There is a widespread problem with a process called "Exchange Services" on Android that rapidly drains device batteries. I have found references to the problem going at least as far back as Android 4.0. I can personally confirm that it happens on Android 4.4.2. And it happens on just about all devices, as far as I can tell.
I have:
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2012), on Android 4.1.2
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon), on Android 4.4.2
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, on Android 4.4.2
For email, I have an Exchange account for work and an Exchange account for my personal domain.
Work email is on Exchange Server 2010 w/SP1.
Personal email was on Exchange Server 2007, up until around April.
Then it was on Exchange Server 2010 w/SP3, up until yesterday.
Now it is on Exchange Server 2013.
I have never had this problem on any device, with my work email (Exchange 2010 SP1).
I never had this problem on any device, when my personal email was on Exchange 2007.
I had this problem on all 3 devices after my personal email was upgraded to Exchange 2010 w/SP3.
I don't have this problem on any device now that my personal email has been moved to Exchange 2013.
On my S4 and my Note 10.1, I was able to get the problem to go away by deleting my personal Exchange account from the device, rebooting into Recovery and wiping cache, then re-adding the Exchange account to the device.
On my Tab Pro, nothing I did made the problem go away (when my personal email was on Exchange 2010 w/SP3). I went as far as doing a factory reset to completely wipe the tablet, then only adding the personal email account. And many other combinations in between. Nothing helped. I've had my Tab Pro 8.4 for about a month now and I have had to charge it every single day. If I didn't, it would die in less than 24 hours, even if I didn't use it at all. The only thing that would keep it from dying would be to turn off WiFi.
On my S4, I installed SafeStrap and the HyperDrive 17.1 ROM for a few days. I tried the S5 email client, the N3 email client, and the "stock w/security removed" email client (reflashing the whole ROM for each one) and they all exhibited this problem and I could not get it to go away. I finally Odin'ed back to the stock NC5 image and re-setup everything and had the problem. I deleted my personal email account, wiped cache, re-added personal email, and it went away again.
I enabled Exchange ActiveSync logging for my Tab Pro and for my S4 (can be done on the server, using Outlook Web Access, in Options) when it was having the problem and I identified what the actual problem is: The problem is that the device is constantly trying to sync and failing, so it keeps retrying continuously. Specifically, it is attempting to do a Sync on the Collection with CollectionID of "RI", which is the Recipient Info Cache collection. All the other collections sync okay, so your email, calendar, etc, sync and work just fine. But, the ActiveSync logs show that the Sync attempt on RI causes the server to generate an internal exception and then return a Status code of 8 (which, according to the documentation indicates that the collection has been moved or deleted).The device receives the status of 8 and immediately re-attempts to sync the RI. Over and over and over, once every 1 to 2 seconds. THIS is what was crushing the battery on my devices.
I investigated further and found that Microsoft actually has a patch available for this server bug. The KB article that describes the issue and provides the resolution is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2886469/en-us
The only thing that I feel like is still a mystery is why, for example, my phone would have this problem and then I could delete the account, wipe cache, and re-add the account and have the problem go away. Looking at logs of my phone syncing when it's actually working show that it Syncs RI and the server does not throw an exception. That is really strange. I guess I just have to settle for "stupid Microsoft!" and move on.
I spent the last couple of weeks trying to get my hosted Exchange provider (Apptix) to apply this MS patch to my server. They initially said they would have to test it in their lab, etc., and it could be a couple of months before they put it into production. Then, eventually they told me that they can't load it on my server with no explanation of why. In other words, Apptix SUCKS!! I was with them for years. They used to be MailStreet, but they changed names in the last year. I'm guessing AppTix bought MailStreet. MailStreet really used to be great! I would call Tech Support and the person who answered the phone would be totally competent and always handled any issue I had with 1 phone call - 2 at the most. Now that they are Apptix, their support sucks big green donkey parts. And, they more than doubled my monthly fees, in the name of premium support, too! How ironic!
With Apptix, after weeks of trying I was completely unable to get a resolution to this problem. They kept telling me it's just a known thing that devices using ActiveSync burn a lot of battery and I should just change my devices from Push to polling every 1 hour. They simply would not install the Microsoft patch that has been available for 9 MONTHS!
