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[Q] Syncing Galaxy S with Outlook

I have tried to read all topics here and elsewhere regarding my specific issue, but have found no answer. Solution to this is absolutely vital to me, so I will try here, because I know this is the place where legends are born. Sorry for the long post:
Scenario: I need to sync my Samsung Galaxy S calendar with my workplace outlook calendar (data from Outlook to Galaxy, one way). Only calendar needs to be synced, absolutely no contacts or emails.
Systems: WinXP SP 2, Outlook 2007, up to date Kies / Galaxy S, Froyo 2.2 downloaded via Kies (lucky pioneer), rooted, running OCLF, LauncherPro, several widgets including smooth calendar.
Preferred method: Outlook Sync with Kies (the crappiest application I have ever seen, and I've see a few): This worked well for the first time I sync'd calendar (was not rooted, os 2.1, no launcherpro, no OCLF). Now it has quit working:
Kies finds phone just fine, but when I click Calendar on Kies, it clocks for a second saying "events are being loaded" and then tells me to "please connect the mobile phone..." It seems as if there's something that interrupts the reception.
Also, if I click "contacts" on Kies it throws me an error message "Set property 'System.Windows.FrameworkElement.Style' threw an exception." (this also worked for the first time). Message viewer behaves like calendar (has previously worked).
So it seems that Kies has stopped co-operating with my phone. I have also tried disabling Launcherpro and oclf, re-installed Kies, nothing helps.
Alternative method: Syncing OTA with exchange. This would be perfect, except it also retrieves my work emails that are literally thousands of them packed with delicate data and huge attachments I don't want to carry around with my phone. A method of syncing only the calendar would be perfect, but nooo...
Not-in-a-million-years-method: Syncing Outlook with Google calendar and then syncing Google cal to phone. I will not send my company data to Google cloud, no way: In fact I'm quite surprised how many people seem to find this a perfectly viable solution.
Thanks for reading. Any tips, tricks, suggestions even solutions are awarded with a huge virtual banana and a warm thought.

Hunt down any media files on device with more then 16 letters and rename or del. There's a known bug in kies. You could also try exchange apps like "roadsync" and I think "touchdown"
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I seem to have solved the Kies issue: One click lag fix blocked Kies from working. I uninstalled OCLF and things started working again (I also had to change Launcer back to tws, and kill K9 and smooth calendar processes in order to get usb connection.)

here's a nice way to do it for free
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786039&highlight=outlook
HraZ said:
I have tried to read all topics here and elsewhere regarding my specific issue, but have found no answer. Solution to this is absolutely vital to me, so I will try here, because I know this is the place where legends are born. Sorry for the long post:
Scenario: I need to sync my Samsung Galaxy S calendar with my workplace outlook calendar (data from Outlook to Galaxy, one way). Only calendar needs to be synced, absolutely no contacts or emails.
Systems: WinXP SP 2, Outlook 2007, up to date Kies / Galaxy S, Froyo 2.2 downloaded via Kies (lucky pioneer), rooted, running OCLF, LauncherPro, several widgets including smooth calendar.
Preferred method: Outlook Sync with Kies (the crappiest application I have ever seen, and I've see a few): This worked well for the first time I sync'd calendar (was not rooted, os 2.1, no launcherpro, no OCLF). Now it has quit working:
Kies finds phone just fine, but when I click Calendar on Kies, it clocks for a second saying "events are being loaded" and then tells me to "please connect the mobile phone..." It seems as if there's something that interrupts the reception.
Also, if I click "contacts" on Kies it throws me an error message "Set property 'System.Windows.FrameworkElement.Style' threw an exception." (this also worked for the first time). Message viewer behaves like calendar (has previously worked).
So it seems that Kies has stopped co-operating with my phone. I have also tried disabling Launcherpro and oclf, re-installed Kies, nothing helps.
Alternative method: Syncing OTA with exchange. This would be perfect, except it also retrieves my work emails that are literally thousands of them packed with delicate data and huge attachments I don't want to carry around with my phone. A method of syncing only the calendar would be perfect, but nooo...
Not-in-a-million-years-method: Syncing Outlook with Google calendar and then syncing Google cal to phone. I will not send my company data to Google cloud, no way: In fact I'm quite surprised how many people seem to find this a perfectly viable solution.
Thanks for reading. Any tips, tricks, suggestions even solutions are awarded with a huge virtual banana and a warm thought.
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Could you make this in to a tut? I'm having the same problem and would love to fix it. Thanks!

