SOLVED: How to Sync HTC Touch Pro with Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron 8.04 (Synce)

[98classic]

Originally Posted by angelofhope

Quick question, does this also make you able to use the HTC Touch pro for tethering?
I ask because I have some strange problems tethering my phone with debian testing (see: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...261093#p261093 )
TIA

when i ran linux some time ago, i would plug the phone in and when the OS recognized it, i would just run ics and linux would find the connection and use it. nothing special to tether.

[adrian26]

Thanks for the post.
I did all your instructions, when I open the program I've this warning

Failed to retrieve partnership information: Failed to execute program /usr/bin/sync-engine: Success

And when try to open nautilus I got this

Nautilis can't open place «synce»

What do I've to do?

[timothydonohue]

i had synce for a while, but i'm a bit of a noob when it comes to dinking around in linux, and find that i'll sometimes accidentally bust things. i keep a windows 7 partition up for gaming as well, so i just put outlook onto it, in order to keep everything synced. i haven't had a 'contact doubling' since windows 7, altho i got double, sometimes tripling, in xp. may have to do with the way the new windows mobile device center works, instead of active sync

[DrDunkMcNally]

Awesome info! big props!

I noticed you had opensync-plugin-evolution as one of the packages, for whatever reason, I cannot use evolution with my mail client, would there be any deviation from what you have written for me to be able to use Thunderbird instead? eg. what would the package name look like? (I looked for opensync-plugin-thunderbird with no success...)

Thank you for your help and info!

[Never4saken]

Nice to see this. I am going to try when I get home.

[Runamok81]

I'm glad that this guide has helped so many getting Ubuntu 8.10 to play nice with Windows Mobile on a Touch Pro.

Since creating this guide I have now moved on to a Touch Pro 2, and upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. For anyone that has done the same, this guide will indeed work for newer editions of Ubuntu. With one small change. Just follow the steps above, and install all the packages. However, you will notice that the package called synce-gvfs is no longer offered through the synaptic package manager.

There is a fix for this. We need to manual add software sources for the location of the newest synce-gvfs.

Step 1: Add new software sources

Go to System, Administration>Software Sources. Enter your password.
Click on the Other Software tab. Click on add....
At the command APT line enter:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/synce/ubuntu karmic main

Click "+add source"

Click add again. At the command APT line enter:

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/synce/ubuntu karmic main

Click "+add source" again

Click on "close"

Click on "reload"

You have now updated your Software sources to include the newest synce-gvfs for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala


Step 2: Update Public Keys, Update Packages, Install synce-gvfs

Open a terminal by going to Applications>Accessories>Terminal

Once the terminal is open type this command

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv B152F042D246C25D

then hit enter.

then type this command

gpg --export --armor B152F042D246C25D | sudo apt-key add -

then hit enter.

Now type

sudo apt-get update

then hit enter

Now type

sudo apt-get install synce-gvfs

then hit enter.

Step 3: Reboot!

- Enjoy!

[welrope]

thanks for the info!