I too have problems syncing my HTC Touch Pro from Verizon. Some times I have to play around with Windows & sync for endless minutes before it will "mostly" connect with my phone.
The My Phone service sounds like a dream come true for us.
We can have access to our info no matter where we are!
The worst data sync issue I encountered was a close brush with death with Plaxo. I had a pre-existing account setup and was in the process of building a new PC. After re-installing Office 2003, I downloaded Plaxo for Windows - setup the desktop client, and ran the installer but failing to tell it to supercede desktop data with the cloud. Instead of importing all my contacts, calendar, etc., it saw that my local copy of Outlook contained no data and subsequently obliterated my cloud data. In the end I was left with NOTHING. A blank copy of Outlook, and an empty Plaxo account.
Fortunately I had the forethought to backup my local pst file prior to this ordeal. But once again fate was against me. You would think that a simple pst import would solve the matter, but oh no. Not for me. No, I had to have the one single blessed pst file on God's green earth that had somehow become corrupted. So hopeless was my situation that even JASON here offered to help restore my Outlook database. In end all I managed to salvage was my address book, thanks to a rudimentary Yahoo backup.
Needless to say I no longer place my valuable data in Outlook's hands. The cloud is where my bits and bites are stored.
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there are to many products doing almost the same thing. I got the my phone beta setup the other day and why they have 3/4 sliightly diffrent technologies is very frustrating. There is Sky drive.... then there is live mesh (pretty cool with a phone client commin) and shared folders in Messenger and now my phone and I am probably missing 1 or 2. Seriously they have corprate ADD.
One month ago, I broke my leg badly. Once in a cast and on crutches, I finally left the hospital. I had just gotten a new ATT HTC Fuze. To add to an already painful day, crutches threw my routine into the trash-PDA with it. While I normally set my pack on the car roof when setting items up for the long drive to work. IE- my travel mug, GPS and other goodies into my Volvo. This day, however, I left the pack on my back and put my new Fuze-alone-on the roof. Suffice to say, my balance was shot, I felt crummy and was not at the top of my game. You can see where this is headed: About five minutes into my drive, I realized that my Fuze was missing. After driving back to the hospital, I found it smashed to bits only 25 meters away from my parking place. As per the norm, ATT could not have cared less and saw it only as an opportunity to make more money. A pain to say in far more ways than one..> BR Wash, DC>>
Well, coincidently, right now I'm in a Sync pickle. For the past 14 months I have been ASing my out-the-box vanilla HTC Touch Cruise WM6.0, accumulating contacts and messages etc without major problems. (Sure AS regularly forgets my user settings, but I thought that was part of the program ) Like a lamb before the slaughter, AS has been fattening me up. Now, all of a sudden for no apparent reason, my PC (XP SP3) won't recognise my device anymore
I've Googled, I've tried everything (switched ports, cables, rebooted, re-installed AS), prayed to the big MS cloud in the sky, but nothing except the dreaded bubble of gloom: 'USB Device not recognised- one of the USB devices attached to this computer have malfunctioned'. I'm starting to have nightmares about hard-reseting my device and 'upgrading' to WM6.1 via my SDHC card. Its like being on death row!
When I try to sync up my Moto Q and my HP iPAQ in the same day. There is a constant problem with Microsoft's Active Sync. It can be, one of two things, it can't find the com port or Active Sync just crashes when I hook up the second device. Numerous reports have been generated and sent to Microsoft without any solutions. Its only when I use one or the other device, once a day, does Microsoft's Active Sync work for me.
I have two Win Mobile Phones that I sync regularly, but quite a few times one of them will get mutiple errors and i have to do a soft reset on the phone and sometimes a reboot of the X61 laptop. This one time I needed a customer's contact info while using my laptop and it was just put into my work phone. So I sinked it and my personal phone, then the info disappeared! Fantastic, now I have to track down the customer through another customer to get it again. Kinda makes me look a little like an idiot you know. One time, syncing over Bluetooth, my personal phone was wiped and reset to original out of the box condition. That took a couple of hours to reset up. Fun times.
Worst case of not syncing occurred when I was installing a pos freeware application that would allow me to copy my contacts to my PC's hard drive (since I don't use Outlook) - well over 500 contacts that were hand copied from a Palm device. You guessed it...the software froze the phone and I had to do a hard reset...and lost it all!
Would love this prize
Focus MS.....
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) Like a lamb before the slaughter, AS has been fattening me up. Now, all of a sudden for no apparent reason, my PC (XP SP3) won't recognise my device anymore 
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