Hello all, i am leaving winmo this friday for a HTC Hero and i would like to know some things ahead of time.
1. Is ther a bing app for android. i use this every day and would like to continue.
2. how many email acct. can one have on the hero?
3. are there cab. files for android or is everything ran from the app store?
4. will pim backup work to transfer all my contacts, texts, email and so on?
5. are there any other roms to flash to to make it better, and where are they?
i hope some or all can be answered, and i hope this is not a repeat... if so i am sorry, hanx
1. For what purpose?
2. Same as WinMo... one Exchange and as many IMAP/POP3 as you want...
3. Not CABs, they're called APKs in Android, can be installed from device or PC (needs to be enabled in Settings) as well as the market
4. No
5. Modacos and Drizzys is available in the Development forum for Hero, they are custom made from HTCs latest update
Hey, thanks for the quick feed back. just what i needed to know. bing is windows mobile live search cab that give u everything in one place, movie times, weather, business and map searches, gas prices etc. is there anything like it or does google do it all as well? how is the sync feature with windows vista and xp. does android sync with your office suite like winmo does? can you sync calendar, contacts etc.?or will i have to start over with new contact client setup and calendar or something?
It would be in your best interest to set up a google account. I think it syncs your calendar and stuff with google.
Re Syncing of Hero
Yes you can sync your phone so that it gets all your contacts, calendar and emails.
I sync with Exchange to get my emails and calendar entries but use the HTC Sync program to sync contacts. I do this as for some reason I get various errors when syncing contacts through my Exchange account.
This is my first non winmo phone since the first HTC came out on orange and I was very hesitant to leave the platform, however after a week with my G2 (still waiting for T Mobile update!!) i am more than happy and doubt I will venture back unless Microsoft pulls a rabbit out of a hat (or their fingers out of theirs arses) and releases the operating system that people actually want!!
Syncing Hero with Google and Desktop Applications
d.raw24 said:
Hey, thanks for the quick feed back. just what i needed to know. bing is windows mobile live search cab that give u everything in one place, movie times, weather, business and map searches, gas prices etc. is there anything like it or does google do it all as well? how is the sync feature with windows vista and xp. does android sync with your office suite like winmo does? can you sync calendar, contacts etc.?or will i have to start over with new contact client setup and calendar or something?
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The Hero comes with HTC Sync which supposedly lets you sync the phone with the Office suite, but I haven't tried that - by the time I realised it was there, I had already migrated everything over to a mixture of Google and Mozilla.
The way I make it work is by using Google contacts and calendar as the 'central database' that you sync everything with. I use Thunderbird for email and contacts, and Sunbird or Lightning for the calendar. (Lightning is an extension for Thunderbird, and Sunbird is essentially the same program but set as a standalone application). Using the GContactSync add-on with the Thunderbird address book lets it sync with Google contacts, and Sunbird/Lightning can be set up already to work with Google calendar. Ideally you actually keep two calendars in Sunbird; one for your recent appointments, one for the archive. This keeps your life off of Google's servers, and makes the synchronising faster on the phone or desktop.
This setup works well even if you have multiple computers that you all want to sync together, though if some of the computers aren't always connected, such as a laptop, then you need another step. The issue is that Sunbird/Lightning connects directly to Google calendar rather than maintaining an offline calendar which it occasionally syncs with Google. So if your connection drops or you switch off wi-fi to save laptop battery, you lose access to the calendar. The solution is another add-on called GCalDaemon which downloads the calendar from Google and then works with Sunbird/Lightning, syncing with Google when it can.
It might sound complicated, but it's not too bad really!
so many questions?
moved to Q&A
Thank steven just what i was after and i never even asked...good man!
d.raw24 said:
Hello all, i am leaving winmo this friday for a HTC Hero
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Having left Winmo for Android are you happy with your choice? I am currently running a HD and a Hero, I was intending leaving Winmo but I am a bit disappointed with Android.
Do you feel you can do everything with Android that you could do with Winmo?
So, the problem again:
hd2 htc calendar hangs in week-view
- does not hang in any other view of HTC Calendar, I've been using them all previously.
- MS (orig) Calendar still works. (I do not want to use that one. Besides, I do not like the idea of having a freezed-out application running all the time on my phone)
all other apps are running
htc calendar does not respond to any "tapping"
Do not know what to do with it. Soft reset does not change a thing, when I hit the Calendar icon on home screen, I get the bloody hanged application again.
Is there a way to change the view "offline"?
I would like to change to month view that way and never touch the "week" view option again.
Any other ideas?
Thx in advance
thx for looking.
it's solved.
Hi,
I'm running ROM UK1.72.110.4 on my HTC HD2.
I'm experiencing a problem wherein whilst my Calendar entries appear on the Today screen through HTC Sense, whereas once I could press the displayed Calendar entry and be taken directly to the Calendar app - now pressing it does nothing. No error, but no Calendar app either.
The calendar app loads if accessed via the HTC Tab, or via Outlook in the menu structure - but not directly from the Homepage.
I've tried turning off HTC sense and then re-enabling it - but no joy.
Anybody experienced this irritation, and/or have any suggestions to offer to restore this functionality?
Regards,
Richard Tubb.
Just in case anyone ever experiences the same issue - I sussed that the reason the calendar didn't work is due to the fact I'd removed the Calendar link from the Home Screen tabs!
Once I'd enabled the Calendar link on the Home Screen tabs, the Calendar button on the Home Screen itself started working again.
I hope this helps anyone else who is baffled by this issue in the future!
Regards,
Richard Tubb
Is there a todo/tasks application for windows phone 7, which i can see my notes on the home screen such as the way i see my notes of the default calendar application.
I have been looking for it for several days but couldn't find it yet..
there is the default outlook tasks that come with windows. have you missed that?
And why did you post in here when there is a Windows Phone 7 section?
So ive gone through my phone and froze most of the stuff that i can tell i dont need. I have a list and i was wondering if some1 had some input about possible side effects of some of these services. i know i can just do trial and error with titanium backup but it may not be so obvious. list is as follows:
voice dialer
sound set
my uploads
htc sync ( will this mess with updating the weather on the clock widget?)
htc messager uploader
htc dm
google partner setup
epst
cspeople sync service
com.smithmicro.dm
open sense plugin manager
htc synce wallpaper
thanks in advance
No advise?
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