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Hey developers,
i wonder if it's possible to build an app that can sync googlemail correctly, with all options (labeling, different adresses, etc) and also syncing the google calendar with all options such as multiple calendar support, etc.
Togehther with a livetile that shows new mails and a toast notification for appointments this could be a killer app for WP7 and would make me switch immediately to WP7.
I don't know much about programming, it's just a question about the possibility.
Any Ideas?
Yes, it is possible.
Thanks a lot for your detailed answer...
Is anyone working on this kind of app?
I have the Samsung focus, and gmail works perfectly. I can see all of my folders, all labels. As far as the calender, it only shows the primary.
Not really sure what you're asking for. All of that functionality is baked into the OS. You can sync your gmail and it'll create a new mailbox icon that you can pin to your start screen. And you can sync your google calendar to your calendars which give you notifications of appointments.
Why would you want a separate app?
Example:
Calendar:
I have six different calendars, all in one account.
WP7 shows only the main one.
Under android, all calendars are shown.
E-Mail:
Of course WP7 displays the labels as folders but not as labels.
I do often label an e-mail with two or three labels without moving it to a folder.
It stays in my in-box.
If i do a search under WP7 to look for a special label, then only those mails are found who have been moved to the appropriate folder.
To use all the features of googlemail the syncing of WP7 isn't good enough.
That's why i'd love to have an app for that
I don't know if SuperG calender has everything you want, but it might hold you over...no live tile, no notifications, but it will show all your google calenders
jmerrey said:
I don't know if SuperG calender has everything you want, but it might hold you over...no live tile, no notifications, but it will show all your google calenders
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Thanks for the hint.
Tried it.
Does not display any calendar... all it does is displaying error codes.
1,99 EUR wasted.
Only to inform you if anyone wants to try this app out.
Still looking for an app that fits my needs
Prinzessin Horst said:
Example:
Calendar:
I have six different calendars, all in one account.
WP7 shows only the main one.
Under android, all calendars are shown.
E-Mail:
Of course WP7 displays the labels as folders but not as labels.
I do often label an e-mail with two or three labels without moving it to a folder.
It stays in my in-box.
If i do a search under WP7 to look for a special label, then only those mails are found who have been moved to the appropriate folder.
To use all the features of googlemail the syncing of WP7 isn't good enough.
That's why i'd love to have an app for that
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The calendar problem is the same with Windows Live calendars - I'm not sure what the deal is with that
Gmail shows the labels as folders when using IMAP - it'll be the same in any email program that connects with IMAP. The issue with this is that it will stay in the inbox and appear in all the folders for which it is labelled - if I label something in my inbox with "XDA" and "WP7", it will appear in the inbox folder, as well as the "XDA" and "WP7" folders, but it is the same item.
It wouldn't be so bad if the mobile Gmail site wasn't so useles....
CreepinJesus said:
The calendar problem is the same with Windows Live calendars - I'm not sure what the deal is with that
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Agree.
I don't understand why only the main calendar is synced.
Does no one in Redmont use more than one calendar (friends, work, private, other companies)?
Unfortunately i need at least four of my calendars for my business.
Let's hope, a dev has a heart and solves our problem
Prinzessin Horst said:
Thanks for the hint.
Tried it.
Does not display any calendar... all it does is displaying error codes.
1,99 EUR wasted.
Only to inform you if anyone wants to try this app out.
Still looking for an app that fits my needs
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odd, it's working great for me, not sure what happened on your end
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odd, it's working great for me, not sure what happened on your end
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All i can see in this app are error codes:
> network error getting calendar...<
All six of my calendars are getting the same error.
Made sure a million times that email and password were correct.
Tried with wlan and 3G... no worky.
Would like to get in contact with the developer but in the app description there's no contact data.
Anyone know this dev?
Hi guys I've tried doing a search and couldn't find anything so apologies in advance for my incompetence.
I'm new to the Android community and recently got my S3. I'm feeling very frustrated with the contacts syncing because the phone is syncing all of my contacts from gmail including the "other contacts" folder. However doing a basic search in google says that once you setup your android phone the contacts that sync are those in the "my contacts" folder. Is there any solution to this? There doesn't seem to be any place where I can restrict which contact folder from gmail it should be syncing with.
