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i'm pretty fed up of outlook and how it screws with my contacts *i recently updated, and it removed all the titles from the names which is VERY annoying.* not to mention when i add contacts to my phone, it does NOT add them to outlook (maybe i'm just stupid but when i tried to set it to phone, it DELETED all my contacts sans a few) are there any alternative programs that are a bit easier and funner to use?
thanks in advance.
in one word: no.
Outlook is the easiest way AND the most perfected.
There are a few other possibilities to avoid outlook but in my opinion a pda without outlook is useless.
If you encountered problem it might be
-correct active sync version ?
corresponding to that : correct outlook version ?
-correct settings in active sync ?
If you fail to syncronize with ac....dont even try other solutions.
i'm using activesync 4.5 and the outlook version 2002, i copy contacts and settings from outlook just fine, with the exception of it screwing with the titles and names a bit, it's the other way around that's giving me a headache.
what do you recommend the optimal settings be so that if something is new on my computer, it transfers to my phone, and if something is new on my phone, it transfers to teh computer
(also anyway to stop it from seperating the names and removing titles?)
thanks in advance.
seems to be a settings problem
So i only have a german verison of ac i don't know the english name for the settings.
But you have to tell ac to sync in both ways and give the mobile thing the priority.
Then your problem should be solved.
did that, and once more it deleted all the contacts on my phone except for like 3-4 .... either this install is screwy or something is going wrong, or i'm just an idiot.
i refuse to sync with outlook!
i used to, and i ended up with half a dozen duplicate contact and calendar entries for each one!!! i tried settings, etc, finally said to hell with it and set the phone to not sync with outlook. i feel your pain.
Good, now i don't feel like an idiot
I had similar frustration. I eventually set up my 8125 to its own email address, and turned off the sync-ing of contacts. I have two separate contact lists now, but I'm not losing contacts from my phone all the time, either.
I do not have problems with duplicated events, but I publish my Outlook calendar to the phone, not the other way around.
I never schedule from my 8125. I always tell people to send it to my email, so I can control it from my PC. I only use the handheld on meeting-heavy days, and then I'm only checking email, and not accepting meetings.
Using: WM5, ActiveSync 4.5, Outlook 2003 on Desktop
Well, there is an alternative. I run linux so AS isn't even an option for me. I have been using FinchSync since I got the phone and it has worked great. I can even sync anywhere I have a network connection without being at home.
FinchSync uses an http connection to sync contacts with Mozilla's Thunderbird email and address client as well as your datebook with Mozilla's Sunbird calendar. So far it has worked great. One hint though, take the time to read the install and configuration instructions on their website!
Hope this helps!
PhilD
I absolutely hate Activesync. I update my phone contacts and appointments via my Tilt, and then hook it up to my computer only to find that Activesync is deleting them on my phone and restoring the older files on my two PC's. I think, "oh, well I must have the sync settings set improperly," so I check them on my PC and my Tilt... it turns out that it only goes one way: from the PC to the mobile device. (Please correct me if I'm missing something.) You can just disable the sync settings, but then what's the point of having the program installed?
Personally, I have few complaints about Outlook.
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to be giving PDASync a try. They seem to advertise all of the features I'm looking for, although it does carry a hefty price tag of $50.
http://www.laplink.com/pdasync/
I'm still not 100% sold on PDASync. It seems to lack the ability to sync internet browser favorites/bookmarks and custom file folders. The quest continues.
On a slightly brighter note, this seems like quite a useful list of syncing software.
http://pocketpccentral.net/software/sync.htm
i must use lapsync because i don't want all 1500 outlook contacts into my phone, so i filter them by category and only sync a certain category.
i dont sync bookmarks, but i know you can use AS to sync ONLY bookmarks. to sync custom files and folders, try mobsync - its free.
I Tried Laplink today, This needs ActiveSync to function properlyu (did not see my device attached). I am lucky I had trial software instead of paying $ 50
I've noticed that not has much been said on the Hero's exchange support in any of the reviews or user reports so I thought I'd let people know what it's like as, for me, this is a must have feature. I should say that I have not had an android phone before and so I have had no experience with Nitrodesk's exchange solution so I can't compare.
