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I just wanted to let folks know that this forum has helped me tremendously. In return - I have 2 tips. I switched from pulling my email from t-mobile to push email. I have never been happier. I started with mail2web but cancelled them when I learned you could not alter your "from" address. I guess you get waht you pay for. I have since gone with www.4smartphone.com and have never been happier. My own "from" address and I get mail within 20 seconds (worst case). Sure - $6 a month but so what - i have OTA contacts, calendard, tasks and sync with 2 desktops as well.
My second tip is the problem of dropped calls after 4 minutes using the later carrier roms and applications that update on a periodic basis. Please see this link http://www.netmotionwireless.com/support/technotes/2208.asp
I have not dropped a call since making the reg change. And I do use (and love) pocket weather, etc.
No promises for all - but all worked for me.
The beauty of these devices is the flexibility that of course makes forums like this necessary....
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Followed the wiki instructions, but despite being sourced from Vodafone (Germany) for the VPA III, the software refuses to install on my V1605. The error message (translated from German) states System Software Found, the installation is not authorised.
Has anyone with a V1605 succeeded in installing BB Connect? Is this a possible clash with the Vodafone customisations or is it more likely a WM5 issue? Any suggestions gratefully received.
many thanks!
Jonathan
There is another BlackBerry connect client on the FTP, uploaded by Ice Blade and some discussion around it here.
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Hermes/Tools_and_Programs/BlackBerry_Connect/
I've just updated the wiki with this info, but I haven't tried it and Ice Blade didn't reply to my question. If you try it and know the diference between the two BBConnect clients available, please update de wiki and point it out. Thanks.
Thanks! This works a treat. I will take a look at the wiki and see if there is anything substantive I can add.
Jonathan
wiki has been updated. Works well. I am not watching this thread so if anyone would like assistance please PM me.
blackberry connect and Lotus Notes
Hi JBN - do you know if this works with Lotus Notes and handles calender and tasks along with mail - I'd love to finally junk the blackberry and just have Hermes
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I'm afraid that I have no experience with Lotus Notes at this level. I would note however that the BlackBerry Enterprise can indeed work with Lotus Notes.
For what it's worth, my BES Administrator tells me that the same level of security functionality exists for BlackBerry Connect as for a regular BB. This makes it an interesting proposition although more difficult to support in terms of the platform compared with BlackBerry. We are slowly looking at Microsoft Push E-mail instead.
Despite the BB-like experience, including the scroll wheel, after a couple of days I have gone back to my old BB. The reason being that I am unsure about battery life and platform stability. It is OK for me as an IT professional but not something that I feel comfortable deploying to our users yet. However, I am childishly excited at having a means to get BB service in Japan!
Blackberry Connect and Calendar
coe62 said:
Hi JBN - do you know if this works with Lotus Notes and handles calender and tasks along with mail - I'd love to finally junk the blackberry and just have Hermes
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I have been running Blackberry Connect for a while now on both my HTC Universal and on a TyTn (not at the same time). Whilst email works really well (using the vodafone Germany client), calendar is a different story.
Our Blackberry environment is Lotus Dominos (BES 4.0) and Calendar wireless sync has been a disaster.
Initially, the bulk calendar upload seems to have real trouble with "All Day Events" and canot represent them properly. However, once installed, everything seems to run really well. Two way sync back to teh Lotus Notes Calendar works, meetings invites in email can now be "accepted" or "declined". So far, so good....
However, when you reset the device, the whole device locks up and needs teh SIM taking out, BB Connect removing and start again!! Also, when you do this, random calendr events dissapear from your Notes calendar and meeting "declines" are often sent to the chair of the meeting!
Not good.
Hopefully BB Connect V4 will solve some of this....
I've been trying for months to reliably sync my Wizard to Google's Calendar, and I must have tried every app out there for the purpose. Today I stumbled on SyncMyCal, and I think I've found a winner.
I did have trouble with an annually recurring event, but this seems to be an issue with how Outlook formats things. At least SyncMyCal gave a useful error message, and I was able to also resolve the problem. This issue may have also been the cause of some problems I had with other applications, but none of them gave enough info to find the root cause.
The free version is limited to only three days forward and back, and doesn't autosync, but that's fair. If you want more, there is a paid version.
I don't have any connection with these guys, I just posted this to save others some of the wasted time I invested looking for a solution.
***** UPDATE: Having used this program for six weeks, I'm withdrawing my endorsement, and have deleted it from my Wizard. Although it is somewhat better than others, it is still to flaky to be reliable, deleting some events, duplicating others, and changing the times on still others.
Back to searching
I've been using GooSync for a couple of months. I don't update my events on Google--just on the PPC then sync. It was spotty with recurring events, but has gotten better lately. I also use the contacts sync one way as well. Either I or Goosync has duplicated all the entries once. There was also one time where ALL the contacts and calendar entries were wiped out! I never figured out who was at fault then. I've been using various sync software for a decade and there never seems to be a solution that works right and then keeps on working right.
I think I paid around 20 bucks for a years service. I have to say, they are getting better rapidly. I would try SyncMyCal, but the contacts sync is REALLY what I want....
