Since upgrading to Windows Mobile 6 Pro Black Edition 3.0.1, I've had a few problems that I wonder if you guys can help me resolve.
1) All of my contacts were erased and they don't seem to have been being backed up when I was synchronising...I don't imagine there's much I can do there.
2) When I add a new contact now, I can choose Live contact or Outlook contact, however no matter which I do, when I view my text messages, the contact name isn't displayed in the list of my current messages, only the number, I can only see the name of the contact when I actually open the message itself.
3) Active sync wont sync with my phone, it will copy PC files > Phone, but not Phone > PC.
4) How do I sort my contacts in to groups - for example emails, mobile numbers, home numbers etc? I can't figure this out.
I'm new to this lark, so laymans terms would be great!
Thanks.
Doesnt sound like its anything to do with the rom - more to do with your setup.
Get activesync working and all your outlook/server contacts will be syncd.
When you add a new outlook contact, make sure you put the international number format and ensure the mobile number is in the mobile number field. It will then show senders name on received texts.
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some of my contacs have multiple mobile numbers, i.e. work, private, car mobile.....so, how can i manage them since wm6 doesn't allow me more than one mobile number for every contact. i know thta i can use inesoft address book, but using this software, once i have choosen my contact,i cannot directly send an sms to the contact, or at least i haven't understood how to.
have you got any suggestion for me.....i'm really bored with this issue, my nokia n70, symbian 3rd edition can handle multiple numbers for avery contact.....
maybe there's no answer to my question?
you cant
heck you cant even do that in Microsoft Outlook
You'll have to make multiple contacts for a single person
John 1
John 2
for each mobile number
Anyway, you'd have to manually select which mobile number to send a SMS to That'd be faster to have multiple contacts.
Otherwise, if it's just for voice call, then just put anything (house,work,etc), doesnt matter.
Try out pocket informant 8, in the contact list it will show multiple chooses, maybe it will fit your need, they have trial version so you can take it for a test spin for free .
It will take some time to get use to but the one handed operation is great to look up contacts and click to dial, blows the contact list in WM5/6 out of the water.
I have used several versions of this, very stable and works great and it will sync with outlook.
http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=pi&
http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=pocketinformant&tab_id=features
Hmmm you cant save multiple entries for the same name in SIM no matter what phone you use.
In wm all you do is create a new contact, and when you do that create the contact as outlook contact...that way you can add multiple number, email, address, etc etc...
I know how you feel; it's a pain to have several mobile numbers for one contact when you want to SMS (voice dialling is fine)
Here is how it can work while maintaining only one contact in Outlook:
- Enter additional mobile numbers in Outlook under pager, car, other (or whatever you fancy)
- When you want to create a new SMS, do NOT start typing the name directly to get auto completion, click the To: field instead (or go through Menu -> Add Recipient)
- This brings up your contact list, and you can now choose your contact and select any of his/hers numbers to send the SMS to..
Hope this helps
I'm not sure what you're aiming for exactly. WM6 has a lot of options for multiple mobile numbers, and AFAIK, Symbian S60 v3 has fewer options, at least on my N73 ME it does.
you can do this by adding the number under another option e.g. home, create new text then select contact through the contacts option rather than typing their name in the to box, you'll get the option then to choose either phone number or email address.
never tried before, i'll test it, thx for your suggestion
it is a real silly problem, in PC outlook you can add private fields, but you will not be able to synchronize it with your ppc. hope we can find a good real solution for this.
Hi all,
I'm using WM6 on my backup device, the XDA Orbit and have a few annoying niggles. Can anyone advise on the below?
1) I have 2 hotmail accounts - one personal, one business. I would like to have visibility of both in my messages window. To my knowledge, I can only use one at a time and have to switch accounts via Windows Live each time I want to view emails. Is there a way you can have both?
2) I can't seem to syncronise the new folders on the POP3 account I have. Is there a way? It's an O2 account. When I create a new folder on the XDA, it doesn't show when I log in via webpage & vice versa.
3) I'd like to be able to edit the caller display when someone calls. When a contact information is filled out in detail (i.e company, job title etc.), some of the information appears on the incoming caller display bubble. Ideally I just want the name, number and photo. Possible? Fussy I know
4) In WM5, you used to be able to turn WIFI on AND off via the GPRS icon (next to the phone signal icon/speaker/clock). In WM6, it seems you can only turn it on. I know it's lazy as the Comms Manager in the 'System Tray' is only a few taps away but is there anyway to resurrect the WM5 functionality or provide a link to a 3rd party app/plugin?
