Data transfer overview, How do i get data from my old phone, How do i get data off my computer – Palm Pre P100EWW User Manual

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Chapter 3 : Data transfer

Data transfer overview

While you have many options for transferring data, Palm recommends that
you take advantage of the Palm

®

Synergy™ feature by putting your data in an

online account—for example, if you don’t have a Google account, we
recommend that you create one and store your data there (see

How do I

add names and other info into Contacts?

,

How do I get events into

Calendar?

, and

How do I send and receive email on my phone?

).

If you don't want to sync with an online account, there are other ways to get
data on your phone. See

I’d rather sync directly with my computer

.

Consider carefully whether you want to be able to access and change your
data somewhere besides your phone. If you do, do you prefer the other
means of access to be a website (for example, Google), or to be software
that is installed on your computer? In either case, you can set things up so
that you can synchronize new or changed data between your phone and the
other data location.

You can also decide not to have a sync setup for your data, in which case
you can use your Palm profile to back up your data (see

Backup

). You can’t

access this data anywhere but on your phone. However, your data is backed
up, and in an emergency (such as a lost or stolen device), you can remotely
remove the data on your lost or stolen phone and restore it to a new Pre
phone.

How do I get data from my old phone?

Do you want to sync your personal information between your Pre phone
and Google or Exchange, but first need to get your data out of an old phone
that you want to stop using? You can do a one-time, one-way export of data
to your Pre phone, and then if you choose to, use the Synergy feature to sync
the data to Google or Exchange.

1

On your computer, set up an account on the Google website (go to

gmail.com

) or with Microsoft Exchange (speak to an IT person at your

company).

2

Open

Contacts

on your Pre phone.

3

Enter your username and password for the Google or Exchange
account.

NOTE

You don’t have to go to Calendar to set up your account there—that’s

done automatically using the username and password you enter in Contacts.

4

Go to one of the stores of your wireless carrier and ask a support agent
for help in transferring data from your old phone. When you’re ready to
transfer data from your old phone, be sure to tell the agent which
account to transfer the data to.

How do I get data off my computer?

Do you want to sync your personal information between your Pre phone
and Google or Exchange, but first need to get the data out of a desktop app
that you want to stop using? You can do a one-time, one-way export of data

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