I was able to set my friends phone to use the gmail calendar for all new appointments, but all previous ones are set to pc sync. Is there a way to back those up to the gmail calendar. I've googled for days and only read post with people with same problem and no solution although they were a year old. Hoping it was solved somewhere. Thanks in advance.
If you just want to save your call logs then I recommend SMS Backup+ its free and will sync your txt,mms & call logs to your Gmail and is easy to set up
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Did you even read the OP?
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Hey there, I don't have my pc sync checked. I only have gmail sync checked. It sync all my phone contacts and calendar events with my phone and vice versa. Hope this helps.
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I got my captivate on last thursday for $349 commit free. Great! Anyway, I migrated from a WinMo Tilt 2 that was hacked to DeepShining custom ROM with the latest winmo build. I was using MyPhone service to sync all my contacts online. Now that I have switched to android (and i love it), I need a way to transfer all my contacts from winmo to google. since the phone contacts refuse to sync with outlook on my desktop, i transferred all of them directly to my captivate using BT exchange. now the problem is that the phone contacts wont sync with my gmail contacts. any ideas on how to do that?
I think the best way to get contacts on to an Android phone is to import them into your gmail contacts list, then tell the phone to sync with your gmail contacts.
I came from an iphone, so I had all my contacts in outlook. You can export all your contacts from outlook to a CSV file. Then go to gmail and import your contacts in to gmail using that same CSV file. Then go to your phone under settings there's a "accounts and sync" menu. You can tell it to sync with google there.
At least thats how I did it. It worked fine, it synced all my contacts within a few seconds.
Agreed. I came from a Blackberry and just synced all my contacts to my gmail account, did some cleanup (easier to do from my laptop), and then synced it to my new phone. Very easy and quick.
Has anyone with Google contacts tried to set up a group? I have a work team that I text sometimes and it would be easy to send a group message vs add them one by one. When I go under groups on the phone I can not add any contacts (probably since they are all Google contacts). I also created the group through my computer but it does not show as a group on my phone. I looked for sync settings but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions???
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The problem is my winmo phone wont sync up with outlook. Any clues as to why this happens?
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Has anyone with Google contacts tried to set up a group? I have a work team that I text sometimes and it would be easy to send a group message vs add them one by one. When I go under groups on the phone I can not add any contacts (probably since they are all Google contacts). I also created the group through my computer but it does not show as a group on my phone. I looked for sync settings but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions???
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I think this is a weakness of the Captivate. I have tried several options and none work perfect.
I ended up using "gsyncit" to do the Outlook to Gmail Contacts/Calendar syncing. When the Gmail Contacts/Calendar entries sync to your phone however (this will happen automatically), they end up in a single Group ("[email protected]"). So, I use the Android app "Groupy" for contacts and it keeps things sorted on my Captivate. Workable solution but kind of cludgy.
Groupy doesnt work right either...
1) Its slow as all get out, so slow it takes 30 seconds to load on my scree, then it pops up a box to "force close" or "wait". After another 20 seconds it finally loads...and this is with the latest update build as of 7/27.
2) When it does finally load, it shows my gmail contact folders, however the "Family" folder has 0, yet I have quite a few in that folder on Gmail contacts.
Bottom line, groupy doesnt work right, but worst of all a basic function to have your android phone sync correctly with your gmail contacts should work out of the box. PERIOD. I dont understand how this problem isnt at the top of everyone's complaints along with GPS and MMS?
This is still a big issue for me! Samsung needs to fix this and gps now!
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My calendar is continuously syncing and is draining the battery on my my touch 4g. Any suggestions on fixing this?
Check your sync settings for one and if that doesn't work just turn off the calendar syncing then when you put something new in manually sync it again
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Also check to see if you are syncing more than ONE calendar in the settings...
I noticed mine is syncing the FACEBOOK calendar with my friends birthdays, and honestly thats not info I want on my calendar....
Also check your credentials, maybe its trying to sync a calendar with a bad password? Just a suggestion, Im no expert...
Delete the synce and re add it. Should take care if the issue
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So never mind, I fixed it. I been reading around and if you set via android reocuring dates in google calendar it causes some kind of sync problem. I just went thur all of my calendar, deleted and re-entered the dates.
always going to enter reocuring dates via computer from now on.
Is there any way to support active sync on the infuse 4g
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What exactly are you trying to achieve?
