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Exchange support?

This is just a quick question from someone eyeballing the hero as a potential next phone...
Does Android have support for Exchange servers? My WM phone lets me sync my calender, tasks, and email (and more I think but these are all I need.) If I went to an Android device like the hero, I would need to still get my work email and sync my calendar to get appointment reminders.
Can Android do these things I speak of?
Thanks for your time.

Yes it has exchange support

Whythankusir

Only Android 2.x has Exchange support.
Please search in the future, because this has been asked time & time again.

gu1dry said:
Only Android 2.x has Exchange support.
Please search in the future, because this has been asked time & time again.
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1.5 with Sense has exchange as well

linkinx64 said:
1.5 with Sense has exchange as well
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Indeed it does. However, it should probably be pointed out that the built in Exchange support on the Hero isn't as complete as it might be (see here) and you may find it necessary to use a 3rd party app like Touchdown if your company uses security policies.
Regards,
Dave

The only good exchange support I've found for the Hero is the built in 1.5 rom.
1.5 Stock rom/fresh etc - Full exchange support
1.6 roms have no support
2.0+ roms have support for mail and contacts but not calendar
FYI Touchdown is $19.95 or in other words "way too expensive."

Any Rom with Sense will have full Exchange support.

Ok, before I get *****ed at some more about not searching; I did lol.
I found information regarding exchange support being introduced into 2.0, but then I also found a random thread where someone mentioned exchange support on their hero was good.
I didn't know if the person with the hero was running a custom rom or something since I know it comes with 1.5.
So that is why I am here in the Hero CDMA forum and not some random android device forum
Thanks again everyone.

The stock Hero (or any 1.5 ROM) does NOT have full support for Exchange 2007 ActiveSync. There are a number of EAS security features (remote wipe, require PIN, etc...) that are not supported by the phone. In order to allow using all of the Mail features in Hero (including simply sending mail), I had to disable some ActiveSync policies on my Exchange server. Exchange 2010 has the same caveats. From what I have read, Android 2.0 and 2.1 still do not have full-functionality EAS support (the iPhone has had it for a LONG time). There is some hope that HTC 2.1 SenseUI will have the functionality added.

cmccracken said:
The stock Hero (or any 1.5 ROM) does NOT have full support for Exchange 2007 ActiveSync. There are a number of EAS security features (remote wipe, require PIN, etc...) that are not supported by the phone. In order to allow using all of the Mail features in Hero (including simply sending mail), I had to disable some ActiveSync policies on my Exchange server. Exchange 2010 has the same caveats. From what I have read, Android 2.0 and 2.1 still do not have full-functionality EAS support (the iPhone has had it for a LONG time). There is some hope that HTC 2.1 SenseUI will have the functionality added.
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Oh wow ok. Well thank you so much for this post. I'll check with the IT guy here at work to see if we are running Exchange 2003 or 2007 (I'm pretty sure it's 2003.)
If it's 2003, does that mean it'll work fine?

The best ROM that worked with my company's exchange server is fresh's 2.1 ASOP. That one actually supported my company's exchange policy requiring a passcode. All other 2.0+ roms do not support it and I couldn't use anything but Touchdown.

I'm about to head back to Touchdown, and I'm using a 2.1 rom. The native support is extremely basic. As far as I can tell, there is no way to get automatic updates for any folder other than your Inbox. Meaning all of my filtered mail never shows up on my Hero unless I specifically refresh every subfolder.

cmccracken said:
The stock Hero (or any 1.5 ROM) does NOT have full support for Exchange 2007 ActiveSync.
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From what I have read, Android 2.0 and 2.1 still do not have full-functionality EAS support (the iPhone has had it for a LONG time). There is some hope that HTC 2.1 SenseUI will have the functionality added.
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Funny, the company I work for turned off some EAS security specifically for the executives that have iPhones. I have no problems synching mail/calendar/contacts with my company's Exchange server.
The calendar is probably the most important thing I sync. When I tried 2.0 and 2.1 AOSP, I was sad there was no calendar support. I'm back to running Modaco 2.2 with Gbhil's kernel and lots of my own customizations to basically make it mine.
I love it much better than any WinMo phone I've owned. So many issues in the WinMo OS itself (I ran 6.0, 6.1, 6.5 and 6.5.1 before dropping it and going to Android). I look forward to Sprint releasing a 2.1 ROM in March or April or whenever they have it ready.
-Daryel

As other have said, Sense builds and 2.1 build has basic exchange support. I found that I still had to purchase Touchdown due to the fact I have lots and lots of folders with rules that sort my mail. The built in client doesn't support push or periodic checking of any other folder than the inbox.
Also some of the security policy's are not supported. Touchdown is $20, not as pretty as the built in interface but has almost full support.

