Hi,
My girlfriend has just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 on Orange. Whenever she adds an event in the S Planner and tries to select a Participant the contact list is empty but if she load the Contacts application or logs onto GMail from the web they are all there. Anyone come across this before? I've tried clearing the S Planner data and re-syncing but it hasn't made any difference.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks.
James
jimmie_jazz said:
Hi,
My girlfriend has just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 on Orange. Whenever she adds an event in the S Planner and tries to select a Participant the contact list is empty but if she load the Contacts application or logs onto GMail from the web they are all there. Anyone come across this before? I've tried clearing the S Planner data and re-syncing but it hasn't made any difference.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks.
James
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try this go to contacts, menu, contacts to display, select all
Thanks for the response. I've tried that but it made no difference.
Do the contacts have email addresses attached to them?
Thanks -moe- that did the trick! She had associated an e-mail address with a contact on her previous phone but it obviously hadn't synced with her Google account. Adding an e-mail address to a contact means it is now visible in Participants in the Calendar.
Thanks for your assistance.
James
jimmie_jazz said:
Thanks -moe- that did the trick! She had associated an e-mail address with a contact on her previous phone but it obviously hadn't synced with her Google account. Adding an e-mail address to a contact means it is now visible in Participants in the Calendar.
Thanks for your assistance.
James
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No worries mate, had that same problem a couple days ago
so why the HECK cant i add participants who dont have email addresses! this is so stupid. i use s planner to schedule jobs and i'd like to add my employees as participants so that i can keep track of which guys are going to which jobs. i dont wanna have to give them all fake email address just so i can do that.
s4 some problem
crypkilla said:
so why the HECK cant i add participants who dont have email addresses! this is so stupid. i use s planner to schedule jobs and i'd like to add my employees as participants so that i can keep track of which guys are going to which jobs. i dont wanna have to give them all fake email address just so i can do that.
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I have same problem and its stupid. Also on s4 you cant sync favorites anymore to stock browser. And knox is stupid to for civillians. I been a big fan from samsung but it seems they wanna look like apple.
Watch my words: if samsung get more power they gonna screw google!!!
I think my next phone will be a nexus. what is to bad because i like some samsung features but enough is enough
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Hi there,
I have got a problem, which I don't know how to solve: I just wanted to add a birthday to a contact already saved on my Galaxy S2. So I entered the contact, clicked "edit" - but then, no field for the birthday!? Wtf?
In addition, when I open the contact, TW does not show me the birthday either (for contacts from exchange which do have a birthday added)...
So, this can't be true, can it? Where can I add and see the birthdays of my contacts?
Thanks!
Edit: It seems that I cannot add a birthday to contacts that are connected, which means, which come from my exchange server - can that be?
Because when I add a new contact and choose "Save on phone" I can add a birthday, but when I choose a new contact "Exchange" I cannot add a birthday... But my Exchange Software
can save birthdays, it did so with my HD2 on Android. Any ideas?
No idea? No one?
lamajstro said:
No idea? No one?
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i have exactly the same problem - it's a mess.
you have to go to the contact, after that EDIT , after scroll down.. MORE, after scroll down you will see where it is
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you have to go to the contact, after that EDIT , after scroll down.. MORE, after scroll down you will see where it is
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Yeah, but only if you created this contact on the phone. It does NOT work if you have an exchange contact.
MyPhoneexplorer worked for my birthdaydates and outlook.
ALexander
alx37 said:
MyPhoneexplorer worked for my birthdaydates and outlook.
ALexander
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That's nice. However, I wanted to add a birthday to one of my contacts when I was attending a meeting - I neither had Outlook nor MyPhoneExplorer with me. So, there should be a way to complete existing contacts, shouldn't it?
Try to add the birthdaydate via google and sync afther.
