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[Windows Phone 7 General] rsacipher:
I think the problem is if you don't have Exchange syncing isn't that easy. Even after you export the contacts out of Outlook into Hotmail if you add a new contact later you have to manually add them in Hotmail, I don't think Connector will automatically sync them.

If you need to sync your calendar the best way is to add the Live calendar to Outlook then when you create an appointment in Outlook you either have to send an invite to your Hotmail account or drag it to the Hotmail calendar. These options are not that easy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
ok, but considering how long installing and setting up itunes takes, I still think wp7 is faster. And it really isn't that difficult to export your contacts from outlook and open that file in a live account.

Or you can use www.soocial.com to do it for you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jonno2343:
For me, having to set something up once and then never worry about it again is by far the easiest. All you have to do is migrate your contacts over to Windows Live and you will have them kept in sync WITHOUT plugging them in.

Windows Phone also supports Wireless Sync for Music, Videos, etc and so the way they have done it, they do not require you to plug your phone into your computer unless you're updating or doing the initial setup.

To me, this is the simplest, most user-friendly way imaginable.

If you contacts are only locally stored and you happened to have a computer crash or hard drive corruption, those contacts would be lost. If you have them on Windows Live, all you'd need is to sign in with your Windows Live ID on Outlook once you've sorted it out and everything will be back up and running.

Using a Windows Live ID will also alow you to keep your work PC, Laptop and home PC all in sync if that's what you would like. There really are no disadvantages of doing it like this. Try it, I'm sure you'll all agree with us then that it really isn't hard at all.

MartyLK, I don't know why you're calling those who provide clear, logical explanations and solutions a fanboy when you come in here and just say go to iPhone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jonno2343:
You need to set your Live account as the default account for data files by following these steps.

Tools->Account Settings

Data Files tab

Select Windows Live account and click Set as Default

Then calendar and contacts will show up from Windows Live.

The one thing they really need to add is the ability to sync multiple calendars, I can't for the life of me figure out why they'd opted to leave this out.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Oh come now! You're just making that up...lol...I know you are...I can tell! :cool:
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Oh joy, the person who gets half the threads he posts in locked striked again. Just because you want android and all its flaws doesnt mean we do. Enjoy your iphone and its ugly UI/OS and tiny screen or your android and its overall lag. The sooner you ditch the HD7 the sooner the WP7 community loses a member thats worse off than these "elderly dumbphone" users. Being technology illiterate > being socially incompetent.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
I don't understand the problem here.

Ok, so you've been using an old school POP or IMAP account with locally stored Outlook contacts and calendars. As people have been saying this is something one should really consider moving away from anyway.

Since you have to create a Live Account to use your WP7 device fully (i.e. marketplace access and so on) you've got everything you need. Install and configure the Hotmail connector (the Social connector is also nice), open Outlook, go to Contacts (local ones), select ALL, drag and drop these onto "Contacts - myname@live.com". Wait a while and they will sync up, wait a little longer and they will automagically appear on your phone. Once they have, delete your local address book from Outlook - ALL your contacts are now stored on the cloud and you can access them from your PC, your Phone and any other PC in the world with internet access.

Now move on to your calendar. This is a little more tricky, as you cannot select ALL and move them across (afaik), so your best bet may be to work your way from today and forward moving all and any entries to the Live calendar. Again, wait a while and they'll all automagically show up on your phone. When they have you may want to disable the local calendar (ie. remove it, but do not delete it if you want the opportunity to go back and check history), finally set your default calendar to the Live one. Any new entries will now go directly to the cloud.

That's it. You're done. Using your Live account for contacts and calendars does not mean you have to send/receive email thru it. You can pick and choose which parts you'll use by default. If you don't make use of it for email, simply remove the Hotmail tile from your home-screen and replace it with your POP/IMAP account.