Indeed it does. However, it should probably be pointed out that the built in Exchange support on the Hero isn't as complete as it might be (see here) and you may find it necessary to use a 3rd party app like Touchdown if your company uses security policies.
Regards,
Dave[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the heads up about Touchdown. $20 bucks is pretty steep for an app, especially something in my opinion, that should work with the phone out of the box. Now to see if Nandroid can help me trick em.

So I recently found out that any mail I sent from my Hero was stuck in the outbox, and that is due to the issue everyone here is talking about regarding security policies. I work for a large company and they will not make exceptions to the policy
I am looking at Touchdown now, but it seems like it doesn't integrate with the native mail, calendar, contacts, etc of the Hero. Is that correct? Basically, email, contacts, calendar etc will be in the Touchdown app only? So those contacts will not show up my in contact list when I click the phone button?

It is true that Touchdown has it's own email, calendar and contacts but as far as contacts go you can have it populate the standard contacts app on your phone.

avhokie said:
So I recently found out that any mail I sent from my Hero was stuck in the outbox, and that is due to the issue everyone here is talking about regarding security policies. I work for a large company and they will not make exceptions to the policy
I am looking at Touchdown now, but it seems like it doesn't integrate with the native mail, calendar, contacts, etc of the Hero. Is that correct? Basically, email, contacts, calendar etc will be in the Touchdown app only? So those contacts will not show up my in contact list when I click the phone button?
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Touchdown will populate and sync Exchange contacts with your Android device's internal phone book. I had a few bumps getting contact syncing to work on my 2.1 rom, but I finally got it.

Thanks ffolkes. Has anyone tried Roadsync? Is that any more integrated with the native android functionality than Touchdown?

[REQUEST] [APP] HTC Exchange email app for N1 Froyo

Need the HTC exchange email app, stock N1 froyo app doesnt work with my company's exchange email. HTC on EVO, Aria, Eris, Hero, Incredible....all work

cpcrazyfly said:
Need the HTC exchange email app, stock N1 froyo app doesnt work with my company's exchange email. HTC on EVO, Aria, Eris, Hero, Incredible....all work
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You gotta be doing something wrong, then... It's standard activesync technology in both. And the n1 one, at least, even let's you ignore SSL certs (which was a common problem in 2.0 and less I believe).

friend, i would love it if i was doing something wrong, but i have tried everything, every combination with the settings. Worked perfectly with the "work email" app but that isnt supported for froyo. stock N1 wont authenticate. its not a small company (Best Buy) and ive used it on WM, Blackberry, HTC phones listed above, and Palm WebOS with no problems. its just the N1 stock client.
im out of ideas

Very strange. I've had better luck with email app in 2.1 and 2.2 then any previous version. have you tried leaving domain blank and doing domain\username for username? just a thought.
Edit: scratch that, that's exactly how it is setup now (no domain box) doh.

i am using the stock 2.2 mail and syncing to exchange server. make sure you have the username right

i understand the client isnt defective, just not compatible with Best Buy's requirements I guess. I know its working for many, but the stock N1 2.2 email client will not work with Best Buy. where the email client on the various HTC phones it does work (aria, evo, incredible, etc)
i believe i am entering everything correctly.
Domain\Username: NA\x123456
server: sync.bestbuy.com

ok, question here gurus...is this problem with my work email not working on the N1 stock email client possibly due to my company's requirement for a password on the phone?
the HTC email client can enforce that and make you have a password on the phone(which with an app can be bypassed). is it possible that the N1 client is unable to enforce that policy and thats why it doesnt work?

cpcrazyfly said:
friend, i would love it if i was doing something wrong, but i have tried everything, every combination with the settings. Worked perfectly with the "work email" app but that isnt supported for froyo. stock N1 wont authenticate. its not a small company (Best Buy) and ive used it on WM, Blackberry, HTC phones listed above, and Palm WebOS with no problems. its just the N1 stock client.
im out of ideas
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Since when has BestBuy allowed employees to ActiveSync into their work email? When I worked there that was a huge no-no.

shafty023 said:
Since when has BestBuy allowed employees to ActiveSync into their work email? When I worked there that was a huge no-no.
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we salaried types are allowed

cpcrazyfly said:
ok, question here gurus...is this problem with my work email not working on the N1 stock email client possibly due to my company's requirement for a password on the phone?
the HTC email client can enforce that and make you have a password on the phone(which with an app can be bypassed). is it possible that the N1 client is unable to enforce that policy and thats why it doesnt work?
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Ahhhhhh, yes that is definitely why. It can be setup to disallow e-mail clients that don't implement the pin lock policy.
Touchdown (not free, but imo worth it) in the market does have the option to enforce that policy with a built in pin system.
K9 is a free activesync/exchange email client but I'm not sure it supports pin lock (I'd guess not, but I haven't looked).

no go. Touchdown doesnt work, and their support told me that it officially wont work with it.
tried k-9 but the app is horrible...id rather login through the wesite to check the email befire using it.
guess i gotta sell my nexus and use Incredible on my VZ line...im very saddened by this.

cpcrazyfly said:
no go. Touchdown doesnt work, and their support told me that it officially wont work with it.
tried k-9 but the app is horrible...id rather login through the wesite to check the email befire using it.
guess i gotta sell my nexus and use Incredible on my VZ line...im very saddened by this.
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Whose support told you in wouldn't? Your work or nitrodesk? It absolutely supports standard activesync pin policies. Not saying i don't believe you, I mean I'm sure you tried it, just find it kinda odd.

