I have all my contacts on my phone in alphabetical order and I was looking for a better way to organize everything by category.
I came across this: Outlook 2003: Organize contacts with folders and thought that would have been perfect.
So after following the instructions on my home computer, I ended up making a few different folders and categorized all my contacts.
Now when I plugged the phone in to the ActiveSync 4.2, it looked for changes as normal and then when it was finished I seen that all my Contacts were gone
Now is there a way to have it see the different "folders" under Contacts or did I waste my time?
I did something similar but I put the catergories on the phone first and they were then found on Outlook 2003. Try it that waty round first and see how you go?
AIUI Activesync only syncs the top level folder in Outlook contacts - which I am guessing is empty?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/04july01.mspx
I organise by Category and apply a Category filter in Pocket Informant when necessary.
JC#79 said:
I did something similar but I put the catergories on the phone first and they were then found on Outlook 2003. Try it that waty round first and see how you go?
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Could you put into detail on how you did that or tell me where you found out how to do that with the instruction booklet?
I have sorted my contacts into categories. What I want to have is friends contacts when I'm at home and work when I'm...at work
However if I set view by one of those categories, it's ok, but when I open contacts the next time it goes back to showing them ALL
Any ideas ?
I recently got a used dash and am so amazed by this smartphone. My previous phone, a Nokia 5300 had the LCD break, so I researched phones and bought a used dash, upgraded to WM 6.
The Nokia imported my address book and synchronized my calendar great. ActiveSync on my XP laptop synchronizes the calendar great on the Dash. Then it brings over the names of my contacts, but no phone number. Does anyone know how to solve this problem with adding every entry by hand?
enigmas4u said:
I recently got a used dash and am so amazed by this smartphone. My previous phone, a Nokia 5300 had the LCD break, so I researched phones and bought a used dash, upgraded to WM 6.
The Nokia imported my address book and synchronized my calendar great. ActiveSync on my XP laptop synchronizes the calendar great on the Dash. Then it brings over the names of my contacts, but no phone number. Does anyone know how to solve this problem with adding every entry by hand?
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Check your Outlook on the PC, edit the numbers there and then sync via active sync to your Dash.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Hi, is there a way to see contacts birthdays in calendar tab ? Thx.
I get them standard on my TP2
Just fill in the birthday field in Outlook.
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I get them standard on my TP2
Just fill in the birthday field in Outlook.
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Of course i have the birthday fild filled. For me, only TF3D - people-all people-updates and events shows me the contacts birthday. Nothing in calendar tab.
Strange??
I've got all birthdays automatically added as All Day appointment.
Out of the box, I've done nothing to force this.
Check this out. It'll do exactly what you want.
It was actually featured on Pocketnow
Maybe this will help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529857
thank you labbbby and ohyeahar. you both are pointing to the same app. If ronh is wright maybe is only an reg hack or an option in wm calendar / tf3d ?
I have had the same problem...
A hard-reset fixed it.
I have had a LOT of issues with the calendar, including the issue you describe. I think the problems came from a messed up Nokia calendar sync with my previous phone (Nokia N95). I decided to completely ditch my old calendar and make a new database, and reset my TP2.
All worked properly and everything is working fully functional now.
I'm happy about that, because I was going totally nuts. I thought I bought a piece of **** phone with a **** OS on it. But it was just bad Outlook syncing support from Nokia's side...
Maybe you habe been syncing with a database from a phone which has wrong Outlook syncing. Just like me.
Anyway, it SHOULD work out of the box, like the previous posters have said, so there IS an issue somewhere...
I too had an n95 8gb which I sync'd to outlook to then sync with my tp2.
I first checked my calendar when I saw this thread, and it didn't show the dates. I then checked that the dates were added to the contact's details. I then went back to calendar, and saw all the dates were available...
One thing I did notice, is that some contacts have two appointments in the calendar. Dunno whether this is because I had the dates in originally, and then because I sync'd my contacts with facebook contacts?! Or whether I added all dates as yearly reminders?! Either way, seems to work ok for me out of the box...
I have my birthdays in the calendar by default as well.
In the standard agenda there is also an indication of somebody's age on the next birthday. This is unfortunately not in the TF3D agenda.
But I wouldn't start installing separate programms to do this if it should work out of the box. Just give it a hard reset.
TomLoth said:
I have had the same problem...
A hard-reset fixed it.
I have had a LOT of issues with the calendar, including the issue you describe. I think the problems came from a messed up Nokia calendar sync with my previous phone (Nokia N95). I decided to completely ditch my old calendar and make a new database, and reset my TP2.
All worked properly and everything is working fully functional now.
I'm happy about that, because I was going totally nuts. I thought I bought a piece of **** phone with a **** OS on it. But it was just bad Outlook syncing support from Nokia's side...
