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No way to sync with Exchange calendar? WTF?

Anyone? Surely not!!??
Mod edit: it seems there is a solution : read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5302139&postcount=10

google only want you to sync to google server, so no way to sync to others
this time i understand why some people say android is spyware

Any third party apps work?

touchdown and roadsync worked on other devices.

Try Syncing your Exchange calender with your Google Calender. That would pretty much have the same effect.
Reason being no exchange support is probably because they are aiming for the casual market, not the business one.

Just like you I was shocked when looking through my device that I could NOT natively sync my Exchange calendar... coming from my iphone, this feels a bit cold.
When I talked to a coworker, however, he said his DROID can do it via a "corporate" style account setting... which seems mysteriously lacking on the Nexus One. Is this true? If so, shouldn't the Nexus One (being that DROID and N1 are both "stock" style devices) have the same settings?!
Unfortunatly, the google desktop app doesnt work for me. My company has our computers locked down so we cannot install apps that require writing to protected areas (like an Outlook plugin), and they already shot down my request to get it installed. That is a fragmented experience anyway, since if my computer goes to sleep I lose my syncing of events for that time period.
I don't want to use something like Touchdown, unless there is an app out there that will put the exchange calendar items into my default google calendar app on the N1 device itself... I don't want MULTIPLE calendar applications to worry about... grr.
Anyone know if this is a setting that a modified rom might be able to make available to us in the future?

technogecko6 said:
Just like you I was shocked when looking through my device that I could NOT natively sync my Exchange calendar... coming from my iphone, this feels a bit cold.
When I talked to a coworker, however, he said his DROID can do it via a "corporate" style account setting... which seems mysteriously lacking on the Nexus One. Is this true? If so, shouldn't the Nexus One (being that DROID and N1 are both "stock" style devices) have the same settings?!
Unfortunatly, the google desktop app doesnt work for me. My company has our computers locked down so we cannot install apps that require writing to protected areas (like an Outlook plugin), and they already shot down my request to get it installed. That is a fragmented experience anyway, since if my computer goes to sleep I lose my syncing of events for that time period.
I don't want to use something like Touchdown, unless there is an app out there that will put the exchange calendar items into my default google calendar app on the N1 device itself... I don't want MULTIPLE calendar applications to worry about... grr.
Anyone know if this is a setting that a modified rom might be able to make available to us in the future?
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I dont use my google calendar or contacts, just my exchange so touchdown works just fine for me.

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=98563
cal > googcal > phone

contractor said:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=98563
cal > googcal > phone
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I would, but I don't have admin rights on my work laptop to use the Outlook plugin that Google desktop sync tries to run :/

If you push this http://nex.ppckitchen.org/CorCAL.apk to system/app if will pull your exchange calendar right to the device and give u the calendar widget as well. I have been using it and verified it works.

I guess I don't see the mystery in why it isn't there. Google probably doesn't want to foot the bill for licensing the connector in its own apps, and I doubt there's a licensing model that's consistent with the rest of the Android OS being open source. So, you have to get an app to do it. Now, that can come from the handset maker or a 3rd party. No biggie, but it should be somewhat obvious.

NexVision said:
If you push this http://nex.ppckitchen.org/MotoCAL.apk to system/app if will pull your exchange calendar right to the device and give u the calendar widget as well. I have been using it and verified it works.
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Awesome! That was the one area that I was feeling some pain. I like Touchdown and RoadSync, but I never liked how it was a different framework and not integrated in with my Google Calendar items. I got really use to the Rogers ROMs for the G1, and I was just gritting my teeth until a better solution came along. This will probably do for me for now. I'll give it a whirl and see.

Chinpokomon said:
Awesome! That was the one area that I was feeling some pain. I like Touchdown and RoadSync, but I never liked how it was a different framework and not integrated in with my Google Calendar items. I got really use to the Rogers ROMs for the G1, and I was just gritting my teeth until a better solution came along. This will probably do for me for now. I'll give it a whirl and see.
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Yeah when mine came in I got pretty upset there was exchange support but no calendar sync and starting playing made a few changes to it and bam got it working no need for touchdown.

