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[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osugsxr:
any help with the force roaming?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] backlashsid:
So my question is how do you immediately transfer all your Outlook contacts to Windows Phone 7 on the HD2.

I currently have over 300 contacts so its not possible for me to copy all of them in the sim card.

Is it the same as connecting it to outlook and syncing. Someone please be kind enough to explain.

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] tritran18518:
use gmail as exchange mail. It is easy, simple to set up and It works really well for me
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] backlashsid:
can you please elaborate !! as in how does gmail come into picture when we are talking outlook here !!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] saurabh88:
its good and **** as it can backup and restore your imp info but now I have 1000more duplicate contact and not able to remove it
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheOnly1:
Easiest way:

1. Export contacts from Outlook in cvs format.

2. Import contacts in Gmail.

3. Sync your WP7 Phone with Gmail and you are done :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] backlashsid:
ohhh k !! cool !!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheOnly1:
:) It's a complete joke that you need a Google app in order to sync 2 Microsoft products.

On the bright side of life: If you then go to Android then all your contacts will be already waiting for you :)

It's funny that WP7 syncs everything with Google...even the calender so Gmail is also a way to export all your appointments from Outlook to WP7 :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] bates_1974:
True, but windows live is what they expect you to have all your contacts info under, which I find wierd considering it's only really been used for this now, so be wary when adding your live account, as all your email contacts will be visible and you can't do anything about it, delete them from the phone, they'll delete from your email account so be CAREFUL!!!

To get around this as mentioned in a previous thread somewhere in the HD7 forum, I created a new live account, made that the default when signing into windows live and entering my key, then added an email account which was my main hotmail, this only syncs emails, nothing else, hope this helps prevent problems!!!!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Barney909:
Been trying to get my contacts from my android phone to new 7.5 wp for 2 days now and it seems there is nothing such as a "phone book" in WP7.5 only social networking sites or email accounts to "SYNC" with..??

No such thing as a simple transfer... What happened to user friendly?

What if you do not want your phone book spread all over the internet??... ie: just have them on your phone to use as intended?

Some of us are not teenagers whose life revolves around Facebook, Twitter and buying music online. Microsoft appears to be totally ignorant of this?

A great phone OS overtaken with marketing traps and complicated ideology.

:mad::mad::mad:
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Greywolf_Ghost:
I myself did not use gmail (google).

Before I flashed I did a sync with Outlook 2007 ( made sure all phone contacts were in address book)

Then I exported address book out of Outlook ( saved as .csv file).

I went over to Hotmail and imported the .csv file, cleaned up any double entry in the Hotmail address book.

Flashed my phone to WP7 and all my contacts were back in my phone after first sync with Hotmail.

Now I assume live.com is the same as hotmail.com, and the options will be available to import a file from your pc into your address book.

Yes it's a small pain ( 10 min in all on my part), but going forward I will now always have my contacts backed up in Hotmail
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] bigfilsing:
gmail works fine for all mentioned above and then some.

Way before i flashed WP 7.5 i already had a gmail account. Now the next bit maybe particular to me but here goes.

I do business with 2 main companies and as such i have an email account with them and i have a local email account with my service provider. Always nice to keep business separate from private email i think.

I also travel around Asia quite a lot and using outlook i sometimes have trouble sending and or receiving emails to all 3 pop accounts. So i ended up using webmail which sucks cos i have 3 separate web mail pages to check. Theh i discovered gmail can fetch mail from any other account and collate it to one page. so if i am having trouble ( usually in China or the Philippines) i can go to an internet cafe and read and send mail.

Stick with me ill get to the good bit.

So i have all my mail being checked and stored on gmail ( i can still get it in the normal way as well , just leave on server for a day so google gets chance to grab it as well (usually every hour))

Now when i went to set up my HD2 WP7.5 Google mail .... it already recognized the all the 3 different accounts as folders ( like imap exchange server) . Best is you can pin each folder to start screen so you can see which folder has new mail. Works fantastically well ..costs nothing just a bit of set up time!

