Hi, everyone. I'm using this phone for a couple of weeks and i cannot say that i am not happy. There are some problems but i'm trying to fix them. One of the problems is that when i connected to my MSN (Windows Live Messenger), all my MSN contacts were downloaded and added to my main telephone contacts. Every time i am searching for a friend to call and go to contacts, i see 200 useless MSN contacts. Is there a way i can set my contacts only to show my real contacts and not MSN friends? Also, is there a way to show or select only SIM contacts and not ALL?
I don't use MSN but I suspect there are sync settings that you can turn off contacts from syncing.
You may want to consider "MyPhone" for syncing contacts.
Also, these devices suck out of the box so you may also want to consider a custom ROM, eventually.
I have deselect Contacts to be Sync under "Microsoft MyPhone", but still i cannot uncheck the option to save my contacts under "Windows Live" Options.
Apparently once your sync options are set in Windows Live, they are no longer configurable (greyed out).
I see 2 possible options;
Clean up your MSN list, or..
Hard reset and cofigure not to sync contacts from MSN.
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The first time I used live messenger (as an experiment by the way), it synchronized all my messenger contacts to my jade's contact list. So now, i have about 250 contacts, 90% without telephone numbers, which kinda... sucks .
Is there a way to delete these contacts with one handling, so i don't have do delete all of them one by one, also without deleting my outlook contacts?
Hi Rubain,
I got the same disappointment. I once logged into messenger and the whole list popped up in my contacts list. I discovered the reason. If you login to messenger before setting up the synch options by Windows Live, this happens. Just go to START-PROGRAMS-WINDOWS LIVE and choose the option to sig in with a different acct. Once you make it the you lose the automatic set up WINDOWS LIVE made. Now sign in to WINDOWS LIVE first, before signing into messenger. Follow the steps described in the User Manual under the capitel WINDOWS LIVE and uncheck the box "SYNCH MY LIVE CONTACT WITH MY ADDRESS BOOK".There you go. You once again have your live messenger and hotmail account on your device but this time without the contacts in your address book. Hope it helps.
I have a strange problem with my contacts list.. i searched the forum but couldn't find a solution.. I would appreciate any help in that matter.
I added a hotmail account to my HD phone. During this process, I was asked whether I wanted to import the contacts from my hotmail account; i answered yes.
The problem started after that. I needed to organize the contacts on my phone (delete, merge, etc). I though the easiest way was to sync my phone contacts with Outlook on my laptop, organize the contacts on Outlook, then re-sync again. However, after making a full sync, i couldn't find any hotmail contacts added to Outlook, although they were still stored on my phone. I tried several times but I always got the same result: "sync is completed", but the new phone contacts are not imported to Outlook!!
Any ideas to solve this problem??
Thank you in advance.
no solution to this problem???
I have Windows Vista, I have installed Windows Mobile Device Center which I got from the Microsoft website.
In WMDC application click Mobile Device Settings, click Change content sync settings, make sure contacts is ticked.
I don't think this is the problem. I checked the settings in ActiveSync, and the "contacts" option is already checked. Any other ideas... plzzzzzzzzz?
On Windows Vista i used to sync my phone through the Windows Mobile Device Center, and Microsoft Outlook, and get all my contacts from phone to the pc, and if my phone was hooked up also, if i add a new contact or change a detail of an older one in MS Outlook, it would immediately take change in my phone also..
Now a couple of weeks ago i put up Windows 7, and install the Outlook Connector, and now when i connect my phone, it wants to send all the hotmail contacts that i have right into my phone, which i dont want ofcourse, and if i try to delete them, they would delete from my address book and from MSN Messenger also! so im stuck here, im not even hooking up my phone to the computer cause otherwise i'll have my whole phone's contact list messed up with a bunch of email addresses of a bunch of people that i dont need on my phone, and that i cant delete cause i dont want to lose them from my computer or my MSN list either.. this is stressing!! hahaha, so if anyone had this, or knows how to set the Outlook/Connector/WMDC to keep outlook(hotmail) contacts on my computer and sync my phone contacts in a diferent folder without mixing them together, please, it would help me a lot!
EDIT: when i installed windows live on the phone, i unchecked the option of syncing my hotmail contacts, so thats not whats causing it, its purely because of Outlook..
Running Outlook 2007 - Connector - on XP sp3
When I set-up the Hotmail contacts installed to a separate address book. So my Outlook contacts are in "Contacts" whilst the Hotmail are in "Contacts in n****@hotmail.co.uk"
I know that you don't have Activesync which only sycns the main contacts folder. Are there other options in W7 version of AS (sorry can't remember the name). Do your hotmail contacts show in a separate contact folder?
I've lost my outlook connector toolbar and can't remember if it had additional settings.
Nev
in windows 7 i have windows mobile device center, and now i only have 1 "contacts" folder. thats the main problem i think, thats why everything is in the same "contants" , i remember a while ago, when everything used to work good, i did have a "Contacts" and seperate i had "Contacts in [email protected]"
any idea how to add/seperate them?
Not sure... Have tried uninstalling - but didn't seem to dump all of the data and on re-install has done every thing automatically..
see here
I tried to re-install to see if there were any additional setting, but I didn't remove properly.
Have a look under the account settings. You should have two data files... Are the mails being delivered to a different mailbox?
i still cant figure this out!
now i know the problem is that i have the same "contacts" folder both for my outlook contacts and for my hotmail contacts,,, i need to seperate them.. if anyone knows how?
Having a stupid issue with X10 deleting my contacts all the time.
Have them backed up with sony's app, but irretating to have to do it 2 times a day or so.
Dunno what's causing it. Turned off google sync too.
....Bump....
Happened to me the first time I tried to use a google or sony sync, I just turned sync off and use a manual backup to sim card.
I only want a safe store for my contacts 'in the air' as it were that would be obtainable with a login and sync.
If someone could clearly explain the sync services and settings ( keeping, overwriting, deleting, from server) it would be helpfull.
I would always want my phone to be the master sync device and the service to sync to it unless I specify a reverse way so sync, or a 'run through contacts' service that gives options to keep or change details in contacts.
It's a true sync and can be difficult to get setup. If you delete contacts on phone googles dissappear and vice versa. Once you've done it the sync with google is seamless.
For a fresh start the best bet is to delete your phone contacts..then setup all your contacts manually or import them and edit in gmail, then export to a file so you have a backup if something goes wrong.
After that you would sync to google contacts and all should be well.
It always sync perfectly for me after going through and setting it all up this way initially. If I edit a contact on phone it updates on gmail like it should...and vice versa.
In settings for sync I put "My Contacts" as the only sync option, then in gmail you would mark the ones you want on phone as "My Contacts" as well. That way you don't have every email contact on your phone if you don't want too. If you want it all just select "All Contacts"
When I try to select the contacts for my phone I only have "all contacts" offered for my gmail active sync connection. I don't want to sync all contacts but just one category which I have set up especially for my phone's phone book.
Is there any way to facilitate this?
My current workaround is: sync contacts with google sync instead of active sync. Then I can select exactly the category I want to "see". This way I have to live without "push" though - which I don't really like.