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FROYO and Exchange security not really there yet

Hello,
i am running Froyo on my nexus one.
When configuring a new Exchange support, i get:
""SETUP COULD NOT FINISH.
This server requires security features your phone does not support""
Touchdown is working fine and reports the following securities features:
Allow simple password
Password/PIN required
Failed attempts 10
Min length 5
Min Complex 3
Timeout 1800 sec.
Password recovery
So the question are:
1) Which of this securities is not yet implemented natively in froyo?
2) Will it make it in the final froyo release?
If any of you has some inputs, it would be nice to share.
Thanks in advance!
Best
dico

Sorry I cannot help with your problem other than to say that I have exactly the same issue. I am really shocked that Google have not got this fully working. We are hardly talking about a new protocol here!
Whilst I have Touchdown and have done since moving to Android last year, this single problem has stopped my company giving everyone Android phones. Come on Google, get it sorted!

Maybe because the foryo we got is not final? Ever thought of a unfinisched product that you use, is not finisched?

jaapschaap said:
Maybe because the foryo we got is not final? Ever thought of a unfinisched product that you use, is not finisched?
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I think the point is that proper exchange support should really have been there from day one.
You just don't build a serious, high end smart phone with out proper integration to corporate mail (read exchange ).
Unless you're Google apparently.

badomen said:
I think the point is that proper exchange support should really have been there from day one.
You just don't build a serious, high end smart phone with out proper integration to corporate mail (read exchange ).
Unless you're Google apparently.
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Well, I work and live in the corporate world and use my phone as such a device. I guess I sort of agree with you there about the exchange support, I can't really legitimize why they didn't incorporate this almost-brainless sync method.
Does the security policy of your works exchange server require to have a screen lock pin, specifically mobile device security policies? I noticed, after wiping from Froyo(with screen lock pin prior to EX acct) to CM and then back to Froyo(no screen lock when configuring), that I received an error that setup could not finish, I assume this is because without having a screen lock policy set up on the phone the exchange server will not authenticate to my device. Check that out. Also, this is not a finalized product.

Mine works fine...and I manage the Exchange system here...no problems.
My biggest issue is that Google has provided half-ass support for Exchange, and this version is no different.
You can't even move an item to another folder from the inbox with the stock Froyo.
The Desire Rom has the functionality and ability, best interface and options compared to the stock Android.
The stock Rom sucks honestly...if it weren't for Desire...I would still have my iPhone, even they figured out, licensed and got working properly the Exchange support 18 months ago. Windows mobile devices have had this for 3-4yrs.

My first post! May as well make it contributory.
It is interested to note that one may need a PIN lock set up first *before* adding an exchange account that requires one... I know I haven't been able to get our 2.2 Nexus One's to connect to our corporate Exchange Server for my girlfriend and I.
Let me go change to a PIN lock and see what happens when I try to add the exchange account...

Yep, no go still. "Unable to open connection to server."
They really need to add a Verbose button to these error messages.

still not working
Hello,
I tried setting up a PIN code before starting up the email application.
Does someone knows where to find the email app log file to see what is not good?
Thanks in advance!
best
CJ

To be honest, I tried using touchdown (which as great as it is, still lacks a lot of features), then tried using the Froyo Email/Calendar apps... Nothing has ever worked smoothly with Exchange + Android. I ended up migrating my email server (luckly it is only a personal email server) to Google Apps, and I have never been so happy with the performance and stability.
It is a tough cookie to swallow, but gmail is much better then Exchange on Android...

[Q] Please help! How do you sync the Galaxy S with a Mac?

hi guys,
Can you please let me know how do you sync the galaxy s with a mac? How do I transfer photos and stuff like that to a Mac computer?
Thanks for a detailed explanation as I'm new to this.
Regards,
DH

android <--> osx sync
Hi,
I am also looking for a solution to sync my SGS with mac osx. It seams that there are only commercial solutions at the moment. One of them is:
http://www.markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html
Kind regards
hqqh

is doubletwist not available on the mac?
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Doubletwist is available on the Mac but I find it very slow.
If you want iPhoto to recognize it you need to enable USB debugging in the settings so that the Mac recognises your phone as a mass storage device.
There's no solution for syncing address book and calendar other than the missing sync or using google calendar and gmail.
There's no solution for backing up and upgrading your phone as yet.
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Jausse said:
Doubletwist is available on the Mac but I find it very slow.
If you want iPhoto to recognize it you need to enable USB debugging in the settings so that the Mac recognises your phone as a mass storage device.
There's no solution for syncing address book and calendar other than the missing sync or using google calendar and gmail.
There's no solution for backing up and upgrading your phone as yet.
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You sure? You should just need to go to settings, about phone, usb settings, ask onconnection/mass storage..

