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Hello:
I am looking for any opinions/experience with software to sync Lotus Notes with a JASJAR.
Any experience with software such as Easy Sync, Intellisync or others and their compatibility with WM5?
Thanks in advance.
Fernando
Try Cadenza mNotes from CommonTime (www.commontime.com).
I have been using it successfully with my XDAIIi. I don't have a Universal so cannot confirm that it will work but according to parts of their web site, the latest version supports WM5.
mNotes is a superstable notes sync-app, but so far doesn't work with WM5. It even wrecks the Database if you try. ... :-(
Thanks for the feedback jofeuerstein - that's a real shame. At least it makes my mind up not to get a Universal yet, because mNotes is a critical application for me.
Which version of mNotes did you try by the way? I found this article on the web which indicates version 4 should work with WM5: http://lotusadvisor.com/doc/16995
However the user guide for V4 at http://www.commontime.com/Downloads/Docs/mNotes PPC User Guide.pdf mentions nothing about supporting WM5.
Just found this other thread which mentions a beta for mNotes that supports WM5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=28913
What a disaster. The Article in "Lotus Advizor" is completeley wrong. I tried to get mNotes to work with the Universal ... no chance. I put in a support request to Commontime. No answer yet. Keep you posted.
Commontime + WM5
At the moment, Commontime mNotes doesn't work with WM5, but it will shortly.
About 2 weeks, I've been told (from a very reliable source)
The reason it won't work is because of the POOM changes in WM5. Commontime have had to re-write their client engine because of it apparently.
That's crazy.
Here's a second article that says mNotes 4.0 supports WM5.
http://www.mobile2day.de/news/news_details.html?nd_ref=4586
I can wait two weeks, no problem.
What makes me nuts is that I waste hours to get this thing to work because of false reports.
Pretty imperfect, this mobile computing business ....
Beta release this week
I spoke to a guy at commontime last week and they are to mail me a beta this wednesday 5 oct. It will be a further couple of weeks for the final release version.
hope that helps (and clearly I will come back to this group if anything materialises on wed - the guy sounded reliable and knowledgable so you never know)
J
I send in a request for clarification and possibly a beta version on Saturday. Here's the response from them today:
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Hi .... ,
Thanks for the email. The current mNotes version does not support the
new Windows Mobile 2005 devices, but a compatible mNotes release is
scheduled to be out within the month of October. I have added you to the
list of customers to be notified once this release becomes available.
We are hopping to have the provisional release version in QA testing by the
end of this week, and progress quickly from there on.
Regards,
Alex Wymer
CommonTime technical support
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Look's like we're out of luck for now, but will get some help soon. I'm curious who will be faster: Commontime or Extended Systems ;-)
Mail from Today:
Dear Customer
Thank you for showing interest in mNotes for the new PPC devices running on
the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.
Unfortunately we have had to slightly delay the beta release due mainly to
the instability of the device we are testing on at the moment (JasJar). We
have come across some device issues which affect the mNotes performance and
thus want to wait until we get a device we can have more reliable test
results on. Our original target of releasing the beta within this month is
still valid, and we are doing our very best to release it as soon as
possible.
We are in the process of acquiring other WM 5.0 devices and we will keep
you posted on the progress - again, thank you for your patience and
cooperation.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
Rita Rosenback
CommonTime Support
Hi,
Any news on the patch/update for mNotes? I read there seems to be a beta version. Does anyone know where I can get it?
My jasjar is useless without syncing with Lotus Notes....
Hi guys:
I found a work around to this that is satisfactory. There is a MS Outlook plug-in that allows you to receive/send your Lotus Notes email directly into/from Outlook. Then you can sync your email as you always do with Outlook.
You can download the free plug-in from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...59-5f17-4e52-8980-c4f0dfa92d65&DisplayLang=en
Follow the instructions and it works beautifully.
I hope this helps,
Fernando
I have tried the Outlook-Connector with a Notes-Mail/Contacts file of about 1 GB. The connector has no way to limit the amount of data copied into Outlook, so it copied 5000 calendar entries, todos and a all e-Mail data. Then about three thousand reminders popped up on my desktop (and later on my mobile). After closing them all, they popped up again, and again. Many serial appointments vanished too. Couldn't get it to stop. Decided to uninstall afterwards. Lost many hours ... not funny
orinoco said:
Hi guys:
I found a work around to this that is satisfactory. There is a MS Outlook plug-in that allows you to receive/send your Lotus Notes email directly into/from Outlook. Then you can sync your email as you always do with Outlook.
You can download the free plug-in from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...59-5f17-4e52-8980-c4f0dfa92d65&DisplayLang=en
Follow the instructions and it works beautifully.
I hope this helps,
Fernando
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I have been using this method since the WM5.0 for BA was released. I would recommend opening outlook every once in a while to make sure that everything connects and is synced between Lotus-Outlook-AS-PDA..... man my company needs to hurry up and get the new version of Extended Systems OneBridge
Any News??
