How can outwit Microsoft and Windows Phone 8 sync without cloud
Smartphones are increasingly becoming the useful work equipment and draw as before the PCs in households a. In addition to Apple's iPhone and many smartphones from various manufacturers with Android from Google is now available as a third platform Windows Phone 8 Microsoft. The most important representative of Windows Phone 8 is Nokia with its new Lumia family. What's to keep the Lumia 820 and Windows Phone 8 in daily use? This review discusses strengths and hidden defects in daily use and shows how you can outwit Microsoft and the cloud madness.
The new Lumia 820 from Nokia has an attractive hardware. It comes with free worldwide navigation and free Microsoft Office package with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The hardware is excellent and there is nothing to criticize. Windows Phone 8 (WP8) is in principle also fantastic. It is clear, self-explanatory and runs absolutely smoothly. But it still has teething problems and problematic is the forced Microsoft access to the cloud. A trick you can but Microsoft outwit and 8 also synchronize Windows Phone without cloud with the home PC.
On the hardware side has the Lumia an attractive fully equipped: The dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz and backed by 1GB of RAM and 8GB of flash memory. The memory can be expanded with Micro-SDHC cards up to 64GB. To meet the standard Windows Phone 8, It is safer to use only Class 10 cards. The Lumia radios in all mobile radio standards including LTE and always on all frequency bands (that includes what is necessary in the US wireless and there a common LTE band). The Lumia has Bluetooth, NFC (Near Field Communication) and GPS. There is a high-quality 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and the smart phone can be charged inductively on a charging stand without cable. This requires as an accessory AC cover with charging function CC-3041 (EUR 20 in the colors red, blue, yellow, white and black) and the charging stand DT-910 (about 60 EUR in the colors black and white) or a Pallet DT-900 (about 45 EUR in the colors red, blue, yellow, white and black). The changes cover with charging function CC-3041 is slightly thicker than the withdrawn upon delivery Cover and protects thus equal to the camera from scratches. When the covers without charging function, the camera projects namely something out of the smartphone out and that's not good for scratches.
The inductive charging without plugging in a cable to the smartphone is very comfortable and easy on the Micro-USB connector. A smartphone bag must not be removed for charging also works through a bag through.
Unlike many other smart phones, the battery is replaceable.
In many test reports, the screen resolution of 800 by 480 pixels is viewed negatively. It should be noted that the Lumia has an excellent display with rich colors and deep blacks. I can see no interfering pixels. The screen resolution is easy on the processor, reduces power requirements and increases the battery life. I think it's excellent, and I am pleased that the Nokia electricity eating pixel mania of competitors does not follow.
The Limia 820 uses a micro-SIM card. Those who still have a SIM card, can this crop with a little courage and a pair of scissors to Micro-SIM card. On the Internet there are printable templates that you should stick to crop on its SIM card. I've had good experiences with it, hang up the template only on the SIM card and with a fine liner to drive around one third of the template, the other two thirds are already covered by the boundaries of the gold chip on the SIM card. Alternatively, you have to make a charge from its provider usually the SIM card change in a micro-SIM card.
The free services Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and the Microsoft Office suite with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint have real added value.
The most attractive are the Nokia Maps with directions and navigation. You can choose your home free of charge via Wi-Fi from over 140 countries his cards, download and store on your smartphone. Then you can offline with the integrated route planner compile their trips and navigate later by car or as pedestrians. The Lumia 820 is a fully-fledged navigation device and there are no data connection for navigation costs, even when traveling internationally. For the car navigation the charging plug is Nokia DC-20 (EUR 12, invites 1 A charging current) and the Nokia Universal Holder CR-123 (EUR 24, holds bombproof on the windshield) is recommended. Cheap charging plug with a charging current of less than 1 A are not recommended, you can use the Nokia insufficient charge when navigating. Nokia has announced to offer soon a car holder with inductive charging (CR-200 for 69 EUR). This breaks a new era in navigation without cable. The smartphone must be plugged only into the mount. Even the navigation starts automatically on the NFC chip, if you set it so.
With Nokia Music and Mix Radio over 100 pre-made music mixes can be heard free of charge online and stored for offline viewing on the Lumia. The number of offline to save mixes is limited to four. Per hour six songs can be skipped in any mix. It can also be an own music mix are compiled by specifying three favorite artists, and this mix is automatically supplemented by other artists. The Mix radio reverts to 15 million titles.
The Microsoft Office suite consists of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Thus files can be viewed directly from the computer, edited and saved. It may also be generated new files and further processed later on the computer. Some files are locked for editing on the Lumia, if they contain features that are not supported by the mobile version of the program.
If you have a Lumia 820 with a USB cable with Windows connects 8 operating system to a computer, it is recognized as a memory and can be copied using the File Manager files between the flash memory of the Lumia, the Micro SDHC card of Lumia and the computer. For computers running Windows 7 or lower the free program Windows Phone need to install it.
