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Calling all Palm users or ex Palm users!!!Converting to PPC!

Am i making a big mistake??? I bought the wizard for its technical capabilities but did not realize the problems i would have in the conversion process.
AAAAHG, I just cant seem to transfer all my data from my palm E2 to the wizard! I have the Palm E2 and a palm IIIx synced on the palm desktop and am trying to convert just the E2 to outlook so i can sync with the wizard (with the intention of selling my E2). I installed outook 2002 (palm desktop already installed) then installed the outlook conduits from the Palm installation cd then did a sync with outook.
Everything seemed to transfer ok to outlook but when i sync to the wizard my contacts and notes seemed to transfer over ok, but my calandar didnt. All i got was the last months appointments! And now when i resync my palm 3 (with a different username) the calendar is shifted 9 hours ahead! I think it set itself to pacific standard time and here in europe its GMT+1. My pc is from that time zone.
Along the way i accidentally erased my calendar on my E2!! AAARRG! What a pain this is. Going to try to resync my E2 with outlook to try to restore my E2 as i dont think i will give up my palm just yet.
Is there another safer way? I did an archive of the pst file from outlook in case everything is lost and will try to resync my wizard later, must restore my palm first as its the only thing i can trust.
Btw i think the standard calendar, notes, memo (does not exist on ppc) function on the ppc is way inferior to the palms. Esthetically and functionally speaking it SUCKS! Is there another program i can install that gives me the same look and funtion of the palms? What the heck is up with having to scroll between day, week, month, year views when on the palm you can just select the icon??????????????
I like the wizard and the funtionality but am having second thoughts.....................

I also did the move from Palm (m500) to the new Wizard (Qteck 9100). Love the new wizard, has some very nice functions on it, but I also miss some standard functionalities of the Palm OS. eg working with categories and remembering the last used category, altough I really love the possibility of WM 5.0 to link different cateogries to one object, which wasn't possible with my palm.
Anyway, to be able to transfer al my data, I first made sure all my Palm data was synchronized correctly with Outlook. I used PocketMirror (sync with outlook) combined with SwitchSync (sync with outlook and Palm Desktop). Try some different settings within PocketMirror to be able to sync different categories correctly (free version only sync's a limited number of categories). Once all this was done, I didn't use my palm anymore and synchronized all my data from within outlook to my pocket pc
Good luck!
CIAO!
VOODOOS!L

Glad to hear that you were successful with the change. Well, i managed to recover all the info that i synched with outlook back to my palm and backed everthing up on the palm desktop, then reinstalled everthing to disassociate with outook. The palms seems to to be refunctionning properly now.
I cant however seem to sync everything i magaged to get to outlook on my wizard! Contacts, notes/memos, were pretty much in tact, but the calendar i only got the last 2 months info. When i resync choosing just the calendar i get an error message saying the profile is not the same. Funny when i was forced to choose the profile and was password protected.
I think i will have to reload outlook and do a hardreset and start over. Fortunately i also exported the outlook pst file. I hope it works. If you have any other ideas, i would appreciate it.

did you try the "delete device" in the ActiveSync application?
This already resolved many activesync problems for me...
ActiveSync will then forget all your specific connection settings and restart a proper sync. connection when you reconnect your wizard.

Thanks for the advice, in fact it worked and i can now see my calendar for all of 2005. Still unsure of how to back up or archive my info. I just did an archive and it deleted my calendar again!!!
I think i will go ahead and reinstall outlook 2002 then synch with the wizard. I think in that case i wont even need to import a backup or archive pst file.
Which version outlook are you using btw. Can i install another version such as 2003, my wizard is in french but i prefer to have outlook in english, i hope there isnt any compatibility problems!!
ciao

It works fine with Outlook 2003. I don't know for older versions then 2002.
The language won't be a problem. I use a dutch outlook without problems..
CIAO!
VOODOOS!L

convertme
A free and very efficient software I used to convert to PPC.
You can see my link below for my other post on this software.
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44868
Also a review by someone else.
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/commenta...yconversion.htm

looks nice
thx!

Mogwai,
the original condition you reported with your Calendar on your new Wizard is the correct condition. MS assumes you are going to do most of your work on the desktop and will want the complete record there and not necessarily on your device. In order to save device RAM/Flash, ActiveSync only transfers the past 2 weeks of appointments (plus all future appointments). If it got to Outlook correctly, then you've got everything you should have.
If you must have more calendar data on your device, then you need to go to AS Options, click on Calendar, and then click the Settings button. You can have up to 6 months of your past appointments on your device with ActiveSync 4.x.
I hope this helps!

