Happy New Year. I recently had to reset and rebuild my HD2, so I installed Outlook on my PC and used active sync to "back up" my HD2 contacts, calender, tasks, etc. Everything looked OK on the PC so after clearing and rebuilding the HD2, I used sync again to restore things from the PC. Almost everything restored OK and most of the oddities were fixed by editing the entries. However, I am left with one outstanding issue that has stumped me; Every calendar entry thinks it has been sent to me as an invitation. Each entry has "Invitation from: Unknown". I do not know why this has happened, but I cannot get to this calendar field by editing the entry. Does anyone know how to remove the "Invitation from" field, or have an editor that will allow me to do it? Thanks.
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One day, for some reason, Activesync has been ignoring any new contacts and calendar items that I've added to Outlook. It will sync Notes and Tasks, but not the others.
I uninstalled and reinstalled AS4.5, but that didn't help. I have even gone as far as to reflash with both wm5 and wm6 roms, still no dice.
When it starts to sync for the first time, it will show "Contacts 0/210" then sit there and then just leave a checkmark and advance to the next item "Calendar 0/84", then the same, until it gets to Notes, Tasks and Favorites where it goes 0/20, 1/20, 6/20 and so on until it syncs all those items.
I'm kind of at a loss here. Now I have a reflashed phone with no contacts on it, which sucks. I'm at my wits end, does anyone have any idea why activesync is skipping my contacts?
Also, when I first sync, I get blank entries in Outlook, one for every legit entry. I had 210 blank contacts for 210 legit contacts, 84 blank calendar items for 84 legit ones, and so on.
I ended up "fixing" the problem by installing PocketMirror. Still odd, though.
I sometimes get an ActiveSync error that the source is for some reason mixed up and I have to re-synchronize all folders and everything will be deleted before re-sync.
THEREFOR my PhotoDial entries are lost. EVEN if my contacts in OUTLOOK on my PC are still marked with the "PhotoDial" category.
Is there a way to preserve those entries or do I always have top put them in manually all over again?
Are you synchronising to two PCs?
This is the reason I REMOVED the contacts tab from TF3D. I had to choose between syncing and fancy dialing. I chose to sync
Using TF3D and syncing with vista I have had no problems, are you syncing with outlook or some other pim application?
I use only ONE sync PC and run VISTA.
It seems that sometimes while changing items in PC-Outlook 2007 and a connected ActivSync, the error happens.
ok the full message is:
There has been a change made on your server that requires you to re-synchronize all items on our device. Please perform a manual synch.
Support Code: 0x80883001
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Yes thats the message.
I hate it. BIG time
May I know where are all the photo dial photos' keep by default?
TIA.
i have the same prob
the touchFlow3d tab with the photos is empty after sync...
inside my contacts, when i browse them, the pictures are still there...
but the short cut, photo dial tab is empty...
i also get the smae error message.. :-/
still having it...
is there any new knowledge?
I have set ActiveSync (Exchange) to sync with my GMail account, and I'm positive I've ticked only the mail checkbox. Today, all out of sudden, it synced contacts too, so now I have a bunch of unwanted contacts, both on my GMail account, and on my phone, not to mention that contact pictures are messed too.
On Manila ActiveSync settings page, contacts checkbox is off but disabled (greyed out). On WM ActiveSync settings, contacts under Exchange are turned on.
This is not the first time it has happened to me. First time I thought it was my fault, but now I'm sure it's not. Has anyone had a similar problem, and knows the solution? The bug is really annoying.
Well, I didn' have the exact situtaion but something similar.... I use MS Myphone and ActiveSync to synch my Google contacts. Somehow, i ended up with duplicate contacts and some cases 3-4 copies. Here's what I did to resolve it:
*On the HD2, Delete the Activesync(exchange) account.
*On the HD2, Delete Myphone acct
*On the HD2, Delete the pim.vol file (located in root of the device). You can back this file up just incase.
*On my desktop, Go to my Google contacts online and hit the 'Find duplicate' button, deleted the duplicates
*On my desktop, sign into Myphone online account. Under contacts, hit 'Find Duplicates'. delete the duplicates thereafter.
*On HD2, create and configure Myphone and let it sync the contacts
*On HD2, create and configure ActiveSync exchange server to syn the contacts.
