How do I sort by contacts by 1st name...
At the moment I`ve only got options to sort by Name (Surname) or Company.
Also when I sync my Calender its dosn`t sync repeating entries.
e.g. Birthdays, weekly\monthly repeats.
Last thing....How do I stop ActiveSync from AutoSyncing wheneven I attached the XDA Exec....I would like to be in control as I nearly lost all my contacts last night.
Dudes,
Can anyone help with this?
Peeps,
I`ve looked high and low and can`t seem to find a solution this apart from editing all my contacts...
No small job when you`ve got over 200+
There's a post about this in the General section with a utility that should change the "File As" option on the Exec but it didnt seem to work for me.
Many thanks "fingery"...
I just see this as a major fault...
Hopefully they`ll address this in a new ROM...
But further confirms my view that they never even tested the Exec before releasing it for sale....
Works fine for me after creating this macro on Outlook 2003
create a macro see below :
Sub foo()
Dim ns As NameSpace
Dim curFolder As MAPIFolder
Set curFolder = Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder
Dim cItm As ContactItem
For Each cItm In curFolder.Items
cItm.FileAs = cItm.FullName
cItm.Save
Next
End Sub
make sure you are in Contacts when you run this macro or you will get a type mismacth error :
run ActiveSync 4.1 and weeeeeeeeeeeee First Names first
Hope this helps Guys
Brian
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Well first off i'm miffed and :evil: :? with this Exec
I 'know' it's a capable machine, I know it's pretty cool, I know it's sought after and all of that, but this is the first time I've felt really 'let down' by a product's functionality so soon out of the box - in fact it was a let down as soon as it came out the box!!!
My previous Xda2i and the current one I'm borrowing off my friend work flawlessly. I posted my little 'issue' but no one has come back with any further insight and such a 'small' issue is really turning me off using the exec any further.
My Outlook 2003, via ActiveSync 4.1 - only about a quarter of my 'contacts' list shows up on the Exec. No amount of setting it to 'show all contacts' shows them up.
I've got a workaround, I have to manually delete all the missing contacts from Outlook, and then re-enter them one by one - they'll then show up.
This means over 60 deletions, and then re-typing.
Maybe it's a 'known issue' or is a 'bug' within this setup - but pretty poor if basic functionality like this is up the spout.
I updated to the latest O2 ROM - same thing.
For the last 4 days, this 'Executive' PDA has been nothing but a paperweight on my desk - so I'm thinking if there's no 'fix' or 'settings' to show all the contacts, I might as well just sell it off. (before you ask - during the sync - it does show '83' contacts - so I know they're in the 'exec' somewhere!)
I'll try out the K Jam / Xda Mini next - if that has the same issue, then I'm just gonna buy anotherXda2i !
Has anyone come across this before? (cant seem to find anything using search) anyone know of how to resolve?!
I'm guessing not seeing the single response to my last post - I might give it one last big effort when I have time over the weekend to really dig and sig around the web, and maybe ask O2 etc else I'll seriously consider just selling it off!
You Exec fans here will be the first to know if I do!
Cheers for reading out my Rant/Help request!!
Dennis! West London UK!!
hi.
I remember seeing something about this before on another forum but can't remember where.
I think it is something to do with "File as" field. If on outlook you change the view to "By category" you should see your contacts in a line by line list. if you add the "File as" field, do they all have one?
You could add all the contact fields to the view in outlook and then compare the Outlook entries of the missing ones to the ones you see on the Exec and see if anything is different - ie. Is the File As field set on them all, is the Full Name field set on them both etc...
I;ll see if I can see the post/info I saw before, but that could be worth a try.
I have a number of Pocket PC's here and an exchange server running. If you want to export all your contacts into a PST and email me a copy I will see if I can import into a mailbox, and do a Outlook 2003/AActiveSync 4.1 test with one of my spare Execs...Send me a PM if you want to discuss this option!
Merlin
Hi rbmerlin
Thanks very much for the prompt reply! I shall PM you about this - I appreciate the offer! I just hope something can be resolved out of it!
Give me a few days to get back to you - real busy at the moment!
Cheers! Dennis! West London UK!!
The only other thing I can think of is that your Outlook on the PC needs upgrading??
