Hi Peepz,
Just updated to the new rom and im getting my phone all configured.
Is there a way to combine contacts? I have found from ms myphone, facebook and hotmail I sometimes get 2 or 3 copies of the same people, I just want to see if there is an app which can combine the contact details to one. That would be awesome!
Thanks
p4rma
So there arent any contact managers I can use for this?
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Hey,
Im somewhat new to this WM6 stuff. I previously had a Sony Ericsson and when I had switched to my new Wing, I had saved all my Contacts to my SIM card and when I went to load my contacts from my SIM onto my PPC, they all look like "Norman/M; Norman/H; Norman/W" or instead of "Norman Kiwan" it would show "Kiwan;Norman" for all my contacts. It gets really annoying and I was hoping maybe some of you found a program I can use to easily edit/change my contacts on my phone... it would be extremely appreciated! thank you.
- Norman
That's quite simple. Space character is not allowed in name string on SIM That's probably why you have a semicolon between the first and the last name. /M or /H are shortcuts for (M)obile or (H)ome phone number. Remember on SIM one number is always one independent record. Just save numbers to Contacts in your phone, then synchronize with Outlook. Amend contacts there and synchronize back.
ok so pretty much use outlook to change the contact's name... just gotta figure out how to do that with outlook.. ill give it a shot.
Now in terms of using MSN messenger, for some reason even if I put in the settings NOT to sync contacts it still does! and its just a huge mess seeing all these phone contacts and email contact everywhere... is there a way to get rid of those too?
thanks for the help!
- Norman
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Not syncing contacts means only not syncing contacts when you sync manually. but when you start messenger it syncs contact's automatically.
Contact manager..amzing and easy install
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I hate the way contacts are sorted on wm6 too!
Check this one out is pretty good one, actually i love it!
http://www.pocketcm.com/
Haven't had problems with contacts ever since my first WM phone ( got used to it quick) but the only problem I ever had was that you couldn't delete multiple contacts at once. Tried to do this for the first time in over a few years and seems like the SIM Manager has had quite an overhaul since I've last tried to use that feature. If it were a Microsoft program I think we would still be having this program.
Thats enough ranting for now
Peace
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932386.aspx
Is anyone working on a facebook app for WM?
jeep14 said:
Is anyone working on a facebook app for WM?
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Well, saw this for a while ago, but kind of lost the use of it since the web-version of facebook does everything a user needs... So, why re-invent the wheel unless someone has a good idéa?
Something to sync the calendar on Facebook with the calendar on your WM phone? Or the contacts? Or upload all the images from your phone.
(Admittedly it would be fine just to sync them with outlook or an Exchange server, but not everyone uses those POS systems....).
Anyone got any other ideas?
im also loooking forward for a Windows app as i cant stay w/o fb for a long time
Cavey.co.uk said:
Something to sync the calendar on Facebook with the calendar on your WM phone? Or the contacts? Or upload all the images from your phone.
(Admittedly it would be fine just to sync them with outlook or an Exchange server, but not everyone uses those POS systems....).
Anyone got any other ideas?
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Hmm... might be a good idea - Anyone else who is interested in the topics mentioned above?
Don't have alot of time right now since the exam-periode is comming, but if I have time I might fix atleast the calendar and contact application But I'll post a reply in the thread if I'm up to it
Hey-
I was thinking of an idea but couldnt even begin to code it.
Something along the lines of full contact list integration. As in complete synching of contacts in phone with birthdays, addresses, etc. Complete integration with a contact manager so that you can view someones pics, write on their wall, etc without a browser, almost as if the data were stored in your phone. SMS like wall posts and messages and calendar synching. If anyone likes this idea and would like to work with me on it, I would be willing to make a photoshot mockup of what I am imagining to better get my point acreoo, but I think full and seamless browser-less integration would be amazing!
i use the Fonebook application to sync with outlook but I think a facebook program would be a great addition like adding events to my calendar, syncing photos with outlook, birthdays and whatever else. I think the mobile facebook experience would be improved with a program.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2442338999&b&ref=pd
WOW...is no one making a facebook app? It would seriously be the icing on the cake for WM. Someone contact me, and we can work on it together!
there is one i found called snap2face which allows you to browse pictures and save them to your device. its pretty basic and definitely needs some tweaking to speed up load times but for a beta its not too bad.
