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[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kallden:
I use Linux, but from what I've just read, it should be as easy as installing any software on windows.

I cannot post Links at the moment, need 3 more posts: I found one simple guide, but it is in German. But the pictures explain it all. Do a search with these words: "pc-erfahrung kostenlose-pim-synchronisation-mit-funambol"

For further reference, search for the "Funambol Installation and Administration Guide". Eventually, you only need to read pages 9, 12, 16. Download the Funambol Server .exe from their website (forge funambol org)

The only things you need to do after installation are:

- Log In into Funambol Server

- Change the server URI in

"Settings -> Server Settings -> Server URI

to "http : / / local_IP : 8080 / funambol / ds ". (I used spaces in these links to be able to post them).

For instance "http : / / 192.168.1.52 : 8080 / funambol / ds".

It is important that the computer has a fixed local IP adress. Either you set it up in network settings or on your router. The "local_IP" is your fixed IP adress! Then log out and in again.

- No need to mess with any other settings. No need to setup a user on the server, it does it automatically, when you use your phone

- Then on your phone in the funambol client:

Choose that you already have an account.

User -> any Name you want

Password -> as you like

IP: -> The Server URI you set up on the server, for instance: "http : / / 192.168.1.52 : 8080 / funambol / ds"

(after a fresh phone install I always forget the ":8080" part or write /db instead of /ds. Remember that, when you get a network error. Also check your firewall settings, and open Funambol for your local network.)

If you need help during installation, don't hesitate to ask.

Cheers!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Defiant one:
Been going though this thread before I finally managed to Sync my contacts without going through Gmail. (Bought Android-sync Ver 0.372)

Anyway, I may be a bit late (Just got my Defy+ about a week ago), so with reference to what jean001luc mentioned... the "backup option"... I think he meant this.

I disabled the "backup option" and nothing was synced to Gmail in the next step (the "syncing" icon never appeared in the next page). I later verified by checking my Gmail

FYI, in case anybody was wondering, I still needed to specify my Gmail account in order to be able to use the Market... =/
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuisana:
Unfortunately I cannot offer any solution to the problem introduced by "google-the-big-brother", but I do totally agree with what he says. I am absolutely against Google having access to all my private information and can see no logical or ethical reason for it. I sincerely hope that somebody cleverer than I will come up with a proper, easy to implement solution soon.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mengfanpp:
I use Mobisynapse to sync over USB or wifi, it works well.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.karalis:
finaly?!

I also would like to note that "google-the-big-brother" has a point.

I see that no clear solution is available right?

But i have to make this question again in order to sure about what is going on:

Is there any simple way to import and/or sync outlook (mail,contacts,calendar etc) with android phone and/or tablet?

e.g:In my outlook I can export -as back up- all above (mail,contacts,calendar etc) in a pst file. Can i import same to android phone and/or tablet? without using anything like Google account, exchange etc?

This i am telling since my mail, is a company mail account so -as I am sure you understand- i cannot have company mails out on the net.

ps:I am from Greece and i hope my writing is understandable:D:D:D:D:D
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DooMaster:
That's odd,

I arrive in this post just by googled "sync without gmail" for similar reasons: I don't want to mix my job's contacts, calendars and notes with my personal gmail account, so when I tried to config sync the last option was:

- "override gmail contacts and calendar"

- "mix gmail contats with phone"

- "override phone contacts and calendar"

What annoying !, ¿Why they just make an app for a simple Sync with Outlook like all the Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices?. What I like from Blackberry it was simple, direct and fast.

The worst part is that I recommend android devices for my company, but I have the luck that anyone dont use sync options ehehhe.

Well, I'll have to use 2 phones, one personal with android and for work a WinMo device.

