Hi,
I've allready posted my concern a couple of times in the |B|6.5.1|ROM|WWE| ★ EnergyROM "Leo" 23081/21864 | Oct 28 | ★ Manila 2.5 ★ thread, but nobody is willing or is not able to give me a concrete answer.
In the following quoted message I've described my concern:
giniman said:
With all manila 2.5 versions I've tried so far, the fb contact pictrures are stored under \Windows\FBContacts and will not set as wm contact pictures. All fb pictures and birthdays are shown in manila, not in wm contacts though.
So if you select show more contact informations on manila contact, you will be redirected to the wm contact manager and there are no photos and no birthdays set. That's the reason why the caller ID is not working and also all these informations are not synchronized with outlook
This is really sad, because on manila 2.1 everything was working as expected and this feature is sooooo sweet
So I think this is definitiv a manila 2.5 bug, or a htc feature...lol
Hopefully someone is able to fix that.
greetz giniman
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I would like to know if this is only a bug in all the ported manila 2.5 roms, or does the original leo manila version has the same strange behaviour?
I can't imagine that htc would remove that great feature...
If anybody could give me a concrete answer to that issue, that would be great
I really like the look an feel of the new manila 2.5, but without that working feature I need to flash back a rom with manila 2.1.
Thx in advance
greetz giniman
I've got the same problem/issue as you.
I try to live with it, but every ROM I'm hoping this issue to be resolved... It's the only thing that I still need for 'the perfect ROM'.
I'am missing that, too.
Maybe the quality of the FB pictures is too bad???
I have the same Problem.
try this for photos: http://www.booksync.co.uk/
"This is an application for Windows Mobile phones that will allow you to synchronise the pictures of the contacts in your phone with profile pictures of your friends on Facebook.
Because phone book contacts may not match with peoples real names on Facebook you first match the contacts. This matching is then stored for future synchronising."
bugsykoosh said:
try this for photos: http://www.booksync.co.uk/
"This is an application for Windows Mobile phones that will allow you to synchronise the pictures of the contacts in your phone with profile pictures of your friends on Facebook.
Because phone book contacts may not match with peoples real names on Facebook you first match the contacts. This matching is then stored for future synchronising."
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Thx for that tip, I already know that app and I used to use it before manila 2.1
What I mean is that manila 2.5 implements the feature of automatic downloading the fb contact pictures and birthdays, they are not stored in the native wm contact library though. Manila itself is able to show these pictures and birthday events, but wm is not!!
The real strange thing is that with manila 2.1 everything was working correct
Is there any great xda chef out there who is able to fix that?? Or maybe we should ask this question in the Leo section to get the info if this is a general manila 2.5, or only a porting bug.
greetz giniman
I agree this is very strange, why on earth would they not store the information in the native contact? They mus thave implemented their own contact database in addition to the native one, very odd! There is almost no point of facebook integration if you can't sync birthday information and see the photo when they call etc..
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I agree this is very strange, why on earth would they not store the information in the native contact? They mus thave implemented their own contact database in addition to the native one, very odd! There is almost no point of facebook integration if you can't sync birthday information and see the photo when they call etc..
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That's exactly what I'm talking about
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who is missing this feature...
greetz giniman
Glad there's a dedicated thread for this! Its was one of the features that most impressed me when I flashed my first dutty 6.1 ROM, and in fact, got me returning to the same ROM after subsequent 6.5 ROMs lost the feature. I'm currently on Dutty's holy grail 6.5 with manila 2.1, and this only syncs the photo, but not the contact. I tried the 2.5 version and that didn't sync either.
It'd be great to get to the bottom of this but alas I have no programming skills whatsoever so can't be of much help!
all birthdays shifted 1 day
I've got another strange issue with birthdays:
I noticed this at the first 6.5 rom I flashed (dutty's R6) - ALL birthdays are shown 1 day shifted after syncing from exchange! When I correct some and sync again - nothing happens with the 'original' contact @ exchange, where the birthday always was correct.