What is killing my Wing is the size of the pim.vol file, 4.72 mb's and growing. I have deleted all the voice tags and only have ~10 contact photos (resized for the web with CS3, ~7-11kb each.) I pisses me off that I can't move that file to a storage card. What the hell is the use a PPC that limits how many peeps you know or do business with. That makes voice commands and photo contacts useless! I know, I know-- I should get a Tilt-- but that's just a temporary solution. Anyone know of a contacts program that stores it's data on a card?
Google Calendar Sync
5 March 2008 Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955&
You can now access your Google Calendar account from your mobile phone! Just visit mobile.google.com/calendar/ with your phone's web browser and once you're logged in, you'll see your list of upcoming events with date and time information in an easy-to-browse format.
Cheers
Tom
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Several major problems with the last post. First, the URL listed for sync info is garbled.
Second, it only works if you have a Widoze desktop. I'm running Linux.
Finally, using the mobile web interface doesn't allow you to edit or delete events, so it's of very limited use.
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First, the URL listed for sync info is garbled.
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URL link fixed - thanks for pointing this out. Note the Bboard truncates the display but now the link works. If not, try a search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Google+Calendar+Sync
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Second, it only works if you have a Widoze desktop. I'm running Linux.
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Agree but none of the posts mention Linux. In fact the first post mentions "issue with how Outlook formats things"
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Finally, using the mobile web interface doesn't allow you to edit or delete events, so it's of very limited use.
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The mobile web interface does allow you to ADD events and has a bandwith friendly view of the next few appointments. Nobody in xda-developers forum had mentioned either mobile.google.com/calendar or indeed the new Google Calendar Sync before me.
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Several major problems with the last post.
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I don't think these are "major" problems or warrant a rating of "Not Helpful". I shared the pain of the first two posters who "must have tried every app out there" that "duplicated" or "wiped out!" all the entries . Like them, I "just posted this to save others some of the wasted time I invested looking for a solution."
Cheers
Tom
My first post, so firstly hi to everybody who reads this and as often is the case Plz Help, Hope it's right to start a thread on this as I have little experince with this sort of device, at present I have not suceeded in doing a complete first sync
My wife got an HD2 from O2 and it's causing me to loose my marbles.
Background is
No G3 internet but is connected to the web by Wi-Fi at home.
No emails but use Outlook for contacts, calender, tasks and notes. We also expected it to be able to sync Word Docs but apparently it doesn't, though we have not had an opportunity to get that far yet.
Laptop uses XP pro SP3, Outlook 2007 (Office 2007 Pro) and Active Sync 4.5. using USB cable.
The HD2 has.
Os version 5.2.21864, Rom version 1.43.206.4, Rom date 11/06/09
Over the past few weeks I have managed to migrate every thing from Palm Desktop to Outlook, the biggest problem was the calendar database which given the length of time we have had Palms has grown to 15000 items, eventually had to use pocket copy which worked straight away.
Checked Outlook pst with ScanPST and resolved 4 problems and was confident that would be an end to the problems, then told my wife to get an HD2 as even though it was overfeatured for our business use, it should do what we wanted.
So it was up to me to set it up and this was where the Problems started.
Set up WiFi fine, then tried to go to sync screen through Htc software and kept being asked for an email address, not a good start.
Went to windows 6.5 and opened active sync which did say it needed a connection, so installed Active Sync 4.5 on PC.
Surprised to find a lack of options in options of Active Sync as our caledar goes back to 1995 so the options of 2 weeks, 1,3,6 months or all, really does leave a big gap. what were you doing today last year or two years ago ?
I was always going to sync the calendar first but did not expect it to default to 2 weeks back on first sync, it did work and I could now get in to active sync and set options on device so set calendar to all and did a sync. It got to 2005 (about 11000 enteries) and then Active sync put up error
-- device run out of memory Turn off and close applications error 8007000e --.
Since then I have
1. Hard Reset more times than I care to mention
2. Used system Restore.
3. Reinstalled Active sync, and removed all signs in registry at each removal.
The furthest I got was by syncing last 2 weeks and future appointments after syncing up to Nov 2007 but then I tried to last 6 months and it deleted the 12000 enteries on device and ran out of memory.
I do not belive I have run out of memory as having got Calendar synced as far as possible I can then put ticks in Contacts, Notes and Tasks and they then sync without problem.
It does not appear to be corrupt enteries as it does not stop at the same place after resetting up.
If it is running out of memory why would it show 87mb free and this database is going to have to carry on growing and if I have to do a hard reset I will have to go though this again.
I thought I would try to get some help here before returning the device. sometimes if I remove a tick from say contacts it deletes them from device and sometimes not.
As a business device my wife relies on it and at present it really not living upto the hype, We need reliabilty and my confidence is a little shaken, is it possible that the phone is faulty ? Is a database that I can load on a Palm Tungsten really too large for the HD2,
I have searched for updates that might resolve this and notice that others have had similar problems with contacts but no sign of a clear cut fix, nothing mentioned in update info seems to relate to this problem.
