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Hey guys,
I was kinda bored and i asked myself: What do those guys do with their device?
So i kinda posted a new thread.
Please share what you do with your device.
Im using my herald for work. Appointments, notes, TomTom. All that kinda stuff.
Moderators, you can make this sticky if you want. It's just a thought.
I use it for the phone and the calender (PI8) and the camera and the alarm clock (SPB time) and the generally customizable awesomeness so i can change what i use it for whenever i want.
THAT was a lot of "and".
I used my phone (and hope to use it again because of bricking) for lots of stuff. The most important issue is the phones basic features communication (of course) SMS, the phone itself, recieving Emails trough my private Wlan, also to-do-lists and appointment planning.
Second comes the awefull translator from plecosoft Chinese<->English with character recognition, I think it's a MUST for every chinese language student.
Another funny gimmick for university is to control your laptop through the Herald via Bluetooth. Great for Powerpoint, cause the Herald's touchscreen acts like a computer mouse.
Oh, I forgot Mortplayer for Mp3's and my favorite Video-Podcasts (tough you have to transcode them before viewing).
I use mine to pick up chicks.
Sorrowedsniper said:
Another funny gimmick for university is to control your laptop through the Herald via Bluetooth. Great for Powerpoint, cause the Herald's touchscreen acts like a computer mouse.
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I would have never thought of that, but that's a great idea. I use my phone for a lot of texting, gaming, music, movies, internet surfing, and weather updates.
I use my phone for work, ie... contacts and appointments; I also flash about once a week for cool customizations. I try and keep up on all the coolest apps to show off to my friends that paid for a "locked" iphone.
i use it for work and fun i also use it to my laptop as a modem
does tom tom work for the wing?
I use it to do lots of things, the least of which is use it as a phone ahaha.
It's more of a mobile internet and news source for me, I have some games on it (Guitar hero etc)
And I like customizing my themes
It all has to match
Which is pissing me off cuz I don't have the time to make a nice mobile shell theme
All kinds of things
For work: Exchange Push Email/contacts/calendar, Google Maps, VPN access (OpenVPN), Remote Desktop and SSH (Pocket PuTTY), SMS/MMS for network monitoring alerts. Mileage and expense tracking. And voice calls.
Personal: Checks 4 email accounts, weather radar, games, checkbook/cash tracking, stream XM Radio via Internet, MP3 player, severe weather alerts via SMS/MMS. And voice calls.
Watching porn... jk
Use it for a bit of everything
Sorrowedsniper said:
Another funny gimmick for university is to control your laptop through the Herald via Bluetooth. Great for Powerpoint, cause the Herald's touchscreen acts like a computer mouse.
What do you use to do that?
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norbythegeek said:
For work: Exchange Push Email/contacts/calendar, Google Maps, VPN access (OpenVPN), Remote Desktop and SSH (Pocket PuTTY), SMS/MMS for network monitoring alerts. Mileage and expense tracking. And voice calls.
Personal: Checks 4 email accounts, weather radar, games, checkbook/cash tracking, stream XM Radio via Internet, MP3 player, severe weather alerts via SMS/MMS. And voice calls.
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weather radar you say? =o
on the internet or a program? *finding...*
Hmmm...
Good question... Here are the things that immediately jump to mind:
Internet browsing
E-mail
Weather
Streaming talk radio
Telnet / SSH / RDP
TomTom / G.Maps / Live for Navigation
WiFi Site Surveys
Fring for VoIP / IM
Contact and Calendar sync
Remote Control and Notification for LinuxMCE Media / Security Network
And, occasionally, I even make or receive a phone call or SMS...
Hi,
First I hope it’s alright to post this here.
I have been a windows mobile user for years, presently Verizon I760; I really would like to get the Incredible. I have two things that concern me. Any Information or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
1. Will I be able to get outlook and the phone to automatically sync contacts, and calendar (both ways) when I connect it with a usb cable?
2. Will I be able to voice dial with a Bluetooth headset?
I am a small business and normally sync to my work computer and my home laptop. I have no idea what exchange is or if that is an option for me.
Thank you advance for your help.
I am very much in the same boat as you as a long time Windows Mobile user (presently with the XV6900). There are several ways to do what you are asking but as of yet, in my opinion, none are great.
One is CompanionLink (companionlink.com/androidusb/ol-android-usb.html). While it does use a USB cable, it uses its own custom apps for calendar, contacts, and everything else. It is unclear to me at this point how big of an issue that is. For example, if you are trying to make a phone call and all the contacts were imported into this custom program, will it find them?
The next is Missing Sync (markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html). It does what we both want, importing the data right where it is supposed to go, but they aren't quite there yet. I have been watching this software for months and slowly they add features. For example they just recently added the ability to sync notes. They still don't let you sync Calendar as of yet.
