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Hi,
I'm thinking of gettinga Mac laptop.
Can I get (free??) software to synch XDAs to the MAC?
Thanks

SynCE is a free syncing program for OS X, but you better keep a bottle of tylenol by your side.
http://www.synce.org/index.php/Mac_OS_X
http://www.synce.org/index.php/SynCE-Wiki

I've tried synce on several occasions without ever getting it to work. To be honest the only "real" alternative today is missing sync for $40. Although I read somewhere that I guy had gotten activesync to work with wine on osx but I wouldn't consider that a solution...

i heard parallel's desktop works for WM5 phones too. Too bad i don't have an intel mac to try that out. Check our their forum if u want more info on that.
For my g4, i go with exchange server syncing. works pretty nicely, and never have to dock.

FlexMail 2007 (from WebIS/PocketInformant) sucks!

Here's a company, that releases a product last year full of bugs. They get a ton of feedback on their internal support forum as to the problems. Initially, they try to work with the users, and are fairly responsive and acknowledge many of the problems.
Over the next 6 months, they relase version after version in an effort to squelch some of the turmoil on their forum, which meanwhile grows louder and louder.
Then, late this month, they release what they refer to as Rev 2 which is supposed to be a stable product. Only problem is that it is not a stable product - after just one day of casual use, it deleted 2 of my 3 email accounts!
Meanwhile, to sell more product and hush their users, they shut down their support forum, and now moderate the posts. What a scam!
So I post this here in an effort to warn as many as I can about making the same mistake I had made when I sent them my hard earned money expecting a working product...

I didn't like the product from day 1!! I used the latest version and still sucks. The built in PIM is good enough for me.

fone_fanatic said:
I didn't like the product from day 1!! I used the latest version and still sucks. The built in PIM is good enough for me.
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I've used both their products "Pocket Informant" & "Flexmail" from latest releases to the Betas. From my personal experience and preference, I've always installed Flexmail, tried it out to see if the bugs were fixed, then uninstalled it again at the end. Pocket Informant really never gave me any problems and its definately a great program if you have to manage your tasks daily or have many appointments and schedules to keep up with. If you dont then the normal default PIM will do for basice scheduling.

Hhhhmmmm interesting, contradicts completely what they say at Mobility Today...
http://mobilitytoday.com/articles/000221/windows_mobile_6_part_2

What other HTML email programs are out there?
I can't jump to Wm6 for it lol (X51v user )...

StellaDel said:
Hhhhmmmm interesting, contradicts completely what they say at Mobility Today...
http://mobilitytoday.com/articles/000221/windows_mobile_6_part_2
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That's one of my reasons for posting my experience.
I read a couple of positive reviews of FlexMail, and based on those purchased the product without doing a thorough evaluation myself, only to find the software very unstable, and a plethora of unhappy customers...

flexmail is just a piece of junk. Installed and uninstalled for more than 10 times. Nowdays I finally give it up completely.
Discarding the source code and writing from the scratch is the only way to make this program USABLE.

Anyone knows how is Profimail in comparison to Flexmail?
http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=profimail
I would like to be able to read HTML mails on my WM2003SE

So, i decided to give flexmail a 4th try and still... do not like it!
i moved 3 emails to a different folder, opened that folder and it crashed!
Also i tried to send an email with multiple pictures attached, sent it. and guess what. none of the pictures were actually attached!
I need an email app that allows you to easily attach multiple pictures. With the built in one its a pain in the ass!
esackbauer said:
Anyone knows how is Profimail in comparison to Flexmail?
http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=profimail
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I used profimail when i had a nokia s60 device and was pretty happy with it. Wasn't aware they had a Windows Mobile version. I'll check it out now

http://www.azol.ru/texts/QMail3_eng_FAQ.htm
Qmail: best email client for ppc, and free.

I don't really know what email setups you guys have or what you are using it on but I have installed the version from http://download.pocketinformant.com/FTF/FM2007R2_1601/ and don't any problems with Flexmail at all.

demps said:
http://www.azol.ru/texts/QMail3_eng_FAQ.htm
Qmail: best email client for ppc, and free.
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I thought QMail was extinct/not supported anymore?

I agree...it's junk
The author of this post is completely right. FlexMail is junk. Yes, the UI is beautiful, features are abound, and configuration is extremely flexible. Everything about it seems great...until you use it.
It crashes regularly, or hangs for more than a minute. Worse yet, it DELETES your accounts every time you restart your device. How this product ever made it to the public with such an enormous fault is almost unfathomable. Who wants to setup their accounts every time they use the program?
It seems to work for some people, but trust me - it's not worth the risk and frustration if you're one of the many people that it doesn't work for. Keep away.

Hmm....I haven't had such problems with the smartphone version on my 3125.
I've been using it for a long time and it seems to work great! Sure it takes a bit to load up, but it's not all that bad.

I took the liberty of installing the latest Flexmail (again lol) on my HTC P4350 (wm5) several days ago. So far so good. I also have the profimail installed as well. Although the flexmail's UI is very nice, Profimail loads quick (for me). For some reason, Profimail struggles to download my gmail, whereas Flexmail downloads my gmail with no problems.