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same issue with my Galaxy SII ...
the provided stock apps are ship,sorry i have to say that.i moved from iphone 4 and now it's just a mess with Android.
i don't wanna sync with GMail.
also can't open .eml and .msg attachments from my Exchange account with any of the email apps...what a pain
gessi2000 said:
same issue with my Galaxy SII ...
the provided stock apps are ship,sorry i have to say that.i moved from iphone 4 and now it's just a mess with Android.
i don't wanna sync with GMail.
also can't open .eml and .msg attachments from my Exchange account with any of the email apps...what a pain
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Yes, it is more than disappointing.
And no, we don't want to sync our data with google servers for good reasons. Thats why I have my own Exchange and thats what I want the Galaxy S2 to do, nothing more, nothing less.
Guys - I just try to help you out. I came from Lotus Notes and got about 240 contacts in my adressbook. I tried several ways to get them in sync via android. What worked for me was to make a simpel csv-file with all my contacts and import it into my google account. Next step i sync via my phone with my googleacc. This worked. Then I sync with exchange - and now all my fields is visible - and edible. I think - that the phone just work best and smooth with a clean new contactfile. Afther i have no problem.
All systems I have worked with during the years, often got problems when the adressbook not is native.
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Thanks for trying to help. But it cannot be that you have to give all your data to Google in order to get things to work properly although you have your own exchange server.
Just delete the contacts in google afther you sync.
By the way - if you worry about security - what you do on a exchange server LOL
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Glad to see its not just me, very annoying though. Samsumgs exchange active sync implementation seems to be far from perfect.
Once a week my calendar/e-mail goes rogue and starts up using alot of battery, a reboot fixes this.
I hope this contact problem gets fixed pretty soon, alot of the extra info is missing not just birthdays
I use aTAKEphONE as a dialer application, this lets you add a birthday date and gives many more options...
ALexander
By the way - if you worry about security - what you do on a exchange server LOL
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We can not discuss about this as I am not the decision maker in my company but of course can suggest to move away from Exchange what they won't do for 100%.
All my previous companies were running Exchange by the way and it's not a point to talk about now.
I've done now what you suggested and imported my Exchange contacts to GoogleMail, deleted and unmarked for sync all contacts and accounts on my Samsungs Galaxy S2.
Resynced now first with GoogleMail only and then added the Exchange account for sync.
I can confirm that I get the birthday field now under the contacts.
Whyever the phone only shows the GoogleMail contacts with Icon and not any other (Active Sync, Skype, Facebook SNS) contacts anymore...
I am confused why they dont show up anymore...
Ahhh now I see... as I deleted my contacts from the phone it also wiped the Exchange contacts... great
OK... it's the same... only the imported contacts from GoggleMail have the birthday field.
When I create a new contact on my phone which is by default saved Exchange then I don't get this option to add a birthday... useless...
I have just received a message from Samsung concerning this problem. They say, they cannot promise that it will be fixed.
Oh, thats very nice. Thank you, very much. Once and never again.
lamajstro said:
Hi there,
I have got a problem, which I don't know how to solve: I just wanted to add a birthday to a contact already saved on my Galaxy S2. So I entered the contact, clicked "edit" - but then, no field for the birthday!? Wtf?
In addition, when I open the contact, TW does not show me the birthday either (for contacts from exchange which do have a birthday added)...
So, this can't be true, can it? Where can I add and see the birthdays of my contacts?
Thanks!
Edit: It seems that I cannot add a birthday to contacts that are connected, which means, which come from my exchange server - can that be?
Because when I add a new contact and choose "Save on phone" I can add a birthday, but when I choose a new contact "Exchange" I cannot add a birthday... But my Exchange Software
can save birthdays, it did so with my HD2 on Android. Any ideas?
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If you would like to add a birthday to a contact, you need to:
Select the relevant contact
Select Edit
Select “Add another field”
Select “Events”
Then add the birthday
Hope this info helps
Is there a problem with the contacts when using more than a few thousand contacts?
hope you guys can help me, been looking everywhere but can't find a solution :S
I am trying to sync a Galaxy S2 (completely stock) with outlook using kies, the thing is that there are about 25,000 contacts in outlook, Kies takes about 1 hour to complete, sometimes it doesn't even complete, it hangs at different % (at 0% or 25% or 65% or 70%, randomly) but once it does, I open the contacts in the Galaxy s2 and it hangs when I want to do anything with the contacts, like search them.
