There appears to be a new version of HTC Sync available to download from HTC web site (or you might be notified automatically if you already have an older version installed.)
I'm hoping that this might fix some of the bugs with existing versions, especially it re-organising contact names in Outlook without asking me!
I'll report back any interesting findings.
Feedback from other users also obviously very welcome.
EDIT: It still screws up the names in Outlook, so I have to save outlook.pst before syncing ;-(
- Steve
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I have a question to all android users:
1. After i install an android OS how do i recover or transfer my contacts and calender events from WM 6.1 to android?
Try syncing your contact with Google sync before jumping to android, then you will have your contact list safely waiting at google servers.
There are many ways but the best one to my opinion is this. I have tried it and it is amazingly easy to use. Just a few clicks. Although I am from Greece and greek contacts are a little bit difficult to be handled, results were simply excellent for me. But you have to do it immediately because the android app is still beta and expires tomorrow. I suppose there will be a non beta version after that but it may not be for free
I forgot to mention that the above way of backup, can only handle contacts, sms, call log and bookmarks. As the site says "much more coming soon" but now it cannot handle calendar entries
google is great
google is great. I suggest every one can just use google to sync contact and calender. this problem solved!
Ok! I agree, Google Sync solves. I'll close here, anything send me PM
Hiya,
I have Google, Exchange and POP3 emails each with a version of contacts, calendar and associated data and also Facebook... Last time I tried to consolidate them I ended up wiping my everything and had to go back to a 2-month old version of contacts from my POP3/Outlook account. Active sync wiped my computer instead of updating my phone (twice)!
I am now back to having messy contacts with people with 2+ different birthday dates in my calendar...
Would anyone suggest the best way to clean up my mess... I'd be prepared to go through my 200 contacts one-by-one again to tidy them up... I just want to know that the result will be all my accounts having the cleaned set and not wiping all my hard work and needing to resort to my backup again.
Thanks for any constructive answers and Happy New Year!
I had found this cab here a long time ago. All credit goes to the developer, I just can't find the thread to post a link.
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I had found this cab here a long time ago. All credit goes to the developer, I just can't find the thread to post a link.
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Now you gave me the cab I found the thread here!
Will give it a whirl to see if it does what I want... part of my issue was having google contacts too and then having my phone wipe the PC and not my PC reloading the phone!
Do you have a preference as to which service is the Master list for you? Some people utilize their Exchange for everything including personal while others only merge personal and business inside of Google or their personal PC with Outlook.
I began using Google as the master account holder for all things related to my services. This makes it easy to export, maintain and sync contacts. I stopped using Outlook/Exchange but that doesn't sound like an option for you.
When I was using Outlook I would simply clear out all contacts in my phone, outlook and make sure that Google had the correct info/dates. I would then go use an app called GoSync ( i think) to sync Google to Outlook/Exchange.
I guess it depends on how you are interfacing with Google on your phone and what phone it is...on my WM6.5 phone I was simply using Gmail Exchange to do all this.
Wow, I typed all that and don't know if I added one answer...did any of that make sense?
Dear xda members,
Today I found this wordpress article from Kriss Wong about the current status of the ActiveSync support in the popular K9 mail android client.
It looks like the project is going on and that the current sources would let us compile a working version. Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge for that and I am missing many tools to follow the tutorial provided in the article.
If anybody gives it a try, I am sure that posting the compiled apk here would make a lot of people happy
Wordpress article: http://codethis.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/building-k-9-mail-with-exchange-activesync-support/
Github sources: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/tree/ms-eas
Regards,
Laurent
+1 Waiting for this too...
Would also love to have this!
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I'll try building when home.
Any news? Very interested in K9 with ActiveSync Support...
I tried building based on the article. It did not work.
Required step for compile, after copying local.properties:
/path/to/android-sdk/tools/android update project -t 9 -s -p .
Built and signed with test key: http://qfs.mobi/f45023
It works except it will not see any subfolders of inbox. =[
EDIT: Yes it will, unless you select the wrong SSL/TLS/etc option or cause account setup to error in any way. If so, wipe data, try again, get it right.
