Windows 10: Syncing Lumia (640) and PC.

Yes, the phone would be a different animal. Have you checked on your phone Settings > Accounts > Email & app accounts > Your account > Manage?

 

On the phone. I deleted hotmail account and that left me only with contacts from SIM card. Connected again with my hotmail account and it synced People contacts as they were but not with contacts on the PC.

 

Don't know about the SIM card unless you mean as it relates via cell provider. Everything is backed up and synched from Outlook.com server. I think that's what you need to get straightened out. I have to go to work. I'll be back later. Good luck. *Smile

 

Yes SIM card is what phone service provider gives you, insert in the phone and you get mobile (cell) phone service. It can store up to 99 phone numbers with addresses and whatever is there. Can also use 3G internet service with it.

 

LOL. I can be confusing at times. What I meant was I don't know about your SIM card when it comes to your contacts. I know what a SIM card is. I don't go that route with my cell provider.

Assuming you are using an MS account to sign into devices > emails, contacts, account info, backup data, map favorites, device descriptions, and any other apps' or devices' data is all stored and all comes from MS servers via your MS account. I'm sure I'm not telling a seasoned user like you anything new about the cloud.

I think somewhere along the line the authorization to those servers got corrupted. Does everything look ok in your MS account online? Do your devices show up there and are they trusted?

Still baffled that you don't have sync buttons somewhere. *Confused

 

You assumed everything right, and all is just like that, just no stupid Sync button in People APP. Just not syncing with same APP on the PC. It used to be almost instant a while back. I wasn't changing anything for some time and only recently noticed the problem. On the PC, People APP includes contacts from Skype and Outlook and that was also synced to phone some time ago but now that connection is broken. Maybe it will get fixed when Creators update is released for both.
One of the reasons I chose Windows phone is easy cooperation with PC, could never get that right with Androids. Whats even crazier, my old phones with Symbian were working super with XP on the PC. Almost tempted to reactivate my old Sony-Ericson Cyber-shot. I have interconnect base and everything for it.

 

@CountMike

I mislead you on the sync button. That was in my phone's Outlook mail app. There are sync buttons in some apps like Weather and some others, but not one in People. Of course that should sync automatically. I added a contact on my PC and it synched instantly to my phone.

Do all other apps sync for you?

 

Whatever I tried to sync it mostly synced, except this one of course.

 

In your Outlook.com (online) > People (button in bottom left corner when in mail) > Settings gear (upper right) > Does all settings look ok in there?

 

Yes just like that, except..... all contacts are not same as in my People APP (on PC or phone).
So, it looks like I have 3 different contact lists. Some may be missing Skype contacts though.

 

3 sources of contacts may be your problem.

Is your phone listed in your MS account online > Devices tab?

Did you check out the Settings gear in Outlook.com as seen in the menu of my last post?

Outlook.com > Settings gear > Options > General > Mobile devices. Here's my WP listed.

 

Yep, listed everywhere, active account, signed in with same credentials and it used to work just like that but now it doesn't.

 

Well, that's just plain weird. Maybe an update goofed it up. Who knows? Hopefully it'll work itself out.

When you worked in the brake industry, did you live on the Canadian side across the river from Motown? Just curious for Edwin lives around there.

 

It might sort itself, who knows.
I worked mostly in Toronto, but we had few factories in other places. Yes there was one in Windsor but main corporation office was in Chicago. There was one in Cuba Mo. where I spent few months. Another one I used to visit to help with problems was near Nashville Tn.

 

Hopefully it'll work itself out for you.

So you did a lot of traveling here to know how crazy we Americans are. *Shock

Did you like it here at all?