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Syncing to Samsung Tocco Lite; Plugin creator?

Hey guys

My Samsung Tocco Lite (S5230) uses the SyncML profile. Using my VM, I tried syncing via Bluetooth on Windows, and it works fine using Samsungs application.

So, I'm trying to make my own profile with the Developer Tools' "iSync Plug-in Maker". It seems straightforward enough. It will connect to the phone, and the bluetooth logo on the phone kicks in and flashes. But, it stops at that. It just seems to timeout.

Any ideas on things I may need to change? It's using Bluetooth OBEX, RFCOMM Serial and LibWBXML.

Hope that helps

Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 18, 2009 5:09 AM

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Sep 18, 2009 10:35 AM in response to Irishmatt

Any ideas on things I may need to change?


There are 1001 things you could change in the iSync Plug-in Maker! Have you consulted its documentation?

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Syncing/Conceptual/Tramonta nePluginBuilderUserGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

You'll need to get some detailed developer documentation on the exact data that the phone uses, the fields, lengths, custom bits, communication protocol, any manufacturer specific data, etc. etc. Every manufacturer and often, phone from the same manufacturer is different.

Once you have all that and have adjusted the plugin to suit, there is a very long laborious process of running the hundreds of automated tests, and then tweaking the settings based on the results, so that it passes all tests.

Then you'll have a working plugin (maybe!). Unless someone else has the phone, and the detailed developer info on that phone, no-one can tell you what needs changing to make it work.

Sep 18, 2009 11:12 AM in response to Irishmatt

I have gotten so far, but the documentation is difficult to follow?

It seems to 'connect' and they speak to each other briefly (see below)

The incoming ones are basically the phone saying OK, and telling me some SyncML thing. But when the computer sends the last bit below, the SyncML DTD outline, it just stops there. No error; just disconnection... 😟


<- incoming data on channel 3 (7 bytes):
Stopping AT on channel
-> writing 21 bytes to bluetooth rfcomm channel 3:
-> write done on bluetooth rfcomm channel 3
<- incoming data on channel 3 (21 bytes):
[#0] => Sending SyncML msg (161 bytes)
[#0] => Sending SyncML msg (decoded)

Sep 23, 2009 3:17 AM in response to Irishmatt

I'm afraid it's not really something anyone can advise on without having the phone, and a in-depth knowledge of SyncML and how its implemented on that phone in particular.

I've created almost 100 iSync Plugins for Sony Ericsson phones, and one for the Samsung SGH-J600 but I couldn't say what's going on with your Tocco plugin. It's a lot of trial and error, and getting technical information from Samsung seems impossible.

Nov 4, 2009 4:21 AM in response to Irishmatt

Hi,

We have just released a sync solution to sync newer Samsung models M8800 Pixon, M8910, S5230, S5600, S7220, S7350, S8000, S8300 with Mac OS X. Find more here - http://www.novamedia.de/en/mac-fonesync-samsung.html

Disclaimer: I am affiliated with nova media, but have no financial or other advantage by posting here. As far as I know, our solution is the only one for the phones named above for a direct Mac to phone synchronisation.

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