Like most smartphone users: I live out of my calendar app.
When adding my schedule at work, I have to constantly select my Gmail calendar - for every new event - in order to sync to the cloud. The default is always the phone's 'My Calendar', which I never use.
It's not the end of the world, but when I get into the groove of adding events, I sometimes forget to change the setting.
Is there a way to delete that default, or is there a way to default new events to always be placed under your google account's calendar, or is this a bug / lack of foresight on Samsung's behalf?
I suppose the alternative is to do this all from Google's web app -- but I'd rather just be able to tap the info into the phone's default app.
Thanks.
Several aspects of the phone act this way. I think Samsung still doesn't quite get the google-centric nature of most android users.
I am trying to set up a user account for my son on my N4 so I can control what he has access to. I know how to create the account just fine, but I am having issues trying to switch between accounts. I have been reading some articles which say to simply pull down the quick settings bar and tap on the profile picture of the active user account. This apparently locks the phone and at the lock screen you can select which user you want to log in.
However, when I tap on my user picture, the phone does lock but I dont see any option to select the new user account.
I am running Paranoid Android FWIW.
I was under the impression / read some where you can't do this on n4 but n7 and n10 you can
I have two Gmail accounts and they work in tandem if there is a way to change it so I can use one account during the day and one account during the evening that would be nice
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I am getting what seems to be a fairly common issue for people (via searching on Google) in excessive Exchange Services battery drain. The keep awake related to Exchange Services right now is about 3.5 hours, on a total of 4 hours of total time after taking it off. The phone has been awake the entire time I have had it on, due to Exchange Services. I also can see com.android.exchange and com.android.email show up constantly if I go into Developer Options and enable the Show CPU Usage. The oddest thing is that this did not appear when I first set up my Exchange email (to the same exact settings) when I got the phone a week or two ago, and only cropped up when I did a factory reset this weekend. I have already taken the following trouble shooting steps:
- removed and re-added the account
- removed account, cleared data and cache for exchange services, restarted, then re-added the account
- Switched to something other than push for sync frequency. This DOES fix the problem, however not having push is not, in my mind, a workable solution since I do have IM-like exchanges over email that require more real time back and forth. There was a reference on AndroidCentral with a user that switched to non-push for an hour, then switched back and push started working normally; for me this did not work (I left it on non-push overnight)
- Logged into OWA, manually removed account, then removed account/cleared data/restarted phone, then re-added the account. Note that I did this through the OWA system, I did not go into the Exchange Management Console (I do not have access to that) and remove/re-add the account.
- Disabled Tasks or Calendar sync. Neither works - its clearly related to the email portion of the exchange server sync.
- Removed Outlook.com app
I realize that I can use a third party app for Exchange, but then I will have completely segregated exchange calendar/contacts from the system calendar, and that is not something I want (i.e. I want to see gmail and exchange events side by side).
Hopefully the early adopters on this forum will have some good input regarding this issue. There is a fair amount of people out there asking for help on this problem, but some have it go away by removing/re-adding the account, but a good chuck of them appear to never solve their issue. Hopefully that is not me....
Solved my issue...this was what I did, for the record:
Remove the external memory card on my device (to prevent remote wipe from deleting the files on my external memory card – i.e. pictures)
Go into the Phone List on the Outlook Web Access and initiate a remote wipe
Step 2 obviously triggers a factory reset of my phone. Once that reset took place and I got the confirmation email, I removed my phone from the Phone List on Outlook Web Access per the email’s instructions. If you do not do this, then your phone will simply wipe and reset again when you try to reconnect to the exchange server
I re-set up my phone, re-downloaded all of my apps, and re-added the exchange account
Within step 4, this is what I did:
I am not sure this step is essential, but I did not select the option to allow Google to restore my backed up settings – I started completely fresh
Because I did not restore my backed up settings, I went through the process of re-setting up my phone, which took some time – probably about an hour or so since I was doing it off and on. During that time, Google may have pushed out other updates to my phone (I know from past experience that Google tends to do that when the phone is first set up). After that hour, I re-added my exchange account (using autodiscover)
I used the default settings at first when setting up the exchange account (default on my phone was 3-day sync of email, 50kb limit per email, and 2 week sync of calendar). After I saw that there was no more error loops causing the exchange services to run constantly, I changed this to my preferred settings (1 month email, no size limit, 6 months calendar, sync of sent items and my Axial subfolder in addition to inbox)
I am not sure if the order matters, but I reset-up my main phone settings before re-adding the exchange account, and re-added my apps after adding the exchange account.
The OWA interface where you can delete, execute remote wipe, etc, is simply the web address you use to log into your exchange email (i.e. it is not an admin tool). For me, it was the format owa.domain.com, but it will be different for every server. I was able to grab phone log and the OWA log both while I had the battery drain issue and after, and I have our IT guys looking into it. In the meantime, if anyone here is an IT expert, particularly an exchange expert and may find these logs to be useful in diagnosing the root problem, please PM me. A cursory glance of the logs confirms an error loop, with the server showing a lot of these errors:
Command_WorkerThread_Exception :
--- Exception start ---
Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.AirSync.AirSyncPermanentException
Exception message:
Exception level: 0
HttpStatusCode: OK
AirSyncStatusCode: Search_TooComplex
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 ---
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and the Request Header is largely the same, except for the one that generates the loop has a line that says
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 38
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while the one after the fix says
Connection: close
Content-Length: 296
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The phone side log looks very different between the one that constantly syncs and one that does not.
This one has me stumped, and the online info is not helpful. I just started a new job and they use Google Apps for Work. They let you add your account to your own device, but because it is a state agency they are enforcing device policies on accounts - including remote wipe and app auditing abilities. I don't particularly like the idea of them knowing about every single app I have nor the fact that they can wipe my phone. I saw that there should be the ability to create a "work profile" to keep the two separate (allowing them to only see the apps installed on the work profile, and if they issue a wipe it will only nuke the work profile), but I don't seem to have the ability to create one. This is an S5 (SM-G900R7) with bone stock/non-rooted 6.0.1. The online guides say that all I should have to do is open the Device Policy app and go to the Status page, and there should be a button to create a work profile but I do not have said button. Under Policies > Shared Device Details it does say "Work Profile: Supported", so what am I missing here? All I really need is to access my email and see my calendar from that account, but even those require the device policy, so I'm at a loss..
Anyone?
So long story short, I've always wondered if it's possible to make some sort of batch file to automatically setup some specific settings when clean installing different ROMs.
I'd like to set up the Google account, wifi/bluetooth history, and adjust account sync settings. Any resources or keywords I should look into to accomplish this?
Noelawinslow said:
So long story short, I've always wondered if it's possible to make some sort of batch file to automatically setup some specific settings when clean installing different ROMs.
I'd like to set up the Google account, wifi/bluetooth history, and adjust account sync settings. Any resources or keywords I should look into to accomplish this?
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Android Pie (and Oreo too I believe) has built-in automatic back up and restore function.
It backs up your messages, WiFi passwords and most of the settings.
You just have to input your email and password (security reasons)
There is an app for the similar purpose too.
Check below
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/themes/rom-settings-backup-pro-perfect-t3574209