I downloaded it and installed it, but it doesn't work. How do you "push" it to system/app?

adb push filelocation/CorCAL.apk system/app

Anybody tried NexVision's trick?
I am not in the mood to install the android sdk to push the MotoCal package just to find out that it doesn't work for non rooted phones ...
Anybody can confirm that this package works for a stock phone?
Thanks!

dadicool said:
I am not in the mood to install the android sdk to push the MotoCal package just to find out that it doesn't work for non rooted phones ...
Anybody can confirm that this package works for a stock phone?
Thanks!
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I can't get it installed for stock... I can't get it installed over ADB because I haven't rooted yet and ADB install MotoCAL.apk works, but the app FCs. I presume that it needs to be installed in system/app.

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adb push filelocation/MotoCAL.apk system/app
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So I'm assuming, based on my experience thusfar, that you've installed the SuperBoot image? I saw someone post that they lost the ability to see Paid Market apps after doing so. What's your experience?

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adb push filelocation/MotoCAL.apk system/app
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Does it have to be rooted? I got the USB driver installed, and I see it in my computer as Android Phone\Android ADB Interface, but the adb push gives me the following:
"C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push C:\AndroidApps\MotoCAL.apk system/app error: device not found"

I've been a WinMo user for a LONG time, flashing htc handsets for years, this is my first Android device, so I feel like a complete noob. Thanks for helping me out if you can.

Vibrant default mail client (Exchange, etc.)

Does anyone know who makes the default "Email" named client that ships with the Vibrant? Is that a Samsung app, Google app, or other? I ask because it seems to be *dog slow* doing even the simplest of things -- opening a message, refreshing, deleting, etc.. Has everyone else noticed this? Any fixes? In contrast, the built-in Gmail app is super-speedy.
On that note, is there a better Exchange-enabled client that I can install on this phone? Can the Android 2.1 client be ported to this phone? I need Exchange (mail, calendar, contacts) sync support. Also, I don't want to use Touchdown.
Thoughts?
Yip

I had exchange before I moved to google apps for business. Exchange push worked flawless.
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Touchdown.
Yep, I saw that you said you didn't want to use it.
Touchdown's still my recommendation.

I have no problems getting exchange email in a timely manner via the default client...
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It's not that I *can't* get my Exchange email -- the syncing appears to be working fine. The issue is the client itself: very slow and laggy. The Gmail client, by comparison, is fast and responsive.
Are others seeing the "Email" app slowness as well?
Lastly, does anyone know who makes the included Email app? Google? Samsung?

the default exchange client in the nexus had zero lag.

yipcanjo said:
It's not that I *can't* get my Exchange email -- the syncing appears to be working fine. The issue is the client itself: very slow and laggy.
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It also can't display HTML messages, doesn't highlight complicated URLs correctly (ones with & or = symbols), and has no copy & paste. At least, not from what I can tell.
Yogi
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant

Can we install the apk from the nexus on the vibrant?
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I have not had a problem with the default email program. It has been fast and syncs all my email that I want it to. I did increase the size of the mail since our work uses a jpeg as a sig.

Minker17 said:
Can we install the apk from the nexus on the vibrant?
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I second this. Anyway to grab the Nexus One mail client and install onto the Vibrant?

Have you tried K-9 mail?

I hate the default email app. Tried touchdown but it is not great. I switched to Google apps for business and migrated from my exchange server and I'm much happier all around.
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I agree. I just moved my exchange to google apps for business too.
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Yes, Google Apps is a fine solution, and I'm using that for my *personal* email, but my work uses Exchange 2007.
Anyhow, I'm trying out K9 Mail and MailDroid, though I can't get either of them to connect just yet. I'll keep trying.
Otherwise, this really looks like a "wait until Froyo" situation, since the initial 2.1 solution didn't support Exchange calendar syncing. Version 2.2 should have what we need.
Hurry up and wait

K-9 is much better, although it randomly goes for long amounts of time without getting some email, even though I can get them on my computer.
If it's mission criticle to get your emails on time, it's not very reliable, unfortunately (neither is the stck client).

