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Corporate lookup

Does anyone know of a free app that will do exchange corporate directory lookup? If these phones ever hope to gain ground in the corporate world they really need to have this functionality out of the box and built into the exchange app on the phone (i.e. being able to do a "check name" against the GAL). I've searched the marketplace but can't find one for 1.5. There is an app for the DROID that does this but it is either specifically written for the motorola phone, or only supports android 2.0 (doesn't show up as a search result unless it is done using the DROID). This is my biggest beef with this phone and i'm thinking of sending it back and just waiting for them to be released with 2.0 already loaded.
I know there are some paid programs out there that claim to offer this functionality but of course i'd prefer to explore the free route first. Thanks!

There is a beta program from Seven (also known as Good Messaging) that does what you are asking for at no cost (aside from testing new features).
http://www.seven.com
I've been using it off and on for a couple of years now. It perpetually has bugs (it's their beta build), but it works.
It supports direct connect from your phone via Exchange OWA, or you can install a connector on your PC at work which integrates with outlook to sync over the air with your phone (useful if your company only exposes exchange internally or via vpn).

How can I use this app from Seven? The link to Sprint links to other phones and not any of the newer smartphones...
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Nevermind, I got it. Have to sign up for their forums and beta program. Installing now. Looks very professional. Let's hope it works well.

Finally I can answer a question for someone else. The Sprint Hero has a GAL built it. Unfortunately you have to be in an email to run it, but you can do a GAL from there. Let me know if you need help. No need to get an app, its already there.
When in an email, in the to box, type the name and a drop down will be there and select Company Directory

What about on the HTC Eris from Verizon? It does not have this drop down for corporate directory option.... Maybe I'll try that seven program.

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How can I use this app from Seven? The link to Sprint links to other phones and not any of the newer smartphones...
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Nevermind, I got it. Have to sign up for their forums and beta program. Installing now. Looks very professional. Let's hope it works well.
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Glad you figured it out!

Grinder16 said:
Finally I can answer a question for someone else. The Sprint Hero has a GAL built it. Unfortunately you have to be in an email to run it, but you can do a GAL from there. Let me know if you need help. No need to get an app, its already there.
When in an email, in the to box, type the name and a drop down will be there and select Company Directory
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I feel like a moron here, but I am not seeing this, I can start to type a name and I only get my list of contacts in the phone. This is not a GAL list. Would be OOBER cool if I can get this working, and figure out how to delete and email ONLY off the phone not the server too.

Issues that marr my Hero experience, and if I can do anything to turn this around?

My most recent problem is to do with my text messages - default app.
One of my contacts / threads has a Caution '!' triangle on it, pretty sure its just showing an unread message, but it's not very distinguishable as to read and unread - I'm damned if I can't actually find it in the thread, I don't want to delete the entire thread - is there a trick or tip to solve it guys?
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At work I can't jump on to the company wifi, it has one of those web browser auth screens you have to key your login into first before it'll let you surf. A lot like at public wifi hotspots...
It doesn't accept my perfectly valid login, my old Blueangel, netbook and N95 are able to get on with no sweat.
Similarly, one of our web based tools at work doesn't have a paid for / trusted SSL cert, and my Hero (over 3G) warns me but seemingly does allow me to go further by presenting me with a login prompt, but again doesn't accept my login which is valid and keeps returning me to the prompt. I'm wondering if both these issues might be because Android just won't allow me to add SSL exceptions on its browser?
To that end I tried installing Dolphin and a few other browsers but I get no further and so have a sneaking suspicion that they just overlay over the same browser engine??
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Hero running Android can't Bluetooth sync with my pc / Outlook and even when using the god awful HTC wired link can't sync Notes from outlook...
Even my old HTC Blueangel could accomplish such things many many moons ago, maybe I should go jump over to HTC's HD2, or does that also have crippled bluetooth capabilities as seems to be the backward trend that started with the iPhone?
I seem to remember trawling Android Market (Again) v recently and now a few developers seem to have 'Notes' sync on offer, anyone had any joy using such?
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I just cannot get a clear shot with the camera, I'm no great photographer, any my physical disability plays part here - but I've had camera phones before and had far more success getting non blurry photos than with Hero. Is this a well documented shortcoming of the native ap? Is there a free app that makes the camera more usable perhaps?
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I've not tried rooting or flashing my Hero phone yet, but am considering doing it if I sniff out the guide which I'm confident will be here. I just read Android commander may be a vital acquisition for reinstalling my Apps.