Like others have said, you do this once. That's it. Everything is now in the cloud and you can sync it up to any device you want.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pulser_g2:
Can we stick to topic here folks
[Windows Phone 7 General] jeffgeno:
You can if you switch to List View in Outlook. Then you can select all of them and drag them to any other accessible calendar.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
How much? maybe i will buy it... and everybody's happy then.
[Windows Phone 7 General] captobie:
You can sync multiple calendars. My Live calendar appointments show up as blue and Exchange appointments as green.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jonno2343:
You can't sync multiple calendars from one account.

I add a calendar for each of my different activities but all under one Live Account. On WP7 you can only chose one of the calendars to sync with the phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
Ahh, there you go. Man they have made the UI somewhat confusing in Outlook 2010.

Well then, it really shouldn't take anyone more than a couple minutes to completely migrate local data to the cloud. Dunno why people keep complaining about exporting and importing csv files back and forth TBH.
[Windows Phone 7 General] chatham:
Ok, so you've been using an old school POP or IMAP account with locally stored Outlook contacts and calendars. As people have been saying this is something one should really consider moving away from anyway.

and why should i move away from this? no one has been able to show me that the cloud is the only way to go. the only argument you have is access but loss of control of my data among other things is an issue for me.

open Outlook, go to Contacts (local ones), select ALL, drag and drop these onto "Contacts - myname@live.com". Wait a while and they will sync up, wait a little longer and they will automagically appear on your phone. Once they have, delete your local address book from Outlook

you make this sound so easy but it isnt. first off, your live account wont allow subfolders under the contacts for web based emails accounts in outlook. so that means that if you have subfolders in contacts, like i do, you then copy all of subfolders into the one contacts folder under you live account. i have subfulders for a reason. i know i can log into my live account and then create groups, etc. wow that is wonderful.... sounds like a bunch of redo steps to me. also if i add a new contact on my pc i then need to go to my live account and move it into the proper group. or if i add one on my phone i then have to go to my pc and manually move it into the proper subfolder. i just dont understand why the "cloud" cant work like the rest of the world.

sorry but this is just stupid. i cant believe microsoft couldnt make a software system to simply sync with their other programs. but when you have the guys at xbox do the programming i guess this is what happens.

my iphone sync contacts great without all this hassle. i dont need all these other steps. it also sync my calendars simply as well.

sorry but microsoft has missed the boat again.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
It's not the ONLY way to go, but it makes sense. If you really are paranoid about losing "control" you probably shouldn't sync the data to your phone anyway.

The alternative to using the cloud is to get yourself an Exchange server. I have no idea if you are a small or large business, but it really doesn't matter - if you're small get SBS, if you're large get Exchange proper. You may even be eligeble for BizSpark so it won't cost you a dime for the first few years.

But it really is that easy. Okay, so you can not create subfolders, who cares? Ask yourself why you are using subfolders in the first place. My bet is that it's to devise a virtual divide between personal contacts and those you do business with. If so, simply create a group for each of your folders - and no, there is no need to access Live on the web to do this - then start moving your contacts across. It may take a few minutes longer to organize, but the end result is that you have the same amount of granular control over your contacts.

Okay, so it's not as easy as the iPhone, but I for one would argue that it's better than the iPhone. First; it syncs automatically. Anywhere you are, as long as you have network access your phone is up-to-date. Along with your laptop, tablet, desktop and so on. Secondly; it does it all with no wires. And finally, it will link my Exchange contacts to my Live Messenger contacts to my Facebook friends and so on. I select ONE contact and I get ALL the information - and this is actually HUGE; no longer do you have to worry if the number you have on file is correct, if the person has changed his or her number (and updated their facebook info), it's automatically synced with your addressbook.

Either you don't know how to use Outlook, in which case you really should spend half an hour really looking into it or you are just trolling. I can't quite decide which it is.
[Windows Phone 7 General] burnblue:
Are you telling me that iTunes when setup, magically worked with Outlook with no work at all on your behalf?
[Windows Phone 7 General] ajua:
Using Outlook 2010 and working great.

