I have a problem. After synchronizing my contacts from Outlook to my SE X1, they don't get recognized anymore. If someone calls me the numbers is shown without spaces however, my outlook synchronized them with a space after the land code (+31 / +32 in my case).
For instance: Person X calls me with the number +31123456789, however in outlook he is shown as +31 123456789; therefore my phone doesn't connect the name to the number resulting in many 'unknown' callers.
How can I solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.
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I can't find an easy way to display my list of people I phone (about 110) without it being mixed in with all my contacts that Outlook has gathered from email (1766). I can call them up via SIM manager but it takes about 30 seconds to build the list .... and I'm not sure whether people I add in here are reflected in my Contacts and vice versa. I'm sure there's a market for an app that manages email and phone numbers separately
Mike
why ?
i moved all my sim contacts to outlook as soon as i got the xda
havent had any reason what so ever to have any on the sim
Two reasons really:
Searching through a huge list while driving is much more difficult than it used to be on my ordinary cellphone with just 100 plus entries, and secondly MS Voice Command (I think) has to build a database for all 1700 outlook contact entries - I think this might be why it's misbehaving.
...... but I don't see anyone else complaining about this, so maybe I'm just working in some weird way
Mike
Create a sub folder in outlook, and move all your email contacts to that folder, then of course you'll need to tell outlook, through the options, the location of the new folder to use for your email address book.
Then leave all your phone contacts in the default contact folder, and this is the one active sync uses when syncing.
This is all due to a limitation in Active Sync whereby you can't specify the folder to be used for syncing, even though, of all things, Nokia PC Suite will do this, whilst microsoft's own solution WON'T.
The other alternative some use, is to use CATEGORIES.
By tagging all your phone contacts with a category label, say for example phone, then you CAN set up activesync so that when it syncs, ONLY contacts of a certain Category are synced.
Hope this helps fit your problem.
Hey .... both of those suggestions sound good. I will experiment. Am I right in thinking though, that I then won't have any email addresses at all in my XDA2. I guess I can live with this, as I'm generally only replying to emails with the XDA2
Mike
the way i do it is to have a category in outlook; i use the category of peronal which is out of the box outlook and then in active sync you have the option of synching only people in a categoy. i have outlook 2003
mikesands said:
Hey .... both of those suggestions sound good. I will experiment. Am I right in thinking though, that I then won't have any email addresses at all in my XDA2. I guess I can live with this, as I'm generally only replying to emails with the XDA2
Mike
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Er that depends.
Now I'm not sure what your original question meant?
The follow up implies that you do want Email address contacts on the XDA2.
So in simple terms, either you do want them, or you dont.
If you want a more prescriptive choice, let me know a bit more detail of what you are hoping to acheive, and I will let you know if there is a way or a workaround for it....
If only SOME contact records containing an Email address are needed by you on the XDA2, then just also tick them as a "Phone Contact" in the Category field, and these will then sync accross if you use Categories as the method.
Let me know exactly waht you mean...
actually your summary of what I want is pretty spot on. A few email addresses and ALL my phone contacts on the XDA. All my email addresses on the PC (I don't really care about the telephone numbers being on the PC). I followed your advice - but didn't think it through properly. I deleted all my contacts on the XDA, then set active sync on the PC to synchronise only the contacts I'd marked as phone contacts. Of course when it sync'd it decided to wipe out ALL the contacts on the PC. No matter - I have a backup - but incidentally I found that with just the 118 contacts from my SIM card loaded into the XDA, both Voice Command and Fonix were dramatically imroved.
Mike
If you open contacts, and then tap on the w, m, h, or e, you will see the available contact details for each person. Just set it to display what you want and it will be remembered between syncs.
IE. Joe Bloggs with a mobile (m), e-mail (e) or work phone (w), home phone (h). If you want the mobile phone number displayed, tap on the letter and choose M.
Cheerio
Howard
When I try to set the country code of a contact's telephone number in Outlook to say +44, Outlook decides to reformat it to just 44 i.e. no +.
When I transfer contacts over to XDA2 using ActiveSync, this bad reformatting goes with it so I then have to update all numbers by placing a '+' in front of them all. This is particularly annoying with mobile numbers as without the country code, XDA2 won't display text messages as from contacts.
Does anyone know how to turn this poxy reformatting off in Outlook?
Thanks
Hi,
A friend of mine has an 8125 and he can dial directly from Outlook (Calendar, Tasks, Email). Outlook for some reasons interprets numbers as telephone number and underlines it, so he can click on it and dial the number directly. On my 8525 I see this capability in emails, but not in calendar, where I really needed it. Whenever I have a phone number in a calendar appointment or task its not underlined and I have to copy and paste it into the phone application. Very cumbersome.
Is there a setting on the phone that automatically interprets the numbers in the calendar and underlines it for direct dial out capbilities, or is that something that needs to be setup on the Outlook server?
BTW this applies to appointments made on the laptop as well as on the phone.
Thanks for any help.
in the appointment's note: tel:xxx-xxxxxxx
It'll work.
Nope. Doesn't work.
It is strange that all numbers in emails are automatically interpreted as phone numbers and are underlined for direct dial out, but appointments don't.
I've exported contacts from my previous Nokia phone to my PC's Outlook Express Address Book (Not Microsoft Outlook but the one present with Windows XP). Now I want to transfer all those contacts on my new TD2. But when I'm connecting it via ActiveSync, it is giving message that contacts cannot be synchronized as Outlook is not installed on Windows PC.
I could not understand what does it actually means. Pls guide me exactly what I need to do to copy my contacts back to TD2.
You should have got outlook (full) on a cd with the phone, if you install it you can import all your contacts (usually does it automatically).
The just sync with windows mobile device centre.
I already have MS Outlook 2007 installed on my laptop, still its seems phone is not recognizing it. Do you mean to say that I need to install Outlook on my phone also...But CS contains only 60 days trial version of Outlook...don't know if it is for phone or laptop..
Searching particular contact
Thanks...problem solved..When I restarted my pc, phone detected the Outlook..
I've 2 more queries:
1) All the contacts are shown in lastname, firstname format. Can I change them to firstname, lastname format, so that when I'll select alphabet from right bar, it positions as firstname.
2) When I open contacts while dialing, they are positioned at very beginning. If I've to search for some particular name, I cannot type the contact name so that it appears. Instead I've to select alphabet from right bar which only positions at starting of that character. So is there any way that I can search contact by typing the name partially or fully...
1) search for contact changer.cab on main forum but if you are syncing with outlook, I always thought it picked it up from there, try changing the "display as" option in outlook then resync.
2) Try icontact (search on main forum for info) far better than main contact app IMO
1) Although I've set firstname, lastname in Outlook, but still it is not showing same in phone.
2) I've installed iContacts. It is working fine. Thanks!!
1) that applies to all new added contacts.
Dear All,
Previously I am using n70. when I transfer my sim contacts to touch hd, it will show duplicate name for those with more than 1 contact number in it. Now even worse is when I login to MSN, i have all the contact in it as well.. This caused a mess in my directory.
I was told that outlook can help but I am too noob, I couldnt find the directory file from the hp to be import to outlook.
Any other suggestion or proper guide on this?
thanks in advance.
Euuuh... Outlook is part of M$ Office suite, and is NOT freeware!
AFAIK, SIM can hold only one number/info per entry, so no wonder you have multiple entries per contact.
Normally you would sync your n70 with Outlook, then sort/integrate info about contact in one entry, and then sync with HD.
On HD you will want to store data in phone memory, NOT in SIM...
You could try the same with Outlook Express (which IS freeware)