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A simple mail problem that I can not figure out.

I have my new fuze and I powered it up with instructions to make it bloat free. I installed windows live ver 10.6.39.1300. I think I needed it but I am not sure. I have a hotmail account and when I try to set it up the phone says
"settings found for"
hotmail.com
to complete setup and download e-mail click next.
I click next and nothing happens??
Any suggestions. I really only want my phone to check mail every 30min or so. I thought that this would be the best way to do it.

[Q] Android Market "Starting Download" issue

(Not sure if this is the correct sub-forum to ask, but here goes)
Has there been a fix for the old "Starting Download" issue on the Android Market? I still can't download anything from it. I know that resetting my phone will work (for a while), but it's not an option right now. Any help?
P.S. I've searched the forum as well and was not able to find a concrete answer.

I was told that starting Google Talk should make sure you're logged in to Google's server, which is (supposedly) what causes that problem.

skyjumper said:
I was told that starting Google Talk should make sure you're logged in to Google's server, which is (supposedly) what causes that problem.
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Hmm, I tried that but I'm already logged in

That issue has haunted me for a while - I get a cold sweat anytime a download start takes longer than usual.
I personally don't believe it's an issue with your device (as I've seen some argue it to be), rather it's with your gmail account. When a factory reset didn't fix my problem, I went to a tmobile store where my buddy works, and we put my sim card into every android device he had (mt3g, mts, garmin, and one other I can't remember), only to find that none would allow me to download.
For me the workaround I'm currently using is to set up the device with another gmail account newly created for the purpose of being able to download apps, then set up my "real" gmail (the one I actually use) to sync my contacts and calendar. The only problem is that I can't use my real gmail on gchat, since that only signs into the primary account you used when setting up the device. I don't use gchat much on my phone anyway, so it wasn't that big of a deal.
I suppose it's possible my phone corrupted my account somehow, but I had deleted caches, updates, and anything else I'd heard had worked for others, but to no avail. If you get to the bottom of the problem, be sure to let me know.
Good luck!
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bnielsen40 said:
That issue has haunted me for a while - I get a cold sweat anytime a download start takes longer than usual.
I personally don't believe it's an issue with your device (as I've seen some argue it to be), rather it's with your gmail account. When a factory reset didn't fix my problem, I went to a tmobile store where my buddy works, and we put my sim card into every android device he had (mt3g, mts, garmin, and one other I can't remember), only to find that none would allow me to download.
For me the workaround I'm currently using is to set up the device with another gmail account newly created for the purpose of being able to download apps, then set up my "real" gmail (the one I actually use) to sync my contacts and calendar. The only problem is that I can't use my real gmail on gchat, since that only signs into the primary account you used when setting up the device. I don't use gchat much on my phone anyway, so it wasn't that big of a deal.
I suppose it's possible my phone corrupted my account somehow, but I had deleted caches, updates, and anything else I'd heard had worked for others, but to no avail. If you get to the bottom of the problem, be sure to let me know.
Good luck!
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Hi! Thanks for the tip but as it turns out - I can't even add another account It always produce an error saying "can't establish connection". Any idea why this is the case?

The "Starting Download" issue for me, was unfixable and related to my google account. I created a new one and it worked flawlessly.

billyandrewsy said:
Hi! Thanks for the tip but as it turns out - I can't even add another account It always produce an error saying "can't establish connection". Any idea why this is the case?
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Hmm...that sounds like a connectivity issue and not a problem with the device. I'd say reboot your phone and try again.
Just to be clear, I created a new gmail address and used that during the initial setup of the phone (after a factory reset of course), then went to settings> accounts and sync> select add account and entered the old gmail I've used forever (which is why just ditching it and using the new one wasn't an option - I didn't want to bother notifying everyone I had a new email).
You'll see that you only have the option to sync contacts and gmail with a secondary gmail address - not calendar. To get around this (since my old gmail is the calendar I want to sync), set up the new gmail to share calendars w/ the old one. Once that's done, you'll see in your calendar app settings on the phone the option to sync the old gmail calendar and not the new one.
Hope that made sense! It's really not difficult to do - just annoying that it has to be done at all. I wish someone would figure out why some gmail accounts get stuck at starting download. What a pain.

