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[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
^ Stock does contacts sync too.
[G2 and Desire Z General] markdurant:
The Froyo email client supports Activesync version 12, that eliminated some of the limitations that the stock exchange intergation had. On my G2 I have 3 exchange accounts setup. all sync'ing calendar, contacts, email add, moves, changes and invites. In addition to that I can sync my public folders, most particuarly my GALs.

So that there is no confusion on what I am saying:

Here are important points:

- It is possible to synchronize ALL public/shared folders to the devices. This

includes emails, contacts, calendars and tasks.

- The folders must be explicitly selected for synchornization

- Only few devices can display more than one calendar or contact folder, so all calendars, and contacts even shared will be contained in the native folder. Only a problem with you use multiple accounts.

The only current Activesync limitations with contacts are as follows:

Activesync can synchronize up to 3 email address. Phone number synchronization is limited to 2 Home numbers, 1 Home Fax, 1 Mobile, 1 Pager, 3 Work (one will be labeled 'Company Main') and one Work Fax number."

So you do have options, but as you can see from the other posts, what you want to do can definitely be supported.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
I call BS on you syncing tasks and being able to move emails between folders natively.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jashsu:
I bought a license for Moxier Mail back in the days before Android 2.x. I don't keep any third party EAS clients around anymore thanks to the built-in EAS. However, if you absolutely need features like GAL, accept/reject meetings, availability, basically anything beyond mail and very basic calendaring, then you better get one of the third party EAS clients.
[G2 and Desire Z General] markdurant:
What exchange server version are you trying to do it on, and what is the version of Activesync?
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
I have no idea......my school runs it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] markdurant:
Other than your phone how do you connect to your email account?
[G2 and Desire Z General] moxie:
For what it's worth the implementation of ActiveSync on the G2 is not supporting any security provisioning.

Passcode lock is not enforced, and I am not 100% about remote wipe. I will be testing at some point in time tomorrow.

I will be contacting HTC tomorrow, T-Mobile didn't have any info about the lack of support for these features.

I was surprised as this is the only 2.2 phone I have tested that does not support these features. (Droid 2, Droid X, HTC 4G, CM6 on my HD2)
[G2 and Desire Z General] moxie:
Remarkably HTC was even less help than T-Mobile

I was basically informed that not enough people had complained about the bungled implementation of ActiveSync yet, so they didnt have any further information and were not investigating a fix.

It was a nice 12 hours G2, but it looks like you are going back to Tmo
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
Outlook 2010 direct to the exchange server
[G2 and Desire Z General] lairdb:
I tried Touchdown back on the N1, and I recall being very unimpressed with the UI; I'm afraid I don't remember specifics, but it didn't leave a good taste.

When you say "it's fine for basic Exchange", can you clarify what you consider non-basic? (I would, for example, consider everything I mentioned to be "basic"; non-basic would be delegate management, category administration, rules....) Thanks.

I tried Touchdown when I tried the N1, and was so unimpressed that I don't think I tried it again on the Galaxy S. Moxier doesn't appear to be updating MoxierMail, but it worked pretty well. K9 was new to me, but appealed because it was rapidly evolving with a strong, tech oriented, development and discussion community -- a couple of small bugs I found were reported, tested, and fixed during just the week I had the Galaxy S.

UPDATE: Just saw this on the Touchdown site: "TouchDown does not work with POP3 or IMAP servers". In other words, I couldn't use it as a single client for Exchange and non-Exchange accounts; for me, that's a killer.

aedv, thanks for your response -- I'm a little confused though. You say you don't have BES, but your back end is Exchange? If that's right, thanks -- valuable info. I'd appreciate it if you'd check the contacts subfolder thing; if you're willing, PM me your email address, and I'll send you a test meeting invite so we can see if you get the option to accept/decline.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
My back end is Exchange, and I did not use BES while I was on my Blackberry. The Exchange server is run by my school and they don't have a BES.