Lastly the backup plan for me at the moment is using Google's own sync software so you will sync your calendar and contacts with Google's website automatically and your phone will get the info from Google. I am not a big fan of this as I don't particularly want my info online and I would rather it go straight to the phone if I happen to be going somewhere with no internet access. Like I couldn't sync my phone if I was abroad.
So, I am waiting for Missing Sync to get done and until then am planning on using Google's service.
As for Bluetooth dialing, I imagine so but I am not sure.
There is also HTC Sync
Deejx! You are my hero. I feel so happily dumb. The description on the HTC website says:
HTC Sync™ lets you synchronize Outlook and Windows Address Book (Outlook Express), contacts and calendar events on your PC with your phone. It also lets you install third-party Android applications on the phone, and the Mobile Network sharing function as well.
PERFECT! Thank you. Wow much better.
HTC Sync seems to be able to Sync Via the USB cable
How ever i ran into a program that syncs stright into Gmail itself.
You can find this and more on my blog http://techadminspot.blogspot.com/2010/04/getting-ready-for-htc-incredible.html
The software that syncs outlook with gmail is called CompanionLink http://www.companionlink.com/
Also Dropbox is working on a Android App to sync files.
No Bluetooth Voice Dial on Android
As far as voice dialing from your bluetooth, Android doesn't support that yet. There are several threads on Googles forum about this including this one: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1412
Hopefully they'll get it together soon.
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As far as voice dialing from your bluetooth, Android doesn't support that yet. There are several threads on Googles forum about this including this one: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1412
Hopefully they'll get it together soon.
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lol not likely, it's been open since 2008
HTC sync won't work with Outlook 2010 64 .as of yet. You have to transfer your contacts and Calendar stuff to your gmail account. One way is to download a transfer program via 'trial', then transfer from gmail to phone using HTC sync. Can only verify for Win7 64 and Office 2010 64.
Dear everyone,
As I still wait for DHD, I have question about how to backup or tranfer all DATA from my old HTC desire which also android OS. I have try to search all but still not found the way.
Please of someone have solution please teach me.
Thank you very much.
Edit: just found that I misstype on title... from "add" to "all". very sorry about his
There's an app called "Transfer from old phone"
It asks you what kind your old phone is, and then I assume it guides you.
I just sync with Google, so I don't need it.
All your contacts and calendar should be on Google, so them come over by magic.
For everything else, I use Rerware MyBackup Pro, and it works well.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-rerware-android-mybackuppro-jmnC.aspx
If you use the same google account all your contacts and some settings will be backed up and pop back up after sync. As for music, pictures etc drop them on to a pc via usb then upload on the new phone. If u want your texts backed up as well ive been using sms backup+ from the market (sends your texts as emails to your gmail under a sms tab, it can restore them to)
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I've been in the same spot as the OP.
Using a Desire, want my data to go over to the DHD. The "Transfer data" feature HTC supplies is utter rubbish. It only copied the phonebook entries.
As I do not use google to sync data I resorted to MyPhoneExplorer which I use to sync Contacts to Windows Contact Manager and Appointments to Thunderbird / Lightning. I just synced my old phone to the PC, then set up the new phone and told MPE to sync data from those apps to the new phone.
Moving the text messages was done with "SMS Backup & Restore" from the Market (Author: Ritesh Sahu) which exports the messages to XML and then allows to import them in the new phone.
psych0t1c said:
I've been in the same spot as the OP.
Using a Desire, want my data to go over to the DHD. The "Transfer data" feature HTC supplies is utter rubbish. It only copied the phonebook entries.
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I don't know about utter rubbish, because I have transferred the data (contacts, SMS messages and calender entries) from a Blackberry Bold 9000 and an iPhone 3GS with absolutely no bother at all.
Thank you everyone! I will try once I got my DHD....
Thank again!
That is indeed interesting, cause when I used that feature on the initial setup of my DHD it asked me to fire up Bluetooth on the old device, paired with it and then told me that only the phonebook would be synced. It kind of made sense cause it was using BT OBEX profile for data transfer. Basically it did what any good BT handsfree would do - download the contacts.
Did you use a different connection (USB or something)?
I just did as it asked, fired up Bluetooth on both devices and it gave me the 3 options. With the Bold 9000, it wasn't even listed in the supported devices that showed on the DHD and it worked fine still
Hi,
I exetensively searched XDA and google for a solution to this, but while finding solutions to problems which are close to my problem, I couldn't find quite what I'm looking for, so be aware at first this might seem like a question that has already been asked, but please keep reading since this is really something different.
I have the following problem with my Desire Z which I have for 2 days now:
In my Gmail account (which is in fact a hosted apps account), I have like probably most of you a "All Contacts" group and a "My Contacts" group.