This is what I have tried so far:
Clear Contacts storage cache
Clear Contacts storage completely and re-sync again
used go contact EX form the market
the owner does not want to soft-reset the phone,I don't think it would work anyway because the phone is literally days old everything is fresh and completely stock.
the owner does not want to root the phone and changing a ROM is completely out of the question.
A few thousand.... But it's 25000 with a plus... LOL
Obviously it hangs. Why do you need 25000 contacts??
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The only people with that many contacts are Spammers. Seriously.
Not necessarily. If he has his device hooked up to a corporate account, there could easily be that many employees in Outlook. I think I'd have the same issue if I chose to sync my work contacts.
niabi, I think you'd be better off NOT syncing contacts for that account to the phone. You don't need to. At least, I don't.
wow thanks for all the "nice" replies... first of all I am not a spammer, second it is not my phone, its the company owner's phone... why does he need 25,000+ contacts? god knows! but then again... company owners usually don't explain stuff, but I am sure it is not to send spam, its he's list, and only he has access to it.
I tried explaining it would hang with so many contacts, but the problem is he had an HTC that had the same amount of contacts on it and the phone worked fine, so (without being asked a spammer, thank you) ... is there any chance, anyone knows any way of how to make this work ? or should I just tell him its impossible?
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Not necessarily. If he has his device hooked up to a corporate account, there could easily be that many employees in Outlook. I think I'd have the same issue if I chose to sync my work contacts.
niabi, I think you'd be better off NOT syncing contacts for that account to the phone. You don't need to. At least, I don't.
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Thank you!
I agree with you, I think I will try to explain him that, and he has to make a decision.
atifsh said:
A few thousand.... But it's 25000 with a plus... LOL
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hehe isn't 25,000+ a "few thousand"?
niabi said:
wow thanks for all the "nice" replies... first of all I am not a spammer, second it is not my phone, its the company owner's phone... why does he need 25,000+ contacts? god knows! but then again... company owners usually don't explain stuff, but I am sure it is not to send spam, its he's list, and only he has access to it.
I tried explaining it would hang with so many contacts, but the problem is he had an HTC that had the same amount of contacts on it and the phone worked fine, so (without being asked a spammer, thank you) ... is there any chance, anyone knows any way of how to make this work ? or should I just tell him its impossible?
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As I said, he doesn't NEED the contacts on the Exchange account synced. I don't have contacts synced to my Exchange account, but when I start typing names when composing emails, the app still finds Exchange contacts that are NOT in my phone.
Why else would he need them synced?
If he needs it to look up company contacts' phone numbers, you could recommend the "Corporate Addressbook" app from the Play Store. I use it. It means I have to update my password in two places when I change it, but I prefer that to having tens of thousands of company contacts on my phone.
This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If I synced my Exchange contacts, I'd have tens of thousands of contacts as well.
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As I said, he doesn't NEED the contacts on the Exchange account synced. I don't have contacts synced to my Exchange account, but when I start typing names when composing emails, the app still finds Exchange contacts that are NOT in my phone.
Why else would he need them synced?
If he needs it to look up company contacts' phone numbers, you could recommend the "Corporate Addressbook" app from the Play Store. I use it. It means I have to update my password in two places when I change it, but I prefer that to having tens of thousands of company contacts on my phone.
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Ok, first of all he doesn't use exchange, he does use Outlook, why would he need them synced ? as I said before, I do not know. Thanks for the reply
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This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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whatever... keep your judgment to yourself, I will just add if this was to "spam" why the heck would he do it on his phone?...
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I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If I synced my Exchange contacts, I'd have tens of thousands of contacts as well.
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hes got contacts from 15 years of clients
Hi all,
I'm using Cm9 latest build.
