What is Mobile Sync?

Mobile Sync is  the service that Samsung Instinct and select mobile phones from sprint uses to keep contacts up to date, it can be access by logging into your account on sprint.com and clicking "Sprint Mobile Sync – My Contacts" or click on MY ONLINE TOOLS at the top.  It will allow you import Outlook contacts from CSV files, also you can add contacts  this way, disable/enable it and control everything from there.  Whatever is on the WEBSITE will sync to your phone for contacts.

Here is what to try if you are not able to get your Contacts to Sync with sprint.com and using the Desktop Manager Software. Samsung Cell Phone tips & tricks
Getting your contacts on your Sprint Mobile if you are not using the sprint software can also be done by opening up Outlook and going to EXPORT and Exporting as a Windows Based Comma Separated Values file (CSV) Samsung Instinct

Method 1:
1. Log in to sprint.com
2. Do you see your Samsung Instinct phone under your profile or does it show the old phone. If you are having the outlook sync problem, most likely your old phone is there under your profile.
3. Click on settings & passwords link on top
4. Click on edit profile
5. Click on update phone information
7. Enter your phone number, you will get a text message with code
8. Enter that code when asked on the website
9. Log out, log back in
10. Sprint Samsung Instinct should be there now. Click on “Online Tools” on top
11. Click on mobile sync to set it up.
12. Done, plug in your phone and sync away!
SOURCE: http://davidciccone.com/2008/06/21/instinct-outlook-contact-sync-fix/
Original Thread: http://www.instinct-samsung.com/index.php/topic,512.0.html
I had the phone already on my account however once I did this trick I was able to utilize the Sprint Software to pull all my contacts from outlook and put them on the Website.

Method 2 Update 6/22/08:
a) If above still is not working and all of your contacts are on the site but your phone keeps saying "Still registering", Goto settings on your phone and goto RESET => RESET PHONE,  this will default your phone and when it restarts it will try to Mobile Sync again and should work now.
b) Users have also reported that if you login to the website and DISABLE mobile sync, and also disable it on the Phone, then re-enable it, the contacts will sync. This will not require a full Phone Reset using this way.
I had to do this Method 1 and Method 2 to get all my contacts Working.
Also make sure when you login to sprint.com and goto mobile sync you are hitting ENABLE.
What sprint has said is the issues so far:
- The servers are being taxed just try again later
- Try Resetting your Phone
- Pretty much useless except just wait? blah!

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I had similar problems with email, sometimes it worked sometimes it did not and restarting the Samsung Instinct let me access my comcast mail at least once without problem, but who soon after start having problems. Same for my gmail email too. Samsung Cell Phone tips & tricks

I don’t know if this will work for everyone but I was at the sprint store a few days ago getting a travel charger for the phone and I noticed the sprint sales rep had a Samsung instinct and told him about my email problem. He said yeah like 7 out of 10 Samsung instinct owners are bringing there phone in because of this. Samsung Instinct

He said just pop the battery out, put it back in, start phone and your readly to go. I thought this would be yet another BS fix. So ( I did not shut the phone off first ) I popped my battery out and restarted the phone. Now for 3 days and probably 100 plus emails later not a single problem. Once in a while it’s a little slow, maybe 7-10 seconds to cycle through the send/recieve process. Don’t know why popping the battery out would do anything but it worked for me.

So if you are sure you have your email settings right tried what i did. I hope it works and sorry if this has been posted. I’ve seen to many threads on to many forums about the email in the last week to keep track.

Also Nice board to whoever owns it. Only one I signed up on.

Also Comcast users make sure you look up how to config the Samsung instincts settings. The default settinfs for Other POP do not work.

Good luck and hope this helps to anyone still having problems.

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I don’t see the Samsung Instinct camera zoom function until I view pics taken.  Select the lower right icon that looks like an eyeball and picture, then select the lower right icon that looks like a box with a green arrow pointing to a person.  Then select background to view the picture with the zoom function or picture ID to assign it to a contact.  You can zoom and drag the picture around with your fingertip.  I don’t see a way to save the changes to the cropped or zoomed picture.  The pictures are amazingly sharp and the zoom works great other than that. Samsung Instinct

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Ok after allot of footwork, I found a working method to collect my many emails into one email I can check with my Samsung Instinct. Samsung Cell Phone tips & tricks

Samsung Instinct tips – All for one email steps:
1st… Setup gmail and add it to your phone (seems to work both incoming and outgoing)
2nd… Get the program Mail Forward
3rd… Setup mail forward with all your email accounts, and set them to forward to your gmail account.

mail forward will monitor your accounts and when emails show up, they auto forward to your gmail account. Then your phone will notify you when you get them. that’s it, I now get 4 email accounts to show on my Samsung Instinct. Works pretty good if i will be away from my desk for a while. Samsung Instinct

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Samsung Instinct Service Menus:

##*#- Canvas Utility- Lets you Draw on white Canvas, Push lock button push again to bring up your Background then hold to draw on background, push lock and then hold lock to draw on black canvas, to default click volume button, to adjust contrast and brightness click volume.

##Brew# – Brings up this wacky menu of hidden programs like a fie explorer

##DATA#- Reprogram phone. VERY DANGEROUS.

##332846368# Takes you to the debug menu

##DEBUGMENU#  – Debug Menu

##<MSL>#         – Phone Activation

##RTN#             – View/Reset Phone Info

##AKEY#            – Prompts for AKEY

##USB#             – Toggles USB Mode (Drive/Modem)

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