Export
i know its not a resolution for the problem but if deleting them and re creating them seems to work, have you tried exporting all the contacts in outlook to a pst, then deleting them all, then re importing them all. Might solve the problem for now.
Who knows ?
Rob.
Hi!
Riceburner - Outlook 2003 is the latest version, and has been updated via the MS online update site - so I doubt it's anything to do with that. Also, When I edit a contact I can see on my laptop Outlook screen, hit save & close the Exec shows the Icon for data arriving/syncing and makes the confirmation bleep. To me that suggests the record is indeed in the Exec, just not being displayed.
rjefferis - I might give something like this a go. I'll export them to an Excel file just to have a backup and then try exporting again to a .PST, deleting and re-importing.
I personally think there's some flag in Outlook that changes a 'characteristic' - over time as I've added other contacts, maybe I didn't add in the same way or haven't added a certain detail (or something!) to make a set of contacts 'dfferent' from another set' ( I can't think of what really, I just click 'add new contact' fill in bits and click 'save and close' !
With more investigating I'm sure some sort of reason will come out of it - be it a 'setup' difference issue or a bug or a hardware conflict or something!
For now it's just annoying as such a simple procedure appears flawed!
I'll get to email rbmerlin at some point - right now I gotta go talk the dog for a walk !
Never enough time !
Cheers! Dennis! West London UK!
I just added a decent amount of new events in outlook 2007 on my desktop and when i sync my 8525 none of them get transfered over. I have changed the settings for syncing old events to "all" and have changed it to where if there is a conflict, replace the items on my device. I have restarted the 8525 and my computer and i still cannot get my outlook calender to come over. Please help as this is really frustrating. Thanks
I kind of figured it out just now... I have all of my events set as "all day" so they don't show up unless i click on that exact day so it looks like i will have to go through and change all of them to a time range so they will show up. Is this correct or is there another way around it?
Hi,
I had same problem, after lot of research, I found a program "Pocket Mirror" it´s not cheap, but it works.
http://www.chapura.com/pm_professional.php
Regards,
Ricardo
Hi,
i love my hd2 and have worked thought the camera and generic tweaks here. So glad to be away from my omnia and back with a htc and the knowledge here.
I have 2 remaining outstanding tweaks that i havent been able to find decent solutions to by searching here. The first is setting the emails to always show web pictures, i find it frustrating to have to select web pictures eachtime i view an email and as i am on an unlimited data tarriff i dont mind the data. How do i get this to work?
The second is sorting all my contacts by first name then second name. I am not sure if using googlemail as my exchange server, the HTC software or the microsoft sync is changing this but i am pretty tired of going through every day sorting my contacts correctly. Is there a setting somewhere once and for all to force contacts first name and then second name?
As an aside i never sync my phone via usb as i dont use outlook/windows and linux is happy enough pulling everything from googlemail.
Thanks;
Andy
I'll only answer for what I Know.
QUOTE: I am pretty tired of going through every day sorting my contacts correctly. Is there a setting somewhere once and for all to force contacts first name and then second name?
ANSWER: You will enjoy this tiny freeware software that does just that: almost instantly order your contacts by first name (or middle name or last name). Look here for Contact Changer. You run it once and 1 second after, all your contacts are sorted. The downside is that it doesn't change standard setting of the program, which means that the default order will still be LAST NAME first. But since the application is free and quick...
It sounds like your sync source is taking precedence over the phone. If you edit something on the phone and it gets replaced by the backup then that's wrong.
You need to check your server, not the phone.
I have the exact same problem. I don't use data connection (too expensive). There MUST be a way to sort contacts by there first name.... please
Helle
Hi HelleM,
If you go to the contact you want to change, select edit contact. scroll down to the bottom and select more and you can change it with the file as field.
If you can't download the program then you will have to do this with all of your contacts.
Or you could go to marketplace and download Contact Changer by Øystein Kalvø Stephansen. This app allows you to change the sorting in all the contacts. It's very cheap also.
I got it and it works fine. Don't get why HTC did not put that as a choise?
HelleM said:
I got it and it works fine. Don't get why HTC did not put that as a choise?
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Aaahhh so many basic things that HTC should heve put as a choise...
