DJO (or other users),
Are you aware of any recent issues either with Windows Phone 8.1 (there weren't any reported in July when I first checked) or Outlook?
I've been plagued by extremely slow syncs (30 minutes +/-) for the last week or so, which coincides roughly with upgrading to 8.1. The upgrade may be a total coincidence however, as I think this issue started occurring prior to the upgrade, and because the slowest part appears to be with CompanionLink's communication with Outlook versus the phone.
The biggest sign that something is wrong is from the PC side when CompanionLink reads the Outlook data. For contacts, it will say "Reading Outlook Contacts" with a number that starts at 1 and runs to 51... then pauses for at least a minute, then goes to 101... pause... 151, etc. It reads 50 contacts at a time and seems to hang waiting for something to time out in between. I have over 1000 contacts, so that's 20 minutes of delay just waiting for that portion of the sync.
I've tried the "Optimized update sync" option and without. No difference. The other oddity is that CompanionLink's status screen kept showing the wrong date--it was showing last sync as December 2, even though I've had syncs slowly but seemingly successfully complete both under Windows 8.0 and 8.1 since then.
Tonight I tired telling CompanionLink to wipe the device first thinking that would help. It still took 30 minutes with the same odd "Reading Outlook Contacts" behavior, but finally changed the last sync date to today.
Update: So that last sync apparently took even long than I realized. It finished on the PC side and updated the sync date. However, for DejaOffice on the phone--there was a box that said "Updating Contacts" with a progress indicator that was moving very slowly. I finally got the "Synchronization Complete" message about an hour after I started...
Something is clearly wrong with syncing contacts. DejaOffice is set to sync with the People app btw in case that matters, which I need for caller ID purposes.
Thanks,
Tom
Device: Samsung ATIV S Neo
OS: Windows Phone 8.1
CompanionLink: 6.0.0.0.0 (Build 6018)
DejaOffice: 1.1.6.60