Hi,
Is anyone having the same problem as me? I've had my Hero for a few days and in general I'm happy with it, but I can't get HTC Sync to work properly. I'm using Outlook 2007 on Vista, and when I connect the sync works but leaves me with almost as many "Unknown" entries as properly synced ones. So far I haven't been able to identify any common element in the "Unknown" entries, and I'm stuck.
I've noticed posts that suggect syncing with a gmail account and then syncing this with the phone, but I'd prefer to keep my contacts in my own computer environment. Can anyone help, or perhaps suggest a different program? I realise it's early days for the Hero, but my phone is awkward to use at the moment.
Thanks.
I've answered my own question. I hadn't noticed that all the "Unknowns" were entries that were companies and businesses that I'd entered into the "Company" field in Outlook. I've just manually moved all these names to the "Full Name" field, and the sync works. It's not really satisfactory because it's not the way I like to use Outlook, but it'll do until a fix or a better program is developed. I have two company names that begin with a number, and these don't sync, not yet anyway. I'll have to find another work-around.
It's a shame that such a great piece of hardware is let down by such sloppy programming, but I recall that it took Microsoft a long time to sort out Activesync.
I hope this helps anyone in a similar position.
I have the same problem and still can't fix it.
I just want Google to fix that faster because it's the only thing I don't like in Hero.
I use the "First Name" field only in Outlook with nothing in the "Company" field, and I file as "First name" "Last name", i.e. John North, not North, John. When you click on "Full name" in the "New Contact" sheet you should only have one entry, First & Last Name in the "First Name" field. That's all I do. It's unsatisfactory from my point of view, and I hoping that there will be an update to fix it, or a better program produced.
I feel the same as you - there's little to fault the phone, but issues like this just knock the edge off the enjoyment of a new piece of equipment. I would also like a DivX player because I've got many hours of recorded TV which I've already converted to DivX which I used to watch when I had Windows Mobile.
It's relatively early days for the Android & Hero so I'm hoping things will improve.
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Please help with this small thing, its driving me insane!
When i'm out and about i use my xda to create new appointments, most of my appointments are recurring ones, e.g. 'night out' or 'driving lesson'.
How do i edit the set list of subjects for a new appointment? the location field seems to mostly remember my locations, but the subject field is CRAP.
I can't find any option to edit the selection for a subject, is there any program or registry hack to achieve this.
many thanks.
Calendar Appointment List
Good Point Well Made!
Somebody please help with this annoying little problem!
Try using another callendar program like...Pocket informant :roll:
Regards,
Primoz
I don't want to use another calendar program. The standard one is adequate apart from this small annoyance. It's been a while but I'm sure my Palm allowed me to do this about 5 years ago!
yeah i agree pocket informant is overpowered to the point of being bonkers
i want to remember when i'm next going out, not assign an icon to it, sort it, filter it, group it, negotiate world peace, remotely connect to yahoo to establish my friends availability, and do a quick search on carling available for the area.
odds are i've been drinking and just want to easily put in some quick recurring event. sure my treo used to do it.
trying a smartphone at the moment, far better for pub situations
Hi,
firstly, let me introduce myself:
My name is Tony and from my signature and amount of posts, you can see, I am a very active XDA user and used to do a lot of first and second level support for the blueangel and the blackstone and today my SGS2 arrived, which is my first native android phone. As soon, as i figured out all the tiny beginner's questions, i will start supporting this awesome device for all you fellow users out there.
But for now, excuse me, that I have to ask a few stupid questions that I encountered while setting up the device:
1. My phone is set to English (US) and my keyboard and voice input options are set to German (so that writing or voice inputting sms and german addresses are easier). However, Vlingo does not exactly support the dual language and sometimes produces problems when reading out english information, anybody else experiencing mixed language problems there? any advice?
2. i decided to set my up contacts from scratch. i put in all the correct formal names for my contacts, but when i connect these users to their respective facebook accounts (who are sometimes based on nicknames), the display name automatically changes to the facebook name, while i prefer the formal name. is there a way to change it?
3. contacts allow me to add several im accounts, e.g. ICQ. when i click the icq# of a user, it opens up im and states that only windows live, google talk and yahoo are supported. is there a way to either connect that to the official icq for android, or add other messengers to the stock im? if not, why bother inputting all the information, if one cannot use it?
i wonder why nobody else seems to experience problem #2.
i found it again here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6067
apparently, when you connect contacts through one or more platforms, like facebook, twitter, last.fm, skype... and there names vary, your contacts app will always prefer the last name with the latest letter in the alphabet. in my case, there is one contact first name r. last name b., but one facebook, he goes by another variation of his name, "zu b.", so contacts prefers the facebook name, as z is greater than b. there is no logical reason why facebook names should be preferred to the phone's own stored name. after all, i entered those names because i wanted to find the contacts by that name. why does the phone tell me, my choices are no good and facebook's are better?
strike issue #1 and #3, i will find a workaround some time, but it would be extremely nice, if someone could check if this contacts issue is present in their device and firmware?
i have ke7 dbt (latest german stock rom).
