Before I start I would like to say that I already did some research but I didn't get a satisfying result. I consider the XDA forum an excellent place to get a second opinion. If you don't know an answer to my question, or if anything is unclear: feel free to comment and discuss.
I am looking for a bundle of Android apps with the following (similar or related) functionality. It could be one app, or several apps that work together.
Sync MSN Contacts to Android Contacts
This is in fact the exact opposite as in this thread for a WM6 device: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=343840 (other threads with similar questions exist)
Just to get this straight: I am not looking for an MSN Instant Messenger app. Those already exist and work quite well.
The ideal app should do the following:
* Integrate into the Android Contacts as an account, similar to Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, LastFM,...
* All my MSN Contacts should be added to Android Contacts with at least the following details: name, email address, MSN/Windows Live account, profile picture, last status [feel free to suggest other account details]
* Android Contacts does it "magic" to auto-merge the MSN Contacts with already existing contacts from other accounts.
* Only one MSN account is required for my needs (just like you can only add one Exchange or one Facebook account) but I'll leave it up to you, the reader, to tell me if more than one MSN account is useful.
Sync Android Contacts to MSN Contacts
* For all contacts currently in Android contacts:
1. If they have an email address in one of the well-known Microsoft domains (@hotmail.com, @live.com,...) -> add them to my MSN Contacts (send a request or whatever terminology Microsoft uses) + add as IM detail in Android
2. If they have a Windows Live IM account in the Android contact data --> add them to my MSN Contacts + add as email detail in Android
Sync Jabber Contacts to Android Contacts
* Same as the first app, but for Jabber/XMPP accounts.
* Should support more than one Jabber/XMPP account.
* I have no ideas or use case scenarios for a reverse Android -> Jabber sync app.
Sync email and IM contact data from other accounts to Google Contacts
When I'm working on my Android, I have email addresses from Facebook, Linkedin, and potentially other Contacts apps. However only the details that are in a Google account are synchronized to Google. For example when I'm working on the pc in the Gmail interface, I cannot see an email address that I got via Facebook.
Are there apps that already do something like this?
If such apps do not yet exist, do you think that they would be useful?
As in: useful enough to dive into Java and Android development so that I can make them myself?
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As per title anyone aware of a way to link google calendar to your ppc,
either pocketbrezze or your standard pim etc
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I have seen readers, but these do not sync with the internal calendar, which I assume you want to do (as I do too).
I am really surprised there is no simple way to sync an ical profile with either Outlook or Pocket Outlook.
I know you can sync with a public profile on your desktop, but I doubt everyone wants to make their calendars public, and still doesn't help for people on the move.
An alternative would be to stop using Google Calendar for now until more solutions are available, and set-up a Live Mail2Web account, and simply use their Outlook Web Access for your calendar needs, and put the sync profile in your Activesync.
http://live.mail2web.com
It's the only good all round solution to online contacts backup, calendar sync, and push mail, and all from one provider, and free of charge too.
Nice one mate ill look into that :wink:
Remote Calendars
I've been using an open source program called Remote Calendars.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars/
it synchs your google calendar to outlook which can then be synched to your PPC.
you can also synch the other way (i.e. put something in your PPC and have it transferred to Google)
it's not a perfect system but it's the best i've found
Am I right in thinking you still have to make your calendar public for this application to work though?
No google calendars have two addresses:
a public one - which you can disable and
a private one - which you should never give to anyone else or publish anywhere
you can get your private address from the Calendar Details page of the settings menu. this is what you use for Remote Calendars
so your calendar is still private (or shared with family & friends etc)
woohhhoooooooo :lol:
Google Calendar Sync
This only works for main calendar:
5 March 2008 Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
You can now access your Google Calendar account from your mobile phone! Just visit mobile.google.com/calendar/ with your phone's web browser and once you're logged in, you'll see your list of upcoming events with date and time information in an easy-to-browse format.
Cheers
Tom
I am using fission 2.4.3 ROM and i like the way it looks and all but is there a way to edit the Facebook syncd contacts like the factory Global contact list settings? it says facebook contact information is no editable on this device... am i missing soemthing? before the root and rom i syncd my contacts and was able to add numbers, emails and drag them onto the home tabs for shortcuts..
