Hi
I made a huge mistake recently and managed to erase all my emails stored in folders in my Outlook.com account (not 100% sure how, but I thin POP related). Anyway, I managed to retrieve 6 months worth which was better than nothing. However, I resurrected an old phone that I was using up until just before I migrated from Gmail to Outlook. Anyway, I have discovered that on the Outlook app which is connected to my Gmail account actually had ALL the old emails on it. They are not on the Gmail app or anywhere else or any other device I have, so all I can thin Is that the emails must be stored on the phone and linked to the Outlook app. I've looked all over the phone and can't find anything. I've tried looking for an app that may deo the trick, but nothing so far.
Does anyone have any idea how to retrieve the email from the phone?
Peter
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Can one of you nice people explain to me on how I set up my emails to sync together. My host site who has my domain and website have a £5.99 monthly charge for Outlook Sync, but I'm guessing if I don't want calendar and contacts and only Inbox and Sent items to sync up on phone and PC, then IMAP should do this? Is there any other difference??
I've tried IMAP on the phone but it only received two emails when there were 5 going to PC, Not only that but the second one overwrote the first one and it completely disappeared. And there was no copy in my sent box on the PC after replying from phone, and what do I need for security etc... None/SSL etc?
My PC is set up as POP, and is Outlook 2002 OK for this and if so please can you tell me how I do this? I really can't afford to mess up my emails in Outlook as it's work.
I set up a personal one in the GMail account in programmes really easily and that does what it says on the tin, but the other one is a nightmare,
Sorry, but you'll have to talk to me like an idiot, as I've never received email on my phone before, let alone Android phones.
Thanks for your help
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Peter,
Are you asking how to have both your PC inbox/sent items look exactly like the inbox/sent items on your Hero?
As far as I know that's not possible unless you use IMAP on both PC and Hero - but I think you know that already.
Are you able to switch Outlook to IMAP (probably means re-creating the email account and copying mails around - I've forgotten how to do this in Outlook 2002)?
When you talk about the mails not corresponding between PC and Hero what do the POP3 settings look like on your PC? It's not doing anything silly like removing the mail, etc?
Sorry I don't have a specific answer to your question but I figure we can sort it out!
Regards,
mils
if your outlook is set to POP, have you set it to leave a copy of the message on the server (Somewhere in the email account settings, i can't remember where on 2002, but the help files are your friends in this case). if not, POP will REMOVE the message from the server when you download it to your PC. hence it will not be available on the phone.
change your outlook to imap, or set it to leave messages on the server and then you can have the same emails on the phone as on your PC. that is they way you have needed to do it to get this since pocket pc 2000.
Hi guys, thanks for your reply,
Obviously I don't want all the emails that are already in Outlook on the phone, but Basically, when I'm out I want to be able to answer emails that will have copies on the PC for when I get back, including the replys.
Even when PC was off I only got one to the phone, and the rest still went to PC when I switched on later. I thought if the PC was off, they would have come to the phone regardless?
My POP settings on Outlook are mail.mydomainname, smtp.mydomainname.
Does the 'leave copy of messages on server' work on IMAP and POP and if both, that wouldn't include replies from phone would it? Are there any disadvantages to leave copies on server? How does it work, when you get back and open outlook does it update sent items as well as the inbox?
al it does is leave the message on the server so that it is available for other devices, instead of being removed from the server.
you don;t need it for imap as imap leaves them in place anyway (or at least it usually does)
if you're using imap, then yes, you should get the sent items, but if using POP, then no, normally you wouldn't.
Thanks for that, any idea how I set up IMAP in Outlook, is it just a case of imap.domain name, smtp. domainname .... and it starts another folder inbox? What do you do with the POP one?
Apologies if this is a common newbie problem but i'm having no luck finding the answer.
1st day with the Atrix, got the guy at the ATT store to move all my contacts to it from my old blackberry. Everything was fine until i added my emails. I added my work email and gmail (which i never use and has some old contacts). Not sure exactly when it happened, but one of those syncs erased all the other contacts that were already on the phone.
Anyway to get them back?
Well, still not sure how it happened or how to fix something like this in the future.
I got my contacts back by re-adding them. Exported into a .CSV file with Desktop Manager (from Blackberry), unfortunately that did not work, MotoBlur site said the file was not valid. So i tried again, this time exported into yahoo, from yahoo export into csv. From there i again tried to use MotoBlur site to import that into my phone, this time it recognized the file and said it will sync in a few minutes. Did not work. So finally i imported this csv file into my gmail account, luckily i dont use gmail so it only had a few contacts in there which i deleted prior to importing the file. Then i synced the gmail account with the Atrix.
Gotta say, this was a bit of a pain in the ass way of adding contacts. Very surprised there isn't an easier method and i dont like how gmail is being forced on me in this situation. Maybe i just didn't research enough, but importing a csv file into a phone should not require syncing or emails, it should be easily done with connecting the phone to your PC.
I asked this originally over on Android forums, but Im not getting a response there, so thought I would try here instead.
Will try and explain the situation as best as I can.
