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Does anyone know how to make an ASOP Rom support Exchange 2007 security requirements? Whenever I try to add the account I get a message which says something to the effect of "Exchange requires features you phone does not support". Exchange wants you to have to enter a passcode every time you unlock the phone.
Stock eris and stock-based roms support it and so does the motorola droid.
Is this something where I can possibly just copy over a system apk to make it work or is it deeper in the code? I changed the email apk to the one from the droid but that didn't do anything. Has anyone ever ported a version of the motorola droid to the eris? Am I way off on the approach?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
You'll have to be more specific. I have not yet had problems getting my exchange account to work properly on any ROMs, including the Kaos 2.2 v24.
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You have to enable security on them. When I used 2. 1 romsI used lockpicker from the market. It will disable the need from having to type in password every tIME you lock phone but still make the server think its enabled. FYI kaosfroyo works too and no need to enter password. Only draw back is you have to reenable everytime you power down phone.
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isaycrikey said:
You'll have to be more specific. I have not yet had problems getting my exchange account to work properly on any ROMs, including the Kaos 2.2 v24.
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That's weird. Our company must have different security requirements if you are getting it to work on the Froyo ROM because I've tried every kind of lockscreen setting I could find. I found this thread which basically says Exchange is only partially supported by Froyo. I know we require password history and expiration which must be the culprit. code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9426.
So HTC and Motorola must have added something which adds that expiration and history feature. Since it's security related I'm guessing it's more than just an apk. Can the .so files be moved across ROMs? Anyone have a guess at which one may contain this feature?
vtjiles said:
That's weird. Our company must have different security requirements if you are getting it to work on the Froyo ROM because I've tried every kind of lockscreen setting I could find. I found this thread which basically says Exchange is only partially supported by Froyo. I know we require password history and expiration which must be the culprit. code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9426.
So HTC and Motorola must have added something which adds that expiration and history feature. Since it's security related I'm guessing it's more than just an apk. Can the .so files be moved across ROMs? Anyone have a guess at which one may contain this feature?
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Exchange 2007 sync is working for me on KaosFroyo V24 as well. My company also enforces password history and expiration, but no issues here. By the way, no lockscreen security is set on my Eris.
Did the sync work for you on 2.1? If not, your Exchange admins may have to enable it on your account. Sounds like it could be something setup by your employer. It doesn't hurt to ping an admin and see what they say...
g00gl3 said:
Exchange 2007 sync is working for me on KaosFroyo V24 as well. My company also enforces password history and expiration, but no issues here. By the way, no lockscreen security is set on my Eris.
Did the sync work for you on 2.1? If not, your Exchange admins may have to enable it on your account. Sounds like it could be something setup by your employer. It doesn't hurt to ping an admin and see what they say...
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The sync was working on HTC 2.1, but not on any 2.1 ASOP ones.
But, after talking to support they switched my policy group and, of course, now it works so my apologies for being an idiot and putting this in a development forum. I honestly thought the ASOP roms just didn't have that functionality and was hoping there was a way to flash something that would make it work.
Have a question though. I added my work email to my account and the only way it would work was to add a pin when unlocking my screen. Is there any way to disable this besides removing my work email account?
Thanks.
My wife uses an app called Lockpicker to disable it on her Hero, which works pretty well. I think it might only work on Sense devices, but you can give it a try.
smooney3 said:
My wife uses an app called Lockpicker to disable it on her Hero, which works pretty well. I think it might only work on Sense devices, but you can give it a try.
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No go on 2.2
When my friend got froyo on his phone he looked into it and it requires rooting and somethingsomething (so I wasn't paying attn... ) but it's possible!
mynewepic10 said:
Have a question though. I added my work email to my account and the only way it would work was to add a pin when unlocking my screen. Is there any way to disable this besides removing my work email account?
Thanks.
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This is not a glitch, it's a the phone complying with the AD email server's security requirements. If you have a problem with this, the appropriate place to ask is your IT dept, not XDA. They were the ones that set the requirement for a lock.
My company upgraded their exchange server, and now requires lock screens (PIN or password, no pattern) if we want to access email on our personal phones.
