Operation Manual

Chapter 5 : Copy files and sync your personal data 61
Transfer data from an old phone
BEFORE YOU BEGIN If you want the data from your old phone to be
transferred to an online account, be sure you set up that account on the web
and on your smartphone first.
• On your computer, create an account on the Google website (go to
gmail.com) or in Exchange (speak to an IT person at your company).
• Set up the same account on your smartphone (see Manage online
accounts).
Otherwise, your data must be transferred to your Palm profile account (see
What is a Palm profile?).
• Go to a AT&T store and ask a support agent for help in transferring
data from your old smartphone. When you’re ready to transfer data
from your old smartphone, be sure to tell the agent which account to
transfer the data to.
Export data from a desktop organizer on your
computer
BEFORE YOU BEGIN If you want the data from your desktop organizer to
be transferred to an online account, be sure you set up that account on the
web and on your smartphone first.
• On your computer, create an account on the Google website (go to
gmail.com) or in Exchange (speak to an IT person at your company).
• Set up the same account on your smartphone (see Manage online
accounts).
Otherwise, your data must be transferred to your Palm profile account (see
What is a Palm profile?).
1 On your computer, go to palm.com/migrate-webOS.
2 Click the link for transferring Contacts/Calendar data from a desktop
organizer.
3 Read the instructions and follow the links to download the Data
Transfer Assistant.
NOTE If you are setting up your smartphone for the first time and downloading a
large number of contacts or calendar events from an online account to your
smartphone, you may not see all your data on your smartphone right away. Some
online account providers such as Google set limits on the amount of data that a
user can import in a given time frame. Also, if you have many years’ worth of data
or thousands of entries in an online account, you may want to review the data and
reduce the number of entries before setting up the account on your smartphone.
Filling your smartphone memory with a large number of account entries can affect
performance.
About the Data Transfer Assistant (DTA)
The DTA enables you to do a one-time, one-way export of data from
selected desktop apps to your Veer through the USB cable included with
your smartphone. After the data is on your smartphone, you can select the
account you want to import the data to.