I tried contact subfolders and that didn't work. I sent myself an invitation to a meeting and I was given the option on the phone to either accept or deny the invitation, so there's your answer.
[G2 and Desire Z General] lairdb:
markdurant, thanks -- despite your great answer, I'm still a tiny bit confused. Can you clarify re:

- contacts subfolders: I have a main Contacts folder, with a subfolder "manufacturing contacts". Can I cause the subfolder to sync? (I understand from your answer that the appearance on the device may be "flat", i.e. all in one giant list; that's ok.)

- message filing: You are able to move messages from Inbox to other Exchange folders?

- Common inbox: You mention having three Exchange boxes; do you get a consolidated view, perhaps with color coding? Do you have any non-Exchange (e.g. Google) email accounts?

Thanks again.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dale_cooper:
Nothign can be worse than the Vibrant's exchange integration... for some reason it will NOT sync the majority my calendar entries on my exchange account. Email is fine but the calendar on the vibrant is just terrible. Worked fine on the nexus, and has sync'd fine on any nokia (symbian s60/maemo) phone I've used as well.

One of the reasons I'm ditching the vibrant and jumping to g2 goodness.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperFly03:
How does it not support passcodes? It's a feature of Stock Android 2.2...
[G2 and Desire Z General] moxie:
My point exactly...
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperFly03:
This has to be a bug that will get fixed... I will not use touchdown forever. The UI is terrible. I need the native client to work.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bmk:
I use Touchdown 2.0, and it works wonderfully.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SuperFly03:
Oh it works... but but it's a POS interface compared to the native client.

I appreciate the work that went into the program and the fact that it works with all exchange profiles but I want my native exchange back.
[G2 and Desire Z General] MERKJONES:
We just migrated to Exchange 2007 fyi. I believe all this worked on 03 too.

- Does calendar sync work? Comments? Yep. Works just fine.

- Can you: accept/reject/tentative meeting requests from email app? Yes.

- Can you: accept/reject/tentative meeting requests from calendar app? Haven't tried.

- Can you create a meeting request? Yes.

- Can you view availability? No.

- Can you change the meeting reminder tone? (Believe it or not, on the Galaxy S running 2.2, there's no way to do this.) Yes. Look in the Calendar app.

- Does email push? Comments? It does push, and it's about as quick as my PC.

- Do email subfolders push? Yes, but you don't see notifications on the folders if you have client side rules. I always have to refresh to figure out what email came in and where it went. You'll see the email come in, and immediately go to the folder. It's quite annoying when you have multiple folders and multiple rules.

- Can you move messages into subfolders? No.

- Can you view and/or search server subfolders? Cannot search. But you can view

- Can you get a unified view of your Exchange and Google/GAFYD inbox? If you add your GMail account, yes. I prefer not doing this.

- Can you access the GAL? Yes.

- Do contacts sync? Yes.

- Do contacts in subfolders sync? Can you choose subfolders to sync or not? Haven't played with this. But I'm pretty sure you can do it from Outlook 07. I had to do that with BB Desktop Manager way back.

- Can you do these things in the stock apps, or do you have to use Touchdown or K9 or Moxier to get the results you want? It does pretty much all I need it to do. One major gripe is it doesn't put my signature into my email replies. And I can't use the search feature within this app.

Hope that helps.
[G2 and Desire Z General] pdxrealtor:
Touchdown is leaps and bounds beyond the native exchange anything.

You can combine subfolders including sent items in your main inbox. Not sure about contact subfolders as I use categories for contacts. You can filter contacts by category w touchdown.

You can do server search w TD.

Meeting requests via calendar work both ways. Plus tons mor I don't use.

OP search for nitrodesk on google groups. The dev support is unbelievable and any question you have can be answered there.

The free trial is 30 days.

I had a very unique problem with attachments. The dev put a beta out just for my problem in less than two days.

The interface isn't tht bad IMO.
[G2 and Desire Z General] thefa:
@lairdb

I think that, from your list, the main thing that won't fly with native Exchange support is the availability checks (at least with Exchange 2007)...

Also, I'm not sure how you would specify which contacts subfolders to sync or not to sync.

But the move email to a subfolder does work fine and even when you are off-line (this was a big NO GO for me with the Iphone)...