Welcome to the CLOUD!
Doesn't seem like such a great idea now does it? LOL
Here is what you do, it will require having or making a Yahoo Mail account but it will solve your problem.
If you use Outlook (like I do) it will be way more complicated but only because you probably want to use Outlook as your master list.
Step One - Go to Yahoo mail and import your facebook contacts into your yahoo mail contacts. (they have a wizard that does this for you) Then export Yahoo Mail Contacts to a CSV file. (This will work for myspace and linkedIn as well!)
Step Two (Google) - Import that CSV file into Google contacts and have your phone sync if it doesn't automatically (sometimes it takes awhile to sync)
Step Three - Look in your phone contacts you will now see dupliacte contacts of all your facebook friends. One will be from Google and the other will be from facebook. Select the facebook contact and JOIN or LINK (depends on your rom) it to the other duplicate.
You will now be able to edit all the fields not filled in by Facebook and a have a single contact for that person. (If you look you will see in the contact which profiles are linked together. You will have one profile for each contact source that has been linked. (one for Google and one for Facebook)
If you have Fission running you need to go into EDIT contact before you will get the JOIN button in the menu.
I have found that it is best to do most of your editing in Google Mail and then syncing anything else (such as outlook) to that (I use Companion Link).
And while it is ok to add contacts into outlook and sync with Gmail it is better to check those contacts for correctness in Gmail.
If they are correct in Gmail they are correct on the phone. And should you ever have to factory wipe data you will be sure to get all your contacts back when you resign into GMail on your phone.
Is there any way to have multiple accounts with access to messenger on both of those accounts i cannot seem to get it to work ?
Natively, nop. Just one. You can still use IM+ if version 1.2 (I guess), which still have support to MSN. Non sense from MS force them to remove it. Some people have more than one account.
To clarify that a bit, since I'm considering a Lumia 800. Can the 1 account I'll be using for messenger be a different one from the one I used to sync the phone? I never intend to use the latter one on MSN.
Explain it a bit more:
I have a hotmail and a gmail account.
Gmail is my XboxLive, GFWL, FB, twitter etc. and my main mail account but it's not the one I use for MSN Messenger.
Hotmail is the one I'm using for MSN Messenger.
So I take it I can log to MSN Messenger only from the Gmail one? Don't want to have them both for MSN, just the hotmail account, while having the Gmail as my main "phone" account.
In your case you could not use messenger if you associate your gmail as the main account on the device.
Thanks for the reply.
Is it possible to do the opposite as a workaround?
What I mean is, using the example from my previous post, sync the phone with the Hotmail account to have my MSN messenger online and then use the Gmail as secondary e-mail account, account used in XBOXLive etc.
Besides MSN are the rest of the features only available to the main e-mail account?
Some of my newer contacts are not synching with either my Google Contacts or my Outlook.com contacts. I'm on a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1.
I use Outlok.com for my primary repository for contacts and calendars, however I use GSyncit add-on for MS Outlook (desktop) to sync my desktop Outlook contacts and calendars to Google. This way I can use Outlook.com or Google Calendar / GMail to access/share my calendar and access contacts depending on the situation.
Everything is working fine on the desktop end so that is irrelevant to this problem (so probably shouldn't even have wrote the above paragraph - but just in case.)
I see there is a new Google Contacts app on the phone and on the web. I noticed this when I clicked on the People app and it said the app was missing. When I go to the web version of Google Contacts via my Google account, there are no contacts there! All my contacts are still in Gmail though of course.
I see that when I attempt to edit an older contact on the phone, it first prompts me with which Google account I want to sync with. I don't need to sync my phone contacts directly with Google, I just want to sync with Outlook.com -> Outlook -> Google (via GSyncit) but I suppose it wouldn't cause a problem if I just had the phone sync to both accounts (probably will then need to disable GSyncit contact sync between Outlook desktop and Google).
