Hey all,
I just got a Lumia 900 today. Great device. I was able to sync my favorite landmarks that I had accumulated over the years to my Windows Phone Nokia maps.
I can open the bookmarks on Nokia maps, but when I select navigate, it just shows a route in Nokia Maps. How can I do turn by turn navigation to my landmarks using Nokia drive?
It seems there is no link between Nokia drive and the bookmarks synced to Nokia maps. Without this, the bookmarks are almost useless.
Am I doing something wrong?
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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.
I just don't get it...
Microsoft has the next:
Windows
Windows Mobile
Hotmail
Windows Live Services
Windows Phone
My phone
MS Exchange
IE Mobile
and still.... you cannot power on your windows phone... do the magic... and have all your live/hotmail data on it.... i just don't get it...
i know... you cand have emails and contacts.... BUT what about the rest...
- no more than 50 emails at once... no option to download the hole message...
- the sent mail are not saved on the phone (with the settings done right)
- adding a contact on the phone will stay only on the phone... if you would like it on live contacts... you have to do it manually... on the stock rom this ended in a error... i don't know with newer versions... but still...
- no photo contacts
- NO CALENDAR sync
- no upload to live services from the album.... HOW's THAT MS?... you have youtube, facebook... but not your own service?...
- no acces to skydrive... you cand do it for photos... but with a too simple interface.... facebook has much better integration with photos...
- MS My phone does it all regarding to syncing.... and that's it... why not interacting with the live corespondents?...
and others that i cannot remember...
BUT....
GMAIL can do Exchange
Facebook can do photo share
Youtube can do video share
Opera works way better than IE
and now... WHY DO THEY CALL IT WINDOWS PHONE???? it should be ANYBODY'S PHONE
all the MS competitors have much better integration on a MS platform than MS themselves
So... is there a chance will get this in the future?
This seems a bit of a rant, but it also seems something that Microsoft are certainly addressing with Windows Phone 7.
One minor note about Exchange though, is that there are no devices that implement the full and complete set of Exchange Activesync tricks, apart from Windows Phone. It is the best experience, when on a WP, and you get stuff like SMS syncing.
Hey,
just got the SGS and my first impression is great. The screen is fantastic, it allmost feels like a toy because of the low weight (it's usable with one hand) and it feels really fast. I can stream music with spotify while surfing on the net, multitasking works on this unit. I'm very glad to the rid of my HD2 which had a lot of specs, but never was reliable.
Anyhow, I'm used to sync with Microsoft Myphone but I can't find out how to export or in any other way move my contacts to my new phone. Googled, but the only solution I found was to sync to a windows mobile phone and export from the phone, but since I've sold my HD2 that's no solution for me.
What's the best way to sync the phone? (email and contacts most important) Does android/samsung got something like the myphone? That is the best sync-method I've tried so far.
Any thoughts ?
hello there
i had exact the same prob 3 days ago
never found an easy way to do it so I
sync the pocket pc with outlook...
exported svc from outlook
import the svc to gmail contacts
added my account details to android (contacts/menu-key/get friends)
took around 20 mins after all for all that
good luck
Itsme87 said:
Hey,
just got the SGS and my first impression is great. The screen is fantastic, it allmost feels like a toy because of the low weight (it's usable with one hand) and it feels really fast. I can stream music with spotify while surfing on the net, multitasking works on this unit. I'm very glad to the rid of my HD2 which had a lot of specs, but never was reliable.
Anyhow, I'm used to sync with Microsoft Myphone but I can't find out how to export or in any other way move my contacts to my new phone. Googled, but the only solution I found was to sync to a windows mobile phone and export from the phone, but since I've sold my HD2 that's no solution for me.
What's the best way to sync the phone? (email and contacts most important) Does android/samsung got something like the myphone? That is the best sync-method I've tried so far.
Any thoughts ?
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The best method I've found is to use this free service http://miqlive.com/ .
I also migrated from a HD2 to SGS. But luckily for me before I traded in my HD2 i used Miqlive for winmo 6.5 and synced all my contacts and sms.
Then just a few days ago MiqLive for android was released, so now I have all my contacts back.
Your best bet would be to borrow a friends winmo hp to sync with microsoft myphone and then sync to miqlive.
Can't you just sync Myphone with Outlook on a pc and then Outlook with your Google exchange account?
Rizlo said:
Can't you just sync Myphone with Outlook on a pc and then Outlook with your Google exchange account?
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No you can't.
"Unfortunately, there is no way to download the data that is stored in your My Phone web page directly to your computer.
You could sync your phone to My Phone and then sync your phone to your computer to transfer the data from My Phone to Outlook on your computer.