Hope this helps somehow...Good luck!
Thanks for your reply, but it doesn't quite solve the bug, just cleans the mess up. I want to avoid it happening in the first place.
Noone with similar problems?
Just a word of warning - don't sync your calendar with GMail if you've already got a bunch of accepted appointments in your phone.
GMail will send a brand new meeting request to everyone on the original recipients list, even for old appointments!
Happened to me when I backed up my phone, flashed new ROM, restored contacts, appointments, etc and then synced to GMail.
My entire office got spammed with meeting requests for old things like the 2009 company Christmas party!
Oh, and I also had the issue where all my contact pictures were very low quality.
See my post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5901133#post5901133
I'm not sure if your problem is same as mine. Did you personally checked to sync calendar items and contacts? I select mail only, but calendar and contacts get auto-check without my permission...
First off:
I own an HD2 with original HTC StockROM 3,14.
additionally I have installe Manila Birthday.
The device is synced with 2 PCs.
1) the birthdays from the (Outlook-)contacts are transferred automatically to the calender as "complete day" appointments.
2) with Manila Birthday you can also transfer the birthdays into the calender
Problem:
At first I have removed all of the original entries from the calender (see #1)Then I got all birthdays transferred by Manila Birthday.
But, whatever I do -- after a few sync cycles the originial entries reappear. This means I have now 2 entries for each birthday in the calender.
=> it's a nuisance, but not critical.
The difficulties start on travels. I am regularly on business trips to UK (1 h time shift). Now all the 1 day Birthday entries become 2 day events. (grrrr...).
When I return from the travel, this does not swith back (still two day events) (grrr no. 2.) But really irritating is, that also the data in the contact become manipulated. Meaning: all birthdays are either a day earlier or later. But NEVER correct. If you call then the jubilee - well you are always on the wrong day (and you look really stupid...).
Question:
1) is it possible (with ManilaBirthday or the HTC calender or the contacts) to set it up in that way, that the original entries to the calender are no longer made?
2) How can I manage that the Birthdays in the contacts are not manipulated during travels?
3) since I didn't find anything about this points... am I really the only one who experienced this problem????
Hugo the JungleDyret
I've noticed this as well. I'm using EnergyROM and everytime I update and then sync with outlook, I get 2 entries for each birthday. If I don't delete them from outlook before a new sync, they can start to build up. No idea how to stop this though apart from only sync either your contacts or calendar.
known issue with outlook happens on other platforms as well
I've got another situation, but it adds up to the same problem.
1. Original registration of birthdays is done in Outlook.
2. Synced in WinMo using activesync.
3. Synced WinMo with g-mail account.
4. Booted into Android, synced agenda and contacts with g-mail.
5. Changed Android build and synced that with g-mail.
By now every birthday is shown twice, some are quadrupled.
Don't really know how to solve this.
I have managed to set up an Exchange account on my phone to sync my work calendar only.
I have got it working but the problem is that I want it "read only" on the phone so that any items I delete on the phone are not deleted on the server.
I have set it to "keep items on the phone" and also "replace items on phone"
The first time I deleted an item on the phone exchange calendar I found it was also deleted on the server/work calendar (I think it was set to "replace on phone")
But since then no matter what I set it to if I delete something on the phone it seems to sync with the server and then come straight back onto the phone so I can't get rid of it...
In WinMo I could explicitly set how to do the sync but can't seem to do that here - any help please?
Okay maybe a coincidence but just noticed something else.
Anything on the work calendar that had been added (at work) via Outlook - if I delete it from the phone it is also deleted off the calendar.
Anything I add to the work calendar using OWA does this yoyo thing with coming back everytime I try to delete it from the phone....
If your using the exchange it is only being stored/read from the one place.
It doesn't store locally.
I don't know how you can delete from the phone and not the server...
I used to save my outlook calendar as an .ics file and then import it to my google calendar. Now I just use touchdown.
That said... I want my calendar to be exactly the same on my phone as it is on our exchange.
There are some recurring meetings which are useful to keep track of at work but clutter the phone calendar.
I guess I could export but then I would have to keep doing it when new meeting are added.
The different behavior regarding appointment created with outlook and owa is odd but interesting.