I imported my used activesync with my google (gmail) account to sync up my contacts, calendar and email. The contacts all came through but were showing up as last name, first name. I wanted them to show up as first name, last name so I started looking around. I found the "app" contact changer mentioned on here and then grabbed it off XDA. It went through and said it changed my contacts. I found that they were all changed properly. After time though, not sure if it just when the phones dies or reboots, some of the contacts change back to last name, first again. It seems random which contacts are reverting, but all of the "facebook linked" contacts reverted plus some more random ones. I can go in and run contact changer again, or go in and manually change them but this seems to make the contact changer app useless if I have to run it all the time.
Any thoughts on what is causing this problem? From what I can tell the contacts in my Google contacts list are named properly, with the first name and last name in the proper field.
I am running T-mobile stock rom, and have not ever synced up with outlook on the PC (just using gmail via server on activesync).
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE: I just ran contact changer and then rebooted my phone (actually popped battery out) and the contacts did not revert. I then ran a sync via activesync and the contacts reverted. :-(
even though the way they are displayed is correct the system still manages them last-first, so if you create a new one after running the cab it will default to last first unless you specify differently in the drop down.this may be why they change when you sync fb.
it also helps (if you are using outlook on the pc) to have outlooks defaults changed to first-last.
Thanks for the tip. I am trying to avoid hooking up to the PC with outlook but I may end up having to. The contacts that are reverting are not new ones. Also it is not only the FB contacts that are reverting back, there are some other random ones that are doing it as well. Very strange. I am guessing it is just a normal WM quirk that I will have to find a workaround.
NickPDX said:
Thanks for the tip. I am trying to avoid hooking up to the PC with outlook but I may end up having to. The contacts that are reverting are not new ones. Also it is not only the FB contacts that are reverting back, there are some other random ones that are doing it as well. Very strange. I am guessing it is just a normal WM quirk that I will have to find a workaround.
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if you do have access to outlook on a pc, i can HIGHLY recommend it as your main method of contact/calendar backup/restore.
I've been using it as my phone backup for years, and it cuts both ways, , , pc goes down? all your outlook contacts gone? no worries! theyre on your phone! Phone goes down? no worris, theyre on the pc!. hehe.
plus with outlook it saves every single field, so your facebook links and favourite poeple is saved, (yes i know that also happens on myphone and whatever, but how often are those services down? )
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Hey,
Im somewhat new to this WM6 stuff. I previously had a Sony Ericsson and when I had switched to my new Wing, I had saved all my Contacts to my SIM card and when I went to load my contacts from my SIM onto my PPC, they all look like "Norman/M; Norman/H; Norman/W" or instead of "Norman Kiwan" it would show "Kiwan;Norman" for all my contacts. It gets really annoying and I was hoping maybe some of you found a program I can use to easily edit/change my contacts on my phone... it would be extremely appreciated! thank you.
- Norman
That's quite simple. Space character is not allowed in name string on SIM That's probably why you have a semicolon between the first and the last name. /M or /H are shortcuts for (M)obile or (H)ome phone number. Remember on SIM one number is always one independent record. Just save numbers to Contacts in your phone, then synchronize with Outlook. Amend contacts there and synchronize back.
ok so pretty much use outlook to change the contact's name... just gotta figure out how to do that with outlook.. ill give it a shot.
Now in terms of using MSN messenger, for some reason even if I put in the settings NOT to sync contacts it still does! and its just a huge mess seeing all these phone contacts and email contact everywhere... is there a way to get rid of those too?
thanks for the help!
- Norman
** bump **
Not syncing contacts means only not syncing contacts when you sync manually. but when you start messenger it syncs contact's automatically.
Contact manager..amzing and easy install
lol
I hate the way contacts are sorted on wm6 too!
Check this one out is pretty good one, actually i love it!
http://www.pocketcm.com/
Haven't had problems with contacts ever since my first WM phone ( got used to it quick) but the only problem I ever had was that you couldn't delete multiple contacts at once. Tried to do this for the first time in over a few years and seems like the SIM Manager has had quite an overhaul since I've last tried to use that feature. If it were a Microsoft program I think we would still be having this program.
Thats enough ranting for now
Peace
i'm pretty fed up of outlook and how it screws with my contacts *i recently updated, and it removed all the titles from the names which is VERY annoying.* not to mention when i add contacts to my phone, it does NOT add them to outlook (maybe i'm just stupid but when i tried to set it to phone, it DELETED all my contacts sans a few) are there any alternative programs that are a bit easier and funner to use?
thanks in advance.
in one word: no.
