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Oct 11, 2009, 7:57 PM

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Transfering contacts to N900

Hi,

I just try to transfer my contacts from a SonyEricsson W810i to the
N900, The direct import via Bluetooth doesn't work. I have all the
contacts saved on my PC via Wammu. Is there any way to communicate from
a Linux PC with the N900, so I have all my contacts there?

I tried multisync0.90 as well. On the N900 a dialog for pairing
appeared, but multisync didn't show me the PIN code, so I wasn't able to
finish pairing.

Thanks,

Keywan

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Oct 12, 2009, 2:53 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

Hi Keywan,

Did you try to export as a CSV and "Import from file" on your N900?

I have a related question, I can't figure out how to get the phone to
sync contacts from a SyncML service. Anyone know what I need to do?

Cheers,
Dave.

Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just try to transfer my contacts from a SonyEricsson W810i to the
> N900, The direct import via Bluetooth doesn't work. I have all the
> contacts saved on my PC via Wammu. Is there any way to communicate from
> a Linux PC with the N900, so I have all my contacts there?
>
> I tried multisync0.90 as well. On the N900 a dialog for pairing
> appeared, but multisync didn't show me the PIN code, so I wasn't able to
> finish pairing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keywan
>

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Oct 12, 2009, 4:08 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

Hi Dave,

Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 11:53 +0200 schrieb Dave Neary:
> Did you try to export as a CSV and "Import from file" on your N900?

thank you for the hint. I synced my phone (SE w810i) with evolution
using multisync0.90 and then export the address book to Vcard. I send
this file via Bluetooth to the N900 and imported it there.

> I have a related question, I can't figure out how to get the phone to
> sync contacts from a SyncML service. Anyone know what I need to do?
>

Do you mean with phone another one or the N900. I used multisync0.90 and
syncml-obex-client. The phone was connect with an USB cable to my PC.

Regards,

Keywan

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hendrik at topoi

Oct 12, 2009, 6:09 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:57:52AM +0200, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just try to transfer my contacts from a SonyEricsson W810i to the
> N900, The direct import via Bluetooth doesn't work. I have all the
> contacts saved on my PC via Wammu. Is there any way to communicate from
> a Linux PC with the N900, so I have all my contacts there?

Just curious: for the N900 have the same (useless) contacts program as
the N800 came with? Or can you use GPE contacts and have it interface
cleanly to the phone?

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dneary at maemo

Oct 12, 2009, 9:17 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

Hi,

Dave Neary wrote:
> I have a related question, I can't figure out how to get the phone to
> sync contacts from a SyncML service. Anyone know what I need to do?

Answering my own question, I found this page on Google:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=14298

The S60 instructions appear to be compatible with my Nokia N900, which
doesn't appear to have a SyncML option that I can find, but
unfortunately, the process doesn't conclude successfully.

In the Mail for Exchange set-up wizard, I set the following values:

Email address: me [at] gmail
User name: me [at] gmail
Password: MyGr8P4sswd (Oops! accidental cleartext)
Domain: Blank

<Next>

I get asked to open a wlan connection, which I do, and in the next page
I put in:

Server: m.google.com
Port: 443
Secure connection: Yes.

But in this screen, when I hit next, the connection just times out, and
I get an error message.

Any hints & tips from people for whom this works?

Cheers,
Dave.

PS. /me sees a need for "moving your old data to your new device" wiki
page, with different methods for different old phones & desktops.

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:34 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 14:09, <hendrik [at] topoi> wrote:
>
> Just curious: for the N900 have the same (useless) contacts program as
> the N800 came with? �Or can you use GPE contacts and have it interface
> cleanly to the phone?

The Contacts app on Maemo 5 is pretty damned good, IME.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:48 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

Hi,
For me it just worked to sync between my Nokia E75 and N900, 30 min
after I got it at Maemo Summit I had all my contacts and my calendar
in N900.
Regards,
Ove

2009/10/12 Andrew Flegg <andrew [at] bleb>:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 14:09, �<hendrik [at] topoi> wrote:
>>
>> Just curious: for the N900 have the same (useless) contacts program as
>> the N800 came with? �Or can you use GPE contacts and have it interface
>> cleanly to the phone?
>
> The Contacts app on Maemo 5 is pretty damned good, IME.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:56 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> The Contacts app on Maemo 5 is pretty damned good, IME.

Just wondering if you found any way to filter contacts and create
user-defined groups?

I have rather more contacts on the phone than average, I suspect -
around 3500. They're mostly email-only, so they don't show up in the
phone app. Nevertheless it does slow down the contacts app & make it
harder for me to find That Special Someone - like "favourites" in
Android, if you're familiar with that.

Cheers,
Dave.

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peter at petertheplumber

Oct 12, 2009, 10:09 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:39 +0200
Dave Neary <dneary [at] maemo> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > The Contacts app on Maemo 5 is pretty damned good, IME.
>
> Just wondering if you found any way to filter contacts and create
> user-defined groups?
>
> I have rather more contacts on the phone than average, I suspect -
> around 3500. They're mostly email-only, so they don't show up in the
> phone app. Nevertheless it does slow down the contacts app & make it
> harder for me to find That Special Someone - like "favourites" in
> Android, if you're familiar with that.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>

FWIW I found out the other day that ctrl-f lets me search the entire
GPE Contacts database for a string. It works with other apps as well,
but not all. I still use an n810 so I don't know if that will work for
you. Finally someone with a bigger address book than I ;)

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andrew at bleb

Oct 12, 2009, 10:22 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 17:56, Dave Neary <dneary [at] maemo> wrote:
>
> Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> The Contacts app on Maemo 5 is pretty damned good, IME.
>
> Just wondering if you found any way to filter contacts and create
> user-defined groups?

You can filter to groups, or by typing and it filters. However,
user-defined groups are specifically out-of-scope according to the
Collabora developers at the "Maemo 5 Address Book" session on
Saturday.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Nov 30, 2009, 2:40 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

> unfortunately, the process doesn't conclude successfully.

Same here - the "Mail for Exchange: First synchronisation" screen just hangs, with the
progress bars filled up, but neither the
"Finish" or "Next" buttons active.
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Dec 1, 2009, 2:06 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

>> unfortunately, the process doesn't conclude successfully.
>
> Same here - the "Mail for Exchange: First synchronisation" screen just hangs, with the
> progress bars filled up, but neither the
> "Finish" or "Next" buttons active.

Yeah, and unfortunately updating firmware 2009.42-11 did not fix it :(

I tried to google and I found a discussion about this problem but with
different mobile device. So may be it's not related to N900 in
particular?

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Dec 1, 2009, 2:22 AM

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Re: Transfering contacts to N900 [In reply to]

Google sync is not officially supported.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35136

Regards,
mustali (archebyte)

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Eugene Antimirov <turist [at] gmail> wrote:

> >> unfortunately, the process doesn't conclude successfully.
> >
> > Same here - the "Mail for Exchange: First synchronisation" screen just
> hangs, with the
> > progress bars filled up, but neither the
> > "Finish" or "Next" buttons active.
>
> Yeah, and unfortunately updating firmware 2009.42-11 did not fix it :(
>
> I tried to google and I found a discussion about this problem but with
> different mobile device. So may be it's not related to N900 in
> particular?
>
>
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