The kit
T-Mobile Pulse Mini (Froyo)
HP Laptop (Win 7)
Easy Tab (Froyo)
The Problem
My kids have been using their phones as their primary device for nearly a year. Contacts stored in it have always synced with Gmail and appear fine on the Laptop so the account is syncing ok.
For xmas they both received Easy Tab's, a cheap Froyo tablet. It looks the biz and performs well. However, we cant get the contacts or calendar to sync.
Gmail mail syncs fine. The tablets have complete access to the internet via Wifi.
We had a market issue when the tablets were first used, but this was resolved by a Force Stop and Clear Data of Google Services Framework, and were advised to do the same to resolve the contacts/Calendar issue, but this hasnt worked.
When going into the contacts settings on the tab Gmail doesnt appear in accounts, only their Twitter accounts, and I cant figure out how to get Gmail to show up in there.
If I go to Accounts & Sync the Gmail account appears there along with the Twitter account, however on going into the Gmail account sync settings the only option in there is Sync Gmail, where as on the phone there are options to sync calendar and contacts.
I really need some help with this to make these tablets complete for the kids as they are great devices, but simple things like sending an email arent as easy as they should be because the contacts list isnt there with the email addresses.
Cheers in advance.
I have my phone setup to sync my Outlook contacts, calendar and e-mail via ActiveSync and my Hotmail account. This appears on the phone as a Corporate Exchange account using MS servers, but in reality it is just the Hotmail cloud (no Exchange client). It works fine for me (although contact photos only sync from Outlook to phone, not vice-versa), but I have a problem with contacts I create on the phone. There is no way to assign them to an account so they end up not syncing to my Outlook, which only syncs contacts bearing the corporate symbol or that have been joined from Facebook to an existing Outlook contact. I've looked all over and not found any way to either create a contact on the phone under a specific account or to convert one after the fact. The only workaround I have found is to create a new contact in Outlook with the same name, wait until it syncs to the phone, then join it with the existing contact on the phone. This is obviously not optimal. Any ideas?
I'm looking for information on this as well.
In my case, my calendar, contacts, (tasks?) and email are all being syncronized via corporate exchange. I try to use my corporate exchange as my base point, so I would like to keep my contacts there by default.
When creating a new contact, I do not see how to designate where the contact is to be stored. I would think I would be given the option to save it under:
Exchange
Gmail
or phone.
I thought this used to be an option, but I'm not seeing it under the latest Unamed ROM.
Has this option been removed? or am did I ever have that option?
I have a suggestion but I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for. I don't use exchange server email so I don't know if this is what you need.
I sync all of my contacts and calendar to Outlook using MyPhoneExplorer. you can get the app for free in the market and download the program directly to your computer (do a google search to find their website to download the desktop version). If your phone is on the same (wifi) network as your computer you can even sync wirelessly. It syncs perfectly in both directions - phone to computer and vice versa.
hope this helps.
I've also heard that the Kies program works. It can be downloaded from the Samsung website.
Under sync settings, I unchecked the contacts sync for Gmail so now by default all new contacts are saved to Exchange.
Found it,
Maybe NOT synching the Gmail account, made this option available but suspect it was just buried deeper than I remember.
I thought this used to be a context option.
In Contacts
Settings (leftmost key button)
More
Settings again (bottom of list)
Save new contacts to.....
Now, what was that darn password I needed to save again....?
Oh-Yeah, Netflix....
Iqak, that did the trick. I knew I was able to do that before, but why I couldn't find it before is beyond me. Thanks.
jack man said:
I have a suggestion but I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for. I don't use exchange server email so I don't know if this is what you need.
I sync all of my contacts and calendar to Outlook using MyPhoneExplorer. you can get the app for free in the market and download the program directly to your computer (do a google search to find their website to download the desktop version). If your phone is on the same (wifi) network as your computer you can even sync wirelessly. It syncs perfectly in both directions - phone to computer and vice versa.
hope this helps.
I've also heard that the Kies program works. It can be downloaded from the Samsung website.
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I use to use MPE on my Captivate and it was a bit of a pain. I also had issues with it losing contacts and/or scrambling them up. Using ActiveSync with Outlook is the best way and thanks to Iqak I have it working as it should.
Hi all.
I have just purchased the above phone with NFC on the ORANGE Network (UK). I have installed the latest version of KIES and hit a few problems. This is the situation:
I have used iPhone 4s for a few months and love the way it syncs my MS Outlook Contacts & Calendar etc.
Now using KIES & MS Outlook. This is very problematic.
I have synced using KIES which seems to grab information from all over the place and installs it where it wants. within its contacts and calendar.
I have surnames where they shouldn't be, duplicate calendar dates and duplicate dates of birth or anniversary etc.
I have managed manually to sort everything out on the phone and backed it up. I will do a re-sync later and see what happens but i am thinking it will screw everything up again.
Does anyone have an idea how to get around these problems please?
bigyun2000 said:
Hi all.