So has anyone worked out how i can get outlook email to auto download the pictures for me in emails? It seems a pointless click each time i open an email!
d'oh wrong thread
yeah the email pics issue drives me nuts. it should be a choice in settings somewhere not ask every time. never seen a solution anywhere either. surprising for something that everybody seems to hate and its such a simple little thing, you wold think it'd of been fixed long ago right?
I searched the Leo forum and couldn't find any answers
I'm having a not so cool problem with my contacts and people folders..
Everybody has a double entry I had the same problem before and after installing a new ROM, so the installation might not be the problem afterall. I sync my Leo with Windows Mobile Device Center and with Microsoft My Phone. What can I do ? How can I return to just one entry for everybody ?
10x all in advance
PS : I think I'm doing something, cause with my Fujitsu Siemens N520 - Windows Mobile 5 ( I dont know for sure ) I clearly remember having once the same problem
What view?
Are you viewing both sim & contacts? Need to set to view 1 or the other, not both. I view contact, it shows more info..
I had the same problem after installing new rom and syncing with my pc.
There are manual ways of fixing this, but I think the easiest way is to use Microsoft My Phone. It has an option to check for duplicate contacts and delete them.
But be careful not to be left with empty contact list on your phone. Like I did once... Hopefully I had synced my contacts on my office computer.
Try this...Go to - Phone/All People/Menu/View/ select Contacts or SIM
I use direct push from my exchange server and i had this when sycing to my pc using activesync for the first time. The problem is caused by the phone telling the pc that the contacts are more upto date that the pc's. To get around this change the activesync options to "pc overwirtes the device" (it's not exactly written like that but i guess your smart enough to figure it out) and delete all the duplicate contacts from the phone and pc. You won't get it again. If you are seeing the contacts from your sim card should notice the icon for them is differnet. If this is the case then follow the instructions given above to disable sim contact viewing.
There is free software to cope with this prob on freewarepocketpc and also in SKTools or PocketMechanic.
Del doubles on phone (check bef proceed), clear contacts complelety on PC and Myphone and then resync. Worked well for me.
use the attached, works a treat on the HD2.it can be used to remove duplicate calender entires too. Thanks to the developer, cant remember where I got the cab from.
I use dupededupe.
Work very well and is very easy.
Only 72KB
Thanks all for the responses
Sorry for posting so late, I was away for a couple of days
Eventually, I used My Phone - I entered the site, checked for duplicates - and deleted all the duplicates, and afterall, I synced my phone. Fortunately, it worked fine
10x again, Ive just downloaded the little software and I'll keep them if the problem reoccurs .
10x again!
Good luck all!
I just picked up my new (T-mobile) HTC HD2, replacing my iPhone.
As nice as it is the HD2 seems far more complicated to use than the old iPhone.
I have 3 major issues I'm trying to fix and hope someone with more experience can advice me.
1-When making or recieving calls, I find it really hard to hear clearly. I'm not hard of hearing but the speaker seems way under powered. In a slightly noisey environment I have to switch to speaker to hear the caller !!
2-For some crazy reason I can only set 3 alarms, which is driving me mad. I have to keep my old iphone next to my bed to use it's alarms ( I work varied shift times )
3-After finally rearranging all my contacts to HDC happy ( no way of multiple, first name first changes ) I want to import all the birthdays into the calander. Is this possible ? In addition, I have linked many of my contacts to facebook, but the pictures randomly dissappear and I have to add them again. Can I save the complete address book so I can simply reload instead of having to update every picture when they dissappear next time ?
Any suggestions are warmly recieved.
there's an app out there that will add all the birthdays to the calendar. alternatively, if you sync your phone with Outlook on your PC it will add them to the calendar as well.
To answer your first problem, have you increased the call volumne to the maximum whilst on a call with someone? Just hit the volume rocker UP to do so.
And the second, WinMo only natively supports 3 alarms, but there are many programs out there that allow an unlimited ammount. Search the web for "Windows Mobile Alarm Programs" and you should find what you need. I would recommend bookmarking Http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com as well as http://www.freewarepocketpc.com. They have LOADS of useful programs for WinMo, and, as their names suggest, its all freeware stuff.
