Contact Sync! OggSync for Windows Mobile and Outlook 4.0 Beta Moves to Public Beta Testing
We thank those users who helped us out during the private beta test of OggSync. We have decided to move the beta to a full public beta. Before installing please backup your data and also uninstall previous versions of OggSync that you are running.
We’ve made a quick presentation that outlines some of the new features in OggSync Mobile 4.0, that is available here.
As mentioned before, the major new feature for OggSync 4.0 is contact sync. OggSync supports all of the Google Contact fields and will sync as many fields as it can to the mobile or office environment. OggSync preserves all data on both Google and Outlook sides. This means that if you have 20 email addresses for a contact in Google, OggSync will sync as many as it can to Outlook or the Device, but preserve the extra information in Google when data is synced back from Outlook.
We also are pleased to announce a major change in the way we support Microsoft Outlook. OggSync now runs as a system tray application in version 4.0 with a start at windows bootup and autosync feature so that you are always in sync.
As always, OggSync supports Multiple Google calendars to multiple Outlook calendars (with either a combined view in a single Outlook calendar or spread or repeated to as many Outlook calendars as you wish). 4.0 also supports contact sync in the Desktop.
We know that contact sync has been the major feature request and OggSync is proud to be the first product with real Google Contact sync. Just like with Multiple Google calendar sync, we very much want to be the innovator for features you want as fast as we can deliver them.
If you have any issues with the beta, please make all report to support@oggsync.com.
Thank you!
I did not pass registration. I enter correct login and password.
OS: Windows Mobile 6.0
Glofiish x500.
Thanks!
[From OggSync: Can you check the faq, and try the Google unlock page from your device just before logging in?]
Comment by aam — March 27, 2008 @ 2:20 amPerhaps I’m jumping the gun, but the link to OggSync 4.06 BETA for Outlook currently isn’t working.
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The requested URL /desktop/OggSyncOutlook406.exe was not found on this server.
[From OggSync - We’ve updated the link, sorry.]
Comment by Ben Humphry — March 27, 2008 @ 2:52 amSelling the “BETA” version, with “…a few open issues”??? Wow.
[From OggSync: We are selling the stable version. There is a beta group for non-subscribers mentioned below.]
Comment by Gym — March 27, 2008 @ 5:18 amThanks guys! This is huge!
Comment by Morghus — March 27, 2008 @ 11:44 amThanks !!! This thing is working pretty well on my Samsung i780 !
Comment by zlebandit — March 27, 2008 @ 5:37 pmI was part of the private beta group and improvements are really great.
Contacts sync well, options for syncing are really intelligent (only sync contacts with names for example) and really helpfull for users.
I’ve been using oggsync for a long time now, I’m a happy user of the Pro version, and my wife too !
Keep on this good work.
Regards
installed it, but it did not work on my XV 6800 . went to logon, and it stated Google Timeout.
so no luck! o well maybe when the full version releases
[OggSync: We think this is related to the Google outage.]
Comment by wdts tech vzw — March 27, 2008 @ 7:39 pminstalled it, but it did not work on my dopod D600, wm5.0. went to logon, and it stated Google Timeout.
so no luck! o well maybe when the full version releases
[OggSync: We think this is related to the Google outage.]
Comment by ddddtttt — March 28, 2008 @ 9:12 amWorks well on my vx6800. Contact sync always says that I have 6 new in Outlook. Doesn’t seem to change the totals. Hmmmm.
[OggSync: These represent contacts that Google is reporting as conflicts. We are working on options to merge these.]
Comment by Jon — April 2, 2008 @ 1:42 amHi guys
Great product, had been using a free alternative but this appears more fully featured. Purchased a licence and using the new beta now.
Had a few initial issues with duplicating all my google contacts but got it sorted in the end!!
One little feature that would be fantastic, can you perhaps add a feature to allow birthdays to be synced also, perhaps as a custom field on google like “Bday 28-03-1981″ or such? Would be a perfect solution once that is done, means i can use google as my primary contact backup store for OTA data recovery in case of phone meltdown
Comment by Colin — April 3, 2008 @ 10:41 amInstalled the 4.07 beta yesterday. Then exported all my Google contacts, and then deleted them from Google. After that, I synced my AT&T Tilt, and everything went perfectly. I didn’t want to deal with conflicts for the first sync, so that’s why I backed up and deleted first. Besides my phone is more up to date than my Google contacts anyway.
Thanks for the new features guys. Lovin’ it.
Comment by Jason — April 7, 2008 @ 4:50 pmI have pro version and it works perfectly while i use Wifi connection.
But if i use it through WAP (Vodaphone France SFR) i have a “google timeout” error !
I have CF .NET 3.5 to run Oggsync.
And same problem with the non Beta version.
can Oggsync actually work without a DATA Plan and only a WAP GPRS connection ?
[OggSync: The issue is https. Google requires this to connect which is good for security, however WAP networks don’t always allow it. I suspect this is your issue.]
Comment by guigui42 — April 10, 2008 @ 9:08 amStill loving this software!!! Whenever I sync my calendar on my mobile phone, all my appts. show up as free. This never happened on ver. 3.21. Am I missing something?
[OggSync: Yes we did remove the reminders for all day events in 3.07. We will add those back in the next release.]
Comment by Rich — April 15, 2008 @ 2:55 pmIt caused my Mogul to reset and stop booting at the Windows Mobile screen. Had to do a hard reset. Not a happy camper. This after I paid for the Pro version
[OggSync: Responded to your email. Did you check the free memory on your phone? Did you try taking the battery out and rebooting before the hard reset? How much free memory did you have? We’ve had one other user say that rebooting was a problem. They were able to reboot after removing the battery although OggSync doesn’t auto-start at boot time unless you put a link in the startup folder, and I understand you were still using the free version for this, right? Our only guess is that it might be related to a large calendar and/or contact database after the sync?]
Comment by David Hogan — April 21, 2008 @ 7:11 pmWhen is 4.0 for WM coming out of beta? Please provide an ETA.
Comment by Pete — April 23, 2008 @ 6:50 pmThe Google calendar sync’ing works great. I’ve used it for several months.
The Google contacts sync’ing has the potential to provide a huge improvement to my workflow. This along with Zindus for Thunderbird will let me have common contacts on my PDA/cell phone with Outlook Mobile, on the GMail website, in Thunderbird, and in Outlook (which I like only because it has nicer options for printing my contacts.)
However, I have a few issues with OggSync’s contact syncing. I should have done what Jason did and first backed up my contacts and then delete them everywhere, but I wanted to automatically get the union of all contacts from all my sources. So after the first OggSync run, I ended up with tons of duplicates: “John Doe” and “Doe, John” didn’t seem match & merge with each other. I would have been nice if these were detected and merged, but that’s ok, I just went in and manually deleted the ones I didn’t want on GMail.
But the next time I sync’ed with OggSync from my PDA, OggSync added back all the contacts that I had deleted! I noticed that happening and pressed the “Stop” button and the text changed to “Stopping…” but it never stopped syncing, and continued to add back all my contacts.
Secondly, I couldn’t get the Outlook version to work at all. I kept getting errors saying “Contract retrieval google timeout (Pro)” every time I tried to sync. Any pointers?
Thanks, I’m really looking forward to using this!
Comment by Conrad — April 23, 2008 @ 10:41 pmHi!
I am a user of OggSync 4.0. My question: Is it planned to sync Outlook “Tasks” and “Notes”. This feature would be very helpfull for me.
Thank, Peter from Germany
Comment by Peter Haberaecker — April 25, 2008 @ 1:50 am