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Activesync missing contacts Wizard/i-mate k-jam

Hi
I am having an issue that I need some help with. I am trying to set up a second hand K-Jam that I bought on eBay.
Problem:
Activesync appears to work fine and everything seems to synchronize except for any contacts that have contact notes.
New contacts created on the PC with text in the notes field do not synchronize.
New contacts created on either device with nothing in the Notes field synchronize fine.
New contacts created on the K-Jam with text in the notes field synchronize back to the PC fine.
If a contact has had a note in it, if the note is cleared by deleting all text and saving, the contact is still not synchronized.
Operating Systems and programs:
ActiveSync 4.1 installed from scratch
K-Jam ROM 2.16..
Windows Mobile 5.0
What I have tried:
-Hard resetting the K-Jam
-Repairing Outlook 2003
-Running a repair on the PST file
-Removing the Mobile Device profile from ActiveSync and allowing it to recreate the synchronization relationship.
-Copying the contacts out to a different folder, syncing; copying them back
-Exporting the contacts to a CSV file, all other items to another PST. Creating a new PST file, replacing the default Outlook PST and importing all of the OK data. Then importing the contacts from the CSV file (when I first started troubledhooting, I had a subset of contacts that would sync. After doing the CSV import, no contacts would sync - I guess that the CSV import puts something into the contact notes field. New contacts still sync as explained above)
-Synchronizing only Contacts
Other:
I have loads of the following error messages in the WCESLog.log:
03/11/2006 14:06:56.156 p(2936) t(3308) SyncMgr -> Opening Item: echo CreateObject("Outlook.Application").GetNameSpace("MAPI").GetItemFromId("000000006F78E8A9F1B1BF4A9150F98C632AB565A4572200").Display > foo.vbs && foo.vbs - mhelp.cpp(8575)
03/11/2006 14:06:56.156 p(2936) t(3308) TraceToFile -> ERROR in CMAPIDataConverterBase::ConvertMAPIPropToDesktopSyncObject : hr = 0x80010104 - DataConverter.cpp(3664)
03/11/2006 14:06:56.156 p(2936) t(3308) TraceToFile -> ERROR in CMAPIDataHandler::_GetDataForItem : hr = 0x80010104 - DataHandler.cpp(1962)
I suspect that there is some sort of data conversion problem but do not know where to look next.
Any advice will be appreciated.

AS not syncing Calendar, Task or Contact notes PC->PPC
I have found that this problem affects Calendar, Task and Contact items. If I add a simple entry (with no Note) on the PC, it syncs to the PPC fine. If I then add a Note, the changes are not synced. If I add a Note at the same time as the item is created, it is not synced at all. Notes that are created on the PPC are synced back to the PC fine.

Soln: Missing appointments/tasks/contacts containing notes.
I have finally fixed this issue after 3 days of mucking about!!! My phone is syncing all items fine now... I stumbled on the solution in a forum for other software, but it seems to apply to WM5, AS 4.1 and Outlook 2003 too!
As per http://www.sbsh.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t8892.html, reregister ole32.dll using:
1. Click Start, click Run, type the following command in the Open box, and then click OK:
Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll
2. In the RegSvr32 dialog box, click OK.
3. Reboot computer.
4. Create an appointment in Outlook with notes attached and see if it syncs with Outlook.
The applicable text from the source article is:
The library file ole2.dll, is required by windows and is used when performing OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) operations . OLE allows objects created in one application to be embedded in documents/objects created by a different applications e.g. embedding an Excel spreadsheet inside a Word document. OLE is used fairly extensively in windows applications, so if possible you should not remove this file.
If this file is not registered well, it causes a variety of problems with synchronisation. Appointments and tasks with additional notes do not sync, contacts with additional notes or a picture ID do not sync and other programs like SmartphoneNotes can not sync. I found out that a MS security update in december or the beginning of this year also involved an issue with ole32.dll. Because of this something might have gone wrong with the registration of this file in Windows causing all sorts of problems relating to ActiveSync. (Re)registering this file can solve those problems as it did on my system. Since it´s a Windows file that has to be registered anyway, it can´t harm doing it again hoping it solves the problems experienced.

