AirSync and contacts notes - Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General

Hi
I have set up my Exchange Server 2003 to use the push technology for email updates etc., on my Kaiser. All is working well, except.....
The notes field in Contacts is truncated. I desperately need my full notes when away from my office.
I have looked at the various setup options and can't see a size 'threshold' parameter.
There must be some way of getting AirSync to sync the whole contact entry including the whole notes field.
TX in advance
Shobosh
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maintaining 2 separate calendars

I'm wondering if it is possible to maintain two calendar's on my kaiser. One for my personal appointments, that can be synchronised with my outlook client on my desktop and one for the business appointments that will be syncronized with my outlook client on my business laptop?
Alernatively one calendar would be fine, but i would like to avoid at all cost that my private account are replicated back to my business laptop. (I would really mind seeing business appointments in my personal outlook client though).
I've tried searching the forum, but could find a possible solution.
Have you considered using "Categories?" You can assign a "Personal" category to all of you personal stuff. Then, you can use "View" to filter in/out the Personal items.
Not a bad idea.
But even then my personal data would be replicated to my business calender and I don't want that. My colleagues have at least read access to my business calender and I don't want them to be able to see my private appointments. And I know I can mark them as private. It would mean a lot of overhead though, I'd have to mark all my appointments as private and assign them to the personal categorie.
Close, but not really what I am looking for.
I really would like to be able to maintain 2 calenders on my pda.
Or if I had the possibility to do a one way sync with my business calendar that would also be enough.
I don't think so...Intellisync would let you actually sync only certain categories and I used it to do just what you want...but it stopped working with Office 2007.
Is your personal calendar in Google? I'm not sure, but maybe you can accomlish this via categories, and use of OGG Synch.
I have accomplished it, but my work calendar is Lotus Notes, and I use mNOtes to replicate to it. I just set a category of No Notes Synch and mNotes will not take it up to my Notes calendar.

Sync w/o Outlook

Hey folks,
Sorry to post such a 'simple' question, but I can't seem to google up the right words to find what I'm looking for -- and the links I did find didn't give me much personal opinions of different services.
I recently lost Sync options with my work (yay economy and licensing costs).. I loved using Outlook to sync my calender from MS Exchange to my phone... and I could use OWA to enter in my calender events from my computer. It also allowed my calender to survive flashes w/o backups.
I can't survive without my calender syncing, since the change i'm late to work constantly (I used to enter my shifts in OWA w/reminders 2 hours before to make sure I'm moving early enough to get ready & to work on time -- In case I'm watching a movie with the dog and don't notice the time)
I found 2 solutions, but both are around Google's calender, which I'm not super keen on, but could work:
1. Google Calender Mobile Website -- My understanding is it does reminders by SMS(?) and is mostly managed by google -- not the phone.
2. GooSync / OogSync -- Looks like it'll sync right into the phone's native calender -- But I didnt see verification of it syncing with the native calender, and/or if it supports making sure my reminders & other 'extra' information is sync'ed
I don't want to give Microsoft any money for outlook, so what do you all use :-/
Thanks guys, again, sorry for posting this issue without spending 3 hours researching first :-/ but getting a headache from trying to find a solution!
So, My needs:
1) Bi-directional Sync
2) Extra Information (e.g. Reminders) Sync
3) Easy entry/editing of calender info from a computer
Hopes:
4) Can work behind corporate firewalls blocking gmail, yahoo mail, etc.
5) Task Syncing
Thanks guys, love XDA
-Lee
Possible ways to sync
Unfortunately the easiest way would be to sync through outlook.
Though your company may have cut licensing cost ask the IT gurus if your company may have an agreement with MS. It's called Home Use Program (HUP) LINK.
If they do you can buy a full office pack for home use for ~ $20 which is definitely worth doing it. Afterwards simply maintain your contacts at your home PC and sync them through the PC. You may export them out of your office outlook either as PAB or CSV file and import at home. AFAIK this doesn't work with outlook express, you need a full blown office outlook.
You may also look at the link below if this would do it for you.
http://www.tipsfor.us/2008/04/15/sy...ontacts-and-calendar-using-funambol-for-free/
Perhaps you have a friendly IT group. Download the attached file, rename ZIP to PDF and take a look, it may work in your environment.
have you tried mail2web? its outlook (OWA), syncs with your phone (email, contacts, calender, etc..) and you can also manage it on your computer. Best of all, its free http://exchange.mail2web.com/
Hmmm.. with e-mail forwarding from my gmail to this that might actually work out well... save battery life on checking multiple e-mail accounts...
In case someone stumbles on this, link to account setup is: http://services.mail2web.com/Services/exchangesolutions.asp
Took a bit of searchign to find that page, most of their stuff advertises their paid services.... I'll give the free one a try, if I like it I'd be willing to pay (or at least donate) for it
instead of Mail2web try out seven, mail forwarding service. found here, i swear by it, it's been such a good service, you do have to sign up but it remembers you, so if you switch to another phone, ROM, etc your e-mail account(s) will be saved and you can add multiple accounts, and set times for mail forwarding. I'm not sure about contacts, but it asks every time i restart it if i want to import my contacts from g-mail. it's definitely worth a try.

