Bookmarks, email, etc. seem to sync pretty well too Nexus. But I have yet to get even a hint that password sync (from my laptop Chrome) is working at all. No user names sync, no passwords...??? Anyone got this to work? Is there some setting I have not found?
Also, anyone know if it works pc-2-pc?
Thanks!
Works PC to PC and over different operating systems (Linux to windows) but doesn't sync to the nexus for me either
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Is anyone here managing their contact or calendar via an online solution such as Kiko or Gmail?
I've tried many different solution and none seem really convenient. Gmail contacts won't sync with the universal unless you go through outlook as an intermediary, losing some of the data in the process (gmail groups are not recognized by outlook).
I'm just looking for something that's convenient and works. I intend to use my universal as the only 'offline' source of info + an online repository, but no desktop solution (as I'm always on the go and don't use a desktop).
TIA!
I'm going to partially update my own post:
This tool:
http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=sync&dir=wm
seem to sync plaxo contacts to a pocket pc. That's a start. Does anyone knows anything similar?
I use Airset for my online calendar, but I sync it to my desktop outlook. They do have a java thingy for mobiles though, and the tmobile MDA Vario and SDA.
I've not tried that, but I'd imagine it keeps everything in the applet, rather than hooking up with wm5 calendar. Could be worth a look though.
I think I might have found a solution to my problem.
Apparently Yahoo Mail supports intellisync, which syncs straight to the PDA from the online repository (notes, calendar and contacts apparently)
That's exciting stuff, especially with the new Yahoo mail beta that's going on (much better interface, 1gig of space).
As an extra bonus Yahoo mail also supports plaxo sync (gmail doesn't)
I'll give it a try and will let you know.
Right, didn't work either. Now I think my last option is a hosted exchange service with a web interface.
... which I did and it works wonders. Seems to be the only solution out there for the people looking forward to rid of the dated 'desktop-centric' paradigm.
So now I got gmail address -> 4smartphone , using gmail as a spam filter. When replying the emails I send appear to come from my gmail account, rather than the forwarding address (brilliant!).
So far I've only tried to sync over wire, which worked great (minus a few quirks here and there but nothing dreadful).
It's brilliant and cost only a few quids a month.
Here's the situation, I need some pointers
I currently have my HTC Wizard partnered with my work laptop and my home PC. Work laptop is XP Pro with ActiveSync 4.2. Home PC is Vista Business with Windows Mobile Device Center.
What I'd like to set up is my Wizard to sync to Exchange through my work laptop (appointments, contacts), then for my home PC to pick up these items off the phone.
Currently, the phone is setup to sync with Exchange through my work laptop just fine, but when I take it home, it tries to connect to the Exchange server as well. I want my home PC to sync to the items on the phone locally, not from the Exchange server, when syncing with my home PC. I want the phone to pick up stuff from the Exchange server from work.
That is, ideally, the phone gets items from my Exchange server at work, then when I take it home, my home PC picks up these items and copies them locally.
Can someone please help? I'm sure this is an easy solution
Thanks for your help guys. Don't all jump in all at once.
Come on. Someone has to know how to do this. It must be simple. You can't take 30 seconds to post how this is done at least in ActiveSync 4.2 so I can figure it out in WMDC?
I don't have my phone setup to sync with an Exchange server nor do i have Vista so i don't know if my advice will be of any help at all...
When I hook my non-exchange partnered phone up to a PC it asks me to setup a syn partnership with that PC if i've never connected before. Seems i can do that with an unlimited number of PCs and it will copy the stuff in either direction so that they all end up synced to the same stuff.
Maybe a setup like that would work for you? Or does it only allow syncing with Exchange with an Exchange partnership?
I don't believe that what you want is possible. The phone can get email from another PC or an exchange server but it won't go the other way. Also, the phone can only set up email sync with one source. So you could sync to your exchange server OR the PC for email. What you might do is see if your employer has a way for your PC to connect to the exchange server as well. If not as an exchange server then using POP3 or IMAP (if the former, be sure to set it to leave messages on the server).