I hope I missed something as overall I like the HD2, I would flash the latest Rom but being O2 I imagine I would have problems returning it if it did not fix problem and I am at a loss as to what to do next so advice and help would be really appreciated.
You just don't sync past events more than 2 weeks. The pocket calendar is not meant for an archive. To view old appointments, you need to go back to outlook, exchange or gmail.
Even on palm, you should archive/purge your pim data regularly to avoid it growing indefinitely. On WM, the practise is forced upon you. Only the recent entries appear on WM, and the full set stays on host.
Thanks for the reply Alex, that is not good news, if it went to two years that would have been enough, but 6 months is not enough let alone only 2 weeks.
If I could I would back up outlook.pst and then delete all appointments before say 2008, then Active sync with setting "all", this been the initial sync. I would then set it to last month (in Active sync options/calender/settings) for all future syncs. Then return backed up pst to outlook and go from there.
But when I change from all to 6 months it deletes all but the last six months I have never used Outlook, being used to Palmdesktop so it is a steep learning curve, we have just found duplicate contacts from the sim card in Outlook. So more sorting out.
Is there a more customisable syncing software available, active sync seems so basic it 's making me miss Palm Hotsync though that had issues as well.
I've set recurring calendar entries (Birthdays, etc) in my Calendar. Now with the new year, they are not showing up in this years calendar.... but if I go back to the original date and edit the entry, it definitely shows as a recurring event.
Consequently, I'm missing out on notifications of upcoming events, as they have not recurred over to the new year correctly.
How can I force the calendar entries to re-appear correctly, without having to manually re-enter all the entries again (which defeats the purpose of having a "recurring" setting)
I'm using the Stock 1.44 WWE ROM with Cookies v1 Home Tab to show multiple calendar entries on the homescreen. No other tweaks or registry changes have been made.
Just for future reference, You have no need to tag your topics with date/year, That is for posting ROM/Build releases not general questions/discussion.
Do you get same issue on different roms or just this one?
Thanx Atheist.... I thought was doing the right thing after reading the "Mandatory" thread !!!
Only ever used the official Roms so far... not sure I'm ready to take the step into cooked Roms, until at least the original 12mth warranty is up.
I've found the thread here regarding setting up Google synch, which i've just done. Seems to have solved all the issues I was having
Would be cool though, if you could multi-select appointments (like birthdays, for example) and change settings on them as a global thing (eg, if I want to set up a generic SMS reminder 1 Day and 1 Week prior to the event... it's TEDIOUS to open up every birthday entry to set them)
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Thanx Atheist.... I thought was doing the right thing after reading the "Mandatory" thread !!!
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Ahh yes you are correct, my bad. tbh its a silly thing to ask espesially since newbies/n00bs have trouble posting in correct section or reading stickies etc. (btw, not calling you a n00b, just speaking in general).
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Only ever used the official Roms so far... not sure I'm ready to take the step into cooked Roms, until at least the original 12mth warranty is up.
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Installing cooked roms (espesially wm) is very easy and you can also revert back to stock rom/spl etc and your warrenty is intact.
Only thing you need to worry about is flashing incorrect radio as that can brick your device, plenty of info and guides to read though, you should definatley have a good read, you can really bring your phone to life with cooked roms.
spinifex74 said:
I've found the thread here regarding setting up Google synch, which i've just done. Seems to have solved all the issues I was having
Would be cool though, if you could multi-select appointments (like birthdays, for example) and change settings on them as a global thing (eg, if I want to set up a generic SMS reminder 1 Day and 1 Week prior to the event... it's TEDIOUS to open up every birthday entry to set them)
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Well I havent used WM6.5 regulary for nearly a year now so cant really help on this.
Have a really good read though and try some roms, its really easy.
And once you are confident you should 100% get Android on there
Cheers Mate,
Took the plunge last nite and installed my first cooked Rom... Energy/NRG. F**k me it's pretty !!!!!
Still going thru learning how it all works and setting it all up to my specs. Having a few little issues with Active Synch for the calendar with the google/Gmail calendar I set up yesterday.
As described above, I managed to get the calendar synched up yesterday, with the stock Rom... but I am getting an "Invalid Security Certificate on Server" error on the NRG Rom, after following the same process of setting up the synch to google/gmail.
I know this isn't the right place probably to ask for help on THAT particular issue... but since it relates to my original question here, can anyone help on this please?
Error code is 0x80072F06
I've (FINALLY - TOOK FOREVER) managed to synch everything else with MS MyPhone... just need to synch the calendar with my google/gmail calendar.... but Active Synch (when phone is NOT connected physically by USB)... I can press the "Synch" button and A/S attempts to synch, then returns the above error.
If the phone is docked by USB and I attempt to synch, A/S just sits there and does nothing.
Pressing the "Menu" button reveals ONLY the "Status" option available to select.... all of the other options are greyed out and un-selectable.
I've just worked out what I did wrong..... instead of putting the Server as m.google.com, i accidentally put it as m.gmail.com ....... resulting in the certificate error message
OOPS !!!
Recurring Dates
Check HTC Support Downloads, you will see an update that fixes this very issue.
You will also see a 3.14 ROM, Oct2010 I think, that includes the update and some others in it.