i'm hoping this is a known issue
after a couple months i decided to synch my pda but i ended up loosing most of my contacts can it be recovered
i synch with two computer on the desktop i erased all the contact in outlook ( there were my wife's pda) then synch'd only to find out i'd lost my contact
so i went to synch with my laptop since all my contacts are in outlook and again ended up copying the contact on pda (what was left of it ) onto the computer, the strange thing is that during synch it showed that some 150 plus contacts were being synchronised but i only ended up with 15
is there a way to get'em back
thanks
in activesync under options and under rules
there is a dropdown box called desktop
if it's not set to leave the item unresolved
or always replace the items on this pc
then it can update your xda to being empty if you sync with a pc which is empty contactwise
Yeah but I've had that Problem and I've had Both Contacts In outlook and Contacts On my PPC! I Sync My Machine(s) and they both counter act each other and wipe them selves?!??!?!?!??!? Causes lots of PROBLEMS its Very Distressing :-( GrrrrrrrrrrEven Tho THEY Have Identical Contacts NONE ADDED on Either Machine!
on both computer my settings are to leave the item unresolved under desktop
and it's also set to synchronize all contacts
if that means i'm not getting back my contacts i'm F*&^*k
unless someone knows of a way to retrieve them from where they're hiding
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Ok, i have gone through teh arduous process of deleting duplicate contacts in my ms outlook and on my phone. took a few hours to get everything correct in outlook. NOW, I need to wipe my phone clean of all contact info so that it can not go back to the way it was.
If active sync has a way to recover the contacts i want to blow that up as well. I want the outlook contacts to be imported into the phone and ONLY the outlook contacts so that both outlook and my phone are mirror images of each other. I kept getting duplicates and old contacts would be deleted and somehow mysteriously get back on the phone?
any advice?
active sync has a button you click when you setup the first initial sync to the phone that says "replace items on my device with items on this computer"
you had it clicked to do "combine items on my phone with items on this computer"
I got my hero yesterday, and i am trying to transfer my contacts and sms etc from my mogul to the hero but to no avail, the sync cable connecter from my mogul is broke and I am having problems pairing the two phones via bluetooth, can anyone offer any help
also, I am looking for an app to mass transfer contacts via bluetooth, I don't want to do them manually I have approx 1500 contacts
Android doesn't currently support OBEX file transfers via Bluetooth.
You could try this app as it says that it can do this, and does not require root - I'm sceptical however.
Regards,
Dave
check out sprite migrate http://www.spritesoftware.com/products/migrate/how-does-it-work-
And it's free
You can setup winmo to sync contacts with gmail. Just remember to backup first, in case something goes awry
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138652
Then just sync with your hero
You can also use TBexport (search the whole forum for TBexport.zip) to convert your contacts to a *.csv file and import that into either:
1) Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows mail and synch to the Hero with the HTC Synch software or
2) import the contacts into gmail at the web page.
I recommend importing them ot Outlook or Outlook Express. When I did this with my wife's new Hero, many of the gmail imported contacts treated the phone numbers as notes. She had to go through about 200 contacts and transfer the phone numbers into the correct field.
Over the last few days I have completely lost all of my contacts twice. I would really appreciate some advise or a point in the right direction to solving my frustration.
I am running the official HTC ROM version 2.73 and everything was running fine up until two days ago. I originally had all of my contacts stored under 'Phone' as I had a fresh sim card and the rest of my contacts were spread over several accounts (gmail, hotmail, exchange server) and none of my phone numbers were stored electronically.
The first time there was some error message that I did not pay attention to (as they do tend to pop up every now and again) followed by a phone reset and loss of all my contacts and some associated data (call logs but not email or SMS). After attempting and failing to find these numbers I decided to re-enter my contacts but this time save them under 'Google' contacts so they would be backed up to my gmail.
I had just finished re-entering all of my contacts and then all but 30-odd were gone again. This happened following a forced close and reset of the sense UI (as has been happening with increased frequency of late). All of my favourites had also been deleted - leaving me very frustrated! The lost contacts are also not saved in my gmail and many that remain have been duplicated four or five times.
If anyone could advise me on my problem I would be very appreciative
Thanks
David
Do you utilize HTC Sync ?
As I understand, contacts stored in the "Google" Group are automatically synced with contacts in you Google Account ; contacts stored in the "Phone" Group are synced by HTC Sync with contacts in Outlook or Outlook Express on your PC running HTC Sync.
I had installed HTC sync but was yet to untalise it as I did not realise that 'Phone' contacts had anything to do with it. I do not have any contacts stored on my home laptop and therefore whenever a sync was done, zero contacts were synced.
