New cell phone dilemmas

Okay, in my previous post, I mentioned that I got my new MotoQ SmartPhone from Alltel today.  And I am happy with it.  Still am, just a little frustrated at the moment.  Jeff and I had, from our previous Razr phones, Motorola Phone Tools software that allows us to exchange data between each of our phones and our PC.  Loved it!  So, I’ve been trying to get the aforementioned software to detect my new phone, and it won’t.  In addition, ActiveSync kept popping up everytime I would connect my new phone to the USB port on the PC, but it wouldn’t detect my phone either.  Finally, after talking to Jeff, who read my previous post, I’m assuming :) mentioned something about updating ActiveSync.  Well, being the genius I am (LOL!) I informed him that the Cd that came with our phones had an update for ActiveSync on it, and I already updated it.  Well, as I was troubleshooting ActiveSync, I noticed that they suggested updating to 4.5 version, and I’m pretty sure that version on the Cd was NOT 4.5, but something lower.  So, I updated it again.  Voila’! It detected my phone.  But, that still does not do me much good, but it will help Jeff.  Why won’t it do me much good, you may be asking? Because, I don’t use Outlook on this computer, Jeff does: I don’t use the calendar on the PC, I use Google Calendar; and I don’t use any of the other applications on the PC.  The ones I use are already accessible from the web (which we have unlimited internet on our phones) like Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Notebook and Google docs.  Plus all the other places I go are on the web as well.

What I do want to do is retrieve my contact info, ringtones, pictures, etc. from my old phone, via the Motorla Phone Tools mentioned earlier, and send them to my new phone.  But, no.  It won’t detect my new phone, so I’m frustrated!  I don’t want to have to manually enter them all!!!!! I don’t wanna!!!!

And, neither Jeff or I have been able to send pictures from our phone :( Makes me mad.  I supposed I ought to go to bed now, and work on it tomorrow, or at least let Jeff because I tomorrow is my day to work at the church, so I won’t be home to fiddle with it :( 

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