I love you man

I'm having this exact problem (WM6, courtesy of mfrazz, on Wizard) but the above solution didn't solve my problem. Is there a more recent fix I should try?

I love you too.
New stuff now fine, but I have to add a character to all old calendar notes on WM5 to get them to show up in Outlook.
Also glad you posted here because the original article link doesn't work....

You are god man, thanks a lot. Just bought the new Samsung i780 and experiencing this sync issue right out of the box after a pretty flawless experience with a Palm Treo 650 for almost four years was really frustrating. Thanks again.

Thanks a Lot!!.......Great Post....
Just a quick note to say well done to GQ. I have spent almost 7 hours troubleshooting this issue (1 way sync from PC to PocketPc but the other way is fine). Weirdly enough syncing with a spare Smartphone was totally unaffected.
I did everything, Removed\reinstalled AS, Created dedicated inbound\outbound rules for AS in Macaffe, Uninstalled AV, Deleted Partnerships on Device & PC, Decreased mailbox size, Created New PST, Downgraded from Office 2007 back to 2003, multiple Hard Resets....... to name but a few!!!....Tried lots of other stuff, manually searching through Registry for WindowsCE related stuff.
Re registered the DLL, Rebooted tested......Superb!.....Works again!
Top Posting gq......Great solution.

Shinteetah said:
I'm having this exact problem (WM6, courtesy of mfrazz, on Wizard) but the above solution didn't solve my problem. Is there a more recent fix I should try?
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I too am having this problem with my Samsung Omnia WM6, and Win XP ActiveSync... I have 22 contacts with pictures that will not load from phone to PC... "The following contacts failed to synchronize from the device" Support Code: 1
Anyone else have a solution to this??? This one is killing me as I want to be able to actively manage contact pictures on my PC and phone, and use OutSync (for facebook pics to outlook contacts).

Hi Chadwicky:
Same problem here with my Omnia and XP SP3 Activsync 4.5. It did resolve a recurring calendar event issue but the contacts with pictures just isn't syncing up :-(

I think you can do this by installing Sim manager software also. It is a .cab extension file.

i love you too man, same here and worked out fine! should have used the search abit earlier, 6, 7 hours or so ;-)

Tks a lot
Need to confirm this issue happen even in Window 7 with the new Window Mobile Data Center (WMDC) and Outlook 2003 (Still not test with Outlook 2007)
Solution is the same in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=903516&postcount=3

Fixed it for me. Been struggling with this for a month, now my contacts and notes all sync properly. I signed up just to say thanks gq.

[HOWTO] Getting rid of gmail useless contacts

If you are like me, you like using contacts stored locally on the phone.
Also, you don't like your gmail contacts (contacts automatically added to your useless contacts list on your gmail account).
I have 120 contacts on my previous phone, and about 700 useless contacts on my gmail account.
When I started using android, it synced all the contacts and I ended up with 800+ making my life hell, and my phone slow.
So I found a way to get rid of all the damn stupid contacts, Goes like this :
Backup ALL your contacts for your phone to a vcf file
Copy that file to your PC
Open your gmail account, delete ALL the contacts you don't need - I just deleted ALL my contacts.
Open your phone, delete ALL the contacts.
Using the script below, and activestate TCL, clean your script. It will only leave contacts with phone numbers.
Copy the new vcf file to your phone, import, job done.
The script requires :
Copy the pasted code into a file, save it with .tcl extension.
Activestate tcl installed, OR, tclsh tclkit executable in your PATH.
Then, you put the script and your vcf source file renamed as in.vcf in the same folder
Run the script in CMD, "tclsh <scriptName>"
You get a new file named out.vcf
Code:
proc exportContact {} {
global contact fout counter
if {[string match *TEL* $contact]} {
puts $fout BEGIN:VCARD\n$contact\nEND:VCARD
incr counter
puts "Copied"
} else {
puts "Skipped"
}
set contact ""
}
puts "Welcome, Lets get rid of contacts without phone numbers!\n"
if {![file exist in.vcf]} {puts "Error - Cannot find file in.vcf,\nplease put it in the same folder as this script and try again.\n\nPress Enter to exit";gets stdin;exit}
set counter 0
set fout [open out.vcf w+]
set contact ""
set fin [open in.vcf r]
while {![eof $fin]} {
set line [gets $fin]
if {[string match "FN:*" $line]} {puts -nonewline "Inspecting $line...";flush stdout}
if {$line eq "BEGIN:VCARD"} {
continue
}
if {$line eq "END:VCARD"} {
exportContact
continue
}
append contact $line\n
}
close $fout
close $fin
puts "\nCopied $counter contacts with phone numbers to out.vcf,\nimport that file on your android phone.\n\nPress Enter to exit."
gets stdin
Is it so easy???
vCard format is ASCII
None ASCII chars are base64 encoded, so it's stull ASCII which makes this very easy to parse
The script can be written with ANY scripting / programming language it's very very easy, I just like TCL, and is my favorite for scripting.

