HTC DIAM500 manual When Connecting Your Device to a Computer

Section 2E

Synchronizing Information With Your Computer

When Connecting Your Device to a Computer(page 62)

About Synchronization(page 63)

Ways to Synchronize(page 63)

Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista(page 64)

Setting Up ActiveSync on Windows XP(page 65)

Synchronizing With Your Computer(page 66)

Synchronizing via Bluetooth(page 67)

Synchronizing Music and Video(page 68)

You can take information from your computer wherever you go by synchronizing them to your device . This section explains how to connect your device to the computer and synchronize your data.

When Connecting Your Device to a Computer

You will be prompted to choose the type of USB connection whenever you connect your device to the computer with the USB cable.

ActiveSync

Select this mode when you need to do the following:

Synchronize Outlook email, contacts, calendar, files, and other data between your device and your computer.

Have read and write access to the whole device (memory and internal storage).

Disk Drive

Select this mode to use the 4 GB internal storage of your device as a USB thumb drive. (This mode lets you copy files between your device and computer faster.)

When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your device is connected to the computer:

The 4 GB internal storage will be inaccessible on your device.

You will not be able to access files and run applications from the internal storage while your device is connected to your computer.

Your device’s memory will be inaccessible from the computer.

Your computer will connect only to the your device’s internal storage. From the computer, you will be able to see and access the contents of your device’s internal storage only. Device memory is inaccessible from the computer.

To change back to ActiveSync mode, tap Start > Settings > Connections tab > USB to PC and select ActiveSync. For more information about ActiveSync mode in the USB to PC setting, see “Troubleshooting Sync Connection Problems” on page 67.

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