I was just trying to get some contact info sent to me via email out of my Gmail app and into the phonebook. First I remembered that there's no copy and paste. Next I found out that when you go to add a contact, hold your hand on home, switch directly to Gmail, get the details and switch directly back, the Add Contact screen is no longer there.
No quite as multitasking as I would have liked.
Anyone know either a good email app or a straightforward way to get information sent to me in an email?
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My manager who thinks I'm a TP2 expert sent me this, could you guys help me out with what to tell him? Im new to the phone myself, but I wanna give him the right info. THANKS to any who answer any question. Much appreciated.
Questions:
1. I use Outlook Mail on my laptop to manage my emails from multiple accounts (Verizon, 2 Gmail, one Yahoo). I do not use it via an exchange server. It’s basically the place where I pull in all my emails and from which I send out emails.
However, as such, it has more than 4000 items, many of them with attachments.
I obviously do not want my phone to sync with Outlook Mail if it means my phone will end up trying to hold all those emails
However, I do want to be able to use my phone to access those accounts AND in some instances be able to retain on my phone a copy of select emails that I will want to have access to when I don’t have my laptop with me (e.g. hotel reservations, etc.).
At present, it seems I can only do that if I keep the email on the server at V, G or Y. But is there some way that I can:
a) keep the email on the phone, independent of whether or not it’s on the server;
b) copy the addresses, text and links from the email and store them in another document somewhere else on the phone so they can be referenced and used?
2. I use Outlook Calendar for my calendar, task management, etc.. And in that sense I would like to be able to sync with the phone, make calendar entries on the phone (i.e. after a phone call or text message) and then have that sync with outlook later, etc., etc. How can I do that?
3. I also want to synch and cross enter contacts – how?
7. I get a new email. But when I tap on it to read it, I get a message telling me the text will be available the next time I download; but sometimes even after I hit s/r again, it still won’t open. Sometimes, when I clock on it it shifts to reply mode and in some of those cases I can see the email that was sent but the text of which I couldn’t see before. In other cases, that still doesn’t work. If I click reply, same split results. Odd. In any event, if the email has arrived, shouldn’t one be able to view the text the first time one tries to open it?
11. Can I delete an email from my phone without it deleting the email from the server?
I want to keep it on the server, but I don’t want to clutter up my phone with the email
sp8805 said:
My manager who thinks I'm a TP2 expert sent me this, could you guys help me out with what to tell him? Im new to the phone myself, but I wanna give him the right info. THANKS to any who answer any question. Much appreciated.
Questions:
1. I use Outlook Mail on my laptop to manage my emails from multiple accounts (Verizon, 2 Gmail, one Yahoo). I do not use it via an exchange server. It’s basically the place where I pull in all my emails and from which I send out emails.
However, as such, it has more than 4000 items, many of them with attachments.
I obviously do not want my phone to sync with Outlook Mail if it means my phone will end up trying to hold all those emails
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Yes, can sync with multiple pop/imap accounts
Can be set to download only last weeks or todays etc
However, I do want to be able to use my phone to access those accounts AND in some instances be able to retain on my phone a copy of select emails that I will want to have access to when I don’t have my laptop with me (e.g. hotel reservations, etc.).
At present, it seems I can only do that if I keep the email on the server at V, G or Y. But is there some way that I can:
a) keep the email on the phone, independent of whether or not it’s on the server;
Code:
Create a new sub folder in each accounts folder structure on the device and copy the mails for retention into these folders
b) copy the addresses, text and links from the email and store them in another document somewhere else on the phone so they can be referenced and used?
Code:
Copy and paste into word doc on the device
2. I use Outlook Calendar for my calendar, task management, etc.. And in that sense I would like to be able to sync with the phone, make calendar entries on the phone (i.e. after a phone call or text message) and then have that sync with outlook later, etc., etc. How can I do that?
3. I also want to synch and cross enter contacts – how?
Code:
Only sync your calendar not your mail with activesync
Contacts will be merged between PDA and PC
7. I get a new email. But when I tap on it to read it, I get a message telling me the text will be available the next time I download; but sometimes even after I hit s/r again, it still won’t open. Sometimes, when I clock on it it shifts to reply mode and in some of those cases I can see the email that was sent but the text of which I couldn’t see before. In other cases, that still doesn’t work. If I click reply, same split results. Odd. In any event, if the email has arrived, shouldn’t one be able to view the text the first time one tries to open it?
Code:
Configure the mail app to download entire message including attachments, not just headers
11. Can I delete an email from my phone without it deleting the email from the server?
Code:
Again options in the settings for the mail app on the PDA
I want to keep it on the server, but I don’t want to clutter up my phone with the email
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Advise you look into the detailed configs and get a better understanding of the settings available for mail on the PDA, all the features you want are available as standard.
Cheers,
Beasty
I just got my wife a mytouch slide. Is there any way to make the native facebook syncing only sync facebook people that are in her address book with their picstures and stuff. It does that but even when its not set to snyc anyone else when you go to choose a person to text or whatever it shows her whole facebook friend list of like 400 people.
So is there a way to just have it sync her contacts in her address book and not have everyone from facebook in the list when she goes to text people? cause the only option seems to delete the facebook account from the settings so it doesnt snyc at all or everyone populates it. Thanks for any help.
