HELP! Need to get G1 Working or Dieter Will Kill Me!

[Dieter Bohn]

Originally Posted by Rene Ritchie

Er... Can has secondary/tertiary/etc. Gmail account? Can't find where to add multiple Googleness? Am I just missing something obvious?

(Not always intuitive what's hidden where, esp. menu button)

You can't have multiple google accounts -- you'll have to set up IMAP in the email client. Annoying, but it works.

[Dieter Bohn]

Originally Posted by Rene Ritchie

Gmail client is confusing the heck out of me. I accidentally deleted Crackberry Kevin's email, couldn't figure out how to undelete it (though I could unlabel it?), then succeeded only by spamming it, then couldn't unspam.

Moving back to the inbox took a while to find, and what's touch vs. what's hidden behind the menu button is near impenetrable to me so far.

Has anyone determined any conventions as to what does what? Any "rules" or an Android equivalent of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines?

LOL. Welcome to android, now in Beta, where the UI is different across each app.

You may want to check out our article on gmail shortcuts...

[Dieter Bohn]

Originally Posted by Rene Ritchie

I've always found Google Contacts to be the weak link, the chink in the Gmail armor of goodness, and Android is quickly re-affirming that belief. Unlike Exchange and MobileMe, where I have very complete listings for all my baseline contacts, the Gmail contacts are polluted by addresses I guess Google chose to remember but without encapsulating information (i.e. tons of No Names to scroll through). To top it off, many contacts are missing numbers, or don't have properly identified numbers, making it almost impossible to use Contacts as a way to, well, contact people.

Is there a better Contacts app available, third party maybe? Or some way to "clean" Google's truth store?

(To make matters worse, iSync in now throwing up all over itself adding and removing contact info, and it looks like I'll have to waste a bunch of time hand preening my master list. Google -- Beta is bad enough, fix this pre-Alpha!)

I'm not a fan of google contacts either, but once you give up being OCD with your contacts it's actually sort of nice -- you eventually just 'trust' it and let it be a little messy.

As for "scrolling through contacts," the only people that I know who do that sort of thing are iPhone users. Everybody else uses the keyboard to autosearch.

[Rene Ritchie]

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

Likely the IM client is the same as OZ on Windows Mobile in that it is partially SMS based. In other words, it will only work on T-Mobile.

Looks like it's time for you to go peruse the android market!

Ah, the power of an open system Thanks much. Can anyone recommend a killer IM app? I use AIM the most, but have MM and gTalk as well.

Funny gTalk isn't built in? Jabber should "just work"?

[Rene Ritchie]

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

You can't have multiple google accounts -- you'll have to set up IMAP in the email client. Annoying, but it works.

Interesting! I can't add additional Exchange accounts on the iPhone, but it seems to let me add additional MobileMe accounts, which kind of scares me, actually, as "sync is hard" and I don't see how multiple truth stores on MM would co-exist... though AS and MM seems to co-exist well enough...

Setting up other Gmail as IMAP now...

[Rene Ritchie]

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

LOL. Welcome to android, now in Beta, where the UI is different across each app.

You may want to check out our article on gmail shortcuts...

Bah! I have avoid shortcuts on the WebApp. This is the post-GUI, post-WIMP world, and I'm expected to use productivity enhancers like the... keyboard!

Will check out the article, thanks!

[Rene Ritchie]

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

I'm not a fan of google contacts either, but once you give up being OCD with your contacts it's actually sort of nice -- you eventually just 'trust' it and let it be a little messy.

As for "scrolling through contacts," the only people that I know who do that sort of thing are iPhone users. Everybody else uses the keyboard to autosearch.

Fie! I say thee Fie! I just spent an hour or so cleaning out tons of multiple contacts and other garbage. They really need to build a decent contact app.

Is there a Market alternative anyone could recommend?

(And, er... yeah, I remember typing for contacts. D'oh! -- but, for some reason, tons of my contacts are now un-identified, so I have to actually remember the number -- something I haven't done in years!)

[Rene Ritchie]

Okay, need to get my calendar working. I store all my work stuff in Exchange 2003, which I don't think provides iCalendar/ICS out, so that might be a no go?

My personal stuff is in iCal. Do I have to break down and get that syncing app, or can I just subscribe within gCal?

[Rene Ritchie]

So far: Exported from iCal as an ics and then imported into Google Calendar online.

Snoogins. Have Calendar on G1.

Won't sync with iCal, tho.

I also tried copying an iCal shared URL and subscribing in Google Calendar online, but was told it wasn't compatible...?

[Rene Ritchie]

Now have work Exchange (via IMAP), personal Gmail (via GMAIL), and TiPb Gmail (via IMAP) hooked up and working. Having two different mail apps is a little strange as I already think the iPhone severely lacks a unified inbox in its single app...

Calendar is up but not syncing.

I don't use tasks or notes much, but Apple Mail folders are there for my Mail.app todos, so that's working.

MAPS in now my challenge. How reliable is MAPS for everyone? So far its a bit of a bust for me. It pegs my house as a block too far south. My mother's house is showing up as 4 blocks too far west! Is this because I'm on EDGE in Canada? iPhone 2G jailbroken and unlocked was about like this and didn't even have GPS, so while I'm getting a blue dot, is it defaulting to Skyhook WiFi and Google cell mapping and just best guessing the dot?

Any ideas?

I need to get directions, but unless I'm lobbing artillery shells, I ain't gonna hit nothing like this