Then you could work with the data in Outlook on your computer."
Check this http://tinyurl.com/2etd8ec
Thank you for trying to help me. Too bad I can't sync without having another phone. I'll probably have to do it manually then, don't have any wm phone to borrow.
The 'miqlive' was great, just what I've been looking for It works really well and does everything as good as the myphone app.
For many years, I have been a user of “notes” in WM devices. I now have accumulated quite a list of them and I use them routinely. They have always resided on an SD card which I swapped when I changed devices.
Has anyone discovered a way to get these “notes” into the new devices? A cloud-based solution is certainly acceptable for transfer of the data, but not for storage. I require device-based storage for almost everything as I spend a lot of time removed from any source of connectivity.
Thanks!
At the moment, there currently is no way to sync files other than media (photos, music, videos, podcasts, which are sync'd through the Zune software).
You can however, store your file online (such as through SkyDrive), and then download them using the phone's web browser. When you download files from the web, they certainly get stored somewhere, but since there is no file browser, you can't browse to a directory and tap the file to start it. For example, when you load a PDF file from the web on your phone, it gets downloaded somewhere, but if you decide to look at the PDF again in the future, you can only access that from the Adobe Reader app, where it gets listed until you decide to remove it.
That being said, I don't think that Windows Phone supports the old Windows Mobile Notes files though, so I'm not sure how you would view them on Windows Phone 7.
An alternative would be to convert over to OneNote and use the online syncing capability (which rocks). Create your notes on your desktop, online, or on your phone and they can automatically stay in sync with each other.
I am not quite sure if you mean this but if you go to office then onenote and then press all you can sync them.
I only used office 2010 for some months, but I think you can create a online link and connect it to your phone.
The data is stored on the phone and if you edit something it will be synced the next time if you are online.
I hope i helped as i am not quite sure myself and I am waiting to get office 2010.
XATAGuy said:
For many years, I have been a user of “notes” in WM devices. I now have accumulated quite a list of them and I use them routinely. They have always resided on an SD card which I swapped when I changed devices.
Has anyone discovered a way to get these “notes” into the new devices? A cloud-based solution is certainly acceptable for transfer of the data, but not for storage. I require device-based storage for almost everything as I spend a lot of time removed from any source of connectivity.
Thanks!
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It's pretty easy to set up skydrive to sync with OneNote on your phone. I used cut and paste on my pc to copy my notes from Outlook to OneNote on my browser (skydrive), then synced the phone. Now any changes to the notes - made either on the web app or the phone - get synced automatically. Very convenient after all the initial copying.
another vote for oneNote, the default notbook works great, in system settings go to applications > onenote and slide the sync slider, they'll give you more info, read it, they won't tell you again.
I also setup a second notebook to share with a business partner on my PC, the link showed up in my ME tile, I clicked it out of curiosity, now it's synced too!
+1 for one note, a very convenient solution, not something i had used before now, but i am becoming increasingly reliant on it!
The USB connection on my Mac works fine with the little tool, but I would rather have some kind of wireless magic.
This is what I wish for: I'm coming home, my Nexus says "hello" to my WLAN and checks every X minutes if my Mac is active. If yes, start the two-way sync for the whole gallery – that means camera photos, screenshots, WhatsApp images and so on are transferred to my computer and new images are moved over to the phone.
If WiFi is disabled, the phone is in a foreign WLAN or my Mac is not reachable, the Android app should sleep.
There are a few apps, but I haven't seen the perfect solution. Take for example …
Dropsync: Multiple folder sync in the pro version. This seems very nice for Dropbox sync and should work with some aliases on the Mac to my Dropbox folder, but I have the extra step with the cloud in between.
doubleTwist AirSync: Looks nice, but I have no clue if it can be configured to run in the background (Android and Mac).
There are a few more apps with a PC background service which are unsuitable for me.
Is there a "nice and easy" app?
I use Google + and Picasa. The new Picasa desktop client syncs Google + galleries.
I have my phone set up to sync pics to G+, and my Mac syncs the G+ pics to the desktop client.
I would have opted for Picasa & Google+, but I can't get it to sync all folders on Android and the desktop app is a horrible mess with graphic problems on my Mac (Snow Leopard). :/ Or am I just too stupid?
So … this seems to be an unsolvable Problem.
I have all of my Picasa photos synced with Google+ - so everything I add to Google+ (Instant Upload to a PRIVATE gallery) gets synced over to Picasaweb. If I ever need my photos, I just grab them from Picasaweb. I don't keep photos saved offline because I have 20gb of storage on Google's servers (only $5/year - so cheap). Plenty of storage for docs, photos, etc.