PS : I tried to answer to this topic (Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 23 ) but I kept getting told I wasn't allowed, so I hope you get to see my reply.....
Hi,
I also have this problem, both in WM5/WM6 and XP/Vista. This has always been the case for me and I was quite annoyed about it. If I simply create a blank Excel file on my desktop (Vista/Office 2007) then sync it on my PPC (WM6) and then try to save it I get the dialog telling me that I have to save it under a different file because of formatting problems or something.
I never found a solution. A shame because to my opinion Excel Mobile is quite advanced (compared to Word Mobile which is much closer to WordPad than Word…) and this does somewhat make syncing difficult (and the stupid file dialog which doesn’t allow going where you want doesn’t help at all !). I found this surprising because MS promote WM based on this syncing capability with the desktop… Also, I’m surprised testers never mention this kind of issue (I get to wonder if they really test), I mean you must notice the file dialog is crap and the Excel syncing is difficult… Nevertheless, I use Office Mobile a lot and am really satisfied with WM.
Harvey
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Today, 02:57 AM
shawndh
Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 23
I need help with WM5 Excel but I don't know where else to post..
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I just bought a new Artemis with WM5. I was using WM2003 previously to sync my excel files with my desktop. Now that I've upgraded to WM5, when I try to edit on my PPC and save, it keeps asking me to save as a new document because the formatting is not supported. I'm using Office 2002. I downloaded the trial version of Office 2007 and got the same thing. I just can't believe the I can't sync Office files on an WM device. I never thought I would have this kind of problem by upgrading to WM5. Never heard of it! There has to be someone else with this problem that has resolved it. Please respond or post a link to where I should post my promblem. Thanx in advanced and sorry if I posted in the wrong forum. No response in General.
i read this in the blue angel thread. you might want to try it...
try to copy all your excel files to a temporary folder on pc and copy back to pda while on ActiveSync (convert to excel file format .XLS)... mobile excel removed its support for saving old excel file format (.PXL).
Hello,
I can sync by pushmail my contacts and my calendar, but I've got a message error when I enable mail : error 0x8600050c
Wifi or 3g does the same.
And my google account work fine on other device...
Someone to help me ?
Thanks
it got nothing to do with leo
for some reason this is happening now if you trying to make a new sync to any phone
try to make a new server connection to your old phone to see
ps this is happening only for mail sync
This is the Developmental forum, please refrain from creating a thread here unless the thread meant to actually develop something. Read the forum rules, it's clearly stated in there.
well... as my issue resolved itself I close the thread.
Sorry to post in wrong place.
i have mda3 and i have put on wm 6.5 and before i had 2003se(good working via usb) and now when i connect to cradle icon just get green and popups active sync program and nothing other i can do
Please refrain from opening threads asking for help and/or stuff. Opening threads is only allowed for members contributing to the site (roms, skins, apps, fixes, etc). Next time, please use the Q&A section of the forums to ask or search for answers. I have transferred your question over there.
Hello (please excuse my English),
I am a vb.net developer with an android phone. I like to write a windows application that will manage the phone's contacts with no sync (the application will read and write the contacts directly on the phone via usb).
I like to make this because I really need a convenient way to manage my >480 contacts with groups, links between them, photos etc.
But I don't know what is the best method to connect to the phone. I have download various open-source projects that use abd.exe but I can not figure it out there is not documentation about this.
Anyway are there any suggestions on this or maybe any how to?
Thank You
No help from me, but lots of encouragement though ... I hate my messy contact list, especially because of multiple gmail accounts... Searched like hell, spend quite some time on failing apps... So good luck with programming!
Thank you for your encouragement. I finally ended that the best solution is to write an android client application that will offer contact records to the pc application. I installed all the android development tools and I am ready to go. This is gona take some time because it will be my first android application so stay tuned...
Ok I have done some progress on the device side, but I really need some help. These are my questions:
1. In the Android Emulator there is no contacts groups. Any idea why or how can I add them?
2. I need some android code guidelines on how to communicate via wi-fi and usb. I am trying to implement some kind of tcp/ip protocol for communicate with the pc application and I need this to be available with the usb cable also (if that is possible)
Thank you all...
MyPhoneExplorer you will love it
I love it allready I am using MyPhoneExplorer since my first SE phone. But it does not supports contacts groups which is very critical for me. This was one of the reasons that I decided to create my own contact manager for android...
Ok, some status update:
I finished my research about tcp connectivity on android and I downloaded all the neading sources and documentation. So I am ready to go with the device side development.
But I really need the contacts groups on the emulator. I 'm stuck here!!!
Come on guys don't leave me alone...
Thank you all
Trying to solve it myself...
First I thought that Contacts application in my phone (Samsung Galaxy 3) was a samsung application, so I downloaded the phones source-code but no Contacts application in there.
Now I found in source.android.com the contacts application for eclair and I downloaded it. It seems (from the source code) that it is the same application which is in my device's firmware.
I create a project in eclipse from this source and right now I am downloading Google APIs to make it run on the emulator. If it runs on the emulator I will start development for the device...
chrishohl said:
I love it allready I am using MyPhoneExplorer since my first SE phone. But it does not supports contacts groups which is very critical for me. This was one of the reasons that I decided to create my own contact manager for android...
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omg i realy thought, it was posible, whit MyPhoneExplorer, my mistake.
great to hear about your little progress
what's up Chris ?
Some news ?
Status Update:
I finaly managed to get contacts groups in the emulator (via 3rd party app) but I still can not export contacts with group information from my device. Anyway this is not very important.
The important thing is that I started developing in android and the results are pretty well.
Right now the device application which I call "MyUnit Android Server" is a multi threaded tcp socket application that communicates with the pc via the usb cable.
I have managed to get through the basic problems with tcp, threads and sockets in android (and java) and it works very stable.
So now it is time to implement some kind of a protocoll for the communication between the device and the computer (any ideas about that are welcome). I have allready implement two functions. One retrieves the group count and the other the groups list. I think that this is very huge progress because this is my first app in java (and android of course).
Maybe in some days (about 10 - 15 because my son's birthday 4yo are in monday so the whole weekend goes to him ) I will be ready to release an alpha test version...
Thats great news, congrat whit your son, I know whats that like.
I would love to beta test, and help out
Hi all - 1st post and I hope I'm not making an eegit of myself.
I recently installed Office 2010 onto my desktop and also ran the Tweaks from the RRibeiro thread. Result was complete loss of notifications which was discussed in detail. Second issue (I guess related to Office installation) is that My Docs sub folders are empty. The actual sub folders can be seen but the docs that were in the sub folders dont show. They can be seen in the Desktop folder used to sync but when I go into WMDC and look in the folders there and on my HD2 they are empty. I did a factory reset to see if that would help but the sub folders remain empty. The notification issue was resolved of course.
Is there an issue of compatibility between WMDC and Office 2010. My OS is Vista and I previously used Office 2003.
I did do a search before posting but I couldnt find anything that matched my problem.
As an aside, this is a terrific forum. I spend ages just reading the many class posts. Thanks folks.