Hey,
All I'm wondering is there any way to make my Desire autosync emails Facebook etc.. on WiFi, but not on mobile data?? Is there an app or could somebody create something??
Thanks
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
I'm not aware of such a thing. But until you figure it out or someone points you in the right direction, you can do this:
1. Go to "Settings" > "Accounts & sync". Disable "Background data" and "Auto-sync".
2. Keep the following 2 widgets: Wifi settings and Sync All.
- When you are in range of a wifi network, toggle on your wifi radio.
- Once connected, tap the "Auto-sync" widget to sync all your stuff.
- Toggle off your wifi radio when done.
ok thanks mate
my issue about syncing:
I've link my phone contact with facebook. i've set my facebook to auto sync. it works well syncing event & updates & contact picture of my contact but when my friends changed the profile pic on their facebook, my desire won't change the contact picture according to their facebook profile pic.
Does anybody know how this sync works? Specifically in terms of how often calendar items are syncronized between the device and the cloud? Frequency doesn't appear to be a user configurable option as far as I can tell.
Items I create/edit on the WP7 device don't appear to be updating on the Hotmail calendar online (The device is configured to sync calendar items).
Thanks!
It's "push" sync, so it means that when a change happens either on the web or on the phone, it's synced immediatly on the other device.
Frequency of sync appears in Hotmail>>Settings>>synchronisation settings. From my understanding, setting this to manual will set it for Hotmail, Contacts and Calendar - just like Exchange ActiveSync in 6.x. [if I am wrong then I guess Contacts and Calendar are not affected by that setting]
To save data, I often have mine set to manual, and sometimes hourly. I noticed that I added a contact and it didn't appear on contacts.live.com for a couple of days. I wasn't fussed though, it did sync eventually.
Hi,
I have my contacts stored in Exchange.
I have - obviously - also a MOTOBLUR-Account that Motorola forced on me upon activation that I do not intend to use and a google-Account for the market.
Now, when I create a new contact on my defy, I can not choose wether to create it in MOTOBLUR or Exchange or have it in my google account, it is automatically created in all three and all three sets of data are joined together.
So as I only want to have the Exchange contact, everytime I create a new contact, I do have to un-join the contacts and delete the MOTOBLUR and google contact manually.
That is in my eyes a mayor design flaw.
I do NOT want my phone to store my data in some suspicious cloud service that has been forced upon me in the first place.
Is there a way to create a contact specifically in the Exchange and NOT in Motoblur / google?
Or would I have to use a different contact manager app? Any recommendations then?
That also allows me to query the global adress book of Exchange (which the standard app apparently can't).
I'd be grateful for any tipps and help,
southy
I've been bothered by this issue too. It would be the most intuitive to be able to select in which account(s) a contact should be created at the time it is created.
But there is a different way to accomplish similar, but it's a global setting. In Settings->Accounts you can specify which items (contacts, calendar, e-mail) are to be synched with a given account. Well, for all BUT the MotoBlur account ;(, and because it's a global setting I have not yet examined the full ramification of it, and it's a kludge; what if one would like to synch some of the contacts with all accounts, but others with just one or two, but it's at least something.
BTW, I have not tried other paid (some are quite expensive) Exchange clients, but the free ones don't come even close to the Email app that's included on the Defy. If you find one that may be worth spending money, let us know.
Hi,
thanks for your feedback, that way I can at least disable the google-Account completely (which is only configured for the market access).
That leaves motoblur.
Regarding the Exchange clients: Yes, I would actually be willing to pay for one, but have yet not found one that really satisfies me.
I have tested Touchdown (from nitrodesk) for some time now but didn't buy it:
In general it was pretty good, there's just one problem: There is no way to deactivate notifications (new mail) at nights. As I use my mobile as alarm clock, I can't turn the sound completely off and so it tends to wake me up with new mail at night.
That's really annoying.
Actually it's pretty strange that they didn't implement something that basic - as there are very unusual other notification settings. The whole configuration in fact is somewhat overwhelming because sometimes you can configure the same thing on more than one location.
southy said:
[...]
Or would I have to use a different contact manager app? Any recommendations then? That also allows me to query the global adress book of Exchange (which the standard app apparently can't).
[...]