Some more features that I think are worth considering when looking at Exchange integration:

- Does the client support smart reply/forward (as of today, the answer is no for native email app, and yes for Touchdown and some other clients);

- Does the client maintain conversations sequences i.e. when you are involved in an email conversations, are your contribs from your Android device properly kept as part of the conversation in e.g. Outlook 2010 (as of today the answer is No with native email app, and yes with Touchdown). This one is a real killer to me...

If my point is not clear on this one or if I'm wrong, please, please let me know:-)

My two cents,
[G2 and Desire Z General] Queue515:
These are enforced on my G2. Maybe it was in the OTA?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simon12:
On my Desire with Froyo: Whenever I lose mobile signal the phone is constantly giving me a screen which shows the available networks (none of which I can connect to as my own carrier is obviously not there!!!) This is a pain when I just want to make use of a wifi connection even tho there is no mobile signal. Is there any way of disabling this 'feature'??
[Off-topic] us3rX:
Just recently moved to Chicago. I work out side quite a bit, and will be in the winter. Normally I keep my phone in my inside jacket pocket when I lived in Atlanta, No where near as cold there. Was just wondering what do you all recommend? Keep phone inside somewhere or do you think between my body warmth and the jacket, it would be fine. Not sure temp would start to damage the phone. I know when I came up here for New Years my old tour(9630) in just my pants pocket started to freak out.

Thanks for your time.
[Off-topic] souljaboy:
what u need is a hiking backpack, a generator, and a toaster to put ur phone in
[Off-topic] Captainkrtek:
Phone temp. doesn't affect much depending on how low of temperatures we are talking. anything lower than 0C (30F) I would get worried about. At lower temperatures issues with battery and LCD's happen. So I think as long as you keep it in your jacket close to your body heat it should be fine.
[Off-topic] kdj67f:
Yeah, in your inside pocket just body warmth will keep it safe. The only things I have noticed with cold phones is batteries discharge faster and lcds will stop responding. I have had a few phones freeze inside my truck when I leave them inside when I was hunting, but besides probably killing the batteries faster than usual I have not had any serious problems. Just warm them up before you turn them back on! :D
[Off-topic] us3rX:
Lol @ hiking and toaster. As far as how low for temps I wouldn't think anything below 0 but then again this will bemy first winter up here working. Its not like I plan on being in the cold long. But you never know. Thanks for the quick replies. =)
[Off-topic] freeincolorado:
I used my g1 in temps ranging from 110 to -10 (farenheit) with only minor issues. At warmer temps the battery seemed to discharge faster and below 20 the screen wasn't very responsive. As stated above, just keep it in an inner pocket when cold.
[Off-topic] chopper the dog:
Welcome to Chi town. Enjoy your stay and the crappy politics. 30 degrees or below for more than an hour it goes in the inside pocket or I will stash it somewhere inside a building till I am done working outside.

good day.
[Off-topic] fiona3656:
Cold temperature couldn't cause serious damage to phone, only that it could sluggish, or make a fully charged one turns to low battery. You might encounter some screen problems but nothing a warm room couldn't fix. Definitely, your cellphone can surely survive a day on the slopes without worry.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] BobbyF:
I am considering a move from AT&T to another local carrier. I am seriously considering to go with Milestone as I prefer physical keyboard. When I am looking at the specs, I see that Milestone CPU is 500 MHz while N1 is 1 GHz. Its obvious that I am downgrading in terms of CPU speed. But, should it be a concern for me? What are your experiences with speed? Do you suggest Milestone over N1? I should mention that I am seriously unhappy about N1's lack of screen response when I need it (sometimes it does not respond properly - I really have to press it hard or 'perfectly' right for it to work. It would work GREAT for me if I dont have to worry about this kind of stuff with Milestone.

Please share your experiences and suggestions.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] luvit:
Firstly, I have an Incredible, and I love my screen response.. I am not experienced with the N1.. Have you tried swype?

After a few days of using swype I enjoyed the onscreen typing even more.

My wife has a Moto Droid, and I cannot use the physical keyboard because my thumbs are so manly in size... This is even worse with a phone case. The 1mm of thickness from the upper phone case causes the upper row of keys to be even more crowded.

Take your time finding the right phone.. I'm very picky, and I would believe I would be at a dealer kiosk for hours until I was certain I have the right phone.

One last thing.. I believe AWESOME hardware keyboards are going to be hard to find over time. Between swype and blind type, things look pretty good with onscreen keyboards.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] elsatani:
The Milestone hardware keyboard is not great, but imho it is still bether than onscreen typing, IF your fingers (thumbs) are small enough :)

I would say that the cpu is as fast as the 1ghz in use. Nothing to worry about.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] BobbyF:
Thanks guys for your help. My fibers by no means are small, for sure that ea s the reason why I was not good with soft keyboards. Now that I started using swype, I now could care less for physical keyboards. Thanks a bunch. I am glad I am using swype - now I could type a while lot faster.

Cheers.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] BobbyF:
You can see that I am still nube using swype :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gu3r0:
I'm not the one with the vibrant but a buddy was wondering. I know you can make changes on an evo using cdma workshop. Is it possible to get rid of it on the vibrant notification bar?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
On custom rom's this can be supported, but on stock, you can't.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejamin73:
You can with ADW launcher. It allow you to swipe your finger up in the screen to hide it
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gu3r0:
I knew about the home replacements but not sure how difficult it'd be too just tweak a rom. I'd like to learn how too cook one up. Or at least be able to make my own changes.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
Has anyone who has a CDMA Hero been able to flash a recovery image through fastboot? I have never been able to and I either flash it with the OS running or when booted into recovery.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
I have done it on my g1 but you'll need the eng spl to unlock the fastboot flash commands. So yes it is possible.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
I knew it had to be something because on the G1 you can do fastboot shell and a whole lot of other stuff that we can't do.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
If you flash the eng spl with s-off that floating around here you'll have all the fastboot commands unlocked. this will allow you to flash stuff from fastboot... and as far as I've heard pretty much makes your phone un-brickable (save flashing a bad radio since this boots even before the spl) basically you can only soft brick your phone... so you just go to the fastboot and fastboot flash a new recovery, rom, kernel.... yadda and your back.

This seems to be where you see people say that there stuck on fastboot but can't do anything, if you have the eng spl your golden if not your in trouble.

The rooting for the g1, as a remember it made you flash the danger spl which I think was similar to the eng spl. Its been a while so I could be wrong on that but thats how I remember it.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] seivad17:
This is a "How To" on replacing the TouchWiz Calendar with the Froyo Stock Calendar. This allows you to click on the location of appointments to load Maps and get directions. Also, click on phone numbers and web links in the calendar appointment descriptions.

This is for JI6 and other Froyo roms only, not 2.1.

For those of you who changed to the Stock 2.1 calendar, the process is not the same as before, its much easier. With busybox and Rooted JI6 Froyo this worked for me. (should work on Cognition 2.2 as well)

-Download stock 2.2 calendar apk from the nexus one CyanogenMod or I have It attached to this post.

-Put the Calendar.apk in the same folder as adb.exe

-Run the following commands in CMD after navigating to the folder with adb.exe

adb push Calendar.apk /sdcard/Calendar.apk
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
mv TouchWizCalendar.apk TouchWizCalendar.old
mv TouchWizCalendar.odex TouchWizCalendar.odex.old
busybox cp /sdcard/Calendar.apk /system/app/TouchWizCalendar.apk
reboot

Problems:

-Transparent Grey Box (smudge) near top of calendar (much less obvious then the 2.1 stock calendar blue + sign)

-Press menu and select "Calendars" it force closes. You can not hide calendars including "My Calendar"

-New events created from the phone on the stock android calendar do not sync back to the Google Calendar. You can still edit events that were originally created on Google Calendar and they will sync back to the Google Calendar.