Maybe you habe been syncing with a database from a phone which has wrong Outlook syncing. Just like me.
Anyway, it SHOULD work out of the box, like the previous posters have said, so there IS an issue somewhere...
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Lucky you!
I've done many hard resets and ROM updates, but my many contacts having birthdays added didn't produced any calendar events.
Not now, not ever.
eac said:
Lucky you!
I've done many hard resets and ROM updates, but my many contacts having birthdays added didn't produced any calendar events.
Not now, not ever.
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could it be a bug from the date format(dd/mm/yyyy and not mm/dd/yyy)? I don't know what else, i've tried everything :-(
Strange... the events appeared in calendar after i synced the phone for the first time (i was in vacation and i haven't done it until now).
So, the solution is to sync your contacts with outlook, not only with PIM Backup.
Hi everybody,
the switch from my TyTN II to the Rhodium was far from painless so far. I use the T-Mobile German version with the 6.5 upgrade. Running on 6.1, the Rhodium was far from stable and I was fearing I'd break my back cover from having to remove it so often for a reset. But even the update to 6.5 didn't remove the following error:
After Syncing I find in my calendar (mainly on the current day) one or more rows of identical, empty appointments that cannot be deleted, or rather, that seem to show up again and again when deleted.
The trial version of "Duplicates Remover" then shows literally hundreds of identical appointments.
Does anybody know a fix for this, or a hint where the bug could originate?
I have mixed experiences with Active Sync as I'm synchronizing with two PCs, so appointments and contacts have been deleted/are cropping up again long after deletion. I wish it was as effortless as HotSync on my Palm used to be ...
I'm sorry if this question has been asked and answered before, but forum search didn't come up with anything useful (maybe I've used the wrong search terms).
Thanks, Robert
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anybody have the same issue? hundreds of empty appointments on the day I start sync? I talked to T-Mo support and they didn't know the problem.
Robert
I've noticed the same issue recently with my HTC diamond 2 after upgrading to Outlook 2007 SP2 on a Windows XP laptop with ActiveSync 4.5.0 (Build 5096). The problem did not exist previously when running Outlook 2003 and syncing the same laptop and device.
Also have the device syncing with a Vista laptop also running the Outlook 2007 SP2 without issue. The difference is that vista uses the mobile device centre software instead of ActiveSync. I've searched the internet for a patch or update to ActiveSync for Windows XP but it seems I'm running the most update version.
I have the same problem with windows live, outlook, plaxo, and messenger, the problem is messenger really doesn't like you messing with the contacts and pictures attached to messenger just aren't really supported and are more or less user defined by the contact... so you get multiples... then syncing can create a info loop... still working on the problem but as for the calender what I found is to go and remove the repeating occurance... bet this is where the problem lies I have loads of them! I ended up deleting the folder and starting over! I created a dummy folder set it as my default and then deleted the corrupted one... I have found no program that changes all repeating events to one time events...
<fingers crossed>
At the moment I seem to be rid of most of the duplicates. In the end I had to do another hard reset on the mobile device, clear the duplicates from Outlook (2003), then sync. I have not, as I had before, synced the HTC with a second PC.
</fingers crossed>
Active Sync is really an embararssing piece of software ...
Robert
I have a similar issue. Got a Diamond 2, at home I run Win7 with Mobile Center but at work I have XP SP2 with AS. I get tons of blank appointments being created. If I disable calendar syncing, I get hundreds of blank contacts instead!!!
I use no messenger and whatnot - anyone has found a solution?
For me it was a problem of duplicate appointments and contacts.
I no longer synch using the wmdc now. Instead I just use the Microsoft My Phone service.
Notwithstanding, it would be great if microsoft could sort out the messy wmdc...
Yes, but the problem is that I deleted all my appointments and I've no duplicate contacts,a nd the problem persists... so it can't be that.
Also, no use for me using MyPhone as I don't use AS purely for backing up my device but also to sync it (surprise!) with my job calendar etc...
Duplicates...
I've had all these issues and my only work-a-round has been to make a backup .pst copy of my contacts/calendar at work (XPSP2-Outllook 2003), making sure that when sync is done, I delate the lot, and re-import them from the backup. This seems to solve the problem. Also recurring appointments can sometimes stuff up as they are interprited as 18hrs and not just 12hrs, which in turn can cause conflicts.
From what I can see it is an active sync issue that I have not come accross with Vista/7 & Outlook 2007+. With the different ways that these applications handle appointments/calanders I'm not surprised as to the corruption/dupplication of the data.
Another alternative option is to use PIM Banckup/SPB or other, let AS do it's thing, then over-right the phone with the backup copy, and let it re-sync the corrections.
