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Hi,
I just got my T-Mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur) running WM6 a couple of days ago, and I'm trying to get my contacts from my laptop to my phone. I use Thunderbird though and not outlook. The ActiveSync software tells me that I can only sync contacts if I'm using outlook on my laptop!
I can export all my contacts as a .wab file, but if WM6 uses such a file to keep contacts, then I can't find it. It just occurred to me that it might use an .xml file, but I can't find that either.
How can I get my contacts easily onto my phone? Is there some alternate software that I can use to sync?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. )
Chris
is there some reason why you can't use outlook?
People have their reasons for not using Outlook such as cost, personal preference or operating system. You can try using mail2web to do an OTA sync, but how to get from thunderbird to mail2web is up to you.
this might be of intrest to you:
http://www.birdiesync.com
lafester said:
is there some reason why you can't use outlook?
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Yeah, because it's really expensive, and I don't like it. I much prefer Thunderbird.
Speigei said:
this might be of intrest to you:
http://www.birdiesync.com
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Thanks so much Speigei! I think this is exactly what I'm looking for!
I'll post again to let you know how things went.
Cheers mate!
cjordan said:
Yeah, because it's really expensive, and I don't like it. I much prefer Thunderbird.
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If I am not mistaken you get Outlook for free when you buy the dash. I know I got a disk with my mda, and I am pretty sure I got one for my dash as well.
actually because M$ wants money, you only get a "trial" of outlook. I just downloaded the birdiesync and it works awsome.
I use Birdiesync, its actually works pretty damn well. It integrates into Lightning very well too...
Is there a free program that functions like birdiesync? I just checked their site and it has onyl a 21 day trial.
lafester said:
is there some reason why you can't use outlook?
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Thunderbird can be used portably, like on a thumb drive.
If I had access to an exchange server, I wouldn't need a portable email app (except that OWA sucks donkey balls, so thunderbird is still better).
FinchSync (http://www.finchsync.com/) works for me.
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Is there a free program that functions like birdiesync? I just checked their site and it has onyl a 21 day trial.
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I recommend the free program Funambol. I am using it to synchronize my phone and Thunderbird. It has a server program, a desktop plugin, and a phone plugin. You can set the server up on your own computer and have it sync when you are connected via USB, sync over the air to your own computer (which requires having a data plan and having an open port on your desktop machine for Funambol to connect through), or you can get a free account at my.funambol.com, which is the approach I used. It can even enable push email, fetching the email from some other email account and pushing it to the phone. I used the latter functionality for a few days, then turned it off, as having the data continuously active drained the battery pretty fast. I still use it for syncing my contacts and calendar.
Hi,
I've just started experimenting with google sync today and I am delighted. I don't care about email but I always wanted push calendar option on my PPC. Google sync is great!
I also found out in here about myphone service by MS. It also works great for backupping my docs once a day. Still I would prefer something that would have PUSH functionality. Meaning something that would upload content automatically to the server once the document is changed.
I have also tried live mesh but I gave up. It can backup a folder once every hour but if the file you want to synchronize is opened at the time of scheduled sync, live mesh can screw everything up. I had too many lost files because of it ....
Is there anything out there that would detect that the file has change and upload it to the server only when it does change? Smth. like push mail functionality but working with files?
I want my listpro lists to synchronize this way.
Dropbox? That should do what you want. Wether there's a WinMo app though.........
It does not have it. Any other suggestions?
so I've been trying to figure out this whole "cloud" concept.
(1) Using Windows Live Mesh 2011, I'm able to keep folders on my pc synced in the cloud on my skydrive. However, am I able to access these documents from my handset?
(2) Do I have to manually upload documents onto my skydrive or is there some option in microsoft office/word to upload them?
(3) I guess it's impossible to upload document files from your handset to your skydrive
so what I don't get is, why did they decide to go into this whole "cloud" concept, only to have the "cloud" not work the way it should?
SkyDrive
I've been able to access SkyDrive from my WINDOWS 7 PHONE (HTC HD 7) I can view the files in SkyDrive, open up a document and read it/view etc. But I can't download them onto my handset, so i can edit them and such in MS Office on my phone. According to MS Office on the windows 7 phones, you gota use something called sharepoint.
Hope this helps.
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they don't have it properly intergrated into the office hub at present but rumour has it that it will come as part of the update. what you can do however is in IE visit skydrive.com, and from there view your skydrive, open files, edit them, save them, and they auto update on their own. i am not sure if it will allow for adding though.
from reading around here, onenote can sync to skydrive though, so i'm pretty sure that with the right setup at present, you can get that going at least.