Outlook is the easiest way AND the most perfected.
There are a few other possibilities to avoid outlook but in my opinion a pda without outlook is useless.
If you encountered problem it might be
-correct active sync version ?
corresponding to that : correct outlook version ?
-correct settings in active sync ?
If you fail to syncronize with ac....dont even try other solutions.
i'm using activesync 4.5 and the outlook version 2002, i copy contacts and settings from outlook just fine, with the exception of it screwing with the titles and names a bit, it's the other way around that's giving me a headache.
what do you recommend the optimal settings be so that if something is new on my computer, it transfers to my phone, and if something is new on my phone, it transfers to teh computer
(also anyway to stop it from seperating the names and removing titles?)
thanks in advance.
seems to be a settings problem
So i only have a german verison of ac i don't know the english name for the settings.
But you have to tell ac to sync in both ways and give the mobile thing the priority.
Then your problem should be solved.
did that, and once more it deleted all the contacts on my phone except for like 3-4 .... either this install is screwy or something is going wrong, or i'm just an idiot.
i refuse to sync with outlook!
i used to, and i ended up with half a dozen duplicate contact and calendar entries for each one!!! i tried settings, etc, finally said to hell with it and set the phone to not sync with outlook. i feel your pain.
Good, now i don't feel like an idiot
I had similar frustration. I eventually set up my 8125 to its own email address, and turned off the sync-ing of contacts. I have two separate contact lists now, but I'm not losing contacts from my phone all the time, either.
I do not have problems with duplicated events, but I publish my Outlook calendar to the phone, not the other way around.
I never schedule from my 8125. I always tell people to send it to my email, so I can control it from my PC. I only use the handheld on meeting-heavy days, and then I'm only checking email, and not accepting meetings.
Using: WM5, ActiveSync 4.5, Outlook 2003 on Desktop
Well, there is an alternative. I run linux so AS isn't even an option for me. I have been using FinchSync since I got the phone and it has worked great. I can even sync anywhere I have a network connection without being at home.
FinchSync uses an http connection to sync contacts with Mozilla's Thunderbird email and address client as well as your datebook with Mozilla's Sunbird calendar. So far it has worked great. One hint though, take the time to read the install and configuration instructions on their website!
Hope this helps!
PhilD
I absolutely hate Activesync. I update my phone contacts and appointments via my Tilt, and then hook it up to my computer only to find that Activesync is deleting them on my phone and restoring the older files on my two PC's. I think, "oh, well I must have the sync settings set improperly," so I check them on my PC and my Tilt... it turns out that it only goes one way: from the PC to the mobile device. (Please correct me if I'm missing something.) You can just disable the sync settings, but then what's the point of having the program installed?
Personally, I have few complaints about Outlook.
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to be giving PDASync a try. They seem to advertise all of the features I'm looking for, although it does carry a hefty price tag of $50.
http://www.laplink.com/pdasync/
I'm still not 100% sold on PDASync. It seems to lack the ability to sync internet browser favorites/bookmarks and custom file folders. The quest continues.
On a slightly brighter note, this seems like quite a useful list of syncing software.
http://pocketpccentral.net/software/sync.htm
i must use lapsync because i don't want all 1500 outlook contacts into my phone, so i filter them by category and only sync a certain category.
i dont sync bookmarks, but i know you can use AS to sync ONLY bookmarks. to sync custom files and folders, try mobsync - its free.
I Tried Laplink today, This needs ActiveSync to function properlyu (did not see my device attached). I am lucky I had trial software instead of paying $ 50
I am using the true Google Sync that goes through active sync server settings, not the gsync.cab. It works much better than the cab but I've noticed a big annoyance. Everytime it syncs it changes the sort by back to last name, first name in outlook on the phone. I tried the fileasfl.cab and it still just reverts back every time it syncs. Any idea how to fix this. I originally did the outlook sync fix where you change outlook on your PC to file by first name and then re-sync it with your phone, but Google undid all of that.
I'm using a CDMA Diamond Stock ROM 1.22.557.1 with WM6.1 build 19972.1.2.7 if that matters.
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I am using the true Google Sync that goes through active sync server settings, not the gsync.cab. It works much better than the cab but I've noticed a big annoyance. Everytime it syncs it changes the sort by back to last name, first name in outlook on the phone. I tried the fileasfl.cab and it still just reverts back every time it syncs. Any idea how to fix this. I originally did the outlook sync fix where you change outlook on your PC to file by first name and then re-sync it with your phone, but Google undid all of that.
