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[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Thanks. Apparently all of the content is there.

I never selected this, it was like this by default.

When I go to this accunt setup the only box to tick/untick is email.

Calendar is synced as well as email.

I got contact names but no content. I think WHAT mistake could be possibly made.

Aaaaaaaargh!!!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Have you tried forcing a sync? Go into Settings -> Accounts and long press on your Windows Live account to get the context menu.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Of course, I did it many times!
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
How about a hard reset and just trying again?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Lol, hard reset the device and all the hassle to get my contacts?

Seems a bit odd to me.

I mean I'd love to know what is the eventual mistake I did and what is the workaround for this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I dunno, you've got something crazy going on. It's worth a try. I don't know if I'd consider a hard reset a hassle, a phone is pretty useless without contacts.

I've managed to sync my contacts from Windows Live twice with no issues. I doubt you made any mistakes, from Windows Live -> Windows Phone is as simple as adding that primary account.

How are you verifying that that the ActiveSync -> Windows Live worked correctly?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Well because all 1500 contacts are sitting nicely on my Hotmail with all details preserved, incl. notes.

Checked it on many of them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
THIS IS A ****ING DISASTER. I have a huge disappointment with WP7 now.

Microsoft you suck big time!!

I resetted my phone.

Now the ****er is syncing endlessly all the contacts from the beginning.

My Hotmail has 2600 contacts in total but the phone does sync 5600 contacts and doesn't stop!!!

What the hell is that. What a crap!!!!!

Anybody experienced such thing? This is ridiculous!!!

I have no bloody idea what to do!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Currently it synced 18000 contacts.

It's the biggest crap I've ever seen on any smartphone in my life.

I start to think just the opposite about this device.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
After every reset is the same!

Massacre!
[Windows Phone 7 General] karelj:
This is the first time I've heard about a contacts sync issue this severe.

Maybe it's some sort of hardware issue affecting the phone's performance..

While you still have your sanity, try this...setup a new Live account and sync that to the phone. Then delete the account from the phone and try synching your primary account again.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I remember somebody writing here the same thing but can't remember what thread it was.

Anyway, you propose to reset the device and sync it to a different acc, than delete this account and set my main one?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I just resetted again, set a new Hotmail account, synced.

Than set the second, my main account. Synced.

THE SAME ****. Goes beyond my 2600 contacts and continues endlessly.

This will probably lead me to sell this **** and leave this "amazing" WP experience ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] karelj:
I know that your patience is at an end, but bear with me as this will take a couple of resets.

In Live Mail/Hotmail, Export the contacts from the main account to that secondary account that you just created - in the Hotmail interface go to Contacts, then click on Manage in the top menu bar and you will find the links to Export and Import.

When the second account has imported all of the contacts, set that as the phone's *only* hotmail/livemail account and see if the transfer of contacts is successful.

This is a highly unusual issue. I'm on three different Windows Phone forums and this is the first time I have seen a problem this stubborn.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Okay, I will definitely try that.

And report in few minutes.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Ok I can Export but my second Live can't Import them!

What the hell??!!

Error HTTP 500
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
@karelj

So what do you think?
[Windows Phone 7 General] karelj:
I'm going to go through the export/import process myself. I'm very surprised that you got an error while trying to import.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I also raised the question at Microsoft forums.

This is crazy!!!!!!

First the phone imported contacts in a wrong way. Now it loops.

No matter how many times I reset the device. As I mentioned, my record was 20000 contacts synced, however on the device only the right amount from Hotmail.

As for import/export problem persists too. Always error however export is like a breeze.
[Windows Phone 7 General] karelj:
I'm at a loss to explain the problems you are encountering.

I setup a secondary live.com email addy and I was able to export from my primary and import into the secondary without a hitch.

Do you have a gmail account that you are not really using? Can you try importing the Hotmail/Live contacts into that gmail account? The only thing that comes to mind is that there is some sort of corruption with your primary Hotmail/Live account. From the issues with the phone syncing, to the error while importing into another Hotmail/Live account - it just screams 'corruption' or that the number of contacts - 1500 - is somehow bogging up the works.
[Windows Phone 7 General] karelj:
Two possible solutions..

1.: In the settings for the Live account on the phone : Point to debug-m.hotmail.com, sync and then switch back to m.hotmail.com and sync again.

OR

Unlink services in Live which added contacts (FaceBook, LinkedIn, etc)

From Windows Live Mail exported all my contacts to a .csv file

Delete all contacts in primary Hotmail/Live account.

Import contacts back in, (using WLM) in batches of 20 (don't know if this was important).

After each batch use send/receive in WLM, and then refresh email on phone.

Obviously, the second method carries a risk since you are deleting all the contacts - even with backing them up to a csv file.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I'm not sure I understand you.

The first method means changing server from m.hotmail.com to debug-m.hotmail.com?

The second method:

What is WindowsLiveMail? I mean is it something different that going my Hotmail through browser?

And how can I export import in batches? Does it mean also exporting in batches?

EDIT:

I just run desktop WindowsLiveMail and it beautifully synced all my contacts to the program...

Anyway I also don't get this ****ing export.

When I export Contacts from WindowsLiveMail (desktop app) and try to import it to the WLive (browser), it says the file is empty.

When I select few contacts in Hotmail and export it still does the same file which cannot be exported.

Am I missing something? THis starts to drive me crazy.

So if you can please tell me how do you do this export. Because I start to feel like an idiot.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Ok, Google imported all of the contacts in 20 seconds!!!

And the second empty Hotmail account couldn't do it either.

What a crap.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Something is wrong on Microsoft side.

So, further experimenting....

I took my second Hotmail and imported my stuff from Gmail.

But not from import but just from the redirecting.

What it did was importing only 1000 contacts to Hotmail.

So now I resetted LG again and set it to this Hotmail.

And what? Well this time contacts were synced without a loop, but:

1. Many from them are empty

2. When I add a contact to a device, it's not synced back to Hotmail.

So, I say - it's a very crappy implementation of a BASIC phone feature.

Extremely disappointed here. Close to selling this.

I mean I don't see a solution.
[Windows Phone 7 General] karelj:
Sorry I couldnt respond earlier. NY got hit with a doozy of a snow storm and after shoveling for the 3rd time, I pretty much passed out on the couch.

I have no idea why you are having these problems...I wish I had an answer.

You can try exporting the contacts from Gmail into the second Hotmail/Live address and try using that second Hotmail/Live address on the phone. I'm not sure if you did this already so excuse the suggestion if you did.

Also, If you are using the first Windows Live account just for contacts then I suggest - after another reset - not adding the Hotmail/Live account to the phone, add the gmail address to the phone and in the settings have it sync contacts to the phone.

You can either just keep gmail on the phone, or try adding the Hotmail/Live address *after* syncing with gmail and see what happens to the contacts.

Again, I have no idea why this is happening. I can add contacts to my phone and it syncs back to Hotmail/Live just fine. Wish I could be more of a help, but I'm just as baffled as you are.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Thanks. Well I raised the problem on Microsoft forums and they say it's the LIMIT OF contacts on Hotmail. IT IS NOWHERE written however it is 1000 contacts.

The Hotmail is a mess for me. Basically I was able to ActiveSync everything to Hotmail and it was fine. All of the contacts were perfectly synced to LiveEmail app on PC. And now it causes the problem for WP7.

As I mentioned through experiments with few accounts, I was able to suck contacts from Google to anoter account. And than synced phone with this account and I didn't get a "loop" of constantly syncing contacts.

BUT most of them are empty. And sync back doesn't work either.

So I say Hotmail is huge ****ing mess. And this nice person trying to help me on Microsoft forum suggested splitting contacts into groups and leave only some of them on Hotmail. What is ODD! Especially for a pesron on the go like me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] buffalosolja42:
Man I am sorry

I had issues at first but I really can't speculate on this because I only have 976 contacts. I was disappointed that the myphone didn't work with this either. I just exported my contacts and placed them on my gmail account which I use primarily anyways and everything synced included contact notes, I have them on both systems and linked alot of stuff and it works fine. I hope it gets resolved for you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Thanks mate!

Well I didn't know I can sync my contacts from Gmail.

Anyway I decided to use the rest of my patience and actually sort all of my contacts after 10 or even 13 years. So first I've sent all of the WLive contatcs from desktop WindowsMail to separate VCards and will add them to Outlook. Double checking. Export doesn't work.

But I noticed by the way that ActiveSync from WM 6.5 made some mistakes.

Many contacts are doubled, some are empty with parts of the names of the other ones.

Plus I found 30 or more contacts called "Q" without any info inside.

So I'm sorting my Hotmail now and deleteing all not used or already forgotten ones.

And that's actually good for me. I'm planning to cut it to about 800.

Hopefully THIS will sync nicely with WP7 and I will have my LG ready to work.

If not, all the hope is lost. Nothing more to do....

I need to have THIS hotmail account on the device because that's the one I'm using for 12 years. Hopefully minimizing the number of contacts will result with success.

On Microsoft forum they confirm Hotmail has something like 1000 contacts limit.

So probably the main reason for this horror is caused by that. Pity there's no warning to be seen in the account.
[Windows Phone 7 General] wspaw:
I actually have 1433 contacts in my Windows Live Hotmail account.

They're all there with all of the content.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Synced with the phone?
[Windows Phone 7 General] waycoolkennel:
Have you considered that everytime you start the process over it might try to pickup again where it left off ? I mean .. surely there is some flag set on the WL side to keep track ?

What about duplicates ?

I mean doesnt it sync all your social network contacts too ? Then it will need to remove duplicates or merge them?

I dunno just thinking you might want to actually see if it finishes syncing ? If it just runs out of memory or something then you know...

Just seems like forcibly stopping the process may not be making it better.. but rather worse ?

Just ideas..
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Well. If I see my device syncing up to 20000 contacts when I had 1800, it's nonsense to continue.

Now I clean my hotmail contacts one by one, removing empty ones, duplicates and error ones (I had 30 contacts on Hotmail named "Q").

Apparently Activesync made some errors when syncing from WM6.5 to Hotmail.

Hotmail has also limit of contacts I didn't know before.

So now I clean my Hotmail contacts and than I will sync my resetted device with this account again. Than we will see....
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
KNOCK WOOD!

It was probably problem of corrupted contacts on Hotmail.

I was actually able to cut my contacts to 632.

Now synced to my phone. Works........

It was massacre.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jim Coleman:
So the problem was your WM6.5 device not syncing correctly in the first place? But don't worry, once you're used to this new over-the-air cloud syncing, you won't want to go back to WMDC over a wire. :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Actually I don't think so. My contacts on WM6.5 are correctly written.

It was Hotmail making this mistake.

Now sync looks OK but I would love them to leave MyPhone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] waycoolkennel:
All very good information doministry !

Some of us dont have a WP7 device yet.. but WILL ! So right now that is good info to have in the case things turn to a massacre :)

Did you use the WL tools to cleanup the dups ? Or did you do it by hand ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Well I did it manually. Automatic cleanup was not working.

I had a BIG mess at Hotmail.......
[Windows Phone 7 General] wspaw:
Yep. There all there.

I've read many posts about the 1000 contact limit of Hotmail - some allgedly confirmd by MS. Not the case for me. Pretty strange...

This is a reply to post#39, btw...
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I think my main problem was corrupted data, not the number.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ad3qz:
Hi, all

i am new with android OS.

i have an htc desire Z which was semi-bricked, it keeps on htc logo. then i search this forum for unbrick the device, and i found this rom, PC10IMG_Vision_TMOUS_1.19.531.1_Radio_12.21.60.09b_26.02.01.15_M2_release_149459_signed.zip

i tried to update the file, and the device is ok after the update proses.

but, after i tried to open an application (i.e message), i can't go back to home. when i touch the home icon on the screen, the vibrate is on, but the screen is still.

is there something missing in the update proses?

sorry if i'm doing double post with this thread.

thank you all.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiNG OMaR:
Well the problem is that you flashed a stock G2 ROM on the DZ... I think :p
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemm:
+1

I agree
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ad3qz:
Oh, I see..

Then i should look for DZ one. Could anyone here give me the link of stock DZ rom?

My hboot screen display:

Vision PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.82.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.02.01.15_M2

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deliberate187:
Here's what you're going to need to do. You need to download Terminal Emulator from the Android Market (the one by Palevich I think) and follow these steps:

Download the G2TempRoot.rar file I have attached. It also includes a DesireZ bootloader.

Extract the files to your desktop.

Now, you're going to ROOT your poor device. Follow these steps.

1. Make sure you have your USB debugging enabled and plug-er-in.

2. Open a command shell. Type in "cd Desktop\G2TempRoot" without the quotes of course...

3. Type in the following commands followed by enter after each one.

adb push su /sdcard/su
adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox
adb push root /data/local/tmp/root
adb push rage /data/local/tmp/rage
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/*
adb push wpthis\wpthis-pre-OTA.ko /sdcard/wpthis-pre-OTA.ko
adb push wpthis\wpthis-OTA.ko /sdcard/wpthis-OTA.ko
adb push desirezboot\hboot-dzship.img /sdcard/hboot-dzship.img

--- All commands from here out are typed into the phone using Terminal Emulator, not ADB ---

4. Open up the Terminal Emulator you just installed on your phone and type the following:

/data/local/tmp/rage

Let it finish. After you see "Forked #### childs" press the Menu button on your keyboard and then tap "Reset terminal" on the screen.

5. Open the Terminal Emulator again. This time it will force close. Close it. Now, open the Terminal Emulator again, this time you should have a root shell.

6. If you did not apply the OTA update, type this into your terminal screen:

insmod /sdcard/wpthis-pre-OTA.ko

and press enter. It should say something about "function not implemented". This is normal. If it says anything else, you probably applied the OTA, and you need to reboot and start this process from step 4, replacing wpthis-pre-OTA.ko in step 6 with wpthis-OTA.ko.

7. Now, you're going to type the following commands into your shell. Make sure you double check EACH and EVERY command before you hit enter. Screwing up the first one, specifically has a nasty habit of producing bricks.

dd if=/sdcard/hboot-dzship.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
/data/local/tmp/root
sync

8. Now you should be able to reboot your phone into fastboot (trackpad button+power) and reflash using a HTC DesireZ RUU. Sorry, I have none of these in my files. Look in the wiki here, I think there are a few posted up.

9. If the RUU can't detect your phone, don't close the utility, YET. Search for rom.zip on your computer, and it'll be the one located in your temp folder. It should be ~ 260MB. Copy it to a place on your desktop, rename it PC10IMG.zip, and copy it to the root of your SD card using either an adapter and a SD reader, or a working phone that has SD storage. Then it's just a matter of booting into the bootloader with the Vol down + Power combination. It should go through the checks, and ask you to update if all worked correctly.

-- My guess is you didn't apply SuperCID to your phone before flashing G2 ROM? --
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ad3qz:
Wow, thanks for the reply. Quite confused though.

Yes, maybe i didn't apply SuperCID before flashing.

How can i make sure that USB debugging has been enabled?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Wow, well I guess this confirms it's fine to flash a stock G2 ROM to a Desire Z ! :D

Those buttons won't be working because of the key mapping. The G2 and DZ have different hardware keyboard, so different keyboard mappings. Those capacitive buttons on the phone are effectively linked to the hardware keyboard, so just need mapping differently. It's possible to change the mapping, but probably makes more sense (no pun intended lol) just to flash a DZ ROM.

You can find the original 1.34 European RUU at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=822908

There is also a newe 1.72 version, but be careful, because right now the current rooting methods don't work on that one.

