Hi,
I have a problem with syncing and I've put the background to the problem as well as my main question. If you think you can help, go straight to "QUESTION". Thanks.
BACKGROUND
Okay, since the 12th of December I've not been able to directly sync my phone's contacts and appointments (using my phone's wi-fi connection) with my Microsoft Account at Windows Live / Outlook.com. I thought it had something to do with the end of the World, but it turns out it doesn't. E-mail and tasks sync just fine and using the connection steps here, I have a good connection to the Windows Live ("m.hotmail.com") server. My phone is currently running the latest EDGE swift ROM, so Windows Mobile 6.5.
After a little digging and process of elimination (of the ActiveSync errors), it seems most (but not all) of my contacts and appointments (on my phone) are out of sync. Waaaaay way out of sync. I'm talking hours, some of them even days. Hence Live/Outlook.com refusing to sync some of these items. My problem is mainly related to the appointments stored in my phone and those in my Windows Live Calendar.
I've been travelling around the World for some time and I think due to the constant PIM backups, restores and syncs between my phone and Live during differing time zones to that of when the original data (appointments in particular) was created, the phone has juggled these things around so much that they have strayed from their original timestamps. For example, I run an amazing app on my phone called PhoneLog which records SMS messages and phone calls into appointments and puts them in the calendar, timestamping the call and it's duration. Comparing between my phone and Live, one log says a call was made at 12:12 but the appointment in my phone is at 17:12 and the one on Live is at 11:12.
QUESTION
My Microsoft Account has most of my original appointments, as I said, up until the 12th of December. Then because of the failure to sync, no more entries have been recorded online. However, I have them in my phone up until the current date.
What I want to do is delete all my previous calendar appointments in my phone before the 12th so that the problematic items no longer cause a sync failure, allowing me to sync up the new entries I've created since that date.
The trick is, how to do this without deleting in the process, all the new appointments?
I cannot delete all these entries manually one after another from the phone. There are thousands and it would just simply take too long.
Any help on how to bulk delete selective appointments would be greatly appreciated.
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Upon attempting to synchronize large files or volumes of data (approximately 7600 contacts), ActiveSync 4.5 disconnects the handset (the display changes from "Connected" to "Not connected"). All data transfer abruptly ceases.
The handset returns an error message involving the file rapiclnt (which I am further prompted to forward to MS).
The OS is Windows Mobile 5, 4/2007 ROM. Approximately 31.5 MB free.
I have attempted deleting the mobile device profile, using a new profile, synching as a guest, resetting the device, rebooting the computer, defragging, etc. I have excepted from the firewall all the ActiveSynch directory exe files as recommended by the MS Windows Mobile troubleshooting site.
Will 3d party synchronizing software avoid this? Without contacts & calendar, this is just a very heavy and expensive brick
I did mine with 4500 contacts and agree that getting past the initial sync is a pain. On a fresh setup I introduce the sync items one at a time.... i.e. first sync folders, then sync tasks, etc. And then I do a reset before syncing the contacts. It takes a long while to do the setup but it works.
liquidsilver said:
I did mine with 4500 contacts and agree that getting past the initial sync is a pain. On a fresh setup I introduce the sync items one at a time.... i.e. first sync folders, then sync tasks, etc. And then I do a reset before syncing the contacts. It takes a long while to do the setup but it works.
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I was able to perform the initial sync (pain is an understatement) directly from TImeMatters, which is apparently much more efficient than Outlook (which creates a much larger file on the handset). I time limited the Calendar and Tasks to reduce the number of synched items. Unfortunately, the incremental (changed items only) sync crashes, leaving only the alternative of deleting all handset items. As TimeMatters shows the first couple of items being synced to the handset, ActiveSync shows a lost connection (although the TimeMatters sync dialogue dutifully churns through all 7600 items)
I unsuccesfully tried syncing TimeMatters to Outlook, and ActiveSyncing Outook to Pocket Outlook. After creating a PIM.vol file of 40MB on the handset, the device returned "out of memory" errors while of course retaining none of the contacts.
It's unquestionably the size of the transferred files because I can reset the TimeMatters sync preferences to incremental, and the changed items come over to the phone just fine.
this absolutely confirms it's the size of the file causing ActiveSync to choke. I was able to filter out contacts and successfully synced both calendar and tasks.
I subsequently attempted to reduce the number of contacts by deleting them from the main database (TimeMatters stores such items in a "Recycle bin") so only about half of them remained to be synced. Even with only 5000 contacts (and no calendar or tasks), ActiveSync caused the device to disconnect almost immediately
Anybody know of a program that is a suitable replacement for Microsoft Outlook which can sync to the Touch?
I'm coming from the Palm platform and the Palm Desktop was so much easier and simpler to use.
I've seen replacements for the Touch contact program but nothing to replace Microsoft Outlook for the desktop.
I'd like to remove Outlook from my computer and find something that would sync contacts and or appointments to the Touch.
http://funambol.com/
There are a lot of other possibilities to replace outlook and/or activesync. But after reading the adventures blog of someone who tried them all out it was very convincing that this is the best. Actually he described 8 different solutions on his blog, most of which I had not been able to find googling for over two days.
