Hi there!
I realised that some of my contacts' birthdays never appear in the calendar, as others do... Why is this happening? In some contacts I set the birthday date but it never appears in the calendar. Do you have the same problem? Is there a way to solve it?
Thanks!
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it' s free and very nice
Thanks for the response.
Isn't there a way to solve it without installing more applications?
I had a similar problem, so I exported all my contacts from Outlook to an excel file, double checked date formats for birthdays, deleted all contacts from outlook and imported them back from the excel file. It worked for me..give it a try. good luck
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Alright so from all the research I did about finding a solution to put my contact's birthday's into my calendar, Outlook is definetly required? I guess it must've slipped my mind somehow that Outlook was necessary, 'cause I never noticed it until I upgraded to WM6 and found that, with a week outside of updating to a non-outlook PC.
So is it true? That Outlook is the one who was giving me all those happy reminders of birthdays and anniversaries? Or is my neverending search for some registry key will continue for months to come?
like on pc outlook include calender, contacts and mailbox
Tried a search. Didn't find anything. The Pocketcm.com forums had one post like this, but no answers. Guess I'll try here myself.
Whenever I use PocketCM (.17) to add a picture to one of my contacts that contact ends up subsequently erroring when syncing with outlook 2007.
I downloaded and tried Inesoft Address book and it loaded the picture and synced just fine. So it seems to be how PocketCM manages the saved data, or lack thereof.
Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else have a better idea on how to add high quality pictures to contacts that sync nicely in Outlook?
Thanks
the manilla 2.1 & 2.5 have the option to link your contacts with their facebook profile.
I flash ROMs all the time and have to RE-link all contacts manually which takes hours... (some of it is AUTO but only if thre's a perfect mach between your contact's name in your outlook and his name on facebook)
does anyone know where this info (the link between contacts & facebook) is stored ? so I can copy it and paste it back in the new ROM ?
Yeah use myphone to restore your contacts ..... works for me
THNX
THNX for replying
BUT...
I wish to do it through my outlook and would like to find that file
Tourist! said:
THNX for replying
BUT...
I wish to do it through my outlook and would like to find that file
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yeah it does mate, myphone is a new microsoft backup program, it auto syncs with your phone it will backup all your outlook contacts and merge duplicate ones
I have a related question.
I'm happy with the manila facebook integration updating my contact photos. However, when syncing with outlook, the contact images aren't updated. I still have contact images in outlook from the very 1st time I ever let manila sync my contacts with facebook (some time ago).
Is there any way to force an update of these images in outlook? I test deleted a photo in one of my outlook business cards, then sync'd the phone and the image does not return. So I now have the facebook image on my phone and no image in outlook.
Not desireable.
mancsoulja said:
yeah it does mate, myphone is a new microsoft backup program, it auto syncs with your phone it will backup all your outlook contacts and merge duplicate ones
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well, first of all I'll try myphone out and thnx again - is it a PC program or a phone app ?
because the main thing I want is to sync an "empty" phone (after flashing) with my PC outlook (mainly due to sync problems with windows7)
anyway, if anyone knows the location of that file - let me know.
when syncing with outlook, the contact images aren't updated. I still have contact images in outlook from the very 1st time I ever let manila sync my contacts with facebook (some time ago).
Is there any way to force an update of these images in outlook?
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+1 - good question
I saw this Quote while searching...
"when syncing with outlook, the contact images aren't updated. I still have contact images in outlook from the very 1st time I ever let manila sync my contacts with facebook (some time ago).Is there any way to force an update of these images in outlook?"
this is my problem for today too...
i linked my contacts with facebook and it took quite a lot of time....
i want photos and birthdays too in my outlook...is this possible?do we have any news?
I have some questions regarding how to "best" use the calendar(s) and Contacts.
