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upgrade calendar in touchflo?

I recently bought the Touch Pro (my first WM device after using Palm for years), and I am happy with most of it. What I just do not understand is why the calendar is so limited. You can merely view the month and scroll through months. To actually view appointments or change them you have to open the calendar app. This is totally ridiculous! The calendar screen should be the interface to reading your appointments and interacting with them. I have searched the forums to see if anyone has added this capability but have found nothing. I would be happy to pay for a PIM that truly integrated with the TouchFlo screen. I appreciate the modifications that you guys have done to the appearance (changing dates, adding themes etc), but I do not understand why someone cannot modify the calendar page so it shows the live calendar app as it were. If someone has done this and I have not found it, then sorry for making this comment - please direct me to it. If this cannot be done, then there has to be a better launcher than TouchFlo out there, and I would appreciate someone directing me to it.
With thanks from a complete beginner...

The app you need to replace the calendar with one of your own in TF3D is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407777

I too have used Palm and Agendus for many years.
I tried Agendus on WM but was very disappointed at the performance.
I am now using Pocket Informant.

Thanks for this. I successfully ran the program and now when I click on the word 'Calendar' on the home page, PocketInformant opens (thanks for the tip, taninu, it looks really good).
But this is not really what I meant. On my Touch Pro, I have a tab which displays a static calendar (if I edit using DiamondTFD, it is called 'unknown' so maybe this is not standard in Europe?). It is this calendar that I would like to display PocketInformant. I noted the below post, which I wonder is maybe referring to the same question? In any case, do others have that calendar tab? (same level as home, people, weather, MP3, mail, internet, call history, SMS, settings, programs, photos - 12 in all).
Originally Posted by Oumpahpah (Post 2406149)
Another point we're all looking for, is to change the calendar elements management on Home tab.
Can't wait for your next release.
I was searching now 2 days for it. Finally I found that the element-management is damn hardcoded:
- 1 AlldayElement
- 1 CurrentElement
- 1 NextElement
Patching smt like this is some level too high for me.. I'm sorry..

[Q] Is there a way to speed up Contacts' Search?

I have a Touch Pro device with 4000 contacts. When I try to search on them, as I type, a matching message appears in the lower side of screen and it takes so much time to display the matching contacts. Same time it's over 30". Is there a way to speed up contacts' maching?

Holy crap....4000 contacts??!! If your phone needs to scan though 4000 contacts each time you try to pull up a phone number....I'm guessing it would take that long. Even for the 528Mhz processor of the pro.
Maybe you can sort your contacts using lists? That way you can search by different lists....making the over all search process quicker.

I don't think that 4000 contacts are problem for touch pro... I had a blackberry before and tested it with more than 5000 contacts... it was working like a charm with instant matching. I think that maybe windows mobile doesn't make an index to search in it really fast like blackberry does. Touch pro is by far more advanced from blackberries but I can't believe it can't do that.

dude.. considering you have 5000 contacts i don't think your problem is the device
btw, the fastest CL app i know of is iContact, which i'm using..
dunno how you can run 5000 contacts fast enough to work with,

Yes but how can you explain the fact that blackberry can handle more than 5000 contacts just fine? My Boss has 12000 contacts and works fine.

if your blackberry is as crazy as your boss.. i wouldn't be surprised that is does
j/k...
a blackberry doesn't initialize your contacts everytime your contact list loads. it preloads it.. that's why it would be faster.

Is there a way to preload contacts in wm ?

Hi ,im running icontact burt edition and in the configuration there u can choose to exit the app on action and such,when u dissable those options, every time u call or exit icontact it will still be running in the backround,that might help speed things up,sorry cant test it though,i have like 85 contacts

It is still a problem as iContact has to load all 5000 contacts after the system loads.
I don't know of a way to cache the contacts which would be the only way to make it as fast as needed for such an amount of information.
I would suggest tho, that you go to the iContact thread an offer burt to add the option of multilisting of contacts for people with such an amount of contacts... maybe he'll do it..