So, yesterday, I moved my domain to hosted Exchange with Rackspace.com. They are awesome. I was able to do the whole migration myself (except for one phone call to get them to add an Accepted Domain to my account for a subdomain that I need because I'm using Split Domain Routing - some mailboxes on Google and some on Rackspace), in about 2 hours. And I went from paying $33/month for 5GB of mailbox storage to $10/month for 100GB!
And, best of all, I moved all my devices over to my new account on Rackspace, where I'm on an Exchange 2013 server, and none of them have Exchange Services battery drain any more. My Tab Pro was burning through 80% of its battery in less than 20 hours. Today, it has been on battery for 15h 54m and battery is at 83%.
TL;DR: If you're having this problem, the FIX (vs some workarounds I've seen posted) is to either apply the Microsoft patch linked above to your Exchange 2010 server. You might have to upgrade it to Service Pack 3 first. OR, upgrade your server to Exchange Server 2013.
Caveat: I don't know for SURE that the MS patch will fix your problem, as I didn't get to try it. But, the problem description EXACTLY matches the logs I was generating, so I strongly suspect it will fix the problem.
If you want to see for yourself if this is the explanation for your own version of this problem, try this:
Login to Outlook Web Access for your email account. It has to be the full version, not the Light version.
In the upper right, click on Options/See All Options.
Then, in the left pane, click Phone.
Then, in the right pane, click on your device and then click on Start Logging.
If you don't see these options, you are not in the right version of OWA.
Leave logging on for 10 or 15 minutes, then, on the same screen, click on Retrieve Log.
This will stop logging and put the log file as an attachment to an email in your Inbox.
The log file can be opened in Notepad. It's XML. Look for something that looks like this (the part that says Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.AirSyncPermanentException, and then the part at the bottom that says <Status>8</Status>):
Code:
RequestHeader :
POST /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync/default.eas?Cmd=Sync&User=username%40yourdomain.com&DeviceId=SEC06A986F234C19&DeviceType=SAMSUNGSMT320 HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 39
Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-sync.wbxml
Authorization: ********
Host: email.hostaccount.com
User-Agent: SAMSUNG-SM-T320/101.40402
MS-ASProtocolVersion: 14.1
X-MS-PolicyKey: 3365629650
X-Forwarded-For: 50.73.234.97
RequestBody :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Sync xmlns="AirSync:">
<Collections>
<Collection>
<SyncKey>1358440366</SyncKey>
<CollectionId>RI</CollectionId>
<DeletesAsMoves/>
<GetChanges/>
<WindowSize>10</WindowSize>
<Options/>
</Collection>
</Collections>
</Sync>
SyncCommand_OnExecute_Exception :
Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.AirSyncPermanentException
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.RecipientInfoCacheSyncCollection.OpenSyncState(Boolean autoLoadFilterAndSyncKey, SyncStateStorage syncStateStorage)
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.SyncCommand.SyncTheCollection(SyncCollection collection, Boolean createSubscription, Boolean tryNullSync)
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.SyncCommand.OnExecute()
LogicalRequest :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Sync xmlns="AirSync:">
<Collections>
<Collection>
<SyncKey>1358440366</SyncKey>
<CollectionId>RI</CollectionId>
<DeletesAsMoves/>
<GetChanges/>
<WindowSize>10</WindowSize>
<Options/>
</Collection>
</Collections>
</Sync>
Command_WorkerThread_Exception :
--- Exception start ---
Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.AirSyncPermanentException
Exception message:
Exception level: 0
HttpStatusCode: OK
AirSyncStatusCode: Ping_ServerError
XmlResponse:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Sync xmlns="AirSync:">
<Status>8</Status>
</Sync>
Exception stack trace: at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.SyncCommand.OnExecute()
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.SyncCommand.ExecuteCommand()
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.Command.WorkerThread()
Inner exception follows...
Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.AirSyncPermanentException
Exception message:
Exception level: 1
HttpStatusCode: InternalServerError
AirSyncStatusCode: ServerError
XmlResponse:
[No XmlResponse]
Exception stack trace: at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.RecipientInfoCacheSyncCollection.OpenSyncState(Boolean autoLoadFilterAndSyncKey, SyncStateStorage syncStateStorage)
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.SyncCommand.SyncTheCollection(SyncCollection collection, Boolean createSubscription, Boolean tryNullSync)
at Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.SyncCommand.OnExecute()
--- Exception end ---
AccessState :
Allowed
AccessStateReason :
Individual
ResponseHeader :
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
ResponseBody :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Sync xmlns="AirSync:">
<Status>8</Status>
</Sync>
ResponseTime :
07/08/2014 12:53:55
Hello,
Hope all is well,
So after reading this thread I went ahead and turned auto sync off from the notification panel. Deleted some accounts and only left my outlook account. For some reason exchange services keep waking up my cpu. Does anyone have the same issue, or can help me find a solution?
Thanks in advance
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I've been searching for a good push setup with gmail, but I cant find anything that is perfect
Free:
SEVEN-Similar to mobipush, supports html email, does not allow to acces other folders than inbox and has to install a separate program on the phone.
mail2web-
cannot change reply-to address, but syncs contacts/tasks also.. it also gives decent battery life. Adds a "sent by mail2web" signature
emoze(web server)-
does not mark read/unread messages, and it does not allow to access other folders than inbox. It also adds a "sent by emoze" signature
Mobipush- does not seem to support HTML messages, does not allow access to folders other than inbox
Windows Live Hotmail- good solution when using hotmail
Pay:
mail2web-
You forward all your current email to a @mail2web.com adress, and it syncs contacts/tasks/calendar/email, this is a really good choice if you decide to pay for push
PushEffect- sends a "hidden" text message to phone, telling it to send/recieve, good solution when not recieving lots of email.
flexmail-not free, interference very buggy, does not allow programs to integrate with built in pOutlook
VGSmail(emansio)- not free, from what I read, this makes the battery drain quick it is imap IDLE,
So could you guys help me create a list of all the solutions that we can use with gmail, and I will write a short review on all of them? (Then I can create a poll)
Now I am using a gmail imap with 15min intervals
I'd recommend MobiPush... I never really was a fan of Push Email, but MobiPush makes things effortless and easy. Try it out.
http://www.mobipush.com
Thanks mobipush seems great... but when I go to the email settings, plain text is selected and grayed out... any ideas?
I used to use VGSmail for my IMAP IDLE. Not sure if it still exists though, been a while. It might be the one to suit your bill
I will try it out tomorow, it looks interesting, it renamed to emansio, it is a pay software thou
What kind of battery life did you get with it?
Here's one you may not have considered. . .
Windows Live Hotmail. . .if you have Windows Live on your PPC, you can set it to have email pushed to your mobile. . .allows for all folders to be seen/accessed. . .real-time push. . .sync contacts with phone. . .full HTML. . .only downside is the text-based ads at the bottom, however, I was so impressed with what I was getting, I figured it was worth 19.95 a year. . .especially when you consider that you can use Windows Live Admin Center to have Hotmail host your domain, thus, all email sent from mobile and from website are the same. . .without the need for the hotmail domain and without the text-based ads at the bottom of every email. What's more the web interface is among the best I've ever used. GMail was way ahead for a long time, but Hotmail is now in the running and for me, the push email was the "push" I needed to make the switch. . .I've played with mail2web (only 4.95 per month for full, but only Exchange 2003. . .Exchange 2007 available, but for $10 more a month), IT Solutions. . .fantastic product, price pretty good at $10 per month, Exchange 2007, but again, why pay $120 a year when I can pay a one time a year fee of $20 and get virtually the same thing. . .FlexMail. . .way buggy and only ate my resources for lunch. . .Emansio/VGS Mail. . .okay, but a battery hog and WAYYYY expensive at approximately $50 for a two year license and it doesn't exactly play nice with WM6. . .MobiPush. . .does it right, but only for inbox and no HTML. . .eMoze. . .works, but you serve as their advertising agent. . .SEVEN. . .does everything right with no ads, but it is beta and subject to disappearing at anytime. . .plus, only allows for inbox and is not very configurable. . .
I said all of that to say this. . .most of the time, you get what you pay for. . .on the other hand, the Hotmail/Windows Live Admin Center/Windows Live For Mobile combo seems to be the best of all worlds at a ridiculously low price in the end. . .
It's all about PushEffect by QoreFunctions. I use it, and it works *perfectly* for me.