Well, I entered my exchange details during initial set-up and after my first attempt was unsuccessful (SSL needed and is off by default) it than worked. Asked me if I wanted to sync Mail, Calender and Contacts all of which I selected. After the rest of the setup had finished the phone told me I had a new e-mail arrive so I could tell it was working straight away.
Mail is fantastic. Downloads everything fine, has at least as many options as WM for choosing which messages to download. E-mails look great on the display and html e-mails show up fine.
Contacts are great, they all appear straight away in the people and the phone application. All the Facebook and Flikr integration works perfectly. Only niggle is that you can't group contacts by company which is something I used to do on WM.
Calender seems to work fine. Appointments showed up ok, including appointments sent by e-mail.
All in all, the exchange sync is way better than expected and in some ways better than WM. The integration seems very deep and integral to the OS rather than a bolt on feature.
I agree with you there Bud, just a shame that there is no task sync support yet - still looking
All was fine for me, but as soon as I've allowed it to connect my contacts to FB contacts, sync fails for conacts with a 'client/server conversion error' message.
I'm using exchange 2003, mail and calendar are syncing fine, and I too would love tasks to be added, along with a fix for contacts and I'm a happy hero user
Strange - I have had no issues with the Fb sync but i use Exchange 07
Just Exchange, or...
...also Outlook?
not tried to sync with outlook yet, whats the best app for that?
I would settle for an outlook connector that I could just set to sync contacts and tasks, as these two arent really changing so frequently I wouldnt mind having to 'plug in' to sync these.
I just use exchange so can't comment on outlook sync. Facebook linking worked fine for me but I also have exchange 2007 so can only assume it's a problem there. Not sure if the exchange functionality is all implemented by HTC or whether they've used part of Nitrodesk's Touchdown but I saw on the Nitrodesk website that they don't support exchange 2003 yet.
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not tried to sync with outlook yet, whats the best app for that?
I would settle for an outlook connector that I could just set to sync contacts and tasks, as these two arent really changing so frequently I wouldnt mind having to 'plug in' to sync these.
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The only app is HTC sync which is included along with the hero's manual on the sd card supplied with your phonbe, word of warning i just installed htc sync on my vista pc and it caused windows explorer to continuously crash until i uninstalled it, not impressed
Tried to install the app ealier, drivers failed and the app wont work (win 7 32 bit)
Going to try the long way round for now - sync outlook contacts to my google account and keep the google contacts synced to my phone - would I end up with a duplicate of everyone then though?
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Going to try the long way round for now - sync outlook contacts to my google account and keep the google contacts synced to my phone - would I end up with a duplicate of everyone then though?
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I, like you (not I like you!), have synced up this way. I too cannot get HTC sync to work. I am sure Orange have bundled the wrong version.
So, I export Outlook to a file, then import contact file to google cal, then sync gcalendar to hero. Job done.
No duplicates, google calendar seems intelligent enough to recognise the dups
I would like to share my experience
Booted up.... would you like to set up exchange?
HELL YES!!!!
enter the details..... (internet accessible exchange server)
<entered>
What you wanna sync my boy?
EVERY GOD DAMN THING
oooooook here we go.......
<done.>
Sweet!
Thinking about an Adriod as my next phone, since I think WM is really falling behind everyone else! I use it mostly for work so a couple of questions if you don't mind....
No tasks syncing so far?
How does the calander work, are the views easy to see, day and week stuff?
Meeting requests work?
Can you flag email messages? This is a must for me and I hate that WM 6.5 can't even do it!
How do you find the keyboard replying to emails?
Can you open Word, Excel, PDF files?
Any other features it has for work that WM doesn't?
Thanks
Exchange
I'm having probs with exchange.
It will only sync my main inbox, not any of the subfolders I have, and will only sync via mobile network - fails on wifi ? ?
Then again can't get ANY web stuff on wifi ? ?