I had this problem for awhile, but it was because I was task killing Google Talk. When I disabled the task killer it worked fine.

I read a few comments on the help community in the market to go to applications, manage apps, select the market then uninstall updates. This worked for a while but very intermittent. Worth a go though
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I generally just wait, I believe it's a server issue...I eventually get the download but, yeah, I wait and then go back to the store and attempt to start the download again...and that seems to work.

Randroid. said:
I had this problem for awhile, but it was because I was task killing Google Talk. When I disabled the task killer it worked fine.
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Yes downloading from the market is related to the Google Talk app. I once deleted it from /system and it did the same thing.
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Same here too
djsubcode said:
I generally just wait, I believe it's a server issue...I eventually get the download but, yeah, I wait and then go back to the store and attempt to start the download again...and that seems to work.
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Thanks for all of the replies. I know of the delete Market update solution but when I browse for Market in the Manage Application screen, I never see the "update" portion there. Any other tips?

billyandrewsy said:
Thanks for all of the replies. I know of the delete Market update solution but when I browse for Market in the Manage Application screen, I never see the "update" portion there. Any other tips?
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I've formatted my sd card & I don't know if it helped or a coincidence but I now have no problem downloading again maybe worth a try...
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[Q] How Do I Get My Apps Back???

Hi,
When I first got my phone a month ago and not knowing what I was doing, when prompted to log into a Gmail account, I set things up with my tertiary/third-most-used account. Little did I know the consequences. When I decided I wanted to now set the phone up with my primary account, I discovered that the only way to do so was with a hard reset!
Well, after going through that process and now wanting to download and install several dozen Market apps that I previously had installed (several of which I'd paid for), I logged into Market, only to find a message saying "No downloads from Android Market."
I assume that Market doesn't recognize my new Gmail address as belonging to the same person as the one I was using previously (even after I added it). Is there a way that I can associate the two accounts for Market so that I can get my apps back?
Thanks!

This might be a dumb question and a little too late, but is there a reason you NEED the phone set up with your most used account? If I'm not mistaken, it ought to be painfully easy to set the phone up with a second google account for things like gmail and calendar and such. You might even be able to get contact sync from a second google account, with apps and such just syncing from the old account that you already used for that purpose.
I'd have at least given that a try before doing a full wipe, but you might have reasons I haven't thought of yet.

Not a dumb question at all. In fact, I'm the one feeling pretty dumb right now, for jumping the gun like I did. I did have a couple of other reasons, but I'm beginning to see that it wasn't as
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(Well, that wasn't ready to go....)
...worth the cost. The other problem now is that I'm deluged by mail from my primary Gmail account. It also goes to my ISP account, where I can read it much more efficiently.
I can see another hard reset in my near future. :-(
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I can tell you from experience (I've flashed a few roms...) that a hard reset isn't nearly as hard when you're syncing to the google account that has all your contacts and apps attached to it...

Silas, you lost me. What do you mean that it isn't as hard? Because you don't lose as much data? Are you talking about doing a hard reset without switching accounts like I did?
Would I be better to reset again (not a big deal at this point) and go back to the way it was, or not? Would I get my apps back (I hope)?
FWIW, I use my Gmail accounts only to collect and back up my email accounts, and for quick searches. I thought I might start using Google Calendar, though, and thought it might be better to use the one in my main Gmail account. Possibly I could sync the same calendar to both accounts,though -- could I?
And finally, is there any way at all to get my paid apps back with my current setup?
Thanks, everyone.
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This might help you. Go into gmail and click the account address in the upper right corner. At the bottom is an option for adding an account. You should be able to let you apps back after adding that other account back. Hope it helps. If not, at least I tried.
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Well, I thought I had replied a couple of hours ago, and here's my message, still waiting to post. Sigh....
Thank you, ZeroRilix. Unfortunately, no dice.
When I did that, there were already three accounts there. After hard resetting and setting up my primary Gmail account, I had also set up my other two Gmail account in Accounts & sync in Settings. However, when I viewed them as you suggested, it said that neither of them had been synced. So I made sure that Contacts, Calendar, and Mail were synced for all three accounts. When I went into Market and viewed My Apps, all I saw were still the few I had downloaded since the hard reset.
Thanks, though....

