Is it possible to sync your contacts and calender with your computers? It was simple with winmo. I haven't found a good way with Android. Is there a way? Sync with my work computer ok, sync at home deletes something. next just the opposite. Can't seem to keep track of what is new, changed, old, same.
I use Google for my Contacts and Calendar, so it is never out of sync. For work, I use Moxier Mail or Touchdown, depending on my mood, and both sync my work calendar and contacts with no issue.
Are you using Exchange for your home calendar, or are you wanting to integrate your Google and Exchange calendars together, for example?
I run a business and my Thunderbolt makes it 100% easier. I use gmail... So of course everything syncs without me knowing it Contacts, Calendar, Docs, etc. Plus it allows me to scan anything, convert it to a PDF, and hit print from anywhere and it comes out my printer at my office or my house. It also allows me to FAX docs to anyone.
Now, for those using a work email address VIA exchange or similar it doesn't make it that easy. It will however allow you to sync your contacts and calendars VIA the phone. Or to keep it the same as using Windows Device center the HTC users have HTC Sync.
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i have exchange for my works emails are great and my calendar entries are mixed in with my personal on my pure calendar widget. perfect!
+1 on exchange, works perfectly. It even syncs my contact photos from exchange to the phone.
I should have said that I'm using launcher Pro and not Sense. I'm using Outlook both at work and at home. Work has 2 accounts, Gmail and our .com Home is just Gmail. I only need the Gmail contacts and calender to sync properly. When I put the phone in the mix, it seems to loose track, of what is new and changed.
I work for myself as a web and software developer and it's the primary way i keep track of contacts, message/email clients, keep track of tasks and in a pinch, ssh into remote servers to fix things when I am not near a computer.
If your phone is used for your work, you can also write it off as a tax deduction for both purchasing it and usage.
Yes, I use it for work. Like I said, I had no problem with winmo. It worked perfectly. What App are using on your phone to create appointments or tasks? What do you use to sync the task or calender to the computer or to google?
Tasks is one area that Android is weak out of the box. Otherwise, Android does a much better job of handling calendar items, contacts, and email in my opinion. I came from a winmo background also, and I haven't been happier after getting the original droid.
We are using exchange corporately, and my phone connects up perfectly to our exchange server to sync calendar items, contacts, and email. Personally and for a non-profit I work for, I use 3 different gmail accounts to organize calendar items, contacts (literally 3-4000 contacts total), and two gmail email accounts. The device works perfectly.
For gmail, just use the built in gmail, calendar, and contacts (although AOSP contacts is better than sense contacts, IMO). For exchange, an app like Moxier mail, Roadsync, or Touchdown will give you access to your tasks (if necessary). If tasks are not necessary, the built in email, calendar, and contacts work great.
Seth
I guess maybe I'm doing something wrong then. I entered an appointment in my phone today. A minute later it popped up on my computer. Great! I go home and sync my phone to my computer and it deleted the appointment out of my phone and off of google. My contacts are a mess. I have 3 or 4 of everything. Some with photos, some without. Some with Facebook numbers. Every time I sync my phone I get a popup with 15 overdue appointments. I dismiss them and next there they are again. Maybe I should try getting rid of the google calender and contacts?
sethschmautz said:
Tasks is one area that Android is weak out of the box. Otherwise, Android does a much better job of handling calendar items, contacts, and email in my opinion. I came from a winmo background also, and I haven't been happier after getting the original droid.
We are using exchange corporately, and my phone connects up perfectly to our exchange server to sync calendar items, contacts, and email. Personally and for a non-profit I work for, I use 3 different gmail accounts to organize calendar items, contacts (literally 3-4000 contacts total), and two gmail email accounts. The device works perfectly.
For gmail, just use the built in gmail, calendar, and contacts (although AOSP contacts is better than sense contacts, IMO). For exchange, an app like Moxier mail, Roadsync, or Touchdown will give you access to your tasks (if necessary). If tasks are not necessary, the built in email, calendar, and contacts work great.
