Store email/contacts on miniSD?

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by OneSeventeen

I'll check out the hacks and what the pros and cons are, I just thought I was missing the obvious option somewhere that said "default to miniSD".

Is it just me, or should this be a feature of every SD capable phone?

I think Microsoft chose to do that on purpose. There are several reasons that they might have done this:

• If you lose your card, your contacts and E-mail would be gone.
• If somebody takes your phone and you have a password, they can't use your phone but can pop out the memory card and read that.
• If you switched cards (or took the card out), syncing might cause the items to be deleted on your PC. If you put the card back in, syncing might then delete the contacts on the card.

Those are just guesses of course, but they all make some sense.

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by polishp86

So there is no way to just transfer my contacts from my Q to my PC? I Just want to update the software on my phone but I don't want to lose everhything. I have some things set up on my calendar within the Q, but I would like to be able to have it all set up on my computer and be able to sync between the 2 devices if at all possible....Any help?

Scott answered your question -- get Outlook and ActiveSync. ActiveSync will synchronize your contacts and calendar from the phone to your PC.

When you update the Q's software, delete the old partnership, create a new one and the contacts and calendar will sync back to your phone.

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by n99hockey

then go to the software section of the forum and download spriteback up...

Actually, that's probably not a good idea. While Sprite Backup can supposedly restore your device after a ROM update, if you follow their official procedure, you can lose your Internet connection.

I followed their procedure when I updated to MOL3, and the restore seemed to work OK, but I couldn't connect to the Internet after that. I eventually had to Master Reset and reinstall everything from scratch. (Of course, because I had an ActiveSync partnership and Outlook, I was able to sync those back to my Q and reinstall many of the programs.)

This was using a Verizon Q; I don't know if Sprint Qs will lose their Internet connection.

Steve

[akleinb]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

You can't store contacts on a memory card, though. They have to be on the device.

Steve

What about calendar data? I have 4 years worth of calendar data taking up a ton of space on my Q. Is there any way to move that to my SD card? Alternatively, is there a way to keep all of that data in Outlook on my PC, but keep only future and recent past events (say, the past 3 months) on my Q? Thanks,

Adam

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by akleinb

What about calendar data? I have 4 years worth of calendar data taking up a ton of space on my Q. Is there any way to move that to my SD card? Alternatively, is there a way to keep all of that data in Outlook on my PC, but keep only future and recent past events (say, the past 3 months) on my Q? Thanks,

Adam

no that cant be stored there either
in active sync (on the PC) you can set the calendar to sync only a certain amount of time