Droid X sync with Outlook

[dkst0426]

Well, being that Verizon reps claimed that I could sync with Outlook, that it DOES sync with Outlook Exchange, and that all other smartphone OSs (including BlackBerry and Palm) sync with Outlook, is it really unreasonable to expect that it would sync?

Whose fault is that? The makers of the phone or the salesperson? My rep, on the other hand, did tell me that I would need to figure out a way to sync my Outlook email, contacts, and calendar with the phone via a third-party app. As with all things, caveat emptor.

 

[chrisrach3]

I would have to say "Yes". I pin it on both of them. And myself, for that matter. All I'm saying is that if BlackBerrys and Palms (and, obviously, Windows Mobile devices) sync efficiently, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the smartphone of all smartphones to do the same. Nor do I think that it's unreasonable to not want to stop using Outlook for an inferior contact management database.

Well, being that Verizon reps claimed that I could sync with Outlook, that it DOES sync with Outlook Exchange, and that all other smartphone OSs (including BlackBerry and Palm) sync with Outlook, is it really unreasonable to expect that it would sync?

Whose fault is that? The makers of the phone or the salesperson? My rep, on the other hand, did tell me that I would need to figure out a way to sync my Outlook email, contacts, and calendar with the phone via a third-party app. As with all things, caveat emptor.

 

[dangerous]

Well, being that Verizon reps claimed that I could sync with Outlook, that it DOES sync with Outlook Exchange, and that all other smartphone OSs (including BlackBerry and Palm) sync with Outlook, is it really unreasonable to expect that it would sync?

Outlook and exchange are two different things. why are people confusing the two. It's not "outlook exchange".

The X will (natively) sync with Exchange, and OUTLOOK will sync with Exchange. THE X WILL NOT sync with outlook. (unless you use a 3rd party software).

 

[wtherrell]

So---Stick with WinMo 6.5?

I would have to say "Yes". I pin it on both of them. And myself, for that matter. All I'm saying is that if BlackBerrys and Palms (and, obviously, Windows Mobile devices) sync efficiently, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the smartphone of all smartphones to do the same. Nor do I think that it's unreasonable to not want to stop using Outlook for an inferior contact management database.

Well, being that Verizon reps claimed that I could sync with Outlook, that it DOES sync with Outlook Exchange, and that all other smartphone OSs (including BlackBerry and Palm) sync with Outlook, is it really unreasonable to expect that it would sync?

Whose fault is that? The makers of the phone or the salesperson? My rep, on the other hand, did tell me that I would need to figure out a way to sync my Outlook email, contacts, and calendar with the phone via a third-party app. As with all things, caveat emptor.

So what are we supposed to do if Android can't handle this basic need? iPhone? Yuckkk! Not use my NE2 for 6 more months until WinMo 7 phones come out? (Don't even know if that will have Outlook sync, tho it would really be a shocker if it didn't) Stick with a WinMo 6.5 device? Lame! Google should have their A$$$es kicked for not providing this basic function.
If I can find a decent, reliable pay App that will do it, I am willing to pay for it. So far, I have seen a couple that claim to, but I don't see any good, favorable user responses out there. Jury seems to still be out the rather expensive CompanionLink solution.

 

[grundei]

Palm & HotSync had this solved over ten years ago - Why can't someone duplicate that functionality???????? (I am using CompanionLink - but that is about 75% of the HotSync functionality and requires hitting "OK" three times during the sync process so you can not start it and walk away.)

This is an incredible gap in functionality for the players involved in this to have left open.

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chrisrach3]

Google calendar sync

Here's what I have: I'm not on an exchange server and I don't use a Google email address, nor does any other self-respecting person in my profession. Our email address advertises for our company, not our technology. Not too unusual, right?

Here's what I need:
1. Sync my laptop (Outlook) calendar with my phone.
2. Sync my laptop (Outlook) contacts with my phone.
3. Sync my laptop (Outlook) tasks with my phone.

I've had many a smartphone before. WHY CAN THE DROID X NOT DO THIS???

What are my options? Even if I do switch to Google for my contact/task/calendar management and stop using Outlook (which I can't even fathom right now), how can I keep my work email address?

I've tried settling with Google Calendar Sync, exporting my contacts via Excel at the end of every day, and dealing without task syncing, but Google Calendar Sync seems to think that I have over 20,000 appointments and takes three hours to sync.

 

[wmscottmc]

I believe that your only option is to try one of the apps that will allow you to sync from Outlook to your phone. Read thru this thread, or search others for reviews of these apps.

I will tell you that I tried a couple of them, and while they kind of work, they were not ideal and I ended up migrating my data to gmail and giving up on Outlook which I miss.

But you should be able to use one of the sync apps, and they wont try to sync all 20k records, just the updates since your last sync.

Good luck, and please let us know if you find a good app for doing this.