I'm using a CDMA Diamond Stock ROM 1.22.557.1 with WM6.1 build 19972.1.2.7 if that matters.
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I think I know why this happens.
Google uses just one field for a contacts name.
You dont have separate fields for First Name and Last Name.
Also the contact photos loses clarity after sybcing with google via active sync..
The contacts photo thing is very disappointing. I find that the contacts I had on my G1 display First Last properly, but the ones that weren't do not... very strange. I still absolutely love this ability though!
powe6563 said:
I am using the true Google Sync that goes through active sync server settings, not the gsync.cab. It works much better than the cab but I've noticed a big annoyance. Everytime it syncs it changes the sort by back to last name, first name in outlook on the phone. I tried the fileasfl.cab and it still just reverts back every time it syncs. Any idea how to fix this. I originally did the outlook sync fix where you change outlook on your PC to file by first name and then re-sync it with your phone, but Google undid all of that.
I'm using a CDMA Diamond Stock ROM 1.22.557.1 with WM6.1 build 19972.1.2.7 if that matters.
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the only quick fix is to use Shubaroo Contact Changer change contact order in 1 click... hope it helps!
http://shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact
This is my first Android phone so I'm a little unsure of the following.
I've got a number of contacts that were on my sim card as well as my Google contact list, so now I've got double entries for a number of people. Is it best to just delete the Google contact ones or the sim contacts? Are there any advantages or disadvantages of one over the other? Like for example if I have no network connection does my phone still list the Google contacts?
I went for storing my contacts only on google.
As far as I know contacts are stored on the phone locally, so even if you dont have a network connection, you still have access to your contacts.
As far as duplicate entries, you can choose which contacts are shown on the phone. I would pick a method and stick with it. I've never been a big fan of storing contacts on a sim card. I prefer having them stored in the cloud.
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This is my first Android phone so I'm a little unsure of the following.
I've got a number of contacts that were on my sim card as well as my Google contact list, so now I've got double entries for a number of people. Is it best to just delete the Google contact ones or the sim contacts? Are there any advantages or disadvantages of one over the other? Like for example if I have no network connection does my phone still list the Google contacts?
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Look for an app called MyBackup pro which basically helps you to store all kinds of stuff including contacts to the sd card or on its servers.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
I've moved over to storing them on Gmail. For some reason yesterday they all vanished (I had synced them with Outlook too) but the Gmail ones got sync'd back pretty quickly. Then it hooked up with Facebook and put contact profile pictures back in too
+1 for google.
knowing that they are all there and will come back as soon as i sign in, means i am not worried about trying every app under the sun for the first few weeks to see what works, what doesn't and what breaks the phone, knowing i can just hard reset afterwards if the worst happens and everything is back within seconds!!
+1 for gmail. You can edit the phonebook from any web browser. You can force-sync by turning off&on the gmail syncing on the Hero. You can turn off displaying the SIM card contacts in the Peoples app settings, no need to delete them in case you need to use the SIM in a dumb-phone later.
I opted for storing contacts all on gmail and went through the following process.
Sync'ed all my old contacts from previous Kaiser into outlook
Manually updated outlook contacts merging in all google email contacts aswell.
Used HTCSync to update phone with contacts - worked a charm and kept all contact pictures.
Forced a sync with google on my Hero hoping that all new contacts now on my Hero will automatically become updated/created in GMail.
Unfortunately this isn't the case and all emails were sync'ed between gmail and hero, but contacts still only appear on my device.
Have I missed a setting or is it not possible to bi-directionally sync contacts between gmail and hero ?
When you create the calendar/contact item, are you selecting to put it in the google group?
Create a new contact and in Contact type (just below the name) make sure to select Google. It usually defaults to Phone, which only syncs with the god awful HTC Sync software.
once created a contact in the wrong group, you can't change it. delete it and start again.
For those of us a bit paranoid about OUR data, Is there a built in way to sync/export/import data as in Active Sync?
I mean also accessing my data while in out-of-coverage areas, in-flight mode, etc.
Regards.
The data is always available on the phone, no matter whwere you store it.
Just cos it's stored on the google servers does not mean that you can not access it when you are out of service area...that would be stupid.
It just means that instead of you having to hook the phone up to your pc using that god awful HTC Sync software, it syncs automatically to the google servers.It is still stored on the phone locally as well.
Whatever gave you the idea that it would not be?
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For those of us a bit paranoid about OUR data, Is there a built in way to sync/export/import data as in Active Sync?
I mean also accessing my data while in out-of-coverage areas, in-flight mode, etc.
