PC Sync

[Guest onepack]

HI, I am brand new to all this. I have an HTC Hero, as you would expect on this forum. My question is this - I understand that syncing with a PC (contacts, calendar) is a one way event. Is this ever likely to improve and also include things like notes and tasks? I have not tried it yet as I cannot get my Hero unlocked from Orange, but it seems to me that if there is no app. that does a good job of syncing, that is a huge missed opportunity for ANDROID. I only switched because of the clunky Windows Mobile OS and there are probably tens of thousands of users in a similar position. It is begining to look as though I have made a mistake. Anybody know of a solution? Thanks! :D

[Guest Bart79]

HI, I am brand new to all this. I have an HTC Hero, as you would expect on this forum. My question is this - I understand that syncing with a PC (contacts, calendar) is a one way event. Is this ever likely to improve and also include things like notes and tasks? I have not tried it yet as I cannot get my Hero unlocked from Orange, but it seems to me that if there is no app. that does a good job of syncing, that is a huge missed opportunity for ANDROID. I only switched because of the clunky Windows Mobile OS and there are probably tens of thousands of users in a similar position. It is begining to look as though I have made a mistake. Anybody know of a solution? Thanks! :D

Hey there,

I know how you're feeling, when i received my Hero i immediately hooked it up to my pc to sync my contacts, messages and calendar, which i had already transferred to my pc. But surprise surprise.. all i could sync were my contacts. And although they're supposed to, once they were on my phone they wouldn't sync with google contacts for some reason. So the only option i could imagine was manually exporting my contacts to google contacts (using export in Vista and import in Google contacts), manually deleting all double entries that i'd synced up to my phone instead of Google contacts and then manually adding every single item from my old calendar to google calendar.... Took me ages, hated the work and never found a way to get my old messages (sms) on my Hero.

I guess i'll never have to do it again though.. unless i decide to buy a phone that doesn't run on android somewhere in the future.

[Guest JulesB]

HI, I am brand new to all this. I have an HTC Hero, as you would expect on this forum. My question is this - I understand that syncing with a PC (contacts, calendar) is a one way event. Is this ever likely to improve and also include things like notes and tasks? I have not tried it yet as I cannot get my Hero unlocked from Orange, but it seems to me that if there is no app. that does a good job of syncing, that is a huge missed opportunity for ANDROID. I only switched because of the clunky Windows Mobile OS and there are probably tens of thousands of users in a similar position. It is begining to look as though I have made a mistake. Anybody know of a solution? Thanks! :D

I had similar problems. I could not use the calendar sync on HTC Sync because I use categories on my Outlook Calendar (to separate work and private appointments, etc) and the HTC Calendar does not support them and strips them off, so I could only sync Outlook -> Phone.

For contacts (where I also use Categories, which the People app does support), 2-way syncing does work better, although there is still a lot of tidying up to do, so I don't do it very often. I usually end up having sync, delete all the duplicate entries from the phone in Outlook, delete all the entries on the phone and then do a Recovery Sync in HTC Sync to overwrite the phone. It works, but it should be easier.

I use Companion Synchronize to handle the two-way calendar syncs. This syncs my Outlook calendar to multple Google calendars (one per category) which I then sych to my phone, where they appear colour coded according to the particular Google calendar. This does work as a two way process. I can create an event on my phone, allocate it to a particular Google Calendar and when I sync Outlook the event appears in the correct category. Companion Synchronise also supports Contacts, Notes and Tasks (see the Companion Link website for what it syncs where), but personally I don't want to give that much data to Google!