It's a hard point to critize to google right now.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lufc:
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions &

Read the Forum Rules Ref Posting

Moving to Q&A
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ytpl:
Hi,

Long time passed and I'm sure your problem is already solved. I faced exactly the same problem yesterday and really, it was the first time google made me furious. Google used to play fair with users. This is an exception. You turn off sync of calendar but is is still being synced. :(

Anyway, I found (in internet) very simple solution. There's an application Android Sync. What it does after installation is creating new Account Provider which creates _local_ calendar, which would never be synchronized with google. It is created just for the purpose of keeping data synchronised with Outlook.

You can keep using this app, or set Android-Sync calendar in MPE client settings and use MPE software to synchronise with Outlook.

Actually, there are two applications installed in android by Android Sync software: "Android-Sync" (?) and "Android-Sync Account" (this app provides local calendar in android).

I'm going to write my own local calendar provider. I hope I'll succeed.

J
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blancy:
After read so many pages, there is still no solution. I do not understand why there is no option for user to disable sync with the Cloud! It's the right for user to do so, it is our data why we have no choice but can only to send to Cloud and stored in it!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OndrejP:
One solution is mentioned one post above, second solution is Local Sync app, which has also own Android account (means own calendar and contacts account). Unfortunatelly I had to disable app for some Motorola phones, due to compatibility issues.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppero196:
Sorry if I insulted anyone.

Why are you so paranoid regarding Google?

You have something to hide?

I like Google Cloud because everything is in sync.

Chrome tabs on my phone are already opened when I open desktop chrome.

Also you can control what data will Google use (eg Anonymous user statistics).

I have never seen someone so paranoid regarding Google.
[Nook Color Accessories] MaraDonAlex:
I want to buy this one for my NC. Anyone know if this is a good one?

And can somebody tell me what the weight of it is?

I can't see a site where I can buy it to ship to the Netherlands though.
[Nook Color Accessories] MaraDonAlex:
I decided to go for the Recliner and it's perfect. This way you can esily change between landscape and portrait. I'm very glad with it. :)
[Nook Color Accessories] tomic22:
Lol....another dutchy on xda with the nook color??

Btw: there are better cases at mediamarkt i guess.... just look at ipad stands!
[Xperia Play General] Pistvakten:
I am unable to use the web browser while talking on the phone. (No data connection available while on voice call)

Anyone else with the same problem?
[Xperia Play General] theclueless:
you are not on 3g
[Xperia Play General] Pistvakten:
But this was not an issue in my MiniPro that I used previously. Is the HW in PLAY not capable of what the MiniPro could perform?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YDardeer:
I'm having trouble locking to satellites on my Nexus S. The app GPS Test shows '0 In View' and ' In use. Gowalla and Google Maps show inaccurate locations. Is there a known issue with GPS on Nexus S?

I'm on CM7. Jame Bong latest kernel
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
Ok fellas, my nook color has been out of commission for over 2 months. I can boot from sd but not from internal emmc.

Sam has been helpin me but it has been difficult due to him being in a different part of the world. From what i've been told my emmc is corrupt and my partitions need to be rebuilt or formatted.

I have tried the different fixes here and still i am stuck on the N screen.

I am trying to return my NC to stock form.

I will let Sam chime in also. I know there are a lot of talents on this forum and pretty sure this can be fixed.

Thanks everyone..
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
Hi,

As Wendell said, I've tried helping him with his corrupt emmc.

The problem is:

The emmc semms to be corrupt, or at least some sectors of it. Wendell cannot return it, because it boots to CWR. That's the strange part, though the disk seems totally corrupt, it still seems to be able to boot. I guess some sectors and still working. But I don't know of any way to find out which..

This is what I know so far:

The internal emmc generally returns I/O error when trying to use fdisk or parted.

But, somehow, depending on the bs and count, I can dd /dev/zero to it.

Even after having dd zeros to it, it still seems to boot to internal CWR. So, the dd isn't working. Still don't know why, or how to remedy to it.

If someone could give us a clue or two here, it would be very much appreciated. I must admit I'm really no HDD expert..

Thanks!!