The app isn't free, but it is *great* at performing automatic POP logins to download your messages. It is basically a service which checks for an SMS sent by your provider which notifies you of a new e-mail to your phone. What you do is first have your mail server automatically forward your messages to your phone's e-mail account (usually ##yournumber##@your.provider.com). Your provider should then SMS you with a patterned message (i.e. same words used; sent from same service number) and PushEffect will pick this up and go trigger a "Send/Receive" from the accounts you setup in your Pocket Outlook.
If you cannot manipulate your mail server to auto-forward messages to your phone's e-mail, then just set your desktop client to auto-send/receive every 5-10mins and have a rule that FW's it to your phone's e-mail. If using G-Mail, like I believe you are, just go to SETTINGS --> Forwarding and POP/IMAP, and have it "Keep a copy in your G-Mail Inbox"
You can grab the program here:
PushEffect by QoreFunctions (Trial Download)
pcharouz said:
flexmail-not free, interference very buggy, does not allow programs to integrate with built in pOutlook
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Try FlexMail 4, it works really well IMHO, I moved away from Windows Live mail as T-Mobile/M$ started to block it. I now use FlexMail to my GMail apps account and I'm much happier than when I used Windows Live Mail.
http://www.pocketinformant.com/Forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=11593&view=findpost&p=69319
Forgot about. . .
PushEffect. . .awesome if you have unlimited texting or get very few emails a day. . .not so for me. . .in addition, I have a Treo 750 and have NEVER been able to get it to work. . .As for TMobile blocking Live, hadn't heard that before. . .what would they have to gain by doing that? I have AT&T and they removed LIVE from their WM6, but I've found a copy of it that works great!!!
Al66 said:
Try FlexMail 4, it works really well IMHO, I moved away from Windows Live mail as T-Mobile/M$ started to block it. I now use FlexMail to my GMail apps account and I'm much happier than when I used Windows Live Mail.
http://www.pocketinformant.com/Forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=11593&view=findpost&p=69319
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I agree with this. FM4 is amazing. They really polished the application, it's not buggy at all. My only problem is it doesn't update the system mail counter, but because it supports it's own notification system (try it!) it's really not a problem, and may just be better! I find that FM function amazingly close to the mail features of Microsoft Outlook for PC, and is really worth the cost if you need Push Email.
Seven works great for me..
Hands down, Seven is the best I've used yet.
Clean, messages come in HTML, attachments aren't hit with data ceilings etc.
http://community.seven.com/forum/main.php
Thanks for all the input... I will test all of them soon, is there any other FREE alternatives? So far seven seems the best thou
I also fixed the title since nobody focused on gmail...
Seven Is Awesome, But. . .
As I had mentioned earlier, I think SEVEN is quite the fantastic program. My hesitation, however, is rooted in the fact that SEVEN is beta. . .not a reflection on the program's quality, but on its longevity as a "free" solution. In addition, it does have some issues which I haven't been able to get past. First, it's not a true IMAP solution. . .it's an advanced POP polling setup that runs through SEVEN's servers in order to achieve the push effect. . .you WILL get pretty darn fast notification of new email. You will NOT have emails that you delete on your phone deleted on the gmail server. You will also only have access on your phone to things that come into the "inbox". . .meaning that if you wish to move an item in your phone's inbox to another folder, it will not provide the reciprocal movement on the gmail side. The whole point with using gmail in tandem with my WM6 was the fact that it was now IMAP. . .changes made on my phone side were reflected on the gmail side. . .something that is negated when SEVEN is put into the mix.
Just something for you to consider. . . .
bryanbelt said:
As I had mentioned earlier, I think SEVEN is quite the fantastic program. My hesitation, however, is rooted in the fact that SEVEN is beta. . .not a reflection on the program's quality, but on its longevity as a "free" solution. In addition, it does have some issues which I haven't been able to get past. First, it's not a true IMAP solution. . .it's an advanced POP polling setup that runs through SEVEN's servers in order to achieve the push effect. . .you WILL get pretty darn fast notification of new email. You will NOT have emails that you delete on your phone deleted on the gmail server. You will also only have access on your phone to things that come into the "inbox". . .meaning that if you wish to move an item in your phone's inbox to another folder, it will not provide the reciprocal movement on the gmail side. The whole point with using gmail in tandem with my WM6 was the fact that it was now IMAP. . .changes made on my phone side were reflected on the gmail side. . .something that is negated when SEVEN is put into the mix.