Are you displaying sim contacts and regualar contacts? you can disable showing sim contacts which may speed it up some if so.

WTH?! 4000 contacts?!? LOL How about deleting some? jk I will tell you with about 400 contacts on a few different Windows Mobile phones & it was dog slow sometimes so I can't even imagine 4000. One reason I had so many was from my old-school days with a Nokia I have each contact location as a separate contact (like Bill Cell Bill Home Bill Work) vs the specified field available now. Once I synced with my Outlook then edited them on there, cleared them all off my phone & sync'd back it was MUCH faster since I had 1/3 the contacts. I do know that it was always much slower after 1st booting up the phone than after I had been using it awhile, unless I left too many programs running which sucked up the memory. On my old WM5 2125 there was a cache registry change I made that helped a TON but sorry I don't recall what it was offhand.. I think the tweak utils have it as an option under 'performance'. And yeah like joel2009 suggested, turn off SIM contact acces if you can migrate them to phone memory. I found accessing SIM contacts is WAYYYYY slower. Besides you have fewer contact fields using the SIM.
Bill

Is there a Facebook fix for Manila 2.5 that really works

Hi,
is there a facebook fix that makes facebook really working on manila 2.6?
Basically on the ROM I'm using currently, it seems that contacts updates are partly working, and online album is not working.
I've seen the fix from Dutty, making online Album work, but contacts not working.
Anyone has a fix that supports facebook as intended?
Gescha

Contacts means what? Contacts updates are working on my rom, incl. photos from FB, but online albums not.
I'm running official rom.
Online albums are not running even after official fix from HTC.

Hi interresting that evewn the official ROM does not support the album.
When I'm talking on contacts, I'm refering to a fix Dutty provided for one of his ROMS (I think it was HolyGrail R6).
With this fix album worked, but the contacts didn't any more (So no user picture and status updates any more)
(With this fix dutty replaced the facebookSDK.dll)

GeScha,
There is a thread about Facebook tab for 2.5.
I installed it, but it didn't work for me as I have too many manila tweaks (CHT) so it didn't work, but from a fresh flash it is supposedly working.

Hi Bruce,
this creates the facebook tab. I use it as well, and it works fine on LueMeiYins Yin7. I also use Cookies 1.7.1
The facebooktab lists basically all status messages that are in the contacts. AS it uses basically the manila features from contacts, it does not improve the general troubles with facebook (but it also does not cause any unknown or new ones.)
So still online album is not working. But seems that it is not working as well on the stock rom and therefore I have less hope that there is a fix for this.
Gescha

Hi,
you'r right, it's not working on stock rom as well (on HD2, the situation is the same).
HTC make a fix for it (available on www.htc.com), but unfortunately this fix doesn't fix it (.

It works on mine. But now I find it annoying to have all email contacts mixed up together with my phone contacts in my contact list. The emails contacts was updated by Facebook tab. I'm going thru a tedious work deleting email contacts. Anyone have ideas to sort this out or seperating email contacts and phone contacts?

the album download will take ages if it contain large number of pictures e.g more than 10.

Try this, I have it installed and it seems to work well...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5378391&postcount=339

talonz55 said:
Try this, I have it installed and it seems to work well...
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5378391&postcount=339
Click to expand...
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This one (T-Back) fixed the Facebook Albums issue (no thumbnails, and timer icon instead of actual pictures) for me. A separate fix is required for the 'Events and Updates' tab in contacts. I used one called Facebook-Ather.cab from these forums somewhere

[Q] Moving to Android from Symbian

Hello,
I'm happy to finally have true Android phone in my hands. HTC Desire. It's so amazing, those possibilities are so large and the quality is great.
Previously I was using Nokia e50 - symbian based phone. I want to move all my contacts, all my messages (2k), notes, calendar notes and reminds, photos and videos. Is it possible to synchronise in one or another way those two phones?

