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Sort Out My Conact List

I am after a program that will let me easily sort out my contacts list. I am wanting to easily put in addresses and different numbers to each contact. Is there such a thing?
Thanks in advance

Microsoft Outlook with ActiveSync ?

on8a said:
Microsoft Outlook with ActiveSync ?
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But then it will have the whole of my address book which I don't want. I just want to sort out the contacts I already have on my phone now...

Contacts and Birthdays

Hello all,
It seems that TD2 does not insert birthdays from contacts in the agenda. The solutions would be that you manually add them to the agenda (of course not a real option) or sync contacts with Outlook, which will put them into agenda as well. I personally would prefer not to use Outlook for my contacts.
Is there a fix that birthdays are automatically put in agenda as well?
Thanks!

Am I really the only one who is waiting for an answer?

The TD2 does not, as you say, add birthdays into the Calendar, but Outlook does, and these birthday calendar entries then get synchronized back to the TD2.
The only way I can see a "fix" coming is by programming an app for the TD2 which scans contacts and inserts the birthdays into the calendar, checking of course that they're not already there - I guess this would need to be run manually every time you add a new birthday into a contact, or at least periodically (maybe it could run in background once per day), but as far as I know no such app exists yet.
To my mind, synching with Outlook is the best way, because not only does it solve the problem very well, it also means you have a backup of all your contacts and calendar entries. To me it's a no-brainer.

I've just had a quick check on my calendar and all my contacts birthdays are in there. Even anniversarys are showing

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I've just had a quick check on my calendar and all my contacts birthdays are in there. Even anniversarys are showing
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Yep - you synch with Outlook, correct?

I am syncing with outlook, I have been for some devices now. So the birthday reminders are showing up as allday appointments in my calendar. The reminder time for all those birthdays is 2 days in advance, the calendar shows all that correctly. However, I never get one of those reminders!! All other appointment reminders work fine and so do the task reminders, so there's nothing wrong with my notification queue. But the birtday reminders aren't popping up. On my old cruise I got a reminder two days in advance AND on the birthday itself. Now I get none of them.
What's causing this? Can anyone confirm that you have or don't have birthday reminders? I'd appreciate any reactions.

I've found this information in the blackstone forum. I can see that D2 is adding "calendar.exe /allday" notifications to the queue too. I guess memmaid, which I'm using, deletes those notifications.

It was indeed Memmaid that caused the problem, deleting the /allday notifications. I e-mailed their support, hoping they'll fix it. In the mean time, I excluded all notification queue maintenance from the cleaning schedule and recreated the notifications for all my birthdays via ActiveSync.

Gsfg46 said:
Hello all,
It seems that TD2 does not insert birthdays from contacts in the agenda. The solutions would be that you manually add them to the agenda (of course not a real option) or sync contacts with Outlook, which will put them into agenda as well. I personally would prefer not to use Outlook for my contacts.
Is there a fix that birthdays are automatically put in agenda as well?
Thanks!
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I'm really annoyed with this problem too. The bigger problem is I'm using an Apple macbook to sync, so using Outlook is out of the question. Looks like I'll have to add all the reminder myself

Having a look around the forum, there appears not to be a quick and easy solution to this.
It's not ideal to have birthdays in your contacts and then separately add them in your calendar as appointments (like others, I think it defeats the objective).
There is a software, not yet tried it: http://www.xoddy.com/products/
but it says its only for WM5, not sure if WM6 will support.
Looking forward to an answer or someone to develop a simple software that will resolve the issue - apologises I don't have the knowledge to do this.

Tidaku said:
I'm really annoyed with this problem too. The bigger problem is I'm using an Apple macbook to sync, so using Outlook is out of the question. Looks like I'll have to add all the reminder myself
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That's one of the penalties of not using a single-vendor solution. If you used Microsoft Outlook with your Microsoft WM phone, you'd be fine. Using an Apple computer with a Microsoft phone OS, you're bound to hit some snags.
I'm sure it's the same for people using iPhones with Windows PCs. Manufacturers tend to make their own products work better together than they do with the competition's products, which makes sense!