Word and excel fully creatable and editable with Docs to Go, and Open Office I think does let you read different docs though not sure which. Best PDF Reader seems to be RepliGo Reader which is good for books as well.
I'm only just getting to grips with Google Calendar but seems to have a great deal of flexibility for appts and stuff.
Widgets really just getting going, so I'm not sure of all those available...
Daisy - Magic owner, so Hero may be slightly different xx
herman3101 said:
I've noticed that not has much been said on the Hero's exchange support in any of the reviews or user reports so I thought I'd let people know what it's like as, for me, this is a must have feature. I should say that I have not had an android phone before and so I have had no experience with Nitrodesk's exchange solution so I can't compare.
Well, I entered my exchange details during initial set-up and after my first attempt was unsuccessful (SSL needed and is off by default) it than worked. Asked me if I wanted to sync Mail, Calender and Contacts all of which I selected. After the rest of the setup had finished the phone told me I had a new e-mail arrive so I could tell it was working straight away.
Mail is fantastic. Downloads everything fine, has at least as many options as WM for choosing which messages to download. E-mails look great on the display and html e-mails show up fine.
Contacts are great, they all appear straight away in the people and the phone application. All the Facebook and Flikr integration works perfectly. Only niggle is that you can't group contacts by company which is something I used to do on WM.
Calender seems to work fine. Appointments showed up ok, including appointments sent by e-mail.
All in all, the exchange sync is way better than expected and in some ways better than WM. The integration seems very deep and integral to the OS rather than a bolt on feature.
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I have reiceved my G2 touch and havn't been able to setup exchange sync over the air. It goes past first option i.e. to show me what i want to synch mail, contacts, calendar and than when I click on finish setup it fails with message unable to create account try later! Any idea what is going wrong. How can I fix it?
Sachin
Anyone have any experience with exchange sync where the server requires you to set a password/pincode for the phone?
Heard some people saying that this was not supported by the Hero. A pity if true, as I need this to work in order to be able to use the Hero as a work phone (in other words, if I am to buy a Hero).
The out of the box exchange support is really very good. It just needs the ability to authenticate via password or client certificate.
I much prefer it to WM, but only because its completely finger friendly.
Yes you can flag emails, and they show up under the flagged emails tab at the bottom.
I really really hope the update within 10 days or September will affect this thing? Need to be able to sync more than one folder at the time.
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I, like you (not I like you!), have synced up this way. I too cannot get HTC sync to work. I am sure Orange have bundled the wrong version.
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works for me on vista 64 with orange branded HTC Touch. I believe there is an update on the HTC website, not sure if that enables win7 support
I certainly didn't notice explorer crashing after I installed it, chances are it's another explorer extension interfering (either a media codec that is failing at showing thumbnails, or a right-click extension or similar)
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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I had the exact same problem. The only fix I could find was to edit the contacts name with the drop down arrow, and move the full name into the "First Name" field. It's the only way that will remain the same after syncing with activesync.
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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use marketplace to find contact changer. its one dollar and will do ALL ur contacts the way you are wanting (first name last name) i didn't know of this till AFTER going thru them all and changing them one by one on outlook
that solves half of my issue. but also the other half of my problem is that since i already erased all o my contacts out of my phone from outlook it wont let me re sync it back to my phone to get all my contacts in there. it says synchronized 4/12/10 and wont let me re import my full list from outlook on my computer to my phone.
so is there a manual way to force the sync or to completely erase all information from outlook so it sees it has to re sync it?
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Changing the order in which they show in your Outlook doesn't actually change anything that needs to be synchronized to your phone. The Outlook sort order doesn't get synchronized.
Plus, it's a WinMo thing that it shows the All People by last name, first name. You can, however, buy a $0.99 app that will allow you to change this:
http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/details.aspx?appId=1ef4f47b-4145-49b5-bb91-de7c1a46dacd&retURL=/search.aspx%3Fkeywords%3Dcontact
Personally, I think it's not needed, especially when you can quickly type in the first few letters of a person's first name and it shows the matching contacts quickly.