Any News for mNotes and WM 5?
jofeuerstein said:
Mail from Today:
Dear Customer
Thank you for showing interest in mNotes for the new PPC devices running on
the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.
Unfortunately we have had to slightly delay the beta release due mainly to
the instability of the device we are testing on at the moment (JasJar). We
have come across some device issues which affect the mNotes performance and
thus want to wait until we get a device we can have more reliable test
results on. Our original target of releasing the beta within this month is
still valid, and we are doing our very best to release it as soon as
possible.
We are in the process of acquiring other WM 5.0 devices and we will keep
you posted on the progress - again, thank you for your patience and
cooperation.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
Rita Rosenback
CommonTime Support
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No, nothing, but extended systems is coming out with their sync sw on monday, they say on their webste.
Commontime says Wednesday 2 November
I just spoke with Commontime support and was told they are 99% certain that a WM5 compatible version will be released by 2nd November. Instead of making a beta available immediately, they will do a few more days testing and release a final.
It's November 2nd...
... did the 1% prevail? Anxiously awaiting the mNotes upgrade for WM5... any news?
Now it's the 3rd! WTF! I am regretting getting this jasjar becauase of commontime. If I knew mnotes didn't work I would have waited and got an XDA Exec.
Hi all,
after a lot of Hard-Resets and trying around I am getting my system better and better. One thing I did not manage yet is to get my Messaging program check my mails each, say 30 minutes through GPRS. If I add 2 POP accounts and check them, only for the default, all works well. But if I receive just one SMS, the POP accounts won't be checked further until I do this manually.
There must be better Mail programs around there, so I'd like to know which once You are using without issues on the WM5 driven Universal.
thanks
Ruud
I forward everything to gMail as the web client works flawlessly.
Hi rilot,
OK, but what do You use to watch the messages come into the gmail box ?
I used "messaging" which comes with the OS to do it, works perfect until the first SMS run in. Then the "default" account will change to the text-messages and my gmail-box will not be checke further. Even if it has a "every 30 minutes" tag on.
As I have gmail and a few others which I do not like too much to forward, I wanted a good software for this (which does not switch off automatically)
regards,
Ruud
Not free but the best. There is a trial:
http://www.lonelycatgames.com/index.php?note=profimail&chapter=profimail
Hi schriss,
would You care to give some experience with the proram on WM5 and Jasjar ?
I did not find any information of it being WM5 compatible at all.
Thanks
Ruud
I'm using vgsmail, it's an imap client, so you need an imap account instead of a pop account. The software is still under development & not everyone is pleased with it. http://www.vgsmail.com/ppc/
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Ruud Westerhout said:
Hi schriss,
would You care to give some experience with the proram on WM5 and Jasjar ?
I did not find any information of it being WM5 compatible at all.
Thanks
Ruud
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Works fine on WM5, I use it on my Qtek 8310.
@oltp, thanks, but does not sound too good. And I am using POP accounts in the first place anyway.
@schriss, thanks, I might give that trial a go.
Anyone using WebIS Mail in its latest or a WM5 beta version ?
I've used WebIS beta. it's gonna be a great program when it's finished. the beta tho had some serious problems, I advise to wait. but when it's finished, it's all you need.
i use the built in connectivity of WM5 with exchange ... works great ... i've got a delay of a couple of seconds compared to a blackberry .....
Ruud Westerhout said:
@oltp, thanks, but does not sound too good. And I am using POP accounts in the first place anyway.
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I use fastmail.fm now for imap mail. Works great with an imap-client. Won't advice vgsmail for business-mail yet (large number of mail). I use it only for private-mail (small number & small size).
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@ Kassad,
care to share some of those issues WebIS Beta has. Somebody just PM me the Beta, but I would rather have some understanding which issues are aviable / known up front.
Thanks,
Ruud
It would be worth checking out here for build 450 of what was WebIS Mail now rebranded as FlexMail 2006, I have been running this build on on my WM5 Pro with no real issues thus far, well worth a punt I'd say.
dear all,
i have a prototype XDA Exec that's finally decided to give me a problem i can't seem to fix. i can't sign into MSN messenger anymore on it.
when i sign in it'll popup a message saying "Logon to MSN Messenger Service failed because the service is not responding. Please try again later." However it will sign out my already-connected to messenger desktop. however Hotmail seems to work fine. It's just messenger that's not working.
i've tried using another device and i can sign in just fine, so from my point of view it's obviously a problem with the aged version software i have. there's two things i can think of to resolve this. 1. update the ROM and get a newer version of the MSN messenger software which will hopefully work. 2. my version of Pocket MSN comes with an extra tab after "Switch User" under options called "Dogfood" which allows the option of logging and alteration of HTTPS and TCP server. if i could get the new working server addresses then maybe my problem'd be gone. i've been using session.mobile.msn.com for my HTTPS server and services.mobile.msn.com for my TCP server since last september and all's been fine till about 3 weeks ago. i have a feeling they've changed the address sometime in the past month or so?
does anyone have any other solutions or the abovementioned settings for me to try?