Ok i dont know much but i will try
Your current unrooted bluetooth is crap - i cannot get it to do anything but BT Headset connection
But if you root the phone - i used villianrom 3.0 then you have perfect bluetooth options, for syncing and sending files to other phones...
The camera is good for me, but i have to be god damn still. if i move at all it goes blur - HTC and camera's are the worse and you can get apps that do help. will try and track the names down...

riiidaa said:
My most recent problem is to do with my text messages - default app.
One of my contacts / threads has a Caution '!' triangle on it, pretty sure its just showing an unread message, but it's not very distinguishable as to read and unread - I'm damned if I can't actually find it in the thread, I don't want to delete the entire thread - is there a trick or tip to solve it guys?
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This is normally to do with an un sent message, ie you have tried replying to message and for some reason (loss of signal), it was unable to send that message. Look through the thread and see if you have any triangles at all. Other than this, or deleting the thread, I cannot think of anything else.
riiidaa said:
At work I can't jump on to the company wifi, it has one of those web browser auth screens you have to key your login into first before it'll let you surf. A lot like at public wifi hotspots...
It doesn't accept my perfectly valid login, my old Blueangel, netbook and N95 are able to get on with no sweat.
Similarly, one of our web based tools at work doesn't have a paid for / trusted SSL cert, and my Hero (over 3G) warns me but seemingly does allow me to go further by presenting me with a login prompt, but again doesn't accept my login which is valid and keeps returning me to the prompt. I'm wondering if both these issues might be because Android just won't allow me to add SSL exceptions on its browser?
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I have the same problem at uni, where WPA2-Enterprise security is in place. Luckily I just use my 3G but understood not all have an unlimited data plan.
riiidaa said:
Hero running Android can't Bluetooth sync with my pc / Outlook and even when using the god awful HTC wired link can't sync Notes from outlook...
Even my old HTC Blueangel could accomplish such things many many moons ago, maybe I should go jump over to HTC's HD2, or does that also have crippled bluetooth capabilities as seems to be the backward trend that started with the iPhone?
I seem to remember trawling Android Market (Again) v recently and now a few developers seem to have 'Notes' sync on offer, anyone had any joy using such?
I just cannot get a clear shot with the camera, I'm no great photographer, any my physical disability plays part here - but I've had camera phones before and had far more success getting non blurry photos than with Hero. Is this a well documented shortcoming of the native ap? Is there a free app that makes the camera more usable perhaps?
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Android Cupcake (v1.5) which is what you will have running does not support bluetooth file transfer, just bluetooth headsets. When 2.1 is out you will have full support for file transfer. At current there are developer roms out there which are based on 2.1, but not official releases so have some bugs still. Again with the camera, think 2.1 has a better camera app but I havn't got round to trying one of the 2.1 based developer roms yet. Plus, they're not brilliant cameras. I barely use mine.
riiidaa said:
I've not tried rooting or flashing my Hero phone yet, but am considering doing it if I sniff out the guide which I'm confident will be here. I just read Android commander may be a vital acquisition for reinstalling my Apps.
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Plenty of guides. You may have to check whether your phone requires the goldcard CID bypass, which mine did using T-Mobile UKs shipped rom. Just abuot to go out or I'd link you.
Hope I've cleared some stuff up for you.
Adam

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This is normally to do with an un sent message,
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You know, I finally figured this out and nailed it about an hour before reading your reply. Thanks man!!

