hi all i switched from WM based to the eris and LOVE it got it less than a week ago and switched to 2.1 and not having any issues so far but the one problem im having is how can i get my contacts off my WM to sync with my eris so they are on there im running XP and of course i dont have outlook but i do have outlook express any ideas on how i may be able to do this without typing in EVERY contact i have like 200 of em and thats just gon take a while to do and help or advice is appreciated
If you can find a way to export your WM contacts to a CSV file you can import them into your google contacts for use on the Eris (or anything else that supports google contacts).
oh wait... i found this. go for it!
http://www.mobile-geeks.com/2010/02/22/howto-move-contacts-from-windows-mobile-to-android-google-nexus-one/
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Hi,
Sorry for the newbie question.
I have a Touch HD/Blackstone, currently with about 200 phone contacts in it, I don't sync the phone contacts with outlook as I don't want the ( literally) 1000's of old/rubbish/wrong contacts that I have in outlook cluttering up my phone contacts list.
I do have agoogle account linked to my outlook, so the calender apointments have synced to the phone fine.
Question is, how do I simply port my contacts in my blackstone to the hero?
I'm sure it's simple, but I can't figure it out...
Clock is ticking, My number ports over to the hero Tuesday and it is my work phone (own business) so not having contacts on the phone is going to be rather disastrous! ( They are both network locked, so can't simply swap sims)
BTW, Am I right in thinking once I have my contacts over, set my email (pop3) that there is no need to plug my phone into my work PC as everything will be coming across wirelessly? ( Contacts already there, calender is sent via google wirelessly and email via pop3 account..)
Sorry to ramble and thanks in advance for any answers.
BTW... The hero is a class apart from the Blackstone, despite running all sorts of decent stuff and (IMO) the best/smoothest Rom for it ( Topix ). Won't be going back to Winmo intil windows 7 is released-and thats only if it is any good- but by then Android will be ruling the mobile world I'm sure!
perhaps this: http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=winmo
Thats great, thansk for that.
All new to me this Google stuff, didn't know that existed.
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Thats great, thansk for that.
All new to me this Google stuff, didn't know that existed.
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You can also use the main Active Sync application on the blackstone creating a server m.google.com with your username and password.
Make sure only contacts and calendar are ticked (as notes /tasks and email aren't supported yet) and this will work when you sync
Thanks ,
Did this last night and now have 223 contacts on the phone.
The more I use the Hero the more impressed I am!
Hi All
I currently have a Diamond and am due for an upgrade and am seriously thinking about the Hero.
I've looked around the various forums but can't seem to find the answer to my question. When changing between Win Mo Pro phones I could easily backup contacts, calender, text messages, emails etc using PPCbackup.
Is there a program that will allow a backup from WinMoPro and restore it onto the Andriod system?
I know I can backup the contacts and calender using outlook 2003 and squirt them over the Hero using the HTC Sync program but not sure about anything else? It would be very helpful to have my text messages sent on the Hero as alot of work communication is sent that way.
Help much appreciated
Ed
You send your outlook contacts to your googlemail account. google backs then all up, so as soon as you sign in (say after a wipe) they all come back to the phone as before.
There is also various backup aps as well.
can you not sync ur winmo phone to an exchange server then sync ur android one too.
also theres a app called windows mobile sms migrator. http://android.modaco.com/content/software/288916/windows-mobile-sms-migrator-beta-1/
Well if all your contacts are in Outlook the HTC sync software just simply pulls the contacts from Outlook.
http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=756&news_id=339
My contacts and calender aren't the issue but thanks for replying, it the SMS messages I'm more concerned about.
I'll upgrade and give the modaco app a try and see how I get on.
It would of course be nice to see migration software that'll squirt everything across in one go that would indeed be a shot across the bow's for windows lol.
Thanks for the replies everyone
Ok, got the Hero (after a diamond and trinity) works nice BUT what is with the HTC Sync Thing?
Everytime it connects it udates random conacts from Outlook, so that at the moment the wife has 4 entries and some other numbers are the same yet others are fine.
ANyone else any experience and more importantly how to heck do I stop it?!
ta muchly
What? Really? HTC Sync lets you synchronize Outlook or Windows Address Book contacts on your PC with your Hero.
ANyone else any experience and more importantly how to heck do I stop it?!
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Just don't use it! there is nothing to say you have to use 'HTC Sync'.
I never use it as I don't want the contacts in Outlook to sync to my Hero. I just use my google contacts for this.
No there is nothing saying I HAVE to use HTC Sync however if I want to put all my contacts across in one easy go then the options seem a little limited.
Fixed it now just told it not to auto sync and that seems to have got control back to me
Glad to hear you got it sorted...
I know there are limited options when 'sync-ing' contacts to your Hero.
I used 'ExportContacts' app in the market to export all my 'old' SIM contacts into a csv file. I then exported my contacts from outlook also to a csv file which can then be imported into your Google account.
All to do then was to 'merge' all of the contacts in my Google account. This then syncs with the phone and I never bothered to use HTC Sync.
Makes sense, I dont use the google address book as I tend to keep the data useage to a minimum mainly as when at work we dont even have a phone signal, so prefer to carry everything "locally" properly, hence the much abused and hated outlook ;0
Re: Specifying Google Contact Groups for Sync (2.1)
I've searched around for this, but have come up empty handed. I upgraded last night to the Eris port of 2.1 and am very happy (compared to previous occasions where I have spent about 2 hours on the upgrade before restoring my nandroid backup)
However I can't for the life of me work out how to specify which groups are synced with Google Contacts, in 1.5 Sense UI I could just go to Groups, Sync Groups and select away, however this doesn't seem to be present in 2.1, the issue being as soon as I send an email to an address that isn't in my contact links it will create the contact for me, which is highly annoying as my phone book is now full of bogus entries!
So has anyone found out how to do this? I'm still searching around the menus and forums but if someone has done this already or knows it's not possible do shout!
I am also looking for how to do this. I lost a lot of contacts when I upgraded roms.
Luckily I found them on an old PC and synced with Outlook to get them back. I want them to be synced with google, but when I go through all the options in the contact that isn't a google contact I can't make it so.
Anyone figured this out yet?
I am on villain 3.4
hi all i just recently got outlook 2007 and i cannot get my contacts to sync now it says its synced but the contacts arnt there ive been searching for about an hour now and cant find anything does anyone know how i can get my contacts from my phone to outlook
This will export a csv file from ur phone. http://www.smartphone-freeware.com/download-tbexport-contacts-csv.html Then import using outlook
thanks alot man just saved me the hassel of typin in EVERY contact
jus clicked it and its not downloadin ill try again ina lil bit tho n see if it work
yeah the links not working
I just clicked on it. It works fine. There are dozens of programs that do it anyway. Just google "Export, Contacts, .CSV, Windows Mobile" You will find tons of them