I got the HTC Evo on sprint last weekend and I'm having a few problems with it. Any suggestions are appropriated. Also, before anyone says anything, I have to use outlook 2003 for my work.

1) is it possible to sync directly with outlook without any 3rd party software? (I've tried companionlink already).

2) If it is not possible, what is the best way to get contacts, notes, tasks, and calender to the google cloud?

Companionlink took way to long to sync every time I plugged it in, so I stopped using that and tried sync2. I haven't bought it yet because I am still looking for the best product. I have google calender sync set-up and sync2 for my contacts and it is working okay, but I have about 2,000 duplicate contacts out of my 6,700 total so i have about 8,700 in my phone. How can I get it to not duplicate my contacts every time I sync them. I am really loosing my patients with this amazing phone

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Not real sure what you're trying to get out of it, but I use Touchdown for my company's exchange server with my Evo, it pulls down e-mails, contacts, calendars, and tasks. It took some time to get the settings right since my company doesn't like the idea of not being secure. But I just e-mailed touchdown support with the settings and they were quick to reply with how to set it up properly. Just for that, I bought the app - they have awesome support. I'd recommend trying it out and if you need any help goto their site and ask. If you like it, I'd really recommend buying it.

HTC Sync will take care of contact and calendar.

Or, you could just export your Outlook data in csv and migrate it to Google.
Or, you could install Google Sync for Outlook.

As for the notes, I would recommend AK Notepad or 3banana.
Astrid or Gtasks take care of todo lists.

Anyone know if there is a simple way around the issue with syncing contacts to HTC Desire?

The contact fields don't match so will only take mobile or home numbers. Been using Google Mail to sync contacts but would rather keep it all through outlook if poss. Using 2007.

Cheers.

HTC sync for me on desire syncs all fields on my phone to outlook fine. I checked my phone contacts sync to google and that has filled them too. You could always try the google gmail sync to outlook?

Cheers Euphoria, the prob I have is if there is a business contact. Outlook calls it business, Sedire calls is work and they wont recognise each other. The same goes with more than 1 mobile... a bit odd really.

Gmail sync to outlook sounds interesting. How does that work? Will have a quick google...

Out of all the cool things I have to say about my wonderful Motorola Milestone and Android - coming from a windows mobile phone - I have to say that the syncing with Outlook with my phone ABSOLUTELY SUCKS!

I've tried CompanionLink, Google Calendar Sync, HTC Sync, Go Contacts Sync, and SyncCell. All do a horrible job compared with what I've grown accustomed to - connecting my phone and letting ActiveSync do the rest. Keeping my contacts intact, as well as my calendar.

Now - it could very much be Google's calendar that stinks - but if that is the case I just find it extremely annoying that I'm being bullied out of using Outlook.

The solutions I've found for syncing never worked well:
Calendar:
- in my phone I sometimes didn't get items to sync. Same for my desktop. Some items were just missing.
- Google's calendar doesn't retain the "Labels" of events (to have different colors for events).
- I would sometimes get duplicates of holidays and birthdays etc. - making me go through the whole yearly calendar and delete all the duplicates.
Contacts:
- I'd get tons of duplicates that had to manually be removed
- photos associated with contacts would be reset and erased

I don't really know which software is to blame for all of these - but I do know that every one of the solutions has not reached the ease and friendliness that I expected to have. I wish there were a clean and easy solution - and Android certainly LACKS a proper syncing solution. I'd prefer a wired syncing solution and preferably one that works automatically on phone connect instead of going through a menu and setting it to sync. Android is far superior to Windows Mobile, in my opinion, but syncing with Outlook doesn't even come close to WM, yet.

This is so frustrating to me - I'll even start a new thread with this rant. Sorry for the duplicate.

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