No prob. Everything you've already tried should've worked. I might suggest contacting Android Market and letting them know what's going on. I have included the link to the appropriate form to fill out. Sorry your still having issues, and maybe they can help you further. If you get the issue resolved, post back here so users who might run into this same issue cam fix it. Good luck!
http://market.android.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=market_phone
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http://market.android.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=market_phone
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I thought for sure I'd replied to this, but I can't see my response anywhere. Don't know why I'm having such trouble posting.
Thanks very much for this. I sent a support request yesterday and will let you know what they say. Unfortunately, it's Saturday, and I assume nobody's there to answer. Why do things always go wrong on the weekend?

Hi,
Here's my latest update. Not wanting to wait till Monday or later for a reply from Market Support, I decided to try posting my question to the Android forum at androidforums.com. I got a couple of helpful responses and I'm back in business. Here's the thread for anyone interested:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/335710-how-can-i-recover-my-market-apps.html OR
goo.gl/FhiLP
The short version is that I started over the way I had initially and all my apps downloaded automatically!
Thanks again for the help.

[Q] Qauntum useless after Mango update would flashing back work

I have an LG Quantum and after the Mango update I don't receive email for my Hotmail accounts and I can no loner delete email from the Exchange server for my Exchange account. I have deleted and re-added all email accounts multiple times and have reset the phone twice - still the exact same problems.
I found the following thread here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935605
Would using those instructions to flash back work because the phone is useless to me now.
Thanks,
Sandy

The Sand said:
I have an LG Quantum and after the Mango update I don't receive email for my Hotmail accounts and I can no loner delete email from the Exchange server for my Exchange account. I have deleted and re-added all email accounts multiple times and have reset the phone twice - still the exact same problems.
I found the following thread here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935605
Would using those instructions to flash back work because the phone is useless to me now.
Thanks,
Sandy
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that is bizarre. Sounds like a certificate issue. You tried a complete cold boot (hard reset in Settings, About, reset your phone)? and it's still not working? Can't imagine what an original rom would do better than that. If you look further down the thread you found with the roms, there seems to be a NoDo rom as well.
Did you try to restore back to NoDo? when you upgraded to Mango the install process should have created a NoDo restore. Open Zune client, connect phone via USB and check Settings/Phone/Update. there should be a restore option at the bottom (Must be the same PC and same user account you used to upgrade to Mango).
There is some good info in this thread here about the same issues others had. At least somebody found a solution for Exchange server sync that may work for you.
Somebody here had the same problem with hotmail accounts. Even after hard resetting etc. He and somebody else were able to fix this by adding a twitter account (just a dummy one). Once twitter was added it fixed all hotmail problems. Note that they had this problem on 7712, however it sounds very similar to your problem. It also shows that a hard reset of rom flash will likely not help at all because it is some kind of certificate error or similar.
I would think that reflashing the phone would not be any different than hard resetting your phone. I strongly believe that the problem is someplace else as seen in the other posts above.
Good luck and hopefully it is something simple.
cheers

Thanks so much for your reply!
I just spent over an hour on the phone with AT&T who referred me to LG who told me to contact Microsoft. And we all know you can't contact Microsoft. Thus I got nowhere which is what I thought would happen but wanted to try anyway.
if you think flashing won't right this then I won't do it. What is interesting with my problem is there are no error messages - you just won't receive some email for Hotmail unless you manually hit the sync key (even though I have set it to deliver "as items arrive") - but other times you will. I spent a great deal of time today with my Exchange provider who is telling me others who have upgraded to Mango are having no problems. Thus no help from them either. I spent $500 for this phone right when it came out... and if it can't successfully and reliably handle email, and it's less than a year old - well I have no words for that.
I have seen the link about the tasks affecting Exchange and tried that but it didn't work - although their problem had an error message mine is not giving me. Adding a Twitter account is something I had not seen - who knows??? I am very frustrated at this point and would try anything..
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply!!
Sandy