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe because I'm on the T-Mo USA 2.2.1 ROM, but in my Email app, when I'm entering letters into the <To> field, all matching names from the Exchange Address Book are being dynamically displayed. Not the same as browsing all of the Address Book and choosing one address, but good enough for me (I work in a relatively small organization). Doesn't yours do that?
Hi,
thanks for your reply,
I don't use the standard mail client any more. I stopped using it rather soon after I bought the Defy.
I just tried to figure out why, but sorry, I can't remember. But I remember that it was a rather important reason, because I started trying TouchDown as first alternative client and TD is such a pain to configure that it took me days.
I must have had a damn good reason to stick to trying.
But you are aware that there is a difference between personal contacts I store in exchange (which are synced with the mobile) and the global adress book of Exchange?
The global adress book is the complete dictionary of a company, AFAIK normally connected to the Active Directory-Accounts of the employees, which is centrally managed.
You can not sync it to your device, you can just search in it and pick a result.
Could it be you mixed those up?
Thanks anyway,
southy
southy said:
[...]
But you are aware that there is a difference between personal contacts I store in exchange (which are synced with the mobile) and the global adress book of Exchange?
The global adress book is the complete dictionary of a company, AFAIK normally connected to the Active Directory-Accounts of the employees, which is centrally managed.
You can not sync it to your device, you can just search in it and pick a result.
Could it be you mixed those up?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You are welcome, and no, no mixup. In the <To> field, if I press the <search> icon, it gives me the list of my contacts (stored locally on the phone); but, if I start typing into the field, the Global Address Book (on the Exchange Server) is dynamically searched and displayed as I type.
Hi Mars,
thanks for clearing this up and sorry I suspected you to mix things up.
Good to hear the stock app can use the global adress book - I never tried that before switching to another client.
However I guess I might completely revert back to the original app soon in order to get rid of all alternative clients - I tried TD and wasn't convinced, now I got Moxier installed and suddenly my contacts don't sync anymore - no idea why.
It seems I should just stick with the preinstalled stuff even though it's not good.
Or perhaps get a blackberry.
ups. Did I really say that?
Touchdown is brilliant - been using it for long time. the BEST!
With reference to the original quesition; when you create a contact you CAN chose which cateogry it should go in. In contacts, chose settings and uncheck the cateogry you do NOT want the account to go in to. This way you can uncheck google (or multiple google accounts). When you create a contact it will not be assinged to a google category and therefore not sync with online google contacts
Of course touchdown keeps its contacts seprate but the above is very usful for your own personal contacts. I have all sorts of sync going on and am very confident that ONLY the info i want on the internet goes to the internet.
Motoblur: I dont use it - never have. You canbypass this at setup time.
Ref sync: worth playing with settings > accounts and also contacts > settings - very useful
Hi jeanluc,
that's interesting - I just realised i had never actually created a contact out of TD, but always out of the stock "contact search" app.
Sorry for judging too quick.
However, after 20 mins of using TD contacts, I can't say I like it.
but whatever. I just tried generating a new contact and it worked and got synced to exchange.
But when I open the stock contact app, curiously enough, the contact has not been present for ~30minutes - apaprently TD maintains a second adressbook apart from the builtin which has only been synced later.
Well I seem to have lost the overview what syncs to what here...
But back to the point, you are completely correct, when I generate the contact out of TD, it only is being created in Exchange and nowhere else.
However - and please, please forgive such ignorance - I have just tried that and find it so very un-intuitive that I will keep on searching for a decent contact app.
This is my comments after only 15 minutes of trying TD contact:
Problems with creating a contact:
- the adress fields are not labeled. where goes the street, where the city, where the postcode?
Problems in TD contact in general:
- seperate contact database apart from the built in
- no pictures of contacts are being displayed
- search function not as quick reachable as stock apps
But there's also a plus:
- searching in global adress book (Exchange) works and even returns a phone number, not only the e-mail.
one last thing:
Ref sync: worth playing with settings > accounts and also contacts > settings - very useful
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
"contacts -> settings": I am searching for such a settings dialogue the whole time - but I can't find it (to check how and when the stock android contacts sync to my exchange - as this is apparently a seperate thing apart from TD sync).
But I can't find those settings. I only find "settings -> accounts" but there I can only define the user credentials, not the sync process (frequency, manual trigger,...)