As someone with a rooted phone, is there any way to disable this and still have access to my corporate email? It's really annoying to have to punch in a PIN 500 times a day, but I really do need email access on my phone as much as I'm on the road.
I think this has been discussed before, but maybe on a different phone (HeroC maybe) But essentially no there isn't away - to access the server the phone goes through a series of checks, one of the checks being that an appropraite pin was entered to unlock the phone. if that check fails, authentication to the server is denied. Someone *might* be able to spoof the check in the email app, but I am fairly sure its actually OS deep, not just within the mail client.
So it would be a large undertaking and potentially could cause you to loose your job by by passing security measures. I know I wouldn't think twice about firing someone who did it on my network.
No way that I know of, and is something that is on pretty much everyphone. Blackberrys the security policies can even block installation of 3rd party applications.
What's even more fun for you, is the ability of your it staff to lock you out of your phone or even remotely wipe your phone.
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Restola said:
My company upgraded their exchange server, and now requires lock screens (PIN or password, no pattern) if we want to access email on our personal phones.
As someone with a rooted phone, is there any way to disable this and still have access to my corporate email? It's really annoying to have to punch in a PIN 500 times a day, but I really do need email access on my phone as much as I'm on the road.
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I think you are stuck. Do you have the option of getting a company-supplied phone to access the company email, and keep your personal Android separate?
There is a thread in Q&A talking about an app that does this.
Do you BONSAI?
Actually there is a way I had to do it to my coworkers phone for her pattern lock
What u need: locked phone phones #, wifi or u can use wifi tether if u have another phone
1. Call the persons phone #
2. Leave phone call connected on both sides
3. Connect to wifi if u havnt already
4. Goto settings/accounts manager setting or what ever and log into a diff google account then it should require u to change the password to by pass it
Should work hopefully I read this thread correctly and answered appropietly
Edit sorry read it wrong and u don't think there is a way
My way is how u get around it
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Here's the link to the thread that may help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033017
I thought it was just being big brother, turns out its a regulatory requirement since we were bought by a publicly traded company. I guess I'll deal with it. If it pisses me off too much I'll just get rid of my exchange account on my phone and stop responding to emails when I'm not at my desk.
A possible workaround would be to try touhdwn for your exchange mail instead of the default mail client. Its a paid app but there should be a demo version in the market. I have a dp2 for work and they pay for touchdown for us. When using touhdown it pin locks just the app instead of whole phone. On my Droid at least moto customized the screen timeout and lock to be different timers so I found the pin to be less annoying than the interface of touchdown.
With the epics slightly bigger screen to make the TD interface a litte less annoying(lots of small buttons instead of utilizing menu button) and since epics lock is all or nothing I think I might actually use TD on my epic if I were getting my corp email there.
While not a complete removal of the pin maybe it would at least make it less annoying for you. Plus I'd guess if work catches you wihout a pin it might not go over well. TD solution lets you protect the email if you lose your phone, and does have a remote wipe for the same scenario.
in gingerbread, I used to have pattern lock support for exchange server. but with ics upgrade it asks me to use a pin or password which is quite annoying.
is there any way for me to enable pattern lock for exchange? im in stock LPY.
khan.dharvesh said:
in gingerbread, I used to have pattern lock support for exchange server. but with ics upgrade it asks me to use a pin or password which is quite annoying.
is there any way for me to enable pattern lock for exchange? im in stock LPY.
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I'm hoping that whoever released the "tweaked" mail.apk and exchange.apk that removes the need to Exchange security will release an updated version very shortly.
Once I have found it, or if you find it, post the link here!
That would be great. I'm also trying to figure out ways around this but have not found any option other than a tweaked apk. For the record Touchdown and Roadsync behave the same way. On GB roms I could use the pattern unlock with no problem, but now all exchange clients behave the same as the stock email app. I think they are getting their cue from ICS directly and maybe a newer version will fix the issue.
If anyone is interested, the Exchange service on the G4 (at least the T-Mobile version) can be disabled via the apps menu and Google Exchange services can be installed.
This will allow you to use the GMail app with Exchange enabled hosts, like Hotmail/Outlook.com and retain push mail, contact and calendar sync.
Recommended steps:
If you have any accounts using email and exchange, remove them first.