The Sand said:
Thanks so much for your reply!
Sandy
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I am sure you probably checked this already. if you go into settings and swipe over to applications and go to people at the bottom is accounts. when you tap on windows live or other accounts you should see sync settings, e.g. content to sync (email). At top of the same page you see how often it pulls data.
for my hotmail account the server listed is m.hotmail.com
make sure those settings make sense.
ATT or LG will not be able to help you with this and I wouldn't hold it against them. I believe this is related to a sync/server hiccup. With a hard reset you create a the windowslive account fresh, so I do not believe it's anything on the device. I would try to change the password on my hotmail or windowslive account, so that the server has to re-establish/refresh user credentials.
edit: make sure you report about your outcome. hopefully a good one.

I didn't think AT&T or LG would be able to help - to get me to call them means I am reaching the end of what I can think up to throw at this. They do what the can, this just beyond what they would know.
All my Hotmails are m.hotmail.com for the EAS. My settings all make sense - but your idea of trying to reset the password is a good one. I will give that a shot.
My main man at Exchange is back tomorrow (he was out today) if anybody can help me he can. He in in charge of the mobile division - he is really nice and doesn't give up easily. Hopefully working with him tomorrow can deliver some kind of answer to this.
Once again, thanks for your patience and time
Sandy

Ready for what the Exchange problem turned out to be??? When deleting I use the check boxes on WP7. When you hit just to the left of an email, check boxes appear, and I selected what I want deleted and hit the trash can at the bottom. Then I would hit sync. That doesn't work for my Exchange account anymore, thus my email was still sitting on the server. You have to push down on the email message and delete using the pop up menu. Then it deletes the email off the server... I have still been able to use the check boxes for my Hotmail account from WP7 to delete from server.
I am still dealing with how to get my Hotmail email off the server using Outlook as the "Remove from server when deleted from 'deleted items'" no longer works. Which forces POP3 users into the Hotmail Connector. I am going to work with that today to see if I can use it but configure it to not sync my calendar/contacts and certain email folders that I do not want on Hotmail's server. If you use Yahoo I guess you are just out of luck now...
So some of this is solved...
Sandy

The Sand said:
Ready for what the Exchange problem turned out to be???
So some of this is solved...
Sandy
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I knew there were checkmarks, never used them. I always highlight an email or thread and delete. But I also never paid attention whether they are deleted from the server. My Outlook at home fetches the same emails and it deletes emails after two weeks anyway.
Have you tried to create a dummy hotmail account to test the problems you have with your current?

derausgewanderte said:
I knew there were checkmarks, never used them. I always highlight an email or thread and delete. But I also never paid attention whether they are deleted from the server. My Outlook at home fetches the same emails and it deletes emails after two weeks anyway.
Have you tried to create a dummy hotmail account to test the problems you have with your current?
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How I delete (whether check mark or holding for the pop up menu) didn't work this afternoon. I worked with the Exchange guy today and we thought we had it... but it happened again late today. I also have my Outlook set to delete the email but once I try to delete it from WP7, unless I log into OWA the email doesn't get deleted - so when I look at my Blackberry, or some other device, I see all these emails that should have been deleted if not by WP7, then by Outlook (If WP7 fails to delete I use Outlook). Right now I am restoring my system back to a month ago (I use Acronis so I have multiple image backups) to see if anything got corrupted in Outlook - just to rule it out.
So bummed because I thought I was in the clear.. (but to tell you the truth, I thought "how" I deleted seemed a little sketchy.)