E.g.: My contact card in manila shows my birthday as the 8th february, though my birthday is on the 9th - also the exchange contact states the 9th feb.
When I now correct my birthday on my phone and sync with exchange, nothing happens to the exchange contact birthday, but the phone-contact-birthday stays correct. But when I hard-reset my phone and sync again - guess what: all birthdays shifted again... So WTF?
When I sync a contact with FB it shows the correct date in addition - so 2 birthdays are shown....
Am I alone with this?
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I'm on duttys holy grale R0 manila 2.5 right now
OK I did some more testing, here is what I found using Miri's 12.0 ROM. Obviously with different ROMs you may have different results.
- Birthdays downloaded do go into WM contacts, and then are sync'ed via Activesync (hooray!)
- Photos do not, but can be selected manually using WM contacts and then sync - normally this appeared in outlook, but not always. But borwsing to the Windows\FBContacts folder is very slow, 2 minutes to select each photo, since it displays a preview of all the folders. It would be nice if you could turn that off, or choose another folder to save contacts in (e.g. outside Windows). Pictures also look good both on the people screen and in outlook contacts and when calling.
- When you select a facebook contact to associate with, you have to wait for it to show the photo otherwise it never downloads it and you have to re-associate
- Also, I tried creating a shortcut to FBcontacts folder to make selecting a picture quicker, but that doesn't work
- If you let it show all photos of everyone when associating an account, it will download all photos into FBContacts whether you associate the acount or not. You could then therefore copy the folder somewhere else, and then manually assign each picture to each Windows contact. I put it in DCIM\100MEDIA as this makes it quickes when adding to a contact.
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OK I did some more testing, here is what I found using Miri's 12.0 ROM. Obviously with different ROMs you may have different results.
- Birthdays downloaded do go into WM contacts, and then are sync'ed via Activesync (hooray!)
- Photos do not, but can be selected manually using WM contacts and then sync - normally this appeared in outlook, but not always. But borwsing to the Windows\FBContacts folder is very slow, 2 minutes to select each photo, since it displays a preview of all the folders. It would be nice if you could turn that off, or choose another folder to save contacts in (e.g. outside Windows). Pictures also look good both on the people screen and in outlook contacts and when calling.
- When you select a facebook contact to associate with, you have to wait for it to show the photo otherwise it never downloads it and you have to re-associate
- Also, I tried creating a shortcut to FBcontacts folder to make selecting a picture quicker, but that doesn't work
- If you let it show all photos of everyone when associating an account, it will download all photos into FBContacts whether you associate the acount or not. You could then therefore copy the folder somewhere else, and then manually assign each picture to each Windows contact. I put it in DCIM\100MEDIA as this makes it quickes when adding to a contact.
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Dutty's R7 did work - his newest "holy grail" doesn't.
try this: contact (htc app) -> edit (one of your FB contacts) -> tick the picture! (upper right corner)
for me the FB option is grayed out, strangely enough...although the account is associated????
HTC do not comply with Windows Mobile standard. With each upgraded version of its Manila the situation will get worse I think.
bboerny said:
I've got another strange issue with birthdays:
I noticed this at the first 6.5 rom I flashed (dutty's R6) - ALL birthdays are shown 1 day shifted after syncing from exchange! When I correct some and sync again - nothing happens with the 'original' contact @ exchange, where the birthday always was correct.
E.g.: My contact card in manila shows my birthday as the 8th february, though my birthday is on the 9th - also the exchange contact states the 9th feb.
When I now correct my birthday on my phone and sync with exchange, nothing happens to the exchange contact birthday, but the phone-contact-birthday stays correct. But when I hard-reset my phone and sync again - guess what: all birthdays shifted again... So WTF?
When I sync a contact with FB it shows the correct date in addition - so 2 birthdays are shown....
Am I alone with this?
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I'm on duttys holy grale R0 manila 2.5 right now
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I noticed this also and I'm on XannyTech's 2.0c with Manila 2.5 - I wonder why all birthdays are all shifted by 1 day??