I have N1 Froyo and my company requires pin lock with exchange sync. Since the upgrade to Froyo, I have been able to sync without a problem.

nitrodesk says Best Buy is blocking all Android phones so Touchdown will not work. i gave them server settings and all.
its not totally true, Best Buy exchange works perfectly on HTC branded Android phones, Aria, Evo, Incredible, Hero, etc...it requires the cimple pin and works fine.
although does not work on N1 or Touchdown.

using free trial of RoadSync by Dataviz and its working flawlessly for my push email, calendar, tasks, and contacts. Wierd, its half the price of Touchdown and its working where Touchdown would not.

I am on CM 5.0.8 and has no problem to work with the corporate mail / corporate calendar taken from Droid.
Yesterday I have tried to upgrade to the new FRF91 and get connected to the corporate mail - without success.
In the logcat I have seen the following line: "AuthenticationHandler( 270): Authentication scheme ntlm not supported" and the device continued to ask me for the username / password.
I went back to CM 5.0.8 just because the corporate mail and the calendar.
So I guess something was not implemented properly in FRF91 for the corporate mails ....

Android Exchange/Office questions

Sorry for cross post, this is a more relevant section imo.
Hi guys
i'm thinking of throwing Android on my HD2 but before I do, I need to know if I can support a couple of things?
Can I support two exchange email accounts?
Will it pull sync ALL info including pictures of people from the server?
Are there any particular fields that are not supported, like the "Notes"?
Is there a Microsoft OneNote client?
I'm guessing there is no MS Zune client at the moment either? Does anyone know if there are any plans?
To support the above, do I need a specific version of Android?
Thanks!!!!

Our Exchange setup was just changed to support the enhanced security features and they just forced the "remote wipe" capability.
So everybody who was used to the stock client is shut out!
Google issued a patch for the same BUT to ENTERPRISE customers only!
googleenterprise dot blogspot dot com/2011/04/putting-android-to-work-for-your.html
What the hell was that about.
The stock android mail client was working for me a lot of the people and now it just gives some error about unable to connect.
Now if we need our corporate email we have to either buy the Commercial product:
TouchDown Email : $20
MoxiMail : $20
Enhanced Email : $10
OR compromise with the free clients which just does mail.
K-9 Mail works for most of the Motorola Droid phones.
I have a LG GT540 and it stopped after a day.
MailDroid works better on LG GT540 android phone. I have a rooted android 2.2 on GT540.
All the free mail clients are the basic exchange mail clients which can help you to read email and reply to email.
It does not have GAL (corporate addressbook Lookup). So you need to know the email address of the person to send email to.
Workaround: Corporate AddressBook
Looks up corporate addressbook and has search function.
After a few weeks use most of them switched to MailDroid which seems to be more stable.
Any of the genius out there who have been working on the ROM have been able to get the patch in so that the stock email client can work as it is supposed to work?
That was the core function most users use their phone for and now it does not work unless you pay up and buy a commercial product.
Help please

EVO 4G Exchange server
I have this work phone that I want to root but I don't want to mess up the ssl encryption. Will this happen if I root my phone. I don't want to go back to the IT Dept. to get it. The encryption is on my phone, but I can't see it. How do I save the encryption.

[Q] WP7 and your Google account

I just bricked my captivate, and now im thinking about trying out a wp7 phone.
What im wondering is, how good is wp7 at syncing and integrating google accounts into the os.
Just basic stuff like contacts, calendar, reader, GMAIL, docs..
any opinions on the matter?

SteveCheeseman said:
I just bricked my captivate, and now im thinking about trying out a wp7 phone.
What im wondering is, how good is wp7 at syncing and integrating google accounts into the os.
Just basic stuff like contacts, calendar, reader, GMAIL, docs..
any opinions on the matter?
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This is a Microsoft phone so you aren't gonna see much here. Aside from general syncing with your Gmail account through Exchange (email, calendar, contacts), you don't have much else. Google has yet to throw any real app support at Windows Phone 7 as well, with a very poor search app and that's it. There are some nice 3rd party apps that do some Google stuff (like apps with Google Reader support, and a bunch of really crappy Google Voice apps), but nothing like what you will see on Google's very own operating system.
Windows Phone is very much well built for people who mostly live in the Windows/Microsoft ecosystem (Xbox, Windows Live, Zune, Office, etc.).