Hmmm, I can't seem to Edit them. I'm on skydrive now,
just googled skydrive, got windows skydrive up, logged in and viewed all my docs on there. I can click them and open them, view and read, but i can't edit them :S
Unless I'm missing something haha, don't get my wrong i like the fact i can open them from skydrive and read them. But i want them on my phone, in MS Office so i can edit etc
i don't think you can edit the files on skydrive directly
you can save them to your phone (bring up the menu in your file and select save as) and then edit them
and then you can upload to skydrive using the same name...
unfortunately there isn't an easier way to do it.
in answer to the questions the OP asked
1. yes
2. you can set up a network drive and use it as you would a normal drive..copy/paste/save etc
3. yes you can.
i actually like the whole cloud thing..
the only thing is that i am on a 500MB a month tariff (orange) so i worry about going over that..
but the cloud system means that everything is in sync and you don't have to fiddle around with USB sticks etc for small files.
i have all my contacts synced onto Google and windows Live and same with my calendar.
I personally prefer Google because its cloud products have more features and is a lot lot faster...i find windows live very slow..
Ya, i just added my Skydrive documents folder to a mapped drive, so now i can just drag and drop files... nice
Thought i would give it a go dropping a word doc in the Onenote folder to see if it would sync to the phone... but no lol... worth a go though.
At least now i have a nice easy way rather than going to the website and using an upload box. be it ok... this way is much nicer.
thanks for all the replies
what I need to know now is, is there anyway to access folders OTHER than the one marked documents on skydrive via my wp7 handset? When I sync my pc with skydrive there's a dedicated space called "Sync Folder"
I can't seem to access it with my handset
going to have to wait till they release office 365... sharepoint doesnt even work with our phones right now unless you happen to have a dedicated quad core server running sharepoint on that or something. I fiddled with it all for DAYS trying to get it so I could access work documents on my phone from sharepoint but NOPE! Pretty radiculous. Office 365 isnt even going to be available probably for another year! *sigh*
Originally SkyDrive and LiveMesh were products that had nothing whatsoever in common (except for being Cloud services). Lately Microsoft decided to merge them a little - so now you got a 25 GB SkyDrive AND a 5 GB Sync-SkyDrive. Those two can't talk to each other and if you got a Word Doc on the Sync-Drive you can't open it in office Web. If it's on the REAL Skydrive you can access it.
Unluckily only the pictures hub and OneNote currently integrate with the real SkyDrive and there is no integration with the Sync-Drive.
My guess is that doc/xls/ppt, etc. access from the office hub to SkyDrive is coming with an update.
When Microsoft is gonna clean up the mess of the two different SkyDrives is an entirely different matter - would like to see them merged (even if I afterwards have only 25 GB instead of 25 + 5).
Would you mind sharing your method
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Ya, i just added my Skydrive documents folder to a mapped drive, so now i can just drag and drop files... nice
Thought i would give it a go dropping a word doc in the Onenote folder to see if it would sync to the phone... but no lol... worth a go though.
At least now i have a nice easy way rather than going to the website and using an upload box. be it ok... this way is much nicer.
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Hi mwako
Would you mind sharing your method for mapping a Skydrive folder?
Many thanks
andrew-in-woking
Actually I'm trying to figure out how Skydrive is supposed to work, but I don't understand the idea...
Its limitations ruin the whole concept:
- Impossible to upload folders to Skydrive. This is insane.
- Each transfer is limited to 50MB.
Therefore I find Skydrive useless for business purposes, especially compared to other systems such as Dropbox.
In my daily job I need to transfer folders of office files. And they need to stay organized as such.
If I cannot upload folders to Skydrive, or if I can only upload files without any organization. what's the use?
Hi all!
I would discuss with you what can be the best way to use a tablet for a typical business day.
Today I'm used to use my netbook during travelling for:
- read/answer email messages (I receive at least 120 mails/day)
- look at some excel files (typically only read, sometimes also write)
- look at some pdf
- show some PPT presentation through my screen or the VGA output
I'd like to start to use a tablet (currently I have a Samsung tab 7'', in the next future the 10'').
But... how to get access to my outlook mails? Not only what I receive day by day but also to look at what I received 1 months ago or previous.
Also how to have access to my PDF db? or PPT db? Should I use some sync program to sync storage tablet space and PC's storage?
What do you think about?
- Outlook: I can't use IMAP because I organized my mails in many,many,many folders and IMAP is really slow in syncing those...
- File Folders: do you know any nice app which can work nice on wifi (at least).
Maybe I could start to think to dropbox...
Any comment?
No one answered me... and this is sympthomatic of one of:
- my question is not so interesting (maybe)
- there is currently no answer
But I think many of us have my same question because want to buy a new technology gadget but can't find the right way to use it.