Exchange account sync - calendar & contacts not sync properly

Hi,
I came from HTC desire, previously when I used with my office exchange, it managed to sync emails, calendar and contacts perfectly. However, when I changed to SGN, the following situation happen.
- Modify or cancel event from Outlook, phone doesn't get sync (even I sync manually few times), it is still displaying old info.
- Modify contact in Outlook, for example mobile number or name. Phone doesn't get sync and still display the old info.
- Modify contact in phone, for example company, Outlook doesn't get the updated info.
All above are done with process where sync is "triggered" successfully.
Did any of you encounter this problem? Any resolution?

I can't help you, but I'm having problems with email in my exchange account. I have everything set up the same as my last several Android devices, but I can't reliably receive new emails. Sometimes they'll be delayed by a day or so. It's almost like the email client is not using cellular data to update and only using wifi when the device is on. Anyone else have this problem?

maxh said:
I can't help you, but I'm having problems with email in my exchange account. I have everything set up the same as my last several Android devices, but I can't reliably receive new emails. Sometimes they'll be delayed by a day or so. It's almost like the email client is not using cellular data to update and only using wifi when the device is on. Anyone else have this problem?
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Sounds like account & frequency settings than an issue. Have you verified them? Are you on mobile data all the time?

I'm finding that on occasion it stops syncing mail.. the moment you reboot OR go in and manually ask it to refresh it starts doing it normally again no problems...

I am also having the same problem .. However manually refreshing - sometimes still does not work. It is indeed - very annoying .. I believe the problem is in the Email.apk ..
still no solution found, apart from using different E-mail clients off the market, which work with various success ..

I've been through the settings many times but still have the problem. It just decides to stop syncing sometimes.

iivuch said:
I am also having the same problem .. However manually refreshing - sometimes still does not work. It is indeed - very annoying .. I believe the problem is in the Email.apk ..
still no solution found, apart from using different E-mail clients off the market, which work with various success ..
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Any alternate email client you suggest? I start to miss HTC mail client.

Although a bit weird, but after flashing this rom (Cassie's XtraLiteRom KKA ThunderBolted! V2.2) it seem to work fine so far. Still observing and hope it does really work.

I am also using the same ROM - there was no improvement for me. I believe the problem is in the E-mail client. The one we have is version 3.0.0.1. Before on another Android phone I used 2.3.5. I tried to replace the new one with the old one - and then it works. The problem is however that the old one is not scaling up to fit the large Gnote screen. It is a lower resolution.
I tried many other e-mail clients - K-9, Kaiten (both of them could not connect to my exchange server (2010)), Moxier - for some reason crashed my contacts and then I tried TouchDown - which is kind-a good and in terms of connectivity - all worked fine - but there were some integration points that were not fit for my taste.
What I ended up doing was a bit weird - but so far works nicely. I downloaded Google Calendar Sync - which takes your Outlook calendar and syncs it with your Google Calendar. Then I downloaded GO Contact Sync Mod - and that does the same for the Outlook and Gmail contacts. So I have both of them running on my PC and they automatically sync Calendar and Contacts. This way - my phone get them through the Google account and .. a bonus is that I have a backup
To check e-mails - I use the IMAP functionality of K-9 as my exchange server doubles up as IMAP too. For the time being - that's OK for me - and I will be hoping that Google will fix up this E-mail client in the Ice Cream Sandwich .. let's hope it is not I SCREAM sandwich
Alternatively - one can use the old E-mail client - 2.3.5 .. for Contacts and Calendar only and use K-9 for the mail .. It is really a matter of preference

I noticed that this may work. Instead of using push notification, use interval sync. This seems to solve it?
It's really weird and I still can't figure out the root cause.

That's a good clue - it appears to fix it!