I was trying to determine the best way for managing my contacts and calendar.

At the end, the best way was for me to delete all my accounts in Outlook (or you can create a new profile) since I was changing POP3 to IMAP for some of my domain accounts anyway.

The first thin I did was to add my Windows Live ID account so that Outlook manages the contacts on the calendar without doing anything else.

Just add your remaining accounts and all is set.

My only grip is that Outlook shows two address books for the same Windows Live account. One is called Contacts (mywindowsliveid) and the other is mywindowsliveid (mobile users or something).

Other than that, there is no need to sync manually if you don't want to. I do manual updates of my photos because I don't want Zune to sync all the pictures I have to the phone.

Once I optimize my collection, I will make it sync automatically.
[Windows Phone 7 General] CSMR:
The cloud is the only way to go for email, calendaring, contacts, and a few other things. Local storage is OK if you are only accessing from 1 device and have regular backup. With more devices, each sync takes effort and is subject to human error. If you create an appointment or contact on your main computer and leave your computer without syncing your phone, your calendar on your phone will not be correct, or will not have your contact's info. Similarly your information will be unreliable unless you have just performed a manual sync with all other devices you have been using.

And that is assuming imap email, i.e. cloud. Pop email is even worse: if your computer checks while you are away, your phone will not get the email.

Lastly all business level email is cloud. For non-cloud based stuff no-one cares about writing good software; maybe 10 years ago but not today.
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
Somewhere in the android world I have seen a picture of somebody using what appears to be a scrollable app launcher on their screen. This particular one was rounded and was on the side of the screen. Kind of like half of a rotary clock dialer, but instead of numbers it was apps.

Thanks for any ideas you have as to what I may be talking about!
[Android Apps and Games] Vanquiz:
Sounds like circlelauncher ...

Its half rotary cause the launcher is in the top, if its in the middle it will be full circle
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
That's not the exact one I was thinking of, but very similar.

The one I remember seeing I believe had a grey background and was only halfthe circle on either the left or right of the screen.

This one will work though if I can't find the one I was thinking of, though the one I remember looked better IMO. But it's possible it was just a particular rom feature.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Vinsane:
Yeah...its pretty cool. It helps keep my screens uncluttered
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
Bah, I just went through a few hundred pages of google images to see if I could find anything...

I tried searching through every combination of app widget scrollable circular android launcher dock vertical horizontal I could think of. Am I making this up?

If I am, does anyone want to make one?
[Android Apps and Games] xheavymetaldadx:
It kinda sounds like the wonder wheel feature on slickui b

it its not available yet
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
not wonderwheel either :/

it's closer to this, if it was scrollable and ran more along the left and right sides of the screen.
[Android Apps and Games] kschang:
Netfront life screen, one of the home replacement apps i reviewed on hubpages
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
Just tried out netfront for a minute, and it's actually a lot more then I had wanted (very cool concept though) if I hadn't just bought adw ex the other day I might have kept it for awhile.

I'm beginning to think I imagined this whole concept. Thanks for all of your efforts though, seriously do appreciate them.
[Android Apps and Games] verwon:
There's also a carousel widget one.

Sent from my eVo
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
Is that ultimate faves pro? If so, I was hoping what I was looking for was an actual widget and not a home replacement.
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
Small bump, still haven't found anything like I was remembering.

Would anyone be interested in making something like this?

It doesn't have to be curved or super fancy, but I'd love a widget (say 3 columns wide or 3 rows long) that I could place any number of apps into and scroll through them.

Of course after it gets made then it could be fancy, if somebody wished.
[Android Apps and Games] Mariad:
Not thinking of smart taskbar are you?
[Android Apps and Games] constellanation:
No it wasn't that one. Sorry for the long reply I thought I had this thread set up for notifications.