My problem is when configuring exchange account in the stock Email app. the schedule appointments and meetings feature is not working.
if someone sends me a meeting request from outlook to my Email, i see the email but nothing more than that - meaning the .ics file that is attached to the body of the mail is not accessible and not visible, hence i cannot accept\deny\cancel the meeting request or even know about the meeting...
i noticed this happens on pop3 emails too. so end result the email app of cm9 doesn't handle .ics and doesn't even show the file as an attachment! WHAT AN ANNOYING BUG.
so guys any way to fix this ?
Thanks
predatorftp said:
Hi all,
I'm using Cm9 latest build.
My problem is when configuring exchange account in the stock Email app. the schedule appointments and meetings feature is not working.
if someone sends me a meeting request from outlook to my Email, i see the email but nothing more than that - meaning the .ics file that is attached to the body of the mail is not accessible and not visible, hence i cannot accept\deny\cancel the meeting request or even know about the meeting...
i noticed this happens on pop3 emails too. so end result the email app of cm9 doesn't handle .ics and doesn't even show the file as an attachment! WHAT AN ANNOYING BUG.
so guys any way to fix this ?
Thanks
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Sorry for bumping this but i am desperate
predatorftp said:
Sorry for bumping this but i am desperate
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i have the same problem.
asharekh said:
i have the same problem.
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Hi,
Well i just found this thread
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/downloads/list
It looks like Google is simply unable to develop such a simple ability in their Email app. makes me think maybe i was wrong deciding on Android.
it's a shame - they know about this since 2008 !!!
I'm giving up - Waiting for the nest Iphone.
I have been searching and cannot find a solution to this. Can Themer give a unread mail count for mail accounts other than just the gmail account?
Dont think so sadly =(
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I have been searching and cannot find a solution to this. Can Themer give a unread mail count for mail accounts other than just the gmail account?
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Unfortunately not, we are working on this feature though. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ditto on this request, but I have another question that's similar (same?)... I have Gmail and Corporate email accounts I have to monitor. It seems just about every theme has just one email, one sms, and so on. I love the themes and the application overall, but the rigidity of icon placements and selections in the themes makes it hard to replace my stocker for work use.
Is there an ETA for when this will work? I don't use gmail and yet, I'm forced to see "0" for email. Also, shouldn't have to be logged in just to use a theming program. Let me go online to "see" new themes but requiring that I'm online is a waste of bandwidth and battery.
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Unfortunately not, we are working on this feature though. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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the application is great, but I only use that email exchange, you have a date for a version that would display the number of e-mail ?
If you associate your other accounts with gmail though,shouldn't this solve the issue partly ?
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Is there an ETA for when this will work? I don't use gmail and yet, I'm forced to see "0" for email. Also, shouldn't have to be logged in just to use a theming program. Let me go online to "see" new themes but requiring that I'm online is a waste of bandwidth and battery.
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Hi,
We can't give an exact ETA, but it won't be anytime soon. The amount of resources required to integrate accounts other than Gmail would require a large of time from the developers which would put everything on hold - which is something we just can't afford at this moment in time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Regarding the login box, this is for security reasons on our side, in the event that someone breaches our servers.
Thanks for the hard work, can't wait for other email accounts to be integrated :good:
Just a general question, or just a point out. Why would google put that e-mail app in Lollipop, when gmail can take care of all your accounts, another thing the email app is not even usable when you open it. It'll just redirect you to the Gmail app. Just weird Google would do that.
Gmail handles all email accounts now. Just slide out the side menu, and the accounts will appear by the top if you linked them.
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Just a general question, or just a point out. Why would google put that e-mail app in Lollipop, when gmail can take care of all your accounts, another thing the email app is not even usable when you open it. It'll just redirect you to the Gmail app. Just weird Google would do that.
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Actually, gmail *does not actually* handle anything at all besides gmail itself.
It is actually opening activities from the regular email application.
If you disable gmail, you will find that the functionality of email increases.
Either way, they both suck badly. I suggest k9mail and disabling both of email/gmail.