Any resolution?
Manila 2.5 has completely screwed my birthdays up. I'm using google calendar through the google-sync exchange thing. Every so often I get a message on the phone saying "A change on the server means all data needs to be re-synchronised". After that the birthdays get shifted by a day. It's happened a few times which means people have birthdays spanning 4 or 5 days now. Last time it happened about 20-30 birthdays and anniversary appointments appeared in my google calendar for today's date. No idea what is going on, but it's definitely shafted.
giniman said:
I would like to know if this is only a bug in all the ported manila 2.5 roms, or does the original leo manila version has the same strange behaviour?
I can't imagine that htc would remove that great feature...
If anybody could give me a concrete answer to that issue, that would be great
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I think the only satisfactory answer will be for someone with official WM 6.5 and Manila 2.5 (any HD2 owner? ) to try it out and report the outcome.
makbil said:
I think the only satisfactory answer will be for someone with official WM 6.5 and Manila 2.5 (any HD2 owner? ) to try it out and report the outcome.
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I'll post this evening a thread in the Leo section. Hopefully someone is able to tell me if this strange behaviour also occurs on official Leo WM6.5 Manila 2.5 roms.
With NRGZ manila 2.5 roms all my birthdays where also messed up. So I switched to XannyTech rom 1.9b/2.0b and everything was fine. As far as I figured out the shifting problem with the birthday events, it seems that this behaviour has something to do with the timezone, which has not to be set on first boot on NRGZ roms.
greetz giniman
4irm said:
Dutty's R7 did work - his newest "holy grail" doesn't.
try this: contact (htc app) -> edit (one of your FB contacts) -> tick the picture! (upper right corner)
for me the FB option is grayed out, strangely enough...although the account is associated????
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Just tried on Duttys 6.5 Leo Holy Grail R0 and works fine.
There must be an issue with those ROMs or something, I've TD2 official ROM and I can see high quality pictures on my contacts on ManilaContacts and WMContacts also CallerIDs... Birthday..hm.. It doesn't sync birthdays on contacts card
radzi said:
There must be an issue with those ROMs or something, I've TD2 official ROM and I can see high quality pictures on my contacts on ManilaContacts and WMContacts also CallerIDs... Birthday..hm.. It doesn't sync birthdays on contacts card
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Are you running a manila 2.5 rom on your TD2??
greetz giniman
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Guys,
My org uses goodlink (good.com) as the email service provider not microsoft's push mail. I recently upgraded to a tilt and changed the rom promptly to schapps latest release.
The way the good software works is that it adds its own software stack (email/contacts/calendar etc) which syncs to the my outlook. The problem this creates is that my contacts do show up (the right softkey button leads to contacts which are the goodlink contact list) but are not connected to my dialer.
To be able to use smart dialling i then have to manually sync my phone to my computer to copy the contacts again which is a pain. My previous phone was based on windows 2003 whose dialler showed the goodlink contacts directly.
If there are any ideas or suggestions please let me know.
memon01 said:
Guys,
My org uses goodlink (good.com) as the email service provider not microsoft's push mail. I recently upgraded to a tilt and changed the rom promptly to schapps latest release.
The way the good software works is that it adds its own software stack (email/contacts/calendar etc) which syncs to the my outlook. The problem this creates is that my contacts do show up (the right softkey button leads to contacts which are the goodlink contact list) but are not connected to my dialer.
To be able to use smart dialling i then have to manually sync my phone to my computer to copy the contacts again which is a pain. My previous phone was based on windows 2003 whose dialler showed the goodlink contacts directly.
If there are any ideas or suggestions please let me know.
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This is not what is supposed to happen. I use GL too. If you sync with Active synch eventually, you will end up with duplicate contacts. Sometimes it takes a bit of time for this to occur. This applies to GL 5. In 4.9, I had to do exactly as you are stating...synch only the contacts with active synch.
interestingly, I have a post regarding Good Mail. I found that using the XDA Live 3.0 (WM6.1) with the reTOUCHED dialpad, my contacts, while in the phone mode, linked to my Lotus notes contacts, not my local ones.