ANd i can access everything from any computer in the world that has an internet connection and a web browser

Of course some people are paranoid ( only my opinion) about having mail and contacts and calenders "stored" in the cloud. I think this is somewhat over anxious . Do we really think our contacts and data is safe at home.??!

In all my years of mobile devices ( and there have been many trust me) i have only just started to use email seriously while "on the road", the email client in WP7.5 on my HD2 is great.

On my PC at home i have 2 little programs to keep Outlook contacts and calender in sync ...all works fine.

Good luck
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Tadeusz:
OK, but how the hell thay came to an idea, that one would transfer contacts only one way, to WP7?

I got a Nokia Phone of my friend who wants to move to android, and I was going to take his Nokia 610 for some tests. However, he asked me to transfer all his contacts to his Galaxy S2. He does not have google on his phone, neither Windows Live.

I decided to set up a google account for him. But what I've found is , there is no way to move a contact registered in his phone as a "Phone" contact (he didn't have any google on his phone up to now), to google.

Or am I wrong.

In Nokia 610 you can only regeister a new contatc as a one to by syncted with google. You can not do it with old contacts registered before a google account was set on the phone.

You guys mean, such system is a friendly one? A future????

I used to run my old HD2 on Windows Mobile 6.5 and so on, and that was a good OS. And now what is this?

Now I've already done my tests on WP7 and never more. And my friend will have to forget about his contacts. I will not advice him to sign for WL and install Outlook with all this stuff to end up converting .csv files.

With Android Galaxy, you can use google, or Kies to sync directly without any "cloudy" stuff and propagate your contacts all over the world. Why M$ thinks they can push us to forget about simple solutions and push us to show up with all our private life?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gurgelmajs:
Contacts back from 6.5 - wp7

This might be a little of topic but i'll give it a shot here anyways.

I have just installed wp7 on my mothers HD2 and before I was sure to backup with "Windows mobile device center" to not lose anything. But when i'm done and everything and want to get the contacts to her phone, it will not connect to the device center. What can i do to fix this? I know i should have synced them with outlook or something but i thought the device center would be enough.

Please help me with getting the contacs back to the phone :confused:
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
all contacts sync with Live account (or Google)... add again Live account and contact is back (if Live account used before)... dont use WMDC for sync... this not tool for WP7 (is necessary for some things but not recommended for this)

if you want make backups use WP Backup v1.0 tool... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34547938

if you have outlook contacts, export to cvs file, import to Live or Google account and sync with phone (look tutorial in my signature)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gurgelmajs:
Okay. She doesn't know if she used live account with wp 6.5, but I have a vague memory of setting it up on her phone.

But if she doesn't, is there a way to retrieve the contacts from wmdc without having "the old phone" plugged in?

Thanks for the fast reply btw!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
aha problem is transfer from WM6.5.... i dont tried this.... when year ago swithed to WP simply have contacts on SIM card...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gurgelmajs:
Yeah, from 6.5. We had some contacts on the sim, from a previous backup a while ago, but there is several more added after that.

Is it posible that wmdc has the contacts saved somewhere in a special file? I'm looking for one but cant even find program directory on my pc...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] stealth21:
Google has recently announced that they will not be supporting exchange server for windows.

This is all against windows phone devices, they will go on supporting ios devices.

Now my whole contacts (not much 300+) are all in my gmail contact service. And most of them have their pictures.

Yesterday, i logged in in my outlook.com, and added a contact there..

(it was my first log in in there i've always used my hotmail and now cant go back to hotmail.. any way they are all the same!)

I found out that "i cannot insert a picture to my contact" in outlook.com.

I'll be using a phone, when someone calls me i can't "see" who's calling.

I dont know you, but for me its unacceptable!

I'm looking for a new way to sync my contacts with my HD2 and my ipad! (yeah i used to syn my google contacts also in there)

So can some one please tell me if there's something i can do?

