Managing contacts

[daiver]

I've tried using Outlook to manage contacts, but when I export them back into the phone, it does not recognize mobile, home, and work phones as I entered them in Outlook.

Is there a better way to manage contacts?

[GordonShowers]

I use Oxygen Phone Manager because I didn't like the way that the phone synced with Outlook at all. BUT it is not free!!

The link is here: http://www.opm-2.com/Symbian/

It stores all the details for each contact with exactly the same field names as in the phone itself.

I really rate it, but you will have to decide for yourself if it is good value or not!

[daiver]

Thanks, I will check it out.

[kontraband]

Originally Posted by daiver

I've tried using Outlook to manage contacts, but when I export them back into the phone, it does not recognize mobile, home, and work phones as I entered them in Outlook.

Is there a better way to manage contacts?

why not? It should do... mine does.??

[daiver]

I tried Oxygen and I can't get the N95 to connect. I read on another forum that other people are also having this problem.

kontraband, for some reason the "Home phone" field in Outlook gets copied to the phone as a "Cell Phone".

[GordonShowers]

Originally Posted by daiver

I tried Oxygen and I can't get the N95 to connect. I read on another forum that other people are also having this problem.

Have you installed the "OPM Agent" sis file on your phone? You must connect in "PC Suite" mode when you connect the USB cable, then run the OPM Agent app on your phone. Let me know if it still doesn't work, I may be able to help further.

Originally Posted by daiver

kontraband, for some reason the "Home phone" field in Outlook gets copied to the phone as a "Cell Phone".

And a lot of other little issues. For example, I change some of the labels for my phone numbers (for example, "Support" or "Sales"). These all get lost. Also, setting more than one mobile for a contact (personal & work mobiles for example) causes syncing problems.

Although the Outlook syncing will be fine for most people......

[kontraband]

Originally Posted by daiver

I tried Oxygen and I can't get the N95 to connect. I read on another forum that other people are also having this problem.

kontraband, for some reason the "Home phone" field in Outlook gets copied to the phone as a "Cell Phone".

Oh,strange... is everything up to date as it can be? (out of interest)

[daiver]

I see what you mean. I tried installing the agent on the N95, but I get the error "Installation not supported". Quite strange.

[daiver]

Originally Posted by kontraband

Oh,strange... is everything up to date as it can be? (out of interest)

I have Outlook 2007 and latest firmware on the phone.

[Mithent]

Originally Posted by daiver

I see what you mean. I tried installing the agent on the N95, but I get the error "Installation not supported". Quite strange.

I've never used the software in question, but considering the error and the list of phones that the software supports, it looks like you have the wrong Agent - one that's designed for S60 v1/2, for example.

[GordonShowers]

Yes Mithent, I think you're right.

The latest agent for the N95 is called "OPMAgent_S60_3_0_v_3_6ss.sis".

Note that it is NOT the one called "OPMAgent_Series60.sis".

[kontraband]

yup yup... any good now?

[ph7]

After some testing with Outlook, Nokia Contacts Editor and Thunderbird Plug-in for Nokia sync, unfortunately the only reliable way to edit a contact of the phone from the PC is Nokia Contacts Editor or just a plain Text editor with Unicode support.

The problem is that they all implement the vCard interface differently.

Try this:
Make a dummy contact on the phone.
Fill ALL available fields, with distinct names/numbers that you can remember.
For example for the 6 available phones use numbers from 1 to 6.

Sync (export) the contacts to Outlook or to any other supported option.
Copy them also straight to a pc folder.

If you open that dummy contact to Outllook you'll see that the phone numbers are not right!!! Or if you import a saved vCard to Thunderbird; the same result.

Everybody have their own idea about a vCard format
I'm not sure which is to blame.

But sadly now I use just Textpad to mass-update my contacts!!

[daiver]

I didn't try the other agen because I don't have it and I've been incredibly busy these past couple of days.

I just saw that the Nokia suite has a contact manager. I'll try that and see how it goes.