Open Settings/General/Apps/All
Tap on Exchange (The LG one with the blue icon)
Force stop
Disable the Exchange Service
(Restarting your phone is recommended at this point)
Install Google Exchange Services
(Restarting your phone is recommended at this point as well)
Open GMail and you will have Exchange as an option when you add an account.
This is gold to me.
Thanks.
sweet thx!
edit: oops that didn't work for me it gets stuck constantly sync'ing and has some exchange service crashes hmm...
Works fine here so far. I just wish you could disable the remote administration requiring your device to use a PIN. I'd love to use Smart Lock.
jbdan said:
sweet thx!
edit: oops that didn't work for me it gets stuck constantly sync'ing and has some exchange service crashes hmm...
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It's important that you remove any old exchange accounts in email first, then force close the LG exchange service and disable it. If you don't disable it, then GMail will get stuck syncing.
Joe USer said:
It's important that you remove any old exchange accounts in email first, then force close the LG exchange service and disable it. If you don't disable it, then GMail will get stuck syncing.
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Thanks I did that I'll try it again.
jbdan said:
Thanks I did that I'll try it again.
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Did you ever get it to work? If not, which model of the phone do you have?
Directions worked perfectly. Thank you.
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Did you ever get it to work? If not, which model of the phone do you have?
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I haven't tried it again yet my life is crazy with a 3 yr old and twins I've been using stock g4 email app. I'll try it this week and report back thanks. Tmo version
geoff5093 said:
Works fine here so far. I just wish you could disable the remote administration requiring your device to use a PIN. I'd love to use Smart Lock.
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Just waiting on root so I can keep my damn unlock screen without having to put in an 8 character password with numbers and special characters every time I want to unlock my phone.
I might just bite the bullet and buy touchdown for $20 because I heard it doesn't need to apply the permissions to your whole phone but just the app.
geoff5093 said:
Works fine here so far. I just wish you could disable the remote administration requiring your device to use a PIN. I'd love to use Smart Lock.
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centran said:
Just waiting on root so I can keep my damn unlock screen without having to put in an 8 character password with numbers and special characters every time I want to unlock my phone.
I might just bite the bullet and buy touchdown for $20 because I heard it doesn't need to apply the permissions to your whole phone but just the app.
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This. I have used Smart Lock on my N5 with no problems even though we are required to have a PIN. Fired up the G4 and immediately noticed once I setup email Smart Lock was grey and can't be used. I thought that by switching to Gmail for my Exchange email I could get around that only to find Gmail doesn't have Exchange support on this phone (until I found this thread).
Has anyone that has followed the instructions at the top been able to get Smart Lock working when Gmail is used for Exchange email? Or does Touchdown get around this?
I am going to test this out tonight - can't goof around too much while on the job!!
centran said:
Just waiting on root so I can keep my damn unlock screen without having to put in an 8 character password with numbers and special characters every time I want to unlock my phone.
I might just bite the bullet and buy touchdown for $20 because I heard it doesn't need to apply the permissions to your whole phone but just the app.
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Does that also sync your calendar and contacts?
flippingout said:
This. I have used Smart Lock on my N5 with no problems even though we are required to have a PIN. Fired up the G4 and immediately noticed once I setup email Smart Lock was grey and can't be used. I thought that by switching to Gmail for my Exchange email I could get around that only to find Gmail doesn't have Exchange support on this phone (until I found this thread).
Has anyone that has followed the instructions at the top been able to get Smart Lock working when Gmail is used for Exchange email? Or does Touchdown get around this?
I am going to test this out tonight - can't goof around too much while on the job!!
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Outlook bypasses the security requirement, but it appears to only sync email, not calendars or contacts. You get prompted that Exchange wants you to accept these changes, but you have an option to deny them.
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Does that also sync your calendar and contacts?
Outlook bypasses the security requirement, but it appears to only sync email, not calendars or contacts. You get prompted that Exchange wants you to accept these changes, but you have an option to deny them.
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I'll have to look at that new outlook app closer then. It prompted me for the security permissions to wipe phone, pin, and all that crap so I exited out.
