Previously, I mentioned about switching from a Treo650 to a Nokia N95. The data migration from one phone to the other involved two main steps. First, move the data from Treo650 to a PC (I am using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04). Second, move the data from the PC to Nokia N95. In this post, I will explain the first part.
What you need
- Ubuntu Hardy PC with one USB port
- Palm Treo650
- Treo650 usb cradle/cable
Step 1: Add Pilot applet to panel
In the Ubuntu PC’s desktop, right-click on a desktop panel, select “Add to Panel…”. Search for “Pilot Applet”and click”Add”.
Step 2: Configure pilot sync
The “Pilot Set-up Wizard” will appear when you add the Pilot applet for the first time to a desktop panel. Click “Forward” to continue.
The next screen is “Device Settings”. Enter a name, select type “USB”, device “usb:” and speed “115200″. Click “Foward” to continue.
The next screen is “PDA Identification”. You will choose whether to copy an existing Treo identifier (Owner and PDA ID), or create a new identifier to upload to the Treo. If you have sync the Treo before in another PC, choose “Yes”, else choose “No”. Click “Forward” to continue.
The next screen is “Initial Sync”. Connect the Treo650 to the PC usb port. Open the Palm hotsync application (in the Treo) and verify that the serial configuration is 115200 baud. You can find this under “Connection Setup…” menu. Then, press the hotsync button.
If everything is properly configured, the initial sync should succeed. Else, recheck the hotsync’s configuration. Also, check the Treo cradle is connected properly (from my experience with Treo650, I found that the cradle was often improperly seated).
Once the initial sync succeeded, click “Forward” to continue.
The next screen is “PDA Attributes”. You could use the defaults, or change to your preference. “Name of PDA” can be anything; it is used if you have more than one Palm PDA. Click “Foward” to continue.
The last screen is “Success”. Click “Apply” to complete the set-up.
Step 3: Configure conduit
Next, we will configure the Palm hotsync conduits. A conduit is a channel for one type of data to be synced between the Palm device and your PC.
Click on the Pilot Applet that you have added on the desktop panel. The “gnome-pilot Settings” dialogbox will open.
If you have more than one Palm device, select the one you would like to configure. Then, click the “Conduits” tab. You will see a list of available conduits.
Select a “conduit” and click “Enable”. The “Conduit Settings” dialogbox will appear. For each conduit, you will see a different dialogbox. E.g. address book conduit is “EAddress”. This is the “Conduit Settings” dialogbox for EAddress book.
Caution
I found that when syncing the address book, some fields were not copied, while “non-western” names were messed up. The address book is copied from the Palm device to Evolution Mail. After copying the address book for the first time, open up Evolution Mail’s contacts database to verify the data is correctly copied.
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