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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

MSN Talk, hep, please

Can anyone chat on MSN Talk app with no hotmail contacts? I can do it on Meebo with my friends with yahoo account same way as Windows Live Messenger on my pc, but yahoo contacts don´t appear in MSN Talk.
Meebo works fine but it's quite simple looking.
Regards

Noone using this can help?

Im not sure which application you are having trouble with.
Try Hi MSN its free and themes and lots of stuff available.
It wont drain battery like MSN droid by running in background.
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I think i've tried it too, but i´m not sure. can u tell me if it's working for u with no hotmail contacts when ur logged into msn. Meebo does.
Does Hi MSN drain less battery than this one? Sure?
Btw i'll try again

I've tried Hi MSN now again and no, it doesn't show any yahoo contacts as WLM on my pc or meebo on my phone do.
Thanks a lot , I think i'll use it anyway.

Honestly man, just try ebuddy. I thought it would be crappy before and tried pretty much all of the msn apps.... they all suck. Ebuddy turned out to be the best one. Give it a shot. I'm pretty sure yahoo works on ebuddy too and plus unlike some of the other apps you can actually message your offline contacts
I couldn't send offline messages from half the apps I used but ebuddy allowed that. So give it a go and see how it is, I'm pretty sure you'll like it

Yeah eBuddy is great, but it drains a lot of battery Oo

Think i' gonna stay with Meebo, it shows my contacts' alias not email...
Thank u all

Since we are on the topic on MSN Talk, I think compare with eBuddy, MSN Talk should be more battery efficient. And, MSN Talk allows you to do group chat whereas eBuddy does not have this function for Android phones.
Are there any MSN Talk user? Can I check if you can see your own display photo? Because no matter what display photo I change, it still shows the blue & green man.

Try Nimbuzz. I find it in SE Play Now

[Q] Html mail in HTC Mail

Hello
I just noticed that I cannot see HTML mail in HTC MAIL app on any build (Desire or Desire HD)
I means that if I go to HTC MAIL settings, I see the option "mail format" in gray so not changeable, and I see there "Text only".
Some one had succeeded to have html mail?
It's definitively not a Exchange Server problem, because using any other mail software as K9, Moxier, Nitrodesk... I correctly receive and see HTML mails.

Go to settings and then choose 'Send & Receive'. Choose 'Mail size limit' and set the limit to 'No limit'. Emails will now be downloaded in HTML format.

waltsalt said:
Go to settings and then choose 'Send & Receive'. Choose 'Mail size limit' and set the limit to 'No limit'. Emails will now be downloaded in HTML format.
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I alredy tried this, no success. Email are still received as text only. And the option is still unchangeable.

I see. It worked for me. Although my build doesn't have a 'Mail Format' option at all - so there is no option greyed out. I'm currently using MCCM SE v3.4.

waltsalt said:
I see. It worked for me. Although my build doesn't have a 'Mail Format' option at all - so there is no option greyed out. I'm currently using MCCM SE v3.4.
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This is my screenshot
I dont think is a ROM problem.. I used different ROMs and same behaviour
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Hey rafpigna, you are not alone in this. I can never view my company's exchange mail in HTML except when using those few apps that you mentioned.
Some people said it's because my exchange sever is 2003, but my company has recently upgraded and I still don't get HTML display (format greyed out like you). If it is due to older exchange version, why is it that we can view using other apps. I am also able to view my exchange mail in HTML on my iPad using the default email app.
All the following Android Device/ROMs native email app does not display exchange in HTML for me:
1. HTC HD2
2. Samsung Galaxy S
3. Samsung Galaxy Tab
It is interesting that the email app is able to display HTML emails for my Yahoo and GMail accounts.
BTW, I have never gotten to display my Exchange emails in HTML under WM6.5.x or older either, and to imagine that WM and Exchange are both from MS!!
It real annoying and frustrating. As much as I dislike iOS, it is the only one that I am able to display my Exchange emails in HTML properly.

gohyc said:
Hey rafpigna, you are not alone in this. I can never view my company's exchange mail in HTML except when using those few apps that you mentioned.
Some people said it's because my exchange sever is 2003, but my company has recently upgraded and I still don't get HTML display (format greyed out like you). If it is due to older exchange version, why is it that we can view using other apps. I am also able to view my exchange mail in HTML on my iPad using the default email app.
All the following Android Device/ROMs native email app does not display exchange in HTML for me:
1. HTC HD2
2. Samsung Galaxy S
3. Samsung Galaxy Tab
It is interesting that the email app is able to display HTML emails for my Yahoo and GMail accounts.
BTW, I have never gotten to display my Exchange emails in HTML under WM6.5.x or older either, and to imagine that WM and Exchange are both from MS!!
It real annoying and frustrating. As much as I dislike iOS, it is the only one that I am able to display my Exchange emails in HTML properly.
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Thanks
nice to see that I'm not alone
I disklike to use other apps for anything that could be done with stock apps... but anyway in this case I have to continue using Moxier...