 

[IT_Admin]

So disappointed...again

So here I sit this morning, with a brand spanking new Droid X for my wife, and we are ready to activate it and start getting her info pulled over. Of course there is no CD in the box, so I assume we will just hook the phone up to her laptop and a sync program will be installed to sync her Outlook data. To say that I am shocked and dismayed to find out that the "Droid DOES" DOES NOT sync with Outlook!!!! Are you friggin' kidding me?!?!?!?! Even the extremely disappointing HTC Droid Eris came with sync software for Outlook!

I work in IT, and administer the entire IT Dept for my company. We just moved to Exchange 2010 (from 2003), and with that move came the ability to sync the Droid phones with Exchange OTA. Having set this up on a half dozen different phones now, I just automatically assumed that there would be some way to do a desktop sync with non-Exchange connected Outlook users. You know, like every other single smart phone available in the market does? But alas, the Droid DOES NOT.

Lest anyone think this is an oversight, it isn't. This is a calculated move that occurred to me just as I was about to export my wife's calendar and contact info into Gmail. Google wants it all. All of your info. I have had a gmail account for some time now. I have never used it for anything other than email. As I was hitting the button to export that info, that's when it hit me. Google is betting (and probably betting right) that most people are going to say screw it, I want my shiny new toy to work, whatever, just import my info into gmail! I am sure the overwhelming majority of folks who face this issue will do just that. This whole issue has made me very introspective, as I was using this experience to base whether or not I will finally making the move from my beloved Blackberry over to the Droid. This pretty much cinches it, as what I need the Droid to do, it DOES NOT.

And moving csv files back and forth between gmail and Outlook is not an option or even a solution. It's a workaround at best, and an extemely sloppy one at that. Gmail's online version is a poor interface when compared side by side with Outlook. And let's go ahead and quit calling both of these programs email clients. They are much more than that. They are personal information and time managers, as well as personal communicators. The interface by which I manage my time and information is very important to me, and I will not be changing it just so I can play with a shiny new gadget. I am re-assuring the Blackberry on my hip that it will stay there for now.

I'm 0 for 2 here folks. The first Droid phone my wife got was the Droid Eris. 'Nuff said. What really made this phone so bad was that it had so much potential to be a great phone, and HTC apparently just abandoned it. Why, I don't know, but the size and form factor were perfect, but the HTC implementation of Android on to the device was horrific. Now, I get the Droid DOES only to find out that once again, Droid DOES NOT.

I am officially through with the Android platform. This attempt to strong arm me into changing the way I go about my day was the final straw. I will still have to support them in my enterprise, but as for personally I will stick with my trusty Blackberry for now (and hope MS breaks from standard form and Windows Phone 7 is innovative and reliable). The same phone that has been syncing with Outlook on the desktop since the mid 1990's. Pretty much what one would expect from any smart phone in the year 2010. But the Droid DOES NOT.
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[Section Twelve]

So here I sit this morning, with a brand spanking new Droid X for my wife, and we are ready to activate it and start getting her info pulled over. Of course there is no CD in the box, so I assume we will just hook the phone up to her laptop and a sync program will be installed to sync her Outlook data. To say that I am shocked and dismayed to find out that the "Droid DOES" DOES NOT sync with Outlook!!!! Are you friggin' kidding me?!?!?!?! Even the extremely disappointing HTC Droid Eris came with sync software for Outlook!

I work in IT, and administer the entire IT Dept for my company. We just moved to Exchange 2010 (from 2003), and with that move came the ability to sync the Droid phones with Exchange OTA. Having set this up on a half dozen different phones now, I just automatically assumed that there would be some way to do a desktop sync with non-Exchange connected Outlook users. You know, like every other single smart phone available in the market does? But alas, the Droid DOES NOT.

Lest anyone think this is an oversight, it isn't. This is a calculated move that occurred to me just as I was about to export my wife's calendar and contact info into Gmail. Google wants it all. All of your info. I have had a gmail account for some time now. I have never used it for anything other than email. As I was hitting the button to export that info, that's when it hit me. Google is betting (and probably betting right) that most people are going to say screw it, I want my shiny new toy to work, whatever, just import my info into gmail! I am sure the overwhelming majority of folks who face this issue will do just that. This whole issue has made me very introspective, as I was using this experience to base whether or not I will finally making the move from my beloved Blackberry over to the Droid. This pretty much cinches it, as what I need the Droid to do, it DOES NOT.

And moving csv files back and forth between gmail and Outlook is not an option or even a solution. It's a workaround at best, and an extemely sloppy one at that. Gmail's online version is a poor interface when compared side by side with Outlook. And let's go ahead and quit calling both of these programs email clients. They are much more than that. They are personal information and time managers, as well as personal communicators. The interface by which I manage my time and information is very important to me, and I will not be changing it just so I can play with a shiny new gadget. I am re-assuring the Blackberry on my hip that it will stay there for now.