I have changed the setting of my sync from MS Outlook to Windows address book and all of my contacts seem to have reapeared - both phone and google contacts. All of my phone contacts seem to have lost the link with Facebook but I think that may be a recuring problem with Hero users.
Thanks for the suggestion - hopefully now I can sort all of my contacts out!
Weird???
I have never had a problem with Sense UI having to 'force close'
That's very unfortunate, especially as it happened just as you'd input all your contacts again.
I never use HTC Sync personally but if you have all your contact's details - try inputting them into your Google account using a pc. This way they should just sync with your phone automatically, and it's much easier than entering them on your phone!
If the 'force close' issue keeps happening - I would send it back and get a repair done, or a replacement!
Hope this helps,
Dan
My wife uses a Hero.
When she got it we synced it with pc-outlook and got all her contacts and calendar on it.
But while using the hero for several months without paying attention she added new contacts as “gmail” contacts and added new calendar entries as “My Phone”, instead of “PC sync”.
Now none of these new entries can be synced with outlook and what’s worse, if I want to change the rom I don’t have a way to get these new entries back to the phone. I know I can sync the gmail contacts back to the phone but she needs them on her pc as well.
A second problem is that after each outlook sync some of the original outlook contacts are duplicated. Erasing them doesn’t work since after the next sync they all come back. Some are 8-10 times over…
So:
1. How do I sync “gmail” and “My Phone” contacts and calendar with outlook? Can I change them to “Pc sync”?
2. How do I get rid of the duplicates once and for all?
anyone?
anyone?
Hello
I have my Lumia800 for almost two weeks and there's something that scares me.
I had a Nokia N8 and have 1041 contacts in that phone. When I bought Lumia800, with “transfer”, I’ve send all of them to my new phone, and now I have all my phone contacts in Lumia. But, somehow, only 200 contacts are synchronized with my Windows Live account (the one that I use on my mobile). I’ve tried lots of things, even create a new Windows Live account but the problem persists.
I want to be sure that, if something happens to my Luma800, I have all of mine 1041 contacts somewhere.
Any idea how I can solve this problem?
Thanks in advanced
Lea
I forgot to explain that When Lumia is clean (with no contacts), no error appear when trying to synchronised hotmail account. After my contacts when put in my Lumia (using Transfer application), it appears “error code 86000108).
leapais said:
I forgot to explain that When Lumia is clean (with no contacts), no error appear when trying to synchronised hotmail account. After my contacts when put in my Lumia (using Transfer application), it appears “error code 86000108).
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Do you use MSFT Outlook? You can sync your N8 contact to Outlook then use the MSFT Outlook Hotmail connector to sync w/ Windows LIVE acct and then to your phone.
anseio said:
Do you use MSFT Outlook? You can sync your N8 contact to Outlook then use the MSFT Outlook Hotmail connector to sync w/ Windows LIVE acct and then to your phone.
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I've tried that also, and the problem continues.
Sync them with Google instead, see if that works properly?
Read this http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...nc-error/c5e3f1bb-fd93-4faa-87f6-1251425f1996
Gmail works just fine. Althought I continue to receive that error (Windows Live error 86000108), e-mail and calendar works just fine. I’ve done all the steps recommended by Microsoft Support but my 1041 contacts don’t appear. Just 200.
I even start a new hotmail account to be sure that there wasn’t any hidden e-mails or links. My Lumia was reset three times. When I start the phone with no contacts, that error doesn’t appear when I try to synchronize Windows Live account and my Lumia. Right after the contacts are transfer to the phone, that error starts to appear and only 200 of my 1041 contacts appear on my Windows Live account.
Is there a way to synchronize my contacts with my gmail account?
Are the contacts copied alphabetically?
There might be a problem with the last (or the next one) contact copied. Maybe some foreign character causing an issue?
no, the contacts are not copied alphabetically. And all the names are Portuguese (i'm portuguese)
You will essentially have to go through each contact that was copied, as it is either corrupt or contains information that Windows Live/Phone does not support. More than likely you should start with the last copied contact, if you know what that is, otherwise, you should erase all the contacts you have and start all over again.
I don't know if the transfer program is capable of transferring select contacts rather than just all, but try 10 or 20 contacts at a time. Then sync. If it syncs successfully, then do another group of 10 or 20 until you find the one that is not syncing properly. If you find the one that doesn't sync properly, then don't sync it, and do that one manually.
The transfer program doesn't allow to chose contacts