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Organising Contacts

Does anyone have an easy way to organise contacts?
I just installed WM6 and added the contacts from my SIM to the phone but it has added them all over the shop- eg. instead of having one contact for "John" with 3 phone numbers in that contact i end up with 3 contacts (one for home number, one for mobile and one for work).
I tried to use a program called Pocket PC Contacts Synchronizer so i could reorganise them on the desktop but i cant figure out how to use it..... bloody thing......
How does everyone else do it?

i think you'll just have to bite the bullet and cut and paste them into 1 phone memory contact. i stopped using sim memory for contacts years ago. if you have them all in your phone/pda memory, they are readily available to be backed up in dozens of programs. right now my phone syncs with outlook, if i get a new phone(i am next week) outlook will just sync all my contacts onto the new phone.
the problem is that sim cards are only able to store one number per name.
i may be wrong, check out ppcwarez they have a section on contacts software - there may be an app that can merge numbers with the same name into one entry on your phone.
good luck

I couldn't live w/o Pocket Mirror - $$$ but if you have Many outlook contacts organized into subfolders, this is great.
http://www.chapura.com/pmp_wm.php

Inesoft Address Book is the best in my opinion. Used a lot of contacts organizers, but this one is very useful and configurable. Easy contact search, nice design, contacts pictures, caller ID and, and, and....check it on http://www.inesoft.com/eng/index.php?in=addressbook.htm.
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Does it sync all that info with Outlook? I'm an Outlook junkie with 700 contacts - much of it is work related.

Yes, without any problems...I'm using it all the time, editing (even the pictures) my contacts in outlook and then, after next sync (auto sync, no no need to reconnect your phone), you've got them in your address book. Nice and easy. Same with sync contacts from phone to outlook.

GMail Inbox not working

Problem status: fixed?
For some reason GMail Inbox doesn't work properly on my HTC Magic (Vodafone)
If I get new mail it shows up on gmail.com but it doesn't arrive in my Magic's Inbox, and doesnt give me any notifications.
The are the only two ways to get the new mail on my phone:
a) Use the "All Messages"-Label - the new messages show up there, but I get no notification whatsoever.
Also I have to get to the "All Messages"-Label every time I start GMail
or
b) Go to "Settings" -> "Labels" -> Set sync from "4 days" to "all" -> Go back and hit refresh (or wait for autosync).
This only works ONCE. If I want to receive mail again I have to repeat the whole procedure (go to settings, labels, etc.. you get the idea)
Phone Details:
HTC Magic (Vodafone, out-of-the-box-Rom)
Apps installed: Battery Widget, Toggle Settings, some Toggle Widgets (Ringer, Brightness, Bluetooth, Wifi), Advanced Task Manager Lite, Estongs File Explorer, StreamFurious, Any Cut, SMS Popup, Shazam, Gmote 2.0, some games
Tried the whole thing on a clean install - didn't work either (took me 1 hour to reinstall and reconfigure everything - yay...)
Possible solution:
Go to application settings and delete the cache for "Speicherplatz bei GMail" ("GMail Storage" in english?). This worked for me the first time.
On another phone I had to disable the automatic gmail sync, wait a day, then delete the cache and re-enable gmail sync.

Ok, it seems I am not the only one having this problem. Using google I found 3 other posts in forums descirbing the same problem with GMail on Android:
- New Mails don't appear in "Inbox" (therefore no notification)
- Mails can be shown when you click "All Mail" / "All Items", they even have the "Inbox"-Label there
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=Android3&thread.id=6564
http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25450
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mail/thread?tid=71581d0778eb5f2d&hl=de (German)
Unfortunatly there was no solution posted to this problem yet anywhere.

Here are some pics so everyone really knows what I'm talking about. Interface is in german, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Some translations:
Posteingang = Inbox
Alle Nachrichten = All Messages
test mofo, WTF = Me being annoyed by the Inbox not working properly
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anyone? .

