FJ Software

Hey,

Thank you for the update in MPE 1.7.3 adding support for contact pictures, it's much appreciated. After 3 years of using the program I decided to donate .

I was wondering though if it's possible to get MPE to sync the contact pictures to Outlook when it syncs contacts?

Thanks,

Simsie

If the phone supports syncing the contactpictures (=if you see contactpictures in MPE) then they get also synced to outlook. But its not possible to compare the pictures so it works with some restrictions:
- if only the picture has changed then the contact will not be synced from/to Outlook
- if MPE writes a contact to Outlook then the picture will be always transfered.
- in the other direction MPE can read also the picture from outlook, but it will be set in MPE/Phone only if there is no picture selected for the contact (cause the pic in Outlook is very small and it doesn't look good in the phone)

Hi!
And how about google synchronization with contacts' pictures?

Its not possible cause Google does not provide an API to the Google-Owned picturestorage.

But how Microsoft ActiveSync on windows mobile based devices does this during syncronization with server m.google.com (same Microsoft Exchange server)? The wey must be similar.

No - Google has a complete different API to Microsoft.
If you don't believe it -> check out the API yourself, its all documented and can be read from everyone.

I do not argue. And Your word is enough for me. Just I have a WM device and it syncs contacts with photos. So I assumed that it was similar.

Many thanks, in any case.

Which API are you using?
My guess would be the one called "Protocol"
http://code.google.com/intl/sv/apis/con ... tocol.html
And from what I can see it does support pictures.

And if I'm wrong... Lets hope Google will implement it for you to use.

I've said it before... Thanks for the awesome app
/Henke

Hey - you are right. I checked the API a few weeks ago. At this time it was possible to READ phontos from Google but not to upload new photos to google. I will see if i can implement it...

That would be so cool!

Let's just hope Google does their part and makes Gmail sync contact-picture with picasa

OK, contactpics will be synced in v1.7.4 with google. I could not see the pictures in GMail, but i think this is a common issue in Google. The API and the up/download works.

Cool

I knew it! Very nice! Thanks for Your work! Good Luck!

Hi
I have contact pictures for most of contacts in Outlook 2003.

When I synchronize my K750 with Outlook, I can not get any of pictures with the contacts to my phone. What is the most convenient way to join pictures to the belonging contact in my situation?

Thanks.

The K750 does not support access to contact pictures

Hi,

I have the same problem with contact pictures.

If I set a contact photo on the phone or in Outlook, MPE does not sync it to the other side. I mean, If I set it on the phone, it does not appear in Oulook, except a black square. I have the same in MPE.

When I set it in Oulook, it does not get to the phone. A grey square gets visible on the phone, which says for me that something was synced, but it is not the actual picture.

Also, when I sync the photo, it deletes the birthday of the contact.

I can set contact photo on the phone, so it handles the contact pictues.

Please advise. Thanks!

KriszG hat geschrieben:When I set it in Oulook, it does not get to the phone.

If this is the only change on this contact, mpe doesn't recognize the change. You have to change at least one other field or use right click -- force as edited.

Btw: Which phone?

weinbi hat geschrieben:

KriszG hat geschrieben:When I set it in Oulook, it does not get to the phone.

If this is the only change on this contact, mpe doesn't recognize the change. You have to change at least one other field or use right click -- force as edited.

Btw: Which phone?

Yes, I did. I made changes, so it should have been transferred to the phone. Actually the change itself is transferred, except the contact picture. And the other effect is that when I modify the contact picture, MPE deletes the birthday of the contact on both the phone and in Outlook.

Phone type: Commtiva Z71

Again here - do NOT post the same problem on multiple places. We have enought work to support the users.

FJ hat geschrieben:Again here - do NOT post the same problem on multiple places. We have enought work to support the users.

OK, sorry about that. I thought there may be users who had the same problem.