My Openmoko blog is aimed at helping Freerunner users get started

[Lorn Potter]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008, community-request at lists.openmoko.org wrote:
> Michael Shiloh wrote:
> > I've just posted about the software update that has been discussed here
> > today, so I figured I'd take this opportunity to tell you all about my
> > blog:
>
> Cool!
>
> Here is another FAQ entry (with a few holes to be filled in):
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Q) How do I preserve my Contacts, Calendar etc information when
> re-flashing to a later snapshot?
>
> A) Bearing in mind that this is early-access software, we do not
> recommend that you store large volumes of valuable contact or calendar
> information in your phone. However, some people have used the following
> procedures for their most immediate contacts.
>
> If you're using a pre-ASU snapshot, all such files are stored in
> ~/.evolution (/home/root/.evolution), and are in "Evolution Database
> Format"; you could in theory copy this information to your desktop and
> access it via Evolution or EDS (or vice versa).
>
> If you're using ASU, this information is stored [WHERE???], and is
> stored in a QTopia-specific format.
>
> Copy the appropriated directories someplace safe BEFORE re-flashing the
> phone. Either scp -r them from the phone to your desktop, or, cp -r them
> to the micro-SD card (assuming you put the card in and that it still has
> space): cp -r [directories listed above] /media/card/.
>
> Then re-flash the phone, and copy the files back.
>
> Note: the format of these files is subject to change.
>
> Or, [THIS IS UNTESTED] download the QTopia Desktop and synchronize your
> phone with your desktop. The download site is
> http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qtopia/desktopdownloads/ for
> common platforms; for unsupported platforms, you could maybe get the
> "QTopia Open Source Download" and extract and build the QTopia Desktop
> from that.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If anybody knows the location of the files that QT contacts uses, or has
> actually tried the QTopia Desktop with the new ASU image, please pipe
> in! (Please don't guess, because you might cause somebody to waste a lot
> of time, or lose data :-))

Qtopia contacts are stored in the sqlite database. They can also be copied to 
the sim card.

Qtopia Desktop is too old and will not work with Qtopia version 4.

Currently Qtopia will only sync to Outlook (I think). Someone could write 
plugins for others.


>
> Thanks
>
> Ian Darwin



-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech