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[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I got it to work with Outlook after many days of frustration. You need to set the phone to Samsung Kies mode, make sure it is at the idle home screen, then connect the cable.

Initially, Kies could not recognise or connect to the phone, but mysteriously managed to do so on its own after many many attempts. After connected, you'll see a few icons to the device (which is on the top right corner of the screen), and under the contact icon, you will be able to chose to sync outlook to Kies, then sync Kies to the phone. When I first tried it, the progress bar in syncing didnt move, but again mysteriously did so subsequently. So, my contact are all in my Samsung now. I noticed that I need to move all my contact to be under one single group. It would only sync one group of contacts only. I'm okay with that as long as I don't have to manually key in all my contact again.

I was not so lucky in Calendar. It got stuck at 0% progress when I tried to sync. So in this case, I manually keyed in all my calendar info. I still need to solve this problem later on though.

In summary Kies could work, but with lots of attempts and more importantly luck. It is extremely buggy.

I wish you guys luck with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mirceal:
I have similar issue. What message do you see? Please read my tread
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker33:
Couldn't agree more on Kies being buggy, mine has about a 10% success rate when connecting to Kies requiring lots of restarts of the phone and Kies before it's successful.

Really wish there was a better app that just worked, wonder if there would be a way to fool the HTC sync app into thinking the Samsung was a HTC :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Makes me really appreciate iTune now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pig Vomit:
The key to Kies is to go to SETTINGS, APPLICATIONS, USB SETTINGS, then set the connection to Kies. It will take several connections and reboots of both phone and PC, but eventually everything will be installed and it will work.

I have successfully transferred my contacts, but I have not been able to get the calendar on 32-bit Outlook 2010 on a Win 7 x64 Ultimate OS to sync up. The only way is to export to a CSV DOS file, upload it to the Gmail cloud, and then it will all be there. Kies says that the calendar sync'd, but it doesn't.

Kies is not currently working to sync Outlook Calendar. I've got LOTS of calendar entries...maybe that's the problem. But I've tried many different ways.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] maxdcy:
What i did was to create a new gmail account ( my old one was like 5 years old and to messy to start with)

exported the contacts to csv and imported them to the new gmail account

sync the phone with the new gmail

and nopw am happy :) each time i install a new firmware, wipe or mess up the device

i just login to the new gmail with the phone and all my contacts are back
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Harts@J:
I sure know the difference as an Exchange Administrator, but does everyone know? I doubt.

Some of us use Outlook when connecting to POP/IMAP Servers and some of us use Outlook as a client to connect to the Exchange Server. Some of us like to sync with local Outlook (mails can be on any server, finally they are on the local ost-file) and some of us like to sync direct to the Exchange without Outlook using the Outlook Web Access front-end Server.

My personal contacts and calendar items are on my personal PC and my corporate contacts and calendar items are on the corporate Exchange.

Which products can I use, if I want to sync personal items via cable and corporate items by air?

There are different products for the different situations. I'm searching a solution for both of them, I'll think that I'm not alone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
So I'm not the only one who can only sync the contact but not the calendar in Kies. Do you also get stucked at zero percent progress bar?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Requirements well described. While I have no issue using the cloud for business stuff, I do not want to be forced to put my friends birthday, address, phones, email to the world wide web. I do not want my personal activities in my calendar to be on the web. It'll be a matter of time that the government will use it, like what they're already doing with mails and web surfing activities now. Not to mention it being hacked by criminals to either steal the identities of my friends.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Harts@J:
I'll agree. I have same arguments, not anything to the clouds, I'll like to keep all my information safe on my own hands on my own computer.

It is sad that Android has not managed this in the early beginning. It is sad that Samsung has made the Kies so difficult to use to every man.

When discussing here, we can find the most useful solution for local and in the air syncing.

My phone is still on the way, I cannot give any solutions which might work, but I'll try when I have the phone on my hands. :o
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Yes, and solutions should be available not just for 32 bits PC, but also 64 bits and Mac platforms. No customer should be left out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Harts@J:
I'll agree, but this is a cruel commercial world.

There is hundreds of millions 32-bit Windows computers, there are much less 64 bits and Mac's. Most of the customers has 32-bit PC, they get the Service first. Is there a solution for the Linux users?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Fair enough, and I accept your argument that not all can be supported for commercial reasons. However I still think MAJOR platforms like Mac and 64 bits should have been supported already. I myself have a 64 bit PC.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
Wow. Paranoid? Do you have a tinfoil hat? :)

Besides, you're talking about friends info, what if they have your info on their Android phone and store it in the cloud? You can't really stop it... it makes life so much easier. I love the cloud! :) I wish more stuff was in the cloud.