Just something for you to consider. . . .
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im pretty sure it deletes emails in my gmail inbox that I delete on the phone only..
I updated the first post with links and separated free/pay, I am using seven right now, and I like it so far.
if anybody has anything to add, or knows of any other solutions pleas speak up! I want to create a poll when I have more of them..
also, could someone please give me a link to windows live?
Edit:
sweet, check it out, this post made it to the first place on google...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...Z&q=best+free+push+email+solution&btnG=Search
I tried mobipush it seems good concept but doesnt seem to be too reliable.
using seven but it slows down the pda abit and opening of the pocket outlook. but its quite reliable and fast. am using it via wifi
so far, i like SEVEN the best, but sometimes i have trouble downloading attachements, anybody have the same problem?
I've tried them all and was going to stay with my mail2web solution (with gmail fowarded), but I was getting tired of not having my conversations threaded and having to go into my Gmail account on my pc to mark all the emails that I had already read or deleted. Seven was okay, but seemed to slow my Vogue to a standstill when selecting my email icon. Mobipush wasn't going to work, since it would not keep my contacts, appointments and tasks updated along with my gmail. I tried PushEffect as a last resort and so far it is working very well. I have my gmail set up with imap enabled on my phone and get messages just a few seconds slower than with the mail2web exchange server. The few seconds delay is worth it, as being able to keep my emails synced between my phone and desktop, while keeping my conversations threaded is exactly what I was looking for.
A bonus is that none of it is dependent on a server application like Seven or Mobipush.
This could be a great thread.
I still think it is a shame that the POutlook team didn't really implement more feature to IMAP in it (IDLE and folder mappings).
Rundown: great service to store your contacts and SMS messages when ROM Switching/Upgrading, or when switching phones.
Full Review: Don't know where else to put this.. I'm reviewing the MyPhone service from Microsoft because I used it to synchronize my Contacts and my SMS messages prior to upgrading my Touch Pro 2 from Windows Mobile 6.1 to WM 6.5.
Here are the results:
Before upgrading my phone, I synchronized my contacts to Outlook 2007 on Vista over ActiveSync, and synchronized my SMS messages to Outlook 2007 on Vistsa using Jeyo's Outlook Extender... I thought I was ready to rock and roll until I realized Jeyo's program wasn't sending SMS messages back to my phone as it was supposed to.
Rather than fiddle with it longer than the 30 minutes I already had, I searched for an alternative method. Enter Microsoft's MyPhone service. I logged into the service using my existing hotmail e-mail address, sent a link to my phone, downloaded the software directly to my phone, and began synchronizing. The time to upload 511 contacts and about 3200 SMS messages took about 25-30 minutes over Sprint's 3G network.
After I verified everything I needed to back up was on Microsoft's MyPhone site, I began the upgrade of my phone.
Upgrade complete, took about 10 minutes... and during that time, I was reading about adding a new phone to the MyPhone service...
So I just installed WM 6.5... Right after the upgrade completed, I sent the MyPhone service's "Add new device" link to my same phone, which is now running WM 6.5 instead of WM 6.1
Link received on phone, downloaded, installed, it asked for a restart, so i did... and... here goes...
Phone's on again... Let's see...
*taps start*
*open "My Phone"*
*taps next*
*taps accept*
*enters hotmail info*
*taps next*
*uncheck photos, videos, music, documents* (because I don't want those synchronized)
*taps next*
automatic synchronization? sounds good.. I have unlimited data..
*taps finish*
and now it says "Synchronizing"... already at 80 of 510 contacts (I found one duplicate earlier while the upgrade was completing, thanks to the built in "Find Duplicates" button on the MyPhone site you access through your PC) ... by the time I finished that sentence, it's already downloaded 325 of my contacts... We shall soon see if it kept my contact pictures and such, which would be great, although not a complete necessity... I'm most concerned about my thousands of texts... and it just completed the contacts... now texts... already at 90 of 2832 (i cleaned those up quite a bit also) now at 175... it seems to be downloading about 133 messages per minute over Sprint's 3G connection...
I'll leave it...
It's done... total time to synchronize 510 contacts and 2832 text messages took approximately 25-30 minutes over Sprint's 3G connection. This is honestly pretty bad in comparison to USB synchronization, but considering it's over 3G and can occur whenever/wherever, and was easier and more convenient than installing outlook, configuring the synchronization settings (because this is only one of dozens of PC's with ActiveSync/Mobile Device Center I've plugged this phone into), trying to figure out if I wanted to keep it synched with another PC or not, yada yada... AND it will synchronize everyday automatically, I must say I've definitely got to recommend Microsoft's MyPhone ... now, did it keep my messages in order, are my contacts still with pictures? The answer is...
Yes!! Perfect air synchronization... it took a bit longer than I thought, but MyPhone essentially synchronized all my stuff with no hassle and I can access the data from anywhere! whoo-hoo!! not only that, but my messages are all in order, and the ones that were read are still marked as read, and the ones that were unread are still marked as unread!!! I LIKE IT!! A LOT!! I can't attest to MMS messages since I didn't have any at the time I did my sync, but I'm sure I'll get one later
So, Microsoft's MyPhone gets a double-thumbs-up from me for keeping my contacts and sweet SMS messages intact PERFECTLY during a phone update, making it nearly hassle-free and fool-proof, and not costing a single red cent.
Thanks, Microsoft. Did I just say that? I need coffee... it's 6:45 in the morning. Good luck, fellow gadget lovers!
yeah, dont forget to register on msn first to let this thing working.
and dont forget to share you private data by using MyPhone with MS
I think the thing about the MyPhone service that made me happiest is the hassle-free restoration of my text messages. PIMBackup, Jeyo, and the other ones I've used are a bit of a hassle to set up, and I didn't completely feel that they were 100% what I needed. Once I logged into the MyPhone service and saw my messages being backed up on my PC in a readable format, I felt assured. That's why I prefer the MyPhone service.
I find the Myphone serve great, plus i know if i ever lose my phone, i do not lose my contacts and sms's, i can just restore everythgin to a new phone.
I set mine to sync every day at 3am.
Btw you can also set it to sync your location, pictures, storage card etc, so you have everythign backed up online.
Another big plus, is if you log into the myphone service via a PC, you can search all your sms's and view any file you uploaded via any PC.
just to warn, there's an issue of duplicates that myphone creates. For example, it does not recognise a task as the same one if you change the title, or due date etc. It recreates a duplicate. Same for calendar etc. PIM backup is still king
heineken78 said:
yeah, dont forget to register on msn first to let this thing working.
and dont forget to share you private data by using MyPhone with MS
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LOL...good point...unfortunately tho, lets be realistic, if someone wants that info bad enough they can still get it...especially if you back it up anywhere...
POKEYTSI said:
LOL...good point...unfortunately tho, lets be realistic, if someone wants that info bad enough they can still get it...especially if you back it up anywhere...
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No actually they can't get that info nowhere if you only save it on your secure PC. What they are doing with this service is effectively creating a huge worldwide database with phone numbers+names+email addresses+home/work addresses whatever and I bet they'd sell access to it to the highest bidder. Also I'm sure that the US government agencies will have access to it anyhow. This database can and will be used in order to track anyone on the planet...considering your smartphone has also a gps included and myphone includes a "gps location" premium feature "in case it gets stolen". The feature is there although you can't use it unless you play for premium...they can activate it at will though.
Don't want to sound paranoid here but think about it for a moment. The only way I would even remotely consider using such a service would be if the client utilized strong encryption (eg high bit (elliptic curve or not) DSA) so that the only thing transmitted to M$ would be the encrypted package. And I say remotely consider because all encryption schemes can be cracked with adequate "cpu time". The people utilizing such a database though would have no issue to employ supercomputer cluster farms for their "forensic" needs...
Sorry but..NO...with capital letters.
Email addresses other than MS
So... It has the option to use your existing Windows Live ID, using a hotmail, msn, live, or other. So when you select other, and type in your email thinking you will get at domain prompt at some next step, you can't go to the next step. The sign in button won't activate. If you type in your full email address in the bar, it wil allow you to use the sign in button but still won't work. I'm currently on Windows Live right now, logged in to Windows live from Opera on my phone, all using my non-MS email address. Anyone have any idea why can't I use it to log in to this one service when they clearly give you the option to do so?
