PhoneSync

NOTE: As of June 1, 2011 the current Ubuntu One contacts sync for mobile will no longer be active. We’re stopping support for our current service so we can focus our energy on launching a much better service sooner than we could otherwise.

Contacts phone sync, public alpha

For questions about the service, see UbuntuOne/PhoneSync/FAQ

Set up your phone

Instructions

Go to: https://one.ubuntu.com/phones/ (if the link is down, check our twitter status)
Select your phone model. If the model isn't listed, but you know it works, then proceed. We will give you a username and password to authenticate your phone with your Ubuntu One account.
- iPhone and Android phones can download the app directly from their respective app stores (web links for Android available at Cyrket, AppBrain, Google project site).
Don't configure calender/notes sync or anything else that isn't contacts, no matter what the instructions tell you to do
If your phone doesn't support syncml, download the client from here: https://www.forge.funambol.org/download/
The host is: http://syncml.one.ubuntu.com
DB name: card

Model gotchas

iPhones, download the Ubuntu One app from the Apple app store
Android phones, only 2.0x models are supported. Download the app from the Android Marketplace.

Resetting your contacts

WARNING: THIS COMPLETELY DELETES EVERYTHING FOR EVER

Download ubuntuone-couchdb-query
Run:

python ubuntuone-couchdb-query --http-method=DELETE contacts
python ubuntuone-couchdb-query --http-method=PUT contacts

Delete your local contacts db from the couchdb admin:

firefox .local/share/desktop-couch/couchdb.html

Email clients

Thunderbird 2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/8616
Thunderbird 3 32 bit: Download and install the add-on
Thunderbird 3 64 bit: Download and install the add-on
Evolution: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Contacts

Testing

Please give us feedback in this structured format, so we can understand what needs to be worked on. We would like the test to be done in a certain order so we can understand where things fail. To add your feedback, copy and paste the following:

Nickname:
Phone:
Username:
Date/time synced:
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?
Did your phone sync without errors?
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?
Do they seem to have all the correct data?
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?
Do they seem to have all the correct data?
Other observations

Test results

Your test results here!

Nickname:	pashka_r
Phone:	Asus P535
Username:	16394705
Date/time synced:	08 Apr 2010 21:12 (UTC)
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	almost. Some of my contacts are in Russian. All of them are shown in the last category 'O'
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	n/a. did not test
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	n/a. did not test
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	n/a. did not test
Other observations

Nickname:	dpossner
Phone:	Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
Username:	78360914
Date/time synced:	11.30pm GMT
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	no, synching stopped after 48 of 118 contacts (error was: data transfer not possible)
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	I see 48 new contacts
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Other observations	Synchronization with memotoo (also uses syncml) worked fine.

Nickname:	animaster
Phone:	Apple iPhone 3GS
Username:	28701936
Date/time synced:	04:20am GMT
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	e-mail addresses from phone contacts did not get sync'ed to Ubuntu One
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Other observations	I have been using Google Sync (MS Exchange) and it works well for a free service

Nickname:	sergek
Phone:	Motorola L9
Username:	08745169
Date/time synced:	10:30am GMT
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	Yes, in general. All contacts (the are in russian) in web UI are in one last category. Not divided by letters as contacts that are in english.
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Other observations	Great service, but I doubt I will use it if it will be paid. But depends on price.

Nickname:	mattgriffin
Phone:	iPhone 3G
Username:	89127405
Date/time synced:	Apr 15 14:13
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	I added a contact with an international phone number to Evolution. The contact synced file to the webui but the contact did not have the phone number when I synced my phone.
Other observations	Seems to be some sync strangeness when switching the type of email from 'other' to 'work'. Sometimes the sync causes it to switch back to 'other' even though I've changed it to 'work' in Evolution. The iPhone has a phone type of "iPhone". Assigned phone numbers to this type are not displayed in the webui. Editing a contact in the webui adds values (blank) to empty address fields. Recreate by adding a new contact on your phone (just phone # and no addresses). Sync. Edit the phone # in the webui. Save. Sync. Contact on phone now has blank address values.

Nickname:	VladNistor
Phone:	Nokia N900
Username:	38204957
Date/time synced:	22:00
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	no
Did your phone sync without errors?	NO, 401
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	N/A
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	N/A
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	N/A
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	N/A
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	N/A
Other observations	Since N900 was not available on the list I chose N97 to get user/password. I used SyncEvolution app on the phone. I also chose to only send contacts as an option and not receive in case this did not work properly.

Nickname:	errno
Phone:	Nokia E61i
Username:	62875913
Date/time synced:	08 Apr 2010 23:03 (UTC)
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	no
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	no
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	no, it's empty
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes, but all Ukrainian names are in group "0" (zero)
Other observations	"System error!"

Nickname:	ben-8409
Phone:	Nokia 6300i
Username:	20781643
Date/time synced:	15:45 (DST)
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	no
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	It only synced parts of my contacts
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	no
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?
Do they seem to have all the correct data?
Other observations	Error Message: Data transfer not possible occurs after about 30%

Nickname:	N/A - Not on IRC
Phone:	IPhone 3G
Username:	07524683
Date/time synced:	April 9 2010 14:30
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes on previous run, cancelled on this run
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	Started with all contacts in Web UI (loaded via evolution) & empty phone contact list, loaded into ubuntu one from evolution
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	Web UI almost. The Sync from evolution to ubuntu one contacts has put the Job Title field from the Evolution Contact into the contact Name Title field, giving contacts with job titles the wrong name. Phone contacts are incorrect. Addresses are being created that aren't in the Web UI (SyncML record contains them even though they don't exist on the contact & ubuntu one iphone app creates them in the phone contact). Phone numbers are not being created in most cases, although it looks like if a contact record has multiple phone numbers, the second one does get created.
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	N/A - Didn't merge contacts
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	N/A - Didn't merge contacts
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	N/A - Didn't merge contacts
Other observations	Covered above

Nickname:	N/A
Phone:	iPhone 3Gs
Username:	96712085
Date/time synced:	09/04/2010 22:00 UTC
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	no... data is not appearing in the correct fields. Most significantly, Home Phone is appearing as Mobile on the iPhone and Mobile Phone isn't appearing at all. Home email address is appearing as Other email. Work Phone isn't appearing at all either. On the whole, these issues make the app unusable in the current form, the Mobile # not appearing being the most significant issue.
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	yes
Other observations	phone -> ubuntu syncing seems to be working. In the small tests I've done, changing contact info on the iPhone gets correctly propagated back to Evolution

Nickname:	stub
Phone:	Motorola V360
Username:
Date/time synced:	2010-04-16 11:25 UTC
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	no
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	n/a
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	n/a
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	n/a
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	n/a
Other observations	Contacts not uploaded. Doesn't appear to support contacts stored on SIM card.

Nickname:	skutter
Phone:	iPhone 3gs
Username:
Date/time synced:	21:30
Test results - basic phone sync
Is your phone supported?	Yes
Did your phone sync without errors?	Yes
Can you see all your contacts on the web ui?	Yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?	Contacts missing all email addresses
Test results - merging with email contacts
Did your email client sync without errors?	Yes
Can you see all contacts merged with the phones' on the web ui?	Yes
Do they seem to have all the correct data?
Other observations	Worth noting that my contact list is synced from Exchange also and used the Ubuntu One App.

UbuntuOne/PhoneSync (last edited 2011-10-17 21:02:35 by duanedesign)

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