My nexus one does the same thing. If I sync contacts with Facebook it changes to their Facebook displayed name. I'm still not clear on exactly how it does it too.
i tried several ways of bypassing the issue, starting by assuming the sorting of contacts would be determined by the regular ascii order of letters, or linux's, so i tried renaming every contact to minuscules, so R.B. -> r.b. which didn't help and i wouldn't even bother starting any contact with z or any symbol, as that would render the letter navigation bar on the right useless.
so the only way i could bypass the issue was to sort and display contacts by first name. after many years of windows mobile use i'm having trouble getting used to it but apparently, there is no other way so far.
if anyone else has trouble with this, please go to http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6067 and star the issue and post your experiences.
Guys, I'm on the verge of jumping ship from an iPhone 4 to a One X (when released). But my only problem may be the fact that I have a MobileMe account - Mail, Calendar, Contacts etc - which I really can not afford to lose.
I need the possible new HTC to be able to do all that the iPhone does with MobileMe on the iPhone - Push Mail, Cal and Contacts. Is this possible?
I know some people have setup GMail accounts instead, but due to business needs I really cannot afford to change accounts right now.
Sorry guys. Have I asked a mega stupid question that no one wants to answer? Or is it because no one knows?
It's not gonna sync with iCloud and going from iPhone to Android is like downgrading from a BMW to a broke down scooter.
MobileMe is completely proprietary in the sense that it will only work with apple products nothing else, email has a chance of working but it will be fairly stripped down as it's not gmail. Also ignore the troll above me, not allowing you to use something you pay for on anything you want is just another one of the many many reasons to leave apple products.
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MobileMe is completely proprietary in the sense that it will only work with apple products nothing else, email has a chance of working but it will be fairly stripped down as it's not gmail. Also ignore the troll above me, not allowing you to use something you pay for on anything you want is just another one of the many many reasons to leave apple products.
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You don't pay for iCloud, it's free. There is no reason to leave Apple for Android seeing how the OS is a fragmented mess. You have a better chance of winning a pottery then getting a timely update from an OEM.
Thanks for the replies guys
I've been doing some research and have had some help from other places, and it seems that MobileMe can be sync'ed but with the assistance of other desktop apps.
If these work well, then I will take the leap.
Alex2792, I would have agreed with your "downgrade" comment a year ago. But having seen some of these new Android phones in full flow... well, no restrictions, far cheaper, far more modifiable - it makes sense to
how i got contacts from mobileme
this is my solution.
1. login to mobileme
2. go to address book
3. select all entries in your address book
4. under setting select export contact
5. connect your HTC phone to your mac in disk mode (found under setting within the connect to PC menu)
6. once connected, open finder and copy your vcards.vcf file from your mac to the mounted phone's downloads directory
7. after copy is completed, disconnect phone
8. restart phone (I had to do this for the storage device to find the file)
9. open contacts on HTC phone
10. open contacts settings (top right corner)
11. select to import contact from phone storage
12. import should begin and all contact will be found under under in contacts under "phone"
a status window popped up showing the percentage complete until all 350 contacts were added. I got pics, email addresses, and names without issue.
HTH
chris
I really don't understand this fragmented crap.
I have a 2 yearold HTC EVO4G which I've been completely happy with. It runs android 2.3.5, without any noticable bugs. I have decent battery life (newer phones have better due to better displays, and not using a 60nm chip), can run any app on the market, and can do all sorts of things that I can't do on iphone (such as change a freaking default browser). I use the go launcher, which is freaking pretty, and has all kinds of new fanciful effects. I don't even have the original launcher installed anymore. My contacts, photos and videos are automagically uploaded and backed up on google plus, dropbox, my desktop, and my netbook.
I have a very good experience on my "fragmented" phone.
Ignoring the obvious troll, I too have switched from android to iphone back to android and then iphone and am back to android. Since google backs up all your app data (who needs call logs backed up?) and there is an app to backup your texts, well I don't see any reason to blast google.
Also, do some research, there are some desktop appear that can help you switch everything over. Although it sounds like you've already done that.