Using Energy ROM (9/29), Rhodium.
You can skip the story and go to the solution at the bottom if you don't care about the origin of the problem. This may help some ROM designers.
It appears that Yahoo may not want us to know this fix and is pushing us to use their Yahoo Mail app in the market. It is a pretty good app and is a nice alternative to this. But the stock email is quite fast in skimming /deleting emails from multiple accounts.
Story: When the original Droid came out, one of the first issues was that people with Yahoo Mail! (free accounts) could not use the stock MAIL application to set-up their account. We had to go to the website through the web browser to check email.
Then people all over these forums and other Droid forums came out with the "IMAP" work around. And it did work. The problem was that if you had your account setup to leave a copy of any email you send in your SENT folder, you'd get 700-1000 of the same copy in that folder. Mine was around 27000 emails in one folder in a few days. Annoying but as soon as I turned that "keep a copy" feature off, I was OK. But I still wanted a copy of my sent emails.
Motorola, Google, Verizon, or Yahoo came up with a fix and we all got it with the first OTA (over the air) update. Everything was great. But then I rooted my phone and tried all kinds of custom ROMS. In the mean time Yahoo came up with their own Yahoo Mail app (currently pretty good app, if you'd ask me).
Problem: Some of the ROMS appeared to be like the original Droid and not let Yahoo mail set up but some where fine with it. Unfortunately, my favorite ROM, MIUI, was of the ones that had problems setting this up. After talking with Jamezelle and him pushing me to find out what the fix was, I flashed my original ROM (right before I rooted) to see what was different in the settings. It seems like the IMAP solution is still in place but with slight modification to avoid multiple sent items being stored. The IMAP solution I have seen in all Internet forums do not mention this slight fix, hence, not a complete fix.
Solution:
The real FIX: I did not come up with this fix, I only poked around the phone to see what was different from what Verizon had pushed OTA in early 2010 that was not in many of the custom ROMs.
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1- Go to your mail app, press menu, add account. make sure you have erased any account you may have setup for this yahoo account. Long press and remove
2- enter email address, make sure it's your complete email address, and then enter your password
3-- press manual setup (lower left)
4-enter your username, this is your whole email address, fill out what you are missing (the @ sign and domain), your password is there
5- Here is the modification, the imap server is:
android.imap.mail.yahoo.com
the android part is new
6- Port: change port to 993
7- security type : choose SSL, imap path prefix stays empty, click next
if you have entered anything wrong you will get an error, check everything again. If OK, you go to the SMTP settings:
8- SMTP server:
android.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
note the difference from above and the android word is also new.
9- Port change to 465,
10- Security type: SSL, and check the box for require sign in (important)
11- again make sure your whole email address is in the username field, your password is already entered.
If you keep getting an error after the SMPT setting, try connecting through WiFi and then repeat the steps. You may have to choose no encryption and then later change it to SSL I had a hard time setting up one of my droids but it did finally take it. Keep at it and it will work.
click next, if you get any error, you did something wrong. If everythig is OK, it will take you to the page to name the account and how frequent you want to check for emails. Finish it up and you are done.
I had to choose "SSL (accept all certificates)" other wise it kept telling me smtp error.
Thanks for the great directions
Stef
My Yahoo! problem was it kept saying i has the wrong username and or password when they both were correct. I pulled the settings off my wm6.5 to get mine to work with Yahoo!
Although ur fix was for custom roms, I figured i'd add it here. Hope thats ok.
Incoming:
Imap.mail.yahoo.com
Username: email address
Password
Port: 143
Security: TLS
Outgoing
Smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 587
Security: none
Sent from my Dell unlocked Streak official 2.2 release
Hello.
Issue: After installing update for Angry birds, Android started all alone the cache cleaner, and offered me to free room, because it found that 100M free were not enough. I accepted to clean cache for apps older than 8d, and refused everything else. Since then, I can not sync.
