Dashwire Goes 2.0 [Archive] - Thoughts Media Forums

Jon Westfall

06-24-2008, 10:40 PM

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.dashwire.com' target='_blank'>http://www.dashwire.com</a> </div>"Up to this point, we’ve primarily focused on helping users effortlessly bring their mobile phone and content it captures up to the web.  But that is only part of the vision and experience we want to provide for users, and today we're excited to be releasing a new version of our mobile software to help people more seamlessly integrate their mobile and web worlds. Available on <a href="http://m.dashwire.com/">http://m.dashwire.com</a> for Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6, below is a preview of the new features: <ul> <li>Graphical phone experience featuring user avatar, status updates, and media gallery</li> <li>Mobile access to photos & videos located on your Dashwire web account  – even if the actual media files aren’t on your phone</li> <li>Photo uploads from your computer to your Dashwire web account, which then automatically appear on your phone</li> <li>Media editing, blogging, and sharing with friends – on the go as you’re capturing your experiences</li> <li>Direct status updates to Facebook & Twitter</li> <li>Privacy controls & media publishing"</li></ul><img border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/spt/auto/1214336381.usr7.jpg" alt="" /> Holy new features Batman! Dashwire is a simple way to really get more out of your Windows Mobile device, and it looks like they've decided that no longer should it be phone -> web, but also web -> phone in the current release. A beefed up Mobile client (Which I'm running on Windows Mobile 6.1 right now with no problems) and some nice new features make Dashwire easy to love. Oh, and the price is right too...FREE!

martin_ayton

06-26-2008, 10:50 AM

Dashwire has suddenly started doubling up my contacts: I sync and the contacts end up on the Dashwire servers, but without the categories. They then sync back to my device as uncategorised, so now I have two contact entries per person. Using Outlook, I delete all the uncategorised contacts and then I sync with Dashwire again. It syncs the categorised contacts over, loses the category, adds them to the list of uncategorised contacts it already has and then copies the whole lot back to my device, meaning I now have the original categorised contacts and two copies of each uncategorised (and unwanted) contact. I cleared them again and sync'ed again, and now I have four uncategorised copies of each contact. And the sync'ing now takes an hour. I've given up.

This didn't happen until this week and there has been no change on my PPC, so I'm guessing something has gone wrong at Dashwire's end. I've tried both the old and the new (v2.0) version of the PPC client and the problem is still there. I've raised the issue with Dashwire and await an answer - I'll let you guys know when I hear anything. In the meantime, does anyone have any ideas?

DashwireTeam

06-30-2008, 11:21 PM

There's a couple things that could have happened. The one we see the most: users start seeing contact dupes after they reset their phone, add Dashwire, and then connect via ActiveSync to sync thier contacts. This is a known issue (http://dashwire.com/help/issues (http://dashwire.com/help/issues)), and happens because of the way that ActiveSync assigns unique IDs to contact entries. For future reference, if you're an ActiveSync user, then you'll want to add contacts via ActiveSync before you add Dashwire to your new or recently reset phone. That way, you shouldn't see any duplicates.

The sames true with other back-up software like Sprite, PIM, etc.

If your scenario is different from what I outlined above, let us know about that as well.

Hit up our support alias ([email protected]) if you want some help deleting those dupes.

New sync architecture in the works that should prevent this from happening in the future. Thanks for the patience