Nokia Maps - sync Favourites (phone <-> web)
Do you have any rumors regarding a synchronization of Favorite Places (phone <-> web) in Nokia Maps for WP7?
On my Nokia N9 (running Meego), it was a great feature when you add/modify Favorites it was then pushed to the device = really useful.
No,it is not possible to use it for WP7.It will come with the next version.
Thanks, I hope they will add it. VERY USEFUL FEATURE.
JaroslavHruska said:
Nokia Maps - sync Favourites (phone <-> web)
Do you have any rumors regarding a synchronization of Favorite Places (phone <-> web) in Nokia Maps for WP7?
On my Nokia N9 (running Meego), it was a great feature when you add/modify Favorites it was then pushed to the device = really useful.
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Yeah this was my favourite feature from the Nokia 5800 that I still miss.
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Hi all,
I'm in the nice position of having managed to cancel my orange contract early for free ( T+C changes) and can now take out a spanking new contract.
The hero is top of the list as I can't be waiting for the X3 to emerge.
I currently have a Touch HD/Blackstone.
The HD can do all I want it to, I use it mainly for business, so the question is this:
Can the hero sync my outlook calender ok(it is linked to my google account as well)? Can it read adobe file ok? and Doc's? excel?
Does it recieve email ok?
Basically, can it do all I've mentioned ok?
Sorry so long winded.....
Ta
Edit: bugger, typo in title!
Basically, yes to all, although I haven't actually tried Excel.
Yes it will read Excel files, using QuickOffice - but can't write to Excel or Word docs
You can read and write Word and Excel using Documents to go.
Regards,
Dave
Outlook requires HTC Sync
Google Mail/Calendar/Contacts sync out of the box
Exchange works on the hero just fine
Mine recieves my emails before my desktop does (which is nice)
PDF's, DOC's, XLS's can be read with QuickOffice but there are tools on the market for writing to them
Don't use HTC Sync. If your outlook calendar is already linked to your google account, use that instead. HTC Sync is just atrocious.
as for the rest, yes, quick office opens them to view, but you can buy Documents-to-Go in the market which can edit them as well.
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!
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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?
All is in the Title, I have a lot of connection problems with HTC Synch which is really slow and bug or stop really often...
Basically I need to synchronise my Lotus Notes Calendar (@ my Office) with my personnal calendar (Outlook @ Home) and the one on my HTC Hero which is the one From Google Calendar for Which I use Google Synch Calendar... Hope it's clear and that you can HELP me...
- Does ActiveSynch work ?
- How to synchronise all this ?
thx
Buzz
Don't think you can do this, as Activesync is designed to work with WinMo and their predecessors.
There may be some app that can do this but you got three calendars on different platforms which complicates things.
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All is in the Title, I have a lot of connection problems with HTC Synch which is really slow and bug or stop really often...
Basically I need to synchronise my Lotus Notes Calendar (@ my Office) with my personnal calendar (Outlook @ Home) and the one on my HTC Hero which is the one From Google Calendar for Which I use Google Synch Calendar... Hope it's clear and that you can HELP me...
- Does ActiveSynch work ?
- How to synchronise all this ?
thx
Buzz
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Doesn't MICROSOFT ActiveSync tell you something about what platform it is for? Do you honeslty think Microsoft would support Android? I think Microsoft sees Android as a competitor (a really fearsome I might add, go Google).
ok, I suppose so but my real probleme is wityh htc synch which is really slow and does not recognise always my device... Do you have the same problems ?
There's no active sync available on the Radar?
Does 7.5 not have this feature?
Anyway I can sync my personal Outlook calender etc (no exchange)?
i don't believe it's avail. i sync my outlook to htc radar thru MS live which sync with local outlook. google on this topic on you will be shown the way.
it's not as bad as people on this forum made it out to be. i actually like this feature.
Windows Phone does not sync to a PC, (mostly - Zune being the exception). Which makes it a pain for people who keep all their important information on a PC rather than "in the cloud".
There is a work-around - you can sync your PC Outlook info to your Windows Live account with the Microsoft Office Outlook Hotmail Connector.
Tip: You need to add your Live account as an additional account to Outlook, and then make it the primary account for this to work seamlessly. Well, semi-seamlessly. Otherwise you will have an experience similar to Tony Bradley at PCWorld.
This has also been taken up by third party software, like CompanionLink who do a much better job of bridging the gap than Microsoft.
In the end this means that people who have already moved their e-mail, contacts, and calendars into web services like Exchange, Live, Google, Yahoo, and Office365 have a very smooth transition into Windows Phone. People who have their primary information on a local PC are left to fend for themselves.
As you can tell, this is a big change in philosophy. Once upon a time, the world was PC-centric. People had one PC, and mobile devices were satellites that only had to give the user a copy of their PC data on-the-go. The Blackberry broke out of that mold. It was a completely functional e-mail/PIM device that needed no PC "middle man".
Now people have a PC at home, at work, a laptop, and maybe a tablet or smartphone - and they expect to have up-to-date information no matter which device they pick up. Microsoft saw that the old sync-to-PC paradigm no longer worked. They picked up the Android model, where contacts, calendar, and e-mail are all kept in the cloud and pushed or pulled down to the mobile device as needed. (Apple, oddly, as been the slow mover here. They required an iTunes PC sync for all their devices until this year.)
This does work better for people with multiple devices. But they really didn't address the people who still consider the PC their "gold" standard of information and expect the mobile device to conform to that. I'm guessing that doing both got too complicated to meet their 2010 deadline, and as that number of users gets smaller and smaller, there is less incentive over time to go back and add that feature back in.
On a positive note, once you do this you will be all set to move seamlessly to your next phone, whether it's another Windows Phone, iPhone, or Android.
Anyway, you are not alone. There has been much debate over this, and many long-term Windows Mobile users are still steamed.
Dear Forum,
I’m having some hiccups migrating the birthdays from an old nokia 7230 to Google, and let them sync from there to a S3.
I’ve been able to transfer all the Contacts to google with *.vfc, used Nokia PC Suite to transfer Calendar (Events + Birthdays) to Outlook and from there synced with google.
I have a problem with the layout or rather the way Outlook interprets the data which was placed in the Nokia.
Outlook just places the Event on the top bar for the day it was created, not respecting the time it was scheduled for. The time of the event is mentioned, e.g. “Dentist 18:45”…it’s not a big issue, as I can just drag the event to the proper time. I hope that Google Calendar will get synced with the same alert I set in Outlook though…
For birthdays, the Nokia has a very efficient way to remind. You just enter the exact birthdate (year included) and on that specific day you get an alert for that person, showing even the age.
Now – how do you do this in Outlook or Google ? It indeed imported all the data from the Nokia, but it’s not showing the age neither the year or birth. I’ve found a few apps like Age+ or Birthdays that do exactly that.
However, if you uninstall the app those dates are gone…not good… Obviously they are backed up in Outlook/Google… but I haven’t found anything else that comes close.
I was thinking of maybe using GoogleDocs, make a formula, and link it to the cell in GoogleCalendar…not sure if that works though…
Do you maybe have another idea ? :laugh:
Thank you for reading me,
Kind regards,
Ken
Possible fix for your calendar
This fix works for me on a Nokia Lumia 820 synching with Outlook (!Live/Hotmail).
The fault is with Outlook (!Live/Hotmail). Just follow the instructions in the attached PDF.
The PDF is for the Birthday calendar but will probably work for the others too.
Hope this works for you.
Regards,
Howard