I connect my Orange SPV M3100 Windows Mobile phone to my Windows XP PC in order to back up some contacts and notes from my phone to the PC. It only requires me to install ActiveSync 4.5, unset the “use advanced settings” on my phone, and it just works. That’s good.
But then it starts copying 7000 work contacts from my PC’s outlook address book, mixing them all up with my personal contacts on the phone. And I didn’t even click ’sync’ or ask it to in any way!! After I click “Stop”, it continues to reconnect and do it again, every few minutes until I unplug the cable.
Actually the whole ActiveSync software seem pretty rigid and unyielding. It does what it wants to do, and you have very little control over it. New plan: Try installing SyncCE – an open source syncing software – on Mac OSX.
- Follow the instructions at http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Source
- The first package: libsynce-0.11 requires another package called dbus.
- Download and configure dbus (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus)
- dbus make errors like this:
- libtool doesn’t have a -z option. The version is: Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-590.18.
- Try installing the GNU version. It installs in /usr/local/bin/, while the Mac version is in /usr/bin/. The $PATH variable shows that it will look in /usr/local/bin/ first, good.
- Run dbus configure and make again. Same error.
- Change the dbus Makefile to have LIBTOOL = $(SHELL) /usr/local/bin/libtool hardcoded.
- Run dbus make again. Same error. wtf?
/usr/bin/libtool: unknown option character `z' in: -zUsage: /usr/bin/libtool -static [-] file [...] [-filelist listfile[,dirname]] [-arch_only arch] [-sacLT] Usage: /usr/bin/libtool -dynamic [-] file [...] [-filelist listfile[,dirname]] [-arch_only arch] [-o output] [-install_name name] [-compatibility_version #] [-current_version #] [-seg1addr 0x#] [-segs_read_only_addr 0x#] [-segs_read_write_addr 0x#] [-seg_addr_table ] [-seg_addr_table_filename ] [-all_load] [-noall_load]