Good insight, thanks! Sorry to be rude earlier
I'm not worried about email at this point.. all I really want is contacts and appointments.. what I'd like is for my phone to grab my contacts/meetings from work (Exchange) and sync to Windows Calendar/Contacts in Vista or locally in Outlook at home..
The contacts I care about are actually stored locally on my work machine.. I'm not too worried about getting the company directory. When I sync my phone with my work machine, it only syncs local contacts (ie: contacts that are already on my phone, my "personal" contacts), so that's good. That is, I had contacts on my phone, and it dumps them onto my work machine locally. If I edit them on my work machine, it then updates my phone. Perfect. It does this with my home PC as well, so this is good.
What I'm ultimately trying to figure out then, I suppose, is how to get my appointments from my work Exchange server to get dumped to my home PC locally, as I mentioned, in Windows Calendar or Outlook, without it trying to connect to my work Exchange server at home (meaning that I'll have to connect via VPN every time I connect my phone, ugh). That is:
Me at work: plug in phone, phone syncs appointments with Exchange, stores them locally on the phone
Me at home after work: plug in phone, WMDC notices schedules on phone that aren't stored locally, WMDC pulls them from phone and stores on my home PC in either Windows Calendar (default) or Outlook (if installed).
Is this possible?
grivad said:
Good insight, thanks! Sorry to be rude earlier
I'm not worried about email at this point.. all I really want is contacts and appointments.. what I'd like is for my phone to grab my contacts/meetings from work (Exchange) and sync to Windows Calendar/Contacts in Vista or locally in Outlook at home..
The contacts I care about are actually stored locally on my work machine.. I'm not too worried about getting the company directory. When I sync my phone with my work machine, it only syncs local contacts (ie: contacts that are already on my phone, my "personal" contacts), so that's good. That is, I had contacts on my phone, and it dumps them onto my work machine locally. If I edit them on my work machine, it then updates my phone. Perfect. It does this with my home PC as well, so this is good.
What I'm ultimately trying to figure out then, I suppose, is how to get my appointments from my work Exchange server to get dumped to my home PC locally, as I mentioned, in Windows Calendar or Outlook, without it trying to connect to my work Exchange server at home (meaning that I'll have to connect via VPN every time I connect my phone, ugh). That is:
Me at work: plug in phone, phone syncs appointments with Exchange, stores them locally on the phone
Me at home after work: plug in phone, WMDC notices schedules on phone that aren't stored locally, WMDC pulls them from phone and stores on my home PC in either Windows Calendar (default) or Outlook (if installed).
Is this possible?
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Hmm, mine does that as far as I know. I have a personal exchange acct with mail2web. Appointments seem to sync with that and my home PC. I will connect it in the morning and make sure. Only thing is that I made the appt on the PPC so it may not tell you exactly the same.
You know, now that I think about it, I had ActiveSync setup this way before I switched to XP -- at work it'd sync with Exchange, then at home it'd sync locally.. however, I can't remember how I set it up, and I can't seem to set it up that way in WMDC. In WMDC, I can choose to not sync with Exchange, but it keeps my Home PC grayed out so I can't select that as an option.. hmm.
Hey,
You can "add" an extra account to Activesync.
That is how I got my Activesync to sync manually only, instead
of every so often without me knowing and sucking up resources.
(With only one account the connect box is greyed out)
Good Luck,
Johann
Hi,
Looking for some advise and hopefully some useful suggestions... have spent hours searching forums, google, M$, etc, etc....
The story begins....
Recently upgraded from my XDA IIi to the shiny XDA trion (HERMES) - moved to WM6 and had to upgrade to ActiveSync (AS) 4.5.
All fine and dandy to here.... (and most excellent I must add!)
Now - I have two PCs - home and work. Both locations have their own exchange server. (Work Exchange and Home Exchange)
Email - I sync via the exchange server at work and has no problems from either location connecting via AS 4.5 to the exchange server for the mail. (I am only interested in getting my work emails on the device).