[Q] Sync HD7 with Outlook

It seems that you can't use Windows Mobile Device Center to sync from pc to HD7 phone, it has to be done via a hotmail/windows live account. I really cannot understand why many developers and the might of Microsoft deem it a wise move. Apart from security issues of putting lots of data in to the cloud, the process seems to be impossible to use efficiently. I am finding some contacts with a company name longer than a set number of characters will not fully sync, and there seems to be a limit to the amount of information for a contact. Is this really progress? Does anyone know of any third party apps which enable the sync between outlook and a WP7 phone? Even after the initial sync of contacts and calendar to my windows live hotmail account, which itself took ages, it seems a long while before any changes made on one appear on the other. I am seriously thinking of returning my HD7 - a great pity as WP7 seemed to promise so much. It is most certainly NOT aimed at the business user. Nokia, for all its faults, has a much better program for syncing a Nokia with Outlook, as does iTunes! Even Android has some degree of pc-phone syncing. Anyone got any helpful ideas?
Have patience and give it a try. I too didn't like the new method but once I had pruned my contacts removing unwanted stuff from the notes field it did copy over.
I now have it set up using emails and calander from my exchange account, email from 2 hotmail accounts, with contacts comming from my main hotmail account i set up yesterday.
It was strange at first but I've converted quickly.
P.S just discoved the APPLICATION tab in SETTINGS where you can rename the live tiles too
Thanks xma1e, I'm pleased to hear I'm not the only one to find it awkward. Do you know if there is a limit on the number of people you can have, and also what the limit on size of notes is?
Hampshire PDA said:
Even after the initial sync of contacts and calendar to my windows live hotmail account, which itself took ages, it seems a long while before any changes made on one appear on the other.
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I thought I'd give the Windows Live services a try before moving all my emails and contacts from Google Apps.
I set up a couple of accounts on Windows Live Domains to replace my Google Apps accounts and the first hurdle I hit was not being able to setup an alias email address. Email from only one address (primary) can be received. Email forwarding can't be configured from the domain host because Windows MX servers are handling the email.
The 2nd issue, setting up calendar sharing would always fail. And this wasn't just with the new accounts, two test accounts I setup over a week ago were still failing when setting up calendar sharing between the two. So back to Google Apps for me.
The above issue weren't specific to me, Googling showed lots of users affected.
I might be going off topic but I'm annoyed MS are pushing "the cloud" eveywhere yet the features aren't complete or broken. What took me around 8 hours to setup and configure on Windows Live took 8 mins to change back to Google Apps which works 100%.
Also, if you do have shared calendars working on your Hotmail/Live accounts does the HD7 show them? An early beta review of WP7 by Pocketnow showed shared calendars not working.
Inability to sync Outlook from desktop is a massive oversight. Lots of people use Outlook as a PIM on the desktop, without an Exchange back-end. I have been anti-iphone for ages, I gave back my work-issued iphone as not fit for purpose, and bought the TD2 out of my own pocket, but have been anxiously awaiting the HD7.
Whilst the HD7 and Windows Phone OS is blowing me away, it's so quick, slick and easy to use, I am now trying to work out the best option for syncing Outlook automatically.
The standard option from the web, a 4-step sync between
a) Outlook - Google
b) Google - Windows Live in Outlook
c) Windows Live in Outlook - Windows Live Online
Is not an option because I am running 64-bit Outlook that google sync does not support. There are some 3rd-party options to investigate but these will all cost money.
As reply to kougei, I just had a quick scan of Google's website - are you sure about the Google Sync 64 bit Outlook incompatibility, this is what I read off their website...
System requirements:
Requires Google Apps Premier or EDU Edition
Windows XP (32 bit) SP3
Windows Vista (32 bit) SP1
Windows Vista (64 bit) SP1
Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
Microsoft Outlook 2003® SP3
Microsoft Outlook 2007® SP2 (or SP1 with hotfix)
Microsoft Outlook 2010® (32 and 64 bit)
- https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync
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I don't use Google myself, but I was just wondering whether you may have missed an update saving a lot of money and possibly frustration?
kougei said:
The standard option from the web, a 4-step sync between
a) Outlook - Google
b) Google - Windows Live in Outlook
c) Windows Live in Outlook - Windows Live Online
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Use Outlook Connector to sync between Outlook to Window Live if you don't need your data in Google.
Outlook Connector is part of the Window Live Essentials pack.
Mujja said:
an alias email address
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If you have moved your own domain to Live as I have, what you have to do is create a new user that is the alias you want, then set that user to forward email to your primary address. That is what Microsoft tell you to do, and it works just fine.
To the OP - you're living in the past! It's all about the cloud now, move all your stuff onto the cloud.
If you move to the Live services (and you can put your own domain into Live for free) you benefit from all the syncing of calendars, contacts and email for no cost. Outlook has the Live connector which you use to push all your existing email, contacts and calendars to Live and then collects new email coming in.
In terms of delivery speed - if someone sends me an email I get it at the same time on my phone, Outlook, live web interface...
If you can't use the Live set of services for whatever reason, you can look at a hosted Exchange server. There are plenty of them about and will give you the best possible experience and integration with WP7, Outlook and web based email. One who I do not use personally but I have recommended to others who find it works perfectly (Though nobody I know who uses it is on wp7 yet, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work as it's just Exchange server) is mail2web, though it isn't free.
DaWolfey said:
If you have moved your own domain to Live as I have, what you have to do is create a new user that is the alias you want, then set that user to forward email to your primary address. That is what Microsoft tell you to do, and it works just fine.
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I did setup a secondary account to forward email to the primary account. But I couldn't see an option to completely disable junk mail filtering so I could never be sure ALL email was forwarded to the primary inbox for me to filter. And with Live Mail's slow and unreliable POP3 importing from other accounts I didn't trust the secondary account to forward emails as soon as they arrived.
To make sure I was getting all my email from the secondary account I could have added the account to my mobile device but I wanted to keep things simple.
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As reply to kougei, I just had a quick scan of Google's website - are you sure about the Google Sync 64 bit Outlook incompatibility, this is what I read off their website...
I don't use Google myself, but I was just wondering whether you may have missed an update saving a lot of money and possibly frustration?
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It looks like a Premiere account costs $50 a year,whereas standard free google calendar sync is definitely outlook 2010 32-bit only at the moment. I dont use any aspect of google services currently,so will look at other solutions rather than spending $50 every year.
Mujja said:
Use Outlook Connector to sync between Outlook to Window Live if you don't need your data in Google.
Outlook Connector is part of the Window Live Essentials pack.
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Nope, all that does is allow you to see a view of windows live mail, contacts, calendar entities within outlook, and use them directly in outlook, in sync.
It does not sync or interact with the default outlook entities that are part of your local pst file.
kougei said:
It looks like a Premiere account costs $50 a year,whereas standard free google calendar sync is definitely outlook 2010 32-bit only at the moment. I dont use any aspect of google services currently,so will look at other solutions rather than spending $50 every year.
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Google Apps Premier has a free 30 day trial. I've upgraded my wife's account to premier as she prefers to read her email in Outlook. The premier app sync email, contacts and mutiple calendars and even allows Outlook to display the mutiple calendars side by side.
However the OP wanted to sync Outook to Windows Live which can be done free using Outlook Connector instead of paying £40 for a Google Apps Premier account.
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It does not sync or interact with the default outlook entities that are part of your local pst file.
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You're right, forgot to mention that. But the OP can copy and paste all contacts and calendar entries from the local calendar to the live calendar in one go and from there sync to the phone.
I can live with manually maintaining contacts but i work dynamically with my calendar in local pst via meeting requests, etc. not practical to manually maintain a second calendar. Lets hope either microsoft or google release a free update soon.
Others are finding the same problems as I am. It seems to update the contacts OK if I put a new entry or edit an entry in Outlook. But I am having to update the calendar manually. I really can't believe this is what Microsoft intend - does someone have a way of getting the calendar to sync as well please?

