If you’re using the Mozilla Thunderbird extension Lightning for your calendar, here’s a quick howto on making it synchronize with your Sony Ericsson phone. It worked great on my W910!
- Install the excellent freeware program MyPhoneExplorer.
- Enter the Options (F2), choose Sync and then choose Thunderbird Lightning in the “Calendar” field.
- MyPhoneExplorer will automatically install the required Thunderbird plugin.
- Click on “Advanced” to choose which calendar to sync and what mode (merge calendars or let phone override Lightning or vice versa)
- Hit Ok, enter the Calendar and hit sync – done!
If you want to create a desktop shortcut to automatically start the sync – duplicate the shortcut to MyPhoneExplorer, enter the icon properties and add “action=sync syncitem=organizer” to the destination (after myphoneexplorer.exe). There are more command line options available in the English FAQ.
Hope this howto helps someone, it sure made my life a lot easier! Before I discovered this method, I was auto-exporting the calendar as an ICS file (through a dedicated Thunderbird extension) and then importing in manually into MyPhoneExplorer on a regular basis. Now I only need to connect the USB cable and click the dedicated shortcut – quite an improvement!
Tags: lightning, sony ericsson, thunderbird
In my case it doesn’t work!
I can sync the contacts with my address book of Thunderbird, but can’t sync the calendar! In the sync options “Thunderbird Lightning” just doesn’t exist! MyPhoneExplorer behaves as though I had no Lightning installed. Any ideas what the reason is and how to deal with it?
Piotr, is the MyPhoneexplorer plugin/addon correctly installed in Thunderbird?
MyPhoneExplrorer 0.14 sync-addin. It was automatically installed when I installed the MPE. I have it in the list of add-ins, but neither “Options” nor “Uninstall” buttons are available. Only “turn off” button is not faded and works. Is that normal?
BTW, thanks for such immediate reply. I didn’t expect that, really, I appreciate it.