In the meantime, I have 2 repairs with my Nokia 3230 behind me. Last time, Kam completely reset back, so, naturally, any contacts / addresses or more appointments available. As I have often of SyncML had heard and knew that newer phones this standard to support all I wanted to know whether it is possible that a "backup" to make the address information and in case of damage without lengthy research data again to get his. As it turned out is that if you follow a few little things, quite easily.
First I wanted to synchronize the phone with my computer, eg via Bluetooth or data cable, but no result came because there was not Bluetooth. In addition, it has been shown that a solution by web fundamentally more flexible, since you can access any time, including the go.
The scientists will use eGroupWare , which is available free of charge and is a groupware solution, ie, a contact-data collection, calendar, task division and a kind of project management provides Sun It is based on PHP and has a SyncML interface.
At first I wanted a simple "apt-get" on my Ubuntu server, the associated install package by, but as it turned out, SyncML only works on 1.3 Beta 3 and PHP5 (the error what you get when you can use PHP4 is here read, even had the first) as well here is:

Apache web server (tested with Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0)
PHP5 (PHP4 does not work, but they can run php5 as a cgi and php4 can be as an Apache module, see below)
Pear to be installed
egw-pear must be installed
eGroupWare 1.3 Beta 3 or later

• 1. So just the current version on the download page get (even fas egw-pear package) and the Doc-root of the web server unpack.
• 2. The appropriate domain appended with "/ setup" menu.
• 3. Adjustments. The crucial point is the report on "mbstring.func_overload". According to this installation should be set to 7 in order to have UTF-8 support. If you do this you get told later that the setting does not work with the SyncML or xmlrpc interface. So give to UTF-8 and left at 0, is rejected by house.
• 4. After testing the settings and create a user should be able to log into eGroupWare.
• 5. Now you can do the mobile phone according to the instruction set. For this purpose, we use the access data from point 4 In my Nokia 3230, the program is called appropriately enough "synchronization" and you can just copy the default account, change the name (also called medium) the medium change on the web, access point, select the server address on http://domain.de/ egroupware / rpc.php set, set the username and password. Then select the next tab or synchronize what you want and enter them as "remote database" eg ". / contacts", as described in the above instructions already.
• 6. Now even the main menu and select Synchronize after connecting via GPRS or WLAN phone should transfer his contacts on the server.

Tip recommend as I can still hide in the settings of eGroupware displayed in the overview. Otherwise one has that is his own contacts on the phone. I personally found a bit silly.

As additional you can then the Thunderbird with the extension TSYNC sychnronisieren via SyncML. One should be aware though, that by very many empty contacts in the phone has only one e-mail address.

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UPDATE 14.06. 10:32:
How do I determine is a small problem had when editing the address data with Opera (including the most topical 9.2. If you click in the Name field of a contact, should a field be displayed in which you then prefix, first name, middle name, last name, add suffix can. This appears in the Opera is not. The same applies to the "More" button below the phone numbers.
This can also create a new contact, as this also requires the name field. Confirmation on this is also in the Forum