I use Flexmail on my WM5 HTC P4000 and it works very well with my IMAP mail. I get actual push emails to my phone.

I m also using Flexmail 2007 3.1 build 1834 for about 3 days now and I thought it very good.
It certainly still has some bugs like my account settings that misteriously get modified: SOCKS proxy enabled, outgoing server deleted... but so far it really much much better than pocket outlook. at least I can:
- Have push with gmail (using IMAP IDLE)
- Have HTML mails with picture without the need to click twice on "load pictures"/display pictures
- be able to get a large chuck of each email (ie like 50ko or even the whole mail if I want)
- a lot of conf settings
the only way to get push email with PO is with a hotmail account and windows live. I ve tried this solution first (with auto forward from gmail to hotmail) but:
- impossible to load more than 30000 characters (actually the amount of text i get in each email is much lower.. and really too low.. never was able to get more). so I always ends up requesting the emails (one by one) to be downloaded completely and this is really annoying I can't just sync once and then read whatever email i get
- really annoying to have to click twice on that bar to get the pictures and more over it means you need to mark the mail to be downloaded, so you don't have the pictures from first sync
the pros for PO is that it is integrated to the OS and as such HTC home will display the number of unread mails. -> you can't do this with flexmail for now.
voila voila
Ka

This is the complaint (with details of the problems I encountered) I just sent to Flexmail
Version recently tested: Flexmail 2007 Build 1864
Device: Fujitsu-Siemens N560 (original WM5)
I have tried numerous builds of Flexmail 2007 and have yet to find one that works reliably. A trend that I notice which in the two most recent build is that upon installation to device (not to SD card), Flexmail will create files under the SD-MMCCard folder (with more subfolders and files) regardless of whether I have my SD card in my device (in which case there should be no SD-MMCCard folder to begin with). This causes the issue that upon inserting my SD card, my SD card will be recognised as SD-MMCCard2 and causes problems with ALL the links referring to programs and files normally associated with the SD-MMCCard folder.
In a separate attempt to fix this problem, I tried to install Flexmail to my SD Card so that the files and folder installed to SD-MMCCard will not conflict with my SD card. This helps for a very short period, but would eventually cause the same problem and sometimes corrupting my SD card data.
I hard reset my device and tried to install Flexmail on multiple occasions with different builds, but the problem still persits.
The directry path it creates regardless of whether my SD Card is in or not is:
SD-MMCCard\Program Files\WebIS\Mail\Data
The files created are:
Settings.ini
Settings.ini.bak
WebISMail.log
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.vol
On the brief initial occasion when Flexmail worked, it is an excellent program. However, this critical problem affecting the functioning of my entire device has prevented me from purchasing your program. Hopefully WebIS will sort this out soon.
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If they iron out all these bugs, then it's a respectable email program. Otherwise i'm left to check my mail via web browsers
Here is the response WebIS gave me
Greetings and thank you for contacting us.
Well that is unfortunately a design defect in Windows Mobile, that it renames the card when you reinsert it. There is really nothing we can do about that.
We appreciate having the opportunity to help and service you. Please let us know if there is anything more we can do.
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WebIS Customer Care
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They simply tried to brush off the problem as a Windows Mobile defect. it makes me really question their work ethics as a company. Makes me hope someone will come out with a fantastic alternative and put WebIS out of business.

HTC Touch HD - Best Gmail experience?

Hello all. This is my first post on this forum. I have checked the rules first, but apologise in advance if I commit any "faux pas" with this thread...
Anyhow, I have just bought myself an HTC Touch HD, and having implemented a few tweaks already, I am quite satisfied so far. I should probably add that this is my first Pocket PC, having gone from only "normal" phones, my former being a Sony Ericsson K610i.
However, one thing that I have not yet managed to sort out, is how to get the best Gmail experience on my new device. On my old phone, I used Gmail's own mobile Java app. I was thinking about installing that on my HTC Touch HD as well, but then I came across a lot of forum and blog posts that claim the app to be virtually useless on a Windows Mobile device.
Of course, there is the obvious option of setting up an IMAP account on my phone, but two things make me hesitant on this:
1: I don't really like how Gmail behaves when you enable IMAP connections, i.e. sent e-mails are stored in a separate "IMAP Sent" folder, and such things. (I know this is nitpicking, but still... )
2: I think I read somewhere online that the e-mail client in TouchFlo 3d requires a wifi data connection to work. If that is the case, then it's really useless for me, since the whole idea is to make it possible for me to check/write e-mails when I'm on a train or bus. Can anyone confirm if this limitation really exists?
Finally, does anyone know if there is any work being done by Google and/or Microsoft to create a proper Gmail application for Windows Mobile?

Have you tried the mobile browser version of Gmail?