Iam using SGN with 500+ emails everyday! absolutely no problem at all. I have been user of XE, XL, Sensation etc I personally think this issue arises when data connectivity of the concern operator is down (GPRS / EDGE) however, on WIFI no issues at all

xircoms said:
Iam using SGN with 500+ emails everyday! absolutely no problem at all. I have been user of XE, XL, Sensation etc I personally think this issue arises when data connectivity of the concern operator is down (GPRS / EDGE) however, on WIFI no issues at all
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Nope it's not the connectivity issue, it's the bug on push notification. Apparently this seems to be a bug in samsung, I didn't have issue in HTC previously.
After changing the push to interval pulling, it works perfectly fine now.

It might be related to 2.3.6 I recall having the issue on 2.3.5 and I'm pretty sure I saw it on my p1000 after I modded it.
My note is still stock.
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I'm having problems with contact syncing between SGN and Exchange 2010. Create on phone or on Exchange - no way - no sync.
I'm on stock rom xxla6
Any ideas?

andrisd said:
I'm having problems with contact syncing between SGN and Exchange 2010. Create on phone or on Exchange - no way - no sync.
I'm on stock rom xxla6
Any ideas?
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Forgot to add:
Mail and Calendar is sync'ed OK.
On Galaxy Tab with KRATOS 4.1 everything syncs fine with the same Exchange server.

[Q] s-planner and outlook disappointed

Hi this its my first please go easy. I'm disappointed now with the galaxy note and Android. I need a decent calendar as I record all my work and then search by client to find my history and details and then paste into invoices from outlook on my laptop
Here's the story;
I've had the old HTC windows phones hd2 tytn etc and used stylus then touch synced outlook etc. Then got an iPhone4 to try out. The calendar was poor as it wouldn't let me search far back, found ical app which is brilliant. Now I'm not a fan of apple as its far to restrictive and you have to jailbreak to free it. Then along came the note, brilliant, large screen stylus notes, everything I want. So I've had it month and finally took the plunge to get outlook onto goggle calenear and s planner. What a nightmare, first I have outlook 2002 so finally get appointments to google then synced to phone. thought I'd use google calendar and phone and not outlook. Can't search easily on google calendar and s-planner crashes when searching. I do have a history of 5000 events though going back 5 years, but no problem with iPhone or old windows 6.5.
My conclusion galaxy note brilliant but let down by Android. Also apps are battery draining and data usage restrictions difficult. Now I know why ios will prevail and that is just as disappointing. Sorry for long post.

I can empathize with you. I used to be a happy user of Palm Desktop, which worked 100% as expected. Then I was forced into the Outlook world, which almost worked (through Activesync), but it had its glitches, like suddenly not connecting or producing duplicate entries, which consequently would give me multiple alarms for the same event. Now I am using a Note, with S-Planner and Google calendar and it doesn't seem as solid as Outlook, not to mention Palm Desktop.
Still, Outlook has never been a perfect piece of software and I won't miss it much. If Samsung managed to put together a sensible version of KIES, it would be enough for me.
Alternatively, if you really depend heavily on Outlook, why not try a third party synchronizing software, like Companionlink http://www.companionlink.com/ ?

Trouble is google calendar is to basic for me and has stopped syncing the last 3 months but has all the older events ? even though out is on my s-planner, so i think i need outlook. I do have the 2002 version though which not very compatible.
I don't know why the s planner is force closing when searching.
My key essentials are outlook sync to phone and search.
I would get outlook 2010 if this would help sync as I don't want to go back to iPhone
the iPhone app was weekcal by utilitap which was great.

I also use Outlook 2002 (when I have to), since later versions, especially 2007 and 2010 are even worse than that. They seem to have lots of functions, but these are not well implemented. Even though they seem to work, they are buggy and instead of quietly doing what they're supposed to, produce lots of infamous Outlook secret error codes for you to resolve. I don't have time for this kind of game.
Google calendar misses some functions, but as far as I am concerned, it synchronizes well all the events I put into S-Planner. It looks like there's a problem in your setup. Do you have automatic data synchronization turned on on your Android phone? Do you synchronize while connected to WiFi? Or maybe your data transfer is somehow blocked when on 3G network?

I do have data sync on and sync via wifi. Good point I will change this. May do a hard reset as I am not using as my main phone yet, just trying to get everything stable before I transfer. Shame about all this though as it is a great phone.
Thanks for your help.

