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Hi everyone,

So I've just started thinking about syncing my Z to my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I've begun digging some information and I hope you folks can chime in.

First thing is that I need a way to connect the two together. I saw this product...

http://serialio.com/products/adaptors/ZThinCableUSB.php

I'll be looking in hardware shops for something remotely similar to this. But assuming I get through that I need a software to sync. I heard that Qtopia Desktop is supposed to do that job, but it's so hard to figure out Trolltech's site now.

I saw this on the Qtopia site...
http://www.qtopia.net/modules/about/index.php?op=about_pda

But it's pretty difficult figuring out which one is which. Has anyone tried to go this route?

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Also consider tweaking the

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  • Mon, 09/29/2008 - 22:03
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Also consider tweaking the following turned by google:

Killefiz says: "Zaurus Check 5600" These are scripts to connect and disconnect a Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 PDA to a Linux box running a KDE desktop.

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1739

I don't do syncing and don't have same model/ROM, but maybe this might be worth trying as well.

sdjf

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Thanks sdjf. I just grabbed

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  • Mon, 09/29/2008 - 22:52
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Thanks sdjf. I just grabbed that script and I'll take a look on it.

I also pretty much had to rip the old Qtopia Desktop releases. I got the last release for Redhat 9 uploaded in 2005. I am unsure though if this will really work. I have it aliened but that's no guarantee.

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I must admit I never got

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  • Mon, 10/06/2008 - 22:47
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I must admit I never got sync to work, and I carried on using my Palm T3 as a PDA (which is is very good at, and that's all it does now apart from play a few astraware games, and occasionally eBooks), and when I wanted to back up the Z just set up rsync over wifi.

rsync is a very good way of backing up your files, so long as you use it consistently, set up a script as below. you can run this when connected over wifi or usb networking or bluetooth pand. important to have no applications running at the time

#!/bin/sh

cd /home
rsync -avz . mydesktopcomputer:/home/backups/zaurus

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zthin cable

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  • Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:46
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BTW, if I remember correctly, early 3000 models didn't have working serial ports, and you have to be very careful with later ones as they lack the protection on the logic-level-voltage lines at the back - they connect directly to the CPU.

I think I read somewhere that only the original sharp serial cables are recommended and relatively safe to use.

You're better off using usb networking or wifi or even bluetooth rfcomm (serial emulation)!

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