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Anyone knows G-sync vs. Outlook

The Desire is my first Android phone, and never used google sync to synchronize the contacts. I have 2 questiones,
1. Is the google cantacts format as same as the outlook contacts?
2. If I sync the phone contacts with outlook then sync with google's, will generate the dual same contacts in the phone?
Thanks a lot.

I ended up exporting my contacts from exchange as a .csv file then importing into my Gmail contacts so I could use the Hullomail voicemail app effectively.

how can i sync my contact from Outlook to Gmail ??? so i can transfer them to the pho

how can i sync my contact from Outlook to Gmail ??? so i can transfer them to the phone ?
i sow somewhere software that sync the conatcts from outlook to Gmail and in this way i could be able nc to get the conatct to my desire after i sync it to gmail
can anybody help me please?
(p.s. i tryied the easy way to export CSV file from the outlook and import it on gmail but its not good and all mixed up the name and everything.. so i prefer other way)
thanks !

Isn't that a function that HTC Sync offers?
You can find it on the sd card of your phone.

I used export from Outlook and it worked fine, try using a different file type as google accepts oodles of different ones.

I don't know if it's possible with Outlook instead of Windows Mobile, but you can try.
Sync Outlook (contacts offcourse) through ActiveSync with the gmail server. (m.google.com I believe...) Then all your Outlook contacts should have been synced with gmail.
Maybe backup your contacts before trying.
Sent from my HTC Desire

Google Calendar Sync
I use Google Calendar Sync for that, works great http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe

Google Sync for WP7?

Hey guys...Just wondering if Google Sync will work with our WP7 devices. I know it worked for Windows Mobile. Ideas?
Thanks.

Pulling two bits of information together, WP7 supports Exchange Activesync, and Google's support for Exchange Activesync is published here:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139652
...which amounts to a "yes", although from memory I thought that they only supported Calendar sync for WP7. Still, I could have remembered wrong or they may have improved things... or I might be right. (I only read it last week.)
You emails will of course sync via the standard mail protocols (I assume).

I mainly concerned with getting all my Google contacts.

If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.

I have another question. Does Outlook Connector support for sync contact pictures to the Hotmail account? Because when I try to sync my Outlook 2010 contacts with Hotmail (for WP7 Exchange Activesync), then contact photos are not synchronized

scottisafool said:
If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
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Not tasks. There is no concept of "tasks" in WP7.

scottisafool said:
If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
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Can you please explain?

Hello, I have read the above entries, but am still stuck. I have entered my google mail details by selecting the google account option, then have select contacts in the settings, but it still wont sync my contacts, what am I doing wrong?

I want to sync tasks with Google. I am unable to find that option.. Please help...Thank you

tasks in general are not supported natively. you have to find an application to do it. i have seen an article a few days back on it, but i can't seem to dig it up.

scottisafool said:
If you configure your Google account as an Outlook account in WP7, then it will pull your emails, contacts, tasks and calendar (or your choice of those four) onto your phone really easily.
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there is no need to set it up like that. simply setup google as google and just whatever you choose will be synced. you can check several option after setup when you tap on that account.

harsaphes said:
I mainly concerned with getting all my Google contacts.
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google sync does work
just set up your gmail as another account and your contacts will autosync

[Q] How to backup and restore

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.

kdj67f said:
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.

cannot save contacts.

I have installed the OUtlook app as I was using a Windows phone before. Now any new contact I save dissapppears as in a day. I cannot save new contacts, I cannot delete old contacts either.

Bump: Can somebody help?

If you have an exchange account, configure it via the Gmail exchange services and sync the contacts that way. Turn off contact sync in the outlook app.