For instance:
Dropbox will automatically upload your pictures to yourself and every device that has your account installed.
Google backs up all apps just like iOs.
You can most certainly have push email with android that is not gmail based. There are a ton of email clients in the play store.
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How do I keep my X310E Cathulla'd Titan from checking for site certificate errors. I get this error when connecting my phone to my employer's MS Exchange mail server.
Dreaded certificate errors during email syncing.
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How do I keep my X310E Cathulla'd Titan from checking for site certificate errors. I get this error when connecting my phone to my employer's MS Exchange mail server.
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BUMP: Everyone here should already know that as a general rule, almost no Windows Phone 7+ works with corporate servers. There are some here and there. This is amazing when you consider that all Windows Phones are completely compatible with Microsoft's server software out there. Everything we need is in the phone already. The problem is, unlike Android and IPhone, Windows Phones check for certificate errors, and if found, will terminate the email sync update. In the picture I uploaded with this message you can see the errors in the certificate from my employer's corporate email certificate. I can log into the Outlook server with my phone. I just can't sync mail, contacts, etc.. The IT department at work is worthless and remote- or should I say aloof? The Director of the IT Department at another medical center, in another city offered to help. He has approved me for phone syncing. I can now get my mail on my IPod Touch- go figure. The Titan does one of two things: Give me the certificate error and terminates the sync, or it will tell me to enter the correct information for my email server and hit enter. The password is always highlighted. I know that the information for the server is correct. I changed the email password to my account and the phone still does the same thing, over, and over, and over.. Hmmmm...
I have read a bazillion threads and tried almost that many things to get past this. I've done all those things and more. I have been combing through my Titan's registry looking for that needle in a haystack. The needle being how to turn off certificate error checking. I think I have inspected nearly everything in the registry at least once. I'm just not finding what I'm looking for. I thought it might be a function of one of the certificates. I'm in the process of exporting all of the Microsoft certificates to check for any obvious line about error checking. I think if it is in the registry it must be coded in.
Does anyone here know of any ideas, or clues, as to how to do what I'm trying to do? Could a simple app be written that would intercept the error check? If there is any place that can answer this question it would be here in these forums. There must be tens of thousands, or millions of frustrated Windows Phone owners out there. The person that could solve this frustrating issue would be the darling of Windows Phone users all over the world. Microsoft has known about this issue for years and has done nothing to remedy it. Their typical answer for it is to jump through some hoops from hell.
Please everyone circulate this through your own circles of influence, power, and daring. As in the first custom ROM for the Titan, I would pony up some money to get a prize purse going for the first person to pull this off. I'm almost sure that it would have to be on a fully unlocked phone. All the more valuable would be to make it work on a stock phone. I would just imagine that it this reward purse idea got out world wide, the response would be overwhelming.
So excuse me for bumping my thread- even if I didn't do it right. We've got to move this issue forward ourselves. Microsoft is NOT INTERESTED in doing it. The higher we can raise this issue, the more likely it is to succeed.
EDIT: I have since learned that S/MIME is also a crucial aspect of corporate email syncing. I don't know a lot about this stuff, or how it may come to play in the email syncing nightmare. I do know, however, that Windows Phone 6.X had S/Mime in it, but all models above that Microsoft left it out. I suppose, like the error checking issue, Microsoft will make no move to correct this.
EDIT2: I wonder if certificate checking is in the software, or if it is burned into a rom chip of some kind. If it is software, then the farther I can get away from a Windows based ROM the better my chances are of overcoming this. So as custom ROMs go, what ROM weighs in as the least like Windows? Is my idea on the right track?
its been a while since my last visit to xda-developers , was actively lurking back then since o2-xda era .
Since i switch to iPhone , i havent visit this forum anymore. but today is the day, where i break my exclusivity with Apple environment and use my first android phone for almost a decade long. The beast that i pick is Note10+ and boy im happy with the purchase.
Since im still tied with apple environment, i need several guidance to sync several data, read in some article and it seems not working well for me. I hope the gurus here can help me.
1. contact sync
i need bidirectional sync across my mac, iphone and android,
Firstly i export my icloud contact in mac address book to vcard and import to gmail account in mac address book, stranngely there are like 900 missing contacts......
can someone help me with this issue?
Secondly, i already add gmail account to sync all across devices, contact created from iphone and android sync correctly, but my mac address book seems didnt sync at all.
Seems like the issue is in my mac address book, can anyone assist on this matter?
2. text replacement/autotext
Are there any 3rd party apps that i can use across mac, iphone and android?
3. im open to suggestion to any compulsory tweak recommendation/app
thanks in advance