I gather that mail, contacts and calendar syncing aren't an out-of-the-box feature on the GTab. Nor, it seems, is it baked into the popular ROMS. Am I going to need an app to get this functionality? Can you recommend one? Am I simply married to the web interface?
I currently have contacts and calendars synced to my iPhone via Exchange. Am I going to be able to 3-way sync or is this unlikely?
Thanks, all.
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Hey All,
Is there and Android native app that syncs your exchange calendar with your google calendar...
Like Moxier, Touchdown, etc. are all fine, but they have their own calendars - I just want one calendar with everything (in this case, my google calendar)...
Yeah, I know there are desktop apps, but these are useless if you're on the road for weeks and only carrying your beloved Android phone...
Thanks!
Thought I'd answer my own question since no one else could... That way, if anyone else wants an answer to the same question, here it is...
Yes - 2.2 gives you exchange calendar sync, so all your appointments appear on the one android calendar. Nice - no need for Moxier, Touchdown or anything, and I only have to look at one calendar to find out my schedule, not 3...
So I am a bit confused about Calendar syncing in WP7, and I keep getting different answers.
I am strongly thinking about getting a WP7 phone.
However the most important feature to me is my calendar. I use my calendar for my personal, and business use and rely on it heavily.
My calendar at home syncs with my google calendar, and my calendar at work syncs with my google calendar, which right now syncs with my phone. Basically any change I make on my calendar on any of my devices changes them over all of my calendars.
I also have my calendar syncing with my family's google calendar, and my wifes family's google calendar.
If your in google calendar and you see "My Calendar" all of my sections are broken down (work, home, church, etc). They are all in my calendar. Nothing is is "Other Calendar"
Will i be able to see and sync all of those events and change them etc from a WP7 phone?
I know only your Primary calendar syncs, but is that everything listed under my calendar, or is it just "work" for example?
Thank you
Regardless of how many calendars you have in Google Calendar, you only have 1 primary calendar. This is usually the one named 'Calendar'. Only this one calendar can sync to your Windows Phone due to Google actively blocking Windows Phone 7 devices.
Each one of those entries under My Calendar is a separate calendar, Google just shows them in a single Calendar view for your convenience. You still only have 1 primary calendar, and that's the only one that will sync at the moment.
Once Mango comes out, there is a trick you can do to activate multiple calendars to be sync'd to your device.
So it looks like i need to wait for mango to be released before I do anything about getting a WP7 phone. Thank you for the information.
The ICS calendar app won't sync with Outlook and there is no option to add an Outlook account - only Google and Exchange. Is there another apk that will fix this issue so I can add an Outlook account?
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I use touchdown app in active sync mode for that, which is a nice outlook ui anyway. May be some custom roms come with the proper encryption support if you search.
I use Google Calendar Sync(http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955), it's installed on my desktop, and sync's with Google Calendar, so when my device sync's with Google Calendar, I'm good to go. Been using it for a long time now and works great
I can't use Google mail, contacts or calendar due to the security issues of using cloud storage for sensitive information.
I wonder if using the calendar app from froyo will work. It synced directly with Outlook.
I'll give Touchdown a look. Thanks for the suggestions.
It seems with the stock email app synching contacts from an Exchange server is an all or nothing ordeal.
Currently I'm working with the nothing option by having previously synched all my exchange contacts in, backed up to gmail contacts, broke the Exchange contact sync and pruned gmail contacts and resynchronized to gmail contacts.
The problem is as I add contacts in Outlook I have to add them manually to my phone as well since there are a lot of contacts in Exchange I do not want on my phone.
My coworker's Motorola Droid allowed for synching only Exchange contacts by category. That is, categories are assigned on Outlook and the list of categories is loaded onto the phone and from the phone a category can be checked or unchecked to be included or excluded for synching.
This seems to be an appropriate solution for being selective about which Exchange contacts actually end up in my phone contacts. Unfortunately I'm not seeing such an option in the stock app. Is there such an option and if not is there an Exchange capable email app that does [provide this functionality without sacrificing the otherwise useful functionality of the stock app?
Thanks for the help!
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I'd love to see this too. It would make it so much easier with BT voice dialing.
Ok, we all know Google likes everyone to use their email programs but in reality there are millions of people using Outlook with email and has a ton of contacts in there. I've been searching all over the place and I cannot find a way to sync my Outlook contacts / calendar with this tablet. Is Google really playing this dirty, trying to make it impossible for people to do this? One of the reasons I liked Android was because of the freedom, but if you don't use "Google" apps you may have a big headache. I can very easily sync all my Outlook email/contacts/calendar easily with the Apple ipad/iphone. Even Apple realizes people use Microsoft Office/Outlook.
Try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.psencik.simple&hl=en
Or:
Calendar: http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955
Contacts: "If you Export your Contacts CSV file in DOS format instead of Windows, your Google Contacts will sync like a dream." -every website.
As stated above, what I did was export a csv from outlook, and load that into my gmail. Contacts synced. The next thing I had to do was get gmails app "Google Calendar Sync" that runs on my computer. It periodically updates (both ways) my outlook and gmail calendars so they sync
I used Google Calendar Sync before having access to an Android device, which took over the calendar maintenance. I have no clue, however, if it still supports the current versions of both Outlook and Google Calendar. Back in the days it worked beautifully though.