It may sound convoluted and there may be better ways that i'm not thinking of but.... i would set up your Google account on your PC and move everything you can from your Symbian to the 'cloud'. Contacts can be added through Gmail, Calender entries moved accross to the online Google Calender, pics uploaded to Picasa...so on and so forth. You can 'Favourite' your Youtube vids from your PC and access them from your phone.
A lot of this may have to be done manually but worth it in the end. Once it's done just sign-in to your Google account on the Desire and everything will sync from Cloud to phone. You may have to find an app to transfer your Browser bookmarks, although the Chrome To Phone extension could help make the task easier. Once you've added them once onto the phone they'll be synced and backed up to your Google account.
Endless possibilities, especially once you've discovered how the App Market gives you access to everything you might ever need. Then there's the fun part, rooting and customizing your phone.
Btw, Video, and possibly Notes, can go to Google Docs although moving messages will probably need an app. From the Market..

Symbian is sucks ;-)
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Okay, thank you! I'm done with contacts, it works fine now, they are succesfully moved from Symbian to Android. But how to move sms?

http://www.simail.si/nokia2androidsms/
the best way for sms! (I have tried many ways...)
I am looking for a way for notes and agenda now..

Anyone know how to syncronize the agenda birthdays from symbian (Nokia N79) to Android?

Some Questions and possible bugs

I upgraded from a HTC Imagio running Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Samsung Galaxy S3 and it is my first foray into the Android world, so I hope you can help with the following. As you can see, it was a big step up the ladder of mobile operating systems!
1. If I have a name prefix for my contact in the contact list, like Mr./Ms./Mrs./Dr., the name does not autocomplete for that contact from the phone keypad. When I enter the letters of the first or last name on the phone keypad, the contact does not show up. However, if I delete the name prefix and leave it blank, it shows up fine. Is there some setting to have all the contacts show up or is it a bug? Is it happening for others too?
2. On the Windows phone, I had a reminder application which showed a list of all reminders. I could set the reminder to repeat after any number of days/weeks/years. However, in the Android Calendar, when I set an event, I am unable to set the number of days/weeks/months/years it has to repeat. For example, I need an event to repeat every 365 days (calendar with no leap day) but I cannot set it on my phone or in GMail. Also, when the alarm goes off, I would like to be reminded again after a day or a few hours or a few minutes until I dismiss the notification so I can have the remidner go off a few days before the event as a reminder. I don't know if that is possible too. I looked at a couple of apps from the Play Store but could not find one which does everything. Anyone know of a trick to get this to work?
Update: DGT GTD & To-Do List with its recent updates now does what I need. Thanks to the author for adding the features.
3. When I check my gmail in the web browser, I am unable to delete the mails. I touch the trash icon but it stays highlighted but does not delete the mail. Is that a bug or am I again doing something wrong? I have different gmail accounts that I would like to check on the phone without transferring contacts and calendar entries.
Update: Looks like a bug in the stock web browser. GMail works as expected in Chrome browser
4. Is there a clear writeup of how the calendar and contacts sync between gmail and the phone? I had transferred all my contacts from my Windows mobile phone to gmail and they showed up on my S3 when I set up the gmail account. However, they would not transfer to my phone. I had to export the contacts to a file on my phone and then import the contacts into my phone. Maybe I do not need the contacts to reside on the phone? I was worried that if I was in an area with poor or no signal reception, then I may not be able to view the contacts if they were only on my gmail account and not on the phone.
4a. Similarly, I would like to know how the calendar entries from gmail can be pulled on to the phone.
Thanks in advance for your help and patience in reading the above! I have a lot to learn but hope I can get my phone to work the way I would enjoy. If you can suggest any resource for reading other than XDA and Android Central, that would be great too.

Oops. This should have been posted in the Q&A Forum. Mods, can you please move it if that is where it belongs? Thanks!