Gmail account syncs emails, contacts and calendar just fine... haven't had any use for any other stuff.

I think windows phone handles my google accounts just fine. You can multiple google account which will sync your emails, contacts and calendar. The sync is both ways. There is no need for google docs on this phone as the built in office offers 25gb of free storage in skydrive (mango) thats pretty awesome.
You will need a windows live id (hotmail) but the only thing you might miss really is navigation. Mango has voice turn by turn but its no gmaps!

One thing that I thought I would throw in is that it doesn't support multiple calendar sync if you have more than one on your gmail account. I've been reading that Mango is going to allow this with the Microsoft emails like live & hotmail but I haven't heard anything with gmail

collins521 said:
One thing that I thought I would throw in is that it doesn't support multiple calendar sync if you have more than one on your gmail account. I've been reading that Mango is going to allow this with the Microsoft emails like live & hotmail but I haven't heard anything with gmail
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You can do this with Gmail. Their calendars are EAS and that's supported, but Google is actively blocking WP7 phones from syncing more calendars. It's been said that it's a bug on Google's side but I kind of doubt that.

Xylias said:
You can do this with Gmail. Their calendars are EAS and that's supported, but Google is actively blocking WP7 phones from syncing more calendars. It's been said that it's a bug on Google's side but I kind of doubt that.
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Ya I don't think it's on Google's end...thanks for the input though, least we know that it's possible but not yet

collins521 said:
Ya I don't think it's on Google's end...thanks for the input though, least we know that it's possible but not yet
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It most certainly is possible as I have multiple Google Calendars sync'ing on my Mango device at the moment. There is a trick to get Google to give your Windows Phone those additional calendars, search the web and you should be able to find it too.
Unfortunately, it is Google actively blocking Windows Phone 7 devices from using multiple calendars (of course as I mentioned, you can get around it). I don't know why, but Google is just being a ***** to WP7.
Note: Only Mango can sync multiple calendars. NoDo and below are not capable of sync'ing multiple calendars (from a single account).

prjkthack said:
I don't know why, but Google is just being a ***** to WP7.
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Obviously because they want to try to make Android phones seem more capable.

SteveCheeseman said:
I just bricked my captivate, and now im thinking about trying out a wp7 phone.
What im wondering is, how good is wp7 at syncing and integrating google accounts into the os.
Just basic stuff like contacts, calendar, reader, GMAIL, docs..
any opinions on the matter?
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EVERYTHING. I was very impressed. You'll want to export your docs though. (trust me, it's worth it)

MrNetrix said:
Obviously because they want to try to make Android phones seem more capable.
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Well yes, of course they'd love to promote Android as much as possible, but they didn't seem to have an issue creating apps for Windows Mobile, or now with iOS. So I kinda wonder what has changed over at Google to make them ignore Windows Phone 7. Maybe they see WP7 as a viable competitor? Therefore throwing more weight behind it would not help Android at all.

Looking for some help getting HTC Mail working.

I recently switched from an HTC M8 to a OnePlus 5 running 7.1.1. I really miss the functionality of the HTC Mail app, and have been unable to find one that has all of the features I need. I have installed the Nougat version of HTC Mail, and it works for IMAP accounts, but it crashes when I try to add an exchange account.
I am hoping someone could help me out and provide a link to, or at least a list of, the other necessary apks to get exchange working in HTC Mail. On my Marshmallow powered HTC, there was an app called Exchange ActiveSync, which I imagine has something to do with it, but I don't know what all would be required.

polymox said:
I recently switched from an HTC M8 to a OnePlus 5 running 7.1.1. I really miss the functionality of the HTC Mail app, and have been unable to find one that has all of the features I need. I have installed the Nougat version of HTC Mail, and it works for IMAP accounts, but it crashes when I try to add an exchange account.
I am hoping someone could help me out and provide a link to, or at least a list of, the other necessary apks to get exchange working in HTC Mail. On my Marshmallow powered HTC, there was an app called Exchange ActiveSync, which I imagine has something to do with it, but I don't know what all would be required.
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Yes, I like HTC Mail as well. This may work for you...
Downloaded HTC Mail apk version 10.xxx from here for my PixelXL, and it runs perfectly. Needs no other dependent apps.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-c...e/htc-mail-10-00-814476-android-apk-download/

I just tried that one. It does work for my IMAP accounts, but will not let me add an Exchange account. Do you have an Exchange account working?

Way happens if you add an exchange account in phone settings/accounts and sync/?
Beamed in by telepathy

In accounts you have to pick an app first. When I pick HTC Mail, it only offers POP, APOP, and IMAP under Manual Setup.