From the actual Contacts menu (or People menu), press Menu > View and make sure Facebook is not checked in. I have my FB Contacts set to not sync, but their FB pictures show up, and I do not see any of the FB contacts that are not on my Google contacts when I go to select a contact when typing a message...
The way this phones seems to handle its contacts list is horrible.. I have some names up to 5 times from my sim, google and fb very annoying, I just want google, like the g1 used to be
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I have some names up to 5 times from my sim, google and fb[ very annoying, I just want google, like the g1 used to be
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1.) Link your contacts using the "link function" located on the top right corner of each contact.
2.) When in your main contacts view, hit the menu key>view>google. Make sure that its the only one selected.
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I do have it like that and that works fine for the contacts app, but when u seard for a name for lets say a new text, it will show every single one individually. Im just going to ask for a SIM thats empty and not sync my FB
The problem with linking accounts that I found...
My ex has a very slutty picture as her facebook pic. I don't want my kids or myself to see that picture when I call/text her. There is an option to choose which picture to use for a contact in the linking page, but it reverts back to the facebook picture whenever it syncs!
I talked with T-mobile and they are aware of the issue and I asked if they could bring it up with HTC. Seems stupid to have a way to choose which picture if it never stays!
Ok,
(Cannot find any forum for just silly starter Android questions, so putting here since I have the Evo.)
Email.
I have two accounts set up and they are working on the Evo. (Hotmail & Earthlink) I do get that little notice on the envelope that an email has been received...but...I cannot tell which account has the email. This leads to two questions:
1) Is there any better (maybe app) way to switch between accounts? Having to make multiple taps to switch accounts seems huge waste of time when I would expect to just have both apps listed and chose which with one tap.
2) If not above, then how can I get two of those little envelope icons...one for each account. (My assumption would be that would split the notifications correctly and open the email associated with that icon)
Any help much appreciated as I find little when out searching.
Just to clarify, I am not looking to find a better way to 'combine' emails. I am not currently planning to suck everything into one account like GMail. I use separate accounts on purpose as they have different functions.
i guess you could probably get a separate email app from the market, use that for one of your accounts then use the other email app (the one that came with the phone) for the other account.
go to where you want to put the email inbox on a home screen, then long press, then click shortcut, then click mail inbox, then choose the inbox you want to see, presto a shortcut to that inbox. Hope this helps.
Edit: If you want to push these accounts through Gmail check out this post. You can add the accounts and show their inboxes seperately, and show them seperately on the home screen
http://gizmofusion.com/2010/05/use-gmail-to-push-all-your-pop3-email-accounts-to-your-android-phone/
Try K9 email. It is free
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I get tons of phone numbers (IE: [email protected], for example) and people that I've contacted once through gmail or something from things like craigslist. Does google seriously think I'm going to contact a person I bought a lawn mower off of 10 months ago, so they save the number for me? It's so useless, or I'm doing it wrong.
Open the people app. Press the menu list on the bottom right. Choose contacts to display. Then, custom. There you can choose which groups to display.
by default, it will sync with all your contacts from gmail. And gmail, by default, adds every email from every person that you've ever received or sent an email to. But, I highly recommend going into gmail contacts (on your computer), and cleaning up your contacts. and also change the gmail setting so that every email address you send to or get an email from is not automatically added to your contacts. I had never bothered to do that before I got this phone. but the hour or so that I spent cleaning up my contacts in gmail was definitely worth the time and effort.
I find it useful to display only contacts for which you have their phone numbers. Presumably those are the ones you keep closer in touch with. This will sieve away the ones you contact only via gmail, as you mentioned.
It looks like my new contacts that I add on my note sync's with google sometimes. I'm not sure why but it seems like some contacts will sync with no issues and be on my google account with no issues then some of them only syncs to my phone. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?
for whatever reason, new contacts get stored on the phone, I had made a post a while back about this.
added new contacts to the phone, and expected them to go to exchange, found out they were stored on the phone, on my old S2 I had the option to change where the contact was stored, directly from the phone.
that is not an option on this phone currently.
my workaround was to create the contact in outlook, so it would go to exchange, then it will sync to phone. in your case, probably just create the contact at the google website, then let it sync to you phone.
Yeah, that's what I started to do but it's just annoying because I grab a friends number on the fly and not remember to do that. I just find it weird that it only works sometimes.
xlr8shun said:
for whatever reason, new contacts get stored on the phone, I had made a post a while back about this.
added new contacts to the phone, and expected them to go to exchange, found out they were stored on the phone, on my old S2 I had the option to change where the contact was stored, directly from the phone.
that is not an option on this phone currently.
my workaround was to create the contact in outlook, so it would go to exchange, then it will sync to phone. in your case, probably just create the contact at the google website, then let it sync to you phone.
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Are you selecting Google contact as your option as it seems to default to device if you do not specify.
When I add a contact, it always gives me a choice where to store it. I always choose Google.
You know sometimes it's the simple things that get overlooked.. I totally missed that option when creating a new contact. I was trying to find a way to change where it was stored after it was created.
Thanks for the helpful info.
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