I am still a newbie on Android, but will provide some inputs which I am currently using on my XT3 ( not a tablet though)
Bisis said:
But... how to get access to my outlook mails? Not only what I receive day by day but also to look at what I received 1 months ago or previous.
Also how to have access to my PDF db? or PPT db? Should I use some sync program to sync storage tablet space and PC's storage?
What do you think about?
- Outlook: I can't use IMAP because I organized my mails in many,many,many folders and IMAP is really slow in syncing those...
- File Folders: do you know any nice app which can work nice on wifi (at least).
Maybe I could start to think to dropbox...
Any comment?
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- Outlook: My company have Microsoft ActiveSync configured so I use native Email Client of Froyo. I have my mails synced only for 3 days. With this you can choose which folders needs to be sync'ed. Looking at the volume you are trying to use I doubt if the default mail client can handle that load. You can give a try on alternates like RoadSync or TouchDown etc.
- File Folder: I use ES File Explorer. Its a free app and works like a charm on both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Have tested only with Windows machines until now.
Hope this helps here.
Bisis said:
Hi all!
I would discuss with you what can be the best way to use a tablet for a typical business day.
Today I'm used to use my netbook during travelling for:
- read/answer email messages (I receive at least 120 mails/day)
- look at some excel files (typically only read, sometimes also write)
- look at some pdf
- show some PPT presentation through my screen or the VGA output
I'd like to start to use a tablet (currently I have a Samsung tab 7'', in the next future the 10'').
But... how to get access to my outlook mails? Not only what I receive day by day but also to look at what I received 1 months ago or previous.
Also how to have access to my PDF db? or PPT db? Should I use some sync program to sync storage tablet space and PC's storage?
What do you think about?
- Outlook: I can't use IMAP because I organized my mails in many,many,many folders and IMAP is really slow in syncing those...
- File Folders: do you know any nice app which can work nice on wifi (at least).
Maybe I could start to think to dropbox...
Any comment?
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Using a 10.1" Viewsonic Viewpad 10s with internal 3G.
I have no answer for your email problem. I use GMail as my company is using GoogleApps. Access to older emails is a pain from the tablet, and like you I have organized my emails in folders and subfolders (called labels in Gmail). I can access them while out of office, but its not really fast.
For the files, I use "Documents to Go" as it gives me access to my Google Docs account. I can get Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files from my account, read them, change them. It can sync files with your PC as well.
I have the GTab and I use Logmein to view my outlook emails. Granted, I have a desktop PC in my office that remains 'on' at all times so that I can always remote-in to it.
Here's a short list of my business apps installed on my tab:
Citrix Receiver
LogMeIn
WebEx
Evernote
Dropbox
Thinkfree
...plus others.
K-9 mail
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Why not set up an exchange Android's email client supports outlook exchange.
"ColorNote" "DropBox" help a lot at my work.
I have a galaxy tab, but i use the ipad for on the road business things, its really handy for showing the pdfs i make to explain things to clients and such, there's also alot of excellent business related apps that just aren't on android yet.
A excellent one is like a "minutes" app, and you record everything discussed in the meeting that you can look up on for future reference, it has like a contact lists in it for all the different clients.
As soon as Android matures ill switch to a 10inch tablet
K9 mail has outlook/exchange support (although I've not tested it).
I use IMAP with K9 mail. The beauty of it is you can select which folder to sync. You may have many many folders, but maybe you don't need to sync all of them.
For all your other problems, I guess there is a solution:
There is MSOffice for android (read and write), PDFreader for android.
You should be able to browse through your work file through 3G/Wifi using a combo of cifs manager and ES File explorer. Assuming your work IT let you access to there network from your personal mobile device (they could decide it's forbidden for security reasons... my work would not let me do that).
Another option (not so convenient) for sharing files : Dropbox
Hope this helps
there's also alot of excellent business related apps that just aren't on android yet.
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Thanks all for the answers!
I think mangus7175 focused the problem.. we need full PC access (through LogMeIn or something like) especially when looking for business mail access.
A PC is compatible with all kind of environment, I mean:
- do you have Exchange? taaaac.. use Outlook synced with it or another client
- do you have POP3/IMAP access? taaaac.. use Outlook synced with it or another client
- ...
I can't understand why this is not available with a tablet with a so big storage space... it'd not be a pst storage problem and with a dual core cpu not a performance one.
I mean that for business access we can't ask our companies to change the environment only because we need that. Tablet are still seen as gadgets.. some companies are going to give to account managers tablets to be more fashion while showing catalogues, documentation, etc.. but it's quite far to be a so common business device, yet.
So in the meantime we can use a lot of PC-like apps but when necessary we still need full access to our PC in the office. In this case the bad thing is that we need a lot of bandwidth and here in my country it's not so available and stable and RDP is not so comfortabel. However also in fast access without a mouse it's quite hard to use.
