Ubuntu with Nokia E65
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The underneath howto has only been tested with Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) on 32 bit platform
Contents
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    * 1 Mounting your phone filesystem over bluetooth
    * 2 Installing applications on your phone
    * 3 Syncing contacts
    * 4 Reported successes
    * 5 Other ideas

[edit] Mounting your phone filesystem over bluetooth

Based on: http://davesource.com/Solutions/20070520.T-Mobile-Nokia-E65-Ubuntu-Linux.html

(this site has also a nice Using T-Mobile Nokia E65 Symbian as a bluetooth modem for Ubuntu Linux howto, but i never tested that one)

With the obexfs package you can mount your phone filesystem over bluetooth. Steps:

    * Get bluetooth working 

Now you need to get bluetooth working on your Linux box:

 as root:
 apt-get install bluez-utils
 /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
 lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
 (should show the bluetooth device)
 hcitool dev
 (also lists bluetooth devices)
 apt-get install gnome-bluetooth

    * Pair the phone 

We need to find the bluetooth ID of the phone. You can get it with either hcitool or hidd:

 as root:
 hcitool scan
 or
 hidd --search

Or just type "*#2820#" on your phone.

For the rest of this document we'll assume we're given a bluetooth ID of "11:22:BE:EF:44:33". Either way, you need to pair the phone.

    * Install obexfs: apt-get install obexfs
    * Install fuse tools: apt-get install fuse-utils
    * Add your user to the 'fuse' group in /etc/groups (then log back in to get the group)
    * As root: chgrp fuse /dev/fuse (fix a possible bug)
    * Use sdptool to find the OBEX file transfer channel (as in binding above)
    * Create mount point (as root): mkdir /mnt/e65
    * Permissions (as root): chmod ugo+rwx /mnt/e65
    * Add to /etc/fstab: 

 obexfs#-b11-22-BE-EF-44-33\040-B11 /mnt/e65 fuse user,noauto 0 0
     	

In this case we change the address to use '-' and put it after the -b and before the \040, and then put the channel (in this case 11) after the -B. The use of whitespace is important

 Mount: mount /mnt/e65  
 Unmount: fusermount -u /mnt/e65 

It's a shame you can't just use 'umount' but evidently it's not smart enough to deal with fuse mount points.

You can also mount/unmount without changing /etc/fstab or the fuse group by using the commands:

(as root)

 obexfs -b11:22:BE:EF:44:33 -B11 /tmp/e65
 fusermount -u /tmp/e65

[edit] Installing applications on your phone

 apt-get install kdebluetooth

Under the menu Internet you can find an application Bluetooth OBEX client, if you click search on the left side it should find your phone, select an .sisx file and press send. You will receive an sms on your phone, open this one and it will ask to install the application.
[edit] Syncing contacts

Based on:

Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260676&highlight=E65

kubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1998822&postcount=62

    * Add repositories and add repository gpg key to apt-get 

 deb http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/opensync-0.21/ feisty main
 deb-src http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/opensync-0.21/ feisty main
 gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net/ --recv-keys CB210090B029CB84
 gpg --export CB210090B029CB84 | sudo apt-key add -
 

NOTE: the repositories above don't exist anymore but seem to have moved here:

 deb http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ feisty main
 deb-src http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ feisty main
 
 apt-get update

for kde:
 apt-get install libopensync-plugin-kdepim libopensync-plugin-file libopensync-plugin-google-calendar libopensync-plugin-synce libopensync-plugin-syncml libopensync0 opensyncutils msynctool multisync-qad

for gnome:
 apt-get installlibopensync-plugin-* libopensync0 opensyncutils msynctool multisync-qad bluez-passkey-gnome bluez-gnome


    * setup bluetooth as described above
    * sudo hcitool scan... should show the E65 bluetooth mac #
    * you can use “sdptool browse “ to get detailed info on phone and what channels it uses. For syncing you want the channel for "SyncMLClient" (on Nokia E65 this is 10) 