And three, like xnifex said, there are programs available on the net to sync birthdays and such, or you can use Outlook. Both will require you to manually enter the birthdays in the first time on your device, so you may just have to bite the bullet on this one and spend a half hour entering data. Good thing the keyboard is bigger than the iPhone eh?
Thanks for the advice.
1- Call volume. When I set the phone volume to max in the settings I assumed this ment call volume, however now I realize I have to use the volume control actually during a call to change the volume. Problem fixed
2- Only 3 alarms. Kinda solved. I have installed a great app G-Alarm. Nice simple and well programmed. However It's still sad that I have the alarm logo under the time (desktop) that is useless. Can this icon be linked to my new alarm clock app instead of the standard one ?
3- Calander linking to address book. Yet to download an app for this, but I'm sure it'll be easy to find.
Slowly getting the hang of WM 6.5, still many other teathing problems though.
Thanks again for your help
3-
Can this icon be linked to my new alarm clock app instead of the standard one ?
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cookies home tab mod will alter your life, and allow you to remap the various home screen sections to whatever program you want. Dont forget to get the CHTEditor too.
As samsamuel says if you want to keep the phone stock you should go with CHT...otherwise find a custom rom that fill your needs...or an android build....
Great tip, thanks for that Sam. Starting to get my HD2 the way I want it.
ARRRRRRRRRRRR
After spending several hours manually changing the first name first (No automatic ordering option).
I finally got it to sync and backup all my contacts to gmail. I added a few new pics, using my PC, then after updating I synced again. Only to find the whole name ordering has gone back to what it was before.
Now, randomly I get first name first and randomly last name first. Do I seriously have to spend another few hours editing each contact only to find next time I sync it will **** it all up again for me ?
If your contacts are messed up I find easier to export as a CSV and then edit everthing in Excel. You can use this for adding mass changes and also to put in multiple calendar reminders. Then when done import it back into Outlook.
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ARRRRRRRRRRRR
After spending several hours manually changing the first name first (No automatic ordering option).
I finally got it to sync and backup all my contacts to gmail. I added a few new pics, using my PC, then after updating I synced again. Only to find the whole name ordering has gone back to what it was before.
Now, randomly I get first name first and randomly last name first. Do I seriously have to spend another few hours editing each contact only to find next time I sync it will **** it all up again for me ?
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I spent 3 months learning how to tweak and setup my leo, very frustrating yet necessary process.
Now my system is fully customized to my liking.
Hang in there, it's worth the hassle!
perrygraf said:
ARRRRRRRRRRRR
After spending several hours manually changing the first name first (No automatic ordering option).
I finally got it to sync and backup all my contacts to gmail. I added a few new pics, using my PC, then after updating I synced again. Only to find the whole name ordering has gone back to what it was before.
Now, randomly I get first name first and randomly last name first. Do I seriously have to spend another few hours editing each contact only to find next time I sync it will **** it all up again for me ?
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look for contact changer (its in the marketplace i think,) and make sure that your sync options are set to update in both directions.
I'm sure you're right Sam, but right now it's hours after painful hours of trying to get an out of the box product to work. I loved the apps you suggested, they certainly made it more flexible. Thanks for helping me sort alot of problems.
What I don't understand is why only some of the contacts have changed back to last name first. When I view the contacts they all show the correct first name and surname.
And 1 more thing. I managed to link my contacts birthdays into gmail calendar but it does not update my phones calendar when I sync.
perrygraf said:
What I don't understand is why only some of the contacts have changed back to last name first. When I view the contacts they all show the correct first name and surname.
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Its probably something like both the first and last both being in the same field, both in the first name, perhaps.
And 1 more thing. I managed to link my contacts birthdays into gmail calendar but it does not update my phones calendar when I sync.
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You could try Manila Birthdays which will read your contacts birthdays, and allow you to enter them into your calendar. I have read of birthdays being an issue, but mine are already there through outlook, so i never had to solve it.
Thanks again Sam. Manila Birthdays, wicked app, love it.
I've also been playing with an app called mobiwee (http://www.mobiwee.com/), a great phone tracking and wireless file manager app
Worth a look if you're interested.
Cheers again Sam