ChrisSpera said:
Mogwai, [...] If you must have more calendar data on your device, then you need to go to AS Options, click on Calendar, and then click the Settings button. You can have up to 6 months of your past appointments on your device with ActiveSync 4.x.
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To be exact: you can choose that you would like to sync
all calendar appointments or
last two weeks or
last month or
last three months or
last six months - and all upcoming appointments of course.
Klausi

ActiveSync and Outlook Notes (body missing)
hi,
In the same subject I am an ex-palm user switching to PPC, I have used the same way to get all my Palm memos into my Outlook (hotsync with Outlook as conduit) so the memos ar ein Outlook and readable without problems,
the problem is when I open them into my Wizard : they don't have any body (!)
Has anyone came accross this ?

Lost Contacts after upgrade...Help!

Hi, I've just upgraded the new O2 rom to my SPV M5000 yesterday and all is fine. Until I notice all my contacts with photos on outlook haven't install on my phone on activsync...loads!
The funny thing is they are all still on my PC. I thought it might have been my categories, but they are all the same.
Has anyone else noticed this or run into problems?
yours faithfully
Yohanson

Just going by my own experience, when upgrading to a new ROM version, I have had to set up a new partnership in ActiveSync.
By default the Contacts were not selected to be synchronised, so I had to go into the ActiveSync settings and select them myself.
After that they all copied across no problem.
Hope this helps,
Matt.

Yes, one of the many bugs in Activesync 4.1 seems to be that even if you select contacts to be syncronised, the first time it has a habit of dropping contacts from the sync list.
Thankfully for me, when I selected them again, they copied across fine 2nd time onwards.

Still no luck:-(
Thanks for the replies. I deleted my partnership and synchronised the whole lot again....still missing the selected contacts. I wouldn't mind but they're the main contacts I use.
All the contacts that won't sync either had photos or notes attached...odd!
I've had all the spv's that have been released and i've never ran into this problem:-(

Help ~ Can't Sync Contacts, Calendar, Tasks or Notes

Help!
I am only a wanna-be techie! I had the 6600 then the 6700 and upgraded to the Mogul when it was released this summer.
I had an issue with it so insurance replaced it. So I am syncing my just recieved unit and it won't sync my Contacts, Calendar, Notes or Tasks. My previous unit was sync to my laptop and I expected to plug in the new unit and just sync all my old info.
It will sync Favorites, Files & Media. When I try to click the Contacts and such in my OPTIONS I get an error message and it says I need to "install and run outlook". I have Windows XP on my laptop and I have Outlook Express but I don't use it. I tried opening it and it didn't help.
If my previous Mogul worked just plugging it in shouldn't this one?
How do I fix this? I am quite perplexed and in need of my contacts and calendar!

Try runnig Office Repair. That did it for me once.

I think I tried that ~ I went to Microsoft site and downloaded what I thought was OFFICE REPAIR but when I run it, it wants to know exactly WHAT I want to repair?!?
Any other ideas?!?

mjloves2teach said:
I think I tried that ~ I went to Microsoft site and downloaded what I thought was OFFICE REPAIR but when I run it, it wants to know exactly WHAT I want to repair?!
Any other ideas?!?
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If you still have your contacts in Outlook Express, try this: http://www.syncdata.it/syncexpress.html
It shareware but you get 30 days to 'evaluate' it and by then you should have your data in place and backing it up with something like this to your card should you need to reinstall your contacts and other data: http://www.freewareppc.com/database/pimbackup.shtml
Hope this helps!

push gmail problems?

Hi!
I was trying to use push gmail but I only got an error
0x8600050c
I can sync contacts and calendar, but no emails, if I check the email, then i got that error.
Someone else is in the same situation?

Same error here... Anyone got solutions?
I've reset the phone, input the settings multiple times (I'm sure they're correct), checked that my carriers default internet access isn't set via proxy, turned off/on POP on my Gmail settings....

A couple of pointers to look out for:
-You want to make sure you're only trying to sync Calendar, Contacts & Email. DON'T try and sync Tasks or Texts cos they don't work (yet hopefully).
-Make sure the username you're using is <myname>@gmail.com not @googlemail.com like the tutorial used to say.
-If it stops syncing after a few weeks of use. Sometimes you just have to do a manual sync by going into connection manager and hitting the Sync button and sometimes the only way to solve it seems to be just delete the whole Exchange profile for googlesync and set it up again from scratch.
Hope one of these is going to solve your problem cos I'm all out of ideas. Works fine on my WinMo6.5 device.

