Galaxy S T959 preliminary research to attempt replicant installation

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 17/08/14 10:34 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> [...] I have also tried to backup user data (call logs, contact list, etc...) because
> eventually I would like to sync the phone with the KDE apps (Kaddressbook,
> Korganizer, etc...) via the usb cable, but that seems like it's going to be
> another project made difficult by how much the phone is locked down.  I suppose
> I could eventually find the files where that info resides if I go looking
> file by file.  Does anyone know where all that user data is?  I don't want to
> depend on the cloud/google for backups and sync.  In the days of the Palm PDAs
> it was a matter of one button to sync.  Is anyone aware of scripts to do
> this? (sync with KDE)  All I could find was advice to do file-by-file copy.
> [...]

I'm a quiet observer on this list, and have never used Replicant myself, only
helped some family members with Android... so take this with a grain of salt...

I'm not away of any scripts to do a Palm-era style USB cable sync, but all the
research I've done suggests with the sync model in the Android era is web-based
-- with CardDAV and CalDAV as the open standards.

I'm self-hosting SOGo for this, though also using ownCloud at work (ownCloud is
much easier to host). You'd still be depending on a "cloud" to sync, but it
could be self-hosted, or hosted by another service provider / friend you trust.

For KDE...
http://doc.owncloud.org/server/7.0/user_manual/pim/sync_kde.html

It seems like DAVdroid is an option for CalDAV/CardDAV sync, but maybe only for
Android 4+?

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=dav&fdid=at.bitfire.davdroid


I'm not sure if that helps much... but in my experience, self-hosted
CalDAV/CardDAV seems to be the most freedom-friendly and privacy-friendly
alternate to a Google account sync... and note that this is just contacts and
calendars, not your call log, or SMS message history, or anything else like that...