I want everything in one Calendar, so I've currently settled to showing only my Exchange (Outlook) calendar on my phone. I set up Google's Sync program on my work PC to update my Outlook calendar and Google Calendar, so I can read/edit it on my PC at home. After a number of missed meetings (and angry boss) I set this to a one-way push from Outlook to Google. No more missing entries. This means I cannot edit my calendar on my PC at home. How do I best view/use/edit a single calendar on my phone, Exchange, and my home PC?
Contacts are confusing to me. I don't fully understand how to think of them. I have ~500 contacts from Outlook, most of which were pushed to GMail. When I first started to use the phone and log in to Facebook, etc. I was prompted to "link" contact IDs. After linking a few hundred I though I was OK, but none of the newer contact pictures on my phone have been synced with Outlook. How do I sync this information? I PRESUME that linking really keeps multiple entries for a person with some fields from each source? What really happening when I "link" and how can I "merge" them instead? I'm most interested in "pushing" new/updated pictures to my outlook contacts.
Thanks in advance,
RWFarley said:
I have some questions regarding how to "best" use the calendar(s) and Contacts.
I want everything in one Calendar, so I've currently settled to showing only my Exchange (Outlook) calendar on my phone. I set up Google's Sync program on my work PC to update my Outlook calendar and Google Calendar, so I can read/edit it on my PC at home. After a number of missed meetings (and angry boss) I set this to a one-way push from Outlook to Google. No more missing entries. This means I cannot edit my calendar on my PC at home. How do I best view/use/edit a single calendar on my phone, Exchange, and my home PC?
Contacts are confusing to me. I don't fully understand how to think of them. I have ~500 contacts from Outlook, most of which were pushed to GMail. When I first started to use the phone and log in to Facebook, etc. I was prompted to "link" contact IDs. After linking a few hundred I though I was OK, but none of the newer contact pictures on my phone have been synced with Outlook. How do I sync this information? I PRESUME that linking really keeps multiple entries for a person with some fields from each source? What really happening when I "link" and how can I "merge" them instead? I'm most interested in "pushing" new/updated pictures to my outlook contacts.
Thanks in advance,
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https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1
Time zones
In outlook, as well as on the phone's calendar application, you have the option to specify the time zone for the calendar entry. Simple and straight forward.
RWFarley said:
I have some questions regarding how to "best" use the calendar(s) and Contacts.
I want everything in one Calendar, so I've currently settled to showing only my Exchange (Outlook) calendar on my phone. I set up Google's Sync program on my work PC to update my Outlook calendar and Google Calendar, so I can read/edit it on my PC at home. After a number of missed meetings (and angry boss) I set this to a one-way push from Outlook to Google. No more missing entries. This means I cannot edit my calendar on my PC at home. How do I best view/use/edit a single calendar on my phone, Exchange, and my home PC?
Contacts are confusing to me. I don't fully understand how to think of them. I have ~500 contacts from Outlook, most of which were pushed to GMail. When I first started to use the phone and log in to Facebook, etc. I was prompted to "link" contact IDs. After linking a few hundred I though I was OK, but none of the newer contact pictures on my phone have been synced with Outlook. How do I sync this information? I PRESUME that linking really keeps multiple entries for a person with some fields from each source? What really happening when I "link" and how can I "merge" them instead? I'm most interested in "pushing" new/updated pictures to my outlook contacts.
Thanks in advance,
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I'm confused. Why don't you just setup your exchange account on the phone and keep it separate from your gmail calendar? This way you don't have to sync outlook calendar with gmail calendar and you can still view/edit on phone. Yes you won't be able to view/edit from home pc but I'm not sure why would you want to do that?
The contacts are only linked, they are not merged (even though they show up as merged on the phone) so the pictures from Facebook for example won't be updated on your outlook. If you were to remove your Facebook account in your phone, you will lose all the pictures and other info that came from Facebook. It is built this way for privacy reasons so Google doesn't steal Facebook contact data and vice versa.
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RWFarley said:
How do I sync this information? I PRESUME that linking really keeps multiple entries for a person with some fields from each source? What really happening when I "link" and how can I "merge" them instead? I'm most interested in "pushing" new/updated pictures to my outlook contacts.
