V3 Sync Software [LONG]

Hello,

I recently bought a Motorola V3, and whilst I am very pleased with the phone
itself, I'm having trouble trying to find suitable software for
synchronising my contacts and calendar with Outlook. I was somewhat
unimpressed to discover that the bundled software would only work with its
own internal software, and rather more unimpressed when the full version of
the software didn't work properly either.

The contacts synchronisation was well enough, but the Calendar
synchronisation is truly dire. It worked once, but failed utterly to cope
with any recurring appointments, instead just ignoring them. Subsequent
attempts to synchronise just crash the software, and it won't open again
until after I've closed Outlook.

There have been a couple of recommendations that I've spotted recently on
the group, but they don't appear to really meet my requirements. DataPilot
looks like it will only use its own internal Calendar, and TrueSync doesn't
appear to support a Calendar at all, nor does it claim support for the V3.

The Bluetooth dongle I bought came with some software from 'Mobile Action',
although this is even worse. It won't work with a generic BT adapter, and
requires you to install their own drivers that prevent anything else from
using the device. A bit of fiddling with bt.inf convinced Windows to
install Microsoft's generic drivers however.

I'd be very grateful if someone could suggest a package that might meet my
requirements, which I would have though are really pretty typical of most
users.

o Synchronise with a Motorola V3 via a generic Bluetooth adapter.
o Work directly with data stored in Outlook.
o Support recurring appointments in a sensible fashion. (Perhaps, split
them up to store on the phone, and look for any exception that need to be
made when updating Outlook)
o Provide full control over the mapping of field within Outlook to fields
in the phone.
o Work reliably!!!
o Provide some functionality for transferring other media to / from the
phone. An explorer shell extension like the Nokia software provides would
be nice.

I'd also appreciate software that doesn't have a GUI designed to the like
the phone; I find them really quite clunky and hard to use.


Many thanks for any suggestions,

Chris Key

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DataPilot will indeed synch with Outlook. See their info at
www.datapilot.com. However, I don't know if they support BT yet.

From:Christopher Key
[email protected]

> Hello,
>
> I recently bought a Motorola V3, and whilst I am very pleased with
> the phone itself, I'm having trouble trying to find suitable software
> for synchronising my contacts and calendar with Outlook. I was
> somewhat unimpressed to discover that the bundled software would only
> work with its own internal software, and rather more unimpressed when
> the full version of the software didn't work properly either.
>
> The contacts synchronisation was well enough, but the Calendar
> synchronisation is truly dire. It worked once, but failed utterly to
> cope with any recurring appointments, instead just ignoring them.
> Subsequent attempts to synchronise just crash the software, and it
> won't open again until after I've closed Outlook.
>
> There have been a couple of recommendations that I've spotted
> recently on the group, but they don't appear to really meet my
> requirements. DataPilot looks like it will only use its own internal
> Calendar, and TrueSync doesn't appear to support a Calendar at all,
> nor does it claim support for the V3.
> The Bluetooth dongle I bought came with some software from 'Mobile
> Action', although this is even worse. It won't work with a generic
> BT adapter, and requires you to install their own drivers that
> prevent anything else from using the device. A bit of fiddling with
> bt.inf convinced Windows to install Microsoft's generic drivers
> however.
> I'd be very grateful if someone could suggest a package that might
> meet my requirements, which I would have though are really pretty
> typical of most users.
>
> o Synchronise with a Motorola V3 via a generic Bluetooth adapter.
> o Work directly with data stored in Outlook.
> o Support recurring appointments in a sensible fashion. (Perhaps,
> split them up to store on the phone, and look for any exception that
> need to be made when updating Outlook)
> o Provide full control over the mapping of field within Outlook to
> fields in the phone.
> o Work reliably!!!
> o Provide some functionality for transferring other media to / from
> the phone. An explorer shell extension like the Nokia software
> provides would be nice.
>
> I'd also appreciate software that doesn't have a GUI designed to the
> like the phone; I find them really quite clunky and hard to use.
>
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Chris Key

> From:Christopher Key
> [email protected]
>> I'd be very grateful if someone could suggest a package that might
>> meet my requirements, which I would have though are really pretty
>> typical of most users.
>>
>> o Synchronise with a Motorola V3 via a generic Bluetooth adapter.
>> o Work directly with data stored in Outlook.
>> o Support recurring appointments in a sensible fashion. (Perhaps,
>> split them up to store on the phone, and look for any exception that
>> need to be made when updating Outlook)
>> o Provide full control over the mapping of field within Outlook to
>> fields in the phone.
>> o Work reliably!!!
>> o Provide some functionality for transferring other media to / from
>> the phone. An explorer shell extension like the Nokia software
>> provides would be nice.
>>
>> I'd also appreciate software that doesn't have a GUI designed to the
>> like the phone; I find them really quite clunky and hard to use.
>>


BruceR wrote:
> DataPilot will indeed synch with Outlook. See their info at
> www.datapilot.com. However, I don't know if they support BT yet.
>

Thanks for the reply. Can you confirm that DataPilot with indeed
synchronise *directly* with Outlook, as opposed to simply allowing one to
export, sync and reimport again. My reading of
http://www.datapilot.com/calendar.htm, combined with the picture showing
their own calendar interface seemed to suggest otherwise.

Chris Key

Christopher Key wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Can you confirm that DataPilot with indeed
> synchronise *directly* with Outlook, as opposed to simply allowing
> one to export, sync and reimport again. My reading of
> http://www.datapilot.com/calendar.htm, combined with the picture
> showing their own calendar interface seemed to suggest otherwise.

Furthermore,

http://www.susteen.com/Demo3/cal_3.htm

and

http://www.susteen.com/Demo3/cal_10.htm

do seem to make it conclusive.


Chris Key

I don't use it to synch with Outlook so I can't tell you the process.

From:Christopher Key
[email protected]

>> From:Christopher Key
>> [email protected]
>>> I'd be very grateful if someone could suggest a package that might
>>> meet my requirements, which I would have though are really pretty
>>> typical of most users.
>>>
>>> o Synchronise with a Motorola V3 via a generic Bluetooth adapter.
>>> o Work directly with data stored in Outlook.
>>> o Support recurring appointments in a sensible fashion. (Perhaps,
>>> split them up to store on the phone, and look for any exception that
>>> need to be made when updating Outlook)
>>> o Provide full control over the mapping of field within Outlook to
>>> fields in the phone.
>>> o Work reliably!!!
>>> o Provide some functionality for transferring other media to / from
>>> the phone. An explorer shell extension like the Nokia software
>>> provides would be nice.
>>>
>>> I'd also appreciate software that doesn't have a GUI designed to the
>>> like the phone; I find them really quite clunky and hard to use.
>>>
>
>
> BruceR wrote:
>> DataPilot will indeed synch with Outlook. See their info at
>> www.datapilot.com. However, I don't know if they support BT yet.
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply. Can you confirm that DataPilot with indeed
> synchronise *directly* with Outlook, as opposed to simply allowing
> one to export, sync and reimport again. My reading of
> http://www.datapilot.com/calendar.htm, combined with the picture
> showing their own calendar interface seemed to suggest otherwise.
>
> Chris Key

BruceR wrote:
> I don't use it to synch with Outlook so I can't tell you the process.

Hi Bruce,

Thanks anyway. I'll have a go at asking the DataPilot people themselves.

Chris