Basis B1 won't sync to MacBook / iPhone

I landed in Atlanta an hour ago.



Since that time, I have been trying to sync my Basis B1 activity monitor  watch.  If for no other reason than to get the watch set to the east coast timezone.



Slowness and eventual failure. Repeatedly.



One big complaint I have about iOS devices in general is that they seem to have much poorer background operation than Android.   For example, on Android my Basis watch would sync without me having to open the application.  Worse, I seem to have to babysit it to ensure that the iPhone does not go into a powersave mode.



I do not know if this is fundamental to iOS, or just a simple matter of programming.   Certainly, many iOS apps & devices behave this way - they operate only when in foreground.



This reminds me of old MacOS, with "cooperative multitasking", rather than fully preemptive scheduling.



This may be a compromise to save battery life. Certainly my iPhone seems to have better life than a Samsung with comparable battery.  But that may be the fault of Samsung bloatware, rather than Android itself.



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This iOS characteristic does not let Basis off the hook.



The Basis consistently fails at 49% transferred.   At one point I saw a "low memory" warning on the watch.   Low memory when sync'ing - surely they reserve a minimum buffer size to finish a transfer.?

Making the Outlook Ribbon visible

Making the Outlook Ribbon visible

'via Blog this

For the last few
days I somehow managed to hide the commands on the Outlook "ribbon" -
the dynamic set of menus etc. at top of screen.

Today I finally got
pissed off and googled.

Here's the fix:

Look for the little
arrow like box at upper right.

Microsoft's help
pages were deceptive.

https://support.office.com/en-SG/article/minimize-the-ribbon-3e3dc828-e9c6-408a-bac1-3cbda6b8ded3

First, the page
title is "Minimize the Ribbon".
Whereas I wanted to restore the ribbon.
Google works better than MS search to find the "Restore the
Ribbon" section title on the same page.

Second, the
graphical widget they suggest

i.e.

Is not what I see on
my screen. 

Instead I see

I do not know if
this is a difference in software versions, or due to Parallels' Coherence
window management stuff.  It appears this
way even when Coherence is disabled.

Overall, Microsoft's
attitude seems to be that you would only do this deliberately.

Whereas I find it
far too easy to do this by accident.
The keyboard shortcut, ctrl-F1, is easy to type by accident.

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Oh joy, I see that the screen clippings that I recorded in Microsoft OneNote  (native to Mac) to show the problem do not cut and paste into Google Blogger.  Screw wasting time trying to fix that.

The words provide a clue, although the pictures would be even more helpful to anyone else with the same problem.

And the blank boxes - if they post - are a sad commentary on the state of data exchange.

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(Outlook (Office15), on Windows 8.1, running under Parallels on a MacBook.)