUSB*", GOTO="synce_rules_end"
# Establish the connection
RUN+="/usr/bin/synce-serial-start"
LABEL="synce_rules_end"

[Trab]

just because it says no device connected in the Synce-Tray icon, doesnt mean its not. even on breezy, ive had this issue, it is still connected.
cheers
-Trab