okay say i have to take the ROM upgrade option, i have a little problem, both with hardware and software. hardware wise, my prototype unit is from the early design stages, and the keyboard layout is a little different. can i remap the keyboard according to what it currently is? or do i have to apply tacky looking little labels so i can remap myself to the new keyboard? software wise, i have trouble finding something to backup my SMS that i can restore to the unit later when i'm done updating the ROM. also i'm a little worried that production ROMs may possibly not work in my device, can i backup my ROM before i upgrade?
i can upload a photo of the keyboard if any of you need it..
i've tried looking thru wiki and the forums with little success. i found a ROM backup utility @ wiki but i'm not sure if it works with WM5, as it was uploaded @ Jan '05, long before WM5 was even announced. nor is there any info about it working with WM5 or not.
thanks to anyone who can give me any thoughts on this.
I had a problem very similar to this after I upgraded my ROM recently and got the same error messages. I even posted a topic here but the answers I got didn't solve my problem.
Luckily one day, I tried to randomly sign in and couldn't so I tried something different. Under 'Options' scroll to the switch user tab and switch user and sign out completely. Also, on the SMS tab, make sure SMS forwarding to cellphone is unchecked. If asked to confirm, then hit yes and go ahead and sign out. On the Today screen try signing in again.
That should work for you hopefully, as it did the trick for me.
Let me know if you are able to download an upgraded version of Pocket MSN or MSN Messenger.
Good luck!
unfortunately i haven't had as much luck with signing out completely, tried it twice already, hasn't done anything to help~
i've tried looking for an updated version of messenger with no luck either, i'm wondering if hacking the newer roms will find me a cab with messenger in it? and even if i do, will i be able to remove/uninstall the old messenger without having to hack into the ext. rom?
flyingcamelz said:
unfortunately i haven't had as much luck with signing out completely, tried it twice already, hasn't done anything to help~
i've tried looking for an updated version of messenger with no luck either, i'm wondering if hacking the newer roms will find me a cab with messenger in it? and even if i do, will i be able to remove/uninstall the old messenger without having to hack into the ext. rom?
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try this
I must admit that I also cant be done with this pocket msn lark.....
The standard messenger on my xda2s and previous ipaqs i had worked fine and very fast to type and send the messages and also to sign on... It also told us when someone was typing a message on the other end wich is something ive never seen on this one.
On this latest messenger built into the rom its just takes forever to sign on (when it does) and alot of the time just drop connection...specially on gprs... sometimes i just have to contain myselfe with frustration just not to do something silly to the exec since i know its not its fault.
@MWANG
What is this file supposed to do m8?
TIA
BR
I have a Wizard not a Universal but have the same problem since I upgraded to the leaked AKU 2.2 & 2.3 roms. With the AKu 2.0 rom Messenger was working fine...
I remember reading that there were some issues regarding the Wizard hanging when it was on the password screen for the 2.17 roms.
Is there still a similar problem with the newer roms (i.e. 2.2 and up roms)
Are there ppl out there that have newer roms and have Goodlink working properly?
If yes, could u please post what version of Goodlink u are using and what rom u r runnning. Thank you.
Oh also a question regarding goodlink and MS exchange server...
Once Goodlink is installed, will that be the only exchange server connection allowed? or will i still be able to access my own account that i set up with mail2web? Meaning, can I have goodlink (corporate email) and mail2web (personal email) both pushed at the same time?
Again TIA for any clarification on this.
I'm using Goodlink v4.8.1.14_En
I'm on an O2 XDA Mini S. Originally it was on the AKU2 rom, but I had to downgrade to the original O2 launch ROM. With the AKU2 ROM Goodlink would work but the XDA wouldn't ring or pick up incoming calls. With the launch ROM it works virtually perfectly.
A couple of thoughts.
I still had problems with version 4.7 and any AKU2 ROM. I've done a number of workarounds and haven't truly tested 4.7, passwords, and the new cingular rom however. I've done a number of workarounds, including:
- forcing 4.8 on my device - the problem there is that the server keeps trying to push 4.7 back - which eventually causes goodlink to not work properly - long story
- disabling the password immediately, which eliminates the lockup on startup that was occuring (I posted details on how to do that here. This is the best approach IMO.
I also have goodlink running (through the goodlink mail client - it doesn't use the pocket outlook mail client) and mail2web into my pocket outlook inbox through direct push - no probems whatsoever
does anyone know if cingular will add bb connect to the 8525 with the upcoming rom upgrade?
also, does bb connect integrate into pocket outlook, or does it replace it like goodlink does?
thanks,
wes
It uses messaging
From the user standpoint, it adds two new folder groups to Pocket Outlook.
First one is "Blackberry" - or the name you customized in your BB desktop software and another named "System", which if find unuseful.
I use Flexmail also, but I can't access BB messages in this software.
thanks!
thanks for the info. I hope it is officially added in the rom update!
I've seen the app posted, and may try it out before the update comes out, since I'll be doing a hard reset anyway with the update. if I don't like it, it will be gone then.
wes