Address book phone numbers don't sync with palm

[DWHagar]

Binary package hint: evolution

When syncing a Tungsten E with Evolution via gpilot the system does not properly sync phone numbers. Some numbers are copied to the "Other" number field on the Palm, sometimes it is removed from "Home" or "Business", other times it is just copied. I'm not sure WHY this happens at all. I had similar problems with a Tungsten T3 as well.

To reproduce, sync a contact with simply a name and a work number on the palm. Sync with Evolution, in Evolution the number won't appear. So, makes sense, put it in as "Business Number" in Evolution. Sync again, then look on the Palm.

Very likely you'll see "Other" and "Work" with both the phone number in there. Now, more oddness.

Remove "Work" (assuming it doesn't sync properly) from the Palm, so now you just have a number in "Other" on the Palm. Sync again, Evolution moves the number to "Other" now, and its gone from the Palm entirely!

No freakin' idea what causes this, as it doesn't happen with entries that have Mobile, that files properly. Additionally, when having Mobile, Work, and Home, it tends to sort all that properly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 31 01:31:19 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: evolution 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, may you forward this upstream since you're facing the issue and have the device to test with? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Nobody sent the request upstream, closing the bug for now, feel free to reopen if you still have some interest in the change and wants to open the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org too

[ClaudioRJ (cmirandarj)]

I have this problem with my Palm Tungsten T5.

And it's not only with the phone numbers, bat also with the birthday date. Once I synced from Palm to Evolution, and when I synced back I've lost all may birthday dates of the contacts.

Ubuntu 8.10
Evolution 2.24.2

Can this bug be re-open?

Thanks!

[DWHagar (david-hagar)]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 4:58 AM, ClaudioRJ wrote:

> I have this problem with my Palm Tungsten T5.
>
> And it's not only with the phone numbers, bat also with the birthday
> date. Once I synced from Palm to Evolution, and when I synced back
> I've
> lost all may birthday dates of the contacts.
>
> Ubuntu 8.10
> Evolution 2.24.2
>
> Can this bug be re-open?

They need more info and the problem was so annoying I moved to Mac.
I'm tired of having to tinker for 10 hours to get my computer to work,
its better than crashing every 5 minutes but on my Mac I spent $30 and
have perfect syncing with Missing Sync.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream says that the bug should be fixed in the intrepid and jaunty version so closing

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

if you have similar issues on jaunty better to open a new bug with a clear description