riiidaa said:
At work I can't jump on to the company wifi, it has one of those web browser auth screens you have to key your login into first before it'll let you surf. A lot like at public wifi hotspots...
It doesn't accept my perfectly valid login, my old Blueangel, netbook and N95 are able to get on with no sweat.
Similarly, one of our web based tools at work doesn't have a paid for / trusted SSL cert, and my Hero (over 3G) warns me but seemingly does allow me to go further by presenting me with a login prompt, but again doesn't accept my login which is valid and keeps returning me to the prompt. I'm wondering if both these issues might be because Android just won't allow me to add SSL exceptions on its browser?
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My response is not necessarily relevant to you, but my first Hero (brand new, bought SIM-less, GSM, October 2009), had a problem with wi-fi. Worked sometimes and not others. I finally determined it was defective, the phone. I was having other strange problems which I have never seen anyone else document here at XDA (though I haven't looked). I would very often get a SIM card error where a large graphic of a sim card displays on a home page with a red X circled around it. I eventually concluded this was also a defect.
I initially went to my T-Mobile store and got a brand new SIM card to swap - in case that was it... I had taken my well-worn T-Mobile Wing SIM Card from T-Mobile and loaded it onto the Hero from the start. There were no problems initially. Anyway, even after the swapout of a new SIM card, problem persisted. Next called HTC Tech Support (USA), they did trpoubleshooting with me, including sequential uninstalling of apps.. eventually recommending a hard reset... Which I resorted to because of BOTH the SIM card problem (when this displayed, I also could not connect to T-mo network at all) and the WIFI intermittent problem. FInally they said send it in for repair. (Not a Swapout for a new one, mind you, but a "repair", per policy).
After 2 weeks got it back with what was allegedly a replaced motherboard... The SIM problem persisted, but wifi was working reliably. Amazingly, even now HTC wouldn't commit to replacing it; then said they could only authorize warranty repair! again.
I have since bought a used HERO, and no prob at all with either of these issues. Thus, I just want to throw out a remote chance that you have some flawed hardware. I doubt it, but who knows... I guess only way to rule that out is to have someone with a Hero try to loan you a phone to try to log onto wifi at work, just to see.
Hope this was of help, just as the possibility that they DO have occasional defective hardware. good luck...

Sync Contacts from Tmo Mobilelife to my phone

I can not for the life of me get my contacts to sync from Tmobile website to my phone, it's annoying as hell! How do I get my contacts from the website to my phone? Ive tried everything, including mobile backup.

Raadius said:
I can not for the life of me get my contacts to sync from Tmobile website to my phone, it's annoying as hell! How do I get my contacts from the website to my phone? Ive tried everything, including mobile backup.
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I couldn't get it to work either...but when I looked in the list of phones that are able to sync it from the website, there's no WM or other smartphones listed, only dumbphones, mostly samsung and nokia, so I don't know if there's a way (yet) for us to pull them straight from the site yet. And yes, I know there's a mobile backup client on our stock ROMs, but while it seems to update the site list from the phone, I couldn't get it to push them manually from the site.
I didn't even have the "syncronize" button visible on the website until I created a new contact via the site...but then when I hit the button it just sat there and showed the status bar but never did anything.
EDIT: I do see where you can use a .csv file to import contacts, like from outlook etc, but I can't find any way to export to .csv, or any format for that matter (which could then be imported to outlook)

Does the "Microsoft My phone" app work for you?

Same issue here. The phone stays on the "Authenticating user" screen

[Q] Newbie resources?

So I just got my Atrix from ATT, coming from WinMo 6.5 (Tilt2), and am a bit lost.
There used to be guides and such for people upgrading, but I've hopped on the train so late I'm having trouble finding a good one!
So feel free to point me towards better resources or useful threads on here especially from the perspective of WinMo to modern Android.
But for now, first question: what is the best way sync Outlook and my new phone?? I've got Outlook 2010 and have been building an address book in it since my MPx220! I know I could export/import a .csv but am far more interested in actual sync, with contacts and calendar at the minimum. Preferably free, but if not OK (as long as it works). So far I've tried MyPhoneExplorer but it can't see the phone via USB. Trying www.soocial.com now, looks interesting...