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So im working on something but it would really be nice if someone wanted to work on it with me. I think there is a lot of potential here.
any progress on this?
Well first off im new to the HTC Leo forum so... hi!
Ok I just got a HTC HD2 and I was wondering, how do you back up the contacts and their facebook links? Only I'm installing a new rom each day trying to find the best one for me which means wiping the phone and its getting a little annoying that I have to keep re-linking the facebook links.
i use microsoft office outlook through active sync to back up my contacts, it also saves there facebook links so when you log in through data services in setting their details and facebook profile pic are assigned to your contacts.
quinny
ah ok, and if you don't have office?
Gaz25 said:
ah ok, and if you don't have office?
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Microsoft MyPhone (available through Windows Marketplace) also stores Facebook link information when using it to back up.
This service however is an online service and would require use of your phones data connection to upload the information to Microsoft on a regular basis or WiFi/hooked up to PC to do a manual update of the data.
not to worry. Microsoft my phone does the trick just fine
EDIT: lol Elcs you must have posted at the same time as I did. Thanks anyway
Hi everybody.
I'm searching exactly the same thing. How can we backup the links between the facebook contacts and the HTC contacts.
I'm not only speaking about the pic, but the real link to the facebook account.
Microsoft My Phone is certainly doing that, but I would like to have an offline solution.
I'm using PIM backup which is able to save WinMo contacts, but it didn't include the facebook account links.
I have tried to save the folder MyDevice/Windows/FBContacts but apparently it's storing only the pics and not the links to the account.
It means that when I restoring this folder, the FB account links are not restored.
Anyone has an idea?
Thanks in advance
I believe iMobileTools Contacts backup saves the links for facebook & HTC contacts that HTC add to contact via tagged code in contact notes.
Try it: http://www.imobiletool.com/download/imobiletool-contacts-backup.zip
Only contct backup progam I found that backs up contact photos & ringtones & restores them correctly plus supports unicode correctly.
You may also find SPB backup handy for saving & restoring contacts, mail accounts ect.
I have been searching via XDA and Google for a solution to this and have found none yet. Maybe one of you guys can help, because it's pissing me off.
After synching my HD2 to Outlook via the HTC utility, not only are all my contacts on the handset sorted by first name, but it forced all my Outlook contacts to also sort by first name. My original settings were to sort by 'file as', which in almost all cases is by last name, then by company.
I tried the Komodo utility but that only changed sorting on the handset. My contacts in Outlook are still FUBAR.
This is really hacking me off. Does anyone know how to fix it?
Thank in advance!
Since Kies doesn't work with some of the latest ICS custom ROMs, can anybody recommend a good utility to syncronise contacts between Outlook & the Note, or as an alternative Outlook & GMail
Thanks
Take a look at Gsyncit. It costs, but it works. Sync is from Outlook to/from the Google cloud and then between the Google cloud and your phone(s). That should make it independent of the ROM on your phone.
My girlfriend has a copy running between Outlook 2010 and Froyo on her Motorola Defy. I have a copy running between Outlook 2003 and my GB Note, and ZTE Blade on Eclair and GB before that.
It means that sync can occur in the background and you don't have to take any positive action to force a sync between laptop/PC and your phone. So long as they are each on the net at some point the sync will just go ahead automatically.
I might add that for the first year of use there did seem to be some instability, with Outlook sometimes being crashed by the plugin on startup, but never any data loss as a result. For the last several months - certainly all of 2012 so far - it has been faultless for both of us.
Hi tdodd,
I have a similar question, my father uses a HTC Touch Pro, and has around 1000 contacts on it.