Sam
[Nook Color General] fprice02:
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM

Have you guys tried this? Or has an internal EMMC rom been flashed?
[Nook Color General] lechiffre:
Any idea how the partition became corrupt? Did you dual-boot?
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
Partition became corrupt after flashing a couple of the very first OC kernels. Not sure if thats what caused it but wouldn't boot past N screen. Since then i have been trying to fix it by doing the several fixes to no avail and possibly damaging the emmc even more.
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
Please correct if I'm wrong but i think i need the stock recovery for this method. Unfortunately, the stock was replaced with CWR and now i cannot even get rid of CWR off the internal. If I could do it again, I would not place CWR on internal but rather run it off sd. I installed CWR via rom manager because the sd method was not yet available.
[Nook Color General] woot1524:
Try option number 3 in the thread I made in the general forum. the clockworkmod recover + stuck at " " screen. Flashing cwm via rom manager can cause corrupted /boot partition
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
Woot , thanks for your response.

I have tried those methods to no avail. I can currently boot into CWR via 'home+N' but here is the crazy part, I cannot use the zip that sam made to remove CWR from emmc or even try to update to 3.0.1.0 via the CWR zip. My CWR on the emmc will not budge at all.

Sam, has even tried to erase my emmc totally from being able to boot to CWR just so I can get it looked at by B&N but CWR will not budge.
[Nook Color General] nislo:
Excuse my ignorance, but will linux run off the sd card on the nook?

What about using something like GParted? Perhaps the USB bootable image on the sd card might work?
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
I know you are all trying to help. But please keep in mind that there aren't any obvious answers here. The emmc is corrupt. You can't flash anything to it.. and as I already stated, parted won't work either, it returns I/o error.

The only strange thing is that the nook still boots.. I can't understand that as the emmc lacks any partition table.

We need someone with hdd repairing experience. None of the answers found on existant threads will help Wendell..

Thank you.

Sam
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
The boot may be from real hardware/non-eemc rom.

I know you said it's a emmc error - but have you tried to flash back to stock using CWM off of the SD with thecubed's MonsterRoot pack?
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
Yes
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
I'm sure you have tried this... but just in case...

Can you fdisk the partitions... then dd image img files to it?

I don't know if you will have any way of saving mmcblk0p2 and 3 to save your device specific information.
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
I believe sam has already tried
[Nook Color General] ylixir:
Here is what i would try.

First thing, get a cwm sd card setup that is bootable and has a decent amount of space so you can backup your emmc. The cwm sd card will allow us to adb in, but not worry about having any emmc partitions mounted (booting to a full android image would want at least the mmcblk0p2 partition mounted).

Make sure you have adb setup and working, so you can adb in once you've booted into cwm from the sd card. Make sure you know how to use adb pull and adb push to get files onto and off of the device easily.

Boot from the card, adb shell into the device. make sure when you are doing dd commands you are pulling from and writing to image files in a directory on the sd card, not on the emmc. you probably shouldn't even have any emmc partitions mounted at all.

Note: dd and bzip2 are both on the cwm 3.0.10 ramdisk, dunno about the earlier versions

I'd make a backup image of your emmc just in case things go from bad to worse:

dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 | bzip2 -9 > backup.img.bz2

This will take a while.

Now you'll need a MBR from someone with a stock partition table (i'm dual booting so mine probably won't work, otherwise i'd make one for you). Any volunteers?

dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1

Once you have this file, just dump the image onto your emmc.

dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

once you have a working partition table, you should be on your way to using the standard recovery techniques peppered throughout the forums.

btw, this won't fix any corruption in the extended partition table, that would take a little more effort (i'd have to read up on where/how that info is saved). Also obviously if it's a hardware problem rather than just corrupted data you have more problems than this will fix.

p.s. cwm loading witch a corrupt partiton table isn't that weird imho. the bootloader has barely over 400 bytes to load up the boot file and hand things off, it's probably not taking a close look at the partition map when it does this.
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
I know am probably being a stupid noob...have you tried the 8 failed boots?
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Again..probably being a noob...are the file permissions set as ro? Mayhaps you need to change permissions?
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
Lol.