Ok, I don't really know why but Gmail works now. All I did was switch the settings in Gmail and the Sync settings like a billion times and after a week it just worked.
Here are the settings I ended up with:
Auto Sync On
Sync Gmail Yes
Sync Inbox: All

I've got the very same problem on a Galaxy. I have reset the device several times, deleted the gmail, google apps and other storages. Everything I tried just fixed the issue for exactly one sync. The next message would again go to "Alle Nachrichten".
I think the problem started after I switched the google account on the device. Have you done something like that, too?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Felix

ok, i found a possible solution for this (see first post)

None of my google calendars can be added in the calendar!

Hi,
I'm running Donut Unofficial v1.2.0 + Google Patch (unofficial) on an N21 / DSTL1.
I have a real problem that none of my Google calendars are showing up on the calendar program. When I go to 'my calendars' an click on add, there's nothing in the list for me to add to 'default' which appears to be the non-synced local calendar. I have 4 calendars that I need to sync. I tried making a new one to see if that made any difference - it didn't.
I've tried clearing the calendar data and rebooting as per several forum suggestions. I'm at a blank otherwise - is there some setting in gcal that I'm missing - it's like none of the calendars are being synced with the phone. The sync tick is ticked in the 'data sync' settings screen...
Help!
Thanks in advance
Tom.

Try going to menu-settings-data syncronization-Google and see if it still has your account log in. You may need to fill out the account information again.
Note that you can still be recieving your google e-mail etc and not have it registered to sync for your calander.

Hi,
I don't seem to have an option to re-sign in to the account...
See attached under the data synchronisation settings.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Tom.

How on earth do you have dual sim?
Untick auto sync, manually sync calenders then turn auto sync back on see if that works.

This phone has dual-sims neat huh.
That's what prompted me to move to Android - Sadly, your manual sync idea didn't work - see the pics:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/tjrundy/AndroidPhoneCalendar
Any other thoughts?
Thanks again,
Tom.

Do you have any calendars on the account you are using? Double Check, by going to calendar.google.com.
You have default there which is a sign that your calenders should be/are syncing properly =/.
There is one weird thing though... have a look at my calenders:
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The "Default" Calender is labelled with my googlemail address and it has always been like that, on yours it's simply labelled "default" which seems pretty weird. Maybe someone else can come along and shed some light.
Does everything else sync ok? EG Contacts, Email etc.
Also, mind doing a mini review of your device? where you got it from and how much it was etc? I've always wanted a dual sim device but they all look pretty crappy tbh.

Yeah it's really wierd... everything else syncs and calendars are definitely there...
So you're right, this default calendar is syncing properly. I actually quite liked this device - it's got dual-radios which means that you can take / place calls from two sims - you can also select which sim will provide the internet connection; handy as I live between Germany and the UK, so I hoped to have a decent (cheap) internet connectivity in both places at last.
Sadly this lack of calendar sync is a dealbreaker
I was about to pack this phone back into its box, and flashed WM 6.5 onto the i780 that I'd been using till now, but then I found that the Google sync for windows mobile only syncs one calendar!
There's a review here: http://www.mobileburn.com/youtube_video2.jsp?Id=7753
It's a chinese phone so it's not the world's best quality, but does work (mostly), runs android and does have two phones!

Surely it can't be a problem with the device though.
Like I said, double check and see if you have more than one calendar? Poke around on the settings on the actual google calendar web app ie calender.google.com. You may have just somehow turned all your calenders private or something.

Same problem!
Any good new guys?
I've got the same problem on my dstl1.
All GCalendars aren't public but access from my account is permitted (obviously!). The only difference between my default calendar and others is that non-default's ones are shared with other people.
Thx in advance!
Have a nice WE
Depo

Froyo e-mail apk?

Anybody know whether the Froyo e-mail APK is likely to work on a rooted-but-otherwise-stock 2.1 Vibrant?
The Samsung-provided mail client is pretty unreliable. Heck, it might be worse than the Google mail client. It tells me I have new e-mails when I don't, and it sometimes fails to download mail from one account or another for hours at a time. I was having zero problems with mail hitting the same accounts running Froyo (CM6) on my G1.
Or -- if nobody knows, if somebody can get their hands on that APK I'll install it and try it.

Try downloading the Nexus One CM6 RC, and extract the desired Mail APK. I can't tell you whether or not it will function properly (and you may need to uninstall the Samsung Mail first), but that's where I'd begin.

have you tried k9 email?