EDIT2: Don't try to change things to use sdcard for data, that'll break stuff.
EDIT3: There's no way to get a list of inbox subfolders back if you break stuff and try to zap account data.
Sweet! I just tried this out and has some strange stuff with not seeing subfolders, so I tried a different type of authentication. It finally worked, but I don't see any emails more recent than about a week ago. I haven't found a setting for the amount of time to sync, does anyone have any suggestions?
Just so everyone here knows, this is alpha quality at best. One large missing feature is to restrict the mails that are synced. The way exchange limits this does not match what is currently available in K-9, so the configuration screens still need to be updated. It will download new mail that is received after the account is setup, however. There is also a large issue with the "sync key" not being remembered after K-9 is restarted. This is how the exchange server knows what to sync. I should be adding this fairly soon. I am also seeing out of memory exceptions, which are proving very difficult to debug.
Unfortunately, my limited free time does not provide me much opportunity to work on this.
I understand the alpha disclaimer, but the basic function seems to be there. Also, I'm amazed that you seem to be the only person working on activesync, when it is clear to me that this is the only thing lacking from K9 Mail.
I also understand time constraints on a side project, so let us know if you need any help. I can volunteer to debug any other alpha builds if you like. (Just send me a pm)
Any progress so far? Is the project still alive? Missing Active Sync is the only deal breaker in K-9...
So the dev said there's still some memory leaks and it is quite crashy... But I'm building it now, should have an APK soon folks...
Don't hold your breath on the quality of EAS support either. This is building straight from k9's repos and a checkout of the EAS branch. So all the NIGHTLY caveats apply. I don't take any responsibility if this deletes all the email from the server, ok? Ok.
Edit - apk attached, latest version - 4.308 - looks WAY better on ICS than the 4.200 version on the Market/Play Store, so even if you don't use ActiveSync/EAS, I recommend this version. I setup GMail with Exchange (ActiveSync) (you have to set it up MANUALLY!!! or else it assumes the default K9 settings for GMail, which is IMAP).
Enjoy.
Would K9 supporting activesync replace touchdown, which is basically required by my company to get email on my device? Touchdown is horrendous.
Thanks Arrrrgh!
Works fine with an Office 365 online exchange account and HTC Sensation on stock ICS.
Some system folders have ugly numbers instead of names (such as drafts, sent etc.).
When will this update be integrated into the normal K9 available on the market?
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Any progress so far? Is the project still alive? Missing Active Sync is the only deal breaker in K-9...
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+1:good:
The K9 devs all seem uninterested. Otherwise, it would be implemented a long time ago.
Also, the feature to insert pictures rather than attach them, is not interesting to develop.
Despite the fact that it's already present, in the K9 clone "Chiara Mail" on Google Play.
This is all too sad, because K9 had potential to crush all competitors, if they cared...
I believe these are bugs, but I cannot post in the respective threads. Anyone else experience the issue in the thread title?
Basically, after a fresh flash, attempt to create a new event. aospX will prompt you to enter a google or corporate email account. If you decline, it'll tell you that no calendar is found and that a calendar account needs to be present, but you have to first enter a sync account and allow it to finish. In other words, if you don't want to enter a sync account, you're out of luck. It just won't create a local calendar.
With stock and stock-ish ROMs, the system seems to have no issues creating a local calendar after a fresh install even though I don't enter any sync accounts.
This basically makes the calendars unusuable for anything more than date reference - except CM7, I don't think it's even possible to merely even view the calendar. I've tried the latest stable version of CM7. I haven't tried the nightly yet. I couldn't download it last time I tried. The site is broken, as is the site for the changelog.
CM's tracker has what I believe to be this issue as Issue 4818. There's even some code someone posted over there - maybe it'll help the devs.
thanks.
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I believe these are bugs, but I cannot post in the respective threads. Anyone else experience the issue in the thread title?