Thanks for all your input.

DD and fdisk return i/o error. DD only works if I use i.e 1M as BS.

It seems there isn't any partition table on the emmc.

I guess some sectors are dead. The idea would be to identify which ones and erase them.

Although simply being able to remove the bootloader would allow Wendell to bring it back to the shop..

Maybe someone has a clue as to how to delete completely the first X sectors of emmc..?

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] ylixir:
Did you read my post? It is exactly telling you how to replace the first sector of the emmc. you can source it from /dev/zero with a bs=512 and a count=1 if you really wanna wipe the bootloader, but better would be just getting it working yeah? all our nooks have the same partition map (unless we are dual booting) and that map is stored on the first sector. My instruction tell how to pull the first sector with dd, and how to push it back on. notice i'm accessing the mmc directly? not the partitions? so unless his hardware is bad (or the extended partition is corrupt too) then my instructions will work. He just needs a copy of the first sector of a working nook. I'd put mine up but i'm not sure it would work, i have two extra partitions from stock. It probably wouldn't matter, but i'm not 100% sure on that, so i'd rather it be someone else that makes the image from a nook with a stock partition map (the contents of the partitions can be whatever, as long as they are all in the same place as stock).
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
Hi,

Thanks. Yes, I read your post. dd, for some reason, only works if I set bs to at least 1M. I don't have the NC, but maybe Wendell could confirm that.

Wendell: go to "adb shell" and type [dd if=/dev/zero of="/dev/block/mmcblk0" bs=512 count=1] without the [].

Please confirm that this returns an I/O error.

But for some reason, using 1M or greater as bs works, but the bootloader still isn't erased.. it still boots to CWR..

I'm pretty sure all the I/O error i've had mean that there's a hardware failure.. But that's my opinion, nothing more..

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] met67:
Extreme situations can call for extreme measures

Now, I know you won't like this, but if you can send back your NC to B&N you could try to put it in the microwave just to render it unable to boot, paying attention not to damage it phisically (I'd go with medium power for 5 secs...).
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
Sam, i did as you said and got the following

# dd if=/dev/zero of="/dev/block/mmcblk0" bs=512 count=1

dd if=/dev/zero of="/dev/block/mmcblk0" bs=512 count=1

dd: writing '/dev/block/mmcblk0': Input/output error

1+0 records in

0+0 records out

0 bytes (0B) copied, 0.132935 seconds, 0B/s
[Nook Color General] ylixir:
I'm inclined to agree with sam, if you can't dump bytes straight to the hardware, sounds like a hardware issue to me. i don't even think you can get lower level than that, aside from microwaving it or pulling the chips off the board :-(
[Nook Color General] wendellc:
probably gonna have to keep this as the 'running on sd only version'.
[Nook Color General] stevebeaulac:
My emmc change to read-only

It seem like I have a similar problem.

I also was using the OC kernel.

My nook boots, but once at the launcher screen I get lots of error message, and all my partition are set to "ro". I can't re-partition the emmc can't erase, format anything.

I've tried to remount the partition read-write using "mount -o rw,remount" but nothing changes, and I get no error from the command.
[Nook Color General] tuxhacker:
I'm having exact same issue. I was running CM7 and while I was reading a pdf it hung so rebooted and that was it. CM7 boot loop nothing works. Mine was running CM7 stable, OC 40311. Ran for about two weeks without any issues.

I tried to dd, recreat partition and so on... Anything I was able to find from forum to recover. But nothing worked. It seems like I have a read-only device. Copied new factory.zip to try 8 failed attempt to mmcblk0p3. Mount check the new file date. Umount and mount again and I see old file date again. :(

Last night I did "abd logcat" while it's rebooting and got

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb logcat
- waiting for device -
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied (13) -

I tried to fix the permission from CWR 3.0.0.5, CWR 3.0.0.6 & CWR 3.0.1.0 nothing works.