After so much beautiful things now come the defects and childhood diseases, which unfortunately (yet) have it in them. The large Portico update of January has not corrected these deficiencies and it is hoped that future updates still bring improvements here:
There is no file manager.
Only photos, music and videos can be stored on the Micro SDHC card. Other files like apps, office documents or the maps for navigation must be in flash memory of Lumias and is only 8 GB in size.
The Office package with Word, Excel and PowerPoint recognizes only files that are in the Documents directory in the flash memory. When you copy the subdirectories in the directory Documents, standing files are not recognized it. There is also no way to navigate in file structures within Word, Excel and PowerPoint. All files to be read must be copied to the Documents folder without sub-structure so that they can be opened from the office suite. This leads to a great disorder.
The Outlook from the Office package of Lumia is not identical to the Outlook from the Microsoft PC package. Both are wearing only the same name. Calendar, address book and e-mail applications look different. There is no weekly calendar. When the monthly calendar font size is half a millimeter. The writing is not legible and the calendar can not be zoomed.
The biggest problem for those who like to keep your personal information for themselves and not pass it on to an American company that is forced by Microsoft access to the cloud. Without cloud connectivity Windows Phones do not function properly and that is certainly intent. When setting up the Lumia you will be asked to set up a Windows Live account. The Windows Live account required you to download from the Windows Store apps and it no one will want to miss. In addition, the Lumia contact list and calendar is only available based account. With the Windows Live Hotmail account a calendar and a Hotmail contact list are automatically linked in the cloud and the Lumia provides for a calendar and a list ready to be synchronized with the cloud. If you then einspielt his contacts and his calendar in the Lumia, everything is copied with the greatest matter of course and without further inquiry into the cloud. Alternatively, you can indeed create other accounts that are also in the cloud such as Facebook, Twitter or a Microsoft Exchange account. There is no way to set up, calendar or contact list without cloud on the Lumia. Consequently there is also no way to synchronize Outlook from your PC via a USB cable with a calendar or contact list on the Lumia. This is certainly not an oversight by Microsoft and it is heavily criticized on the Internet.
But there is a trick on how to outwit Microsoft. A small American company has developed the program Acruto Sync for Windows Phone. The program is free of charge for seven days and then costs uniquely 15 euro. It simulates the domestic PC a Microsoft Exchange server. For these simulated server you can set up an account on the Lumia 820 and the Lumia flight provides a calendar and a list ready. Acruto Sync synchronizes the Lumia with the Outlook on the home PC via Wi-Fi without Internet access and without cloud. Lumia and PC must be located only on the same wireless network. During the installation of Acruto Sync an SSL certificate is transmitted and the Lumia connected to the PC via user name and password on the Lumia. After Acruto Sync must be running on the PC and if you now come into the range of the wireless network, detects Acruto sync the smartphone and synchronizes Lumia and PC. This works great. One should not forget to back up contacts and calendar on the PC as Outlook PST file, of course. A synchronization via USB, it will not give from today's perspective in the foreseeable future.
The Lumia 820 is in contact list and calendar data from different accounts together. It is expedient to give the threads for the simulated Microsoft Exchange Server account on the Lumia a self-explanatory name, eg Outlook ". Now if you create a new contact wants, always comes a window where you must select Hotmail "or Outlook". Here one must not specify accidentally Hotmail ", because then the contact was going back to the cloud and the contact would not Acruto sync with Outlook on your PC synchronized. The empty Hotmail address list and the empty Hotmail calendar can not be deactivated.
Finally, a tip on how to get out his contacts from Hotmail again, once they were there and then you have installed Acruto Sync:
- Go to the Hotmail account
Save contacts as a CSV file on PC -
- Contacts in Hotmail account to delete (so the contacts are also deleted from the Lumia, after four weeks of the deleted contacts from Hotmail Recycle Bin will be deleted and hopefully really gone)
Open CSV file with Notepad on PC and check that the file only contains a comma, if there are semicolons, such Search and replace with "be replaced by a comma -
- Assign the Outlook File / Open / Import / Import from other files or programs / Comma Separated Values (Windows) / user-defined fields (every German field Assign an English field)
- The contacts now appear in the new Lumia as contacts the Microsoft Exchange server
And now a last-ditch Note for Windows Live account. Many apps, and especially the free apps only work if one agrees that the manufacturer whereabouts and personal data are transferred from the Windows Live account. Therefore, it is advisable to enter a fictitious name with fictitious birthday when setting up the account. One must also know that the deletion of the Windows Live account that Lumia 820 automatically resets to factory defaults, all the apps and personal data will be lost. Windows Live account and Windows Phones are inseparable. You have to live and make the most of it or choose another operating system.
I think the Lumia 820 with Windows Phone 8 for an excellent smartphone and wish everyone a good working order!