I'm 0 for 2 here folks. The first Droid phone my wife got was the Droid Eris. 'Nuff said. What really made this phone so bad was that it had so much potential to be a great phone, and HTC apparently just abandoned it. Why, I don't know, but the size and form factor were perfect, but the HTC implementation of Android on to the device was horrific. Now, I get the Droid DOES only to find out that once again, Droid DOES NOT.

I am officially through with the Android platform. This attempt to strong arm me into changing the way I go about my day was the final straw. I will still have to support them in my enterprise, but as for personally I will stick with my trusty Blackberry for now (and hope MS breaks from standard form and Windows Phone 7 is innovative and reliable). The same phone that has been syncing with Outlook on the desktop since the mid 1990's. Pretty much what one would expect from any smart phone in the year 2010. But the Droid DOES NOT.
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1.02.28

Little angry, bro?

It's just a phone...

 

[pool_shark]

So here I sit this morning, with a brand spanking new Droid X for my wife, and we are ready to activate it and start getting her info pulled over. Of course there is no CD in the box, so I assume we will just hook the phone up to her laptop and a sync program will be installed to sync her Outlook data. To say that I am shocked and dismayed to find out that the "Droid DOES" DOES NOT sync with Outlook!!!! Are you friggin' kidding me?!?!?!?! Even the extremely disappointing HTC Droid Eris came with sync software for Outlook!

I work in IT, and administer the entire IT Dept for my company. We just moved to Exchange 2010 (from 2003), and with that move came the ability to sync the Droid phones with Exchange OTA. Having set this up on a half dozen different phones now, I just automatically assumed that there would be some way to do a desktop sync with non-Exchange connected Outlook users. You know, like every other single smart phone available in the market does? But alas, the Droid DOES NOT.

Lest anyone think this is an oversight, it isn't. This is a calculated move that occurred to me just as I was about to export my wife's calendar and contact info into Gmail. Google wants it all. All of your info. I have had a gmail account for some time now. I have never used it for anything other than email. As I was hitting the button to export that info, that's when it hit me. Google is betting (and probably betting right) that most people are going to say screw it, I want my shiny new toy to work, whatever, just import my info into gmail! I am sure the overwhelming majority of folks who face this issue will do just that. This whole issue has made me very introspective, as I was using this experience to base whether or not I will finally making the move from my beloved Blackberry over to the Droid. This pretty much cinches it, as what I need the Droid to do, it DOES NOT.

And moving csv files back and forth between gmail and Outlook is not an option or even a solution. It's a workaround at best, and an extemely sloppy one at that. Gmail's online version is a poor interface when compared side by side with Outlook. And let's go ahead and quit calling both of these programs email clients. They are much more than that. They are personal information and time managers, as well as personal communicators. The interface by which I manage my time and information is very important to me, and I will not be changing it just so I can play with a shiny new gadget. I am re-assuring the Blackberry on my hip that it will stay there for now.

I'm 0 for 2 here folks. The first Droid phone my wife got was the Droid Eris. 'Nuff said. What really made this phone so bad was that it had so much potential to be a great phone, and HTC apparently just abandoned it. Why, I don't know, but the size and form factor were perfect, but the HTC implementation of Android on to the device was horrific. Now, I get the Droid DOES only to find out that once again, Droid DOES NOT.

I am officially through with the Android platform. This attempt to strong arm me into changing the way I go about my day was the final straw. I will still have to support them in my enterprise, but as for personally I will stick with my trusty Blackberry for now (and hope MS breaks from standard form and Windows Phone 7 is innovative and reliable). The same phone that has been syncing with Outlook on the desktop since the mid 1990's. Pretty much what one would expect from any smart phone in the year 2010. But the Droid DOES NOT.
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A little research would have saved you the trouble.
I don't like that Droid doesn't sync Outlook notes and tasks either, but it is what it is.
Syncing the calendar with google was easy, but anytime you get a new notice you have to export/import again.
Getting the .csv for contacts to Droid without Google was easy.

 

[Jamb]

TouchDown DOES! I sync Calendar,Task, email all from Outlook!dancedroid:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:

 

[wmscottmc]

Migrating data from outlook to google isnt easy. The calendar and contacts are easy, but no easy way to export memos/notes to google, and there are issues with tasks. I dont think that many DX users use the phone like BB users do, as a pda/pim first, and a phone 2nd.

It is surprising that so many users dont see this as a big issue. I had to quit using Outlook which shouldnt be required. gmail does not replace Outlook as a PIM, its not even close.

I love the phone, but 2 things that it doesnt do that it should are:

1) sync with Outlook (all data including tasks/notes)

2) include a backup program. The 3rd party backup apps wont backup application data (for example my memos that I exported from Outlook to another 3rd party notes app. The app is backed up but not the data. I hope I never need to restore and I think that many users dont even realize this).

