[General Questions and Answers] doublehp:
Hello.

Issue: After installing update for Angry birds, Android started all alone the cache cleaner, and offered me to free room, because it found that 100M free were not enough. I accepted to clean cache for apps older than 8d, and refused everything else. Since then, I can not sync.

I will run very quickly over what I did to fix my issue

- phone to HTC, who said that if I can not sync to google, i must sync to PC

- if I don't have Windows and Outlook, i can fix my sync issue by wiping the phone

- also stated that HTC developers could not be contacted

- and that Android developers could not be contacted either

- and that Android does not ship any kind of bug reporting system

- and that wiping my user profile would FOR SURE fix my sync issue

- sync is supported only with Microsoft Windows

They just forgot that ...

- bug report system starts automaticly when any app crashes (I get it several times a week)

- http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list exists ...

- Android is running above Linux, and selling a Linux phone which would not sync with a Linux desktop is just ... non sens

- wiping my user data profile is just the opposite of what I need; I don't want to see the green arrow sping around for the fun; I *need* to synchronise my calendar and contacts to merge my work of the day with my Gmail profile; wiping user profile would mean ... loose all work of the day

and september the first have been the most busy day I had in the past 3 months. So much work I was exhausted, and would never in life be able to remember all customers I was happy to get, and all providers I hardly could contact, all meetings I have arranged with my customers and providers ... no way to contact all of them to re-ask the date we decided; I would forget some, and loose ... money.

I also tried to remove some Google account from my phone, to test sync on a secondary account; after removal, and re-creation, account could not sync. Gmail is stuck on "your emails will appear shortly". Gmail just does not read my emails on server.

Mail can still work, because it does not depend on the sync stack; it has it's own mechanism to read emails.

The same account can work fine in Mail, and fail in Gmail. Not an account issue.

I also tried to untick all sync things every where in the sync section or params, and only ticked Weather ... and clicked on manual sync. The last sync time stick to 31st 2AM ... even weather won't sync. Even when only this is ticked, even after reboot ...

My question to this forum is now:

- which package owns the sync layer stack ?

- which folder in /data/data can I remove to clear any possible sync issue ?

- will this erase, or keep, my changes to contacts and calendar ?

- can any third party app sync my EXISTING calendar, and contacts to Gmail, the same way Mail can ... read my mails when Gmail fails ? something that would update my recent changes to server, so that recent changes in my phone would be updated on server, so that I can continue my work from computer ? I have several calendar apps on the phone, but all seem to rely and depend on Android Sync service, and let it bother about sync between device and Google servers. Only Mail seems to perform an independant access to server.

I need sync to work at any price. I can leave with many bugs in my phone; but a failing sync just makes me leave, not just money, but contracts ...

I could work with an other device, and through this one to bin; but I need to sync ONCE the work i did in the last 36h.

HTC Sensation

Leedroid 2.2

Android 2.3.4

Sense 3.0

RomManager 4.4.0.2 with ClockWorkMod 5.0.1.0 failed to backup my phone (CWM 5 complains that I don't have RM 4.4 or higher).

I am doing manual backup. Trying to revert to previous versions of RM and CWM (this software still sux as much as before), and doing manual backups in // (raw block dump, so that I can loop mount them from computer easily: I will do a diff between dump of today, and last week, what will highlight the work of this week; painfull, but efficient) .

I need a quick fix, i can't work anymore; if this is not fixed by monday 8AM, I may loose my job. I tried to backup my work as soon as I came back home, and now, I am loosing everything. I am doing daily backups; but this single day worth a year for me. If I can't sync it, I am ruined.

Many thanks for any kind of constructive help.