How to Sync your Blackberry in Linux

[LiterallyDude]

Hi all,

I am a noob. I'v just installed barry and all of the other rpms that come along with it from sourceforge. I think that went okay, but I am not seeing a GUI anywhere. Could anyone give me some tips on how to actually use barry or point me to some documentation?

Thanks,
ed

[theorem_hunter]

http://www.petitiononline.com/bb1d1234/petition.html

i was number 1328 or something like that...

[AbuAnsar]

Hi. I'm a newbie in Linus and using Ubuntu 7.04. It's been few days now that I'm trying ti figure out how to charge my Blackberry 8100 (Pearl) thru the USB cable. I failed to follow the steps provided in BB forums to properly download and istall bcharge. Nevertheless, to my great surprise, I just found out that it DOES CHARGE! The yello Charging Icong on BB's screen stays on, an error message "USB power is insufficient......" appears for few seconds but it does charge to 100%.

My concern is whether it will damage anything in my Blackberry or not. If you guys ever encountered with the same problem please enlighten me on this issue. Thanks.

AbuAnsar

[Kasuko]

I have been using Evolution and I have tried to install SyncEvolution 0.6 from sources and I get this error

kasuko@MAGI:~/Programs/syncevolution-0.6$ sudo ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking signal.h usability... yes
checking signal.h presence... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
configure: configuring the client library 
+ mkdir -p /home/kasuko/Programs/syncevolution-0.6/src/client-api.build
+ cd /home/kasuko/Programs/syncevolution-0.6/src/client-api.build
+ /home/kasuko/Programs/syncevolution-0.6/src/client-api/build/autotools/configure --build= --host= --target= --disable-shared
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for f90... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory
GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory
GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for libcurl... found
checking time.h usability... yes
checking time.h presence... yes
checking for time.h... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for EPACKAGE... yes
checking for ECAL... checking for ECAL... checking for ECAL... checking for EBOOK... checking for EBOOK... checking for EBOOK... configure: error: no backend enabled - refusing to continue: 
Please install the development packages of Evolution and/or
set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable so that it points towards
the .pc files of libedataserver, libecal and libebook (the
latter two are optional).

You can check that these packages are available by running
pkg-config --list-all.

And I just don't know how to proceed.

I'm using Evolution v2.10.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Ah man the answer WAS right there in the error, just goes to show always read 21 times cause the first 20 times i read that error meant nothing. Sorry.

If anyone else has this issue just get the libecal and libebook dev packages tee hee

Thanks
Kasuko

[neetu]

Hi. I'm a newbie in Linus and using Ubuntu 7.04. It's been few days now that I'm trying ti figure out how to charge my Blackberry 8100 (Pearl) thru the USB cable. I failed to follow the steps provided in BB forums to properly download and istall bcharge. Nevertheless, to my great surprise, I just found out that it DOES CHARGE! The yello Charging Icong on BB's screen stays on, an error message "USB power is insufficient......" appears for few seconds but it does charge to 100%.

My concern is whether it will damage anything in my Blackberry or not. If you guys ever encountered with the same problem please enlighten me on this issue. Thanks.


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[craigiedan]

This worked great for me! The gcalsync website offers a few tips to get you up and running, so I recommend that for everyone... With that there are still a few areas that need to be addressed (editing on phone, repeating events), but are fairly minor and hopefully updated soon!

FYI, I'm using a BB 8100 for anyone that needs t/s help

[rapha]

Hi all!

After reading through this thread I thought I'd take a look at Berry first and alas, it has developed greatly, including the GUI which is small but looks very nice.

However, my problem begins much earlier: when I plug in my BlackBerry 7230 it begins to charge right away (even w/o bcharge), but dmesg output shows NOTHING. No "USB device attached" message like with mice and webcams and whatnot. No nothing - does this happen for anybody else, too?

I don't think it is a problem with Linux, but rather with my specific BlackBerry device, as the Desktop Manager under Windows doesn't work either

Regards,
Raphael

[woodi68]

Hi all!

After reading through this thread I thought I'd take a look at Berry first and alas, it has developed greatly, including the GUI which is small but looks very nice.

However, my problem begins much earlier: when I plug in my BlackBerry 7230 it begins to charge right away (even w/o bcharge), but dmesg output shows NOTHING. No "USB device attached" message like with mice and webcams and whatnot. No nothing - does this happen for anybody else, too?

I don't think it is a problem with Linux, but rather with my specific BlackBerry device, as the Desktop Manager under Windows doesn't work either

Regards,
Raphael

Although i don't have a 7230, I would suspect that you are correct about it being the device.

I have a new 8830 and can't get any of these things to work, Barry, nor syncevolution, nor barry util or ANYTHING! IT SUCKS!

[rapha]

But you do get a message in dmesg about the Blackberry being plugged in?

[jdailey67]

I was following the instructions on the original post which was to use scheduleworld to do a synch with Google Calendar, Evolution Calendar, and BB calendar.

My priority was google and BB.

I had no problem installing the funambol client on BB and set up the account on scheduleworld to use funambol.

However, setting up the connection configuration on the BB Perl, is still problematic. T-Mobile, like the other vendors have public info on the regular phone WAP gateway. For T-mobile, that is:
wap.voicestream.com
216.155.165.50
port 9201

They gave me that on the first call, which had to be set in the options: advanced: TCP: APN setting.

The second call, they also mentioned that there was a RIM gateway: blackberry.net.
--

Just putting this in the TCP setting did not seem to impact the Funambol client.

The configuration in funambol also includes an APN gateway, but also insists on an IP gateway if you enter that value (i.e. blackberry.net). Using NSLOOKUP on that returns 216.9.245.101. Port I am assuming to be 9201 , since that seems to be the default.