On topic, did anyone fix the calendar sync issue?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Ya sure. You can't stop some random applications grab your ewallet info without your knowledge and hand it to the cloud.

Reality distortion field.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i can say i'll can trust Google with my private info, but definitely not fan of Facebook/Tweeter

i've been using Google since... forever, i do all my business online on the cloud, it's so convenient, i don't need a phsyical office to run my business.

my teamates sync with me and we collaborate projects online via google apps

just recently a buddy corporate office dumped their exchenge servers for Google Apps Corporate, all their 150+ people in the office went from exhange to google mail, yet still using Outlook as the front end.

for most of the non technical people in the office, they did not even know the change happened.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Loco5150:
Google collecting the H U G E amounts of data, it cant be good at any level. Its stupid to think that "uu I have nothing to hide they can look through my emails if they want".

Is it good that one company has so much information about people’s behavior and habits? And now google collects all personal data and even when using google maps people whereabouts…

If this continues like this, Im even afraid to think how much stuff they have in 20 years and how they are using it… 20 years guys, its very very very short time, but at the same time think back to 1990, things have changed a lot since then, it’s a very long time in things like this. You will have no idea at this point who is running the company and what agendas they have. LOL maybe its even called “The Company” by then.. LOL

No but, funny thing is that if ANY government would start to collect data like this, people would be rioting and going crazy…

This is a new thing, and in the future I expect that there will be new laws and regulations made to prevent companies of saving people’s personal stuff indefinitely. Sad thing about this is that as looking at history, new rules and regulations normally come after something has gone wrong, something happens that goes ****’t and then people react.

Eaglesteve thinks about this on more personal level and has valid points I agree. I just feel that if people are not concerned about giving their personal stuff away like that, they should think about the scenario that someone (“The Company”) has everyone’s data…

If the people in control don’t use this information to gain more money, more power and more of something else, shiiiiiiiiit we should elect them as president, maybe they end all wars…

And this is no tinfoil hat crap, they can watch me all they want (they are not watching me, thinking that would be tinfoil hat crap), but I have a problem if they try to control me (read control masses of people)…

Im waiting on my Galaxy… I will test how Im able to sync directly with Outlook on a clean pc… I will not sync anything with google. If it seems to be working fine I will move to android if Im not able to sync everything easily without the cloud, then Im not moving to android, **** them.

Offtopic: You would expect 64bit Win and Mac to be supported right from release... Or which was the offtopic? LOL...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
Yes it is, your tin foil hat is in the post. I put it in a plain, unmarked brown paper bag though and addressed it to 'Not really me, I don't live here'. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Loco5150:
Naaa, I think you missed my point. Im saying there that in the future the worst case scenario could be something in those lines…

Look, be honest to yourself, would you use a service that has the same things that google and they would save all your emails, contacts, calendar, not to mention save all your locations when using their great free gps service. You would also know that they don’t even delete your data from their archives after you delete it, and it would be owned by your government.. I think most people would say no to that. People would be going crazy asking why they gather all this info who has the access etc… I don’t get why people would think any different if it’s a company that’s doing it. Never mind what company; Apple, Nokia, Microsoft Google or Ford… It doesn’t sound like a good idea to me… Mainly I guess because the same idiots are behind all of those companies and government, called humans. Many of those are greedy ****s and only after the interest of small group of other humans.

I wouldn’t have a problem with this if they wouldn’t save all the data for themselves.. If I delete an email from my gmail, it should disappear forever, but google still has it… Same goes to everything else, google searches, google maps etc…

But this is just wrong at so many levels, there is also the imminent personal level that eaglesteve has mentioned…

Well at least we have a choice, I don’t use gmail or tried google maps with gps device because I have tomtom in my car and on my HTC…

Time will tell how all this data will be used and who gains the most out of it… Probably 10-15 years and they should be much further on how they use all this information. Totally another thing is do they even tell honestly what and how they do with it.

Damn that’s not long; I would predict some of the same people are still at Kaiser section trying to get the video driver working.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
But of course the data they have now is very little use in 15 years time...

Myself, I make use of all these great services. Google Maps is a killer app, your loss I guess...

I guess it's similar to people who smoke. You can tell them they will shorten their life by 5 years, but they prefer to enjoy smoking for 40 years and then die 5 years early. By the time they're 80, their quality of life is pretty poor by then.

Personally, I don't think Google is going to cause me to die early and I don't believe they will be able to control my life all because they know which Gym I go to.

