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From Palm OS to Android (Droid)

mbennum said:
FWIW, someone was asking about a scrabble app.
The closest thing is a game called WordWise, theres a free version, and the paid version is only $2 or something. Its pretty decent, its not perfect but they have been improving it quite a bit with each version.
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Have you looked at the permissions that thing wants? My gps location, network connectivity, contact data, account information, the ability to make phone calls, running apps! It even wants access to my google login userid and password.

No way a game needs all these accesses, and no way I trust the developer enough to grant it these accesses. Maybe I'm paranoid, but no one gets my google log in info without a damn good reason.
 
dbvirago said:
Biggest stumbling block is PIM. Sync Outlook with phone should have been a no brainer. Everything doesn't need to be in the cloud.
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I don't know what device you're using, but the htc email client on the Evo syncs to Exchange just fine. So does the Touchdown app i the market. htc sync allows you to sync to your desktop outlook app.
 
Another convert from Palm to Android. I use Cardio Trainer to record biking and walking miles, time, calories, etc. Also can upload to a server while you are recording them, and view on your computer using the special code that shows up when you go to Settings on the app. Also keeps a running total.
I used to use Splash Money on the palm, which synced to my computer to record banking transactions, and they do not have an Android app, so I just use the desktop portion. Still would like to find one. I use Ewallet for my passwords, the only drawback is you can't sync both ways, the one on the Android is only a viewer for now, but it has certainly saved me quite a few times.
 
I have a Treo 680 which currently holds data (phonebook, todo, calendar, etc) that I have been transfering from Palm OS device to Palm OS device. I don;t like the new Palm phones and would like to purchase an HTC EVO. My concern is transferring ALL my information. Is there a way to do this, seamlessly? Thanks
 
pavito said:
I have a Treo 680 which currently holds data (phonebook, todo, calendar, etc) that I have been transfering from Palm OS device to Palm OS device. I don;t like the new Palm phones and would like to purchase an HTC EVO. My concern is transferring ALL my information. Is there a way to do this, seamlessly? Thanks
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I'd suggest reading through this thread thoroughly.

There's not one SINGLE way to do it, but several different ways to get contacts, calendar, and notes to transfer. I did it from my 680 last December and haven't looked back.
 
pavito said:
I have a Treo 680 which currently holds data (phonebook, todo, calendar, etc) that I have been transfering from Palm OS device to Palm OS device. I don;t like the new Palm phones and would like to purchase an HTC EVO. My concern is transferring ALL my information. Is there a way to do this, seamlessly? Thanks
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I still have my 680 on standby. It's such a nice little machine, and still does stuff my Android doesn't. :o If you're interested, I wrote a lengthy review way back when, but that's based on Android v1.5 so it may not be all that accurate any more.

What I did was this:
Calendar - I manually created all future appointments (idn't recreate past appointments)
Contacts - This took me a couple of evenings. First I created a Google Contact entry with everything, and exported it to csv. I then exported all my contacts from Palm Desktop and "massaged" that csv (using a lot of regex search&replace) until the format matched, and then I imported that into Google. Mind you, only about half the fields are supported for import/export; things like birthdays and anniversaries have to be entered by hand. :(
 
My old Palm is still working:). My major application is a mileage tracker for both business and personal, and also when i do maintenance for income tax purposes. This has saved me valuable time at income tax time for several years. The program is called Quickmile from quickmile.com. I can track start stop and give each trip a destination name. I can even export to excel spreadsheet and compile by month. Ive been checking some of the apps out I don't need gps to tell me how far i've gone. but to be able to have a conduit to excel is invaluable. does anybody have a simple app for android no of anything coming down the pipe
 
scrollsaw said:
My old Palm is still working:). My major application is a mileage tracker for both business and personal, and also when i do maintenance for income tax purposes. This has saved me valuable time at income tax time for several years. The program is called Quickmile from quickmile.com. I can track start stop and give each trip a destination name. I can even export to excel spreadsheet and compile by month. Ive been checking some of the apps out I don't need gps to tell me how far i've gone. but to be able to have a conduit to excel is invaluable. does anybody have a simple app for android no of anything coming down the pipe
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No, but now you brought it up, I'll be looking for one. and tie it into the GPS and track automatically, and you could fill in the details once a week.
 