I have finally convinced him to upgrade to the Galaxy Note, but now I need to solve the sync problem of all his contacts.
The biggest problem that I think I will have will be that outlook always shows the Last name first and only than the first name. Would the Gsyncit program identify correctly the names or would I need to edit each contact to change the first name and last name?
I am looking right now for a way to transfer the contacts from Windows Mobile 6.1 to the Android 2.3.6.
Can SMS and Call logs be transferred also or those ones would get lost?
Thank you all for your help.
To my knowledge and experience Gsyncit will sync contacts, calendar events, notes and tasks. Maybe there is new stuff in Outlook 2010 which I don't know about, but for me it does not sync call logs or SMS messages because, apart from anything else, Outlook 2003 does not hold such information.
As for contact field mapping, in Outlook you have individual fields for surname, forename and other parts of the name if required. The "File As" display is assembled within Outlook from those individual fields if they exist. If you only input data to Outlook in the File As field then I'm not exactly sure how that gets handled, but it should sync across one way or another.
Since Gsyncit is only responsible for sync between Outlook and the Google Cloud it should not matter which Android phone you have because it is down to Google/Android to take care of the sync between the cloud and your own device. That part of the sync has nothing to do with Gsyncit.
If you have a Windows 6.1 device (I used to have a WM5 phone before moving to Android) then it should be simple to sync contacts into Outlook using MS tools. Once in Outlook you could use Gsyncit to sync the Outlook contacts up to the cloud and then let Google sync from the cloud to the Android phone.
However, if it is a one off exercise only, with no sync back and forth required in the future then I believe you can export the contacts from Outlook to a CSV file and then import the CSV file to Google on the web from where they will propogate to the Android phone. For such a one off exercise there is no need to purchase Gsyncit at all.
When I bought Gsyncit for myself there was a free trial available for something like five days and 20 contacts/events. So you can always give it a spin for free and see if it does what you need, assuming the trial is still part of the offering. My purchase was 20 months ago.
p.s. Google finds it easily enough, but here is a link with reviews - https://www.google.com/enterprise/m...ductListingId=4262+17155367427235402467&pli=1
http://sourceforge.net/projects/googlesyncmod/
I use this to sync my outlook contacts with gmail (and vice versa)...works great and its free!
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nunosm said:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/googlesyncmod/
I use this to sync my outlook contacts with gmail (and vice versa)...works great and its free!
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Does it copy the contact photos/profile pictures across too?
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Does it copy the contact photos/profile pictures across too?
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Never tried it because i dont have them on outlook. Give it a try....
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tdodd said:
Take a look at Gsyncit. It costs, but it works. Sync is from Outlook to/from the Google cloud and then between the Google cloud and your phone(s). That should make it independent of the ROM on your phone.
My girlfriend has a copy running between Outlook 2010 and Froyo on her Motorola Defy. I have a copy running between Outlook 2003 and my GB Note, and ZTE Blade on Eclair and GB before that.
It means that sync can occur in the background and you don't have to take any positive action to force a sync between laptop/PC and your phone. So long as they are each on the net at some point the sync will just go ahead automatically.
I might add that for the first year of use there did seem to be some instability, with Outlook sometimes being crashed by the plugin on startup, but never any data loss as a result. For the last several months - certainly all of 2012 so far - it has been faultless for both of us.
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Thank you. As ever though, I didn't want to pay for anything
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Never tried it because i dont have them on outlook. Give it a try....
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Yes, it copies the profile pictures across too
Thank you
cgjones said:
Yes, it copies the profile pictures across too
Thank you
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Glad to help....
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cgjones said:
Since Kies doesn't work with some of the latest ICS custom ROMs, can anybody recommend a good utility to syncronise contacts between Outlook & the Note, or as an alternative Outlook & GMail
Thanks
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Kies should work. You might need to switch the mode your Note is connecting to the computer.
I used this app when I was having issues and Kies works perfectly again.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zatta.USB_switch&hl=en