To enable USB debugging you need to go into Menu->Settings->Applications->Development
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deliberate187:
Actually, the bootloader may have detected an incorrect digitizer controller. There is a difference in both the version of the bootloader and the order in which the firmwares partitions are flashed. You may want to reflash the G2 firmware again without switching out the bootloader to see if this fixes your issue. If not, the problem may actually lie in the partition 7 which was modified to unlock your phone. Try a reflash of the G2 PC10IMG.zip without switching your bootloader back if you have your heart set on stock Android. Watch the screen while it is flashing to make sure everything flashes ok. One of the TP entries should get skipped. TP stands for touch panel in this case. An incorrect driver could well explain why your icons aren't working.

For anyone interested, I flashed my G2 to DZ and back with great success, but to load the DZ rom I had to switch bootloaders and flashing it back to G2 flashed twice due to the difference in partition order to make sure everything went through OK. You may also have a corrupt .zip file. Open up your PC10IMG.zip file up in an archiver and run a test to make sure nothing fails. If the zip is corrupt its gonna load a bad digitizer driver everytime and possibly screw up the ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ad3qz:
Okay, i'll try again.

@steviewevie, Thanks for sharing.

If i use RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE....exe with a DZ that has a G2 rom inside, there will be no problem with the device?

@deliberate187, I guess there is nothing wrong with the zip file i have, coz i got it from this forum, and when i extract it with winrar, it extracts all files completely withouit fails.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Interesting info. So those TP things in the ROM are something to do with the touch panel ?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deliberate187:
I could be wrong, but the TP files are Atmel firmwares. If I'm not mistaken Atmel is the manufacturer of the controller chips used in the touch panels on Android phones.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oil_gypsy:
Sirs,

I believe I did the same, that is flashing a G2 ROM to a Desire Z phone. :)

Now I followed the instructions till I reached 8 and 9, I downloaded: RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.5_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M_release_155556_signed.exe, tried it, it gave me this error on the PC:

"Error [156]: image error

The rom update utility cannot update your android phone.

Please get the correct rom update utility and try again."

Searched for rom.zip, changed its name to PC10IMG.zip, took the sd card out, copied the file, rebooted the phone, the bootloader didn't recognize the ROM.

This what flashed so fast on the screen:

"SD Checking ...

Loading ... [PC10DIAG.zip]

No image!

Loading ... [PC10DIAG.ngh]

No image or wrong image!

Loading ... [PC10IMG.zip]

Lack of heap!

Loading ... [PC10IMG.nbh]

No image or wrong image!"

I hope these info will help:

VISION PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.82.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.02.01.15_M2

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010, 17:59:38

The mobile works, but none of the bottom icons do: Home, Menu, Back, and Search.

The keyboard isn't matching 100% specially with the special characters.

At boot, HTC signs appear, then "T mobile G2 with Google" appears short after, then the home screen.

Settings/About phone:

Model number: T-mobile G2

Android Version

2.2

Baseband Version

12.22.60.09.bU_26.02.01.15_M2

Kernel version

2.6.32.17-g814e0a1

htc-kernel@and18-2#1

Build number

1.19.531.1 CL255798 release-keys

I m lost as you may see!

I don't know what else I made wrong in addition to flashing the wrong ROM.
[Droid X General] nursedroid:
Please help.. I have been trying to install TranQ to my X. It is rooted with Z4root. I have bootstray recovery

When I go to recovery and go to install from zip -- choose zip from card... go to downloads... find 3.6..1 zip it starts then stops with

--installing:SDCARD:downloads/C_CX-Tranquility_3.6.0.1.zip

Finding update package...Opening update package...

E: Can't open /sdcarddpwm;padsc_DX-tramnquility 3.0.6.1.zip (bad) Installation aborted.

When I rooted with the z4root, I received E:cant open/sdcard/dev.........
[Droid X General] jlsushman:
Try redownloading the file..personally tranquility really failed me...I'm happier using apex