Re: [OpenSync] Gnokii

[Pawel Kot]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Garrick Welsh wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 05:44, Pawel Kot wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Armin Bauer wrote:
> >
> > Hi Armin,
> >
> > > these kind of devices anyways. There a lot of devices out there where
> > > the database is pulled completly from the device, synced locally and
> > > then pushed onto the device again.
>
> While I agree that this isn't the way that you'd like things to be done,
> if you look at a fair amount of the sync software for phones under
> windows and they still use this. For example the Motorola V600 as far as
> I can tell syncs by downloading the entire memory from the phone and
> then creating it's own temporary address book and then syncing that,
> followed by copying the data back to the phone.

It's just a broken software. In the scenario you describe, it's fairly
easy to determine which entries should be written back. Yesterday I was
testing Samsung SGH-D410 over IrDA link. It has 1000 available entries for
the phonebook. As I understand that reading the whole phonebook may take a
while, I'd not understand why I'd need to wait twice as long when I'm
synchronizing a full phonebook with an empty addressbook in the phone ;-)

> considering this phone has syncml support. If this is how the syncing
> support is written natively for a device, we probably aren't going to be
> able to write something better without changing the firmware on the
> device. I'm not really up for that. :)

But you do the synchronization on the computer side, don't you? On hte
device side you do just basic operations: read/write (and perhaps on the
low level: find the empty location).

take care,
pkot
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