If I'm understanding you correctly, this is exactly what you want to happen (exactly the opposite of what I want to happen on mine).
I have 5.0.3.23 good mail with the above and it works the way you want yours...
Good luck,
MBN
MustBNuts said:
interestingly, I have a post regarding Good Mail. I found that using the XDA Live 3.0 (WM6.1) with the reTOUCHED dialpad, my contacts, while in the phone mode, linked to my Lotus notes contacts, not my local ones.
If I'm understanding you correctly, this is exactly what you want to happen (exactly the opposite of what I want to happen on mine).
I have 5.0.3.23 good mail with the above and it works the way you want yours...
Good luck,
MBN
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With 5.0 the contacts are shared. If you sync with active sync, they will be duplicated because you are already syncing the mail server. GL 5 takes over much more of the system than past versions. I have found no way to change its behavior at all. If I make changes, it has protections in it that undoes the changes.
thanks for the help guys. I got on IT's case and changed my GL version to 5.0 and a hard reset and the installation of the retouched dialler everything is now working exactly the way i want it. Thanks guys!
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With 5.0 the contacts are shared. If you sync with active sync, they will be duplicated because you are already syncing the mail server. GL 5 takes over much more of the system than past versions. I have found no way to change its behavior at all. If I make changes, it has protections in it that undoes the changes.
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Have you tried using Microsoft Voice command with Goodlink contacts? in my search for a solution i found a thread on another forum which said that voice commands/dialling wont work with goodlink contacts and we will have to sync them again. Im going to be trying it anyway but just wondering if somebody has already done the effort.
I can also vouch for that. I am the good admin at my org and the latest 5.0.4.46 works quite nice with outlook contacts and allows for smart dialing.
memon01 said:
Have you tried using Microsoft Voice command with Goodlink contacts? in my search for a solution i found a thread on another forum which said that voice commands/dialling wont work with goodlink contacts and we will have to sync them again. Im going to be trying it anyway but just wondering if somebody has already done the effort.
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I use voice speed dial and it works with GL 5 owning the contacts without doing a sync via active sync. Haven't used MS VCMD so ymmv.
jfor26 said:
I can also vouch for that. I am the good admin at my org and the latest 5.0.4.46 works quite nice with outlook contacts and allows for smart dialing.
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I just wish I could talk my IT guys into a longer wait period before locking the phone...30 minutes kind of sucks when using the GPS...in a car. Any ideas for hacks? I haven't found any.
I have a contact X on the diamond - I put up the birthday for this contact, on my diamond. But it doesn't get updated onto the Calendar.
Ok, I THINK it will work when I sync it with the OUTLOOK. (well it should, logically, but then it's microsoft, so I guess anything is possible, anyways, giving them the benefit of the doubt, let's assume it will work)
My question is, is there a way to make this work without having to Sync to Outlook?
I mean, it seems pointless to have that detail in the contacts option, if it's not going to add it to the calendar.
Any help will be appreciated.
I would like to know if it's possible too.
I amusing best birthday, but it doesn't import contacts to calendar, so I have to launch it every time I want to check if there is any birthday...
I just tried it with the sync to outlook thing, seems to be working. For now anyways.
Of course, alternatively you could set up all the bdays in the outlook contacts.. and then Outlook will add those up as Calendar events (which it does) .. and then you sync the diamond again.
Which, would work..
But, it would be a hell lot easier if the WM6 would take care of this on it's own, without having to sync.
I mean, there is a field for putting up Bday and Anniversary.. it SHOULD take it to the Calendar..
Am I missing something?
You are right. My previous phone i used SBSH pocketbreeze for that function. But the drawback with the diamond is, that because of the touch3d we are not able to place more nothing anymore on the today screen.