You should but it doesn't work. You need to enable USB debugging otherwise it doesn't work.

Heh, I told someone to only sync at work due to similar issues. Maybe not the answer most of you want to hear, but as long as it helps 1 person think outside the box it's worth a post, right?

Jausse said:
If you want iPhoto to recognize it you need to enable USB debugging in the settings so that the Mac recognises your phone as a mass storage device.
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That is not true, the iPhoto opens when I put galaxy to usb port and wait a moment so the memorycard/usb has connected. (never used usb debugging) My iPhoto popups automaticly after a while. and my two memorycard (internel/external) shown in desktop I use MBP mid 2009. iCal I have sync with my google account so sync between my iCal/Google calender/phone works perfect. The contact i havent try to sync with my mac because i dont need that. For the calender sync you dont need any app. Just set the setting right and it works.
If you want to sync everything and use wifi or something you should try some software for that, for example the software in previous post.

You're lucky. It doesn't work on mine. I use an iMac with Snow Leopard and everything is up to date. I've never been able to get the cards to mount without debugging enabled.

I use salling sync to sync music and video and photos
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I'm not lucky i read and learn

You sell the mac, get a pc

Bec07 said:
You sell the mac, get a pc
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A Mac is a PC... Now go hide in your cave .
As far as what I do with syncing my Mac:
Mail.app gets my mail from GMail and through a few IMAP-servers that support the IDLE extension (basically push for standard IMAP). As long as you don't use POP3 your mail will be in sync including read/replied flags
iCal.app calendars are synced through Google
Address Book.app contacts are synced through Google
When using Mass Storage mode Aperture picks up the device just fine here and lets me add anything I need to my library so for anyone who has issues with that I'd suggest doing a factory / data reset and get a recent firmware version.
For music right now I just use the Finder. iTunes is set to organise and maintain my library which means it's all neatly organised, bagged and tagged and just requires me to drop some folders on the Galaxy S. It's not ideal, I'd rather see the device in iTunes and drag-n-drop from there...
There are two ways however that could be helpful:
TunesSync: sync iTunes with Android (paid)
iTunes2android: command-line utility over usb/adb to accomplish the same (free)

daenney said:
A Mac is a PC... Now go hide in your cave .
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Ouch, you got me
Oh well just put win 7 on it

Bec07 said:
Ouch, you got me
Oh well just put win 7 on it
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Guys, can we stop with the whole Mac vs. Windows argument. The OP is here requesting help with using his SGS with a Mac, and this kind of argument doesn't really belong here, and distracts from the OP getting his issue resolved.

Sync Android with iPhoto Seamlessly
digitalhater said:
hi guys,
Can you please let me know how do you sync the galaxy s with a mac? How do I transfer photos and stuff like that to a Mac computer?
Thanks for a detailed explanation as I'm new to this.
Regards,
DH
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Check out this link for a step by step instructions to sync photos from your Samsung Galaxy to iPhoto. Once it is step up. The photos syncs automatically and it is truely cable free too.
baselearning.blogspot.sg/2012/08/sync-android-with-iphoto-seamlessly-for.html

[Q] A collection of Android/Note getting started Noob questions

Hi
The Note is my first smartphone ever, lol, and I am really exited to exploit all of its functions. I am not sure whether it is android or specific GNote Q's, but I hope some of you can help me out, please.
1) When I am in an open program/app, how do I close it from there? I can go for the Home click or Back/reverse and then afterwards choose active programs and then I can close them. There must be an easier way?
2) These starting screens there are 7 of them to scroll from side to side, but can I add more and can I make them scroll up and down instead of sidewise?
3) I hope I can managed to make my calender to sync. with my work, Outlook, but I dont want them to se my private tasks/mettings/dates etc., How can I deal with that?
4) If I have more programs/app open, how can I shift between them?
5) I have at two private webmails and one working mail, and then I have Linkedin and Twitter profile, one private and one working, each. Further more I have a tons of RSS feeds...
Any good adwise on how to deal with all this in a smart way?
(They should have made room for two simcards, lol).
6) Private calls are forwarded to my work phone, but if I make calls to some of my private friends from my working phone, I still want them to see my private number and not work. Is that possible?
7) I cannot see the difference beetween fully off mode and standby, can I make a standby logo or something to insert?