Hmmm I wonder if I just dreamed this.
[Android Apps and Games] Mr. Steve:
I believe the app your talking about is called Clutch Pad by Steve Albright, it's available in the market for $1.99. Also, if your looking you something similar, but free, I'd recommend either Circle Launcher or SwipePad, both of which allow for launching apps without using the standard launcher.
[A7 General] HTCdemon:
The A7-1 shown there is a newer model of the A7 and has ( according to what I'm reading ) real multi-touch support, 8 gb nand ( although the other models will have 32 64 and 128 gb nand ), a higher resolution screen ( 1024x600 ) and will run gingerbread 2.3

Curious if I should return my A7 and wait for the A7-1 ( does anyone know when it will actually release? ) or keep the current model?

Your thoughts?
[A7 General] robbbzilla:
Wow, I thought I got anew tab since mine is a couple days old. seems as soon as you buy you have old equipment.

This is the third android tab I have bought in recent weeks and each one was on sale and seriously outdated. Now with my A7 I thought I had at least afew months before it was old. I can't afford to keep upgrading just to be current and have decent device.

Makes me think I should not have bought android based tab.

I thought we had word that stream would update the first units with new releases like gingerbread .

If they are not going to update these tabs I may take mine back.

The other variable is cost. I am sure the new one will be back to $$400.

Rob
[A7 General] stanglx:
Return it... not having multi touch support will be crippling in the future... I didnt think it was that important but found many applications actually require it for it to function properly - why because the application is expecting it and eLocity put some special wrappers to fake out the application into thinking it has multi touch which freaks out many applications...
[A7 General] robbbzilla:
Does anyone know what the pricing is going to be on this model and when it will be available??

It all depends on cost to me. There are going to be so many choices after a few months after Honeycomb is released it seems kind of silly to worry about future releases and applications. I mean this tab may be updated to Gingerbread but there is no word about Honeycomb. I would imagine though there would have to be some kind of work around that could be developed because there are going to be a lot of people like us with older tabs that want to run Honeycomb.

To be honest Android is so geared for phones now the tabs out now just seem a little quirky.

Still though I really like my a7 so far. I too have about 30 days to return for any reason. I just do not want to return and then wait for something a few months and then it will cost more than the one I have and will also be obsolete in a few months . I think about 6-12 months after Honey comb is release will we see devices that can actually run it well. First gen devices on Honeycomb will be hampered. Honestly 6-12 months from now I will just upgrade.

As for what the A-7 is now it is a great device. I really enjoy using it. Once I update it and put the google market it will be even better but Android 2.2 is very nice. This device is super speedy and the screen is awesome. Maybe the resolution is not as good and multi-touch will be an issue but for now everything works really well.

If the developers here are able to write a program that will make the screen work like a multi-touch then our problems would be solved.

Rob
[A7 General] rogconnect:
Return it.....

Totally agree with stanglx!

Multi-touch is a MUST have for Tablet!

I returned it and got the SGT and I am happy!

I can zoom-in and out with my 2 fingers on most of the apps, which the A7 wouldn't!

Gmail, Google MAPs, Dolphin HD, Google Earth, you-tube.

I don't have to TAB the screen!

And Angry Birds I can zoom out to see the target!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] no1knowme2:
Hi all

How do I disable slide lock on Samsung B7350 6.5.3?

Already tried:

1) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\LockScreen: 0

That disable slide lock but turn on old style winmo unlock 6.1,

2) HKEY_Current_User\ControlPanel\Keybd\ "DeviceLockWhenSuspend" : 0

nothing happens,

3) No "lock" things in autostart folder.

4) No options in settings to do that

What else could I try ?

edit:

damm, please move to Q&A
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mandarinx11:
I've been struggling with this problem for the past few days too.

Haven't found any solution:(

There's no "When device is woken up, lock device" checkbox on "Wake up tab" in B7350.