Any useful offer, i would be much appreciated..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.37:
Alright I just flashed a new ROM with new KERNEL and I spent hours and hours to SET-UP the phone now it's in perfect condition ...

My question is if we install and then uninstall new apps will it leave random files in the system, like in windows uninstalling programs leave dlls, registries and temp files, resulting in cluttering, messing up and slowing down the system ...? Does Android work differently ...? Is it possible to try bunch of new apps without messing it up ...?

Pardon me if it's a repost, but I couldn't find anything smiler.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alfred F. Jones:
I've always been pretty curious about this as well. I'm sorry I can't help, but I'm going to keep an eye on this thread to see if anyone has an answer. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightzun:
i heard it does create cache files and it should handle accordingly, but curious nonetheless as well...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdotcarlisle:
You can use a free app in market called cache cleaner or boot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache

Also can download this and flash periodically http://db.tt/pT7bKYi

sent via two tin cans and a string using Tapatalk
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.37:
I am more curios about permanent files that might have been left after You uninstall an app. Clearing those undesired, useless, junk files is the main issue ...!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
I don't know about lib files or anything like that, but if I look at the contents of my sdcard (which I need to clean out), I have a ton of folders left over from apps I uninstalled a while ago.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedudejdog:
they won't be in your RAM, so unless you get messages about low storage space (on stock roms) then i wouldnt worry about it.

i've installed and uninstalled 100's of apps to test this. because my dad when i was younger would always yell at me for installing/ uninstalling programs on windows because it causes fragmentation, registry errors ect ect ect.

i can say if you have 100 apps installed then you uninstall 90 of them you won't notice. your SD card will have a bunch of extra folders afterwards though
[HD2 General] MACBLACK91:
Somehow im the only guy in the internet whos sd doesn't work in wp7 it won't get recognized and if the sd car is in the phone my wifi doesn't work ? any fixes known so i can use my sd?
[G1 General] rayolen:
Hey,its there Android for Amd 64 bit cpu ? Want to use it on my computer to run it on tv.
[G1 General] dhkr123:
There is a 32bit version only, search for android x86.

Even then though, it is TRULY unsuitable for that application. You really should seek out a desktop linux distro and use a media center interface, like xbmc or mythtv. With android, you would NOT get accelerated video playback, and you would be SEVERELY limited by the interface.
[Streak 5 General] Susan11:
Hi guys iam in the uk my dell streak cant update from the sd card and its cant restore when you tried to fast boot that work when i go to update fron sd card it go to a blank black screen i would love help on this i did root it and was trying to load a custom ram on it i dont know to restore it back so if any can help me with this i would be bless thanks guys please
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
When I am at pc later will see if we can get you going
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xzillerationer:
What I'm looking for is a ROM that has no phone features, as I am upgrading away from my Eris to a D2. I want WiFi, but no radios, or 3G or phone/messaging app.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homer169:
So just put it in airplane mode.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
^^^^

this +1 because it is easiest.

OR, when booted into Amon_RA, on any ROM:

C:\ihatewindows> adb shell
# mount /system ; mv /system/bin/rild /system/bin/FAIL.rild ; sync ; umount /system
# exit

By inspection you can see that the above is reversible.

Optional:

If you want to disable access to the Market (and your Gmail, and your Google contact list) on a ROM that was previously fully configured - for instance a restored Nandroid backup, then when booted into Amon_RA:

C:\ihatewindows> adb shell
# mount /data ; rm /data/system/accounts.db ; sync ; umount /data
# exit

This latter step removes your Google credentials. If you want to make sure friends or kiddies in your home don't access your (old) google contacts or old Gmails still on the phone, just go into Settings->Applications->Manage applications and clear the data from the correct apps and storage providers. (Contact storage provider/Gmail).

Note that if you change your mind, you can re-authenticate to a Gmail/Google account at any time by just visiting the market app (yes, you can do this over WiFi) and entering your email/password. (If you want, use a different Gmail account with your "WiFi non-phone Eris").

cheers
[HD7 General] carmeng4evr:
Anyone having hotmail issues

Mine arent sending on My hd7
[HD7 General] turb0rexx:
I'm getting an error code.
[Fascinate General] xyphan:
I must give credit to the original post, but I thought it would do more good if it was brought to its own thread.

