Is there a way to set up your Android to switch between different modes in a subtle way. For example, when a certain thing is done, the entire phone will switch from "work" to "home" mode, including accounts for different apps, contacts, etc... If you know a way to do this for anything on an Android phone, not necessarily all of it, please share. I'm mainly thinking Evernote, maybe Google account as well.
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In windows mobile, the calender application has 4 default categories.
Personal, Business, Seasonal and Holiday....
I used both personal and business. But have completely no use for Seasonal and Holiday...
Is there anyway at all to remove these categories at all? I don't use them, but they keep appearing in the Categories Selection option...
This is quite... irritating as I am adopting a kind of GTD method.
Well my problem is similiar because i added categories I want to get rid off again and really dont know how.
So up to now, be careful with mistyping new categories
I might be way off on this, but I think the only way(s) to do that is to edit them in Outlook on your computer, and it will make the changes on your device when you sync it.
Or am I mixing it up with something else?
I am well aware that none of my apps will be portable unless somebody made an Android version that I can re-download, and that I obviously cannot carry over any of my settings either.... but does anyone have any suggestions on what would be the best way to port over contacts, documents (and convert them into whatever Android uses for it's equivalent of Office, if necessary) and other such data if one wants to make the switch from Windows Mobile to android? Either re-flashing their phone to run Android or just buying a new Android phone?
Embracing the Google account is the best thing. Adding everything to the 'cloud' gives you a permanent storage solution with the benefit of being able to sync it all to your device when you need it.
Contacts to Gmail Contacts
Pictures to Picasa
Documents and random files to Google Docs
Calender to Google Calender
..and so on.
What apps are you looking for Android versions of?
Sorry for taking a while to reply.
So then how would I go the Google route? Its a shame I will lose my call and IM logs but its not like I would expect such data to work between different operating systems.
Photos aren't an issue since I store those on MicroSDHC, I mostly cared about all my contact information and switching my MS Office Mobile formatted documents to whatever Android uses in it's place, even though those are on MicroSD too. The only real data I keep on the phone itself is installed apps and contacts.
And don't worry about my apps, at this point there really isn't any Windows Mobile app I care about anymore.
Just create a Google account and sign into that account on your Android phone. If you've added your contacts through the contacts section in Gmail they will automatically be synced to your phone.
Any settings, browser bookmarks etc, on your phone will sync and be backed up to your Google account.
The contacts were all added through my phone or though backups apps, none were added through Google, will it still back them all up?
As you all know under the privacy settings, there is an option that lets you back up your settings. I am wondering what exact components of the settings are backed up there? I know contacts, emails, calendars,....are synced (i.e. backed up) in accounts and settings, and i noticed that, for example, my ringtone or wallpaper is never restored after wiping the phone (and of course checking the automatic restore option).
So again, what exact settings are backed up then?
no clue?!...
I'm not 100% sure but I believe just contact, email, calander, socical settings like google talk. They have a dashboard that stores, website searches, blogger, ext, just about anything at all that's Google related. You can take a look at your personal dashboard to see what is exactly stored their on you. It's quite a list. It lists your devices, playstore activity, much much more. Then you will know exactly what is stored
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
WiFi settings for sure, preferences (like user dictionary) and bookmarks, wallpapers and privacy settings.
So I'm trying to decide on whether to use Google Drive, DropBox, or Box. I have an account with all three and currently using all for different things (Yeah I know, I'm crazy) but I want to consolidate... One thing that's making it hard to decide is they all surprisingly and oddly seem to be missing a basic feature that would be of tremendous value to me. Unless I'm just doing it wrong, you can't save a 'folder' offline... Now, you can save files offline but not a whole folder at a time. Some of my folders that I need access to offline have hundreds of documents in them and there is no way I'm saving them offline 1by1... Any ideas what I"m doing wrong? Which cloud service do you prefer and why?
What I'm looking for is an app or maybe even a launcher that would allow me to have a contained area for all of my work apps and any other logins separate from my personal stuff on the same phone. Preferably it would just be a home screen that I could manually launch and it would have a copy of say outlook word xcel excera that would use a specific accounts