There's a much easier and cleaner way to achieve what you want:
1. Go to settings/accounts and stop syncing contacts on your main Gmail account (the one you are using for email)
2. Create a second new account on Gmail and import your contacts.vcf
3. Back on your phone add this account and enable syncing contacts
4. Never use this new Gmail account for any email so your contacts list stays clean
Hope this helps
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Thanks for the idea,
But still - I'd had to manually add my contacts to this account cause importing the vcf file would add all the junk i was trying to get rid of.

Or you can simply disable the listing of contacts that do not have a phone number associated with them..

Danzig666 said:
Or you can simply disable the listing of contacts that do not have a phone number associated with them..
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That doesn't solve the speed problem, cause the contacts are still there.
That was the method i used before i found out it slowing down my phone.

Thanks for the guide, was easy to follow and saved me some grief!

All I did was removed all gmail contracts from gmail webbased and re-sync'ed contacts on my phone, phone is now clean
Thanks

invalid command name "tclsh"
Do I miss something? I am using x64 windows and 64bit tclkit.

Contact Display Options.
zhihao said:
invalid command name "tclsh"
Do I miss something? I am using x64 windows and 64bit tclkit.
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Hi,
Use contacts display option( Click on physical menu buttion after opening contacts app) and customize your view. Just check the contacts folders you want to view.
Create a folder in Gmail contacts page and map all phone contacts to it.
No need to do delete and other stuff, you can manage their very easily.
Regards,
Praveen.

zhihao said:
invalid command name "tclsh"
Do I miss something? I am using x64 windows and 64bit tclkit.
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Tclkit doesn't contains the executable tclsh, and so you are getting an error.
If you decided to use tclkit, you need to use "tclkit.exe <script-name>"

Praveen_1221 said:
Hi,
Use contacts display option( Click on physical menu buttion after opening contacts app) and customize your view. Just check the contacts folders you want to view.
Create a folder in Gmail contacts page and map all phone contacts to it.
No need to do delete and other stuff, you can manage their very easily.
Regards,
Praveen.
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When I wrote this I was using Galaxy S,
The option for not showing contacts without numbers didn't help in regards of performance.

This is a great idea..much better than manually deleting 300 contacts from your phone...

[Q] Contacts not syncing correctly...?

I've noticed that my contacts aren't syncing correctly. If I go to Settings --> Accounts --> Google, I see that everything else synced, but Contacts shows "Last Synced 1/8/2013" (about a month ago) and the double-arrow icons is visible (but not spinning). If I deselect it and reselect it, it spins for a moment and then ends up in the same state. I don't get an error or an icon with an exclamation point.
All logcat has revealed to me is:
Code:
D/ContactsSyncAdapter( 1219): IOException: java.io.IOException: received unhandled http error: 500
Is there any way to get more info or to debug this further? Or a good recipe to fix it?
I'm on MoDaCo JOP40D Jr5.
Thanks
Edit: Further info - it appears that changes are going from phone --> Google OK (I can change the details of a contact on the phone and then see the change at contacts.google.com), but are not going the other direction.

