Comments on: Finally Synching my Blackberry on Linux

By: AndrewS

AndrewS — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:42:30 +0000

Hello

I know this thread was started a while ago, but I just found it. The sync process with my BB 9105 seems to work fine, but where does the data go within Kontact??? I think I must be missing something…

TIA

Andrew

By: TWOHOT

TWOHOT — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:58:37 +0000

PuntoAzul :
There is a BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Linux —> http://linberry.webcindario.com get ir free!!!

That site is not in English sir … can you translate

By: PuntoAzul

PuntoAzul — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:46:15 +0000

There is a BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Linux —> http://linberry.webcindario.com get ir free!!!

By: sola

sola — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:12:53 +0000

It seems that it is important to use TAB characters as separators in the barry-sync config file in the “Device” line and the Password line.

By: Jon F

Jon F — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:52:22 +0000

Malcor,

Glad to hear that you got it to work.

Jon F

By: malcor

malcor — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:59:03 +0000

i got it, i took the wrong PIN, but thanks, this a the best sync tutorial for my bb 8810 that ive found so far!! good job!

By: malcor

malcor — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:49:51 +0000

Hi,

great work, unfortunately my problem is a little different, maybe you know something? This is error msg I get when syncing:

Synchronizing group “BB”
libopensync-kdepim-plugin(7360)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn’t know “/home/marco/.kde/share/apps/kabc”
Member 2 of type kdepim-sync just connected
Member 1 of type barry-sync had an error while connecting: Unable to find PIN
Member 2 of type kdepim-sync just disconnected
All clients have disconnected
The sync failed: Unable to connect one of the members
Error while synchronizing: Unable to connect one of the members

I guess its about the kabc, but no clou^^

By: sleeplesscdn

sleeplesscdn — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:12:54 +0000

First like to say thanks!!!!
this works with the calender part just have to configure the contacts.
also have anyone tried using 2 blackberry’s would like to sync with wifes phone and have it all on 1 calender.
once again great job!!

By: Jon F

Jon F — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:42:11 +0000

@techie – Thanks for the contribution! Stuff like this is always helpful to other readers who are having similar issues.

By: techie

techie — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:16:55 +0000

@John Charlton
I found that the sudo chmod trick is not a permanent solution. The blackberry picks up a different bus and device location each time you plug it in, or restart. I found that by modifying the 10-blackberry.rules file accordingly, you can create a permanent solution. Here are the steps (I appologize if they are difficult to follow)

1. open a terminal window

2. type btool -M (you should get the operation not permitted error if you’re having this problem)

3. type the command “lsusb” to get a listing of all usb devices plugged into your system

4. Find the one listed as Research In Motion and write down everything you see listed for that device

5. in the terminal, enter “gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/10-blackberry.rules” (without quotes)

6. Here, I copied the top two entries (four lines) under newer devices with USB storage

7. I pasted what I had copied at the bottom of that page, and verified (or modified) the part in both entries: SYSFS{idVendor}==”ofca” (ofca should represent first part of the ID from the lsusb command that you wrote down)

8. Next I modified the part of the script (both entries): SYSFS{idProduct}==”0004″ (in my case I had to change it to SYSFS{idProduct}==”0008″ (the number should correspond to the last part of the ID right of the colon from the LSUSB command that you wrote down)

9. Save the file

10. Reboot the udev service (or just restart your machine)

In my case everything worked, and I did not have any further permission issues. The blackberry device syncs perfectly every time.