Tidaku said:
I'm really annoyed with this problem too. The bigger problem is I'm using an Apple macbook to sync, so using Outlook is out of the question. Looks like I'll have to add all the reminder myself
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I use syncmate to sync ical and address book, within ical prefs, you can show birthdays, these will then sync onto phone
I used to sync with outlook, but it had a habit of changing appointment/birthday dates, usually makes them a day earlier, but only for some, have had no probs with syncmate

Hi
I'm working on a program which will provide various notification related functions not normally included on Windows Mobile.
1) Will add contact's birthdays and anniversaries into the calendar.
2) Will give audible alerts at regular intervals like most mobile phones for text messages/missed calls/emails to get your attention.
3) Option to silence the alerts during the night at a schedule you can select, plus also turn the phone off over night and turn on the next day, good for battery life.
I'll post when it is finished.
Regards
Phil

sounds great!!!
sounds great ... Have you just begun or are you about to finish?

Hi
It is almost finished, I'm just testing it at the moment. It's based an application I did for the Kaiser.
Regards
Phil

Sounds good PhilipL!

I already programmed a solution for this, which will add all birthday reminders to your calendar (without the need for outlook) but it's in german. I'll translate and upload it shortly.

Here it is BirthdaysToCalendar, derived from a sample application included in MS Visual Studio 2008. It will add all or selected birthdays to your calendar.
The program offers a few choices, either add all birthdays to the calendar in one go or let it ask in single steps for each contact's birthday to be added or not. Set the reminder time (time you will be informed prior to the birthday) in minutes. 1 day would be 1440min. , 2 days 2880 min. and so forth. On top you can have the birth year added to the subject, so you will know how old they'll be.
No duplicates will be generated if the program is run again. However, if you have a birthday alert set up manually yourself, but they are not in the the same form (John Doe's Birthday or Birthday John Doe) they will be duplicated.
Get it here:
http://mytd2.blogspot.com/2009/08/birthdaystocalendar-in-english.html
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is this PhilipL's app?

georgeono said:
is this PhilipL's app?
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No, this is my app -

strange sync problem - any ideas?

hey mates,
the outlook calendar syncs just from the pc to the device not the other way around....
what can i do? i need the dates from the phone on the pc....

I figured this out today
When you make a new appointment you'll notice tthere's a calendar selection at the top. Select Outlook and make an appointment.
After this it remembers as the default, and Outlook will receive the phone's calendar items

yes man youre right... i found this out today , too .. thx

This worked like a charm! Thanks a lot!

Change Calendar Category so can fully use Multiple Google Calendars

Hi all,
I've managed to get my Google Calendars syncing with my phone now both ways, so I can view 5 calendars on my phone. They sync 2 way and do it very well!
The only thing I'm wanting to do is when creating a new Calendar appointment in HTC Sense, it has default categories of "None", "Business", "Holiday", "Personal" and "Seasonal".
I need to be able to change these so I can put the actual Calendar name in and create new appointments on my phone that will Sync to google.
Anyone got any idea's how I can change these? Haven't been able to find anything so far

Try to use the outook mobile calendar ... There you can introduce new categories but they are not used by the HTC agenda. Maybe are read by Google Sync ?

MuadDib59 said:
Try to use the outook mobile calendar ... There you can introduce new categories but they are not used by the HTC agenda. Maybe are read by Google Sync ?
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Cheers for that. The Categories are in the Pocket Outlook Calendar and if I use those, it syncs correctly. The only problem is the HTC Calendar version, it has the default categories only.
Shame

I agree with you. I posted yesterday evening a question to HTC support to known if we can change the proposed categories into Sense because it's a Sense limitation (same problem with groups into the contacts).
I will keep you informed.