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Note-it said:
1) When I am in an open program/app, how do I close it from there? I can go for the Home click or Back/reverse and then afterwards choose active programs and then I can close them. There must be an easier way?
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If you go back from the program, it'll usually close it. Some programs choose not to close in that instance (such as the web browser and stock SMS app.) Those programs can be left running - they usually won't cause any problems. To be honest, you can leave everything running and android will take care of "cleaning up" whenever it needs the memory.
2) These starting screens there are 7 of them to scroll from side to side, but can I add more and can I make them scroll up and down instead of sidewise?
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You can add or remove them, but using the stock launcher, you can't change the direction they scroll in. This may be a feature in some third party launcher (such as GO Launcher, ADW Launcher, etc.)
3) I hope I can managed to make my calender to sync. with my work, Outlook, but I dont want them to se my private tasks/mettings/dates etc., How can I deal with that?
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Use different calanders for work and private stuff. You'll have to be careful when creating new events on your phone that you select the proper calander for things to go into.
4) If I have more programs/app open, how can I shift between them?
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hold the "home" button, choose the app you want to switch to.
5) I have at two private webmails and one working mail, and then I have Linkedin and Twitter profile, one private and one working, each. Further more I have a tons of RSS feeds...
Any good adwise on how to deal with all this in a smart way?
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What is a "smart" way and what isn't? I have all my private emails consolidate into a single email address (similar to how gmail/hotmail/etc can pick up from other boxes) and keep my work stuff seperate. I don't do social networks, so can't comment on that.
6) Private calls are forwarded to my work phone, but if I make calls to some of my private friends from my working phone, I still want them to see my private number and not work. Is that possible?
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Look into google voice.
7) I cannot see the difference beetween fully off mode and standby, can I make a standby logo or something to insert?
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No. I'm not sure why you'd want to, though. If you tap the 'home' button and nothing happens, it's fully off. If the screen wakes up, then it's in standby. I'm not sure why a phone would be turned full off, though.
Hope this helps
Gary

Thank you, but...
Thank you ☺ Sorry for a slow reply. I was not able to figure out how to split up qoutes, but I hope you can follow:
1) (Closing an app issue) Well I guess closing applications is a pc OS thing. Still wont it drain the battery more to leave them running? Using the back is not always a solution, if there are several steps. To stop the music player u must either pause it or u need the ''active programs'' on one of your home screens.
2) (Number of home screens > 7) I mean can I add more than 7, so I could have for instance 10 instead, and how do I do that?
3) (Calender Work and private issue) In outlook (work) I can mark them as private, I kind of hoped that it was possible with the Note too. Anyway how do I add another calender?
4) ok ☺
5) (several mails/feeds etc., overview issue) - lol, Well I need to keep some structure, I must split it into a few mails accounts and merging them would kind of kill the whole idea. Anyway I can chose each mail account for the E-mail app or I can choose the Social Hub, so I think it covers it depending on what I need…
6) (specify number I call from) Some day I might do so, Thx. Though perhaps my work will pay for my private calls also and then I can stick to one number.
7) (standby/clock screen) The watch app with desktop thing, do the work ☺

XT890 Android Expert Required! Donation offer!

