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Sync Old SMS

Hi,

I'm in the same boat too ... more around saving / syncing SMS -- I dont know what the skydrive offers ... if it allows syncing SMS to and from it or to move to another account.

But as an alternative I'm now sycing my phone to to my exchange 2010 service (office 365) -- which works great. However, it only syncs new SMS after the partnership has been setup. I dont seem to find a way to move the old SMS to my account.

I thought about using Jeyo to drag and drop ... but it doesnt save the SMS in the new form view that Outlook 2010 supports... so the icon doesnt match an SMS etc.

Has anyone got any other ideas?

Cheers.

SMS Sync (or I will say complete Mobile Sync) is now a known issue since M$ declared to stop its My Phone service, as My Phone service was a great solution form M$ for complete mobile "Sync" (NOT Backup, we have many backup solutions, but no Complete Sync solution yet).

I dont think we have any other free Cloud Sync for mobile that offer SMS yet. We have Google Sync which is a good service from Google (after Microsoft Licensed ActiveSync to Google and started loosing all Sync market ) but still does not support SMS yet .

Now a days we have several other FREE Cloud Based Services like Sugersync, DropBox, Amazon Cloud Drive and bit of Sky Drive but these are for general purpose sync only. Infact SugerSync offer a bit of Mobile documents but not SMS .

Lets hope some provider will include SMS soon, till then we need to depend on Backup & Restore ONLY (I hate to backup & restore but no other choice now.)

Thanks.

Alternative

Though in my opinion not quite as good as myphone the mIQ backup seems to be a decent alternative. Any views on it anyone ?

markthomson1404 said:

Though in my opinion not quite as good as myphone the mIQ backup seems to be a decent alternative. Any views on it anyone ?

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This seems to be promising and all good so far . So now I can use MyPhone to get all my stuffs from MS and Sync to m:IQ . Great.
We need to see how the sync is working for all supported components like 2 way sync for all components...

Can mIQ be scheduled to sync just once per week at a particular time? I couldn't find that explicit detail in their faq.

jb789 said:

Can mIQ be scheduled to sync just once per week at a particular time? I couldn't find that explicit detail in their faq.

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There doesn't seem to be any option for setting a schedule for the automatic sync option

m:IQ Contacts Sync is not working... and I have informed to Dev team of the products hope they will work on that...

markthomson1404 said:

Though in my opinion not quite as good as myphone the mIQ backup seems to be a decent alternative. Any views on it anyone ?

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Just started trying this, seems to be quite a good alternative. I only used MyPhone periodically to do a back up before a flash or something, so it meets my needs perfectly. Plus the possibility to transfer everything to an android rom if I switch is even better!


Things which would improve the M:IQ service:
- Remove the following WEB limit on messages and call logs:
"Although m:IQ backs up all your text messages and call logs, the website is currently limited to the 100 most recent calls and messages." Apparently this is temporary (and they are still stored if you need to restore them).
- 1st sync should check with the user what settings to use beforehand (i.e. if you want photos and videos synced)
- Selectable schedule for sync (rather than continuously/manual only)
- Selectable folders for photo/video backup (perhaps option only to sync these when on wifi only rather than a data plan...)
Apparently it looks in these folders only for Windows Mobile (My Pictures, My Videos, DCIM)
- Option to back up/restore to a file (for those of us who'd like to make a CD copy from time to time).

Anyway, from reading the site, it seems like a great service and it looks like they are keen to improve it (they have list of known issues it seems - although I've noticed some of them are already fixed!).

Good luck to them, everyone switching over from MyPhone will hopefully help them (assuming more users == more funding for them!).

Another thing I have noticed is the HTC facebook contact links are stored, which suggests that should work ok.

Should also be able to find out if the calender duplicates are caused from MyPhone or outlook (I suspect the latter, although it was obviously a known issue since the MyPhone site had specific options for removing duplicates...classic MS fix there...rather than stopping them being created in the first place...).

markthomson1404 said:

There doesn't seem to be any option for setting a schedule for the automatic sync option

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meltwater said:

...Things which would improve the M:IQ service:
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- Selectable schedule for sync (rather than continuously/manual only)
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Their help page says:

To control synchronization-related settings, you'll need to open the m:IQ Mobile client on your phone, and hit Settings or Items to Sync, where you can control what gets synced, how frequently sync happens, whether or not you'd like to override default privacy settings, and a host of other options.

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I won't have a chance to try MIQ for a while, but this implies you can select more than just continuous or manual sync, right?

I almoust never used marketplace anyway. all I ever needed is here Myphone- thanks no.

This is total crap. I bought my HD2 the day they were released with a 2 year contract, and before my contract is even up MS is already discontinuing built in services?!

I can't move to a new phone yet and am still on the fence as to what OS to go to. As of right now Android is not an option due to having no Garmin or TomTom apps. Their built in navigation is worthless in some of the areas i end up with no signal.

Many (of the few) available apps had moved to only being distributed via Marketplace. Are they going to reappear on a different site for cab / exe download?!