To UNDO and get TouchWizCalendar Back:

adb shell
su
cd /system/app
mv TouchWizCalendar.apk Calendar.old
mv TouchWizCalendar.old TouchWizCalendar.apk
mv TouchWizCalendar.odex.old TouchWizCalendar.odex
reboot

Let me know if this works for you or not! :-)
[Captivate Themes and Apps] flashman2002:
Worked for me. Same issues as already posted. I am just doing things to do them, I never use my calendar.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] kimocal:
It seems to have worked for me although I got some weird error messages:

# mv TouchWizCalendar.apk TouchWizCalendar.old

mv TouchWizCalendar.apk TouchWizCalendar.old

failed on 'TouchWizCalendar.apk' - No such file or directory

# mv TouchWizCalendar.odex TouchWizCalendar.odex.old

mv TouchWizCalendar.odex TouchWizCalendar.odex.old

failed on 'TouchWizCalendar.odex' - No such file or directory

But like I said it seems to be working. Not being able to click the location link in hte Samsung Calendar is just stupid when you can one click to G Maps in the Stock. I can live with the smudge thing too just for that feature.

I'm using Cognition 2.2 BETA 1 btw

Any chance you know of a way to show HTML Calendar events and not just the HTML code?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] uiskibum:
works as expected. anyone else notice an odd "smudge" at the top of the calendar screen(s)?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] halfbrainhunter9000:
yes, mine has the smudge too
[Captivate Themes and Apps] nearnhart:
Froyo Calendar Questions

Hi All,

With the Froyo calendar, I was hoping a few issues I had with the TW calendar would be resolved. Namely:

1. Reminders don't sync with my Google calendar

2. Can't customize repeating events (say, I have class MWF, I can't do this on the phone, only in Google)

3. Events created on phone for the Google calendar don't sync to my Google calendar

Are these things I can't do with the stock calendar or am I doing something wrong?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] seivad17:
The "smudge" or transparent gray box is a issue similar to the 2.1 stock calendar replacement. The 2.1 had a large non-transparent bubble with a "+" sign in the middle of it. Don't know why or how to get rid of it, but at least with 2.2 you can see through it and it doesn't cover the days :-)

I do have the issue of the events created on the phone not syncing back to Google Calendar and I have updated the OP problems section. I can't believe I never realized that problem but I guess I use my phone more. Just to be clear, did you have the new-events-not-syncing issue on the TW calendar as well?

I don't have a problem with Reminders syncing back as long as the event was originally created in Google Calendar and then edited on the phone. As far as customizing repeating events, I'm afraid we are stuck with preset "One-time, Daily, Every weekday, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly" Options.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] nearnhart:
Nope, with the TW calendar it would sync OK. I don't know why Google can't get their **** together and code the calendar to sync properly. oy.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] seivad17:
That may be a deal breaker for some. I for one need click-able links for addresses to launch maps over the new appointment sync from phone to PC, so its worth the trade-off for me. I don't think its Google that is the problem, Samsung changed things when they put the TouchWiz Calendar in and now we are trying to go back and its not working quite right. Thanks for letting everyone know.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] hankito:
If you look at the 'smudge' closely it is a stretched out check box thats unchecked but you can't seem to get rid of it
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Kov695:
Simply amazing!!!! This is one of the features I miss from my Droid!!!!

Thank you!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] fudduf:
i get "device not found" error after inputting the first line of code. my SGS is definitely mounted.

i just updated to froyo with kies and had previously replaced the touchwiz calendar with stock eclair calendar. i forgot to put the old touchwiz calendar back before updating to froyo.

now i have no working calendar at all! i tried to install the new touchwiz calendar via root explorer but it keeps saying "calendar not installed."

can anyone help me? i don't care so much about the stock calendar anymore, as i mostly use gemini calendar app now. i just need any calendar to work so that my widgets and events all sync to google calendar.

EDIT: oops, just realized this is the captivate forum. i have an i9000 SGS. don't know how much that changes matters.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] crupp:
Can I just drop the apk in the system /app
[Captivate Themes and Apps] seivad17:
I don't think you can. Can't remember for sure though. Give it a try...Just make sure you can undo it if it doesn't work.