The Sand said:
How I delete (whether check mark or holding for the pop up menu) didn't work this afternoon. I worked with the Exchange guy today and we thought we had it... but it happened again late today. I also have my Outlook set to delete the email but once I try to delete it from WP7, unless I log into OWA the email doesn't get deleted - so when I look at my Blackberry, or some other device, I see all these emails that should have been deleted if not by WP7, then by Outlook (If WP7 fails to delete I use Outlook). Right now I am restoring my system back to a month ago (I use Acronis so I have multiple image backups) to see if anything got corrupted in Outlook - just to rule it out.
So bummed because I thought I was in the clear.. (but to tell you the truth, I thought "how" I deleted seemed a little sketchy.)
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before you do your system restore, please make a backup of your NoDo restore point that was created when you upgraded to Mango.
The restore point is located here:
C:\Users\UserAccountName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update\g52e4324 - 19e00804 - 6918db00 - e64473cf
where the last gibberish is your phones device ID (and therefore different than the above).
That folder should have the date of your Mango upgrade. You can use this to roll back to before you upgraded to Mango using the Zune client. Just in case you find out it DOES have to do with the Mango upgrade and the problem is on the device.

Thanks so much for passing that along. I went ahead and backed up the file you suggested. I have done a hard reset on my LG (2 actually) - if I take my computer back a month will the Zune client know the phone due to the hard reset? And if it doessn't, can I simply put that file back in place and "point" Zune to it to get a successful restore?
Once again thanks for all the help....

The Sand said:
Thanks so much for passing that along. I went ahead and backed up the file you suggested. I have done a hard reset on my LG (2 actually) - if I take my computer back a month will the Zune client know the phone due to the hard reset? And if it doessn't, can I simply put that file back in place and "point" Zune to it to get a successful restore?
Once again thanks for all the help....
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yes, after your restore, connect the phone to USB and let Zune recognize it. Zune should create a folder of the same file structure in the Phone Update directory if one isn't there already (probably your restore folder will have a pre NoDo restore point). Disconnect phone, close Zune and replace the one you just backed up with the one that is in there (best to delete old one and copy new one in to avoid mixup of files). When you open Zune and connect the phone and check settings/phone/update you should see a restore point with the date of your Mango upgrade. The directory structure should look identical to what it looks right now (in other words, you need to copy the entire device ID folder into the Windows Phone Update folder). Sorry for being wordy....

Great! Fantastic news! I will go ahead and restore the computer back to a month ago now... this will rule out Outlook causing any problem - narrowing down where the problem is.
I know I keep saying this, but thanks again for the help!
p.s. you are anything but "wordy" - have you looked at my stuff??? now that's wordy.

I restored the computer back and things are better. As far as WP7 I can still tell that deleting by bringing up the pop up window on WP7 as opposed to the check marks is indeed a factor. The check marks don't work for conversations. Maybe the pop up windows takes the conversation an a "whole" and deletes it. It seems WP7 and Outlook 2010 and working together better - not flawlessly yet, but better.
Sometimes the Exchange server lags at night when you delete from Outlook so I will wait until morning for further testing. But I am feeling a litter better tonight about what I am seeing after the restore.
I can't thank you enough for your invaluable help! I have a Nokia N900 and have flashed it before - and tried to flash it backwards due to an upgrade issue, which wasn't so easy - so I know if can be difficult. I really appreciate your input that flashing wasn't really advisable for my situation. You spared me unnecessary work as well as giving instructions on saving my restore point for Zune. So I certainly owe you one!
I will post back what happens as well as what I am going to do about Hotmail not deleting from the server using Outlook anymore (even after the restore that option isn't working, so it's coming from Microsoft.)
See I told you I could be wordy
Sandy
p.s. I do have my restore point in Zune for Mango btw - I followed your instructions - killer!!

