I would like to synchronise my Sony Ericsson mobile's inbox, contacts and calendar with Thunderbird and Sunbird (Mozilla's newish calendar app). Unfortunately I haven't got bluetooth or IR on my PC so I have to connect via the USB cable and base station.

I have successfully got the phone communicating with the PC, and I can use it as a modem (it appears as /dev/ttyUSB0), so basic communication is working.

I have done some searching on the web and there are various posts to indicate that some people have managed to sync the phone over bluetooth using MultiSync, but I've had a look at this app and it doesn't appear to support sync-over-USB.

Can anyone suggest anything?

I'm running Fedora Core 4 with kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.

Thanks
David Gee

I have a Sony Ericsson 600i (Cingular) w/ similar issues. I want to sync its phone book to my SimplyMEPIS 3.3.2 (soon to be 6.?) box. Any KDE app. would be fine w/ me.

So far, I can access the camera's images over USB, it's trivial -- the phone (& camera) show up just like any USB drive does. I just browse down a couple of dir. levels in Konqueror & copy or delete to my heart's content.

I can just as easily load MP3's for mobile listening.

Unfortunately, I can't find any way to the phone book or calendar.

Even w/ a Zoom USB Bluetooth dongle attached to the computer, I can't get past the basic "I see you" stage.

Last spring I found blog post from Dec '05 (or maybe Jan '06) by someone who got the identical phone to instantly hook up w/ an Ubuntu box (Gnome). I want to know how to it in MEPIS & KDE.


In the past year, have you come on any solutions to your problems or insight into mine?

I have the same problem...
I use windows 2000 and want to sync my Sony Ericsson P910i phone with Thunderbird Lightning Calendar... did you get this right? Any ideas?

Welcome to LQ.

Not to be rude, but how can a problem on W2k be the same as one on FC4?

Even if it's the same on the surface, the difference in OS's makes it a different problem.

No problem - I hear what u say... I just thought maybe someone knows.

Have you tried KMobileTools? It is in the recent (ie, F8) repos.

See this article: "Hacking Cell Phones via Bluetooth Tools under Linux"