-----Original Message-----
From: Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:33 AM
To: info@yiapap.com
Subject: An end to my misery!

Dear Persistent one,

Many thanks for putting an end to the pain in my arse. I have spent four months and have tried the TDK and 3COM dongles trying to get this forward/backward technology to work. I’m too much of a sucker to wait until it’s properly broken in to buy it – I paid £500 for one of the first HP, PC CD burners what a piece of crap! I made about 150 beer mats and spent another 3 months before they gave me my money back for the burner - and the discs would you believe.

Some more useful information for you though. Having followed your instructions to the letter, I have still had some (small amount) of system instability. Various modules of XTND crash on occasion and pop up the usual window asking me if I would like to tell Uncle Bill all about it. This used to happen every time I ran the application until I found your solution – that was when the program actually found the phone via the serial port that is. The synchronisation would get to about 25-30 records in and then die. I did wonder if this occurred when Outlook did its ferret for email on my cable modem; but I’ve tried it out with Outlook closed and the same thing happens. I put this down to the crappy Sony Ericsson software and the fact that my machine is not one of the five mainstream manufacturer’s PCs that they platform tested. The one I’m running is the ‘Package_4_for_Ericsson_PFW_version_R2A04’. Any news on how to streamline my almost perfect world?

I’m going for gold tomorrow and attempting to - get this – synchronise an IPAC 3870 on Bluetooth as well using the enclosed Activesync 3.5! Thursday I thought I might well negotiate a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine and teach George W Bush to sit the right way round on the lavatory. One has to aim high to get anywhere these days.

Many thanks again for your help.

Cheers,

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Yiannis
Sent: 21 August 2002 09:05
To: paul@co.uk
Subject: RE: An end to my misery!

Ah yes, the ol' "this sounds cool let's go out and buy it" mentality! I know EXACTLY what you mean- just bought a €500 DVD writer so that I can spend 16 hours straight getting my (digital) camera videos encoded and burned in a DVD, only to discover that my Home DVD player is:

i.unable to play them

ii.plays small parts and only when I leave the room

iii. dislikes the DVD menus

iv. makes his (?) own menu choices whenever possible

Anyway that's a whole different story.

Now to the point:

I have had a few emails from people with the same/similar problems. Here are a few things you can try:

1. Close all running applications before synchronising ESPECIALLY if connected to a network

2. Synchronise stuff one at a time (Contacts/Tasks/Calendar)

3. Use the overwrite options unless absolutely necessary i.e. choose Outlook overwrites Phone or vise versa.

4. The first time you try to synchronise, reduce the number of items to be synchronised i.e. if you have 100 contacts, move 80 of them to a 2nd Contacts folder, synchronise with only 20 items. Then move items 21~40 back, 41~60 etc.etc

5. Convert to Buddhism and accept you fate

Please tell me if any of the suggestions work for you.

Thanks for your email.

rgds,

Yiannis

PS. Could I post your email in the users' comments (Updates section)?

Dear Yiannis,

Hi, I have just moved house and so don’t have as much time as I would like. I will respond to your email fully when I can. It gave me a good laugh though. Of course you may use my email on your site. I’m glad there are people as persistent as you around to help keep people as tense as me from being jailed for acts of senseless violence against hardware and software ‘helpline’ operatives.

As an aside, my useless philosophy is to use ‘advanced’ technology to organise myself and my business. What I really need is to spend all the money I spend on this half-developed (as you describe it perfectly : "this sounds cool let's go out and buy it") crap, and to actually employ someone to organise it. One day I’ll actually take some notice of that quote by Caius Petronius.

Buddhism sounds like the one though. I’ve had my eye on it for a while.

I’ll send more complete comments on my plans to have the C.O. of Sony Ericsson killed in his bed in my next email.

Cheers,

Paul

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