Trying to make the contacts and calendar and notes sync to the infuse without hook up to a cpu
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I see. I'd think the built in mail app would allow you to do that but I use TouchDown so.... sorry I can't be more help
That is correct; the native email app does support Exchange ActiveSync. I use a modified version of it though called Enhanced Email. It has a few touches that are very useful, such as push capabilities for any folder, not just the inbox.
Is that just a app from market?? Found this thing called companiagn link. And samsung said the infuse doesnt support active sync that would just be retarded though
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ActiveSync is built in to infuse
I have set up my Infuse to ActiveSync my account on Office365. It will sync the primary contact, inbox, and calendar. If you have other folders in addition to Inbox, you will have to click on each folder to bring in the new items. No additional software is needed.
Yes, MS Active Sync does work
see this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=813920
go to post #16, i give exact instructions on how to set it up. If gives you complete exchange like control over your msn/hotmil/live email accounts, including calendar and contact syncing and full access to all your email folders, and best of all, email can be viewed as html.
sorry, i did a search but couldn't really find a good thread.
what are some other options to syncing your phones contacts with your computer besides outlook and gmail ? i don't have outlook and i don't like the way gmail syncs with the phone.
i'd like to find some kind of program or online site where you can sync and edit your contacts easily. i need to group my contacts again, and it's a pain to do this one by one on the phone.
thanks.
As long as you have saves your contacts as google contacts, they are already synced. Go to google on your comp and find contacts there
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Try "MyPhoneExplorer".
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i don't have outlook and i don't like the way gmail syncs with the phone.
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WTF? It's a GOOGLE PHONE,LOL.
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Hello all I have been a long time XDA member and took a leave of absence due to MS not really tailoring to Windows Phone.
I just picked up a S8+ and it is a nice device but I am struggling a bit and remembered how hopeful this site is.
Is there a single email and calendar application that can handle all my email accounts (live, office 365, work exchange)?
In addition I seem to be missing a good bit of contacts as I have my primary live account and gmail account on the device.
I can tell you this is a nice device but coming from Windows phone setup is tedious I have to figure out my facebook contact sync and WhatsApp sync as well.
Any tips from a convert would be greatly appreciated
Thanks for all your help my new family
I have been away from xda for quite sometime because I had an iPhone, switching to this phone also was a bit painful but it turned out to be easier than I thought.
You have Gmail, I'm using it for my work email (Microsoft), Hotmail, Yahoo and my Google account. It's works very nice.
As for the missing contacts, you can go to settings and accounts and add any account you want, open it, and activate contact sync. Not sure if it can sync Facebook contacts. Or you can just try from the Facebook settings
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im using Outlook for syncing mail and calendar. However using samsung calendar app you have everything synced and good to go. Also, you can sync your exchange/office365 to show your contacts in contact list.
What have I notcied, that Microsoft have much improved their apps on Android. Take a look at BlueMail as well - it syncs gmail and office and any other mail you need.
For Facebook i'm using Metal as I hate stock facebook app.
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Hi there,
im using Outlook for syncing mail and calendar. However using samsung calendar app you have everything synced and good to go. Also, you can sync your exchange/office365 to show your contacts in contact list.
What have I notcied, that Microsoft have much improved their apps on Android. Take a look at BlueMail as well - it syncs gmail and office and any other mail you need.
For Facebook i'm using Metal as I hate stock facebook app.
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Please assist I have removed the outlook app. And then added via accounts/cloud via main settings.
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Got contacts had to use at&t transfer app
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Only thing left now is all calendars. In outlook app all are there default just personal
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Looks to be a Samsung bug I will have to get another android device to comfirm. Google issue 36966730
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im able to use outlook to do so and i have 8 accts in the app.
i also use stock email and add any accts.
i use outlook in the app store for decades.
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im able to use outlook to do so and i have 8 accts in the app.
i also use stock email and add any accts.
i use outlook in the app store for decades.
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Yeah but the native Samsung Email and Calendar apps don't grab this information. In addition adding new contacts is such a pain as you have to do it directly in the outlook app instead of the default phone/contacts app. I have had this issue numerous times.
I hope they are able to fix this as I shouldn't have to migrate all my shared calendars to google from outlook.com to be able to work with them.
Great device but these items should just work and I think it may just be a Samsung issue I am working on getting another device to test.
As amon87 said BlueMail is the way.