I'm sorry to say I'm trying a lot of scenarious but unfortunately I still prefer my netbook when travelling, with data manually synced through LAN/USB.
Surfinette said:
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The main i use is called "Mobile business" by resco, but if you have an iDevice, just have a look in the business section, you'll be amazed.
I'd like to mention "Blue": https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cfcwireless.blue
Good for checking stocks on the go. Offers more possibilities than Google Finance...
Hello,
I use a Gtab for my business since 5 months. If you use Exchange in your business I advise you to use Touchdown. This application is for Mail (Exchange), Meetings, Tasks and Contact.
You can use a lot of settings for mails and meetings.
I use Dropbox, Catch and COL Reminder.
for iPad...
I saw there is an app to see and work on a saved .pst file...
Is possible there is no equivalent for Android?? I can't believe this... but I can't find anything surfing the web!!
Hi folks,
my first post here, to date I just read in the background.
However I just hacked the Mango update to my Optimus 7 and I have a question considering Skydrive + Mango.
I sync all my documents between my workstation, my laptop and skydrive synced storage.
However I cannot access the synced storage via my WP7, only the standard folders. Is there a way to sync my documents folder to standard skydrive as well?
Thx in advance for your help.
Kind regards,
dahlai
I can access mine. Office -> SkyDrive -> My Documents
Yeah, but this folder is empty...
The data only gets synced between my two computers and Skydrive synced storage, which does not appear on WP7. So, how can I sync the data to the "real" skydrive.
Or am I missing an important point here`?
anyone here, who could help me?
Now I mounted my Skydrive as a loval drive, syncing tools like Syncback however cannot synchronize data with the drive -.-
You're mixing up two things: SkyDrive and SkyDrive synced storage.
SkyDrive is the online service that gives you 25GB to store your stuff. This is the place to where you can directly upload your photos from WP7 for example.
The other thing is Live Mesh. Live Mesh allows you to sync files between several PCs and "SkyDrive synced storage". This is useful if you have two PC and you want to sync files between them, but you don't have them turned on at the same time. Live Mesh only offers 5GB of storage and you cannot access it from WP7.
You can see your Documents in skydrive here: http://skydrive.com
Only things that you upload there can be viewed and edited on your WP7.
Yes I know that. However on first sight I thought that there had to be an option that live mesh could also sync to skydrive.
I now know that this is not possible. (Cannot find any reason for that though)
So I now have the problem, that my documents on both PCs are kept in sync via live mesh, which also syncs to the 5gb of synced storage. Now with Mango on my phone and the ability to access/edit documents from skydrive, the only logical conclusion for me is to keep those files in sync with my PCs as well.
As of yet there seemingly isn´t any solution to it.
One can mount skydrive as a local drive, but you cannot sync files with it, even though one can drag and drop....
Any thoughts?
Missing workflow microsoft ???
Me too, Microsoft are missing the point here (or are we ?) You want to sync your docs between computers and have them open quickly/locally...but also want these same docs available on the web and WP7. Hope this gets resolved in a later beta of Mango...
So far, your only solution would be to browse your sync'd folder through the browser on the phone.
Merge them
They should just merge the 2 features together and allow any skydrive folder to be synced.
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So far, your only solution would be to browse your sync'd folder through the browser on the phone.
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and that only works if you switch the browser to full mode (not mobile)
Hmm, really hope this gets resolved, at latest with the final Mango release.
Otherwise the whole skydrive does not really make a lot of sense, being integrated into the Office Hub
followed this guide and mine works.
http://www.ampercent.com/access-open-sync-skydrive-windows-explorer/6724/
This is exactly the kind of thing that make me mad about microsoft... its sooo damn frustrating sometimes.
WHY on earth have this nice LIVE mesh feature, where you keep all of your pcs docs nicely synced, but then, dont have the option of seeing it in your WINDOWS phone, you need to manually upload it to ANOTHER folder in a PC (wich erase the whole purpose), and dont give me the "just download it from the browser" thing...
I love the wp7 mango beta, its one hell of a slick OS, actually im kind of a microsoft fan in general, i use PCs exclusively, office, xbox, zune HD, hotmail, live, skydrive & mesh and now WP7 (i do own an ipad though)... but why it is soo hard for them to make everything work together?? this is an important feature for me since i sometimes need to check some excel files on the go, and i need the most up to date version... So im screwed, since dropbox (which i used) its a no go in wp7 (i dont mind, since its not MSFT fault), but mesh (a msft service) its useless in their phone, even in the ipad i have access to it via iSMEStorage...
Music/video streaming is nice and all, but this feature seems to me even easier to implement, they can even disable the editing/uploading functionality, i believe most of us can do with a viewer only...
...end of rant...