I've triedto find something on MS helpdesk and leaderboards, but so far no success.
Hi everybody.
Did anybody get a solution (definitive, easy, fast) for this issue?
My sync was running nice and without problems for a long time. The same smartphone syncing with a couple notebooks... but I also starting get this same problem some weeks ago.
I've been hardly looking for how to fix it but I didn't find a solution so far.
Tks2all.
Over 3000 empty contacts in Outlook 2007 under Win 7
I have a similar problem, and haven't yet found any specific solutiion. I add contacts and calendar items to both my home installation (Outlook 2003 under WinXP x64) and my work installation (Outlook 2007 under Windows 7). I was able originally to sync my Samsung OmniaPro B7330 successfully with both systems (using ActiveSync 4.5 and Windows 7 Sync Center, respectively). The problems started when I tried to resync with my work system after adding a couple of thousand contacts to the Samsung which were on my home system. When I tried to resync there were no error messages, but I had to interrupt and resume once, because it took so long. Now I have over 3000 empty contacts on the work (Windows 7) system. The contacts still look correct on the Samsung and on the home (XP) system.
How can I get these contacts correctly on the work system?
Iam afraid to delete the empty ones for fear that the next sync will wipe the corresponding contacts with information from the smartphone.
The calendar entries seem to be working OK.
Any ideas or pointers to other possible sources of info on this problem?
P.S. If I observe the Outlook 2007 Contacts page while the contacts are synchronizing, it looks like there are 2 phases:
During the first phase, I can see the desired contacts being added to Outlook, one by one.
At the end of that phase, they somehow all disappear.
Windows Sync Center eventually says that the sync was "completed", without showing any error messages. Is there some way to get Winows Mobile Device Center to produce a logfile, so I can get a better idea of what is going on?
P.P.S. The last sync seems to have finally gotten the new contacts to appear in Outlook 2007. However, I still have over 3000 empty contacts. Can I safely delete them?
P.P.P.S. I went ahead and deleted them. I now have somewhat less than 3,000 contacts, with information that looks reasonable. Looking at my "Deleted Items" folder in Outlook, I see a bit over 12,000 contacts?!
Why this? In addition to the 3,000+ empty contacts I just deleted, there are 3 copies of each contact with information! The Outlook "Sync issues" folder conatins a string of messages distributed over the last week, about half of which mention "Conflict Resolution". I am now concerned that Outlook or WMDC may have done violence to some of the data in my contacts in the attempt tpo "auto-resolve" conflicts.
I have this problem if I sync via ActiveSync at work and Device Center at home.
I've learned the hard way that those two just don't play nice together. I keep praying that one day they'll kiss and make up...
Debbie
I also have this problem syncing my HD2 with 2 PCs, one with Outlook 2007 and the other Outlook 2010.
All ran fine for a while syncing from my Work PC to HD2, and from HD2 to my Home PC. Out of the blue it failed to sync properly with my Work PC and 2,000 half-hour blank appointments were created at the current time and day. To make matters worse, most birthdays disappeared in 2011 and lots of entries were duplicated.
I spent a whole morning deleting the 2,000 blank entries and hundreds of duplicate appointments. Listing the annual events I found most were set to repeat every 12 years which explained why birthdays had disappeared! I've corrected this and things seem fine now with my Work PC, but I'm wary about syncing with my Home PC in case all goes wrong again!
Any solutions?
My friend has same problem with his HD2 (Win7, Outlook 2007, 2010).
With sync the Outlook make half hours appointments in the current day. Interesting: when I disconnect the phone, the empty appointments are dont cancelling.
Same problem here (around 150 of half-hour appointments in one day).
I am using HTC Diamond since 2008, the problem started in July 2011 when syncing with work computer.
I have no idea how to fix it.
I can only offer some information on what's going on.
When syncing, the first thing that happens is empty appointments are all created on today. These are then populated, setting the date, time, subject etc. So it sounds like your sync only gets up to creating the empty appointments and doesn't finish setting the information.
Sorry I can't be more help - unless the process is not allowing to be completed.
hi there. i was using ms outlook to edit my contacts, first last name sorting, with a small addon program for outlook called FileAsSorter, but it seems to work only with ms outlook 2007. all i want is change the last and first name order, to be first last name on my phone. is there any other way?
thanks.
Cant remember the name of the PC side app i used for this a while ago, so wouldn't be able to tell you if its compatible with outlook 2010 or not.
But there is a mobile side cab floating around that does this. You have to tap and hold on your contact then when the menu appears, tap on file as: first last. I recently had to do this after switching exchange servers. I just turned a movie on and went into zombie mode and did it for all my 540 contacts in one sitting (actually when faster and easier than i though it would).