WizardN00b said:
Have you tried the mobile browser version of Gmail?
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If you mean the application that's described HERE, then yes. That's the app that I used on my old phone, that I have read will not work very well on a Windows Mobile device.

just goto gmail.com in opera. works fine for me

gmail's own app works quite well on my touch pro and also for the HD when i had one...just gotta see if you can live with the true vga version, which makes things small, or find one of the versions on here that support vga

I use mobipush.com to push my gmail account. You don't need wifi for email. Gmail (google) is supposed to be making it easier to access (but who knows)

Has anybody managed to sync with Windows 7?

I tried installing Mobile Device Center, but I can't get the thing going, it seems. So does anybody know how to sync Outlook with Windows 7? I can browse files and stuff on the Atom, but the syncing doesn't seem to work.

Forget it! A reboot and removing the phone from the cradle and putting it back again was all that was needed...

Yeah, but keep in mind that Windows 7 is still a BETA, meaning that lots of stuff might not yet be implremented yet or that you would have to dig into deep hidden settings and configurations in order to get stuff working properly!
BTW:
If you are using Windows 7 for other purposes than BETA testing, you will have to turn off some additional services in order to have your private data safe (but I am sure you know that, right?).

Well, I'm running it as a private beta test, if you get my drift. I don't like the thought of my private data on the net. But I guess just about every other nerd in the world right now is doing it the same way. Do you mean that error reporting service? Remote Desktop is of course turned off.

If you are having problems connecting to a mobile device, try this lint from the Windows 7 forums.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/threads/

Thanks, but I have been syncing successfully since the day after my previuos post in this thread. Still, this may help somebody else.

Also check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3180365

How to reset Activesync (make it forget)?

ActiveSync has decided that my device must be called WM_Administa1,2,3,4 etc. I've deleted the Partners keys in the registry on my PC and device, but it still remembers things. Anyone know how to make it completely forget and let me name my own device?
Thanks

at45 said:
ActiveSync has decided that my device must be called WM_Administa1,2,3,4 etc. I've deleted the Partners keys in the registry on my PC and device, but it still remembers things. Anyone know how to make it completely forget and let me name my own device?
Thanks
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Not the answer you want. But honestly? Active sync is so retarded and has always been more of a pain than a gain.
And it's probably gone in WM 7... So, why not take this opportunity to "get in sync" with the better way this stuff is done now:
One such way is to use Google Sync -- and move all your contacts to a gmail account, which then has a google calendar associated with it. Once it is there, in the google cloud, then it can sync with your phone without active sync ever entering the picture again. Then you can just use the cable as a USB connection only.
It's been a while since i made this transition, but i am so less bothered by all the anxiety caused by active sync when going rom to rom etc.
STEP 1: getting outlook data to google - to then enable google sync, and contact sync.. i can't recall now if google had a tool for this, re exporting out of outlook for the one time to get gmail/cal in sync.
but there is an app that does it, called OGGsync -- and it works perfectly. only prob is it is not free, and cost $30 ... others may know of some other way to do this, if it appeals to you at all...
in the meantime, sorry for your problems. I ran into that, as we all have, many times. and frankly i never knew HOW to fix it... i thonk it always ended up being trial and error wasting hours ... and.. certainly your time is way more valuable per hour than $30 ... that was my view in the end.
good luck

Erm, no. Sending all my data to a 3rd party via the internet only to have them scan and index it before returning it to a machine one foot away from the first is not progress. There's nothing good about that model at all, and it's offtopic.

at45 said:
Erm, no. Sending all my data to a 3rd party via the internet only to have them scan and index it before returning it to a machine one foot away from the first is not progress. There's nothing good about that model at all, and it's offtopic.
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yeah well screw you for a ****ty attitude. You don't need to be an asshole. You can just say "that's not what I want". Most people on this site do not behave as you do, thankfully. But their numbers are growing and I would like to STAMP IT OUT. This site wasn't created for assholiness. have a nice day!

Ha. I didn't read that after the first few words. No need to. The 'net's full of people like you, which unfortunately means that the world is, and we've all met your local counterparts.
Anyway if you'd kindly get off my thread and be a prick in reality where less people have to put up with you I'm sure many users would be appreciative.
Back ONTOPIC it turns out the solution was to simply erase the Partners keys in the registries and re-install ActiveSync. Probably not ideal but only takes a minute to do and it works fine.
The keys are something like [HKLM\software\microsoft\windows ce services\partners]

at45 said:
Ha. I didn't read that after the first few words. No need to. The 'net's full of people like you, which unfortunately means that the world is, and we've all met your local counterparts.
Anyway if you'd kindly get off my thread and be a prick in reality where less people have to put up with you I'm sure many users would be appreciative.
Back ONTOPIC it turns out the solution was to simply erase the Partners keys in the registries and re-install ActiveSync. Probably not ideal but only takes a minute to do and it works fine.
The keys are something like [HKLM\software\microsoft\windows ce services\partners]
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oh coool!! thanks for the info!!i never thought if it that way..b.t.w. great attitude and you are smart !! we need that attitude in the whitehouse!! ,that was a cool burn

You two should joust.

just delet ur sycned phone from settings