Managing contacts, tasks and calendar

hi,
I just got HD7 and have Windows 7 x64 with Outlook 2010 32-bit installed.
All my contacts, tasks and calendar are organised using outlook and have elaborate Categories to manage and separate them.
What is the best way to sync ALL (contacts, tasks, calendar) including categories?
Of course, I am looking at a 2-way sync so changes made on the phone are updated in Outlook.
I used companionlink and it moves category data to "Notes" field plus there is no sync for tasks.
Is there a solution?
I am not liking that HD7 cannot sync with Outlook directly.
I was in the same situation as you. I installed the Hotmail Sync for Outlook, synced my email, calendar and contacts to my hotmail account, and watched them populate my phone. Regarding tasks, there's no sync at the moment, but what I do is copy and paste the day's tasks into a spreadsheet synced via Windows Live Mesh to Skydrive, and download it from there onto my phone each morning. I then use the filters to show me each category, and when I get home I update my tasks in Outlook from the notes I've made in the spreadsheet. Works for me until task syncing comes along.
Alternatively, if you don't use Start Date or Repeating Tasks, you could use Remember the Milk.
Neither is ideal but is a potential stopgap.
I think one of the add-on functionality for the wp7 update should include syncing contacts, calendars and tasks because a lot of users trying to switch phones (like myself and you guys) could find it very annoying to sync contacts from our old phone.
I was using the original HTC Touch HD and I thought it would be the easiest thing syncing contacts but noooo. I ended up syncing to outlook first then uploading to my windows live account and then all my contacts popped up on my phone after like 3hrs because I have about 500+ contacts.