For those of you who are still relying on Outlook: it has proven it's reliability to me from 1997 till last week. Then it crashed, refused to open my pst file with all my contacts, my appointments, my tasks and an email archive of overr 3 years. It also refused to start with a backup pst. It also refused to start from scratch with a new profile and import either an old pst or comma delimited backup.
It'll take me some time to recover from this horror scenario
I'd just like to pipe up and say that I'm not a fan of the ActiveSync/Outlook combo either. I always end up with duplicate or even triplicate contact entries. A friend of mine who uses Hotmail as his primary email says he doesn't have this problem, but I refuse to be forced into Hotmail just for this purpose.
If your primary email is GMail, then follow the directions here:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
And your contacts and calendar will stay in sync via Google's own Exchange server. Unfortunately, they don't have Mail syncing via Exchange yet for some reason. But you can set up GMail with IMAP in your Email client, or you can download a third-party push-email software which will allow for a further realtime-ness to it all.
As for desktop software beyond Outlook, I don't think I can make any suggestions, I've been on GMail for a long time now. And even more so, I've been using Android full time for nearly a year now, which is even better than my above suggestions, as long as GMail is what you use primarily.
Hi,
I use ADP1.1 and I think since Root Access or maybe even before that (so since the beginning) my google calendar doesn't sync correctly with my G1.
First and most important it only syncs about 30-50% of all events. The rest doesn't show up, even so it's online at google calendar.
And then when I delete a calendar online and import a new one (to update calendar from Entourage/iCal) the G1 shows all the events it syncs twice or three times.
Is there any solution or a reason why that happens? I've asked it before but no answer in another forum. I've read something about two events similar not syncing. But why?
I wanna have my whole calendar from Entourage/iCal on my G1. Is there any way?
Thx.
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First and most important it only syncs about 30-50% of all events. The rest doesn't show up, even so it's online at google calendar.
And then when I delete a calendar online and import a new one (to update calendar from Entourage/iCal) the G1 shows all the events it syncs twice or three times.
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This probably isn't the cause, but I found one syncing bug in CalendarProvider so far: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1860 This would happen while attempting to sync some repeating events (with no timezone?) and it kills the whole sync process. You can see if it's affecting you by going to Dev Tools / Exception Browser and looking for the exception I quoted in that bug.
As for multiple copies of events, it's possible the G1 still has the old calendars you've deleted (especially if the sync process is being interrupted). Are the events different colours? Do you see the correct set of calendars in Menu / My Calendars (also from there Menu / Add Calendars)?
I'll check that, thx.
No it's fine online, only one event, but on the G1 there are multiple events.
Just goin out on a limb, but I assume you are manually syncing also to make sure?
I deleted the calendar of the G1 because of duplicates (again, after syncing with a new google calendar, strange). Now syncing is working fine.
I sync it with iCal now (instead of importing an iCal file), but now somehow iCal sync missed two events of about 40 which weren't shown at google's online calendar. Strange, very strange.
Well, at least all google events online now can be found on my G1.
Thx anyway.
This thread will be moved to Dream general.
Has nothing to do with developement.
Thank you.
After upgrading to ROM 1.66, and re-synching everything back to the phone from Outlook over ActiveSync, I also re-synched with MyPhone. What happened was that duplicates of all my Documents (excel, word, notes etc) appeared in MyPhone, and the documents on my HD2 got overwritten with older versions that were already on MyPhone. Looking through the docs on MyPhone, I noticed most of them had THREE copies, which appeared to be from previous hard resets/ROM upgrades. How MyPhone can maintain several copies of the same files is beyond me, and it also seems MyPhone sometimes synchs up an OLD version, so you lose all the changes you had made since that old version.
So for now I have switched off MyPhone and am going back to just synching with Outlook, which seems to work very well.
Incidentally, last time I did a hard reset, which I had to do because the LOCK screen refused to recognize my password (that's another story), I initally got my data back from MyPhone, but then when I subsequently synched to Outlook, I got duplicates of all my contacts, notes, tasks etc, and had to manually delete all the duplicates, which took forever.
Has anyone else experienced these issues with MyPhone? Have a look at your MyPhone accounts folks, especially if you've upgraded your ROM recently, and see if you have any duplicate documents. Also check whether any of your docs have been replaced on your HD2 with older ones. I'd be interested to hear whether I'm the only one with these issues.
Cheers!
same issue but just contacts
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same issue but just contacts
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yeah, it appears that neither one on them, (outlook or myphone) is compatible with each other, they both duplicate contacts.... I am obligated to use myphone service cause I often do hard resets without my pc in front of me, besides, my phone synchronizes text messages also... Making changes in outlook is so much easier an simpler, so when I need to do major changes to calendar for example, I Synchronize with outlook on my pc (previous cleaning of outlook which is a pain in the as*).... is sad that both microsoft products do not get along well
Not sure if this helps but I went to MyPhone web, into my account and noticed that there were 2 devizes on it. One was the ROM 1.43 and the other 1.66 based on sync dates.
While upgrading to WWE 1.66 I couldnt restore all my stored text messages from MyPhone which claimed that I have 0 archived.
On 1.48 there were no problems with it
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.