WHOA! Hold the phone (no pun intended)...
I was looking at the "stalling" issues threads, and came across this *FIX* (Method 1) that was pretty easy to do: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727279
Assuming that you're rooted, just install Busybox and Terminal Emulator (from the Marketplace). Alternately, you can use ADB from your computer, though I've never been able to get this to work. I was able to complete these commands directly on my phone from the emulator and reboot.
Anyhow, after applying this change, the default mail app is ABSOLUTELY FLYING. I kid you not. Just as fast as the Gmail client, if not somewhat faster. Really amazing. To be honest, the entire phone is much, much faster all around -- not just this mail client.
The downside? Well... technically the "app data space" is limited after this update, but I was only using 28megs (of 130megs total). Not too concerned. On that note, they give you the command to check your app data space, if you're wondering.
So....I am absolutely good for now. Happy with the mail clients and their performance.
Awesome!
Thanks for your help, everyone.
Yip

The e-mail app in Android 2.2 is pretty great, I was running it on my G1 before I switched up to a Vibrant last week.
The e-mail clients from Google (before 2.2) were/are dismal, but I'm pretty sure they hired Marc Blanc, the guy who wrote the excellent ChatterMail client for the Palm Treo, who then went on to begin developing AndroidMail in 2009. I was a beta tester for AndroidMail, and in the middle of the beta he announced Google was soliciting his input about some sort of secret project. There was never another AndroidMail update after that, much to my dismay.
Then about eight months later I got my hands on the Froyo e-mail client in CyanogenMod6, and I had this nagging feeling I'd seen it somewhere before. Eventually I realized it looks like a super-polished version of what Marc was doing in ChatterMail and AndroidMail.
This is huge for me, because the problems in earlier Android e-mail apps were becoming a serious problem.
So my recommendation would be to sit tight, 2.2 is just around the corner...

For what it's worth, I don't see any slow down or lag with the Exchange client. It is just as responsive as the GMail client and everything else on the phone.

Flak_Munky said:
For what it's worth, I don't see any slow down or lag with the Exchange client. It is just as responsive as the GMail client and everything else on the phone.
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Glad to hear it... but clearly I am *NOT ALONE* on this issue: there was some serious lag going on specifically with the default mail client. To the point that I really tried to avoid checking the email in that client at all, if I could avoid it. It was really, really slow....and the Gmail app was snappy & fast.
Anyhow, the "fix" I posted has totally resolved that issue, as well as speeding up a number of other apps/functions. Really amazing!
Out of curiosity, did you ever apply a "factory reset" that many folks seem to recommend? I never did.

Nope. No factory resets. No lag fixes. No GPS fixes. Only thing I have done is root and install Clockwork. Everything has been working great for me since day one. Guess I got lucky.

Epic email issues?

Forgive me if this topic has been raised before -- I searched and didn't see anything.
I am seeing two issues with my Epic relating to e-mail I haven't seen raised.
1. Generic e-mail client doesn't sync reliably. It ran reliably for a day or two, but has stopped polling, and now the only way I can get the accounts in it to update is to go into the client and open them.
2. I cannot seem to get more than 2 gmail accounts added to the gmail client. I have three google accounts, and I had to set up my third one in the generic client after repeated attempts to add it to the gmail client resulted in server connection fails.
Anyone else seeing this? Is it possible I have a defective phone or something I did during the course of rooting (noobnl's one-click v 2.2.9) broke some functionality? Is it possible that the service responsible for the client's polling activity got broken?
Thanks in advance.

My email has been updating automatically fine. I've only had my Epic for a little over two weeks, though. I don't have multiple Gmail accounts so can't say. Also, I'm not rooted yet ( I've been waiting for the 2.2 upgrade). I'm not crazy about everything in the generic client but it does seem to work very well.

I thought I was having the same issue as OP, but I found that I guess I accidentally switched automatic updates off in the settings.

I have had my Epic since it launched and yes this has been an issue for me. I thought maybe I had something set wrong but I don't. I actually check my Yahoo acct through the browser now. It doesn't really bother me to much though so I deal with it. Facebook for Android is the same way usually too.
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This is a common issue if you search around.
I've given up on the stock email app and just use K9 mail. Works perfectly. Has a few more options than the stock app too, although like a lot of open-source apps, maybe too many. I still haven't gotten all the fonts to look the way I want. But it's functional and doesn't give me any problems with syncing. An email app that won't tell me when I have new email is useless to me, and the stock app would only do that for maybe a day unless I rebooted. K9 always notifies me of email immediately.

