I have an Android phone and I let calendar and contacts sync to the cloud. Then by using proxoid - http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/ to connect my laptop to the internet via the phone, I can then sync my laptop. I can do a little web browsing this way but can't get access to my email via Thunderbird for some reason.
However, using proxoid to connect my laptop to the cloud is completely against the T&C's of my carrier (T-Mobile), so although I do it, I keep it to a bare minimum so as not to arouse suspicion!
Good luck.
Martin
On 11 October 2010 21:10, simon ransome simon@nosher.net wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Chris G wrote:
Does anyone hare have an Android based phone and use it with Linux on their desktop?
I have an HTC Desire, and use it with Linux (and Mac) in an occasional development capacity (installing test apps and debugging javascript, etc, over adb). Mandriva and Mac OS X both trivially mount the entire filesystem as a USB disk drive, however although stuff like music and photos are directly browseable and copy-able, all the other data appears to be in some binary format (and the filenames all look vaguely MD5-with-an-a-to-Z-radix-ish). I store my contacts (for there are not that many) directly on the SIM for portability - I did try saving a test contact to the phone itself and seeing if I could grep for it, to no avail.
The phone does, however, offer the opportunity to export contacts info to the SD card, and presumably from there it should be trivial to copy that off, either whilst mounted (there's a "backup" folder that I guess it might use for this purpose) or using a card reader. As far as the calendar goes, it syncs directly with Google calendar which of course has an API to download iCal-format data from as often as you want.
Hth, Simon
Simon Ransome http://nosher.net
Photography RSS feed - http://nosher.net/images/images.rss
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
iD8DBQFMs29O8tdcY+OcZZwRAvRiAJ98ri4DkD2xKO1SeiOai9/HW9tm6wCgpHlm UwJSdu/iyyVWVBNTzn5cQ/o= =ikqR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!