[jp] Jpilot and Treo: backup broke my PDA

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:50 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> But nowadays it's a mess. It fails to even initiate the backup/sync,
> and when it does succeed, it breaks the PDA. That's not fun at all.

Or not. 

Perhaps you should try getting one thing working first, following the
detailed documentation that thousands of others have had success with,
before moving to the more-advanced processes (like using libusb). 

I have a Treo650 and a Treo680 and both of them work perfectly using
Linux, J-Pilot, pilot-link and so on.. using either kernel usb (visor)
or libusb.

Linux, with respect to Palm synchronization is pretty rock-solid, but it
assumes you have: 

        a.) sane Palm hardware (not all Palms are built alike),
        
        b.) a proper kernel and configuration that has been verified to
        be accurate and not incorrectly configured,
        
        c.) known-good USB ports, cables and cradles, and
        
        d.) no mitigating third-party applications on the Palm side that
        could affect the stability of the process (i.e. overclockers,
        odd third-party HotSync-time hooks and the like). 
        
With that in mind, please also realize that the people who have written
this code have received *ZERO* help, assistance or documentation from
Palm themselves for their efforts.

Every single piece of this was written by either hundreds of hours of
trial and error, or by reverse-engineering the protocol coming across
the wire.

> The Linux software needs to improve a lot before it's actually
> usable.

You could always just use Windows instead. Use what works. If Windows
suits what you want, and does what you want, then why switch to Linux?


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