Hi. How did you manage to sync multiple calendars by categories with google cal?
Please explain.

Id love to know the same as jexxer as well. I have only managed to sync 1 google calendar at a time as well.

jexxer said:
Hi. How did you manage to sync multiple calendars by categories with google cal?
Please explain.
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I would appreciate an answer to this question as well. Cheers,
g

GregorVucajnk said:
I would appreciate an answer to this question as well. Cheers,
g
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I use www.nuevasync.com Push email, syncs tasks with Toodledo as well as multiple Google calendars, not free though.

MuadDib59 said:
I agree with you. I posted yesterday evening a question to HTC support to known if we can change the proposed categories into Sense because it's a Sense limitation (same problem with groups into the contacts).
I will keep you informed.
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I'd like to see a workaround for this too, I use David Allen's GTD methodology and I'd like to change the default categories so that match the ones I use on my Outlook calendar. As it is the default categories sync OK with Outlook, but I don't understand why HTC hard-coded them so they can't be changed.
Otherwise the calendar app is pretty good. There aren't any really good, 3rd party, finger-friendly calendars available at the moment.

nicelad_uk said:
Hi all,
I've managed to get my Google Calendars syncing with my phone now both ways, so I can view 5 calendars on my phone. They sync 2 way and do it very well!
The only thing I'm wanting to do is when creating a new Calendar appointment in HTC Sense, it has default categories of "None", "Business", "Holiday", "Personal" and "Seasonal".
I need to be able to change these so I can put the actual Calendar name in and create new appointments on my phone that will Sync to google.
Anyone got any idea's how I can change these? Haven't been able to find anything so far
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Hi,
No answer to your problem but a question ... How did you manage to sync your google calendars ? For the time being, there is just one (the default one attahced to my google gmail account) which can be synced, the others won't show up in pocket informant ... Your input is more than welcome. Thx in advance !

chris5304 said:
I use www.nuevasync.com Push email, syncs tasks with Toodledo as well as multiple Google calendars, not free though.
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How do you sync up nuevasync to sync multiple google calendars
and does it stii keep them separate after syncing.

Change Calendar Category
Not a real solution, but the best (only) solution I found so far:
change manila calendar categories

[Q] [WP7] [How do you make WP7 sync contacts from gmail? [SOLVED]

Posted this here as the new HD2 WP7 section hasn't been added yet.
Does anybody know how to make WP7 sync contacts from gmail? Its give me the option and ive ticked it, its seems to have synced calender and mail, just not contacts?
Anybody know how to make it start sync of contacts then?
[EDIT] Seems to have finally kicked in and synced them all

where to download wp7 hd2 o.o

whoknow88 said:
where to download wp7 hd2 o.o
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=911694

wrong post !!! Sorry !!!

TheATHEiST said:
Posted this here as the new HD2 WP7 section hasn't been added yet.
Does anybody know how to make WP7 sync contacts from gmail? Its give me the option and ive ticked it, its seems to have synced calender and mail, just not contacts?
Anybody know how to make it start sync of contacts then?
[EDIT] Seems to have finally kicked in and synced them all
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How do you make that possible? I still can't sync the contacts correctly. Any methods? Thanks!

henry.yeh0309 said:
How do you make that possible? I still can't sync the contacts correctly. Any methods? Thanks!
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Just add google mail account and wait, it will kick in on its own.

It can take a while for google contacts to sync. When I had WP7 on my phone it synched with facebook immediately but my contacts on google didnt update for a few hours.
I guess patience is the best solution Wait and it will come... eventually
Mark.

Go into Google Mail you've setup earlier, there's a menu for sync. Click and it'll start to sync all the contacts. U'll see them at the top.

mskip said:
It can take a while for google contacts to sync. When I had WP7 on my phone it synched with facebook immediately but my contacts on google didnt update for a few hours.
I guess patience is the best solution Wait and it will come... eventually
Mark.
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Yes I can confirm that, we have to wait a while