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pingram

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Back to 5500 sync probs
« on: March 16, 2004, 10:20:52 am »
I\'ve been using my 5500 with 2.38 ROM for some time now, having tried all sort of other ROM flavours. I never could get any of them to sync with Outlook (or anything else for that matter).
Now I have returned to this problem to try and sort it once and for all.

So........could any kind soul give me the simple blow by blow solution.

I\'ve been trying Qtopia desktop from my Win NT, but the Sync buttons
dont seem to work. I\'ve got a wifi link and everything pings fine.

Maybe I need 3.10. If so, how do I upgrade without losing all my Calender/Address stuff.

Any help gratefully accepted.

Cheers in advance
Peter Ingram

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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2004, 11:17:58 am »
Didn\'t 2.38 have that restriction stopping you from syncing from anything but a usb connection?
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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2004, 05:37:58 pm »
hummm... I have the same trouble... in my case, I would like to sync mail with some mail client on a linux box... I have the feeling that the old 2.38 mail app could be made sync with some mail prog under linux because the use of xml format, but by now, only for start, I have no idea of what  linux progs coul be used....  I feel some sort of  sadness that a beatifull little machine that run linux could not have a (IMHO) relative simple  task like a decent sync of pim & mail  data  and the worst is that we (as a comunnity) didnt feel some shame that after years since the launch of the great Zs... we still try & suffer to use Outlook to sync the greatest coolest Linux PDA until Today (little ironic no?    ) but, we didnt have a way to do that with linux boxes...  anyway, everyday I surprise about the apps that are available but nothing about this issue and sadly Im not developer, so my efforts are very short for solving this....

Sometimes I think if  Konkeror was ported to Qtopia (i suspect because that are a relationship between KDE and Qtopia), so I wonder If KMAIL could be ported to Qtopia and if that could be done, If KMail could be sync with a Kmail on a linux box?...

As a little help that I could offer, I  agree with lardman, if you didnt want to have troubles,may be better start the debugging sync by means of  USB cradddle conection (I remenber taht with USB the 2.38 works fine with Outlook 2000, but DONT waste your time trying to use other version of outlook because is almost for sure that It didnt work (Oultlook 2003 is sure that Dont Work! Surprise! ...appears that M$ change the code of the sync progs of outlook in order to get the people to buy new versions of the respective sync softwares...:x  , but the outlook 2k would be fine)....

About  sync mail with Linux,  any good soul could have some tip...  

Best regards and  good patience!  
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