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have you tried k9 email?
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k9 mail is great!! http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/
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CappyQ said:
Try downloading the Nexus One CM6 RC, and extract the desired Mail APK. I can't tell you whether or not it will function properly (and you may need to uninstall the Samsung Mail first), but that's where I'd begin.
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Finally sat down and gave this a shot. Dropping the Nexus Email.apk directly into system/app (after saving the stock apk and odex) didn't work. Moving it to the sdcard and running something like appInstaller didn't work ("problem with image").
For those suggesting K9, I tried it quite awhile back on the G1 and didn't like it. And since it's based on the original Android mail app, and I found THAT to be flaky and unreliable, I can't say I have a lot of hope for it's future value to me. But maybe I'll give it another shot though, Samsung's email app is so bad it's actually causing business issues (e.g. costing me money); I think it might be worse than my 1.x mail clients.

CappyQ said:
Try downloading the Nexus One CM6 RC, and extract the desired Mail APK. I can't tell you whether or not it will function properly (and you may need to uninstall the Samsung Mail first), but that's where I'd begin.
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Even worse issues on my Samsung Captivate and stock froyo mail...with eclair setup to corporate exchange server, I had email and calendar events working great, but now after froyo flash + minor [non-mail] mods, calendar won't sync pretty much at all from my company's outlook server (and yes, I have it setup properly).
Anyone else having froyo + Outlook exchange server problems w/ calendar? Missing my meetings is fun for a while, but it's starting to hurt

Make sure you set the permissions right for the email.apk. I used the gingerbread email.apk on a rooted tmobile 2.1 rom and didn't seem to have any issues. Also make sure you restart after moving it to system/apps and clear cache and settings in the email under manage applications.

Try improved email
Improved Email for Android | AppBrain.com
Worked great for me on 2.1 and still using on 2.2
NO issues.

krackers said:
Try improved email
Improved Email for Android | AppBrain.com
Worked great for me on 2.1 and still using on 2.2
NO issues.
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Are you getting work email (and calender) pushed to your phone from an Exchange server?
Are you running in Vibrant or some other HW?

2 Exchange-Accounts on my HD2?

Hi,
i want to use 2 Exchange-Accounts on my HD2. One for my work and one for myself.
How can i set up my device? In ActiveSync Settings i only can enter the account-information for one.

i think there was another thread on this ... the ideea is that you kind of cannot do this...

ccezar2004 said:
i think there was another thread on this ... the ideea is that you kind of cannot do this...
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It's kind of funny that I believe Android can do this, but pocket outlook made by microsoft interfacing to a microsoft exchange server can only do one exchange account. Kind of silly.
Though i can kind of see why its done too, since there are device policies that can be pushed over the exchange connection, if 2 servers have conflicting policies, then which policies is the device supposed to follow?
Im guessing exchange support on android just ignores any policy settings, and its just strictly email.
Probably what MS needs to do is have it setup in such a way that the device follows policies from whatever exchange account is setup 1st. any subsequent account are email only, and the primary policy setting account has the option to disable setting up additional exchange email sources for security reasons.

actually android does lots of things better than windows...

Pick one to be fully sync'd and one to use pop3 for email only.

actually android does lots of things better than windows...
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In this case only for individuals... But then Android is, (for want of a better way of putting it), a "toy" phone.
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In this case only for individuals... But then Android is, (for want of a better way of putting it), a "toy" phone.
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Yeah for enterprise id have to say winmo or blackberry is the way to go, with both you get security and policies
as you put it android and iphone are "toy phones" good for end users, both can interface with corp mail servers, but leave much to be desired in terms of security and policies

Why not exchange one and imap the other?

fred_up said:
Why not exchange one and imap the other?
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All depends on the configuration of the servers, which you may have no say in how they get configured. If you are in a 100% exchange/outlook environment, there is no need to have pop/imap services running on the server. Enabling those services and then opening those ports in the firewall present yet another security risk to have to watch after. So unless there is a real legitimate use the sys admin may not even want to bother enabling. Its just more things to worry about having open facing the wild internet.

Use OWA instead