The Sand said:
I restored the computer back and things are better. See I told you I could be wordy
Sandy
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cool, and no problem. I am just giving back the help I got from others in this forum. And learn something new as a side effect. And as always, we will be well prepared for this problem, but the next one is going to be something entirely different anyway.
tschuess

My email was a trainwreck today. WP7 will delete Exchange from the server but Outlook now won't. Exchange on WP7 isn't working in "real time" I have to hit the sync button to get it to refresh and tell me what email is on the server (I have "as items arrive" as my setting.)
On WP7 All 3 Hotmail accounts are unable to delete any email off the Hotmail server even though I have m.hotmail.com selected, which is like Exchange and should give me a direct reflection of Hotmail's server. All my email is sitting in Hotmail's inbox.
I am calling AT&T tomorrow to get another one as I am still under warranty. It will be refurbished which I don't like but I feel I have no other choice. I have gone in circles for over a week trying to solve this and can't.
I will post back how my next phone goes... if I have any of the same problems (hopefully I won't.)
Sandy

The Sand said:
My email was a trainwreck today. WP7 will delete Exchange from the server but Outlook now won't. Exchange on WP7 isn't working in "real time" I have to hit the sync button to get it to refresh and tell me what email is on the server (I have "as items arrive" as my setting.)
On WP7 All 3 Hotmail accounts are unable to delete any email off the Hotmail server even though I have m.hotmail.com selected, which is like Exchange and should give me a direct reflection of Hotmail's server. All my email is sitting in Hotmail's inbox.
I am calling AT&T tomorrow to get another one as I am still under warranty. It will be refurbished which I don't like but I feel I have no other choice. I have gone in circles for over a week trying to solve this and can't.
I will post back how my next phone goes... if I have any of the same problems (hopefully I won't.)
Sandy
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darn, before you return it have you considered to restore back to pre Mango? connect phone, open Zune and go to settings/phone/update. you should see a restore button that should take your phone back to the state before you upgraded to Mango.
I just tried the email deleting myself to make sure (more for myself) that this is not a feature. It works fine. When I delete an email from the phone and the phone syncs (set to every 30min), the email gets deleted from the server right then or when I manually sync.

I decided to do just that... I think I will stick on "Life before Mango hell" for a little while. Watch everything delete from server just like it should for awhile. I didn't know how good I had it. Plus, when I talked to AT&T they said normally you won't get a refurbished phone for this type of problem. But I also said if you would like me to continue to pay you a large monthly smartphone family plan like I do ( I am not under contract, I buy my phones myself) then you better make sure I have something to play with.
But pre Mango I am running as stellar as before... Thanks for making sure I had that backup!
I will try to upgrade again, maybe next week - and see if it handles it better...
Sandy

The Sand said:
I decided to do just that... I think I will stick on "Life before Mango hell" for a little while. Watch everything delete from server just like it should for awhile. I didn't know how good I had it. Plus, when I talked to AT&T they said normally you won't get a refurbished phone for this type of problem. But I also said if you would like me to continue to pay you a large monthly smartphone family plan like I do ( I am not under contract, I buy my phones myself) then you better make sure I have something to play with.
But pre Mango I am running as stellar as before... Thanks for making sure I had that backup!
I will try to upgrade again, maybe next week - and see if it handles it better...
Sandy
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glad the restore worked fine. so you were correct all along and it is indeed the device, wow.
Maybe there is a setting in NoDo that causes the partially failed upgrade. So here is one more suggestion. If the next Mango upgrade gives you the same problem then restore to NoDo (move the current backup you have to a safe place) and hard reset the phone in NoDo, and only then upgrade to Mango.
Good luck

derausgewanderte said:
If the next Mango upgrade gives you the same problem then restore to NoDo (move the current backup you have to a safe place) and hard reset the phone in NoDo, and only then upgrade to Mango.
Good luck
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Yes, I totally agree... A wiped device then upgrade to Mango.
I will let you know...
Once again, Thanks!
Sandy

I did the roll back to NoDo - Hard reset - update to Mango. The update took twice as long even though there was nothing on the phone (weird.) My Hotmail accounts (which are EAS) are now syncing, but I am still having trouble with deleting from Server using Exchange even when I hold down to get the pop up box for delete (which does work better than the checkmarks.) I have to over ride with my Blackberry to get things off the server. I am seeing things on forums now regarding EAS not syncing for people, mostly contacts and calendar, but it's there. Thus we all have to wait for MS to issue an update that fixes this.
So we wait...
Sandy