I get "Error formatting / system!" and "Error formatting /Data!" when I try to format from CWR 3.0.0.5 & CWR 3.0.1.0 and CWR 3.0.0.6 saying that it formatted but no go. Also noticed that when I used CWR 3.0.0.6 from CM7 install thread I get no adb connection.

Help!!
[Nook Color General] product26:
I believe I am experiencing this same issue. Did anything ever come of this or was it abandoned as a lost cause?
[Nook Color General] devito80:
Not sure if it was fixed or abandoned but I'm having the same problem, more or less.

I was running CM7 & Dalingrin's OC kernel, along with Nook Tweaks & SetCPU. Oc'd to 1200 for a couple weeks. Everything worked fine until rebooting one day & since then all it does it show the green Cyanogen(mod) logo, then goes into CWR main menu screen.

It's been like this for the last 3-4 months.
[Nook Color General] thereddog:
Read my thread on how I did it.Hopefully I was descriptive enough so you can do it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1155282
[HD Mini General] raketevert:
Hello. I would really appreciate help on this one.

I recently got an HTC HD mini T5555, OS version: 5.2.23103.

After performing hard reset everything on the cell works perfectly.

However, after a software installation, the volume buttons won´t make any change to volume when pressed.

The volume controll dosn´t even show up in the display. Now, If I perform yet another hard reset,

(the software installed will be removed) volume will be changable again.

The software itself has a built-in function for listening to music, making cals etc.

From within the software you can change the volume using its own controls (not HTC volume control).

That works fine.

The software is called "Handi".

"Handi is a program tailored for people with cognitive disabilities.

The most fundamental difference between the Handi and "normal" hand computer program

is that Handi-programs have far less information and less choice per view".

I have no experiences from other hand computer programs but assume they all work the same way.

I´m sure there is a way to fix this in the registry. Anyone got ideas or useful advice?

Need more info? I´ll try to give you as much as I know about it.

Thanks in advance!

Regards /Anders
[HD Mini General] MobileMini:
First things that came up my mind:

1. The volume buttons are disabled by the software

2. The Volume software is overwritten (reg keys, or other files)

Maybe here is a solution by installing a cab with volume control:

http://htcpedia.com/forum/touch-hd-rom-development/1161-[request]-htc-volume-control.html

More custom volume controls:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=598997

But be careful, modifications can make you do a hard reset :).
[HD Mini General] raketevert:
I installed the CAB but still the same...

Gonna search the registry instead. Thanks anyway!
[Streak 5 General] circuitravi:
Can I connect usb pen drive to my dell streak? Thanks!
[Streak 5 General] snowe2010:
You will have to be way more descriptive. What do you mean? Like using a cord like the ipad has?
[Streak 5 General] circuitravi:
I like to read usb pen drive data using dell streak.. Can I do it?
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
The hardware supports it, but it was never available with any rom (techically there was SOME work on getting it to work on 2.1, but it was abandoned on 2.2 since they explicitlly turned all of it off)

Unless you're really skilled at hacking the drivers and writing a lot of new ones it's not happening
[Desire General] wilbur-force:
Im on villain ROM 1.8 and have installed SPB. Just done a reboot and its hanging at the boot animation (not frozen, just the animation running over and over). I have a sneaky feeling it may be SPB launcher causing the problem.

in recovery is there any way to step through the startup ? or manually prevent certain apps from starting ?

Dont really want to reflash .... :(

UPDATE - after about 10 minutes it 'booted' into Android but with a black screen - can access the launch bar - and applications from there such as messaging - but cant get to anything else. cant even get into settings to unistall SPB .... grrrrrr !
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Clear dalvik cache in recovery. If that doesn't work remove spb with adb.
[Desire General] wilbur-force:
cheers.

several reboots later it finally booted correctly. Managed to unistall SPB and all now looks OK. think ill avoid SPB for a while now :p

for info how would i have removed it using adb ?