I know some other WM6.5 devices have this option in "Start->Settings->Personal->Buttons"

and deselecting that checkbox prevents device from being locked on resuming from suspend, but not in B7350!
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
Any one have a camera apk where you can use it even after you hit 15% or less on battery life

sent from my epic 4g with no 4g
[Epic 4G General] difrent7:
Camera 360 works if I'm not mistaken it also has tons of great features.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
Probably not as good as stock app

sent from my epic 4g with no 4g
[Streak 5 Android Development] zenlakin:
I have tried just about everything I can think of to get 2.2 on the streak and I finally got it on the device but can't get 3g or data to work as the phone seems to be locked in airplane mode or something and I can't get it out of that mode. I have even tried manually putting in the apn settings and those don't even get saved. I have downloaded the stock rom and recovery and flashed those and then went to 2.1 and then flashed steve's 2.2 version 1.6.1 and still nothing. Anyone have any ideas?
[Streak 5 Android Development] zenlakin:
Got it! Everything is working as expected now!!
[Blade General] hazzacanary:
HELP!

I got my shiny new orange san fran (zte blade) today, and started downloading clockwork recovery. Whilst I was doing that, I put the phone into downloading mode. Now however, I cant get the command prompt thing to work. Any help please?
[Blade General] hazzacanary:
ok, ive got it to show 'waiting on device' but its taking ages. how long should it take?
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
i faced a problem with update HTC gratia, after downloading update phone get restart then it show that update began then it show photo of phone with "?"

i tried to enter boot option in device but it shows "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" !

what to do?

thanx alot ppl
[HTC Aria General] syed239:
Its because you're rooted.

Sent from my Liberty CM7
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
thanx for replaying :)

but may i have some explain :D

i'm new in this system! and i dont know what it's mean! :)
[HTC Aria General] syed239:
Since you're rooted(you did root your phone right?), you can't use official updates from HTC. You have to download a ROM from xda forums and flash.

Sent from my Liberty CM7
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
no i i didnt root it! and i don't know how :confused:

mobile is new!

where i can get official rom?
[HTC Aria General] syed239:
Ok well I'd recommend rooting your phone first. Its very simple. There's a thread in the HTC Aria forums where it guides you step by step on how to root.

Sent from my Liberty CM7
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
does it work with gratia? have anybody try it?
[HTC Aria General] syed239:
Yeah it works with every HTC android phone. I would post the link but I'm on from the xda app and don't know how to post the link. Just go to HTC Aria> Android Development> and there's a guide on how to install unrevoked. Just follow that.

Sent from my Liberty CM7
[HTC Aria General] jznomoney:
If you have a gratia you can't root the phone. The hboot has not been cracked yet. If you received the phone like this you are going to need to send it back for repair. Also there is no released RUU for the stock gratia.
[HTC Aria General] syed239:
Isn't the gratia almost exactly like the Aria? Because Arias ROMs are from legend and gratia.

Sent from my Liberty CM7
[HTC Aria General] jznomoney:
yes it is the same phone but the hboot which is required for root is a newer version on the gratia. The USA aria and asian with 2.1 have an hboot of .57 the gratia / aria 2.2 update in asia have an hboot of 1.01 or something which cannot be hacked hence no root.
[HTC Aria General] attn1:
Cyanogenmod and LA Roms are not from Legend. LA FR series is from Aria (Asia) and Gratia, which is an Aria with newer firmware, such as the newer HBOOT that jznomoney mentioned, that hasn't been hacked yet.
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
update problem has been solved! problem was with memory card! i don't know why! i formated it before using it!

but remain one problem quet sound does not work when i pick phone of flipp it!

G-accelerometer is working fine!!
[HTC Aria General] attn1:
I take it you are talking about an OTA or official HTC update?
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
official update
[HTC Aria General] attn1:
Okay, may I ask what this update did for you? Do you know what it contained?
[HTC Aria General] MK king:
actually no :) i dont know :D! but i was afraid that boot part in this mobile is broken!

thanx God it's not :p