Birthdays

[Rassilon]

Hello All,
one of the first things i noticed with my new phone is the inability to store a birth date with a persons details. I understand that this is a phone issue and not an MPE one. I "backed up" my K770 data and "restored" it to my X10 Mini Pro and thankfully the birthdays are there. Is this data still linked together (Phone entry and Birthdate) in MPE or it is now no longer so?

- X10 Mini Pro, U20i, FW 1.6, Kernal 2.6.29, Build 1.2.A.1.174
- WiFi
- MPE 1.8.0
- WinXP Pro SP3

[FJ]

The data are not linked cause its not possible to save the birthday to the contact in the phone. But soon Android 2.1 is released for the X10 and in 2.1 there is a birthday-field in contacts.

[dupondt]

Hi,

I have a similar issue. My LG GT540 Optimus running Android 1.6 has a birthday field in contacts. However, birthdays are not transferred from Thunderbird/Lightning to the phone and, even worse, birthdays entered on the phone are deleted by MyPhoneExplorer upon sync.

Any ideas?

Greetings
dupondt

PS: Otherwise MyPhoneExplorer works fine with the GT540 - great piece of software!

[Gast]

The data are not linked cause its not possible to save the birthday to the contact in the phone. But soon Android 2.1 is released for the X10 and in 2.1 there is a birthday-field in contacts.

Pity they left this out for the X10 Mini Pro

[FJ]

There is no birthday-field in Android 1.6, maybe this is a special build on the GT540. I cannot adapt MyPhoneExplorer to every tiny little customation of the diffrent models. Is there an update to Android 2.x available for the GT540 ?

[dupondt]

I cannot adapt MyPhoneExplorer to every tiny little customation of the diffrent models.

That goes without saying. I was just wondering why the content of the birthday fields is deleted although the field is not supported.

Is there an update to Android 2.x available for the GT540 ?

According to LG 2.1 is about to be released.

Greetings
dupondt

[FJ]

Then i think we will wait to 2.1 which does support birthdays native.

[KriszG]

Hi All,

I have birthdays set for my Outlook contacts. I use MyPhoneExplorer to sync my contacts, I don't use the Google cloud.

I noticed 2 things that bothers me a lot:
1. If I set a picture to my contact in Outlook, it does not sync to my phone.
If I set it on the phone, it also does not sync back to my computer, instead a black rectangle is shown as my contact photo.

2. Secondly, If I set the picture for a contact in Outlook, it deletes the birthday from the phone and from Outlook as well. So, in case a birthday is set in outlook (and even on the phone) and I set a contact photo, it deletes the birthday.

- Model of phone: Commtiva Z71
- Type of connection: WiFi
- MPE-version: 1.8.0
- Windows version: Win7
- Android version: 2.1
- Outlook: 2007

Do you have any idea for the above?

Thanks in advance!

[FJ]

1) The contactpicture if not compared on sync and it gets only transfered to phone when there is no picture set in the phone.

2) Which Client-Version you are using ? Please try this behavior without syncing Outlook, just using MPE.

[KriszG]

1) The contactpicture if not compared on sync and it gets only transfered to phone when there is no picture set in the phone.

2) Which Client-Version you are using ? Please try this behavior without syncing Outlook, just using MPE.

I'm using the latest client both oth phone and for Windows.
The Windows MPE version is 1.8.0.

When a contact picture is set for a contact that has never ever had a contact photo, only a black rectangle appears in MPE.

How may I assist you in troubleshooting?

Thanks.

[dupondt]

Then i think we will wait to 2.1 which does support birthdays native.

FYI: Birthday syncing works A/OK now with 2.1 on the LG GT540. Many thanks.

Greetings
dupondt

[KriszG]

Then i think we will wait to 2.1 which does support birthdays native.

FYI: Birthday syncing works A/OK now with 2.1 on the LG GT540. Many thanks.

Greetings
dupondt

Birthday syncing is ok for me as well. It is only stange, when I add a contact picture, MPE deleted the birthday of the contact.

