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Originally Posted by rhotic

Well, I'm glad I don't have to wait for Microsoft...

... I got it. The current limit on notes entries in Calendar and Contacts is 5k.

I know this because it's right in the registry. The key below was in the 2003 models, but the OS didn't not pay attention to this key. In Windows Mobile 5.0, there have been development changes...

This is no guarantee and I bear no responsibility because a registry hack is involved (backup your registy and device), however this works on my UTStarcom 6700...

Get yourself a registry editor... everyone in this forum already has one! I use Resco Explorer 2005 (include reg editor)

And apply this hack...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ActiveSync]

"BodyTruncation"=dword:00005000

this will get you 20 kB in your notes section instead of 5 kB. That was enough for me, I have not yet experimented with higher limits. Maybe someone else can (but backup your device). Maybe I'll get time.

So, I would upload a reg file but I don't think I can here.

So, use the above modification, that is, go to the above registry key and change the BodyTruncation key to "Dec" = "20480" or "Hex" = 5000, as you see above. The former value is "5120" (Dec), which is 5120 bytes. The new value will be 20480 bytes.

Save the value. Reset your device.

I recommend something like SoftReset 2003...check Google or this forum. (Can't remember where I got it.) Or if you're going to reset your device with the stylus, wait about 3 minutes or so before you do it. As I've learned in this forum, in the Win Mob 5.0 devices, it can take a couple minutes for the device to update the registry. I don't know. It can take a few seconds or maybe a couple minutes. A lot of the SoftReset programs (also like in Tweaks 2002), will make sure the registry is up to date before resetting, or so I've heard. Seems to work for me.

Once you've reset the device, use Activesync again, and sync all your data from the Desktop to the device and you will have (if you have less than 20 kB of data) ... you will have full details in your Contacts and Calendar in the notes section (not refering to Pocket Office Notes). If you're wondering how to update the data, you would have to have all the Desktop data copy over. I couldn't really think of another way other than go through them and make a small change on the desktop, such as adding a space, and then it would sync over the "new" data to the device, taking everything over. (Maybe there's a better, quicker way, especially if you have to do it 100 times.

Of course, if you have this problem to begin with, you're NOT complaining at this point!)

If it still truncates your data, because you have more than 20kB, note whether this hack is working, because you will see that there is more data than before. If it's not working, check your steps again, because it works on mine. If it is working, but you need more, experiment with bigger numbers. (But backup your registry and data, upon each success.) Next enter 40960 (40kB) and then 81920, and so on. The more you use, the more memory it is going to consume on your device. There are limits either in the registry key or in the devices memory. Please post here if you find any limits or are successful in making higher limits work.

Any other topics that are looking for the answer to this issue?

Later - God bless you all.

 

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Seems like 20480 might be the max you can go...I tried going to 40960 and it wouldn't sync (I used MS Exchange and MSFP to sync wirelessly) and then I tried reducing it by increments of 5120 and it wouldn't sync again until I got it back to 20480 (by the way, I'm now on a Treo 700wx)....still, 20480 is a lot better than 5120 and gets a lot more of my data onto the Treo...thanks for the hack!

Now, if only MS would fix this so we could all have ALL our data on our mobile devices...and even better, offer a good filter within ActiveSync so we could decide what data we want to transfer over (in its entirety) and what data we don't...that'd be great! Anyone know if this type of customization is offered in the new Windows Vista Mobile Center (or whatever its called in Vista that is replacing ActiveSync)?