Thanks.
you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
g2sai said:
Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
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Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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fr8cture said:
Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
g2sai said:
Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
g2sai said:
This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
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try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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chiaroscuro7 said:
try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
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this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
SMR-DINO313 said:
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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I'm in stock ROM or wahtever it is I ahvent played around with anything just rooted and unlocked but nothing else.
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
Sent from this wizbang Samsung S3 thingamabob @ 88 mph!
g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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Derp--didn't see that there was a second page
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
Sent from this wizbang Samsung S3 thingamabob @ 88 mph!
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nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
chiaroscuro7 said:
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Yes you are right thanks.
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
Sent from this wizbang Samsung S3 thingamabob @ 88 mph!
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Thanks that's what I was looking for and thank you for noting my lazyness, I didn't know this was going to be an issue (since I'm a noob in all this),however there are contacs that I'm simply no interested to have in my phone, again thanks that solves the problem :cyclops:
chiaroscuro7 said:
nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
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Yup thanks!
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g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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I do understand you, I have many old and JIC contacts in my gmail that I don't want to delete, over 2700, but I only want 100 or 200 tops sync to my phone. If I play with the display settings when I enter the conects, only the contacts I want are displayed, but when I search for an specific contact, it searches over all the 2700 contacts and makes my Galaxy S3 verry slow, my old galaxy s2 as well,
If my memory does not fail, when I had the galaxy Ace with gingerbread, the contacts navigation and search was much faster because only the contacts in "My Contacts" where Sync into my phone, i am allmost positive of that. thanx for any responses.
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did not notice that there was a second page, i am new in the forum.
it is not lazy in my case, i have purged over 2000 contacts when i merged the information from my Facebook Contacts, Linked In, Yahoo, MSN, manualy merging some becuse the automerge process did not work for some cases (inverted names with diferent emails (old and new) or phone numbers, etc), but if i delete one and i review and old email, i won't know who was that from, oe maybe where i knew them from (have them in groups or notes) to organize a reunion :good:. anyway deleting information goes agains Gmal Policy (Never have to delete an email or contact again) LOL any help is welcome
I see tons of questions towards this, but nothing towards the particular issue I'm having. Just picked up the GS3 from vzw a couple days ago and getting everything installed and configured how I want. One major issue I'm having is that my facebook contact pictures are not syncing with any program in the phone.
I got fb contacts to sync with pictures in the contacts section, but no where else will the pictures filter through. My Handscent app does not get fb pics, and my free ADW quick dial widget does not get the pics either. If I have a saved picture from my phone it transfers through everywhere as it should, but not FB.
Additional issue is I don't see any birthdays in the contacts area, and birthdays do not sync with the built in calendar.
Having the Dinc and flashing it various 100 times, I've deleted all cache and data from my calendar and the two facebook programs and restarted phone, but no such luck.
Any ideas what could be wrong or what to do?
Don't sync through the Facebook app anymore. Download Facebook contact sync and they'll show up in all apps, and you can setup high quality images as well.
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I had the same problem and gave up a long time ago and decided to link everyone's contacts with photos I have on my cell phone.
I'll have to check out that facebook sync app
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At the same time, I had problems with Facebook automatically linking to contacts, and had to do it manually much of the time with the 100 or so in-phone contacts that I had. Pretty annoying.
Chuki82 said:
Don't sync through the Facebook app anymore. Download Facebook contact sync and they'll show up in all apps, and you can setup high quality images as well.
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Awesome suggestion... the sync app works just as I wish the Facebook app did... thank you very much!
I thought the S3 came pre-installed with the FB Sync app? There are two FG apps that need to be used in conjunction, one for syncing, one for actual FG access to posts, feeds. At least that is how I understood it and have it set up...
Here's the 2 apps that I've used before.
SyncMyPix - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nloko.android.syncmypix&hl=en
and
High Res Google Contact Photos - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031
any ideas how to make my facebook contacts appear in my contacts app guys? I mainly want it for the birthdays so that they show up in my calendars but can't figure it out as adding a facebook account doesn't have the option to sync contacts
There was an description in this article i remembered
Another option is to include the facebook birthdays in your calendar. Look here
as mentioned in the original post I dont have the option to sync contacts. I have added facebook as an account but there is no option to add contacts
what is with the other solution to include the calendar?
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kostas90 said:
as mentioned in the original post I dont have the option to sync contacts. I have added facebook as an account but there is no option to add contacts
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Do You have installed any facebook app ?
thunder141 said:
what is with the other solution to include the calendar?
