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Help ~ Can't Sync Contacts, Calendar, Tasks or Notes

Help!
I am only a wanna-be techie! I had the 6600 then the 6700 and upgraded to the Mogul when it was released this summer.
I had an issue with it so insurance replaced it. So I am syncing my just recieved unit and it won't sync my Contacts, Calendar, Notes or Tasks. My previous unit was sync to my laptop and I expected to plug in the new unit and just sync all my old info.
It will sync Favorites, Files & Media. When I try to click the Contacts and such in my OPTIONS I get an error message and it says I need to "install and run outlook". I have Windows XP on my laptop and I have Outlook Express but I don't use it. I tried opening it and it didn't help.
If my previous Mogul worked just plugging it in shouldn't this one?
How do I fix this? I am quite perplexed and in need of my contacts and calendar!

Try runnig Office Repair. That did it for me once.

I think I tried that ~ I went to Microsoft site and downloaded what I thought was OFFICE REPAIR but when I run it, it wants to know exactly WHAT I want to repair?!?
Any other ideas?!?

mjloves2teach said:
I think I tried that ~ I went to Microsoft site and downloaded what I thought was OFFICE REPAIR but when I run it, it wants to know exactly WHAT I want to repair?!
Any other ideas?!?
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If you still have your contacts in Outlook Express, try this: http://www.syncdata.it/syncexpress.html
It shareware but you get 30 days to 'evaluate' it and by then you should have your data in place and backing it up with something like this to your card should you need to reinstall your contacts and other data: http://www.freewareppc.com/database/pimbackup.shtml
Hope this helps!

How are you guys managing Contacts and Calendar on Galaxy S?

I am having a little bit of frustration with managing my contacts and calendar on my galaxy s.
coming from a windowMobile user, I often use outlook to group, edit my contacts and calendar to keep everything orderly. Moving to Galaxy S, I only manage to sync with Kies ONCE to import my outlook contacts over. After that one time, kies stop working and I couldn't connect my phone to my pc except in mass storage mode.
I am sure I am not the only one here, so how are you people managing your contacts and calendar. Are there any other applications out there we can use? Clicking one by one of the phone is just too slow.

At least for me, Kies will not connect with USB debugging enabled.
Maybe you changed this setting?

I have no problem having it connected. If it's not connecting, ii usually reboot my PC, and disconnect then reconnect the USB cable.
My problem is that not all the contact records are synced over, and sometimes I says the value is not within the expected range then refuse to sync. At other times, the syncing stays at 0% completion forever.
In the case of calendar, it does not sync at all, while often also says the value is not within the expected range, while other times the progress bar refuse to move.
The first time I discovered it, after about 5 days of continuos but failed struggle to make it work, I gave up and entered the data manually. Yes, no joke, I manually recreated the data. But then, I did two hard resets after that. Now I simply give up and continue to use my iPhone for my email, calendar, and contact. I keep only a subset of my contact on my SGS to make calls, via the SIM card.

firmware problem
hi
i had problems syncing my calendar with kies. kies would crash everytime i click on calendar
now i upgraded to jm2 firmware and kies calendar sync works just fine
it was a firmware problem

i do it via google contacts, online.
everyone should have a gmail account by this date in computer age

I was found this problem once with my old laptop that was win XP. But with my new Window 7 laptop, nothing happens.
I just guess it is Kies not working well with win XP. What is your pc's os?
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I've found that Kies will not connect When I'm using ADW launcher. It complains about not being idle. If I run the stock Touch Wiz Launcher, I can connect with Kies.
My problem with the Calendar sync is that Kies does not sync Recurring appointments, so none of my standing meetings show up.

I wonder if it is because google has too much limitation in it's calendar as compared to window and iPhone. I discovered that in android, I can't set up appointments that happens once every two weeks, but I have such recurring items on my iPhone.

Guys, check miqlive.com. Outstanding. Supports both WM and Android and many other phones. Backups up calls, contacts, calender and SMSs and you could edit them virtually from anywhere over the internet through a PC. It is free of cost and I have done some initial tests to backup. It worked great. Looking to try restores from a freshly partitioned SGS. I have seen many successfully using them.

Yeah, I've been using MIQ since I had my Xperia X1 and just installed it on my Galaxy S and everything just got resynced without any worries.

Prankey said:
Guys, check miqlive.com. Outstanding. Supports both WM and Android and many other phones. Backups up calls, contacts, calender and SMSs and you could edit them virtually from anywhere over the internet through a PC. It is free of cost and I have done some initial tests to backup. It worked great. Looking to try restores from a freshly partitioned SGS. I have seen many successfully using them.
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Storing anything on somebody's server is unacceptable solution to me though. It must be only to the outlook on my PC.

