On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:10:57PM +0100, simon ransome wrote:
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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.
OK, thanks, that's all useful information in deciding which way to jump.