Htc Questions - Lots Of Them

[raro]

alright...the old Motorola kicked the bucket and even the guy next to Friendship wasn't able to save it's life. Decided to postpone the Ferrari purchase for another month and got me an HTC Touch instead.

Loads of questions but let's sort this one by one:

1) Synchronization. Works nice with my Outlook and I downloaded all 3,000+ contacts into my mobile...that's WAY too many. Is there any way to filter this? The Motorola software was able to do so!

2) e-mail set-up. Also a piece of cake unless you want something a little bit advanced. Such as downloading only e-mails flagged "important". I do not want ALL my e-mails in this tiny little device but those that the sender wants me to look into immediately. Otherwise I spend half my day deleting double e-mails (I have them already on the laptop).

3) In case I reply an e-mail from my mobile, how can I move my reply into the sent folder on my laptop. It is THERE were I will look for it when I need it, not in the mobile. In the mobile it can be deleted after moving it to the laptop.

more to come, stay tuned!

[monty]

I use e-mail on my PDA slightly different. I do never synchronize e-mails!

What I do is only use my PDA when on the road and having the need to check my e-mails, through a wifi hotspot or GPRS. Even if you fully download the e-mail, it'll still remain on the mail server, so next time you do send/receive on your laptop, all e-mails will end up over there as well.

Indeed, replies done on PDA would not end up on your laptop, but you'll find that you won't answer that many unless terribly urgent anyway, and in that case I would do a BCC to myself, so when you download later on with your laptop you just move the few replies made with your PDA to the sent folder for later reference. Or you could even just make a filter in outlook moving mails coming from yourself to the sent folder...

I basically use my PDA as a tool to do urgent things when on the road, NOT as a laptop replacement, so I do not need e-mails to sit on it after I've handled them.

[webfact]

Not sure what email provider you are into but if you want all your email available being on the road - switch your email server to IMAP.

I Trust this HTC can handle IMAP if not check out if 3rd party email clients are available.

If I get it right Google supports IMAP & POP concurrently. But you should take a closer look into that matter.

[raro]

I use e-mail on my PDA slightly different. I do never synchronize e-mails!

What I do is only use my PDA when on the road and having the need to check my e-mails, through a wifi hotspot or GPRS. Even if you fully download the e-mail, it'll still remain on the mail server, so next time you do send/receive on your laptop, all e-mails will end up over there as well.

Indeed, replies done on PDA would not end up on your laptop, but you'll find that you won't answer that many unless terribly urgent anyway, and in that case I would do a BCC to myself, so when you download later on with your laptop you just move the few replies made with your PDA to the sent folder for later reference. Or you could even just make a filter in outlook moving mails coming from yourself to the sent folder...

I basically use my PDA as a tool to do urgent things when on the road, NOT as a laptop replacement, so I do not need e-mails to sit on it after I've handled them.

BCC...that's a good advice, thanks a lot!

Let me elaborate a bit more why I want that "important" mail thing...I download mails only every two hours - since I started doing so I get much more done as you do not have every 10 minutes new mails in the inbox.

Now sometimes mails are urgent and need immediate attention. Outlook is not able (at least I could not find a way to do so) to check - say every 10 min - for new mails AND download the urgent ones only and leave the rest for 2 hour intervals.

Another one: Ringtones. My absolute pet peave. The gizmo comes with a gazillion of annoying sounds that will be deleted as soon as I have an hour of my time available for that.

Can anyone direct me to a ringtone download page that has the Siemens S4 ringtones? They were the best ever.

[raro]

Syncing:

I have organized my Outlook contacts in subfolders.

The Mobile Device Center in Win7 (or Vista for that matter) cannot syc those subfolders with the PDA, only the default foldder.

There is a 3rd party tool available, called PocketMirror. This one again needs ActiveSync installed first, but Active Sync is discontinued after WinXP and it won't work with the Vista/Win7 tool MDC.

Any other solutions?

[raro]

another sync problem...trying to copy files (mp3s in this case) from my laptop to the mobile, I have the impression that I can do that only one by one. Is this correct or do I do something wrong??

[webfact]

Syncing:

I have organized my Outlook contacts in subfolders.

The Mobile Device Center in Win7 (or Vista for that matter) cannot syc those subfolders with the PDA, only the default foldder.

There is a 3rd party tool available, called PocketMirror. This one again needs ActiveSync installed first, but Active Sync is discontinued after WinXP and it won't work with the Vista/Win7 tool MDC.

Any other solutions?

take a look - maybe it can help to solve your issue:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-...r-download.mspx

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