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Do You have installed any facebook app ?
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yes, installed and signed in
What is with this option:
Another option is to include the facebook birthdays in your calendar. Look here
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What is with this option:
Another option is to include the facebook birthdays in your calendar. Look here
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I tried that but facebook doesn't look like that anymore and doesnt have that option
I use sync.me from the play store
kostas90 said:
I tried that but facebook doesn't look like that anymore and doesnt have that option
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I did this literally 2 days ago and can confirm it does work. Once you open your events page look down to the bottom right, below Events Happening This Week you will have a small link to birthdays. Copy that link and add it as a new google calendar.
Also +1 for the app sync.me from the playstore. I use it occasionally and uninstall it afterwards as it has other features which I dont want (caller ID etc). The contact pics remain for each user even if the app is gone.
skzalez said:
I did this literally 2 days ago and can confirm it does work. Once you open your events page look down to the bottom right, below Events Happening This Week you will have a small link to birthdays. Copy that link and add it as a new google calendar.
Also +1 for the app sync.me from the playstore. I use it occasionally and uninstall it afterwards as it has other features which I dont want (caller ID etc). The contact pics remain for each user even if the app is gone.
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did it, thanks a ton!
I was a bit iffy on the sync.me app due to the ID features and the blocking because I don't need it so thanks for getting me out of it as well
also, this will be continually updated, right? I don't need to re-do this everytime I add a new facebook friend.
No, it is a link to your Facebook birthdays. It will get actualized
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No, it is a link to your Facebook birthdays. It will get actualized
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I dont follow
I meant: It will be updated as you suspect in your post, cause the facebook birthday calendar is "linked" with this method
When I open my default Calendar app and add account I only get corporate as an option. I made sure to add my Google account during GMS settings but for so reason I can't add my Google calendar which is my main calender. Big blow. Again, is it just me or anyone else?
Yes. You need to install both Google Calendar Sync Adapter (which is missing from the currently commonly circulated zip files of GMS apps) and Google Calendar.
On my Mate 30 Pro I experienced the occasional calendar sync jam that would drain the phone's battery, but haven't seen this so far on P40.
onslaught86 said:
Yes. You need to install both Google Calendar Sync Adapter (which is missing from the currently commonly circulated zip files of GMS apps) and Google Calendar.
On my Mate 30 Pro I experienced the occasional calendar sync jam that would drain the phone's battery, but haven't seen this so far on P40.
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Thank you so so much! Question do I need to keep the Google calendar app installed once I added the account to my Huawei calender or can I remove it? I will keep the calendar sync app installed
I'm using Microsoft Outlook instead of Huawei Calendar, and it works fine with Google Calendar on P40 Pro...
Thanks, i like the look and feel of the huawei calendar, been holding off on installing te google calender, will try now, hopefully it would remain synced if google is unistalled
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Yes. You need to install both Google Calendar Sync Adapter (which is missing from the currently commonly circulated zip files of GMS apps) and Google Calendar.
On my Mate 30 Pro I experienced the occasional calendar sync jam that would drain the phone's battery, but haven't seen this so far on P40.
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is the Google Calendar Sync Adapter not on the playstore? meaning it needs to be downloaded from apk sites?
flystarjay said:
Thanks, i like the look and feel of the huawei calendar, been holding off on installing te google calender, will try now, hopefully it would remain synced if google is unistalled
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is the Google Calendar Sync Adapter not on the playstore? meaning it needs to be downloaded from apk sites?
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tboy2000 said:
Yes use an APK site
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Ok thanks, so we need both apps, and what if we want it to work on the huawei calendar?
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Ok thanks, so we need both apps, and what if we want it to work on the huawei calendar?
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tboy2000 said:
Thank you so so much! Question do I need to keep the Google calendar app installed once I added the account to my Huawei calender or can I remove it? I will keep the calendar sync app installed
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You need to leave it installed. If Huawei calendar is not syncing, open Google calendar and refresh it.
Just disable notifications for Google Calendar and chuck it in a folder.
Export Your Google Agenda(s) via a Web page, you will get a .ical file; unzip it; put the unzip file(s) in a usb key; connect this usb key to your phone; just click one time on this file; select the application Huawei Agenda and Huawei Agenda will import it; that's all