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.
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Ok so i have my touch synced to my hotmail account and on my laptop i have the outlook plugin to sync my hotmail account.
i have a copy of my contacts on my outlook for back up so when my phone sync i get double contacts from syncing to the hotmail account and when i plug my phone to the laptop to sync.
is there anything i can do so i wont have to keep deleting double contacts? every time it sync's to either one.
Disable "Sync Contacts" on your device.
when i do start / programs and go under activesync when i click on menu / options then uncheck contacts it give me
to proceed activesync must remove all contacts synchronized to our device, i dont want to remove them from my device.
is there another way?
You should select Options - Settings - and under "If there is a conflict", select the corresponding options to resolve your issue.
As you know, Google don't have to/must not know everything, especially calendar entries of buisyness man.
I don't want google to know my appointments a.s.o.!
Is it possible to use the google calendar on the phone without synchronizing with the Google server but sync with the personal outlook?
Perhaps there is a independent calendar app, don't need to access the htc or google calendar, but is able to sync with outlook... AND is able to set appointments as private?
Perhaps it is possible to have my own "google server" for me and my family at home?
There's absolutely no need for synchronizing with google, you can always uncheck it if you don't want it and only synchronize with Outlook.
And there's also no need to even use the built-in calendar application, there are others in the market.
You just have to have a Google account, but that doesn't mean you have to give google your appointment details.
I don't know if there's an application where you can set your appointments as private, at least for Exchange server it is not possible, unfortunately.
I've not found a stand alone calendar application in the market with their own database. If you know one please tell me.
All calendars i found use the build-in google or htc calendarDatabase.
Yes, that's possible, I may be wrong. But still, with the built-in calendar you don't have to sync with your google calendar. If you just sync with Outlook, even though you'll see your appointments in the Google calendar app, they won't be synchronized with your Google account.
I use the HTC calendar app and sync it to my PC's outlook calendar and HTCSync. Same with my contacts. Don't go anywhere near Google for any of that
Yes, the htc calendar is a stand-alone app. But if you use your business calendar for privat, too, you need the possibility to set appointments as privat. And the htc calendar isn't capable of that.
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.
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"
I have 4 different google calendars... Birthdays, Class Schedule, Assignments, and my regular personal Calendar. I want to be able to sync all of the calendars with WP7 but everywhere i've looked says it can only be done by syncing the calendars to outlook, then syncing outlook to the phone.
Has anyone figured out a way to do this without syncing it to Outlook? I already have an Outlook calendar for work and merging the two and not being able to differentiate them would just be a big mess...
Setup a google mail account (for each account of course)
Go in those accounts to settings > sync settings > and tick the option "calendar" where you will also find the option for mail and contacts
All the calendar items will appear in the calendar of WP7. Or at least, this is how it works for me
Edit:
Somebody might put some additional notes to this, as i have no idea if the calendar that is used is automatically the outlook calendar?
depends on if u haave a google account for home and another for school like some colleges use the google apps domain to host their email and calendar ervvices you can set this up by going to settings email and accounts then add an account hit google and enter your full email and password even though it says username that threw me off the first time too so im just telling you now