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PocketPC or Windows Mobile devices... Any solutions for Linux and/or OpenOffice users?

slugg

slugg

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I just got a windows mobile powered cell phone (Palm Treo 700wx through Sprint). The phone is great, but I find myself irritated having to reboot into windows every time I want to sync my phone (sync files, add/remove programs, etc). On top of that, I can't sync my contacts since I don't use MS Office - I use OpenOffice.

Also, there is a program called PDANet that lets my computer use my phone's data service as an internet connection - but it's only for Windows. Are there any Linux compatible solutions for this? Maybe through wine?

So what I'd love to do is be able to sync and install programs in Linux. If I could get some type of PDANet equivalent, that'd be great too. If not, I'd at least like to be able to use OpenOffice to sync everything as opposed to MS Office.

Thanks in advance 🙂
 
http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI....KB,CASE=obj(6503),ts=Palm_External2001

Apparently palm has enough sympathy that they at least provide some links on getting support. If you use Evolution as a Email client I expect that using Gnome-pilot will allow you to sync up with the Evolution-data-server service. So maybe that is the best bet for trying to get it working.

And for phones that act like a sort of modem.. were you plug them into your box and you make a serial connection using USB. Those are common and can be used in Linux.

I don't know the details though, I don't even own a cell phone.
 
^^ thanks for looking, but thats all for Palm OS... My phone is running Windows Mobile 5.

🙁
 
Try this...

Open up a terminal and run 'dmesg' command. This will display the kernel logs.
Then plug in your phone.
Then run 'dmesg' again and see if you get anything different. Hopefully the kernel will recognize the device, load the driver, and setup a /dev/ file.

If you get that far then it's probably going to work, but it may need extra configuration.


edit:
btw you can copy and paste to/from the terminal by highlighting the text you want to copy and then middle click were you want to paste. That's just Unix-style highlight -> middle click paste.
 
As for installing 3rd party software, you're going to have lots of trouble installing from your PC under Linux as almost every installer app is packaged as an msi in my experience.

HOWEVER, most good developers make a cab install available as well. You can either visit the download site on the phone's browser or if your phone is visible as a storage device under Linux (or use an SD card/reader), copy it over to storage and install using the phone's file explorer.

Sorry I can't help with your other questions, I'm otherwise not very experienced with Linux & mobile devices.
 
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