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This software (called Fonebook) should allow you to update Outlook contacts with corresponding pictures from Facebook.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=ae502052df6066a1&sc=documents&id=AE502052DF6066A1!165
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you won't be able to view/edit from home pc
The contacts are only linked, they are not merged
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When I'm home I want to view my Calendar on the big screen of my PC. 14" is MUCH better than 3.7"
Sometimes I want to edit a Calendar entry when I'm home (e.g. add an entry with a long text note) which is a pain to do on the handset.
My N900 had an App to copy contact pictures from Facebook, etc. onto the handset's contacts, which were then sync'ed to Outlook. Is there an app with similar functionality for Android?
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Is there new software that will sync my Outlook calendar to Google Cal without me getting chewed out by my Boss for missing meetings?
Google Calendar Sync
RWFarley said:
Is there new software that will sync my Outlook calendar to Google Cal without me getting chewed out by my Boss for missing meetings?
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http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=98563
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URL I can't quote
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TheManDroid Has this been fixed? This software nearly got me fired when I missed a few meetings with my superiors.
TheManDroid said:
http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=98563
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In outlook, as well as on the phone's calendar application, you have the option to specify the time zone for the calendar entry. Simple and straight forward.
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Yes, outlook changes all of the entries according to changing time zones.
I want to enter my 9:30 return flight (when I'm booking, before travel) as 9:30. Outlook assumes I'll enter it as 6:30 since I'm in PDT and the airport is in EDT. I'm trying to use entries that are all local time. If I have connecting flights I need to pre-compute different offsets. Too easy to mess up and miss a flight.
I been trying different scenarios to see why your appointments are getting shifted but everything is working for me the way it should as long as I specify the time zone for the appointment and not accept the default time zone that Outlook or Google calendar suggests (they default to current time zone). Do you do that on your end or do you just enter start/end time for the appointment without along with the rest of the appointment details without changing the time zone?
Hello,
just bought the Mate 7 and set it up. Synchronized the phone with the software "myPhone"Explorer".
I'm not using Google Calender -> no sync etc.
I notice now, that all the birthdays of my contacts are shown in the calender.
As I use also Outlook, i already do have all birthdays listed in my calender.
So, now I have shown every birthday twice in my Mate 7 which I (of course) don't like.
Does anyone have had the same issue and knows if it's possible to disable an option of showing every contacts birthday automatic in the calendar?
Regards,
Bacelo
Hello,
try to mate open google calendar , then "settings", and further "calendars" . Uncheck the " birthday " For me helped.
Grafet
grafet said:
Hello,
try to mate open google calendar , then "settings", and further "calendars" . Uncheck the " birthday " For me helped.
Grafet
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Hi Grafet,
thank you for your answer.
Just not to get you wrong: you mean the Online Google Calender (https://www.google.com/calendar/) or?
If so, showing birthday is disabled there.
I searched everywhere in the calendar settings of the Mate 7, but couldn't find any option not showing any contact birthdays.
*weird*
Regards, Bacelo
Hello,
I have exactly the same issue till 6 month.
And I couldn't find a way to disable this option.
I think it comes from the contact app.
Anyone can help us ????
Hello,
I guess I just figured it out...
It's the definitely a thing of a combo of calendar- & contact-app like an included function to automatically show the birthdays of the contacts in the calendar (which isn't actually that bad).
But, like me, synchronizing with "MS Outlook" via the software "myPhoneExplorer", I got in trouble because I also have the birthdays in Outlook as an real calendar entry.
So final what I did to get it fixed:
- deleted all birthday calendar entrys in the Mate 7 (which was pulled over from Outlook)
- then, in the software myPhoneExplorer -> settings -> synchronizing -> events & tasks -> enhanced/extended -> filters
- there are two filter fields and in the second I entered: Geburtstag;Birthday
It may differ a bit as I have the sync software in German.
