I've been using TuneSync for ages now to sync my music/playlists up with my device, but am just tired of fighting it. What do you guys recommend for syncing music and/or other media with your device?
Been happy with Isyncr.
Sweet. I'll have to try that one out in the next day or two.
I use easy phone tunes it's pretty much like isyncr and it's free.
i love Dropbox, therefore i recommend Drop Sync Pro.
if you're familiar with the desktop program, it's essentially that. you create a folder on your phone, and then you can either sync it with your entire Dropbox, or just a single folder (and all of its sub-contents). i use it to automatically send music, photos, PDFs, anything to my phone by just putting files into my Dropbox.
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Frankly, I asked myself this question after looking through the software.
It doesn't seem to back up anything
If it does, it does a damn good job at hiding where it stores the backup files. And that idea is further driven by the lack of "Backup" or "Restore" options in the software.
Its full of bugs
It seems that while HTC put all their design and development effort into their phones, they put little into the Sync app.
There is so many bugs and annoyances inside that I wonder if its any more hopeless than Windows Vista:
- Leaving the Sync in the background, it will keep accessing the HDD twice a second for absolutely no reason whatsoever. The HDD light just keeps flashing non-stop until I kill the process. Is it intentionally trying to kill my battery and drive?
- You can't change the default directory where it dumps all the copies it makes of all your images or other files on your phone.
- If you ask it to sync a specific folder in your computer, it replicates the ENTIRE directory structure in your phone.
Eg.: If I set it to sync My Documents on my netbook, what is does is create this long line of directories in my phone: /sdcard/c/documents and settings/username/my documents/
- And the worst part of it all is that you can't seem to change any of these predefined settings inside any of the software's config files or registry settings.
Its Redundant & Irrelavent
With available apps like DropBox and file explorers like ES File Explorer(I highly recommend this) and Astro File Manager, which can access shared network folders, I fail to see any real use for HTC Sync on my desktop.
Or am I missing something else here?
Regarding HTC Sync, I recently tried it out. I only use it for 2 things.
1. Browser bookmarks syncing. Back with Eclair, the device use to be able to backup bookmarks locally on the device itself. But seems this feature was removed in the Froyo update. Seems to work alright for this purpose. Does anyone else have another way to backup their bookmarks? (I would love to have my browser's bookmarks just sync OTA with Delicious.)
2. Photo syncing. It saves all my camera photos to my computer. Sure, you can just drag&drop in disk drive mode. But this is just convenient.
Overall, I don't find HTC Sync very useful. It's good to have, but you won't be missing out on anything if you don't use it.
I'm sure HTC is dropping development for this program in favor of HTCsense.com. That would be something I would use..
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Ok - i use it for 4 Month every day -
it is one of the easyst tool to sync to lotus notes
i sync contact's and appointments and it works perfect
But in the new Version 3.0 - there is no lotus notes sync anymore !! - It is most provoking.
i use htc sync every day to sync my outlook contacts and calendar as i don't want my data stored on someone else's servers.
it does work most of the time admittedly but it's an extremely frustrating piece of software to use. a complete lack of options doesn't really make it easy to use either.
it's the one thing that i really miss about my old winmo device - at least activesync was reliable and predictable.
i'd be happy to pay for a piece of software that could reliably sync with outlook over usb and display using the default apps ...
Hi ,
I have got a Android Phone recently but I really don't know which Android Phone PC Sync Tool is great for using. I urgenty require it to manage my photos, videos, music, contacts, messages, applications and calendar ... and so on. Is there anyone can recommend me a great Android software to manage my data. Thanks a lot.
IMHO you dont need one.. you connect the phone to the computer...select disk drive..browse your sdcard and move things over...If you dont want to do that...then HTC sync
marinachen said:
Hi ,
I have got a Android Phone recently but I really don't know which Android Phone PC Sync Tool is great for using. I urgenty require it to manage my photos, videos, music, contacts, messages, applications and calendar ... and so on. Is there anyone can recommend me a great Android software to manage my data. Thanks a lot.
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DoubleTwist is a great app for syncing music and videos
DoubleTwist seems don't provide Outlook sync,
so I choose Android Manager WiFi to sync Contacts,Calendar and Multimedia files.
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.
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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!