I'm having a problem of my own. I just tried to send an attachment in the stock email app but I get a FC when I hit attach. In the gmail app however it works, gives me the option of gallery or astro. Could the FC in the email app occuring because I uninstalled the myfiles app and it defaults to it?
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badasscat said:
This is a common issue if you search around.
I've given up on the stock email app and just use K9 mail. Works perfectly. Has a few more options than the stock app too, although like a lot of open-source apps, maybe too many. I still haven't gotten all the fonts to look the way I want. But it's functional and doesn't give me any problems with syncing. An email app that won't tell me when I have new email is useless to me, and the stock app would only do that for maybe a day unless I rebooted. K9 always notifies me of email immediately.
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Exactly the same problem. Stock email client works for a while then just quits.
But anyway, thanks for the tip re K-9 mail. Just installed it and will give it a try. It is indeed considerably more complimicated and will probably take some fiddling to get everything the way I want it, but that's OK -- I guess if I wanted simple but uncofigurable functionality I'd have a feature phone or an iPhone.
Seems like the FB app does the same thing. Anyone have a suggestion for a good 3d-party FB client?
Oh, and does anyone else have more than 2 accounts in gmail?

reboot will fix it for a short period
same problem here... worked for two weeks and now only syncs if manually. Rebooting the phone gets it going again... for a few more days and then it will no longer sync again!

Replace default email client with one from S3?

My work place uses exchange and K-9 does not work with it since WebDav does not work with newer exchange versions.
The default email app on Nexus works but it very basic - no threaded emails - a big thing for me.
Galaxy S3 has a decent email app (one with a white envelope and red @ symbol) which supports threaded/conversation email.
Is there any way I can install (or replace the default client with) the email client that runs on S3 on the N4?

Waiting
Some people will do
I also want to know, thank you

Google: Samsung Galaxy S3 System Dump
Or just go here: Galaxy S III System Dump..
It has the System Dump; but also provides smaller file containing just the apps.
Also some instructions to get the app installed on the N4 (Not saying they will work)

UberSlackr said:
Google: Samsung Galaxy S3 System Dump
Or just go here: Galaxy S III System Dump..
It has the System Dump; but also provides smaller file containing just the apps.
Also some instructions to get the app installed on the N4 (Not saying they will work)
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Samsung apps will not work on AOSP (other than some hacked files found for AOSP/CM10) as they are tied to TouchWiz interface (which obviously the Nexus 4 doesn't use).
The default email app though does need some work for sure.

shotta35 said:
Samsung apps will not work on AOSP (other than some hacked files found for AOSP/CM10) as they are tied to TouchWiz interface (which obviously the Nexus 4 doesn't use).
The default email app though does need some work for sure.
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Guess you missed the part in my post that said "Not saying they will work"
I was providing the S3 Email app download...
And yes the Email app used for non Gmail accounts surely does need some work.. like Zoom, and AutoFit.
Not sure why Google updated the Gmail app, but not the other Email app.

Thanks.. So looks like it's not possible to get the Samsung email app to work on nexus 4
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[Q] Wear app constantly crashes when corp email account synced

Got my Live and G watch today, but am bummed as the Wear companion app constantly crashes on my Nexus 5 running stock 4.4.4. After finding no info online, I factory reset my Nexus 5 to add apps back and try to isolate the cause.
Long story short, it is when I sync my corporate exchange email account via the stock mail app that causes the Wear app crashes. If I delete the exchange account, Wear runs fine. When I add the exchange account back, it dumps all over itself... I need to sync exchange for my job, so I'm dead in the water... ...sigh... I bought the Live and G watch to try them both out too...
Hopefully an update comes quick, or someone has a suggestion.

maybe this isn't a good idea / won't work for you but.. a 3rd party email app.. or adding the account though the gmail app may work? if possible.