Seth
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I just use google calendar mostly and sync to my computer. There's also tasks apps out there that sync like http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ that will work with google calendar and standalone. They also have an application for android.
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I guess maybe I'm doing something wrong then. I entered an appointment in my phone today. A minute later it popped up on my computer. Great! I go home and sync my phone to my computer and it deleted the appointment out of my phone and off of google. My contacts are a mess. I have 3 or 4 of everything. Some with photos, some without. Some with Facebook numbers. Every time I sync my phone I get a popup with 15 overdue appointments. I dismiss them and next there they are again. Maybe I should try getting rid of the google calender and contacts?
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So you're using HTC sync, right? It sounds like you have the settings such that the home computer always takes precedence. Plug your phone into the computer then go find that HTC Sync setting and change it to sync to the most recent change (regardless of device/computer). Once done, the computer will be synced to the phone if that's where the last change occurred.
I use my android for my work exchange account which keeps the corp email and calendar in sync with my work outlook. And events show up on the Google calendar. That's about it But it works great.
+1 Touchdown for Contacts/Calendar/Mail. Totally worth the 20 something bucks I paid for it.
The settings in HTC sync were correct, but I think it was HTC sync causing the problems. If I give it enough time, the phone updates google with contacts and the calender and google updates the computer. Then I use Taskos for the tasks. I quit using HTC sync for anything.
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Touchdown here. Works great.
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I have over 2k contacts. Exchange runs flawlessly. It costs about $10 per month but we'll worth it. Pm me for any questions.
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I like being able to sync people into my phone's contact list from Facebook. On the Fascinate is there an advantage to using the Facebook App to do this instead of the built in TouchWiz Contacts Sync?
I've read somewhere that Contacts Sync causes a battery issue
Yep....the facebook app allows you to do just that. The first time you login it will ask you to sync your facebook contacts to your contacts, list
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Has anyone figured out how to remove gmail app I use regular mail app and hate the dual notifications
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Just turn off notifications in Gmail at More>Settings>Account Settings (account name)>Notification Settings. Much easier solution.
Not sure, but I think Gmail is pretty interlaced with other things, like your contacts, calendar, etc. Removing Gmail may really bork things up.
You can turn off Gmail sync - Settings, Accounts & Sync, Google, Uncheck "Sync Gmail".
Leave Contacts and Calendar sync checked if you use those apps.
On the little notification bar at the top of my screen I get 2 notifications every time I get new mail to one of my Gmail accounts. I get the Gmail icon and then I get the "generic" email icon, each opens up a different app to view the same message. How do I eliminate one of these? Thanks-Dan
One is gmail. The other is htc sense gmail
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You set up the HTC mail app to poll your gmail also. So you have two apps doing the same thing. Remove the account settings from the regular e-mail app.
Or you can disable the notifications in one of the apps.
That's what I did because I like gmail for certain things.
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You can use the gmail app instead of the HTC mail app.
When I sign in I ignore the searching for old emails menu and the screen asking me to sign in my accounts. I only sign in to the google screen where it asks if I want to backup my settings or something like that. I only have one account that way and gmail app is flawless.
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Alright, so admittedly, this is a ridiculously noobtastic question to be asking when I consider all the time I've owned Android phones, but I'm setting this up now and I only just now realized I didn't know the answer to this.
When you're creating a Google Calender entry through the webapp, do "pop-up" reminders (as opposed to email reminders) sync as Notifications/alarms on Android when you sync that calender to your phone? If clarification is needed on this question, please let me know.
yes, if I create an appointment with alarm on google calendar from the browser it will be syncronized with the calendar app on my phone.
keep in mind that syncronization its not instant.
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yes, if I create an appointment with alarm on google calendar from the browser it will be syncronized with the calendar app on my phone.
keep in mind that syncronization its not instant.
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I'm not talking about the event itself, I'm talking about the event's reminders.
Create a test event for like 20 minutes away and see??
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