The MASSIVE advantage I get by simply logging in to Google and all my contacts appear back on my phone is huge. (I flash new ROMs quite a bit) To be honest, those not wanting to take advantage of this due to, in my opinion, misplaced paranoia is there loss and I wont bother myself looking for another way for them to do it. I'm surprised you even own a device that can do these kinds of things with how you think large companies want to exploit/control you.

Do you know how hard it is to use information on people in this day and age with all these human rights people winging on about it, I really don't think the government can get away with using it in such a way.

I'm quite happy my location is tracked. I might need it some day as evidence if I'm accused of something I didn't do :)

Anyway, we should agree to disagree. I'll enjoy these amazing apps for 15 years and then we'll both see if Google or the government control me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Loco5150:
Wellllll, you probably get that in 15 years time they would have 15 years of data, from that you would pretty much know everything about this person… All down to the preferred color of the underwear…

About the human rights people, they whine about the things they know… They know what they are told. BUT anyway, you are right we can agree to disagree, and I don’t want to comment on everything…

I should probably let you know that this whole discussion came about on another thread. I ordered the Galaxy S only to notice after that it is made really hard to use Android without gmail. You see I use outlook with myowndomain.com, so I don’t want to use any free mail. I rather sync everything with Outlook as it is just as easy, and as a bonus I don’t have to give my data to some company…

We will see will I be bothering you long here… If I can get contacts, calendar and tasks to sync nicely with my computer, I will probably move to android, and then pretty soon to Samsung Epic when it comes to Europe. If not, I will not sync my data to google, and keep looking for another platform to move as the 6.5 is getting quite outdated…

And just on a side note, Im sure google maps is great, but its kind of useless when your away from your own country and data plan and what Ive read the directions aren’t always that good… But sure it’s a great to get free navigation. Even if youre route is stored to their server for who knows how long.

But this is enough of this, I should get my Galaxy in the beginning of next week, we will see do I even like Android…
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
but the USA, North Korea, and China has been doing that for years already, legal or not, and you don't see people in USA revolting.

I'm quite sure the UK secret service has the same thing but well hidden, unlike USA that is so "non obvious" that is obvious to plain sight.

by the way this post has probably already sounded an alarm at some monitor center, and are trying to find out if they should come down my house and bust open the door to see if i'm connected to some underground something they have been looking for who is leaking their intel out.

LOL :D

guys you are all watching too much movies...

it's safer to have your data on the cloud than on a computer, if your computer blows up, you'll lose it all, but if your stuff is on the cloud then you'll still have your data safe and sound that's the biggest benefit.

more and more businesses are going from private servers to cloud servers to run their daily business, it's better, safer, faster, and more economical.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Travel_Mate:
Well, my first post here :)

In every movie there is some sort of truth, at least the movie is giving the idea...

this is marketing... sh*t can always happen, no matter how backed up are you

right and wrong, more and more businesses are starting to use their own personal cloud, that's what companies like vmware do
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
Erm, no, not really.

Erm, no, not really.

Thanks for the input though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Harts@J:
Very nice to compare those states in one sentence. One of those is calling itself as a voice of the free world...

Maybe Loco5150 and myself are thinking this world from a different point of view. The reason might be our location an our history in this world as a small nation.

The contacts which I have are given to me for personal use, they are not given to me for sharing them around the globe (when using Gmail). This is calling privacy and I have to respect the privacy of my contacts.

Yes, the Google Maps is a killer app when you are travelling in your home country, as most British are. It is complete useless for Finns who are travelling abroad (even in the British Isles), the connection charges are absurd for occasional travellers. The wireless networks are not present everywhere, either.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
Yes, I store contact information in Gmail privately. If you'd like to prove me wrong, give me a few numbers from my phone book.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Harts@J:
Nobody (repeat nobody) has told that you or I can get some others information from Google. But the information is the cloud and I have not any control of it.

You can share and store your information wherever you like, I have my rights to share and store my information as I like. If I like to use Android phone and like to use Outlook and my PC, it should be my decision, it cannot be Google's decision.

Even Microsoft offer that, it doesn't force me to use hotmail or similar to sync my information.

From my point of view this is called freedom, if it is paranoiac as your point of view, it is your opinion. :cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndyCr15:
Yes, and I choose to buy BluRay's and play them on my DVD player. That should be my decision, right?

**EDIT** Btw, I'm not saying you choosing to store them in Outlook is paranoia, I'm saying people telling me I will be controlled in 15 years because I use Google's services now is paranoia.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
well they wont be able to control you, but at least they will know when you sleep, take a shower, go take a dump, and at what time you eat your breakfast, and what cereal you like, stuff like that.

in my case, i couldn't care less, i've got a boring ordinary life, day in and day out of work, pay lots and lots of taxes, a daily rutine is basically wake up, take a piss, dresss up, eat breakfast, go out to work, come back, prepare dinner, eat, shower, sleep, and repeat all over again for 365 days

so if they can find something interesting out of my life, i'll be surprised LOL :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Loco5150:
Duh....

