Related
Is there a way to get this to automatically update whenever I sync my Hermes with my desktop?
This would be really nice feature to have.
Id like that too.
Just ahead of MS' My Phone beta this week, here comes Google Mobile Sync for WinMobile, with Exchanged-based Contacts and Calendar sync to the Google cloud. As its push based, changes in one end automatically get pushed to the other.
http://www.google.com/mobile/winmo/sync.html
GMail Imap frustrates a lot of users, add Gmail to this Exchange-solution in the cloud, and I would never look back at Imap.
very nice i was waiting for this so long. Now only a way to download it... lol IE explorer and opera both give me: Google sync is not supported by your device. It becomes time google puts in a link to manually override this auto detecting crap, because it obviously doesnt work all to well...
This could be interesting but how well does Outlook 2003 sync with Google (in the sky)?
I use Google Calendar to Sync my outlook files so that I can share my calendar but if this does that for me, then I suppose I don't need to do that step (other than it would save my data plan!)
Regards
Snuurtje said:
very nice i was waiting for this so long. Now only a way to download it... lol IE explorer and opera both give me: Google sync is not supported by your device. It becomes time google puts in a link to manually override this auto detecting crap, because it obviously doesnt work all to well...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is no application to download, you just setup activesync on your phone as shown at this link
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
nice. Although i'd only use this if you could turn off the contact sync. You could end up with a contact list full of your gmail suggested contacts...
I think you can indeed turn off the contact sync. Just uncheck "Contacts" in the ActiveSync settings dialog. Haven't tested this yet, but should do, doesn't it?
I use www.nuevasync.com that offers a very similar service for some time now.
And since a few months ago it doesn't add those suggested contacts anymore because googles api can seperate them. Perhaps I'll try sync and see if it works as well as nuevasync does.
I use OggSync Pro works great for what I need
http://oggsync.com/
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..
Info
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 ...
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?
jan1jan1 said:
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
notslow1 said:
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
I figured out that I can set Tasker to sync my Google account at specific intervals so I can leave autosync off. I used "Synker" as a plugin.
I have two questions left however:
1.) What is the default sync interval for Google if I leave it to auto sync? I don't want to make a shorter sync interval by mistake.
2.) How do I keep push notifications; I don't want to be unaware when someone sends me a message. (or do I even need to keep push notifications to know when someone messages me?)
thanks