Nokia E62 on Oracle Calendar via syncML
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on January 26, 2007 at 12:42 AM
As part of the ‘mobile tech project’ I have been using a Nokia E62. It is great but slow so I usually use my own Nokia 6680—it just works and I don’t mind typing SMS on the normal phone keyboard. Now that might change as I have my Oracle calender syncing properly (something I can’t even do with my Mac). I was directed to a post from a Oren Sreebny over at the University of Washington (another UW) where he posts how to fill out the sync profile for Oracle Calender in a E62.
This is great but he reports no luck with SSL and the only access to syncML on our campus set up is via SSL. I made a couple changes and it seems to work fine. The following are the settings I used:
Under a sync profile for a calender I used:
- Include in sync: Yes
- Remote database: ./Calendar/Events
- Synchronization type: Normal
Under Connection Settings:
- Server version: 1.1
- Data bearer: Internet
- Access Point: Always ask
- Host address: https://bookit.uwaterloo.ca/ocas-bin/ocas.fcgi?sub=syncml
- Port: 443
- User name: my Oracle Cal user name
- Password: my Oracle Cal password
- Allow sync requests: Yes
- Accept all sync reqs: Yes
- Network authentic: No
This is essentially the same thing as Oren’s posted settings besides the port number and host address. At a guess this might work on all modern Symbian phones for those that have Oracle Calendar.
Now I can just sync my E62 with iSync and iCal works… how cool is that? My 6680 doesn’t support syncML as far as I can tell :(