[sync] Syncing with the P1i

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Martin Zoller <mailinglists at zollerit.ch>:

> Hi all
> I tried to sync my SonyEricsson P1i with Horde using WiFi and the
> phone's built-in "remote sync" application. For this purpose I installed
> *Horde Groupware Webmail Edition* *1.2.4 on a webspace.
> At first it didn't work: The phone said the sync was successful, but
> there was no data in the Groupware applications. So I created /tmp/sync
> and synced again to get logfiles. And this was the error that occurred
> at every item:
> --
> DEBUG:  Handling <Replace> sent from client
> ERR:    Item size mismatch. Size reported as 182 but actual size is 180
> --
> Apparently all the data was discarded because the specified size is
> always 2 bytes too big. The easiest workaround was to patch Sync.php so
> that this mismatch would only generate a warning and the data would be
> kept. And now it works - I can backup all my PIM data on Horde. Here's
> the diff:
>
> -- begin Sync.php workaround --
> 221c221
> <                 $item->responseCode = RESPONSE_SIZE_MISMATCH;
> ---
>>                //$item->responseCode = RESPONSE_SIZE_MISMATCH;
> 225,227c225,227
> <                     __FILE__, __LINE__, PEAR_LOG_ERR);
> <                 $this->_errors++;
> <                 return false;
> ---
>>                    __FILE__, __LINE__,
> PEAR_LOG_WARNING/*PEAR_LOG_ERR*/);
>>                //$this->_errors++;
>>                //return false;
> -- end Sync.php workaround --

And who is wrong, the phone or Horde? Did you take a look at the  
logged client messages?

> The following problems persist:
>
> - Contact categories are not synced yet. This should be easy to
> implement since Turba has basic support for the "category" field.
>
> - The P1i has a common database for calendar and tasks, even though they
> are handled by separate applications on the phone. To backup my data, I
> need to sync this DB first with the "calendar", then with the "tasks"
> database. Therefore I can only do a one-way backup, since an actual sync
> would always destroy half the data on the phone. Maybe Horde could
> emulate a "caltask" database and automatically split the data into
> appointments and tasks. mobical.net supports this, and it works perfectly.

Horde does support it too. And the device driver for your phone  
actually has a check for it. Can you post the logged devinf file?

> And here are some logfiles:
> http://zoller.tv/temp/log1.txt - a sync with the error (contacts only)
> **http://zoller.tv/temp/log2.txt - a successful sync (contacts only)
>
> **Should I add some information to the wiki as well? I think it would be
> useful to offer the patched Sync.php for download somewhere - it's
> currently at http://zoller.tv/temp/Sync.php.
> Sorry for the long mail.
> **
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
> *
>
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Jan.

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