Hey. I got a problem. I got all my songs in my phone via itunes agent. Then my friend recommended doubletwist. After syncing, I got copies of all my songs. So my question is, to use doubletwist without copies, do I need to delete all my songs that I synced with ITunes agent first?
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Why on earth are you using iTunes
Yes, they store the files in different locations, hence the doubling up. Easier to delete them all and start again.
I had itunes now I deleted it. So best to delete everything?
Title says it all. I was wondering if anyone has used the new Titanium app. Media Sync and what you liked or didn't like? Is it worth it? How is the battery drain using it?
Surprised that no has responded to this..
mmm... will have to try it myself
I'm using it but on milestone.
Seems good, works well for continuous remote backup of specific folder I,e, photos.
Apparently cannot set folders to continually synce down from the cloud though which is annoying as I wanted to leave it downloading videos from my desktop as they are converted while I sleep saving me from manual transfer time in the morning.
Bummer.
Works well
I'm using it on CM7 modded HTC Desire.
Works well.
Not a battery drainer because you can set it to sync only when you are powered, (or not if you prefer).
Syncs to FTP and Dropbox. I tested both and it works.
'Set it and forget it' (and if you want you can even turn the notifications off.
Worth the $.
Regards,
Jan
Great app but does anybody know if it is somehow possible to limit the upload bandwith?
Thx!
I just tried out Titanium Media Sync (on HTC Desire) and was annoyed to learn that you only have limited options for the sync (currently "continuous" and "single one way"). I needed the app to upload (and unload) photos and videos from the device to a network location, ultimately to free up space on the device. However, with the continous sync, any files deleted on the device will result in deletion on the network as well; which does not provide much of a backup.
I ended up with Syncness, which is exactly what I needed. You can even configure it to sync only with specific networks, at specific hours of the day, only at A/C power, etc. (the latter is in all fairness also supported by Titanium). I can even save original file dates/info to the remote location.
Titanium has a nicer user interface but that's not worth much when the program doesn't do what I need it to do.
/Jakob
Syncness and Titanium Media Sync are not the same!
Syncness supports Dropbox & Windows Share (Samba) networks and works ONLY while connected to WiFi, while Titanium works on both 3G & WiFi and supports Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, FTPS servers.
It's really a shame that Titanium doesn't suport two-way sync.
I would really like to see a whole package sync
I just got titanium media sync but i have trouble adding my adrive account to it. CAN ANYONE HELP ME HOW TO DO IT???
Thank you!
I am trying to decide between Syncness and Ti media sync right now. Basically want this to automatically sync my external and internal SD cards to my PCas a backup in case I lose my phone.
I like that ti media sync can do this without being on the same network since I do have an ftp share. How reliable is it? Seems none of these sync apps are considered very reliable. Does it have to run all the time or can you set it to only sync at a set time?
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I'm using it on CM7 modded HTC Desire.
Works well.
Not a battery drainer because you can set it to sync only when you are powered, (or not if you prefer).
Syncs to FTP and Dropbox. I tested both and it works.
'Set it and forget it' (and if you want you can even turn the notifications off.
Worth the $.
Regards,
Jan
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I am trying to decide between Syncness and Ti media sync right now. Basically want this to automatically sync my external and internal SD cards to my PCas a backup in case I lose my phone.
I like that ti media sync can do this without being on the same network since I do have an ftp share. How reliable is it? Seems none of these sync apps are considered very reliable. Does it have to run all the time or can you set it to only sync at a set time?
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Thanks. Are you running your FTP server on a PC? I set my Windows 7 PC up as a FTP server. When I drag a folder from local to remote, it says failed to create folder. Any idea what the problem might be?
Pete
I've been using Titanium Media Sync (TMS) for some time syncing one way continuous via FTP to my Windows 7 PC. I've encountered a real nuisance which I hope is solvable. Basically the phone and PC are always on the same LAN, but the LAN may change from time to time when traveling. I've found no easy way of modifying the account with new IP address of PC. The PC does have a name on the LAN. I'm wondering how to specify the name (within TMS) instead of the IP address. That way the phone would always find my PC. At the moment, I must delete all the sync'd folders and the account and start over with a new account and set of folders. This also requires deleting all the previously backed up data from PC. There must be a better way! Suggestions appreciated.
Pete