This DOES work. The phone just needs more time to boot up than what this method is originally giving it. Mine would actually go into media sync mode for a little bit, which is what I am suspecting threw the root process off. If you don't wait longer, the root process ends up reporting that there is "no device connected."

I actually changed the time to 180 seconds just to give it plenty of time.
[Fascinate General] JayDG:
This is absolutely the solution. I had been trying all day to root my phone after updating to DL09. Thank you so much!
[Fascinate General] Gurm:
Umm... maybe I'm confused but why haven't you just done Adrynalyn's new method? I ran through it, and my phone rooted just fine. Odin on that new CWM and you're all set. Why are you trying this esoteric stuff? Am I missing something?

(And yes, I did the official DL09 before rooting...)
[Fascinate General] steeeler:
Adrynalyn's method couldn't be any easier to root a phone.

I've fubared my phone at least 3 times this weekend and was able to get it back up in no time. Be even gives simple instructions.
[Fascinate General] JayDG:
Give me a link and I would be happy to try his method if I lose my root again.

Sent from Count Chocula's Overclocked Samsung Fascinate
[Quantum Accessories] hardcoreplur:
who else is a quantum owner? i feel left out on cases and other accessories.
[Quantum Accessories] myrandex:
I'm one here, but I agree accessory support seems to be rather lacking. The touch pro 2 I came from had plenty, but this isn't quite the case...

Jason
[Quantum Accessories] Bruce Inman:
I bought my wife one and preordered a case and screen saver. Ebay! :D
[Quantum Accessories] tyeabc:
I totally agree sometimes i do feel other Windows Phones have an advantage over us but we are the only ones with a full keyboard :D
[G Tablet General] TheTruth:
http://goo-inside.me/gapps/

gapps for cyanogen mod are stored here... while updating my evos cm6wimax alpha2 gapps i noticed some signed gapps there designed for gingerbread and aimed at tegra devices! this is prob just a gapps pkg for the lg device or moto with tegra2 chipset.

maybe something for the brave to look into
[G Tablet General] kodakeos:
i dont even know what im looking at lol
[G Tablet General] thebadfrog:
Makes the possibility of cm7 more likely on the GTab and soon
[XPERIA X2 General] esad (SE Xperia X2):
hey guys, im asking your opinion..im going to buy a new phone this february, i look that x2 looks nice...but i saw that many people disappointed with this phone because they said it always freeze, lag, low battery life...is that true?? please help me, if this phone good, tell me...im gonna buy this phone next month...if this phone is not good, then tell me why? what can i do to make this phone good? or u can suggest me better phone(must have 8mp camera, long lasting battery, wi-fi provided, great speaker for music, touchscreen, side slider qwerty keyboard, large resolution and screen)...
[XPERIA X2 General] gbajzelj:
well, it depends on what do you expect from a phone. but mainly, no it isnt a good phone.

if your looking for a good phone buy HD2 (the second hand HD2 is around 80€ more then a second hand X2 but its worth every cent).

its a year old model with still good hardware. you can instal on it MW6.5.X or android... In my oppinion there is no better phone for a XDA forum entusiast.

but let me say another comparison from my own experience (since i had both X2 and HD2) X2 in my country costs like 200€ from second hand and it freezes. battery life is nothing to bragg abouth. bad touch experience its like slavery.

on the other hand HD2 cost from 280 up and its emense freedom. It works great, feels great. touch experience is great. hardware is strong. MW6.5.x, froyo, obuntu, wp7... freedom.

X2 does look good but the software is a joke and not a funny one.

if you have like to much money then get x2 just to see an example how can a solid phone on paper go disturbingly wrong in real life.

have a nice day.
[XPERIA X2 General] RJH57108:
A lot of people have opinions like the ones expressed by gbajzelj ... and I would like to express one of liking the X2 ...