Calandar and Contacts - I used to be able to sync both PCs to the XDA IIi via AS 4.1 meaning that if I ever added a calandar entry while at home, it would update the phone and when I next connected to my work PC, it would then place it there. (And Visa Versa). This also worked for my contacts, notes, tasks, etc. Consequently, I was able to know that I had the most up to date contacts, calander entries, etc on the phone, as well as on both PCs when I next connected the phone to them. So it didn't matter at which location I was sitting - I would be up to date and not miss appointments...
However, AS 4.5 helpfully tells me that I am already syncing my calandar / contacts / whatever somewhere else and must deselect this first (and remove all of the data) before it would allow me to connect with a different source. Rather frustrating.
Now, I don't know if there is an easier way to achieve the results I am looking for (can I point my home exchange server at the work one and have them sync and then I just sync to the one?) or if I am just making things difficult for myself..?? Surely I am on the only person out there who may like to keep to calandars across different PCs in sync? (I also don't want to use an internet based webservice like googlecalandar, etc).
Any ideas / suggestions / advise / hacks on how I can get it back to how I could work previously?
Thanks!.
MJ.
Okay, let me try to help. You don't have to deselect any of the Exchange items. Just select the items on the local desktop that you will be syncing. When you sync at home, you will see exchange items grouped being synced and a 2nd group on your desktop also being synced. Going into AS on the device will provide a last sync status for exchange and any partnerships you have.
Here is my setup:
I sync Email, Calendar, and Contacts via Exchange Server at work (this is done wirelessly).
I sync Tasks through a 3rd party app and notes at work on my desktop (this is a partnership in AS 4.5)
I sync calendar, contacts, quicken, etc... at home (partnership in AS4.5)
You'll notice that my device is syncing contacts and calendar between exchange and my home PC when it's connected and any changes on the device, exchange are mirrored immediately and at home when I sync it. Actually when I sync it at home I think it winds up being slow sometimes because it's by default syncing with the home desktop as well as pushing that info back to the exchange server at work.
Now, as to syncing with 2 exchanges - you'll probably have to choose one and then sync the other via a partnership. Not sure you can set up 2 servers.
Hope that helps.
I am a long-time Mac user who also uses Windows on my Mac via Bootcamp partition, but I spend most of my time in in Mac OS. Is anyone here using the HD2 with a Mac?
What software works to sync calendar, documents, music, etc.? I've googled a few, but I was hoping for from an actual user with experience.
Thanks guys.
I have been using syncmate
I use it with my mac, syncmate is pretty good.
My preferred way is using google mail / contacts / calendar
You can sync ical, address book and mail with your google account. It then uses push through activesync to link up with your phone, works really well - I use mobileme on my mac and find this to be just as good (and also free )
Im on a mac to, I just synced everything with google calendar and used the push server.
what about rom updating?
Tried to search on this but the terms are so generic, I didn't have much luck.
Is there a way to set up two partnerships with my Android phone, so that I can have contacts from work on my phone and home machine, but keep my personal contacts synchronized from my home Outlook private and out of my machine at work?
In other words, I want to synchronize some, but not all, groups, based on the desktop.
Thanks in advance.
Are you running Outlook at work too, keeping your contacts in separate folders (one being personal and the other work related on your home computer), if so do you have your contacts on your phone setup identifying the differences as well? How can your phone move files, can they be fed directly ibro Outlook or are they transferred as a csv file? Worse case you use one Gmail and Live accounts to sync and the Live accounts to sync with your two Windows computers. I have gotten creative when it comes to getting the information I need to me from my computer at another location regardless of what operating system it is. Gmail, Live and Cox accounts are great storage accounts and servers.
If you still need help and haven't found a solution I could help you out, it would just be easier if I knew the details of your current syncing program (if any), its capabilities (if it interfaces directly with Outlook or creates csv files) and any thing else you use to transfer your files.
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Sorry, should have included the information you ask about.
Running Outlook 2007 on both desktops. It was my plan to use HTC Sync. I do have my work contacts categorized into their own group, so if there's a way to synchronize only specific groups by desktop, that would be ideal.
Bump. Still looking for a solution.
Ping. Nobody has feedback on this?