An epiphany required: how do we live connected like this?

[reneg8or]

Please, let us revisit this old topic of mine. http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/508776-CLOUD-COMPUTING-AND-THE-THIRD-WORLD


It seems that one can set up your own Funambol server on your own PC/laptop and sync directly via Bluetooth, no Internet connection required. As I am an aged Linux novice, noob or green broke, the idea of installing Funambol on my lappy and setting it up as a server on the same device to talk to my cellphone seems to be a daunting task altogether.


Presently, I sync using Funambol but via the cloud, which even here works better than bluetooth. The laptop loses its mind when using Bluetooth - it is one of these USB dongles that has no known origin but there is a minidisk with it and a user app (win) called BlueSoleil. Even on XP, BlueSoleil did NOT work properly and Linux is just a no-no for that "interface."


Is there someone who can present me with a user-friendly way of getting my Evolution to sync via Suncevolution but either with a usb cable or bluetooth, not through the cloud? the syncevolution will syn via bluetooth but once and then require a re-install.

it is too much for me to live with. any help, please?

 

[km2]

Funambol? BlueSoleil? Any Bluetooth stacks that crash hard and need the whole system restarted before they respond again? Feels like I'm going back 8 years and fighting with Nokia's and old Symbian to get them to sync.

Sorry I don't have an answer, but it's a different era coming back to see Funambol mentioned again

 

[vinodh]

What phone do you have? Are you trying to sync your document, photo's etc from the phone to your laptop or are you trying to just get internet connectivity from the phone to the laptop?

 

[reneg8or]

What phone do you have? Are you trying to sync your document, photo's etc from the phone to your laptop or are you trying to just get internet connectivity from the phone to the laptop?

I couldn't care less about pictures and music; it is my contacts, calendar, tasks and notes that I need to sync. Presently between Natty with Evolution/Syncevolution and a horrid device called Nokia E63 with Symbian 60v3 on it. Nokia, Apple and Microsoft had lost the plot completely by removing bluetooth/usb sync between devices. My word, they have to drive just 20 mins from Cape Town CBD to find no other cloud than the veil on my little flat hillock. Cyber-cloud? and syncing through it? A pipe dream at best; and I mean a pipe laden with the very best green leaves from Durbs! Now, start thinking of Noupoort, De Aar, Kommagas, Kharkams, Rondomskrik, Verdwal & Verwurg or little outrcops like that...where there could have been an economy of sorts if still connected to the outside world! Few people understand what vast tracts of SA has NO communications left courtesy of the copper withdrawal symptoms.


Some systems developers are hallucinating when they think that more than 2bn of the 7bn folks on earth have proper connectivity to make their castrated toys work. Bring back my '98, PC Suite and my very old Nokia 2760. It worked!

 

[vinodh]

I couldn't care less about pictures and music; it is my contacts, calendar, tasks and notes that I need to sync.

Firstly, I said nothing about synching music. Secondly, I did find this link explaining how to sync your phone to your Ubuntu based laptop:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NokiaEvolutionSyncing/Opensync

Here's the thread that I found the link on with more information that deals with your specific phone:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475785

 

[reneg8or]

Firstly, I said nothing about synching music. Secondly, I did find this link explaining how to sync your phone to your Ubuntu based laptop:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NokiaEvolutionSyncing/Opensync

Here's the thread that I found the link on with more information that deals with your specific phone:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475785

No, no, I didn't mean you said that; it just is standard fare on almost all phone sync discussions. I have tried all that are explained on those pages already, but thanks a million anyhow. Syncevolution had taken over from opensync/multisync now. Unlike those two, I manage to get it working once after installation, then the second time it fails altogether but gives no error codes of any kind. So I uninstall/reinstall until I went the Funambol/cloud way.

Cloud sync: internet connection here is terrible and the technicians from Vodacom and 8ta were here already. Our area is plagued by all and sundry who own/operate illegal non-ICASA wireless phones. it completely messes up our cellular signals and one can add the many meter cabs wit illegal tw-way radio's, etc. Even radio/tv reception is rather compromised.

 

[vinodh]

I just read now that there's a "Sync" app that's found in the Ubuntu software center, 12.04 onwards, that will sync Symbian based Nokia's. This was the post I found on AskUbuntu.com:


I have just started using the "Sync" app which can be found in the Ubuntu Software Centre from 12.04 onwards. 5 minutes after installing I was able to connect it to my Nokia E72 (Symbian) phone via bluetooth and sync all contacts.

I haven't tried it with an Android phone yet but if you have one it is worth a try.

 

[reneg8or]

I just read now that there's a "Sync" app that's found in the Ubuntu software center, 12.04 onwards, that will sync Symbian based Nokia's. This was the post I found on AskUbuntu.com:


I have just started using the "Sync" app which can be found in the Ubuntu Software Centre from 12.04 onwards. 5 minutes after installing I was able to connect it to my Nokia E72 (Symbian) phone via bluetooth and sync all contacts.

I haven't tried it with an Android phone yet but if you have one it is worth a try.

Hi Vindodh, awesome, thanks! I only have Natty and can't upgrade but I will go hunting for that app nonetheless. It hopefully can run on 11.04 as well. I have 12.10 on DVD but can't even invoke a live cession. Laptop lacks a graphic chip that can eat a thicker Gnome stew, let alone Unity.

My next laptop will have what is required. You're an absolute star!