Most droid users dont seem to care about backups, or syncing to Outlook, 2 things that us BB users are just used to doing.

It is a great phone, but it amazes me that these 2 issues received almost no discussion in the reviews that I read before purchasing the DX.

 

[lewwill]

Very happy with the Google calendar sync. I make an entry in my Outlook 2007 calendar and within minutes it is in my gmail calendar on my computer and on my X. All my Outlook contacts transferred easily. Quite easy even for a smart phone newbie like me, although I have had Verizon cells for 15 years, with much help from you in these forums. Thank you very much. My X is Xcellent and working without problems. I have all four emails accounts on the Droid but the primary is my home isp account. All work well.

 

[IT_Admin]

A little research would have saved you the trouble.
I don't like that Droid doesn't sync Outlook notes and tasks either, but it is what it is.
Syncing the calendar with google was easy, but anytime you get a new notice you have to export/import again.
Getting the .csv for contacts to Droid without Google was easy.

Yes, I should have. I also need to research my next laptop to ensure that it has a screen, and probably will want to really be sure that the next phone I get includes some type of keypad for the input of text and numbers. I will start checking these things out from now on. I mean really......research whether or not a phone will do a desktop sync with the most prolific mail client on the planet? It was a deal killer for me. Phone is in the box and going back to Verizon.

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[wtherrell]

I, too come from WinMo but it's solved.

So here I sit this morning, with a brand spanking new Droid X for my wife, and we are ready to activate it and start getting her info pulled over. Of course there is no CD in the box, so I assume we will just hook the phone up to her laptop and a sync program will be installed to sync her Outlook data. To say that I am shocked and dismayed to find out that the "Droid DOES" DOES NOT sync with Outlook!!!! Are you friggin' kidding me?!?!?!?! Even the extremely disappointing HTC Droid Eris came with sync software for Outlook!

I work in IT, and administer the entire IT Dept for my company. We just moved to Exchange 2010 (from 2003), and with that move came the ability to sync the Droid phones with Exchange OTA. Having set this up on a half dozen different phones now, I just automatically assumed that there would be some way to do a desktop sync with non-Exchange connected Outlook users. You know, like every other single smart phone available in the market does? But alas, the Droid DOES NOT.

Lest anyone think this is an oversight, it isn't. This is a calculated move that occurred to me just as I was about to export my wife's calendar and contact info into Gmail. Google wants it all. All of your info. I have had a gmail account for some time now. I have never used it for anything other than email. As I was hitting the button to export that info, that's when it hit me. Google is betting (and probably betting right) that most people are going to say screw it, I want my shiny new toy to work, whatever, just import my info into gmail! I am sure the overwhelming majority of folks who face this issue will do just that. This whole issue has made me very introspective, as I was using this experience to base whether or not I will finally making the move from my beloved Blackberry over to the Droid. This pretty much cinches it, as what I need the Droid to do, it DOES NOT.

And moving csv files back and forth between gmail and Outlook is not an option or even a solution. It's a workaround at best, and an extemely sloppy one at that. Gmail's online version is a poor interface when compared side by side with Outlook. And let's go ahead and quit calling both of these programs email clients. They are much more than that. They are personal information and time managers, as well as personal communicators. The interface by which I manage my time and information is very important to me, and I will not be changing it just so I can play with a shiny new gadget. I am re-assuring the Blackberry on my hip that it will stay there for now.

I'm 0 for 2 here folks. The first Droid phone my wife got was the Droid Eris. 'Nuff said. What really made this phone so bad was that it had so much potential to be a great phone, and HTC apparently just abandoned it. Why, I don't know, but the size and form factor were perfect, but the HTC implementation of Android on to the device was horrific. Now, I get the Droid DOES only to find out that once again, Droid DOES NOT.

I am officially through with the Android platform. This attempt to strong arm me into changing the way I go about my day was the final straw. I will still have to support them in my enterprise, but as for personally I will stick with my trusty Blackberry for now (and hope MS breaks from standard form and Windows Phone 7 is innovative and reliable). The same phone that has been syncing with Outlook on the desktop since the mid 1990's. Pretty much what one would expect from any smart phone in the year 2010. But the Droid DOES NOT.
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1.02.28

gsyncit ($15.00) download to your PC. Then Outlook syncs thru it perfectly to gmail. Calendar, Contacts, Tasks--the whole thing. Then Jorte on your phone does your calendar and Tasks just fine. K-9 mail handles your mail account whether or not you want to go thru gmail.
If you don't want wireless syncing you can use Companionlink USB on your PC (Takes place of Activesync) and DejaOffice on your phone to give that Outlook Mobile experience. Only took me a few hours to set the whole thing up and I am a total Android novice.