This article will take you through the steps to set up and sync your Windows Mobile device with a PC running Windows Vista.
Before you get too far into it, make sure that you meet the following requirements:
System Requirements
Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2007 are required for synchronization of e-mail, contacts, tasks and notes to your PC.
Supported Devices
As long as you have one of the above mentioned versions of Vista, and a mobile device/PDA running one of the above listed operating systems, you should have no problem setting everything up.
Setting Up the Windows Mobile Device Center in Vista
- When you plug your Windows Mobile device into a PC running Vista for the first time, you should be notified the device drivers are being installed, and eventually a window similar to the screenshot below will pop up. Just close this window if it appears.
- Navigate to your Control Panel and double-click the Windows Mobile Device Center icon. If it’s not there, don’t worry – just skip down to step 4.
- When opened, you can set a couple (not many) of the Windows Mobile device connection settings. Make sure at least one of the connection methods is enabled.
If you’re not presented with the window below (Connection Settings), scroll down and see if the window similar to the one in step 6 is displayed. If it is, that means you have the full Windows Mobile Device Center already installed, and can continue on at step 6.
- In order to sync your email, notes and calendar from Outlook, you’ll want to download Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Windows Vista. Save the file to your desktop (or any folder) and once the download has completed, run it.
- Follow the few installation steps (which mostly consist of clicking ‘Next’ a few times).
- Now go back to the Control Panel and double-click on the Windows Mobile Device Center. Make sure your Windows Mobile device is plugged in and the status is set to Connected. Click the Set up your device button.
- Select the elements you want to sync to your mobile device and then click Next.
- Give your device a name, and if you want to quickly access the Windows Mobile Device Center from your desktop, leave the Create a shortcut option selected. Click Set Up to continue.
- Your mobile device and PC will now start to synchronize.
- And once completed, you’ll be presented with the Device Center ‘home’ screen.
- You’ll know when your device is synchronizing by the small ‘green arrows’ system tray icon (very similar to the Active Sync icon you may have seen/used in previous versions of Windows).
- From the Windows Mobile Device Center ‘home’ screen you can change your device settings, upload and download files to/from your device etc. Select the Change content sync settings in the Mobile Device Settings window.
- Below you’ll see the options for changing the sync settings. Select the Sync Settings link in the E-mail section.
- From here you can customize exactly how you want your email to be synchronized. Make any changes you wish, and then click the Save button.
- Repeat step 13 but choose the Calendar settings. Again, make any changes you deem appropriate.
- Clicking Save will make the changes immediately.
Same problem as Mattia Filander 12.15.08 at 1:28 am and others. Elements to synchronise (contacts etc) each say ‘Outlook not installed’ when it is. Any workaround yet?
The OS for my PDA device is
Microsoft Pocket PC
Version 4.20.1081 (Build 13100)
Will this setup work with my HP device? It uses ActiveSync 3.7 to sync with Outlook 2003 on my desktop computer. The new laptop OS is Vista.
I have managed to connect my pocket PC “Samsung Omina i900″ with my computer using Vista 32 bit ultimate, but there is an error when sync with Outlook 2007. Any help?
William
When the error message appears on my system I hard reset my HTC TyTnII – seems to work!
Programma werkt perfect op een onderdeel na.
Iemand een idee hoe het komt dat als ik mijn e-mail in wil stellen ik de mappen niet te zien krijg als ik bij stap 14 de betreffende optie aanklik. Krijg alleen ongewenste e-mail en RSS kanalen te zien. Gekke is wel dat hij mail synchroniseerd alleen de verkeerde map ???
I have an old iPAQ. For years I’ve synced between two computers running XP. I just bought a Vista machine and now have to sync between a computer running XP and one running Vista. I’ve downloaded Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Windows Vista to the Vista machine. The device synced but it changed all my Word documents to pwi documents and all my Excel documents to pxi documents, none which open. How can I simply have the documents remain Word and Excel files?
il faut arrêter de dire que windows mobile 6 est super sur Vista.
Avec activsync on pouvait a volonté passer des fichier Word ou excel sur notre mobile. A présent c’est terminé.
Quant au transfert des fichiers adresses ou calendrier sur Outlook c’est une galère pour supprimer les doublons . Merci Microsoft.
Hej! Jag har följt alla instuktioner på den här sidan, men när jag synkar min X1 så ser allt bra ut tills det är klart, detta händer:
Telefon skärmen: åtgärd krävs (och inget överfördes)
Outlook 2007: det ända som överfördes från Mobile center var anteckningar.
(allt som man överför ska hamna i oulook eller hur?)
Mobile Divice center: Synk klar, anlsluten
Kort sagt: allt som överfördes till outlook var antekningar.
Hur kan Jag fixa detta?
PARABÉNS! Procurei muito até encontrar este blog. Tenho o Vista Home, um pda com win mobile 6.1 e o outlook 2003. Afinal o “win mobile device center que vem de origem, não sincroniza automaticamente o outlook com o pda! É necessário fazer o download e actualizar o controlador :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46f72df1-e46a-4a5f-a791-09f07aaa1914&displaylang=pt-br&Hash=W0TQ3r6%2fFughJi9ca0caoKT%2bHTXQX3IACf4i%2f%2beuvhh%2fwgFTm871x%2f6OQvc%2feDUTrQ6Nmpr%2bgt5DZau2LWDkYw%3d%3d
Synchronize with vista failed.Please advice solution.
my phone is imate jamin please send sophtwere
Have Verizon SMT 5800 smart phone and am running Vista Home Premium 64 bit on my laptop. I also Outlook 2007. For the life of me the phone and calendar will not sync. I have gone thru most tutorials and uninstalled and reinstalled and still nothing. The only time they will “talk” is when phone is plugged in (usb) and I manually put something in outlook calendar. Then and only then will it go to the phone. The phone appointments will not upload to office and office will not download to phone. Am I missing the boat on this one??
Hi,
As you correctly mention in step 1 ‘you should be notified’. Unfortunately I’m not and I sick and tired of sitting behind my new laptop each night for hours without being able to sync my Palm Treo 500v.
Can someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong, or better, tell me what I can do to solve my problem (besides throwing everything in the garbage).
Greetings,
Bart
How can i sync the time between the PC and the Mobile Device, so that my WM Device gets the time from the PC? On Active Sync there was an option for this, but not under Sync Center…
Very good explanation. God bless you, and I hope you get eternal happiness!
Ik kan mijn telefoon (HTC Touch Cruise) met windows mobile 6.1 niet verbinden met mijn pc. Ik heb van alles geprobeerd:
- WMDC opnieuw geïnstalleerd
- soft en hard reset op telefoon
- help stappen op telefoon en op website van microsoft opgevolgd
Kan het een probleem zijn dat ik mijn telefoon eerst op xp heb gesynchroniseerd en nu op vista probeer? Heeft iemand een idee?