I don't get the logic on how the sync works. I hit the sync and im getting browser data of my tablet combine with my mobile. Is there a way backup one way (export) and then later on i can just choose which data to import ? Now its just random and the tablet, mobile, & PC all combines with a sync. I know there is a export and import option on the PC version of Chrome. But don't see that for mobiles or tablets.
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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 ...
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!
How can I backup my Windows Phone (Optimus 7) and restore it after a factory reset?
What will be backed up and what will not?
How to backup and restore if I want to register my phone after the factory reset with a DIFFERENT Live account?
being able to backup/restore the phone is coming in the first update due out in the next couple of weeks, otherwise, I don't think anything else is out there.
Any tips, workarounds etc?
(I will not be the first running into this problem.)
Any possibility to copy stuff from one Live account to another Live account (contacts, agenda, pictures)?
I had my surround die and when I got my replacement I synced it to the Zune desktop client and it restored everything, including added contacts and pictures. I set it up with my coresponding live account and facebook first and it came back like I never changed phones.
WLive will sync everything back to the phone.
But it is better to sync pictures by Zune because when you upload them they get idiotically resized.
The main reason I want to backup and restore is that I want to reset the phone and register it under a different Live account.
Registering under a different Live account ('B') would not allow me to restore from my current Live account ('A') to my new account ('B') would it?
in terms of contacts and calendar, you can easily copy/paste them accross using outlook and outlook connector. SMS do not back up. with an xbox you can transfer your xbox account to another windows live account. though i'm not sure what happens to purchases, that's all.
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I had my surround die and when I got my replacement I synced it to the Zune desktop client and it restored everything, including added contacts and pictures. I set it up with my coresponding live account and facebook first and it came back like I never changed phones.
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Did that include SMS messages?
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Did that include SMS messages?
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No. I never try to keep them around long anyway, but as far as I know there is no native support in Zune to backup text/mms messages. I save the mms pictures I want and they get synced to Zune.
So far I found these to work (pitty that there is no tutorial/wiki yet).
How to copy Contacts and Calendar from one Live account to another:
Contacts:
1. Login to Live/Hotmail account A then Export Contacts to CSV file.
2. Login to Live/Hotmail account B then Import Contacts CSV file.
Calendar:
Requires Microsoft Outlook:
1. Download Microsoft Outlook Connector for Hotmail
2. Install it
3. Add Live/Hotmail account A to Outlook
4. Add Live/Hotmail account B to Outlook
5. Display calendars from account A and B in list view
6. Select all appointments from account A
7. Then copy (or move) selected appointments to account B's calendar.
8. And send/receive changes to Live accounts.
How to save Images/Video/Music from the Phone to PC (so they can be restored later):
Use Zune for syncrohronizing to PC
and/or
Use registry hack to 'connect Windows Phone 7 as USB storage device' and copy the files/folders manually.
For saving SMS and Email I could not find a solution.
I want to export contacts located onmy HTC DESIRE SIM card to GOOGLE account. It is because I want to sync such contacts with my linux based PC (Thunderbird with apropriate plug-in) and my Android based tablet. So:
- Hoh can I export SIM located contacts to my GOOGLE account? I am not able to fing the way to do it. Any help?
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I want to export contacts located onmy HTC DESIRE SIM card to GOOGLE account. It is because I want to sync such contacts with my linux based PC (Thunderbird with apropriate plug-in) and my Android based tablet. So:
- Hoh can I export SIM located contacts to my GOOGLE account? I am not able to fing the way to do it. Any help?
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cant you use export/import function? => export all contacts to SD, import into Google Account on phone and than delete the sim contacts.
Of course I can export to SD card and I can directly import such file to Thunderbird. But my idea is to sync contacts automaticaly (or on demand) my HTC to my PC and Android based tablet, using Google cloud (account) without deleting SD stored contacts. And i still want to have synchronised contact databse in PC, HTC and tablet even in off-line state that without logging to my Google account.
And I dont know how to import contacts from HTC to Google account. If the only possibily is to manually export contacts to SD card, more simple is to import such file directly to PC using for example "file expert". But I want to have all syncing work to be done automaticaly
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Of course I can export to SD card and I can directly import such file to Thunderbird. But my idea is to sync contacts automaticaly (or on demand) my HTC to my PC and Android based tablet, using Google cloud (account) without deleting SD stored contacts. And i still want to have synchronised contact databse in PC, HTC and tablet even in off-line state that without logging to my Google account.
And I dont know how to import contacts from HTC to Google account. If the only possibily is to manually export contacts to SD card, more simple is to import such file directly to PC using for example "file expert". But I want to have all syncing work to be done automaticaly
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sorry maybe I was not clear enough. I meant export it to a file on your phone and import it into your phone's google account. After that it will sync all contacts in your phone's gmail account to your gmail account (internet) which you can connect with your tablet or PC (not outlook though). Would be a cloud solution you are talking about I hope. At least thats the way I go, only got contacts in gmail anymore, no sim contacts or whatever.
---for import into your phone: go into "People" app, select import/export, select import, select into gmail, select exported contact file
Yes. Now I understand the way You suggest to do.
But I find most easy solution of the problem. There is small program avaliable in Android Market which allow syncing phone Android contact list directly to Thunderbird (linux based in my case) over network. So now I have my "private cloud" and I can sync tablet, PC (linux Mandriva) and phone without problems. Does not matter is it SD stored contacts, Goggle and so on. I think this is solution for WIN based PC too if Thunderbird is used as mail client (not tested by myself).
I know the seems like a really easy question but I haven't been able to figure it out yet. I had a hard drive crash on my laptop and lost all the backups I had on my computer (most were saved on DVD's) but I somehow managed to not keep my Chrome Bookmarks.
Anyways, I have the chrome bookmarks still on my phone as sync was disabled after the crash but I can't figure out how to sync from the phone to my computer. When I enable sync on my phone it just deletes all the desktop bookmarks I still had on it. I have a Titanium Backup of the bookmarks so I can try this as many ways as needed.
Has anyone done this? Is there an app? What can I try to get my bookmarks back on my computer short of typing them all into my browser one at a time.
Thanks!
I use chromemarks and it works great. You may have to tweak the sync options...
Chrome Marks syncs from the Desktop to the Phone only I believe and I am looking to sync from the phone to the Desktop unfortunately.
Thanks for the reply though!!