Hello guys, in 1.5 when you created an email account you would have an option for exchange server, in 1.6 I only see POP3 and IMAP, do I need to use a third party app?
There is no built in exchange support in 1.6. You can use touchdown from the market to sync exchange mail/contacts/appointments to your phone
Yeah, I believe the Exchange support you see in 1.5 is because it's HTC's email program you're using and they developed support for it as a part of the Sense UI.
You can also try Moxier Mail from the Marketplace. I like Touchdown better though.
Thanks guys I went back to 1.5 for now, Waiting for something else
Thanks anyways
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
I got my defy the other day, but I am having problems getting Exchange mail to work.
AFAIK, you need Froyo for proper support, so I installed a Froyo ROM (This one)
However, it seems to have no "Mail" icon in applications - there is a K9 mail, which seems to have an exchange option, but I cannot get it to work, and surely I don't need 3rd party apps?
If I go into settings->accounts and add a new account, there is a "Corporate Sync" option which seems to have a "Domain" box, but no box for server address, so I cannot get that to work. Is that Exchange mail?
I not only need to sync mail, but contacts and appointments also.
I use exchangemymail.com and my server is Exchange 2003, their page for setting up on winmo is here
Ideally I want MotoBlur REMOVED from the ROM.
Any suggestions on which ROM I should use?
Any of the stock 2.2 Defy Froyo's will have exchange / corporate email in them. (performance is fine!)
If you must have a deblur, I am currently using S.Froyo Fin III edition and that has it (although i did add his extras too).
Hope this helps you out.
Andy
evilc said:
I got my defy the other day, but I am having problems getting Exchange mail to work.
AFAIK, you need Froyo for proper support, so I installed a Froyo ROM (This one)
However, it seems to have no "Mail" icon in applications - there is a K9 mail, which seems to have an exchange option, but I cannot get it to work, and surely I don't need 3rd party apps?
If I go into settings->accounts and add a new account, there is a "Corporate Sync" option which seems to have a "Domain" box, but no box for server address, so I cannot get that to work. Is that Exchange mail?
I not only need to sync mail, but contacts and appointments also.
I use exchangemymail.com and my server is Exchange 2003, their page for setting up on winmo is here
Ideally I want MotoBlur REMOVED from the ROM.
Any suggestions on which ROM I should use?
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I'm using Finland Froyo and it works fine with Exchange. My company uses Microsoft BPOS and all contacts and appointments sync perfectly. But I really dont know if there is some issue with Exchange 2003 severs.
you can't sync birthdays in contacts
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you can't sync birthdays in contacts
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Bummer, is there a fix/workaround available/coming for this?
I realised I was being a numpty and had installed FIN II not FIN III.
I installed FIN III and the option was there and worked perfectly first time.
I gather that mail, contacts and calendar syncing aren't an out-of-the-box feature on the GTab. Nor, it seems, is it baked into the popular ROMS. Am I going to need an app to get this functionality? Can you recommend one? Am I simply married to the web interface?
I currently have contacts and calendars synced to my iPhone via Exchange. Am I going to be able to 3-way sync or is this unlikely?
Thanks, all.
hello everyone, I've been playing around for a couple of days with several froyo ROMS and every one of them have a single issue in common: I cannot sync my Exchange calendar with the phone. I can setup the exchange account normally and it works for email and contacts but in the calendar list I can't see my exchange one, only the standard google one. It might be due to the absence of some core blur apps, but I'm not even sure it works on a stock 2.2 rom.
I was thinking about swap all calendar/email apps with the stock apks, I already tried calendar.apk and email.apk with no luck. I can't find the stock calendarsync.apk, may be I already have the stock one, don't know for sure!
any ideas? Thanks!
Not sure what the issue could be. As far as I know all Froyo builds have calendar. All of them I have tried have worked. Any of the Blur roms should work as well.
I've noticed really hit-and-miss exchange syncing among various ROMs. I change ROMs rather frequently just because I like to test out the latest and greatest, but I also rely on exchange for my work account and the unreliable exchange support of the built-in e-mail apps was frustrating. I ended up buying 'enhanced e-mail' from the market and haven't looked back. Now I don't have to worry if the included mail client will support exchange, I just install EE and I'm done with it. The developer of it is super responsive. I VERY rarely pick up paid apps, but this was a good buy for me.
well, I ended up deleting email.apk and calendar.apk instead of trying to fix them
I'm quite sure this problem is due to the absence of some core files, on the stock nordic rom it works fine! I also use an aftermarket app, RoadSync, it works quite well but the developer is almost non existent, I'll try enhanced email
I might be way way off on this one, but I think that the normal calendars (AOSP and Moto's version for Defy) can only sync with one external calendar.
So, for me, I choose not to sync my Google Calendars (an option you can set in your accounts screen), but choose yes to sync my corporate cal. Upon next reboot & sync I see my work calendar on my Defy.
(I'm using AOSP 2.2.2 Email.apk and Moto's calendar on a Nordic build 2.2.2 ROM. I sync three GMail accounts mail and contacts but not calendar, and one Exchange account all mail/contacts/calendar).
Like I say, I might be wrong, but I think you can only sync your first calendar and not all of them.
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Like I say, I might be wrong, but I think you can only sync your first calendar and not all of them.
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I can sync both my Exchange calendar and my Google calendar. I have done so with both AOSP and Blur.