[Q] Contacts, memos and calendar compatibility?

I am considering buying Galaxy Note, but there is one issue I haven't been able to clear so far:
How compatible are the GN calendar (s-planner), memo (s-memo) and contacts with Outlook and Google calendar? Can I synchronize between GN and Outlook calendar and contacts? Are the s-memo notes transferred to PC and if so, can they be exported to any other format (Outlook memo? MS Onenote? Evernote? ASCII text? Graphics?)
I have already had Palm PDAs (with the Palm Desktop on PC), then WinMobile devices (with Outlook) and got quite used to the comfort of being able to view and edit contacts, schedules and memos on both PC and the mobile device. If GN doesn't allow this, this would be a serious downside for me.
Everything is synced with Google. If your Outlook syncs with google then it shouldnt be a problem with the calander and contacts. You can add s-memos to calander events, but if you dont do that, then you have to manually sync s-memo things to Google Docs. But other than that its completely autonomous. There are also a lot of apps that do what you want. I would recommend buying a Note.
syncs fine with hotmail, exchange, google and facebook.
I initially had an odd scenario where hotmail gained some facebook calendar events (birthdays) but that seems to have resolved itself.
Thank you for the answer.
It has been written somewhere that the latest version of S-Memo can also synchronize with Evernote. Can anyone confirm that? And if so, does it just send the content as an image or does it retain some more formatting (text? www links? etc.)
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Thank you for the answer.
It has been written somewhere that the latest version of S-Memo can also synchronize with Evernote. Can anyone confirm that? And if so, does it just send the content as an image or does it retain some more formatting (text? www links? etc.)
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sync works with evernote but it send the notes as images.
I am a sync-o-phile (oo-er, sounds a bit rude), always have been.
I now have my calendar and contacts synced with Google & Outlook using and App called Sync2 from www.sync2.com. It seems to work fine, although can fail when outlook is closed and it is still alive (I close Outlook to sleep my PC or Outlook can crash). I sync it and several other web calendars at the same time.
I also have my Outlook to do list sync to ToodleDo, and then to Due Today both on my PC and my phone. It uses Outlook categories as Project names, which is neat. I have not tried linking with the Notes To Do list as this seems peculiar to the Note, and I want a more general solution.
I like that Google/Samsung now seems to carry over Outlook categories for contacts in the Note. That means I can use them properly.
I use Evernote to sync all my notes as it is far more powerful than the Google notes thing, and more generic. I also love the ability to open a file, edit it, and save again, and it updates the note.
I use Basecamp on my PC, phone, and the web for managing projects and collaborating with customers.
For files I use SugarSync, and it syncs with up to 3 devices, up to 2GB for free, and I typically just ignore it an expect my files to be wherever I am.
Odd thing is that I have noticed several contacts getting images from other sources I never asked to look up. I presume Facebook. This is bloody annoying. Does anyone know how to stop it?
jeromepearce said:
Odd thing is that I have noticed several contacts getting images from other sources I never asked to look up. I presume Facebook. This is bloody annoying. Does anyone know how to stop it?
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This is quite possible. I have also noticed the same behaviour on my WinMobile phone (HTC Touch Pro2), so it is not directly an Android related issue. And yes, the images for my contacts that appeared suddenly without my consent, are the same as their Facebook profile images.
Got a Note!
You've managed to give me the information I needed and finally I bought a Note!
So far I have been able to confirm:
Synchronizing Smemo with Google Docs - works great, text remains text, while images are embeded in the document
Exporting contacts from Outlook to KIES worked "sort of", while exporting to Gmail and back to Note worked great. I have managed to retain all the information and even code page (I used ASCII, not Unicode) worked as expected.
Exporting calendar from Outlook to Gmail and back to Note worked almost perfectly (apart from some inconsistencies which were due to duplicate entries in Outlook)
As for contact photos, it seems that only those which originate from Facebook are added to contact data.
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As for contact photos, it seems that only those which originate from Facebook are added to contact data.
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I got all my contact photos from way back, and those must have come through from Outlook -> Google -> Note as Outlook is the only constant source since I was first able to do this (with my Sony Clie)
Perhaps in my case Outlook photos would also have been added through Google, but I exported/imported them via a .csv file, which didn't retain photos, only text data.
My outlook contact photos sync perfectly.
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