Is it ever gonna finish inspecting my 16GB card? Can't find a progress indicator anywhere...

I know it's not helping but just wanted to say that I'm exactly in the same boat with you. I used Windows Mobile since around 2004 (with mpx 220, tilt, and tilt2) and I'm kind of clueless about this whole android thing
Oh and I could not find a way to directly sync my outlook contacts with atrix either. Also, if you go with the .csv route, it does not sync some fields, for example Work2 phone.

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Oh and I could not find a way to directly sync my outlook contacts with atrix either. Also, if you go with the .csv route, it does not sync some fields, for example Work2 phone.
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Def. try www.soocial.com It's free (as long as you're less than 250 contacts) and it's *ongoing* Sync like we're used to.
Goofy thing is, Google is said to make a calendar sync (outlook --> google), why don't they have their own for contacts??

Well, so far I'm a touch underwhelmed. Coming from the WinMo world I'm used to many things being customizable, often in the program, if not maybe in the registry or easily swapped out for other software.
I'm noticing a lot of dumb choices and a lot of things that don't give me obvious options.
Let's call it a Universal Inbox but it won't have your Gmail! There's a way around, you setup instead as regular IMAP email and use that app or end up using both email apps... grr! Better 3rd party alternative?
No 'file as' in contacts or ability to customize much of anything about how it looks, what it shows...
Friggin 'security lock timer' setting is disabled when using fingerprint!
Oh, and scanning my SD card *never finished*! After a couple hours (during which I couldn't install anything from the marketplace--though it gave me NO error to let me know why it was ignoring me pressing install!) I yanked the card. Maybe if I clear it out first?
Of course it's much (MUCH) better than my POS Tilt2, but I'm not quite convinced it's worth it, yet.

Your card scanning issue is not normal. IT STINKS! Something from the school of the united nations
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I came from windows also. Companion Link is the only software to give you a true live sync between outlook and google calender and contacts that I have found. It wasn't free but I don't remember how much. It syncs your desktop outlook to your online google account which is automatically synced to your device.
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For the contacts things you can always setup your gmail account as an exchange account in outlook and sync it that way, but then again it would be the same as syncing with gmail itself.
As for an outlook sync that isn't third party, there is no way to do it other than having an exchange account.

I found and downloaded a program called My Phone Explorer, it says it can sync outlook contacts & calendars if you install it's companion software to your PC. I did not have a chance to try it out yet, I'll update this thread once I try it.
Also, did you guys find out how to set custom ring tones? Like copying wav, mp3, ogg etc. files from my old phone to this and make them show up on the ringtone selections?

sdlopez83 said:
Your card scanning issue is not normal. IT STINKS! Something from the school of the united nations
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It had been in my Tilt 2 and had about 10gig of various files, some WM6.5 stuff (.cabs, apps, etc) and media. I formatted it and put back in the phone (couldn't do anything with it while it was scanning) and it was fine.
Marketplace didn't actually do anything when I hit install until the card was happy.