Yup, I was aware of both the @gmail and restriction to Cal/Contacts/Email, neither of those are my problem.

Mine is syncing using @googlemail.com but it does not work when doing send/receive for my folders which is annoying as I don't want to keep on syncing hundred's of folders each time I get a new mail.

also youc ant have a "/" in any of your gmail labels (which are often autmoatically created when you imap your gmail on your desktop i.e. Inbox/ebay Inbox/work etc

Same problem here...
I have the same problem and the same error code.
Tried to sync my phone for the first time yesterday and spent the better part of the night troubleshooting why I was getting the 0x8600050c error code... Tried all the possible fixes including making sure Tasks are deselected, Syncing only Contacts & Calendar, no '/'s in labels etc....
However, now I realise that after browsing the google help forums that a lot of people seem to be having this problem in the last 24-32 hours. Quite a few recent messages have been posted on this.
It seems like Google Sync push has been erratic ever since it was released. They fixed the problems in the middle, but it seems that they are back now. You would hope that a firm with the resources like Google would atleast put a status page updating users of outages...
If someone figures out a solution to this problem please post...!
Phone: HTC Touch Pro2
OS: Winmo 6.5
Carrier: Vodafone UK

Same problem for me here!

I'm sorry (I'm not rubbing it in honest ) but my GMail has been working perfectly for the last couple of weeks. So maybe it's just newly set up accounts?

For those that have gmail working via activesync, how quick is it? when a message arrives on your desktop how much later does it take to arrive on your phone. I am seeing some delayed responses and having moved from Blackberry back to WM its not good.

I have it running over HSDPA (3G) with exchange server and it arrives on my phone before it gets to my desktop pc.

chimpsinties said:
I have it running over HSDPA (3G) with exchange server and it arrives on my phone before it gets to my desktop pc.
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I know its been done and said, but would you mind doing a checklist on what settings you have got working for you?
On Gmail do you have POP3 enabled and IMAP enable or one on and the other off.

i've been having the same issue - calendar and contacts fine, but i can't sync mail.
i know it isn't the settings / labels issues mentioned here as I have it syncing fine on my kaiser...

Hmm. OK think we got crossed wires there. I thougth we were talking about GMail syncing in general. I was talking about my Tinity. Now I have the HD2 setup, it's not working for mail ether.
Same as everyone else, I have contacts and calendar working but no mail. It will get the mail if I set it up as a normal mail account but not with the syncing push type exchange account I can't see any errors, it's just not getting the mail

The thing is I get my mail, but just slow. I am not syncing contacts or anything else.

Sympathize with you Chimpsinties
@Chimpsinties: Welcome to club miserables! No response from Google or anybody else till now....
@All: A detailed discussion of this problem is taking place at
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=0edb7d5393c2cd9a&hl=en#all
(Make sure you click and view all responses and not just the first two)
Would be lovely if someone could shed some light on the issue and post in this forum......

Found a hash in one of my labels, deleted it resynced and it seems things are moving ok. Let see how it goes

themarques said:
Found a hash in one of my labels, deleted it resynced and it seems things are moving ok. Let see how it goes
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hmmm. no hashes in any labels (i never imported / synced) from outlook. but still no joy...

same problem on my td2.
syncing of calendar and contacts works fine. but no mail.
funny thing is when i set it up the last weekend it all worked perfectly for about two days and suddenly error 0x8600050c.
i played arond a lot with googleapps after the setup and i thought this might be the reason it s not working any more.
so here is a list of things i tried to get it working again, well, still without success:
- looked for hashes in my labels (never had any though)
- deleted all labels
- change language from german to english and back
- deleted the tasks from my tasklist in gmail/calendar
- changed my password to alphabetical characters only
- registered a new gmail account without any changes
- changed the mail folder of gmail in wdmc that should be synced
some things that surely wouldnt help since it seems to be a google issue but i was desperate
- reinstalled wmdc
- flashed different roms
but damn it s still not working again. *sigh* gotta switch to windows-live if they dont get this fixed.

Hmm I think the problem with the gmail sync makes the rom of the hd2 itself because I also have a Touch Pro 2 and a Toshiba TG01 and on both of them its working fine so I try to import the active sync files and if it will work after that I´ll tell you!

HTC suddenly doesn't sync Outlook calendar?!