Touchdown is supposed to be all one contained environment so I don't think it syncs with the default apps. I could be wrong as I have never tried it since I always got a PIN bypasser working on my old phones. It is free for a month so try it out! I don't care about contacts and it would be nice to have calendar but I'm not heartbroken over it. What I would like to know is if you still get a notification of new mail. I would assume so but aren't allowed to preview it which is fine but I at least need to know I have mail.
centran said:
I'll have to look at that new outlook app closer then. It prompted me for the security permissions to wipe phone, pin, and all that crap so I exited out.
Touchdown is supposed to be all one contained environment so I don't think it syncs with the default apps. I could be wrong as I have never tried it since I always got a PIN bypasser working on my old phones. It is free for a month so try it out! I don't care about contacts and it would be nice to have calendar but I'm not heartbroken over it. What I would like to know is if you still get a notification of new mail. I would assume so but aren't allowed to preview it which is fine but I at least need to know I have mail.
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Yeah that request seems to be standard whenever you setup Outlook, regardless of app. It was when it came to the lock screen settings, it allowed me to dismiss it.
I just tried the Outlook app and it required far less permissions then adding an exchange email through the android/lg settings. The regular settings wanted pretty much everything. Wipe, disable camera, password type, password length, password expiration, encrypt phone, disable sd card, etc etc. It had everything and probably because my company just checked everything. Now the question is if it would really do any of those things probably not because that it a further settings in Exchange but it just wants to be able to do all that.
The Outlook just wanted password rules, unlock attempts, lock screen, and encrypt phone. It asked to encrypt and I said no and phone still works. I was able to keep pattern lock screen but it disabled everything else besides pin and password. The Outlook app does not integrate well with Android so everything is contained in it's own app. I don't think it does notifications either since I sent an email and waited a good 10 minutes. My phone never went off but I open the app the email shows up but never as a notification.
So maybe the Outlook app will get you by for the time being.
Hrm - I'm on an LG G4 (EU H815 model, unlocked). No Google Exchange Services visible or available in the Play Store ...
I also have an old Galaxy S3 running 5.1.1 (PacMan rom) - that has Gmail with Exchange working just fine. It has the same version of Gmail as on the G4, but also has "Exchange Services" running. I can't find any other information on that though.
[EDIT] I just checked the link in the OP which looks like the latest apk, but the button for Play Store doesn't work - URL doesn't exist.
Quick question - I haven't disabled LG Exchange on the G4 yet - when I do it says that the app will be hidden from then on. What if one wants to re-enable it - will it still be visible on the Apps menu ?
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Halfwalker said:
Hrm - I'm on an LG G4 (EU H815 model, unlocked). No Google Exchange Services visible or available in the Play Store ...
I also have an old Galaxy S3 running 5.1.1 (PacMan rom) - that has Gmail with Exchange working just fine. It has the same version of Gmail as on the G4, but also has "Exchange Services" running. I can't find any other information on that though.
[EDIT] I just checked the link in the OP which looks like the latest apk, but the button for Play Store doesn't work - URL doesn't exist.
Quick question - I haven't disabled LG Exchange on the G4 yet - when I do it says that the app will be hidden from then on. What if one wants to re-enable it - will it still be visible on the Apps menu ?
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Yes, just go to your apps in settings and it will be under 'disabled'.
Just switched things over, and Gmail Exchange is working nicely now
flippingout said:
This. I have used Smart Lock on my N5 with no problems even though we are required to have a PIN. Fired up the G4 and immediately noticed once I setup email Smart Lock was grey and can't be used. I thought that by switching to Gmail for my Exchange email I could get around that only to find Gmail doesn't have Exchange support on this phone (until I found this thread).
Has anyone that has followed the instructions at the top been able to get Smart Lock working when Gmail is used for Exchange email? Or does Touchdown get around this?
I am going to test this out tonight - can't goof around too much while on the job!!
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Have you been able to figure this out? I have coworkers on a N6, N5, and a HTC One (M7), who all have our Corporate E-mail linked to their phone via either gmail or the htc e-mail app. They can all access their respective Smart Lock settings. On my phone, its grayed out.
Confused on what this does? Just lets you add a second exchange account to gmail? Are emails mixed together or do they remain separated? I like having my Email and Gmail in 2 different apps. I also like the LG email app.