Regards.
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Your contacts are also stored locally on your phone, so even if you don't have service, you won't lose your contacts.
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The data is always available on the phone, no matter whwere you store it.
Just cos it's stored on the google servers does not mean that you can not access it when you are out of service area...that would be stupid.
It just means that instead of you having to hook the phone up to your pc using that god awful HTC Sync software, it syncs automatically to the google servers.It is still stored on the phone locally as well.
Whatever gave you the idea that it would not be?
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Thanks for explaining, but post #4 above looks scary. Since I don't have any Android phone yet, I thought they might come as the g-mail servers, if you are not online, you can not browse through your "archived" mail.
Regards.
No, they are stored locally.
also, with the mail program, that stores them locally once it has recieved the ones you choose to sync as well.
it's all good!
moved all mine to google
very easy and i love it!
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No, they are stored locally.
also, with the mail program, that stores them locally once it has recieved the ones you choose to sync as well.
it's all good!
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Thanks for info. Still waiting for may Hero....... no chance to try it yet.
Regards.
Does a google contact sync to outlook from the phone?
can i DELETE ALL CONTACTS
I'm having such a hard time with contacts on my hero. Wish I would have just had Sprint transfer them over from my Touch Pro. Anyways, I want ONLY the contacts from my old phone, which have been imported into gmail. Is there a way to delete all the crap that was imported into my contacts from Windows Contacts via HTC Sync? Then I can sync only my google contacts and just live with that.
how do I delete all contacts?
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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I had the exact same problem. The only fix I could find was to edit the contacts name with the drop down arrow, and move the full name into the "First Name" field. It's the only way that will remain the same after syncing with activesync.
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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use marketplace to find contact changer. its one dollar and will do ALL ur contacts the way you are wanting (first name last name) i didn't know of this till AFTER going thru them all and changing them one by one on outlook
that solves half of my issue. but also the other half of my problem is that since i already erased all o my contacts out of my phone from outlook it wont let me re sync it back to my phone to get all my contacts in there. it says synchronized 4/12/10 and wont let me re import my full list from outlook on my computer to my phone.
so is there a manual way to force the sync or to completely erase all information from outlook so it sees it has to re sync it?
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Changing the order in which they show in your Outlook doesn't actually change anything that needs to be synchronized to your phone. The Outlook sort order doesn't get synchronized.
Plus, it's a WinMo thing that it shows the All People by last name, first name. You can, however, buy a $0.99 app that will allow you to change this:
http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/details.aspx?appId=1ef4f47b-4145-49b5-bb91-de7c1a46dacd&retURL=/search.aspx%3Fkeywords%3Dcontact
Personally, I think it's not needed, especially when you can quickly type in the first few letters of a person's first name and it shows the matching contacts quickly.
Thank you guys. I do appreciate it. I just need to find out now how to get my hd2 to manually force the contacts back in my phone. it keeps saying its already been synchronized and wont update.
all you need here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316
check out that website. it has a lot of useful tips on there but i still cannot get my phone to re sync and bring back in the contacts. i deleted the partnership and re entered all the info it needs to sync back up it. it connected and said it synch'ed but no contacts came back into my phone.
ok guys, if anyone is having the same issues. instead of synchronizing over the air i connected through wmdc and created a partnership and it synched all my contacts.
i used the contact manager and it worked flawlessly awesome stuff guys. thanks to all
This is somewhat unrelated. However, I can't start new threads.
I'm using google active sync as well. I have email in my google account setup in different folders. I can see the folders but they are all empty. Only the inbox has mail in it.
Solution: HD2 active sync and importing contacts
MS Out look and Activesyn. There is no need to purchase software at all. Plus you can use your Outlook contact database for any phone in the future. or emergency swap the phone out before travel...
1- Export all out look as *csv (windows)
2- Modifying the first name by merge first and last name together becomes first name only (couple minutes by formulate)
Was Was Was
First name Last name
John Summervile
Kelly Summervile
After After After
First name Last name
John Summervile BLANK
Kelly Summervile BLANK
3- Delete all the contact on MS outlook and import modified *csv file again. Look at the "File as", it should show "John Summervile "instead showing "Summervile, John"
4- Launch Activesynce again.
Good luck!
my laptop doesnt recognize my htc hd2
ok i have a dell laptop running windows vista
i dont have software cd for htc hd2
when i connect using usb phone to laptop,,,,comp tells me that had trouble installing device so its not installed properly
please help..............................................................
i looked up on another thread and i can sync phone until computer recognizes phone