HTC Sync, between Outlook (all versions) and Android, will only sync the first 25 characters of a street address. At work, our street address easily exceeds that. So basically, I have over 60 contacts on my phone with about half the street address that it should have-- obviously unusable data.
Is 25 characters for a street address field such a tall order???
Allow me to elaborate: I work in a business complex that has a single street address (17 chars). Then, add the building ID in the complex, and you're already up to about 25. Oh, then there's the suite number too (the S from Suite or "Ste" won't even make it into the sync).
This is a serious botch on the part of HTC. The Android OS can easily handle over 25 characters in the Street Address field. I verified by manually entering the truncated data, once the contact was added to my Evo.
Fortunately, HTC Sync will not overwrite the "full" version of the street address I have in Outlook, with the truncated one. It obviously only matches on the first 25 characters of each when it does its field comparison.
Is anyone else having this issue? And if so, what are you currently doing about it as a workaround?
Frankly, I'm surprised this hasn't gotten much attention.
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I recently purchased a TyTN phone which I afterwards immediantly upgraded to WM6 with ease.
The main reason to go for a WM6 device was the direct push technology in order to recieve emails, contacts and calendar entries from my exchange server 2003 (newest version, all installed patches).
Synchronising and recieving messages works like a charme with the device except with contacts. After I sync the contacts, there are displayed on my device. In Outlook (on the PC and on the Exchange Server) all business contacts are displayed and sorted normally like this:
Last Name, First Name
Company Name
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
When I call a person from the TyTN (or send an email, sms,... basically select the person out of my contacts) the address and contact gets changed on the Exchange Server towards the standard formatting on the phone:
Last Name, First Name (Company Name)
xxxx
xxxx
xxxx
This seems probally for a lot people not a big deal, but it is in fact a major difference. When you type a letter to this person, then the Company Name is not anymore in the address field in Word 2003.
For me it is very important that my TyTN is not reformatting the address fields on the Exchange server, otherwise I always have to change them again for writing letters.
I called already a couple of times HTC in order to find a solution for this, unfortunately no reply.
Please note that the TyTN and the Exchange Server are both in english.
Any help or suggestion is more than welcome.
Regards
Bjoern
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.
OK I know this has been asked a thousand times before but with WM6.5 coming up I just wondered if it would at last be possible to auto download internet pictures within e-mails?
I get a lot of e-mails with picture links in it and am tired of having to tap the 'internet pictures blocked' button every single time. Of course once the pictures have been downloaded, Outlook remembers this and displays them every time you open that e-mail but who generally opens an e-mail more than once or twice?
I would have thought that some bright spark somewhere would have hacked this shortcoming by now but if not, is it possible? Failing that, does anyone know if it will be possible in WM6.5 or even WM7.0?
Tried every alternative under the sun where e-mail clients are concerned but every single one falls way short of the mark in their own way.
Playing on a friend's iPhone and Blackberry that natively supports pictures in e-mails makes me want this feature so badly!
+1
I find it really annoying too!
h0wz3r said:
Tried every alternative under the sun where e-mail clients are concerned but every single one falls way short of the mark in their own way.
Playing on a friend's iPhone and Blackberry that natively supports pictures in e-mails makes me want this feature so badly!
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It's not an issue of native support (Pictures are natively supported in Outlook (May it be pocket outlook or Outlook 2007). The idea is to protect you from spam / phishing mails, which use the fact that by downloading the pics you signal in a way that your email address is valid
In Outlook 2007 (ie not the mobile one) it is possible to put a sender or a domain name in a "safe list" and then for upcoming emails images are downloaded automatically without having to click on "Download Internet pictures". I agree it would be nice to have this also in pocket Outlook
If I had to add one request about one point that kept on pissing me off: in the "Sent Folder" I can only see the sneder's name (Me !!!) which is completely useless. Would be much better to have the address of the receiver... (If anybody knows a hack...)
Alcibiade said:
... in the "Sent Folder" I can only see the sneder's name (Me !!!) which is completely useless. Would be much better to have the address of the receiver... (If anybody knows a hack...)
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When I open a Sent message, I see my address at the top. But if I scroll UP, the receiver is there!
For those who have WP7 and have it paired with a LIVE account, could you please confirm something for me please?
I have a LIVE account, ***account***@live.com
WP7 contacts have "Anniversary" field
When I login to hotmail using any web browser and go about creating a contact, I can't see the "Anniversary" field. So how/where will WP7 sync that information to?
Attached is the screenshot of what fields I see when I create a new contact in LIVE.
Am I missing something here?
No, you are not missing something. There are a lack of reciprocal fields on Live to that on the device. These fields do exist on Outlook though.
yea, use outlook live connector to get the full functionality of these fields, or pair them up with the appropriate facebook contacts and it will get populated from there.
I tried the outlook connector but it doesn't sync the Anniversary field from outlook to the live contacts, everything else does get synced.
did you remember to resync and make sure you're modifying the contact card that is on the live account?
You might also want to look at alternative methods for syncing Outlook back to your phone. Personally, I'm very anti Live for so many reasons. I've gone for a hosted exchange method for the time being so it's all Outlook back to the phone.
Remember though, that whatever method you choose, the phone doesn't have the same complement of fields as Outlook but it has more than Live
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did you remember to resync and make sure you're modifying the contact card that is on the live account?
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Most of my contacts are full of information and I have gone through with all my contacts to get the list of fields that I use, i.e. within Outlook.
Anniversary is the only field that I want is not there in live contacts, rest are all there. Doesn't matter where I sync it from, if I don't have a hosted exchange account mentioned below, I will not be able to get that field through live contacts.
chubnut said:
You might also want to look at alternative methods for syncing Outlook back to your phone. Personally, I'm very anti Live for so many reasons. I've gone for a hosted exchange method for the time being so it's all Outlook back to the phone.
Remember though, that whatever method you choose, the phone doesn't have the same complement of fields as Outlook but it has more than Live
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I have 3 domains that are hosted and between them I have around 10-15 accounts and at the moment the email service is done free due to hosting service agreement. Exchange accounts are not cheap and I am not sure I can afford to move all of them to exchange. And many Exchange providers I have looked also changes extra for ActiveSync kinda functionality.
There is no city, state etc. fields in the address in the Contacts app.
It all gets put into one block of text.
When I import into other contact applications, like my Mozilla Thunderbird, the city field is not used.
Is there some trick to entering the city or is that feature simply not there?
My Galaxy S3 had all address fields separate and worked perfectly.