Activesync

[Guest za3boto]

I use windows vista with windows mobility center, and I chose to connect my omnia to the pc without setting up activesync and that worked great for me. I used the phone for a while, and changed the contacts file as setting to "First Name Last Name" instead of the vcards default "Last Name, First Name" (Imagine how much time I took to do that given that I have around 250 contacts and I had to do that one by one!!!), I also added some notes and calendar items and anniversaries. Then I decided to setup active sync to synchronize data to my pc (boy, what a mistake!!!). The phone's contacts (phone numbers only) were added to my outlook contacts (which where email contacts only). Now there's a mess of contacts in my outlook sometimes I have more than 1 entry for the same person but appears with a different name. To top it off, since active sync synchronizes data every 10 seconds I guess!!! it overwritten my phone's contacts phone numbers with their email only version (happy me).

Later I learned the following lovely facts:

1. In case of conflicts, active sync considers the outlook data as the primary source and overwrites the phone's data.

2. Apart from outlook or active sync or windows mobility center, there are no way of synchronizing data to my phone.

3. Synchronizing has no setting for scheduling or turning it off or setting it to manual sync.

4. I cannot add my phone contacts (which I setup the file as option and saved in individual vcards) to my phone unless I add them 1 at a time.

So I decided to end the partnership with my phone and return to my first way of connecting the phone without syncing,

and the surprise was

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did you guess it yet?

ALL MY CONTACTS AND CALENDAR ITEMS AND ANNIVERSARIES AND NOTES WERE GONE!!!!!!!! (can't find a smiley face from the menu to express my feeling except AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!)

well, active sync sucks. and I don't know if it's possible for providing an alternative here or adding a link to an existing one.

appreciate any ideas. meanwhile stay away of activesync and you'll dojust fine

[Guest moe_szylak]

The real BS is that to sync your contacts to a Vista machine you NEED Outlook. I never planned on buying Outlook as I mostly use web based mail and Vista comes with Windows Live Mail and a calendar. There should be no need to buy additional software just to sync contacts. I recently had to do a hard reset on my Omnia and had to manually re-input almost 200 contacts. Thats F**ked up in my opinion.

[Guest spanomnia]

The real BS is that to sync your contacts to a Vista machine you NEED Outlook. I never planned on buying Outlook as I mostly use web based mail and Vista comes with Windows Live Mail and a calendar. There should be no need to buy additional software just to sync contacts. I recently had to do a hard reset on my Omnia and had to manually re-input almost 200 contacts. Thats F**ked up in my opinion.

Is there really no alternative to outluck? I dont use local mail either, its all web mail for me..........there must be a way round this ??? anyone ??.

[Guest gragra]

Unrelated

Edited May 18, 2009 by gragra

[Guest gtr73]

I hate Activesync. What a frustrating, unreliable piece of crud that might work 1 time out of 10. My 4yr old son could write better software than the retard that came up with Activesync.

[Guest rcicu]

you can sync with gmail via exchange.... No Outlook