Can you point me to the correct place, please?
Thanks!
Settings for sync of built-in adressbook with Exchange:
found it!
Overview:
If you just want to sync contacs (& calendar) because maybe you do not use the stock mail client for Exchange, you need to:
1. settings -> accounts -> <your corporate account> -> uncheck "e-mail"
2. messages -> message settings -> e-mail -> mail delivery
Yes, it sounds strange to configure the adressbook sync in "messages" as I did deactivate that account for e-mail before, but apparently that's the way it is...
Maybe you should flash Orange of Finnish rom, that doesn't have blur registration at all?
southy said:
Settings for sync of built-in adressbook with Exchange:
found it!
Overview:
If you just want to sync contacs (& calendar) because maybe you do not use the stock mail client for Exchange, you need to:
1. settings -> accounts -> <your corporate account> -> uncheck "e-mail"
2. messages -> message settings -> e-mail -> mail delivery
Yes, it sounds strange to configure the adressbook sync in "messages" as I did deactivate that account for e-mail before, but apparently that's the way it is...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Southy
I dont actually create contats in TD as these are work contats and am happy for them to be pushed down from outlook/exchange which Im using constantly
I love TD - it does everytihng that I need
I also Android contacts for personal information and manage to keep that isolated from the internet.
I sync my personal calendar wth internet (google) as it doenst contain anything confidential but i suppose if you wanted to you could stop that at the calendar level but still allow another google calendar to sync - that way you view both google calendars on the phone but only one syncs (for this you need to enable calendar sync in settings>accounts but disable calendar sync for the specific calendar in the calendar application
Note: Worth rememering that a lot of sync software (missing sync, TD etc) will create an account on the phone which is accessible via settings>accounts. Always worth checkign whats created here and what functionality it provides as far as modifying sync is concertned
NOTE1: Are allyour questions answered now or are you still waiting for something?
Hey guys....
Not sure if its posted anywhere else, I had a check and can't find out what I am after...
Anyways, I have a Rogers/AT&T S3 that I want to change the email and contact sync interval on. Instead of it checking every 15 minutes, I only want it to check let's say... every 2 hours or so. Is there an option somewhere that I can change that on? Maybe an app or something to help out with that?
I've turned my sync off altogether to save battery and I keep forgetting to check my emails... I'm just wondering if there's an in between setting...
Hi! It depends on what type of mail account you are using.
Gmail (Google accounts) and enterprise email (Microsoft Echange ActiveSync accounts) are pushed to your phone. So you don't have (and cannot) change the update frequency of these accounts: when a change occurs in the mail server -- a new mail arrives, a new contact is created, a new appointment gets added to your agenda... --, the mail server sends the update to your phone. It's not the phone who initiate the update: it's the mail server.
If you use POP or IMAP (Email accounts) to retrieve your mails, you can control the sync frequency. Contrary to a pushed protocol as described above, POP and IMAP are pulled mail protocols -- means: the phone has to initiate the sync process. It's the phone who contact the mail server to check if there are updates to download.
You can select the sync interval when you first add the Email account. To change the sync frequency for an already existing Email account:
Go to Settings and, under Accounts, select your Email account you want to modify;
Next, click on Settings to change the settings for this account;
Again, select your Email account in the list;
Scroll the settings and select Sync schedule;
You can now configure when should your emails for this account be synced. You can configure Peak schedule and Off-peak schedule to auto-sync between 15 min to once a day.
I can sync contacts from gmail to my phone but I cannot sync contacts from my phone to gmal?
I have tried deleting an re adding account no luck
Any ideas?
Check your Gmail settings on your google account using a full browser on PC.
The contacts toggle in your personal settings may be turned off.
Google has changed many things as of late, and settings will change without our knowledge....g
Where is this contact toggle you speak of ? I cannot seem to find it
On gmail my contacts have a check in my contacts box
But they sync from gmail to my note 2 but what is on my note 2 will not sync to gmail
this is frustrating lol
Is your " auto sync app data" box checked ?
Open your phone dialer application, and go into your settings within the app. It's under "accounts". And verify the box check. Its under your email address.
The auto sync interval is controlled by the general settings of the device I believe.....g
Edit: The auto sync controls all information being synced to your contacts and of course the opposite holds true....g