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Weather report without gprs

Hi guys!
First official post!;-)
I was wondering, and looking around on the board, but didn't find anything.
Since GPRS and other mobile internet is expense in Belgium, isn't there an application that loads the weather report for the next week, everytime you sync your Touch Dual (or whatever HTC...) to your PC/Laptop. That way, you wouldn't have to use GPRS
In my case it would drastically lower my gprs cost(since I sync every day!), and still have the eye candy
Grtz & thx very much!

also interested in this!
anyone with ideas?

spb weather is decent. i used to get a 5 day forcast from the bbc website everytime i synced.

yahoo go 2.0

yep
Yep SPB Weather i use to, and onesly is prety 95% acurate. I m for SPB.

Synchronizing with >3000 appointments and contacts takes forever

hi,
i have a colleague who also has a touch hd and over 3000 contacts and appointments in his outlook.
the synchronizing takes forever and doesnt even come to the end after several hours. he left the hd over night and the next morning it wasnt finished.
does anybody have that much contacts or appointments?
it think it should be possible to use the hd with these amount of items.
he cant possibly be the only person who has his customers and businesspartners in his outlook(?!).
with me the sync takes quite long too.
when the calendar is synced it updates the appointments "xx/yy" and after that the synchronisation stays and takes a few minutes.
how about you?

Only the first sync takes so long. I also have in excess of 3000 items to synchronize (about 300 contacts, 2800 appointments, tasks, etc). It took about three and an half hours (!), but now syncs in about 30 seconds. So no, I don't think this is unreasonable at all; there should however be a warning for the user to wait this long (as there is hardly any indication that synchronisation is actually progressing). The same number of items only took about 10 or so minutes on a PPC (Loox 560) that I had before HD. It only takes a couple of minutes on a Nokia 6500 dumbphone though. Sigh. Well, we all know that AS actually stands for ActiveStink(tm).
Cheers,
Rok

How to Increase Synchronisation Speeds
Hi Guys
I had the same problem. The way around this is to disable your Touchflo 3d from the today screen.
I was then able to sync with for the first time with outlook over 5,000 calendar appointment and over 1200 contacts in about 30 mins. After that "daily" syncs should only take 30 seconds to a minute.
Hope this helps
Kaid

ah, great tip. i will try that.
do you deactivate the tf3d for the daily syncs too?

KaidM said:
The way around this is to disable your Touchflo 3d from the today screen.
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Works 100%. Struggled with that for days, solved now. Thanks m8!

works really great!
that is awesome!.
i am so glad you told me.
by the way: is there a way to disable the tf3d calendar?
i think that should be the problem. disabling the calendar should solve it.

Try removing home tab in customisation options. It should help.

not possible

Clock Auto-Update?

I can't seem to find any way for the clock to auto-update itself to keep it accurate!
There doesn't seem to be any option unless I've missed it..
Does anyone know how to do this?

try "SmartTimeSync 1.1"

but is there any way without having to install a seperate program?

Activesync syncs the time too... you don't need any if you sync with your pc often.

perhaps you listen to radio from time to time?
PowerRadio has an option to sync via RDS (if I remember right - have not used it in some time)
also there are many tools to sync via timeserver or gps...

I have to agree with the OP. Why isn't there a way to sync time natively on the phone? All of my other phones do.

As already said, clock is automatically synchronized when device is connected to a PC via Activesync or WMDC. In Activesync it is enabled by default but can be disabled in Options. I personally use GPS2Blue to get date&time from GPS sats..no need for a connection nor a pc,easy.

HTC Calendar appoints +/- 1hr prob

Will try to explain..
Using Outlook 2007 & Active Sync with HTC HD2..
Outlook Mobile & HTC Calendar don't match up..The time of appointments in HTC Calendar/Outlook Mobile is +1 hr ahead but when i open the appt to edit the time is correct??? It is obviously a Daylight Savings (Eastern Australian Time) prob because this issues happens before 01/04 & after 30/09..
ie : outlook appointment starts 0600... HTC/outlook mobile shows start time 0700.. open the appointment (both HTC Cal & Outlook Mob) the start time is 0600.
I LOVE MY HD2.. best tech i have had for a long time so don't mistake me for a hater.. hell if this is the only prob i can find, its not that bad!!
So far i have hammered it with heaps of cabs, apps etc.. it just works!!

Custom Calendar Repeat Intervals

Hi Guys,
Love the work you've all been doing - I love tinkering with my HD2
One thing I've been looking for is some way to set appointments in the calendar to repeat every 3 weeks. I'm not much of an outlook user, so I'd rather avoid having to set it up and sync the appointments (as I'm guessing would be an easy solution) and I'd like to use the default calendar app if possible.
Anyone know if this is an easy fix?
Cheers
Ross
PS
I'm after a 3 week repeat as it'll allow me to schedule in my shift pattern!

hey mate, thats a tricky one.
in HTCs stock calendar, there are only 3 recurrence options (weekly, monthly and yearly). but if you chose to set your appointments using your PC, then sync your calendars... im pretty sure outlook will let you have more control. keeping in mind... successfully syncing a PPC with your PC using Activesync or Windows Mobile Device Center can be a serious challenge.
alternatively, you can try a third party calendar app (maybe ThumbCal) and see if they will let you have greater customization. if you dont want to USE the third party app, you can install it - set up your appointments - then uninstall. hopefully this will have saved your appointments into outlook mobile (which is what powers HTCs calendar).
the third option is to simply set each appointment manually... this may seem like a bit of a monotonous task, but if youre setting 3 week intervals... you could probably set 2 years worth of reminders within 5-10 minutes.
good luck man.
cheers.

Hi, if you are still looking for a shift rota app you should take a look at MobileRota, free to try it out for a month, it works well for me.