Janeks random writings » sony ericsson http://www.hellqvist.com/janek/weblog No, it's not another diary. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to sync a Sony Ericsson phone with the Thunderbird/Lightning calendar http://www.hellqvist.com/janek/weblog/2007/12/12/how-to-sync-a-sony-ericsson-phone-with-the-thunderbirdlightning-calendar/ http://www.hellqvist.com/janek/weblog/2007/12/12/how-to-sync-a-sony-ericsson-phone-with-the-thunderbirdlightning-calendar/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:39:41 +0000 Janek http://www.hellqvist.com/janek/weblog/2007/12/12/how-to-sync-a-sony-ericsson-phone-with-the-thunderbirdlightning-calendar/ 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!

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