Looked at several today. GPS driven apps should be best, but if you can't grab a satellite, it's a waste of time. One of the ones where you enter mileage forced you to enter starting and ending mileage at same time. Finally ended up with these two. Both worked fine. Kept Mileage Tracker just because I liked the log format better. Also exports to CSV file on SD, which could be loaded into Docs to Go or copied to PC.

Mileage Tracker
VR Mileage Tracker

Mileage Ledger
 
Hi:

I have a Samsung Moment but use my T/X everyday. My sister has a blackberry and uses her T/X everyday for her real estate business. She's a heavy user of Palm Desktop 6.2, syncing wirelessly with Windows 7. She's finding that some of her calendar entries and appointments are disappearing so she'd like to back them up to outlook or google calendar or whatever.

Any recommendations for converting palm dba databases or successful conversion into other programs? It would be a great help to my sister.

I don't use Palm Desktop and NVbackup is working fine for me. My sister has an insane amount of calendar entries, appointments etc. She just wants to back it all up into different programs as a safety net.

Thanks,

Tom
 
thenrik said:
Hi:

I have a Samsung Moment but use my T/X everyday. My sister has a blackberry and uses her T/X everyday for her real estate business. She's a heavy user of Palm Desktop 6.2, syncing wirelessly with Windows 7. She's finding that some of her calendar entries and appointments are disappearing so she'd like to back them up to outlook or google calendar or whatever.

Any recommendations for converting palm dba databases or successful conversion into other programs? It would be a great help to my sister.

I don't use Palm Desktop and NVbackup is working fine for me. My sister has an insane amount of calendar entries, appointments etc. She just wants to back it all up into different programs as a safety net.

Thanks,

Tom
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I've had good luck with CompanionLink: USB sync Android phones with Outlook, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, ACT!, and Palm Desktop

Burt
 
One thing I have tremendous admiration for the old Palm is that her Outlook conduits handled recurring events extremely well.

For example, if you want to change the detail of an recurring event, it could remove all the exceptions you had before! And you need a tedious hack and this is still being overlooked even in Outlook 2010 (Removing Cancelled Appointments in Outlook 2007: How to Delete Future Events in Microsoft Outlook While Preserving Historic Appointments)

Also see this... http://social.answers.microsoft.com...t/thread/d29feb56-0863-4746-8ec8-41d4e59b7936

Somehow, the Outlook conduit does this automatically, you can change recurring events on Palm devices all you want and the conduit handled the nasty bits itself...

Not to mention the availability of Datebk6 (Video Sharing - Datebk6 Demo #1), whose functions overwhelmingly beat every other mobile calendar app out there.
 
Hello -- I just ordered an HTC EVO today. I have been a Palm user since the original Pilot in 1997. My most recent Palm was a Pre, but I used Classic for some oldskool Palm OS apps.

Is there anything on Android that even comes close to Pocket Quicken? I would be happy with .qif export since I know sync isn't possible. If there isn't an app with .qif export, what's the best checkbook register type app?

Thanks for any help!
 
I'm looking for an app that can assign different ringtones,sounds to emails, calendar events and text messages.

As far as I can tell you either have notifications on or off; no choice to have them on for calendar off for email or text messages.

:( Thanks for any help
 
Wow this looks like a great replacement for Treo devices...

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Motorola and Verizon's crazy portrait Droid Pro unveiled (update: specs!) -- Engadget

Even better than the CHARM.

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Someone said that with Note Everything you can privatize individual memos. If you privatize a memo, is there a way to seach for it?
 
wolong said:
Someone said that with Note Everything you can privatize individual memos. If you privatize a memo, is there a way to seach for it?
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You can encrypt Note Everything memos, not privatize them. When you do, words in the subject of the memo will show up in searches, but not words in the body (because it's encrypted).
 
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Someone said that with Note Everything you can privatize individual memos. If you privatize a memo, is there a way to seach for it?
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You can encrypt Note Everything memos, not privatize them. When you do, the subject of the memo will show up in searches, but not the body (because it's encrypted).
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Well, Thanks, but that wont work for me. Palm memos don't have a Subject field. So, if exported into Note Everything, there will be nothing to search on for the encrypted memos.
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