Orange Backup?

[Guest Brycey03]

Ive just changed from an Orange C500 to the C600 so I used Orange Backup to store all my contacts so I could 'Restore' them all from Orange but I cant find how or where to do it in my C600.

Outlook hates my C500 and I cant back them up onto my computer so I used the Orange restore to do it instead.

[Guest Funster]

It's not on the C600, a real pain. :x

I had to go down the Outlook route and it wasn't pretty. Why they chose to remove it is beyond me. It was a great feature of the previous SPVs, shame.

At least you get a copy of Outlook with the phone so it could be worse. Good luck.

Funster

[Guest Amun.hidden1]

just a fast noob question about the last comment ;) :

about the version of outlook that came with the c600, does it also come with some version for the mobile itself?

cuz i already had outlook installed in my PC so i did not install it...was that installer suppose to setup some mobile outlook to the device ?

[Guest Funster]

just a fast noob question about the last comment ;) :

about the version of outlook that came with the c600, does it also come with some version for the mobile itself?

cuz i already had outlook installed in my PC so i did not install it...was that installer suppose to setup some mobile outlook to the device ?

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I don't think the installer setups anything on the phone. It only setups of Outlook on the PC.

If you've got Outlook already installed then ActiveSync should pick it up and you can choose to sync the Contacts and whatever else like Calender and Tasks also from within ActiveSync.

Hope that's clear.

[Guest rsearley]

just a fast noob question about the last comment ;) :

about the version of outlook that came with the c600, does it also come with some version for the mobile itself?

cuz i already had outlook installed in my PC so i did not install it...was that installer suppose to setup some mobile outlook to the device ?

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No the installer does not install mobile outlook, as this is already on the device and part of the rom.

So as long as actice sync is working ok, you dont need to upgrade. but may miss some of the newer features

for example in contacts you can assign a contact picture in outlook, and this will become the callid picture on the phone.

[Guest rsearley]

Ive just changed from an Orange C500 to the C600 so I used Orange Backup to store all my contacts so I could 'Restore' them all from Orange but I cant find how or where to do it in my C600.

Outlook hates my C500 and I cant back them up onto my computer so I used the Orange restore to do it instead.

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WM5 brought along persitant storage, so in the event of total battery loss, all data is retained, so the main reason for backup was removed particularly on PDA style devices

and infact, for people who used backup, along with outlook could see problems, for example duplicate calendar and contact entries

another reason may be that it simply has not been ported to WM5 yet, my understanding is that orange back-up was a trimmed down version of sprite backup (i may be wrong), and sprite so far has not release a WM5 smartphone product