Wireless Sync - Motorola Q Forum

rudeboy · 10-30-2008, 08:46 AM

so i know sherri uses WS (i started using it yesterday) as mentioned in another thread, i think i remember from WM5.0 that you could make the icons larger ? (+ the symbol that shows it's syncing is small and not easy to see if it's syncing..)

secondly... i only want to sync the calendar, but for some reason when i turn off 2 others (Mail - Inbox & Mail - Drafts) the settings does not "stick"..

jasoraso · 10-30-2008, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rudeboy

so i know sherri uses WS (i started using it yesterday) as mentioned in another thread, i think i remember from WM5.0 that you could make the icons larger ? (+ the symbol that shows it's syncing is small and not easy to see if it's syncing..)

secondly... i only want to sync the calendar, but for some reason when i turn off 2 others (Mail - Inbox & Mail - Drafts) the settings does not "stick"..

I quit using wireless sync about 9 months ago - so I can't answer your questions directly, but I wanted to suggest that if you are looking at options, you might want to consider using an exchange server instead of wireless sync.

I switched to an Exchange account from a private provider (sherweb.com). I pointed my email hosting to the exchange provider. For $8/mo I get full exchange services, so with the $29.99 plan, I'm even saving a few dollars over Wireless Sync, plus my work computer doesn't always have to be on (when I was on wireless sync, I experienced problems occasionally with my work computer locking up over the weekends, thus ending my syncing till I rebooted). Also, the exchange server means my exchange account is backed up besides just being on my work computer, and I can use OWA to access from any computer (wireless sync provides some of these benefits too). The one downside is there is sometimes a little lagginess on my work computer with Outlook accessing the exchange server over the internet (my work internet isn't superfast).

Hope this helps ...

ScottQ9c · 10-30-2008, 01:33 PM

I'm finding that Verizon Wireless Sync is very unreliable. Their servers seem to go down every couple of months, and stay down for days. That's the reason I'm looking for options, and likely will go with a hosted exchange service such as SherWeb.

rudeboy · 10-30-2008, 01:37 PM

oh okay.... well, to me it's more a convenience thing. if the VW servers go down i can always sync w/ usb/pc.

jasoraso · 10-30-2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by rudeboy

oh okay.... well, to me it's more a convenience thing. if the VW servers go down i can always sync w/ usb/pc.

You can do that with exchange server too ... active sync works via cellular or through usb on my pc ...

ScottQ9c · 10-30-2008, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jasoraso

You can do that with exchange server too ... active sync works via cellular or through usb on my pc ...

Jasoraso: I'm looking for something that will, in essence, take the place of the unreliable VZW Wireless Sync. I only have the one desktop computer, running Outlook 2003. Can you tell me how hosted exchange would work in my situation?

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

jasoraso · 10-30-2008, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ScottQ9c

Jasoraso: I'm looking for something that will, in essence, take the place of the unreliable VZW Wireless Sync. I only have the one desktop computer, running Outlook 2003. Can you tell me how hosted exchange would work in my situation?

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

I think with Verizon's current pricing structure, if you want data, with push email, getting exchange server is the way to go.

I signed up with exchange server from sherweb.com (originally I was with 1and1.com, but they didn't have exchange 2007 at the time, so I switched). I pointed my DNS entries for email for my email account that I have with 1and1.com to my sherweb account. (If you use gmail or something like that, I think you just forward the mail to the sherweb, but I'm not sure)

Then, I downloaded my free copy of Outlook 2007 (that's a great bonus, by the way) from Sherweb. I pointed my outlook 2007 to the sherweb server, and I was set. At this point, my Outlook had 2 data files, my old one, stored on my computer, and the new one, that was a mirror of the one at Sherweb. I think I did copy some of current items from my old outlook data file to the new one at this point, although I could access the old outlook data file kind of like an archive.

Then I setup active sync (I'm still on XP) to sync to an exchange server. Then I setup a new partnership on the phone to sync to activesync on my PC via USB. At this point, the phone got the settings for the exchange server from my PC, and from then on, the phone syncs calendar, tasks, contacts, and email directly to the sherweb exchange server.

The usb Activesync is still used to sync my SmartphoneNotes, IE favorites, and media. I can also use Activesync on my computer to setup which email folders to sync (besides the main inbox). Once the email folders are set, my activesync on the phone syncs those folders directly with the Sherweb server.

So, basically, my outlook on the computer still works the same, except that the data file is mirrored from my computer to the Exchange server hosted by Sherweb. My phone syncs data directly with the Sherweb server too. In the 9 months I've been with them, I've had one day when the service was not working properly for my phone. I think that is pretty good, much better than I got with wireless sync. I often get emails on my phone before I get them on my pc. If my internet connection on my pc has problems, I can still access the data on my computer, and then when the connection is restored, it performs a sync to update everything.

As a bonus, using exchange 2007, I can get html email on my phone.

The only thing I would change is to have my Notes synced wireless too - but with wm6 standard, I don't think that is possible.

Hope this helps ....

rudeboy · 10-30-2008, 03:47 PM

can we go back to WS ?

jasoraso · 10-30-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by rudeboy

can we go back to WS ?

Sorry, RB -

If there are any more hosted exchange questions, let's address them here:
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/mot...web-28543.html

but RB, I was answering here, cause I really want to persuade you to switch to hosted exchange too ....

Oh - and wireless sync did have one cool thing where it would parse emails and when I made a reservation for a flight, it would automatically add it to the calendar ...

Regarding the icons - which ones are you referring to? The sync arrows on the top bar?

rudeboy · 10-30-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jasoraso

Sorry, RB -

If there are any more hosted exchange questions, let's address them here:
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/mot...web-28543.html

but RB, I was answering here, cause I really want to persuade you to switch to hosted exchange too ....

Oh - and wireless sync did have one cool thing where it would parse emails and when I made a reservation for a flight, it would automatically add it to the calendar ...

Regarding the icons - which ones are you referring to? The sync arrows on the top bar?

it's alright... and yes there is a thread started by you. thanks for linking that.

i mean right when you open WS, those icons... i thought you could enlarge them, and yea the syncing arrows are very very tiny (even with my contacts in..)

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