I just got an HD2 and got Android running onto it without any issue. I am planning to switch over from an iPhone. I have one issue. I am a users that heavily uses Outlook on a daily basis to manage my Contacts and Calendar. Also, I use iTunes for my music.
I did some research on finding ways to sync iTunes and outlook with Android but I couldn't find any satisfying solution.
I was hoping you guys would be able to share how you guys sync Outlook's contact and calendars onto Android.
I know there are few methods out there where I can sync my Outlook with Gmail using Google Sync app, and then sync my Android with Gmail. Isn't there a more simpler method to achieve this?
This is not a solution to your problem, its just what I did to solve all this import/synch from outlook contacts / calendar which is a very frustrating task. I stoped using outlook! I imported all contacts and calendar entries to gmail - gmail calendar and now everytime I run a new android build all these get synchronized automatically. I just input gmail username and pass. It takes only a minute.
Hope this helps
tzic said:
This is not a solution to your problem, its just what I did to solve all this import/synch from outlook contacts / calendar which is a very frustrating task. I stoped using outlook! I imported all contacts and calendar entries to gmail - gmail calendar and now everytime I run a new android build all these get synchronized automatically. I just input gmail username and pass. It takes only a minute.
Hope this helps
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lol for sure stop using Outlook is definitely not an option for me. lol
Zythyr said:
lol for sure stop using Outlook is definitely not an option for me. lol
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Obviously it's not an option and I never understood why people still complain about a full blown Outlook solution.
I'm in the same situation as you and I solved with a couple of little programs.
Google Contacts Outlook Synchronizer and Google Calendar Sync. You only have to set things once, then everything works on the fly.
As for your music, winamp has just released a beta version which can sync music via wifi or usb. You do need a beta desktop version as well, found here
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=322995
I ran into Google App Sync, https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync, but it seems that I have to pay for it. Isn't there something similar to this which is free?
Hi All
I make quite a lot of use of the contacts and calendars on my Z but today I noticed something a little odd.
On my Google apps account I have subscribed to the Contacts Birthday & Events Calendar, which seemed to have worked fine, the contacts I had with birthdays were added to the calendar on the computer and sync'd to the phone fine too.
The other day I added a few more birthday dates to various contacts on my phone, and thought nothing of it.
I just checked my calendar and noticed that none of the ones I had updated were added to my calendar. I decided to have a look on the computer, and sure enough the birthdays were in the calendar on google calendar, but no amount of syncing on the phone makes them show up on the phone.
I have tried deleting the birthday on the contact on the phone and re adding in on google contacts and still it doesn't appear on the phone.
Has anyone else had this problem?
My dad just got the note recently and he just found out that the S Planner app (The only calender app) does not have the option to sync shared calenders. All he can see is his own personal google account calender. The problem is my family uses the shared calender a lot and this is kinda frustrating. My SGS2 has no problem syncing with shared calender because there is an option to sync it, but not on the note. Any ideas?
Does anyone know how to get the Facebook calendar to sync? Specifically with Pure Grid Calendar (though it gets it's synced calendars from the Google app).
TYIA!
Fatty
HaxSync works for me. Though I dont use Facebook that much, but my friend's birthdays does get synced.
I have looked around and can't find a forum discussion on this. Sorry if I missed it.
I love Google Now. I am using the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4. I have activated all the cards in the available cards section including the birthday card. I noticed that my Google Now shows me a new card when I have an appointment in my calendar approaching (so thus it DOES see my calendar and syncs appointments). However, for the life of my it won't see birthdays and anniversaries of my contacts that also display in my calendar as items.
I am really frustrated with this and have tried many different things. I thought it was just a calendar thing. Google Now syncs with calendar but maybe not "extra" calendars like the "birthday and anniversary" one that I have (added through gmail). But then again my Google Now also syncs with my contacts where birthdays are located. After all, contacts is where the calendar pulls the data from in the first place. So can someone please help me understand how to get the birthday card on Google Now to show me this info when it is relevant?
Thanks much in advance.
I believe Google now gets birthday information from Google + (not from calendar)
It's silly that it syncs with my contacts and calendar but wouldn't implement this. Only like 5% of my contacts are on Google+. After all shouldn't Google now learn more and more about me the more info I give it? Well... I gave it my contacts info lol.
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