Lost my favorite feature
Hello,
I used a very nice software on my old ETEN M600 called "Birthday" (made by David Andrs) that was a Today pluging. It was displaying days remaning, name and age of contacts for a customizable number of days before and after his birthday. I'm very sad to loose this functionnality on my Diamond
If you have any idea to retrieve this functionnality for this beautiful and powerful diamond, I would be very happy.
Hakkai94 from France
I have used this Birthday today plugin in my ELF and its perfect.
So bad... No new idea about it???
{}s
CreativeBR
Hakkai94 said:
Hello,
I used a very nice software on my old ETEN M600 called "Birthday" (made by David Andrs) that was a Today pluging. It was displaying days remaning, name and age of contacts for a customizable number of days before and after his birthday. I'm very sad to loose this functionnality on my Diamond
If you have any idea to retrieve this functionnality for this beautiful and powerful diamond, I would be very happy.
Hakkai94 from France
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Hi,
I have a lot of friends and colleagues birthday on my contacts that I used to show up on my today screen to remind me everytime when I was using O2 Atom Exec.
Does anyone knows way around / application / how to show up reminder of friends birthday from contacts anywhere WITHIN touchflo 3d ?
Thanks for helping me, it's very important to me
denis_sianto said:
Hi,
I have a lot of friends and colleagues birthday on my contacts that I used to show up on my today screen to remind me everytime when I was using O2 Atom Exec.
Does anyone knows way around / application / how to show up reminder of friends birthday from contacts anywhere WITHIN touchflo 3d ?
Thanks for helping me, it's very important to me
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I am assuming that you have updated the BDAY field in the contacts on your diamond.
Now.. sync the diamond with the outlook on your PC.
Outlook will take up those dates from your diamond.. and update those into the contact files on outlook.
Those dates, will now also hit the Calendar on the outlook and individual reminders will be created for those dates.
Sync the calendar on your outlook with your diamond.. and you should have all the bday reminders set up and showing on your diamond (on the appropriate days)
All the best
Thanks a lot Lordraj !!
You are the best !!
denis_sianto said:
Hi,
I have a lot of friends and colleagues birthday on my contacts that I used to show up on my today screen to remind me everytime when I was using O2 Atom Exec.
Does anyone knows way around / application / how to show up reminder of friends birthday from contacts anywhere WITHIN touchflo 3d ?
Thanks for helping me, it's very important to me
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Once you sync with outlook you will have the memo on your today TFL, remember though that the calendar always display 1 day event and one normal event unles you chenge some set up.
sirx said:
...........unles you chenge some set up.
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how? thanx
medfcara said:
how? thanx
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Yep I'm interested in this, too.
sirx said:
Once you sync with outlook you will have the memo on your today TFL, remember though that the calendar always display 1 day event and one normal event unles you chenge some set up.
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how do u change it ?
I already wrote to HTC, requesting to give us back either the possibility of using plugins/items in the home tab with TF3D or at least integrate a possibility to config the home tab with birthdays out of contacts, number of future appointments shown, size of clock, number of todos shown etc.
Please also contact HTC and ask for this. If we are all asking and telling them, that without this feature the TF3D is just half as usefull... we will succeed!
Sign here:
>> SIGN PETITION TO HTC: Please give us Today Plugins back in TF3D!
Dennis
tried nos. of cook room here
and none of them integrate with it
is it the bugs of 6.5rom ?
its not that it doesn't integrate, it integrates diffierently from that found in dutty's rom.
The only real thing i've found i cannot do is create my contact card from facebook. However i can sync contacts to get pictures, dob etc, if there are no discrepancies between whats on fb & whats in contacts on the phone.
DRTigerlilly said:
its not that it doesn't integrate, it integrates diffierently from that found in dutty's rom.
The only real thing i've found i cannot do is create my contact card from facebook. However i can sync contacts to get pictures, dob etc, if there are no discrepancies between whats on fb & whats in contacts on the phone.
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You mean that a kind of FB integration is currently possible in WM 6.5?