What is weird is that it is like Google made the mistake of launching this new contacts app, but there's no notice or migration instructions on the changes with the new app. I just happend to discover something was "unhooked" by trying to edit a contact! I just discovered the new Contacts app on the web by Googling, Google Contacts. I'm technically saavy and somewhat of an Android Wonk, and am surprised this is all a surprise!
Do I have to go try to edit every single contact on the mobile Contacts app now to select which Google account it syncs with? I HOPE NOT!
At the risk of appearing dumb I'm leaving my original post for background. It appears this is (not surprisingly) all a Microsoft issue. When I went into the Outlook.com app on my phone, when you click on the Contacts and Calendars Sync setting, nothing happens! Come to find out this app is no longer on the play store. It appears to have been replaced earlier this year by the Microsoft Outlook Preview. Installed that app, and it doesn't and an account type to the phone! So it appears, unlike the Outlook.com app, it won't sync calendars and contacts with the native Android calendar and contacts app. It's as if Microsoft is trying to make you use their new app instead of the stock Android apps that just sync with the Outlook.com account? Please say this isn't so!
jazee said:
Some of my newer contacts are not synching with either my Google Contacts or my Outlook.com contacts. I'm on a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1.
I use Outlok.com for my primary repository for contacts and calendars, however I use GSyncit add-on for MS Outlook (desktop) to sync my desktop Outlook contacts and calendars to Google. This way I can use Outlook.com or Google Calendar / GMail to access/share my calendar and access contacts depending on the situation.
Everything is working fine on the desktop end so that is irrelevant to this problem (so probably shouldn't even have wrote the above paragraph - but just in case.)
I see there is a new Google Contacts app on the phone and on the web. I noticed this when I clicked on the People app and it said the app was missing. When I go to the web version of Google Contacts via my Google account, there are no contacts there! All my contacts are still in Gmail though of course.
I see that when I attempt to edit an older contact on the phone, it first prompts me with which Google account I want to sync with. I don't need to sync my phone contacts directly with Google, I just want to sync with Outlook.com -> Outlook -> Google (via GSyncit) but I suppose it wouldn't cause a problem if I just had the phone sync to both accounts (probably will then need to disable GSyncit contact sync between Outlook desktop and Google).
What is weird is that it is like Google made the mistake of launching this new contacts app, but there's no notice or migration instructions on the changes with the new app. I just happend to discover something was "unhooked" by trying to edit a contact! I just discovered the new Contacts app on the web by Googling, Google Contacts. I'm technically saavy and somewhat of an Android Wonk, and am surprised this is all a surprise!
Do I have to go try to edit every single contact on the mobile Contacts app now to select which Google account it syncs with? I HOPE NOT!
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Microsoft confirmed.
Your question on Microsoft Community has received a reply from Tushar Tiwari.
Title: How To Sync Contacts & Calendars with Native Android Phone Apps?
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Hi,
Unfortunately , by design, it is not yet possible to sync your Android phone contacts to your Outlook.com account.
Note: At the moment, you can only sync Outlook.com contacts to your android phone.
Please provide your suggestions/opinion as a feedback to the development team. To do this, click on the gear icon on the top right corner of Outlook.com homepage and select 'feedback' from the dropdown menu.
Hope this information is helpful.
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However, this isn't that big of a deal as I come to find out, even though there is no longer an Outlook.com account type on the phone any more, you can use the Exchange account type and use server address: s.outlook.com and then you can sync everything. Why the MS Tech didn't point this out it baffling.
(big middle finger for you Microsoft)
I have two Office365 accounts, one corporate, one personal domain. I can't add "app passwords" to the corporate one, so I need oauth2 support - i.e. the mail client presents the native sign on and then records the token. But I also need folder support, and want contact and calendar integration support, especially because I can't get the phone (HTC M8 running LeeDroid Marshmallow) to sync/auth for those either.
The only client I've found with all of that is Microsoft's Outlook. Cloud Magic comes close, but doesn't sync contacts for the phone nor calendar. Nine and others don't do OAuth. But Outlook only syncs the inbox - it can't be set to sync additional folders - so it isn't much good for filing your email as it comes in.
Is there a client that can do all this?