My work has turned off the USB ports on our computers. Therefore, I can no longer sync my phone via activesync with Outlook. I've been looking and cannot find a simple way of exporting my contacts and calendar to something that I can then sync my phone to, while preserving all of the data included.
Can someone recommend something that will do this while preserving contact pictures and calendar categories, etc?
FYI, I'm using WinMo 6.5
Thanks.
Upload them online to either Windows Live account or Gmail account.
Gmail preferred. It will store your contacts, calendar, etc.
Otherwise try PIMBackup
I should have stated, that I need to get the contacts and calendar off of my work PC. I know about google sync for calendars, but there isn't something similar for contacts.
The only methods that I have found do not save categories or contact pictures. I'd like to find something that equals what activesync can do when it transfers new info to my phone.
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Hi
I'm using a WM6.1 device and would like to sync at least the calendar with two exchange servers (2003 SP2). Ideally, i also would like to sync the contacts.
so:
ExchangeWORK <-> WM6.1 <-> ExhangeHOME
Anyone a solution please?
my thanks
Patrick
Not sure this will work, I was going to do something similar, with having all business contacts and appts. on my office computer and peronal on my notebook. The problem is, it's possible everything will get mixed together. So let's say you start with your work server, and all the info is on, now when you sync your home server, it will also grab the work info as well, now you'll just have everything twice, on both servers and your phone. The problem is, it syncs all data in the phone.
This is exactly what i want, just duplicate the date on my workcompu, homecompu and wm6 device.
Problem is that through activesync you can only sync your data (email, contacts, calendar, etc) with one partnership.
but i managed the above by using workaround
i use google calendar sync now and this works nicely
so on my workpc my exchange calendar is synced with my google calendar
and the same trick on my home pc.
not ideal, but it works nicely
now i have to find something for syncing my contacts
any sugestions?
thks
Patrick
I'm not sure about using an Exchange Server, never used myself, but after setting up the one, have you already tried setting up the other?
Also, there is a good chance this will duplicate everything though. Once the second server picks up the info from the first, it will all go back to the first when you sync with it, and visa versa.
Before I got my WinMo phone I had all my email accounts in outlook, along with my contacts and calendar. I consolidated all of my email accounts into my gmail account. Imported all of my contacts and calendar entries.
I downloaded my emails to my phone through an IMAP connection, I sync my calendar entries between the phone and gmail. Is there a way I can sync my contacts from my phone to gmail without going through outlook on my computer?
I want to eliminate the middle man (my computer) in all the syncing so all of my stuff is available through my phone or gmail so that way if i'm at a friends and don't have my phone or computer I can still access information if need be.
With the contacts, in case its not clear enough, I synced all my contacts from outlook to my phone when I got it. I then imported all of my contacts from outlook into gmail. Now I get a call on my phone and then add that number as a new contact. How do I sync that new number into gmail without going through outlook?
http://www.google.dk/search?source=...ontacts+pocketpc&btnG=Google-søgning&meta=lr=
tried looking here?
I was searching syncing gmail contacts windows mobile instead of pocketpc and gsync wasn't coming up on my search. Ill have to give it a try later. OGG Sync says it does contacts but the only thing I can find on it is calendar.
Thanks for the help
Gsync doesn't sync contacts from the phone to google. Somebody has to be doing this?
Try nuevasync.com
plexo.com + rememberthemilk.com + mesh.com = complete outlook replacement
Is paid service ($50/yr) but is by far the best I've ever used. Will sync your contacts and calendar with device/outlook/google/yahoo etc. I also use rememberthemilk to sync taks online, and Live Mesh for files and photos. Using Linux as a main OS forces you to find all the best-of-breed non-MS solutions, it's entirely possible to ditch outlook and still have 100% functionality replaced with online cloud services.
Is it possible to enable one-way sync for a calendar from the exchange server to your phone? I don't want any changes made on my phone to be cascaded to the exchange server.
Thanks guys.
http://www.pocketpc.gen.tr/google-sync-push-mail-destegi
This only shows me how to setup syncing with Google products.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
I am looking for the same capability. I believe the option to choose direction of synching was removed after ActiveSync 3, as I know I used to use this functionality all the time. I don't want to sync my personal contacts & calendar from my personal pc to my business contacts & calendar on my work laptop. But I want both my business contacts & calendar on my personal pc and phone.
BTW - Google sync only allows you to sync one computer/device, unless that has been changed recently. Also, from what I could see it doesn't offer one-way synching.
I have finally catched some time and esited my contact list, so now ALL my contacts have adress, picture, mail, all numbers an so on...
For now I have backuped them on Microsoft MyPhone so that when I flash any rom can easily sync them back to my Diamond.
But question is,how to transfer all those contacts to android platform(so that all pics, adreses and other are still there)??
Anybody?
Not sure if it will work as I have never had the need to try but would creating a Google account and setting up synch with that do the job?
I have google account for a long time
But how to sync it with mine contacts?
OK, its another hoop to jump through but I am fairly certain that Seven offers the option to synch calendar/mail/contacts with WM and Android devices and a Google account. My PIM data is all held on an Exchange system so I have never used the contact side of Seven.
When I try to stop actively syncing certain features (like contacts), it erases all my contacts from my phone. Help?
Here's the deal:
I have set up my WM6.5 standard phone (Samsung JACK) to sync with my home PC and my work PC. The other day I wanted to back-up my contacts to my home PC, but I don't want it to sync contacts on my work PC because then it will download the entire office directory - do not want.
So I selected "CONTACTS" to sync while at home. I did it, it saved all my contacts to my PC, and now I'm happy.
Trouble:
When I went into options and un-selected "CONTACTS" it now has to remove all my contacts from my phone. Why??? It says that it has to remove all sync'd contacts to stop it from sync'ing in the future. That makes no sense, and is now causing me trouble.
To get my contacts back on my phone, I sync'd it with my home PC. But, now I can't sync with my work PC because I can't remove CONTACTS from the sync list.
This is also true with CALENDAR. I was thinking of trying to sync my Outlook calendar with GOOGLE Calendar, but to start a new sync with Google I have to unselect my calendar sync. If I do that, it removes all of my calendar items. THIS IS NO GOOD!
How can I unselect something to stop it from sync'ing in the future but leave those items alone on my device and PC as they are.
Help?
I hate to "bump", but I was hoping someone here had experience with this.
I can't seem to get anybody to talk to me about this, and it is increasingly infuriating.
The only answer I'm finding is that we CAN'T.
ActiveSync will delete everything if you stop sync'ing. So, we have to use a 3rd party backup software to backup everything, delete the partnership, and then set the new thing to sync, and reload from the backup.
A pain in the you-know-what, but it looks like Microsoft designed it that way. (Booooo, hisssssss)
i'm looking forward to getting away from MS in my next phone.