I have had it since 4/2010. I am very hapy with the phone -- but I like the WinMo 6.5.3 interface with its flexibility -- and not having restrictions on the app use.

Regarding the phone -- I use the standard WinMo frame, disabled slideview, run overclock (with a clock speed of 1024), run Garmin XT, use Clean RAM, Lookout, have bluetooth always on, sync with IMAP email every 30 minutes and I am in HSPDA network coverage.

I get 2 days of battery usage, the last freeze was at least a week ago, and I don't remember when the one before that was. It doesn't play video very well ... but I am not sure if it is the video or not -- they are downloaded ones from UTube that were converted to mp3 format. Movies that I took with the phone itself work fine.

There are times when the phone will stutter and take time to respond -- usually when it is not getting a responce from the web (like PCs do when the network connection is hosed) ... If I wait for no more then 15 seconds, it responds, and then I do a Ram Clean and the X2 is back to normal ... it have been a week since that happened ... and it could be that I have learned not to do certain things -- but they do not appear to be related to a specific set of things that I do ...

The bottom line is that I am very happy with the phone ... and the times that it fails is no more bothersome then when Win XP failed or locked up on a desktop. I really like the keyboard for text entry and the office programs to run excel spreadsheets and storing of data in Word documents.

But as gbajzelj has said, other phones also run WinMo 6.5.3 and will also serve you well ... but I am a long term SE customer, and I have not been disappointed with the X2.

As a side note ... I looked at the new Dell phone (running Android -- I think) at a store, and its responce -- sliding screens / opening programs -- did not seem to be any faster then my X2 ...
[XPERIA X2 General] robuash:
If you don't mind loosing several hours in upgrading firmware, installing some fixes and avoiding to install almost all the Sony Ericsson buggy software, the phone will work fine. There are several post explaining how to do it, but doing this means that you won't have panels or slideview and some others SE's addings, but the phone will be faster than before (this doesn't mean that it will become in a fast phone) and what is most important, stable whit a decent battery life.

Despite of this, don't get cheated by its theoretical features: 8.2 mpx camera is not what is was supposed to be, it's not bad, but my old Nokia N73 takes better photos, smaller, but better, which is a shame. The video recording is painful. The response of the screen is not good, neither bad, but not good. The amount of RAM, 256 mb (about 100 mb free), could not be enough in some cases. Some features like the LED notifications, the light sensor or the backlight management don't work properly.

In conclusion, X2 isn't a bad phone (if you don't mind spending several hours in tuning it), but its paper features are very far of what they were supposed to be.

Greetings.
[XPERIA X2 General] esad (SE Xperia X2):
gbajzelj

then how could i make x2 be a great phone?? how to make it not lag anymore?

RJH57108

you convience me 2 buy it now..anyway, u disable the slideview, then how u use the phone in side-ways? are there hotkeys to turn the screen to slide view?

robuash

does it really take time to update it? what worst case can happen during update? is it true that update it to MR2 make it fast?

or u guys can suggest me other phone..i would like to have a phone that i can store many music, 8mpx camera, touch and sideslider, support games, great loudspeaker, wifi, no lag, great battery(atleast 2 or 3 days minimum for heavy and moderate usage)
[XPERIA X2 General] robuash:
MR2 makes the phone more usable and a bit faster, avoiding to install SE's **** adds another bit of speed and stability, but after all, the phone won't become in a snapdragon, it will be acceptable as best.

Upgrading firmware supposes the same risk than in other phones, if you run out of battery or you computer turns off, your phone will become in an expensive brick.

I don't know any other phone with this specs, the are great phones, much better than X2, but in my opinion always have a weak point, or the camera is rubbish, or don't have qwerty keyboard, or the battery is insufficient, etc... For me, no one is absolutely complete, so i can't suggest you anyone.

Hope this info helps, greetings.
[XPERIA X2 General] esad (SE Xperia X2):
thnks..well, last question, how much time did it take to update it?