Same here
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Got my Live and G watch today, but am bummed as the Wear companion app constantly crashes on my Nexus 5 running stock 4.4.4. After finding no info online, I factory reset my Nexus 5 to add apps back and try to isolate the cause.
Long story short, it is when I sync my corporate exchange email account via the stock mail app that causes the Wear app crashes. If I delete the exchange account, Wear runs fine. When I add the exchange account back, it dumps all over itself... I need to sync exchange for my job, so I'm dead in the water... ...sigh... I bought the Live and G watch to try them both out too...
Hopefully an update comes quick, or someone has a suggestion.
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Have exactly the same behavior on stock HTC One M7 running latest 4.4.2 (Sense 6.0) with Samsung Live. With my corporate Exchange account configured, Google Wear app continually crashes and the phone doesn't sync with the watch. As soon as I remove the Exchange account from the phone, everything works perfectly with Google Wear.

now using the Touchdown mail app as a temp workaround
So I tried multiple other activesync mail apps (Mailwise, Nine, etc), just to make sure the problem wasn't the stock android mail app itself. Same results with the Android Wear app repeatedly crashing until I kill the exchange account.
Finally I tried the app Touchdown, with is a bit different in that it sticks your exchange account in its own security container. That seems to be a functional workaround. The problem is it only a 30 day trial, and I don't like the app itself.
Ultimately I bought my Android Wear device as a peripheral to use at work, so not having the native email app functionality to use is frustrating. I get that this is new tech, so its the early adopter blues for me lol. Hopefully Google fixes the Android Wear app before the trial runs out on Touchdown, because I definitely like the new watches.

Anyone have luck with with the Samsung email app and wear? My watch comes Friday and I will definitely need to get exchange email on it.

LucidChaos said:
So I tried multiple other activesync mail apps (Mailwise, Nine, etc), just to make sure the problem wasn't the stock android mail app itself. Same results with the Android Wear app repeatedly crashing until I kill the exchange account.
Finally I tried the app Touchdown, with is a bit different in that it sticks your exchange account in its own security container. That seems to be a functional workaround. The problem is it only a 30 day trial, and I don't like the app itself.
Ultimately I bought my Android Wear device as a peripheral to use at work, so not having the native email app functionality to use is frustrating. I get that this is new tech, so its the early adopter blues for me lol. Hopefully Google fixes the Android Wear app before the trial runs out on Touchdown, because I definitely like the new watches.
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had the same problem on my LG G watch together with the company excahnge integration (nexus 5 - google default mail app).
did several resets - reboots etc. etc. no luck...
after 1day of testing i found a working solution for me -
1) remove the exchange account from your mail app
2) install the "cloudMagic" app (supported for android wear)
3) configure cloudMagic to work with your company exchange ---
4) receive company mails and notification again - and use your android wear app again
cons:
-contacts and meetings are not synchronized ---- !!!

chmon said:
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2) install the "cloudMagic" app (supported for android wear)
3) configure cloudMagic to work with your company exchange ---
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Just a heads up... CloudMagic copies *all* of your email on to their own servers. They index it locally on their own systems which is how they get such fast mail searches. This would be a violation of most enterprise IT usage agreements..
I've seen updates to the Wear device... hopefully they update the Wear app soon!

chmon said:
2) install the "cloudMagic" app (supported for android wear)
3) configure cloudMagic to work with your company exchange ---
4) receive company mails and notification again - and use your android wear app again
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That's not a solution - it's a workaround with some serious limitations including that CloudMagic probably violates most of our IT security policies by storing your email on their servers.
I've noticed something especially odd about the crashing on my S4 and the Samsung Messaging app. It works for me in the late morning, afternoon and evening. Then the crashes start sometime after I go to sleep and continue through mid morning. So each morning I remove my corp email account and then by around 10am I put it back and it works well again until the next overnight.

I am using nine and have no issue with my corporate email. I can reply, mark as read or delete straight from the watch . I have the Samsung gear live

Same issue here...
After I updated To 4.4.4 it was working with my three corporate accounts. Three days ago it started crashing again for unknown reasons.
Is there any apk version out there which works?

TQx said:
After I updated To 4.4.4 it was working with my three corporate accounts. Three days ago it started crashing again for unknown reasons.
Is there any apk version out there which works?
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I'm in the exact same boat. I would love to know if there's a previous APK that is stable with EAS accounts. My Samsung Gear is useless to me without exchange data.
Tim

nine mail app
since this night (since the yesterday update of nine) my LG G watch has the same issues with the nine app as with the default GOOGLE mail app - crashing all the time (all 2seconds)... after removing my account from nine app - everything worked smooth....
common GOOGLE - fix that sh"'t !!!!

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common GOOGLE - fix that sh"'t !!!!
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my app has just started crashing this morning... been perfectly well behaved until now...
I'd have assumed a fix would be imminent but i'm now bothered as I can see people have been flagging this issue for weeks...