I will run very quickly over what I did to fix my issue
- phone to HTC, who said that if I can not sync to google, i must sync to PC
- if I don't have Windows and Outlook, i can fix my sync issue by wiping the phone
- also stated that HTC developers could not be contacted
- and that Android developers could not be contacted either
- and that Android does not ship any kind of bug reporting system
- and that wiping my user profile would FOR SURE fix my sync issue
- sync is supported only with Microsoft Windows
They just forgot that ...
- bug report system starts automaticly when any app crashes (I get it several times a week)
- http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list exists ...
- Android is running above Linux, and selling a Linux phone which would not sync with a Linux desktop is just ... non sens
- wiping my user data profile is just the opposite of what I need; I don't want to see the green arrow sping around for the fun; I *need* to synchronise my calendar and contacts to merge my work of the day with my Gmail profile; wiping user profile would mean ... loose all work of the day
and september the first have been the most busy day I had in the past 3 months. So much work I was exhausted, and would never in life be able to remember all customers I was happy to get, and all providers I hardly could contact, all meetings I have arranged with my customers and providers ... no way to contact all of them to re-ask the date we decided; I would forget some, and loose ... money.
I also tried to remove some Google account from my phone, to test sync on a secondary account; after removal, and re-creation, account could not sync. Gmail is stuck on "your emails will appear shortly". Gmail just does not read my emails on server.
Mail can still work, because it does not depend on the sync stack; it has it's own mechanism to read emails.
The same account can work fine in Mail, and fail in Gmail. Not an account issue.
I also tried to untick all sync things every where in the sync section or params, and only ticked Weather ... and clicked on manual sync. The last sync time stick to 31st 2AM ... even weather won't sync. Even when only this is ticked, even after reboot ...
My question to this forum is now:
- which package owns the sync layer stack ?
- which folder in /data/data can I remove to clear any possible sync issue ?
- will this erase, or keep, my changes to contacts and calendar ?
- can any third party app sync my EXISTING calendar, and contacts to Gmail, the same way Mail can ... read my mails when Gmail fails ? something that would update my recent changes to server, so that recent changes in my phone would be updated on server, so that I can continue my work from computer ? I have several calendar apps on the phone, but all seem to rely and depend on Android Sync service, and let it bother about sync between device and Google servers. Only Mail seems to perform an independant access to server.
I need sync to work at any price. I can leave with many bugs in my phone; but a failing sync just makes me leave, not just money, but contracts ...
I could work with an other device, and through this one to bin; but I need to sync ONCE the work i did in the last 36h.
HTC Sensation
Leedroid 2.2
Android 2.3.4
Sense 3.0
RomManager 4.4.0.2 with ClockWorkMod 5.0.1.0 failed to backup my phone (CWM 5 complains that I don't have RM 4.4 or higher).
I am doing manual backup. Trying to revert to previous versions of RM and CWM (this software still sux as much as before), and doing manual backups in // (raw block dump, so that I can loop mount them from computer easily: I will do a diff between dump of today, and last week, what will highlight the work of this week; painfull, but efficient) .
I need a quick fix, i can't work anymore; if this is not fixed by monday 8AM, I may loose my job. I tried to backup my work as soon as I came back home, and now, I am loosing everything. I am doing daily backups; but this single day worth a year for me. If I can't sync it, I am ruined.
Many thanks for any kind of constructive help.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19755
in short: sync failed because of disk full; by full, you shall remember that Android considers a disk full when free space is less than 7%, or 98M (not sure yet which approach is used).
I am just ... O_O ...
So, yes, there was a link with the cache cleaner ...
After freeing 30M, everything works fine again.
Working. Fixed. Lost 12h and ... lot of pain and fear.
Flashed miui rom today and tried logging into amazon app store.
Not realizing Amazon puts a cap on how many devices you can register.
Had to go to website to deregister 25 devices haha so for you flashers out there don't panic like I did that I could not login.
You sir, are a crack flasher.
Sort of on this topic if it comes up for anyone else -
The same thing will happen with some Exchange servers. If for some reason you can't connect to Exchange after a bunch of flashes log into the Outlook Web Access (web interface for your email) and go into the Options and delete older entries from the Phone section. My exchange server only allows 10 connections. This was always a problem for me before, switching back and forth between ROMs after performing full wipes. Now that I have my daily I rarely have to format /data so it's not so much an issue anymore