Hi,
My computer OS is window 7 Home Premium. As for problem with kies connection with the phone, I have no idea why it is not working. I have done multiple search on various forums, and found that a lot of people also having the same problem. Downloading the latest version of kies does not help.
Most suggested solutions are quite unacceptable such as hard reset or deleting all your mp3. Loosing all my data or mp3 everytime I want to sync are not good solutions.
I am really considering moving to the dark side and just upload all my contacts on google. Two major downside are that, all your contacts will be uploaded to the internet and google web application pale in comparison to what I am used to in Outlook.
denpongk said:
I was found this problem once with my old laptop that was win XP. But with my new Window 7 laptop, nothing happens.
I just guess it is Kies not working well with win XP. What is your pc's os?
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hear hear!
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Storing anything on somebody's server is unacceptable solution to me though. It must be only to the outlook on my PC.
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You can export you contacts to vcf from the phone itself (go into contacts, then settings) to the internal storage or an external sd card, then just put the vcf file somewhere safe. As for me, im not syncing calendar with gmail either. I got Kies working when i got my phone so i got to sync my calendar once, now it doesnt work at all. Tried all "fixes" but nothing worked. Im on Win7 64bit. MIQ is not an option either, i need to sync with outlook.

Hmmm, I don't have any problems like that with google calendar, it's actually got mor options than apple calendar. I have events recurring weekly, during footy season, bi weekly for work, monthly for bills. NP

Google Calendar Sync might be an option, it syncs phone with gmail and gmail with outlook and vice versa.

speedweed said:
Google Calendar Sync might be an option, it syncs phone with gmail and gmail with outlook and vice versa.
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absolutely! but don't forget that one has to save every calendar entry and/or contact to the gmail account. Which is a bit of a hassle

New Kies update
Hey guys,
Check out the latest Kies update xxx74.2 it now syncs to Outlook properly - well calendar and contacts at least.
Still don't know how to keep my emails on my phone all the time.

my whole life is in my gmail account, calenders/contacts/email addresses.
i've sold my soul to them.

Syncing only over Gmail for Contacts and Calenders even Picasa photos. First i had the Google Calender Sync installed on my Computer to sync the Gmail account with Outlook.
Problem was that when i made an input on Gmail or Outlook, some hours later it was gone in both.
But since i don´t use it anymore, i never had any problems again.

[Q] Contacts: Google or Mobile?

Hi,
When my BT connection with the carkit still worked (see threath ' BT problems') I noticed that my contacts were displayed more then one time with the same phonenumber.
Looking in Contacts on the DHD I can see that the information inthere contains 'Google' and 'Mobile'. Probably the Googlesync and the Outlooksync.
Which one do you guys use and why.
Problem is that I want to use the sync on my pc between Googlecontacts and Outlook so I don't have to change or add things twice, but I only need one contact on my phone
Thanx!
Leon

Hi,
Well from what I know is that if you use google contacts it uploads and syncs your contacts to your google account where as with the normal phone contacts it stays on your phone unless you have a HTC Sence account which syncs them to their site.
Hope that helps a bit.
~Sean

Okay, Thanx. I do have a Sense account, but somehow they also stay on my DHD, while I only checked the Google-box.
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[Q] People/Contacts app sync & bluetooth problem

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 !

[Q] Phonebook no longer works in the car

I have an HD2 and an Audi A4 (2007).
I connect the phone via bluetooth and it has been working well for the last year.
My office has just put email onto Exchange so I set this up on the phone to get my emails but now the phonebook doesn't work in the car - it connects fine but comes up no entries.
I'm wondering if it is due to outlook requiring me to have a keypad lock (which is also annoying)?
Any ideas as it is useful to have my email but not if it messes up everything else.

It sounds as though when they set up Exchange settings that they synced the e-mail, calendar and CONTACTS. So the contacts may have e-mail addresses but no phone numbers and any existing contacts were deleted.
The contacts in your computer's email program should now be the same as on your phone. Just add the missing contacts and any conacts without phone numbers.

Thanks for the advice fred_up, what seems odd is if I remove the car from the bluetooth list then re-establish the connection to the car it works fine.
But once I leave the car then go back it comes up no entries again!
I'll try unticking the contacts in the outlook sync settings to see if that does the trick.

I have a pioneer set in the car and with winmo the phonebook was working fine, but with my NANED Android it's not.
I'll be testing some other builds later this week to see if it's the build that i'm using or not.
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Nice car... well try a diff rom...
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htc-hd2 said:
I have a pioneer set in the car and with winmo the phonebook was working fine, but with my NANED Android it's not.
I'll be testing some other builds later this week to see if it's the build that i'm using or not.
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Okay.. Got it working.. I needed to allow my pioneer to access my phone's addressbook

I have address book access set up on the car and the phone but still nothing. It actually came up yesterday then disappeared right before my eyes - how random!
Having tried everything I can think of I give up and am going to remove exchange, I'm fed up of the keypad lock it forces you to have anyway and I tried the registry tweak to remove that but as I'm no programmer couldn't get that to work either.
Thanks for your replies anyway.