[Q] new to the mini

hey guys im needing some help! I am switching from sprint to ATT and got this mini. can i keep whats on my old phone like apps? also i tried the contact part where it lets me move my contacts and it gave me a old list of contacts... do i need to update my gmail or what? i dont use it at all the gmail. I need to get my contacts over! if i do the face book app the i guess runs all the time on a main page on the phone will that use a bunch of data? any help and i have to read more i just got this beast and my old phone is a epic( piece lol). im asking because i work late and att is closed. any help or anything i need to know about this to get me going and such LMK. the guys over on the epic thread were great and i hope this group is the same. I have wanted a HTC for a couple years now! TY!

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hey guys im needing some help! I am switching from sprint to ATT and got this mini. can i keep whats on my old phone like apps? also i tried the contact part where it lets me move my contacts and it gave me a old list of contacts... do i need to update my gmail or what? i dont use it at all the gmail. I need to get my contacts over! if i do the face book app the i guess runs all the time on a main page on the phone will that use a bunch of data? any help and i have to read more i just got this beast and my old phone is a epic( piece lol). im asking because i work late and att is closed. any help or anything i need to know about this to get me going and such LMK. the guys over on the epic thread were great and i hope this group is the same. I have wanted a HTC for a couple years now! TY!
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1) If your old phone is rooted you can use Titanium backup to backup you old apps and then restore them on your new phone.
2) Backup your contacts on your old phone to your Gmail account, then when you sign in on your new phone they should sync automatically (if they then don't manually sync them in the Accounts & sync settings.)

Ecstacy42 said:
1) If your old phone is rooted you can use Titanium backup to backup you old apps and then restore them on your new phone.
2) Backup your contacts on your old phone to your Gmail account, then when you sign in on your new phone they should sync automatically (if they then don't manually sync them in the Accounts & sync settings.)
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Where on my old phone can I do the gmail update to get my contacts? Just now thinking do I just turn on the sync?
As far as rooting I did want to root! I wanted to make the epic just a tablet games and music for my little man! Is there a way that is somewhat hassle free? I don't need anything special just games and music.
TY!

Nabisco_12 said:
Where on my old phone can I do the gmail update to get my contacts? Just now thinking do I just turn on the sync?
As far as rooting I did want to root! I wanted to make the epic just a tablet games and music for my little man! Is there a way that is somewhat hassle free? I don't need anything special just games and music.
TY!
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It's somewhat different for every phone, it should be under Account settings or something similar to that, then select your Gmail account, and manually sync them. You can check that they're backed up properly by logging into Gmail on your desktop and right under the Google logo there should be the word "Gmail" with a drop down menu, click that then go to Contacts, then make sure they're all there.
Look on the Epic sub-forum for how to root, it's a bit different for each phone. If you're fine with the stock UI on your phone I'd suggest just doing a factory reset and then using it as a tablet, if you wanted some sort of custom interface you'd have to check if something like that exists in the Epic sub-forum. There isn't much I can do to help with this, I've never used the Epic.

Ecstacy42 said:
It's somewhat different for every phone, it should be under Account settings or something similar to that, then select your Gmail account, and manually sync them. You can check that they're backed up properly by logging into Gmail on your desktop and right under the Google logo there should be the word "Gmail" with a drop down menu, click that then go to Contacts, then make sure they're all there.
Look on the Epic sub-forum for how to root, it's a bit different for each phone. If you're fine with the stock UI on your phone I'd suggest just doing a factory reset and then using it as a tablet, if you wanted some sort of custom interface you'd have to check if something like that exists in the Epic sub-forum. There isn't much I can do to help with this, I've never used the Epic.
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kinda pissed the phone doesnt have a sd card! the att guy had me do mobile transfer and got my contacts. but idk how well it will transfer my pics... i dont want doubles.