Thank you guys. I do appreciate it. I just need to find out now how to get my hd2 to manually force the contacts back in my phone. it keeps saying its already been synchronized and wont update.
all you need here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316
check out that website. it has a lot of useful tips on there but i still cannot get my phone to re sync and bring back in the contacts. i deleted the partnership and re entered all the info it needs to sync back up it. it connected and said it synch'ed but no contacts came back into my phone.
ok guys, if anyone is having the same issues. instead of synchronizing over the air i connected through wmdc and created a partnership and it synched all my contacts.
i used the contact manager and it worked flawlessly awesome stuff guys. thanks to all
This is somewhat unrelated. However, I can't start new threads.
I'm using google active sync as well. I have email in my google account setup in different folders. I can see the folders but they are all empty. Only the inbox has mail in it.
Solution: HD2 active sync and importing contacts
MS Out look and Activesyn. There is no need to purchase software at all. Plus you can use your Outlook contact database for any phone in the future. or emergency swap the phone out before travel...
1- Export all out look as *csv (windows)
2- Modifying the first name by merge first and last name together becomes first name only (couple minutes by formulate)
Was Was Was
First name Last name
John Summervile
Kelly Summervile
After After After
First name Last name
John Summervile BLANK
Kelly Summervile BLANK
3- Delete all the contact on MS outlook and import modified *csv file again. Look at the "File as", it should show "John Summervile "instead showing "Summervile, John"
4- Launch Activesynce again.
Good luck!
my laptop doesnt recognize my htc hd2
ok i have a dell laptop running windows vista
i dont have software cd for htc hd2
when i connect using usb phone to laptop,,,,comp tells me that had trouble installing device so its not installed properly
please help..............................................................
i looked up on another thread and i can sync phone until computer recognizes phone
I imported my used activesync with my google (gmail) account to sync up my contacts, calendar and email. The contacts all came through but were showing up as last name, first name. I wanted them to show up as first name, last name so I started looking around. I found the "app" contact changer mentioned on here and then grabbed it off XDA. It went through and said it changed my contacts. I found that they were all changed properly. After time though, not sure if it just when the phones dies or reboots, some of the contacts change back to last name, first again. It seems random which contacts are reverting, but all of the "facebook linked" contacts reverted plus some more random ones. I can go in and run contact changer again, or go in and manually change them but this seems to make the contact changer app useless if I have to run it all the time.
Any thoughts on what is causing this problem? From what I can tell the contacts in my Google contacts list are named properly, with the first name and last name in the proper field.
I am running T-mobile stock rom, and have not ever synced up with outlook on the PC (just using gmail via server on activesync).
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE: I just ran contact changer and then rebooted my phone (actually popped battery out) and the contacts did not revert. I then ran a sync via activesync and the contacts reverted. :-(
even though the way they are displayed is correct the system still manages them last-first, so if you create a new one after running the cab it will default to last first unless you specify differently in the drop down.this may be why they change when you sync fb.
it also helps (if you are using outlook on the pc) to have outlooks defaults changed to first-last.
Thanks for the tip. I am trying to avoid hooking up to the PC with outlook but I may end up having to. The contacts that are reverting are not new ones. Also it is not only the FB contacts that are reverting back, there are some other random ones that are doing it as well. Very strange. I am guessing it is just a normal WM quirk that I will have to find a workaround.
NickPDX said:
Thanks for the tip. I am trying to avoid hooking up to the PC with outlook but I may end up having to. The contacts that are reverting are not new ones. Also it is not only the FB contacts that are reverting back, there are some other random ones that are doing it as well. Very strange. I am guessing it is just a normal WM quirk that I will have to find a workaround.
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if you do have access to outlook on a pc, i can HIGHLY recommend it as your main method of contact/calendar backup/restore.
I've been using it as my phone backup for years, and it cuts both ways, , , pc goes down? all your outlook contacts gone? no worries! theyre on your phone! Phone goes down? no worris, theyre on the pc!. hehe.
plus with outlook it saves every single field, so your facebook links and favourite poeple is saved, (yes i know that also happens on myphone and whatever, but how often are those services down? )
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.
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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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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.