 Service Name: SyncMLClient
 Service RecHandle: 0x10003
 Service Class ID List:
 UUID 128: 00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002
 Protocol Descriptor List:
 "L2CAP" (0x0100)
 "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
   Channel: 10
 "OBEX" (0x0008)
 Language Base Attr List:
 code_ISO639: 0x454e
 encoding:    0x6a
 base_offset: 0x100
 Profile Descriptor List:
 "" (0x00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002)
   Version: 0x0100

    * As user (not root!) 

 msynctool --addgroup nokia (or whatever name you want)
 msynctool --addmember nokia evo2-sync (or kdepim-sync for kubuntu)
 msynctool --addmember nokia syncml-obex-client

First we configure the phone side:

 msynctool --configure nokia 2

Nokia config file:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <config>
 <!-- (Only for blue) The bluetooth address if the bluetooth mode is selected -->
 <bluetooth_address>00:18:C5:43:19:2B</bluetooth_ad dress>
 <!-- (Only for blue) The bluetooth channel to use (14 in this case) [x] -->
 <bluetooth_channel>14</bluetooth_channel>
 <!-- (Only for USB) The usb interface number of the SYNCML-SYNC target. use syncml-obex-client -u (as root!) to find it. -->
 <interface>0</interface>
 <!-- The string that the plugin will use to identify itself. Some devices need a special string here. -->
 <identifier>KDE</identifier>
 <!-- The syncml version to use: 0 for 1.0, 1 for 1.1 and 2 for 1.2 -->
 <version>1</version>
 <!-- if the plugin should use wbxml -->
 <wbxml>1</wbxml>
 <!-- The username to use. Leave empty to not require a username -->
 <username></username>
 <!-- the password for the username -->
 <password></password>
 <!-- sets the connection type to use. 5 means obex over usb, 2 means obex over bluetooth -->
 <type>2</type>
 <!-- If wbxml is enabled, defines wether the wbxml should use string tables -->
 <usestringtable>1</usestringtable>
 <!-- Never send ADD command, but send REPLACE (not needed normally) -->
 <onlyreplace>0</onlyreplace>
 <!-- Workaround around for mobile phones which only use local timestamps and _no_ UTC timestamps! -->
 <onlyLocaltime>0</onlyLocaltime>
 <!-- Sets the maximum allowed size in bytes of incoming messages (some device need this option set). Example: 10000 -->
 <recvLimit>0</recvLimit>
 <maxObjSize>0</maxObjSize>
 <!-- The name of the contacts db. Must be the same as the phones sends -->
 <contact_db>Contacts</contact_db>
 <!-- The name of the calendar db. Must be the same as the phones sends -->
 <calendar_db></calendar_db>
 <!-- The name of the note db. Must be the same as the phones sends -->
 <note_db></note_db>
 </config>

Then we configure the evolution side:

 msynctool --configure nokia 1

the evolution config file, probably default works also

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <config>
 <address_path>file:///home/USERNAME/.evolution/addressbook/local/system</address_path>
 </config>

Replace USERNAME with your username.

    * to sync, from terminal 

 msynctool --sync nokia

    * Once this is working, you can use Menu->Utilities->Multisync-gui to sync 

Some notes

Notes and Calendar syncing does not seem to work (at least for me).

However some people reported success with this.

to enable this you need to complete the phone sync config like this:

 <!-- The name of the calendar db. Must be the same as the phones sends -->
 <calendar_db>Calendar</calendar_db>
 <!-- The name of the note db. Must be the same as the phones sends -->
 <note_db>Notes</note_db>

This is the part where i got an error on my phone ...

and the phone part:

 <calendar_path>file:///home/USERNAME/.evolution/calendar/local/system</calendar_path>
 <tasks_path>file:///home/USERNAME/.evolution/tasks/local/system</tasks_path>


[edit] Reported successes

Kristian Bäckström reported the syncing of contacts also works with a Nokia E90 but he has the same problem with syncing Calendar (and probably Notes)
[edit] Other ideas

maybe sync would work with Wammu? ( http://wammu.eu/ )

Surfing through bluetooth: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=471441


Comments on this howto, success with this guide and other phones or if anyone should get this last part to work? Do not hesitate to drop me a mail!

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