Why Do I Hate ActiveSync - Let me count the ways
Microsoft is on version 4.5 of ActiveSync, necessary for any phone/pda with Windows Mobile on it. After all of these years it still sucks. Granted, Palm’s sync is just as bad - it either works or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t there is no knowing how much time you will waste getting it to work.
My Verizon XV6700 phone all of a sudden showed “no service”. I could still get on the internet, though. So 2 hours later after tech support, clearing storage (and losing hours of configuration work that you cannot save) and uploading a newer firmware and OS build, it’s working again.
ActiveSync had been working off and on for months before this (the phone is less than 1 year old, my PC is a clean install of XP Pro just a few months ago).
Now after all of this I think the phone is working again, setup, configured, programs installed, hours wasted.
Then I realize I have only a fraction of my contacts on it. Turns out it is not synchronizing any contact with Notes included. That’s handy - NOT!
Google it and you will find out this is a widespread problem; with no fix. I uninstalled/reinstalled ActiveSync, did some registry & file cleanup after it, still didn’t work.
Finally, I set it to sync off of my Exchange Server directly instead of the PC. Now it works. Not everyone has that option.
Get with it Microsoft. ActiveSync is so widely used; totally proprietary - can’t do without it. Yet so many people have so many unanswered problems with it and so very little help available.
Is the iPhone this bad too?