HTC sync suddenly started creating duplicates in the phone calendar (there were no duplicates in Outlook). So, I deleted the Calendar Storage on the phone, planning to resynchronize the calendar from Outlook.
But, now, HTC Sync suddenly won't synchronize any of my events, the calendar on the phone is completely empty. It says that it's synchronizing, but it just doesn't. WHAT THE HECK?
HTC sync has never worked terribly well, but I'm getting tired of this piece of GARBAGE.

Update: I think solved the problem. I deleted the phone profile, recreated it and it seems to sync now (my calendar data is back on my phone, anyway).
HTC Sync doesn't include a built-in way to delete a phone profile, so to delete it manually:
1. close HTC Sync if it's running
2. delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\HTC (on Vista or Win7, it's C:\Users...)
3. Start HTC sync, re-establish the connection to your phone and synchronize it
Hopefully this helps someone who is as fed up as I am with the way the phones manage PIM data these days.
Seriously, Microsoft Pocket PC and ActiveSync actually worked very well. Calendar and contact data management and sync is piss-poor on today's phones.

Saved Me
epp_b said:
Update: I think solved the problem. I deleted the phone profile, recreated it and it seems to sync now (my calendar data is back on my phone, anyway).
HTC Sync doesn't include a built-in way to delete a phone profile, so to delete it manually:
1. close HTC Sync if it's running
2. delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\HTC (on Vista or Win7, it's C:\Users...)
3. Start HTC sync, re-establish the connection to your phone and synchronize it
Hopefully this helps someone who is as fed up as I am with the way the phones manage PIM data these days.
Seriously, Microsoft Pocket PC and ActiveSync actually worked very well. Calendar and contact data management and sync is piss-poor on today's phones.
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Dude.... You saved me so much headache. This fixed it for me. I was searching everywhere on how to fix this stupid problem!! Thank you so much for posting this!! Anybody else having problems with this. These steps work perfect!!

Dirtyfrank26 said:
Dude.... You saved me so much headache. This fixed it for me. I was searching everywhere on how to fix this stupid problem!! Thank you so much for posting this!! Anybody else having problems with this. These steps work perfect!!
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epp_b said:
Update: I think solved the problem. I deleted the phone profile, recreated it and it seems to sync now (my calendar data is back on my phone, anyway).
HTC Sync doesn't include a built-in way to delete a phone profile, so to delete it manually:
1. close HTC Sync if it's running
2. delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\HTC (on Vista or Win7, it's C:\Users...)
3. Start HTC sync, re-establish the connection to your phone and synchronize it
Hopefully this helps someone who is as fed up as I am with the way the phones manage PIM data these days.
Seriously, Microsoft Pocket PC and ActiveSync actually worked very well. Calendar and contact data management and sync is piss-poor on today's phones.
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:good::good::good:
Thanks a lot. Worked for me too.
Win7 path I used: C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\HTC

Thanks for the solution.. I was turning nut trying to find out hwat happened... I started to think that my PST was corrupt...
In my case the NON sync was for the contacts folder, I dont use calendar... I followed these instructions and worked like a charm...
Btw, this is also applyable for all HTC models using HTC sync... I own a Sensation.
Thanks!

Calender Issues
epp_b said:
HTC sync suddenly started creating duplicates in the phone calendar (there were no duplicates in Outlook). So, I deleted the Calendar Storage on the phone, planning to resynchronize the calendar from Outlook.
But, now, HTC Sync suddenly won't synchronize any of my events, the calendar on the phone is completely empty. It says that it's synchronizing, but it just doesn't. WHAT THE HECK?
HTC sync has never worked terribly well, but I'm getting tired of this piece of GARBAGE.
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On my Droid RAZR, the calender was set to show the phone calender. Entries I made on my phone were no longer synching to google calender. I had to change the phone settings to only show the google calender. Then manually move my phone entries into google calender. This happened after the update some time in February, but I only noticed recently. It was a pain to go back and find all the entries that were on the phone and not on google. With the phone set to not show the phone calender, my calender entries now do go to the google calender and show up on my other devices and online.
Another issue is that all of my appointments changed times with the Spring daylight savings time taking place. I had to change my Google Calender to use daylight savings time. This didn't fix my phone calender though. Then check that my phone was set to use daylight savings time which it was. Don't know when this change happened as I was an original Droid owner, then bought into the Droid RAZR, and all of a sudden in 2013 my calender changes times on me. Must have something to do with an Android time setting that changed. For now I'm putting the time in the name of the calender entry so I know if Google screws it up later.
One would think that they would triple check that calender entries are not modified by doing a phone software update. I give them -1 star for Jelly Bean updates. Horrible.