I am thinking of buying an HTC Android phone, but I need to download HTC Sync to sync my machine with the phone.
There is no direct way to download HTC Sync to Linux, but do anyone know of a way to download it another way?

I have an HTC Desire, and I haven't used the Sync software. Android integrates really tightly with Google's suite of online services.

I just imported my contacts into my Gmail account and told the phone to sync with it. Pretty painless actually. E-mail, calendar, contacts in one nice package. (that is, if you trust Google. )

HTH
Dave

Thanks a lot

You are most certainly welcome!

Dave

When I think about phone sync of course I think about the major data chunks

• contacts
• tasks & todo
• calendar

However, I also think about other data chunks

• phone pix
• phone video
• downloaded and attached (msg or email) files
• created or modified documents

Is there any software that will suck everything from my phone and put it into a pile at the laptop (desktop) and then enable me to restore all or part of the pile to the phone at a later time?

Some may call this "dumb backup and restore" is suppose, but that is what I want most. With read-write access to on-phone storage and knowledge of the Android world files involved I could copy from phone to laptop and back with a working USB, Bluetooth or FTP connection. Ideas?

Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Dan, when you plug in your Android phone to your PC to charge it, it will give you 4 choices (at least my HTC Desire does)
Charge Only
HTC Sync
Disk drive
USB tethering
and you click one, and select "DONE"

What they do is pretty obvious, but its:

Charge Only does just that ... uses USB power, but not data
HTC Sync only works with Windows SW for now.
Disk drive makes the phone's data show as a USB Mass Storage Device (memory stick)
USB tethering makes the phone a modem for internet access using your data plan, amongst other options

When you choose option #3, Disk Drive, then you can access all the files on the phone.

Now, I design embedded computers that run Linux, but I dropped out of SW development back when C++ was new, so I'm not the expert but I think options to sync include:
1. MANUAL drag and drop
2. SEMI-AUTOMATED: After backing up the first time, use rsync (sp?) to sync up files without copying everything (only changes) from command line
3. MORE-AUTOMATIC: take the rsync backup command and put it into a Bash Script, and give it an icon on your desktop
4. FULLY AUTOMATED: catch the dbus message that your phone has been connected by USB ,and have some code automatically launch your backup/sync script.

I can't help you with HOW to do #4 (my son could ...) but its doable.
And you'll want to make the "disk drive" option the default when you plug in.
I hope that helps...

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My Android displays a USB icon when I jack it into the computer. Pulling down the notification screen gives me the option to mount the phone.

If I mount it, the phone unmounts the SD card and makes it available to the computer.

The SD card appears just as any other mass storage USB device. I back up important files individually. Trivial files, like pictures I took to email or SMS from my phone, I normally don't bother with.

To unmount it, first I unmount it from my computer, then I tell the phone that it's unmounted, and it remounts the SD card.

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what's nice about android is almost everything is stored online.unless you want a copy of everything sync isn't needed

Has anyone succeeded in running HTC Sync under WINE or Crossover?

Thanks,
~~~ 0;-Dan