So far I'm pretty impressed with Android but not so much with this phone. The combination of not-latest OS with updates being locked to ATT/Moto's discretion worries me as the Tilt2 I'm coming from was absolutely crippled by the crap ATT OS version available (though at least it wasn't impossible to flash it!).
My other big problem is that while this phone is supposedly lightning fast, but how does that make any difference in actual use, since this dual-core CPU and nVidia chipset are a small part of a big and diverse market, for which the Nexus S and all the similar Samsungs set the baseline? Example, I noticed I can't play at decent framerate a 720p h.264 media file (.torrent downloaded Top Gear, 1.5GB on class 6 microSD), even in QQview--which can't seem to access the SD card directly (it only sees the ~11GB internal which is called SDcard), by the way. So what good does this extra speed do if there are no apps to take advantage of it? And how many others are going to have troubles accessing my new 32GB microSD because they only see the internal?
I'm also fairly annoyed by the lack of customization in the settings. At worst every damn thing in WinMo was customizable via registry. I usually find a setting each day in Android which I should have easy control over but don't. Example: notifications being the same volume for texts/emails as BS systems sounds I haven't figured any way to turn off... again a missing setting that's almost there: I noticed within text messaging and email I can set specific sounds (including silent) but for the overall system one there's no silent option (which would be overridden by the selected ones above)... Maybe there's some apps that do some of what I want, but having to pay or sideload are both kinda foreign concepts to me, especially for small system hacks!
But on the other hand it's very responsive, does seem to play 720p Xvid torrent downloads OK (though I haven't watched one all the way through), and the voice features are great.
One other annoyance is that while BT links to my car automagically it doesn't link to my Panasonic handsets at home unless I turn BT off and back on for some reason...
So given how much I paid (premiere, non-contract) I'm leaning towards return. Wish the damn ATT-bands Nexus S was out!!

but, more importantly did you get the critic references?

Going from Nokia 710 to HTC 8X how do I do a complete backup?

Not very good with the windows phone and am trying to help an older friend out that had a Nokia 710. He just purchased a HTC 8X and T-Mobile couldn't help him transfer his numbers and all. He had no idea about a windows live ID.
Sure, I could set him up a Windows LIve ID, but is there a way that we can bypass all of that and just plug his Nokia 710 into the computer and back it up, plug the 8X into the computer and upload all the information on it?
Thanks.

Reposting from the original thread:
On my nokia 710 one of the preinstalled apps is Contacts Transfer, I dont know if thats a microsoft thing, or if its nokia exclusive or if nokia have made it available on the app store (which they may have) but all it requires is both phones to have bluetooth on, then you set the old one to discoverable, follow the instructions. It seems to work pretty well with my ancient android handset.
I personally have all my contacts stored on my google account instead now, syncs more readily with more devices than the windows live account does.

There is no way to do a complete backup of WP7 except for a device image (which can only be restored on the exact same device it was taken from; even another one of identical model won't work). There are various homebrew apps that will let you get your files off, but currently we have no way to get them back *on* to WP8.
For contacts, synching to an Exchange server, Live account, Google account, or similar is definitely the best way. You can also try doing a transfer using BT, though. Nokia's Contacts Transfer app (which is just a Nokia-specific app, for all that it's pre-installed to the Setting hub) should work, but if you want to transfer the contacts en masse you may need a similar app on the other end. I don't know if HTC has one (Nokia and Samsung do, but my HTC HD7 did not). If you know how to use an intercepting proxy, you can access the Nokia- or Samsung-specific app stores and download their apps; that might (or might not, depending on how they are written) work.

GoodDayToDie said:
There is no way to do a complete backup of WP7 except for a device image (which can only be restored on the exact same device it was taken from; even another one of identical model won't work). There are various homebrew apps that will let you get your files off, but currently we have no way to get them back *on* to WP8.
For contacts, synching to an Exchange server, Live account, Google account, or similar is definitely the best way. You can also try doing a transfer using BT, though. Nokia's Contacts Transfer app (which is just a Nokia-specific app, for all that it's pre-installed to the Setting hub) should work, but if you want to transfer the contacts en masse you may need a similar app on the other end. I don't know if HTC has one (Nokia and Samsung do, but my HTC HD7 did not). If you know how to use an intercepting proxy, you can access the Nokia- or Samsung-specific app stores and download their apps; that might (or might not, depending on how they are written) work.
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He just primarily wants his email and phone numbers. His email is a @cox address though. Will the Windows Live backup let you do that? If so, I will just set him up a windows live id.

Yes, you can register any email address as a Microsoft (Windows Live) account, and synch contacts to and from it. You can do that even if you have the same email account also used as a "normal" (POP3/IMAP/SMTP) account. I'm very surprised he doesn't have one already; using WP without such an account is very limited (app store, Find My Phone, contacts and calendars, integrated IM, etc.).