BlackBerry Curve 8300
Syncing with Outlook
I am considering the Curve after coming from the Blackjack. One thing that works well with Windows Mobile is Active Sync. It does a great job of syncing my appointments, tasks and contacts. Can I expect the same with the Blackberry Desktop software.
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I'm new to Blackberry, but I have had no problems at all syncing with Outlook and I sync several times a day. It does a great job. I have everything from contacts, to tasks, to meetings, to grocery lists in there and it syncs seamlessly every time.
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Got the Curve and had one big glitch syncing. After doing a sync to get all of my contacts into the Curve the address book would not search or sort properly. For instance, when you typed a "d" to get to Doug, the list would disappear. Anything after "d" had this problem. If you typed "b" to get to Bob you would get to the b's but type "bo" and everything disappears again.
I spent hours on this and the only fix was to go in and re-save each record and then it would work. Very odd and since I have over 700 addresses this took a loooooong time.
At any rate all is well now. If I enter a new contact in Outlook and sync it into the Curve it work the it should.
Once past all of that, things have gone well. I am find that these Blackberry p...
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I spent hours on this and the only fix was to go in and re-save each record and then it would work. Very odd and since I have over 700 addresses this took a loooooong time.
At any rate all is well now. If I enter a new contact in Outlook and sync it into the Curve it work the it should.
Once past all of that, things have gone well. I am find that these Blackberry p...
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Hmm, I didn't have this issue at all. But I only have just over 100 contacts so I'm wondering if possibly your Curve was still 'digesting' all 700 contacts when you were trying to get to a specific contact (if you tried it immediately after syncing). I have noticed a slight lag sometimes when it is organizing calendar information that I synched. I'm just thinking that if each of your 700 contacts had nearly every field completed (name, multiple phone #s, addresses, company, multiple emails, etc.) it might take the device several minutes to sort and populate each field properly before being able to accurately display requested information. Just a thought, at least you have it working now.
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