You also might change "Geburtstag;Birthday" to whatever your category naming in Outlook is for the group of birthdays (if you have set that up).
In addition, you can also use the name filter of the first filter field (in my case "Geburtstag von").
*voila* :cyclops:
-> So what it does now, the software filters and skips all Outlook calendar entries of the category you configured (f.e. "Geburtstag" / "Birthday" etc.)
Regards,
Bacelo
Bacelo said:
Hello,
I guess I just figured it out...
It's the definitely a thing of a combo of calendar- & contact-app like an included function to automatically show the birthdays of the contacts in the calendar (which isn't actually that bad).
But, like me, synchronizing with "MS Outlook" via the software "myPhoneExplorer", I got in trouble because I also have the birthdays in Outlook as an real calendar entry.
So final what I did to get it fixed:
- deleted all birthday calendar entrys in the Mate 7 (which was pulled over from Outlook)
- then, in the software myPhoneExplorer -> settings -> synchronizing -> events & tasks -> enhanced/extended -> filters
- there are two filter fields and in the second I entered: Geburtstag;Birthday
It may differ a bit as I have the sync software in German.
You also might change "Geburtstag;Birthday" to whatever your category naming in Outlook is for the group of birthdays (if you have set that up).
In addition, you can also use the name filter of the first filter field (in my case "Geburtstag von").
*voila* :cyclops:
-> So what it does now, the software filters and skips all Outlook calendar entries of the category you configured (f.e. "Geburtstag" / "Birthday" etc.)
Regards,
Bacelo
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Hello,
I agree with your method. It corrects the fact that we show them twice.
My problem is that I have birthdays stored in my contacts but, for some of them, I don't want to display them in my calendar.
And if I understood your method well, you erased your birthdays from your outlook calendar. I need them in outlook.
Thank you for your solution but I'll try to find another one but as you said, I think it's a native function that is not customizable.
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And if I understood your method well, you erased your birthdays from your outlook calendar. I need them in outlook.
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Nope, I did NOT erase anything from outlook calender.
1.) I did erase/delete all the birthday entries in the ANDROID Mate 7 calender (which had been inserted on the very first sync with outlook).
2.) Then, finally only all the CONTACT birthday entries in the Android calender (auto include function?!) showed up
3.) Finally I did set up the filter function in myPhoneExplorer software to EXLUDE Outlooks Birthday calender entries during syncs.
What it does now when synchronizing is to sync everything EXCEPT Outlooks birthday CALENDER entries.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Bacelo
I'm facing a strange behavior. I'm using myphone explorer as well to synchronize with Lotus Notes. For some reason the latest calendar entries from Notes have been synchronized into the Huawei birthday calendar.
I didn't even realized that this calendar exists, however if really like to know how to disable it or at least how to prevent MPE to synch with it.
Any ideas?
Hi,
sweetsmoke69 said:
I'm facing a strange behavior. I'm using myphone explorer as well to synchronize with Lotus Notes. For some reason the latest calendar entries from Notes have been synchronized into the Huawei birthday calendar.
I didn't even realized that this calendar exists, however if really like to know how to disable it or at least how to prevent MPE to synch with it.
Any ideas?
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As I had written here:
Bacelo said:
3.) Finally I did set up the filter function in myPhoneExplorer software to EXLUDE Outlooks Birthday calender entries during syncs.
What it does now when synchronizing is to sync everything EXCEPT Outlooks birthday CALENDER entries.
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you can set up some "Ausnahmen" / exceptions as a filter.
This can be done for
- contacts
- calendars & events
So all you need to do is configure a exception filter in MPE in your profile -> menu -> settings (or just hit "F2" in MPE) -> synchronizing -> "Termine & Events" -> Erweitert
- See the right column "Filter" -> the possible entry fields
- in my example, I entered in the first field "Geburtstag von" and in the second one "Geburtstag;Birthday"
So check, how the birthday entries look like in you Lotes Notes and set up MPE filters respectively.
Regards,
Bacelo