Where? I never saw it...
THX.
As some of you might know Exchange 2010 has this great new Text Message syncing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of ROMs that are not compatible with this feature. Considering it can take upwards to an hour to check for each to see it works, it can get quite tedious waiting for a ROM to download, flashing it, and then finding out it doesn't work for you. Hopefully, with help from the community, we can make this little list more complete
Compatible
Firestorm Leo v5.5.23518-2G
Link: http://valkyrie.htc-files.com/downl...ormLEO/v5.5/tp2_firestorm_v5.5.23518LEO-2G.7z
Notes: Requires cab fix - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5371107&postcount=3762
Firestorm Leo v5.5.23518
Link: http://valkyrie.htc-files.com/downl...estormLEO/v5.5/tp2_firestorm_v5.5.23518LEO.7z
Incompatible
EnergyROM RHODIUM 23518 Standard M2.5 - Jan 25, 2010
Partial Sync
Fixes Applicable: None
EnergyROM RHODIUM 23518 Standard M2.5 + MaxManila - Jan 20, 2010 (Partial)
Partial Sync
Fixes Applicable: None
Unknown
Firestorm Leo v5.6.28206-F5
Tester: CLShortFuse
Fixes
To be added
For a rom to be compatible it must:
Receive existing messages from Exchange
Send new messages to Exchange
Receive "Congratulations!" email after first sync
Supports sendings text messages from Outlook OWA
Currently I have seen different issues with ROMs.
Partial sync: Server sends messages to phone. Phone never sends to the server. New messages are never updated on Exchange. Slow synchronization process. "Congratulations!" email is never received.
No sync: No SMS messages are synced at all
**reserved**
**2nd reserve**
Nice idea, CLShortfuse. This is the kind of thing that makes the community worth watching. There is so much "what is the best ROM", "if you like my work here is my (Paypal) link to buy me a coffee", and other crap. When someone has an idea with some value for the community it should not go unnoticed. Thanks!
(Please, don't anyone hi-jack the thread by responding to me here. Do it elsewhere. This thread is about EXCHANGE COMPATABILTY.)
Some general information about Text Messages in Exchange 2010
Hello CLShortfuse,
I stumbled on your posting about this new feature "Text Message" sync. At this moment I'm testing the "L26_HD2[LEO]V3.1_NLD.rar" from http://www.laurentius26.net and I'm unsure if it works. I did not receive the welcome message, butt I never Remote Whiped the device from the mobile phone list in the Outlook Web Access page.
I'm searching some general information, should it be so that you do not need a third party SMS gateway? Every SMS you create in Outlook or on OWA is send to the Phone and the Phone puts it on the GSM network to be delivered?
All SMS received on the phone are synced to your Inbox aswell on OWA and Outlook?
Any 'best practise' webpage information somewhere?
Regards Tom
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It also didn't work with the Dutch Stock rom installed on the HD2, it could be that my Exchange 2010 is missing a setting.
Laurentius26_LEOV4.5_NLD.rar ROM for Leo HD2
Findings:
•Receive existing messages from Exchange
No, no reception existing messages on WM phone.
•Send new messages to Exchange
No, no reception new messages from WM phone to Inbox.
•Receive "Congratulations!" email after first sync
Yes it receives Congratulations E-mail
•Supports sendings text messages from Outlook OWA
Half, when send it is received inmediately on the phone, it doesn't send it, it starts sending the SMS when I send an SMS on the phone. So the OWA created SMS's are que'd up until a SMS created on the phone is send.
So no full support same result with HTC sense as with Window-Standard as the today plugin, no difference.
Going to check the next Laurentius Rom "L26V1WWE655_UltimatePOWER.rar"
Cheers Tom
Don't know if you want other rom's but I'm currently running Don Salaris rom (WM6.5 and Sense 2.1) on my Touch Diamond and it works with the fantastic SMS sync feature!
i am running Exchange 2010 i have not had any problems with it yet but please use caution now your Email admin can read you text now btw