Gmail does actually handle exchange and hotmail .... at least for me.
I deleted Touchdown.
Wish Inbox was updated to handle more than just Gmail.
AstroDigital said:
Gmail does actually handle exchange and hotmail .... at least for me.
I deleted Touchdown.
Wish Inbox was updated to handle more than just Gmail.
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No it doesn't. Did you even bother reading my last post in this thread?
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No it doesn't. Did you even bother reading my last post in this thread?
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I have and icon it is call Gmail, click on it one of the inboxs is exchange.
I compose email, it sends email.
Why be such a " ", I open Gmail it works why should I care less how?
Why I ever want to disable Gmail it works it provides my inboxs, calendars, and address books from every email account I own.
How it does it I really do not care.
I have to have Gmail why would I be stupid and install something else if Gmail does the job.
Did you read my post. (I own Touchdown found it was not needed and deleted it)
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I have and icon it is call Gmail, click on it one of the inboxs is exchange.
I compose email, it sends email.
Why be such a " ", I open Gmail it works why should I care less how?
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Like I said, you push a button in gmail, but it is OPENING A SCREEN IN THE OTHER PROGRAM.
I'm really terribly sorry that you were dropped on your head as a child.
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Like I said, you push a button in gmail, but it is OPENING A SCREEN IN THE OTHER PROGRAM.
I'm really terribly sorry that you were dropped on your head as a child.
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I know what program is open, it is Gmail and it is not opening an exchange email app.
www.greenbot.com/article/2841807/gmail-5-0-for-android-gets-a-new-look-exchange-support.html
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-gmail-5-0-for-android-right-now/
Maybe try it before calling people that actually use Gmail to get mail from an exchange server a liar? or just troll on?
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I know what program is open, it is Gmail and it is not opening an exchange email app.
www.greenbot.com/article/2841807/gmail-5-0-for-android-gets-a-new-look-exchange-support.html
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-gmail-5-0-for-android-right-now/
Maybe try it before calling people that actually use Gmail to get mail from an exchange server a liar? or just troll on?
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Give up. You are incorrect and parroting garbage being spouted by people who have no idea what they are talking about.
In fact, how about you try this TO PROVE ME WRONG:
DELETE the following trees;
/system/app/PrebuiltEmailGoogle
/system/app/PrebuiltExchangeGoogle
But LEAVE
/system/app/PrebuiltGmail and whatever update may be installed in /data/app
Observe how suddenly "gmail" can no longer use IMAP, POP3, SMTP, or exchange.
Hmm, I wonder why that would be, if these were actually functions of gmail.
Like I said, I'm truly sorry for you, that you were dropped on your head as a child.
Why no other mail??
Apart altogether from the frankly appalling suggestions (which should warrent a permanent ban, I have a relative who was dropped when small) why (apart from paranoia and greed) does Lolli not have an option to pick up the former mail app; I don't like gmail and don't like learning a new one.
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why (apart from paranoia and greed) does Lolli not have an option to pick up the former mail app; I don't like gmail and don't like learning a new one.
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I don't know if it's greed as much as survival. I'm the same way where I prefer not to use the gmail app and YouTube app or be logged into my browser and have google search everything I'm doing. What got me excited about gmail when it first came out was it offered free pop3 with basically unlimited storage for free. Then they offered imap which was way better. All these years since gmail came out I only logged in to the actual gmail site or app very rarely, mostly just because it's better at searching for old emails. Realistically though, as awesome as AOSP and Nexus devices are, it doesnt do them any good to offer a general mail client that pushes people away from the gmail ads. Makes more sense for them to try and get us Nexus people excited about Inbox even if a lot of us are old school curmudgeons. Very few people these days use stand alone email clients outside of the office. Much more people likely use their own personal domain email using gmail as the mail client as weird as that is to us.
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it doesnt do them any good to offer a general mail client that pushes people away from the gmail ads.
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My point, exactly.
I don't want or like to be pushed about by Google, call me curmudgeonly, but.....