5) And finally...I'd also like a bluetooth plugin on the system tray for quick access - any links?
Thanks in advance,
GW
Q1 - 2 live mail accounts can be done by setting up 2nd account as POP3 but apparently you need a yearly MSN subscription to be able to use this. Will just make do with the one account!
Q2 - Been advised to set the account type to IMAP4 to be able to sync new folders although this doesn't seem to work with an O2 email account. Can live without it though.
Q3,Q4,Q5 - Appreciate these will require registry changes - does anyone know what strings/values to edit?
Q1: I have my hotmail via a outlook plugin called httpmail. I guess it would work also with two hotmail accounts.
Here is a link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=225779
Thanks, will check it out.
re: Q2, I don't think the sync can be done on POP3 accounts. Under Messaging > Account i.e. O2 > Tools > Manage Folders, when you click & hold on the new folder that's been created the only options are 'New Folder', 'Delete' or 'Rename'. There is 'Folder Options' but it's greyed out. There are no tick boxes next to the folder like there is for syncing a folder in the Windows Live account.
I've given up on Q4 but I'd really like to fix Q3 if possible, surely just a small registry change required there...just a case of finding what to edit! Anyone help with this?
230 views - come on, who can rise to the challenge of finding a fix for me
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is there a way (registry, 3rd party app. etc.) you can edit the details on the incoming caller display bubble. For example, when the 'company' field data is entered on a phone contact, it shows under the name & number when someone calls. Ideally I just want the name, number and photo, no other info.
Is this possible?
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Hi,
I used to have a windows mobile phone I have just over a 1,000 contacts. I exported those into my gmail. I've tried loading the CSV and the VCard files into my phone. But for some reason it doesn't show them all. It seems like in some parts of the phone it shows them, but like if I compose a new text message it doesn't auto list their name. And it doesn't show the contact. It has some contacts listed but not all. Yet when I click on people and I have it view all it shows most of them but not all my contacts, then If I click on menu and then view it shows the right number of contacts.
I'm just really frustrated. Which is better CSV, or VCard? How can I get all my contacts into my phone so it's the same across the board? am I doing something wrong?
Also is there a way to have them automatically synced up with Facebook, or do I have to do each one automatically.
1 more question does it matter if in the contact I have a 1 plus the area code like 1-555-5555 vs 555-5555 would that make a difference?
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!
I just picked up a wp7 over the weekend.
I'm coming form an Android phone, so I had been using gmail to manage all my contacts. I decided to import my contacts into Windows Live so they would sync to my device. For some reason when importing from google, all my contacts cell phone numbers went into the "Other phone" field in Windows Live.
This wouldn't be a big deal, but it looks like windows phones don't sync this field from windows live. So all my contacts cell phone numbers won't sync to my phone.
Anyone else experienced this? Any way to make that field sync?
I know I could just delete all my contacts from Windows Live and sync my google contacts instead, but I'd rather not because then I'd lose all my messenger contacts.
Thanks
I should mention I've tried syncing both my google and windows live accounts to my phone (which does give me all the mobile numbers) but then I get duplicate info such as home phone numbers, emails, etc.
Any ideas?
I'll try to look into this when I get home for you. Do you, by chance, still have your Android device with the contacts still on it? Also, what carrier do you have?
I do still have the android phone with contacts. Is there a way to export those contacts?
I suppose I could go through all my windows live contacts and manually enter all the phone numbers into the correct field, but I'd like to avoid this...
I'm on Bell in Canada (Edit: might as well put that info in my profile)
i used this http://www.soocial.com/ and it seemed to sync properly.
you only need to use it once.
like my title says: activesync does not add all google contacts completly
this means, when i set my active sync on my mobile up, to sync with my gmail account. it does add all my contacts but allot of them are missing their phone number and further details..
gmail and calender are working fine, its just the google contacts that does not import all of phone numbers to the contacts.
What i have in my contact list in my phone after sync are:
79 contacts (the same as in google contacts on pc)
13 of them have their info (phone numbers, email adresses) synct
the rest is just only an plain contact with only the name
I guest that the eve phone you were using is an Android device.
Just go to your google contact on PC then edit one by one the type of phone number to anything different Other type.
nhathoa said:
I guest that the eve phone you were using is an Android device.
Just go to your google contact on PC then edit one by one the type of phone number to anything different Other type.
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this worked! thnx allot man, i was getting crazy of this haha