I use the My Contacts group for all my contacts which I maintain with correct information like name, last name, phone, etc. The "All Contacts" group is auto-updated by Gmail and contains each and every contact that I have ever sent or received an email from/to.
The difference is that my "All Contacts" contains 497 records, while my "My Contacts" group only contains 127 record, suffice it to say I don't want the "All Contacts" group anywhere near/on my phone.
Off course I've found out by now that using the menu button in the 'People' app and going to 'View' brings up a window where I can nicely select which groups I want to see and which ones I don't.
The problem, however, is that this setting only affects what is being shown, and even when turning off "(Ungrouped Contacts)", while effectively hiding these contacts, they are still in the phone, and worst of all : still synced to my Bluetooth carkit.
This causes huge problems with my carkit, probably because either there are weird characters in one or more of the records, or because there are just too many of them.
This is off course not just a wild guess, but a conclusion I have drawn after performing some tests:
I tested this with 2 carkits : My own Dodge Ram 2009 MyGig system, and my dad's Audi S5 Audi MMI (Multimedia Interface) system.
Tests were performed with 4 phones:
- Tmobile G1/HTC Dream running CM6.1 (stock android contacts.apk)
- Moto Milestone running CM6.1 (stock android contacts.apk)
- Samsung Galaxy S I9000 running stock ROM (TouchWiz contacts.apk)
- HTC Desire Z running stock ROM (HTC Sense contacts.apk)
For all 4 phones I connected them to the 2 carkits and enabled logcat while doing this. The logcat log effectively showed me that the CM6.1 phones were only syncing the 'right' contacts, while the 2 other phones (both using non-stock contacts.apk) were sending all the other **** to the carkit as well.
These tests lead me to conclude that apparently it's very hard to make a decent custom contacts.apk, because 2 independant manufacturers both screwed it up at the same point.
From where I stand I can see 3 possible solutions/workarounds to get this working correctly on my Dezire Z:
- Replace contacts.apk with stock one
- Flash CM6.1 on there
- Clean up 'all contacts' group in gmail account.
Normally I wouldn't hesitate to just fire up CM6.1 on there, but I really like the HTC sense web controll thingy, so I want to stick with the stock ROM for a while, or until Cyanogen comes with a ROM that includes this. (not yet AFAIK)
Cleaning up 497 contacts is really something I want to keep as a last resort.
So the only remaining option is to put a stock contacts.apk on there.
Can this be done, and if so, how?
Or are there possibly other ways around this which I'm failing to see?
I think this thread will soon get moved to the General forum, since it's not ROM development
I've got a very similar problem with the one you describe above. I found a load of garbage being sync'd via Bluetooth to my car stereo too. As well as my regular contacts, there were a massive load of blank ones (which I've now discovered were hiding in my "Other Contacts" section in Gmail, and got sync'd to my phone, and hence sync'd also to my car stereo).
I also found it sync'd all my Facebook contacts via Bluetooth, which isn't what I wanted at all. I ended up deleting all those manually on the car
Thanks for the reply Stevewevie, good to know I'm not the only one with this problem.
Some car kits seem to be able to cope with this better than others.
For example my dad's Audi MMI will not work at all with my Desire Z, while my Dodge's MyGig will connect, but sometimes break up during a call, not syncing contacts, and other weird stuff.
What I was going to look into was a solution that might work for you too, i.e. a way to send via Bluetooth a group of contacts. I can't yet find any way to do this in the stock ROM though, and I haven't searched to see if there are other Android utilities that could do this.
I've got around my problem for now, but if I lose the address book in my car stereo I'll be faced with the same problem again. Or if I need to do a big update.
steviewevie said:
What I was going to look into was a solution that might work for you too, i.e. a way to send via Bluetooth a group of contacts. I can't yet find any way to do this in the stock ROM though, and I haven't searched to see if there are other Android utilities that could do this.
I've got around my problem for now, but if I lose the address book in my car stereo I'll be faced with the same problem again. Or if I need to do a big update.
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The Dodge MyGig syncs everytime my phone connects, and sometimes it seems to workout while other times it doesn't work.
So for me it's a gamble everytime I start my car.
vyruz1986 said:
The Dodge MyGig syncs everytime my phone connects
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Ouch !
So I'm considering switching from Sense to non-sense Gingerbread to see how it works. I'm wondering if there is replacement for these things availlble on non-sense phones:
Dialer
Facebook integration (automatically link my contacts, use facebook images as contact images, calendar events integration)
Friendstream (something that can show me both facebook and twitter feeds together)
calendar widget
Clock applicaton (something that combines stopwatch and countdown timer)
clock widget with weather
Bluetooth file transfer (not completely sure if this is sense functionality, but i could easily send files to friend with desire, while another friend with 2.1 Tatoo could not receive anything)
FM Radio widget
Also, how is FM radio working in non-sense builds? Last time i tried one, FM radio needed bluetooth connection. .