New to Smatphone

[Guest harlex]

I am new to Smartphone and to date am a little disappointed with my new SP5 and was hoping someone may be able to help.

Tried to create initial partnership with PC-Phone so as to upload my large contact directory (1000+ contacts). When partnershop is made, the only thing that appears to have sync'd with phine is calendar. If I try and create new contact on phone, this too does not sync with PC as is the case if I do same or modify something on PC.

Have tried to find this specific problem with search engines but to no avail.

If this subject is covered elsewhere on this site, I apologise in advance, I am at whits end and am just about to throw phone in trash as I have been working on this problem for far to long and compared to my pocket PC, this whole process is very non user friendly.

Thanks in advance.

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I only have about 300 contact in Outlook, but a very large calendar, and I find that with WM5, the first sync is extrordinarily long. It needs to complete the first sync for you to have no problems.

Try doing a hard reset, deleting old partnershipes in ActiveSync and trying again. Make sure it finishes the process and say synchronized. Also be sure to use the latest version of AS (4.1).

[Guest hunyango_uk]

try this first before you throw your phone :D

open the activesync on your pc

activesync => tools\option

contacts

calendar

email

task

notes

favorites

windows media player

etc........

then tick the items you want to sync including contacts. :D

and now if it still doesn't work, just give me a message and i will give you my address then send the sp5 to me and i'll be happy to do the throwing for you (not, i'll keep it myself ;) )

Edited January 16, 2006 by hunyango_uk

[Guest nickcornaglia]

figured he already knew that since they were previously a PPC user.

[Guest harlex]

Thanks to contributors but after much ado I had to reset the sp5 and start from scratch. After this I managed to upload Cal, Contacts and tasks. I still have a continuing problem that to sucessfully sync I need to reboot PC and SP5 and turn off Norton IS. From what I have read there seems to be other users suffering somewhat similar probs but maybe over time I will find out how to resolve this also.

Again thanks.