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Originally Posted by thinlyveiled
Solution: OggSync. It ain't free, but it works nicely.
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Originally Posted by christian15213
The tricky part is this... I have a software that will sync google calender with outlook... meaning the outlook on my PC... what I want is to press a button and my calender with sync with the google calende via online. This way I won't have to be home ON my PC to update a calender. I could be at work or somewhere and just pull up the gmail calender and hit a button and vioula my phones calender would be updated...
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Originally Posted by netsyd
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Originally Posted by SilverJack
GooSync looks nice but i dont think it will sync phonebook data.
You all pay for data and i think you all should use it as much as possible in the most efficient way you can. The best way in my opinion is to use an exchange server, that way your email, calender, tasks and contacts are pushed to your phone. If your company can not provide you with access to their server or you just want it for personal use go to http://live.mail2web.com/ . Unless you pay for a small fee the only catch is you have to use their email address. For me all i do is auto forward my GMail to my @mail2web.com account and bada bing. One more note is you have to use the Outlook Web Access available when you login from a PC, not bad though because it pretty much works just like it would as if it were installed on you hard drive and its available anywhere in the world, unless of coarse your company blocks webmail sites. |
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A. does this cost money yes or no? but, if it does how can you get around it. |
| B. I am not worried about syncing my email I think outlook is just fine for that... but rather why do I need to set up a mail2web.com account and then have my mail forwarded there? |
| Lastly, what if the only function I want is to update the calender from outlook... and or Gmail and or both. Which calender does it update? if it is just the outlook one... then how do you sync the outlook with the gmail? |
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Originally Posted by SilverJack
To answer your questions
Yes it is free for basic service. Enhanced solutions start at 1.99 per month. Do it how ever you want however in my experience GMail's pop3 service is not very good i.e. if you send an email with the webclient; outlook pulls it down as a new message. With pop3 have to tell you device to check your email every so often where as with exchange everything just gets pushed to you device. When you setup a mail2web live account you get an email address, i figure you might as well take advantage of it IF you only want to update your calendar then try goosync. If you would like to do everything, the solution i came up with does not even use google calendar, rather an outlook like web calandar that syncs to and from your phone over the air. take a look |
| what I still don't get is the Outlook Web Access that you have to pay for? |
| I don't get the mail forwarded thing. Why would I want my Gmail forwarded to another email account on the web? Lastly, I don't get the whole direct push thing could someone explain that and explain exactly how this program, i.e. the free one, uses direct push... |
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Originally Posted by SilverJack
Check the screen shot in my previous post. Sorry for the confusion, outlook web access is basically "Outlook in a webpage". And it is free to use. What you would have to pay for is if you wanted to use it with the Microsoft Outlook on your computer.
GMail is pop3 type of email server and your phone has to look for new emails, weather it is every 15 minutes, every hour, or only when you hit the send/receive button, its just not very efficient. mail2web is an exchange type of email server, and when ever something changes it changes on your phone near instantly. For example when anyone emails me it gets pushed to my phone automatically usually less the 20 seconds later. |
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Originally Posted by christian15213
ok now I understand. so how exactly do u do the push? does this feature cost anything? because curently I have my gmail forwarding to the mail2web but I really don't know why because my mailtoweb doesn't get pushed to my phone or any of my outlook emails. is this what I have to pay for?
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Originally Posted by SilverJack
Go to the communiactio manager on your phone a make sure you have the microsoft direct push turned on also be sure that when you setup your phone to connect with the exchange server that you chacked save password.
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Originally Posted by christian15213
that is turned on but I don't get where the email.. what email? is supposed to be pushed where?
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Originally Posted by Omega2008
on you phone go to ActiveSync, Menu, Configure Server
Here put in the server information that mail2web gives you to sync with there server. When done your phone will automatically sync with the server for the first time pulling your calender, tasks, email and contacts to your phone (the ones you entered on mail2webs OWA) |
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