You know that by "controlling people" I dont mean that google makes AndyCr15 go and kill he's neighbor against he’s own will...

The amount of information they are collecting about people’s movements, habits and preferences, IF someone wanted to use it unethically there are many things the information could be used for… It can be done very subtle and if its to gain something, whether it is financial gain or something else more subtle thing that serves some purpose of someone it is called controlling people.

Even google says that they are behaving in good faith “don’t be evil” or whatever the crap was they were saying. Even that tells you that they acknowledge the potential problems. Im not saying they are lying, but who knows what and who will have access and control to the data later.

Is it a big problem that they have all personal information of 1 person, no, who cares… Is it a problem that they have personal information of hundreds of millions of people, hell yes… IMHO at least….

But seriously this is enough of this thread hijacking… Lets keep it on syncing with Outlook…

Edit: Just as a reminder Im only talking about the whole thing because after ordering the SGS I realized that Google makes me to sync all my data to them with Android... First thing in my mind right there is why? Why it is the only option to sync the phone...?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
yes, back on topic....

it's really hard to think what else, or which other alternative you could use to sync outlook without going through a Gmail account

Kies software and Outlook are not the best of friends at the moment.

The only other alternative that i can think of is to run your own MS Exchange Server at home or work, and then sync to your own Exchange server, then you can get all your contacts, calendar and emails each sync.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Is the inability to sync to outlook a problem faced by ALL android phones, does anyone know? Or just Samsung's phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Roy Ngan:
i have no problem sync with Exchange (not Outlook) in my SGS, JM1 firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
You know very well that's not our question, don't you? We're talking about non-cloud solution here.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Gavsav:
Sync with Outlook - see New Kies update xxx74.2

Hey Steve, to answer your original question, download the latest Kies update xxx74.2 because it now syncs properly. I was having same probs as you, btu all fixed now.

Gav
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Thanks. But I've already moved in and am extremely happy iPhone 4 user now. It had too many other issues still unresolved : GPS, terrible lags are the major ones. In addition, I just can't find quality applications on the Android platform yet. Will give it more times to catch up with iPhone before I try again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Starxda:
Non Cloud solution to Sync Android phone with Outlook

I find an interesting software that may solve your problems:

Android Manager-WIFI is a non cloud solution to Sync data between Android phone and PC including synchronizing Outlook/Outlook Express contacts/Calendar Windows Contacts. The provider claims that it supports wireless connection between PC and if possible, all Android Phones. This software also helps to sync multimedia files such as photo/video, music playlists and android application.That means it facilitates the application installation and managment. Perhaps you would like to give it a try. sorry, I can't post any link here! probably you can try to google "Android Manager-WIFI"
[Palm Treo 750] BestStore:
Hello, I have been updating WM to Spanish WM6.

For some reason I can only use 1GB MiniSD card to start boot and update.

If I use a 2GB MiniSD card with the same file CHEEIMG.NBH, the phone does not see it, although it does normally see the 2GB expansion card when already loaded Windows.

Does anybody know why TREO 750 ignores 2GB cards when making updates from CHEEIMG.NBH? I have tried this with several different phones.

It would not be a big deal, but 1GB are more difficult to find now. And it is strange anyway.

thank you.
[Palm Treo 750] startngate:
I have used 2GB cards many times to flash my Treo750 without issue.

You might want to try re-formatting in FAT32, or try a different card.

Also, this thread may be of help.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=325610
[Palm Treo 750] BestStore:
I did format them FAT32. And it works as a memory card in normal mode. But it is not recognized when I try to update the system from such 2GB card.

I read posts on the link you gave me, looks like some people have similar but necessarily same problems which is strange.

Maybe phones have different versions of BIOS or something? So they recognize different card types in BIOS boot mode?
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[Vibrant General] al74:
At last. Great review from Cnet:

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-vibrant-t-mobile/4505-6452_7-34129373.html?tag=rvwBody
[Vibrant General] iceshinobi:
o.O I bet they didn't train the battery since they said it dies fast o.O
[Vibrant General] Tyrant171:
What do you mean by "train" the battery?
[Vibrant General] iceshinobi:
Letting it die all the way then turn it on till it completely turns off and you can turn on again then charge it fully and you do it that for 3 times and your good :D
[Vibrant General] Tyrant171:
Gotcha...good to know. Thanks for the info!