I have just purchased the above phone with NFC on the ORANGE Network (UK). I have installed the latest version of KIES and hit a few problems. This is the situation:
I have used iPhone 4s for a few months and love the way it syncs my MS Outlook Contacts & Calendar etc.
Now using KIES & MS Outlook. This is very problematic.
I have synced using KIES which seems to grab information from all over the place and installs it where it wants. within its contacts and calendar.
I have surnames where they shouldn't be, duplicate calendar dates and duplicate dates of birth or anniversary etc.
I have managed manually to sort everything out on the phone and backed it up. I will do a re-sync later and see what happens but i am thinking it will screw everything up again.
Does anyone have an idea how to get around these problems please?
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Why are you involving Kies? I have my phone synching to my outlook email and calendar without Kies. I could synch my contacts too, but I don't have any in my exchange account.
Haven't had any problems with outlook sync myself but am using Activesync Exchange which syncs to my corporate email over the air. Hence don't use Kies to sync.
My only thinking is that you may have saved contacts on your sim causing duplicates. I only see duplicates if I sync multiple sources like Google contacts, and outlook but within accounts sync in the settings you can choose what to sync.
If you have a new phone, maybe worth resetting contacts as outlook is your backup.
Btw, I used to sync outlook to Google before I had the option to use corporate email. If you sync to Google then you won't need to connect via cable which is a huge benefit. I used a paid app to make sure the sync is perfect but that was a year ago.
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I have similar problem on my SGS2.
Some of my contacts are quadrupled both in SGS2 and Outlook after syncing them trough Kies 2.1.1.11124_17.
And it has to be Kies since my HTC Blackstone synced with Outlook 5 minutes before SGS2 without any problems...
And NO, I don't want to keep my contacts anywhere except on SGS2 and Outlook.
And I don't have any form of corporate mail on SGS2.
Any toughts?
@ctomgee: How do you sync with Outlook without Kies? Trough Exchange?
I use gSyncIt to sync my outlook with gmail account, which then auto-synchronizes with the phone. Works perfectly.
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I have similar problem on my SGS2.
Some of my contacts are quadrupled both in SGS2 and Outlook after syncing them trough Kies 2.1.1.11124_17.
And it has to be Kies since my HTC Blackstone synced with Outlook 5 minutes before SGS2 without any problems...
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Not sure of the relevance... can you explain?
Bodisson said:
And NO, I don't want to keep my contacts anywhere except on SGS2 and Outlook.
And I don't have any form of corporate mail on SGS2.
Any toughts?
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I think you need more flexibility, personally. This is an android phone, which means your contacts AUTOMATICALLY sync to your google account.
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@ctomgee: How do you sync with Outlook without Kies? Trough Exchange?
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Yes.
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Ingvarr said:
I use gSyncIt to sync my outlook with gmail account, which then auto-synchronizes with the phone. Works perfectly.
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This sounds like your best option.
Seriously, I don't even use Kies. The only reason I even have it installed still is for the drivers. If I had some motivation to do so, I would just look for the stand-alone Samsung USB drivers for my phone and uninstall Kies completely.
For duplicates in contacts, schedules, I would check Accounts and settings and look inside to see what is syncing. I had multiple calendars syncing so stopped my Google sync for calenders only. Also, I have outlook exchange and a local outlook .PST contacts folder but have seen cases where contacts was pulling from exchange and not my local backup. Default will also sync contacts to Google.
Personally, I would try resetting contacts on the phone(you can do without resetting the phone by clearing the application data in applications) and then removing and redoing the sync. I would then check the options carefully before hitting the sync button.
This is how I would do for any sync issues as have done before when syncing outlook to other sources. Trick is to have one master source and push/sync read only until you are happy, then update to sync.
Have a feeling Kies default options are not perfect but there other USB sync options in the Market like Nitrodesk, companionlink and others above.
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Not sure of the relevance... can you explain?
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HTC Blackstone synced to the same Outlook *.pst file as SGS2 did few minutes later. Blackstone synced trough ActiveSync and messed nothing. SGS2 synced trough Kies and quadrupled some contacts, not all of them. So it's either Kies or SGS2...
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I think you need more flexibility, personally. This is an android phone, which means your contacts AUTOMATICALLY sync to your google account.
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Well, my SGS2 arrived with 2.3.4 (KG2/KG1/KE1), and there was option to disable some or all parts of sync with Google. Which I partially disabled (contacts).
And they remained non-synced even after upgrade to 2.3.5, where you have NO option to disable parts of sync...
And as I wrote before, I don't like having my contacts somewhere in some cloud... I admit that is a bit old-fashioned...
Hmmm.
Just checked my phone and am on 2.3.6 SGS 2 i91000
I checked my sync settings and am able to disable individual. I did notice I have my linked in and Facebook contacts synced as well so maybe other apps are syncing? Interesting not all contacts are quadrupled. Looking at my contacts, I have pictures shown but show source of data. Pictures with a small g refer to Google contacts, pics with f refer to Facebook, pics with in refer to Linkedin. Maybe this will help indicate thesource of the data for you.
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Also, you can join contacts that are duplicated into a single contact on your contacts list.
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