Galaxy S T959 preliminary research to attempt replicant installation

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 19/08/14 06:55 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:52:41AM -0400, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks.  Installed SOGo via aptitude from the Debian archives.
>

FYI If I were doing this over again now, I'd definitely go for ownCloud over
SOGo for personal use. SOGo is just a bit heavy to configure and run, has more
potential for enterprise (e.g. integration with Exchange/Outlook), but ownCloud
is a lot simpler to use, and has a ton of other useful features (and is
constantly improving).

But, that said, SOGo still works for me to CalDAV/CardDAV every day (and my wife
is on Android using our SOGo server). Feel free to contact me off-list if you
need help configuring.


> Surprisingly, ownCloud in not in the Debian archives, so downloaded
> the .tar.bz2 file and the .deb for the client.  I'll start playing with
> it to get up to speed on the new way of doing things.  [...]

Oh, the project has its own Debian repo. If you follow the server install links
from owncloud.org, you'll end up at:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=isv:ownCloud:community&package=owncloud

I just use the Debian repo provided by ownCloud, working great for me on Wheezy,
even through major upgrades (e.g. to 7.0 a few weeks back).

ownCloud also has that Android app in the F-Droid repo... could be useful for
syncing photos, for example, or maybe for transfering other files. On my wife's
device, we have it set to auto-upload any photos she takes to ownCloud, as a
kind of backup, though I'm not sure if it works if she takes the photos when
offline.

We haven't done much more with it, but if you're already setting up ownCloud for
CalDAV/CardDAV, the ownCloud client might be worth looking at for other file
transfers/backup... not sure how much it can be automated outside of the photo
uploads though at present...

HTH!

Blaise