Basically, after a fresh flash, attempt to create a new event. aospX will prompt you to enter a google or corporate email account. If you decline, it'll tell you that no calendar is found and that a calendar account needs to be present, but you have to first enter a sync account and allow it to finish. In other words, if you don't want to enter a sync account, you're out of luck. It just won't create a local calendar.
With stock and stock-ish ROMs, the system seems to have no issues creating a local calendar after a fresh install even though I don't enter any sync accounts.
This basically makes the calendars unusuable for anything more than date reference - except CM7, I don't think it's even possible to merely even view the calendar. I've tried the latest stable version of CM7. I haven't tried the nightly yet. I couldn't download it last time I tried. The site is broken, as is the site for the changelog.
CM's tracker has what I believe to be this issue as Issue 4818. There's even some code someone posted over there - maybe it'll help the devs.
thanks.
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GIve the app Business Calendar a try. might be a decent work around. personally i like it better anyways.
thanks. I've tried that, but it seems to depend on the built in database. If there's no local calendar already in existence, Business Calendar will complain.
this could possibly be what youre looking for
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImpwLmNvLmpvaG9zcGFjZS5qb3J0ZSJd
i guess im not really finding anything as far as 'non synced' calendars. maybe too low of a demand for something you cant sync with you computer or work computer
Thanks, I'll give it a try to see. You're right, I imagine most people probably enter in a google or corporate account. I guess that means I might be waiting a long time for a fix!
edit: it's not that I don't want something that cannot sync at all, only something that won't complain if it isn't synced with an online account; something that can function fine without any linked accounts.
Hello all,
I have a problem syncing my Google contacts with my HTC One M8 (running Android 6.0). In the past, I have been able to sync the HTC People app with Google (and also link them with data from other apps).
Yesterday, I had to reset my Google account settings. I also cleared the People data, before putting the account settings back and syncing the data. Now it will only sync some of the contacts. It's missing about 190 of my contacts (which are clearly still there on Google). I can find no pattern to the contacts it includes/excludes. I have tried repeating the process - clearing all the data and settings and putting it all back - but I cannot get all of the contacts to appear on my phone any more.
Can anyone tell me how to solve this? Failing that, is there another (reliable) app for syncing contacts data from multiple sources, including Google, Whatsapp, and Skype? Thank you in advance!
Can you verify that missing ppl have either google plus profiles or (birth)dates set? Refer to https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/help/contact-sync-flashing-8-1-image-syncing-t3715229 ... this seems broken since the 8.1 release but also breaks for non-oreo and non-pixel devices
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Can you verify that missing ppl have either google plus profiles or (birth)dates set? Refer to https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/help/contact-sync-flashing-8-1-image-syncing-t3715229 ... this seems broken since the 8.1 release but also breaks for non-oreo and non-pixel devices
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Thanks for posting so quickly - and for directing me to a thread for precisely this issue! I am missing rather too many contacts to go through all of them, but it's definitely not confined to contacts with a G+ profile and/or a date. As you say, the Android version on my phone also pre-dates that of most users experiencing this problem.
It seems there's no clear solution yet, but (from the thread) it seems to be early days. For now, I have manually exported my Google Contacts to a vCard file and imported it to my phone contacts. I guess I'll wait and see if Google comes up with a solution in due course.
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Thanks for posting so quickly - and for directing me to a thread for precisely this issue! I am missing rather too many contacts to go through all of them, but it's definitely not confined to contacts with a G+ profile and/or a date. As you say, the Android version on my phone also pre-dates that of most users experiencing this problem.
It seems there's no clear solution yet, but (from the thread) it seems to be early days. For now, I have manually exported my Google Contacts to a vCard file and imported it to my phone contacts. I guess I'll wait and see if Google comes up with a solution in due course.
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Deleted my Google account and People app data (again) today. Replaced them and suddenly I am finding ALL my Google contacts syncing again. I don't really have an explanation for why it worked this time but it might be relevant that I also installed the dedicated Google Contacts app this time round.
I solved this problem by deactivating power saver. After a few minutes, Contacts started to sync with my Google account.