This may help re the search crashes in S-Planner - I noticed this as well, immediately after a recent firmware update. Before that, S-Planner search worked fine. I plan to register with Samsung and raise a ticket or ask a question - the more of us that register and complain, the quicker it will be fixed, so I'd encourage you to do the same.

Further to the search crash. It's tied to the Google Calendar (that S-Planner interacts with). Called Samsung New Zealand for support and what a surprise, they didn't even want to talk to me about the problem. Figured it out for myself with the help of a little forum searching - it seemed that that the calendar cache was conflicting with the firmware update. Backed up data, forced the calendar to close from Manage Applications, rebooted, and now the search works fine - I've run about 5 searches and all seems good so far. Re syncing with Outlook - I sync using Kies with Outlook 2007, no problems so far.

Logged a query with samsung and just done a factory reset and now have Kies installed on my PC. It wont sync with outlook 2002 contacts or schedule get message "an error has occurred attempting to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt"
Looking on forums there seems to be a problem with kies or I dont know if it is a problem with outlook 2002. I could upgrade to 2003 (I like the week view of 2002) then the google sync software would work hopefully for the outlook to google calendar? Idealy just want reliable local sync from outlook to Note, just like with my iphone to weekcal (sorry to say the iphones looking like gods gift at the moment).
Hopefully ICS will put all this right.

Simple answer for you - I use outlook for work all day and I sync using myphonexplorer. It does more than just sync, install programs allows you to text via laptop etc. Best of all its free - syncs via wifi or usb or bluetooth. Its nothing short of perfect for my needs. Syncs contacts, notes, diary etc

Same issue for me with ActiveSync.
While I was on GB no matter what application I used the sync never happened. The application just pops a message that the server refused the connections or some thing of the sort. After a few searches I found out that my Org's mail policies are on stricter side and they do not allow syncing on certain androids unless they support encryption. As Samsung has not implemented it, I had to check my mails on webmail.
But looks like even ICS is a disappointment on this front. I flashed an ICS ROM and checked, but no luck on MS EAS

Jorte Calendar?
This maybe not be germane to all your problems, but I struggled with the native Samsung calendar / tasks app to sync properly - especially with the widget view.
I switched to Jorte Calendar. It syncs perfectly AFAICT with Google calendar, has great tasks support and about a million different customisable widget views.
Unfortunately, searching appears to be its Achilles' heel... which I guess for you means its no go.

On the PC end, I have switched to Em Client. All so far is syncing fine. Note, tablet, PC, cloud; calendar & contacts.

Could not get myexplorer app utility to work either. Got duplicates of calendar appointments (total of 5000 appointments twice !)
Restored from back up and now still have no
Appointments , events on my note.
Taking too much of my time up.
Still using iPhone for general day to day.
One thing I have noticed though is how much battery my note has in reserve after getting rid of apps, like battery saver, juice defender etc. Ironic really.
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[Q] GMAIL Contacts and Calender sync not avaible?

Hi,
i use Mentors Rom JB (09/2013) for my Droid 4 with GSM Support. Everythings works fine, but i cant sync my People Details, calenders and Task on gmail. Coorporate Mail works.
i was on previous Version of Mentor Rom with the same issue, i updated today (tryed full wipe as well) but no success
anyone else got this Problem and maybe a solution for it?
Thanks
xbleem

P10 Calendar problems

I like feature to get my phone in silent mode when in the meeting, which is automated in P10! But...
...I have a version of VTR-L09C432B113 and I'm facing a problem with calendar app. After few days of use, I believe my calendar DB get corrupted somehow as it works fine until then. I did clear cache and deleted account corporate calendar associated to it which did fix the problem (Google calendar events worked fine!). However, I face similar problem just after two days later (Now both google and corporate calendars are not visible anymore), plus app gets crashing. I also have a google calendar sync activated to the google account and I have read that other Huawei phones have had a different kind of problems with it. I also tried to install google calendar after 2nd-time problem occurred as a tryout and it seems that google app get crashing as well => which leads my assumption that problem is in the object where calendar events are stored or so.
Questions:
1) Could I just delete this calendar object (common for both apps?) which has meeting/event info in w/out re-creating account every 2 days&Clearing data? If yes, where it´s located and how could I do it?
2) is this known issue in Huawei P10 or other new models?
3) Do you know if "automatic silence"- feature in phone work with google calendar?
Thanks for info!