Also I have issues with contact pictures. How is it working for you? I'm using MPE + Outlook (no Google cloud).

BTW, I have 2.1 on my phone. (Commtiva Z71)

Thanks.

[dupondt]

Birthday syncing is ok for me as well. It is only stange, when I add a contact picture, MPE deleted the birthday of the contact.

Also I have issues with contact pictures. How is it working for you? I'm using MPE + Outlook (no Google cloud).

I'm using Thunderbird and MPE obviously doesn't sync pictures from TB's address book either (doesn't bother me as I don't care about photos in contacts). If I add a picture in MPE itself, MPE transfers it to my phone without emptying the birthday field.

Greetings
dupondt

[KriszG]

Birthday syncing is ok for me as well. It is only stange, when I add a contact picture, MPE deleted the birthday of the contact.

Also I have issues with contact pictures. How is it working for you? I'm using MPE + Outlook (no Google cloud).

I'm using Thunderbird and MPE obviously doesn't sync pictures from TB's address book either (doesn't bother me as I don't care about photos in contacts). If I add a picture in MPE itself, MPE transfers it to my phone without emptying the birthday field.

Greetings
dupondt

Hi dupondt,

Thanks for your feedback. I've just gave it a try and unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. I added the contact photo in MPE and also added a note to help me track the process and see if the note goes through. Well, it did... the note managed to get into Outlook and also to my phone, but the contact photo didn't. The photo did't get to my phone neither to Outlook.
Actually, it seems that something went to my phone as I can remove a photo from my contact, but it is nothing... so seemingly something is there as it could be removed, but nothing is actually visible.

And again... I lost my the birthday of my contact when I removed that "nothing" image.

Uhh... it is pretty hard to describe this thing... I hope you could understand. Please ask if further clarification is needed.

Thanks a lot!

[KriszG]

1) The contactpicture if not compared on sync and it gets only transfered to phone when there is no picture set in the phone.

2) Which Client-Version you are using ? Please try this behavior without syncing Outlook, just using MPE.

Hi,

Did you manage to take a look at my 'issue'?
Windows Client version is 1.8.0, Android Client version is 1.0.6.

Thanks!

[FJ]

When you set the photo in MyPhoneExplorer (and not in Outlook) - is then the brithday still deleted ?

[KriszG]

When you set the photo in MyPhoneExplorer (and not in Outlook) - is then the brithday still deleted ?

Hi,

I've just did a thorough test on how it is working and where the issue occurs.

I noticed that birthday disappears when I modify anything of a contact (on the phone) and then save it. It saves the modification and removes the birthday. So, it seems it is not related to MPE.

So, to answer your question: no, birthday does not disappear when I set the photo in MPE (as it seems not to be related to it), but it also does not get to the phone.

I'm pretty sure that my phone supports contact photos, because when I moved to Android from Nokia I had the same way of syncing. I mean, from Outlook to the phone via OVI tools. And when I synced Android with another tool (probably PC Companion -- I can't remember now), contact photos got there from Outlook.

MPE is way better than anything else, so I'd like to use it for syncing.

So, birthday is ok, as it seems to be rather an OS issue on my phone (or I don't really understand why it removes the birthday when I modify for example a phone number of the contact)

Contact photos is the only remaining question for me.

Thanks a lot for your support!

[FJ]

OK, and if you set the photo not in Outlook. If you set it in myPhoneExplorer -> is it working ?

[KriszG]

OK, and if you set the photo not in Outlook. If you set it in myPhoneExplorer -> is it working ?

No. It seems something gets to the phone... but it is not the photo that I set.

The reason how I know that something 'seemingly' gets to the phone is that I can remove the icon after the sync, but it is not a real photo. Rather a rectangle filled with grey color.

Is there any size / resolution constrains? I'm just thinking what could be the reason for that.

[FJ]

MyPhoneExplorer creates 96x96 jpeg images. Please save a image from a contact (where MPE did set the contact), upload it to the memorystick and try to view the picture on your phone with the gallery. Does this work ?