HTC RHOD400 manual Synchronizing Information With Your Computer, About Synchronization

Section 2E

Synchronizing Information With Your Computer

About Synchronization (page 75)

Ways to Synchronize (page 75)

Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows 7 and Windows Vista (page 76)

Setting Up ActiveSync on Windows XP (page 77)

Synchronizing with Your Computer (page 78)

Synchronizing via Bluetooth (page 79)

Synchronizing Music and Video (page 79)

Synchronizing with Microsoft My Phone (page 80)

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.

About Synchronization

The following types of information can be synchronized between your computer and your device:

Microsoft® Office Outlook® information, which includes Office Outlook email messages, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes

Notes, which are created using Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007

Media, such as pictures, music, and video

Favorites, which are the bookmarked links to your favorite websites

Files, such as documents and other files

Before you can synchronize, you first need to install and set up the synchronization software on your computer. For more information, see “Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows 7 and Windows Vista” and “Setting Up ActiveSync on Windows XP” in this section.

Ways to Synchronize

After you have installed the synchronization software on your computer, connect and synchronize your device with your computer by:

Using the supplied USB sync cable.

Upon connecting the sync cable to your device and your computer, the synchronization process automatically starts.

Using Bluetooth.

You must first set up a Bluetooth partnership between your device and your computer before you can synchronize information between them using Bluetooth. For more information about setting up a Bluetooth partnership, see “Bluetooth Partnerships” on page 101. For information about synchronizing through Bluetooth, see “Synchronizing via Bluetooth.”

Using Microsoft My Phone

If you have a Microsoft My Phone account, you can sync and restore the contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information that you stored on your account to your current Windows phone. See Synchronizing with Microsoft My Phone (page 80) in this chapter for details.

Synchronizing Information With Your Computer

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