[Q] Android crash when create new mail from intent

Hi All,
This issue occurs on the 2 9505I have running rt now.
This is what I get:
In gmail, I have a mail with a href tag in order to create new mail. When I click on it, in every other device I can run, or even on laptop, it correclty compose a new mail, but on the S4, it just crash the system.
Here is the logcat of the error: http://pastebin.com/BQJHCkg8
Have you already encounter such an issue (tested on 4.3 and 4.2.1) ?

I have done some more tests:
A mailto action (html code) inside a html page works correctly on both versions (direct call or event using some JS)
But as soon this mailto action is executed from gmail, android is stuck
Can someone check if same behavior ?
Just send yourself an email with some mailto html code :
<!DOCTYPE html>
Code:
<html>
<body>
<p>
This is an email link:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Hello%20again" target="_top">
Send Mail</a>
</p>
<p>
<b>Note:</b> Spaces between words should be replaced by %20 to ensure that the browser will display the text properly.
</p>
</body>
</html>

Setting up Sync for FBReader

No longer working as of May 30, 2020--for a fix, see: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nook-touch/general/nst-g-fbreader-personal-catalog-sync-t4110171
FBReader (even the version made specifically for the NST) is supposed to have the capability to sync reading positions, bookmarks, etc., across devices. This is done by giving the FBReader servers permission to write/modify files in a folder on your Google Drive. We may debate the wisdom of giving the app limited access to your Google Drive, or we may just call it "whatever" and plan to have a Google account just for this one thing (my idea) and hope for the best. In all the time FBReader has been around I've never heard of any shenanigans. Just sayin...
So, the issue is with trying to log in to a Google account from the browser. I'm using Opera Mobile and at one time I was able to sign in on the Google home page. I can still sign in and out, but only with the original account I used I've checked for "less secure sign-in methods", etc., but no amount of fiddling seems to make any difference. Google says the password is "incorrect" for every account but that one I started with long ago. The passwords are correct, of course, it's just Google being Google.
What to do?
Whilst fooling with this recently, it occurred to me to try a trick I've used before: install the app on my little rooted KitKat device, set up the sync account, then copy out any relevant database files and configuration files. These files I then copy to the NST, overwriting what is there.
It took a bit of cleaning up because the directory structure in KitKat is different from that on the NST and there are some complaints from the app when you first start, but you just need to slowly clean up all the directory references in Settings and then it starts to work
A summary
0. You need another rooted device on which the FBReader app (attached below) will install and run.
1. Install FBReader on both your NST/G and the second device.
2. Go to books.fbreader.org and set up your Network Library (you pick the Google account (Google Drive) to use).
3. On the non-NST device, open FBReader and access "Network Library". This will take you to the browser to sign in to whatever Google account you have chosen.
4. Exit FBReader.
5. With a root file explorer, navigate to /data/data/org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android. There are three folders in the directory. Copy all the db files from "databases" and from "shared_prefs" copy fbreader.auth.xml
6. Move these files to the NST/G and copy them into the same directories, overwriting the ones present.
7. With WiFi on, open FBReader on the NST/G. You will be challenged with an error if the path for cached files cannot be resolved. Tap on the folder option and navigate to select /sdcard/Books/.FBReader. This gets you past the first hurdle.
8. Tap at the bottom of the opening screen and select "Network Library". If things have gone sort of right up to this point you will see your Google account email under "FBReader book network".
9. Go back to the beginning and tap at the bottom to select More...Settings. Clean up the directories information as needed. Set up Synchronization (you can work on other stuff later).
10. Access Network Library again and try tapping on "FBReader book network". If you put any books into your account back in step 2, you can download one.
That's it! Of course, sync is limited by the fact that you have to be connected to WiFi, at least at the beginning and end of reading (may take little bit of time...not sure).