Would anyone be interested in finding the solutions to the problems below as a "job" and giving me a price for the solutions?
(1 - Data Roaming Nag)
Recently upgraded from HTC desire running 2.2 (I think?) to Razr I which is now running 4.12, before if I'd be abroad I'd simply get a text from my service provider about the rates, I always had data roaming enabled as it's a business phone and only €2 for the first 50mb which is more than enough for a days use. So I set the razr up in much the same way, albeit on 4.12 but I had data roaming enabled and when I first got connected to a foreign network it prompted me about data roaming, which I thought would be just a once off for the first time since I already had it enabled, I clicked yes to acknowledge it anyway and continue using data roaming which was fine, but then it seemed as soon as I dropped out of coverage and came back, the notification would come up again. It actually got so frequent that the notification was on my screen almost every time I unlocked the phone and it got pretty annoying.
Has anyone else experienced this and found out a way to disable the popup? I'm not sure if it's android or motorolla related?
(2 - Enable USB Mass storage)
I've seen mods of this but I don't think they are compatible with 4.12, if anyone has a solution or could edit the settings.apk to enable it and post it that would be great
(3 - Contact Sync Issue)
My contacts are not syncing properly. I've over 2,700 contacts as it's a business phone. I save all to my gmail account under different groups (my contacts/business/sport) and never had sync issues on my old desire but I'm having issues with this. When I check the account in settings, sync is fine for everything (calendar, gmail etc) but contacts and the last successful sync is days and days ago. The error just reads "Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back again shortly", which obviously isn't the case. I've tried "contact sync fix" app and although it works, I don't like using such a solution and would of course much rather it to just work as it's supposed to. Also I'm getting a "Sync - too many contacts deletions" notification sometimes that I'm not sure what to do with, when I click it it comes up saying "Deletion limit exceeded" and then says there are 8 deleted items for contacts account [email protected]. What do you want to do?" giving me the options: Delete the items - undo the deletes - do nothing for now. I don't know what to do so just choose "do nothing for now" contacts seem to be still intact but I'm very worried about losing any.
(4 - Space between numbers)
I'm not sure if this is a new thing with the newer androids, a dialler issue or what, but the phone is automatically adding gaps between numbers when I try and save. I've a lot of numbers and prefer to keep them all the same formatting, which is, for example, +353871234567, if somebody rings me, sometimes it comes up as +353871234567 which is grand, other times it might come up as 0871234567 so all I used to need to do was delete the 0 and add a +, now when I edit the number, spaces are automatically added and it shows up something like 087 123 4567. This used to only happen with landline numbers and then sometimes if you tried to delete say the space between 3 and 4, it would delete the space AND the 3!
I thought it was an issue with Go Contacts/Dialler EX but it's happening on EX Dialler too even though I've clicked off the area code setting, so I'm thinking it might be an android issue? Anyone managed to sort it out? I may have found something to do with it from Android Development, but I haven't a clue if that can be changed as a mod for a specific phone?
http://developer.android.com/refere...I'm having on an otherwise pretty good phone.

#2 dont work on JB..since "moto" and "ms" had together trouble on the mass storage thing..

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#2 dont work on JB..since "moto" and "ms" had together trouble on the mass storage thing..
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Thanks for letting me know. Do you think there will be a solution, ever?
I think I solved the contact sync issue, I chose the "undelete" option and then I noticed 8 new "my contacts" groups in gmail itself (from desktop) so I deleted them groups from gmail and I think it's ok now. I also sent Go contacts/dialer to system app (because of a missed call issue) so I'm not sure if this contributed, I also deleted the "contact sync fix" app. Hopefully the issue doesn't resurface.

OP this>>>>Job/Payment offer! Is not what XDA is about, now you willing to "donate" for items you are looking to resolve it different. BTW moved as this does not belong in the Development Threads.

That's fair enough, thanks So, donations offered for solutions folks!

Question Work phone

Looking for a new phone really like the Mi 11 ultra question I have is any phone I get off also used as my work phone need to run multiple Microsoft apps for work still wondering if this works be the right phone or of I should keep

I'm using the Microsoft Authenticator and Outlook for the office without any issues. What other Microsofst apps are you talking about? In SIM1 my private and SIM2 my company card.

Using it for my work related apps that are part of the Microsoft ecosystem and i have zero issues.
I was glad when I saw i could sync my corporate email ( based on office 365 exchange ) that requires additional safety checks .
Teams and Skype for business works perfectly.
I have a couple of authenticators that i use without issues ( VIP Symantec, google authenticators etc. ).
All the apps sync without issues, never missed anything as of now. Heck, even Gmail pushes the email on the now .
If you have any specific apps that you need let me know and I will see if I can test it out.
Cheers !

Same here I am using outlook for corporate email(365 exchange) and MS authenticator with no issues. Bonus the AOD screen also shows outlook notifications icon on it as well.

Thanks for the information really helpful mostly using Outlook and Excel from Microsoft I guess the only ones more I'm not completely sure of world be click mobile it's a routing app and service now but I think they should be okay

those work on mine, just push notifications are spotty on my tmo service in upstate ny. still haven't gotten one work slack blip and only get emails if i have the app open, but screen off. i dunno, i'll give this phone another week and if i can't figure it out it's going back to giztop and i'll just grab the 1+9pro from the tmo website

Thanks let me know how it works out that was the other phone I was looking at as well

oh, no opsgenie either....which i kinda need when i'm on call. my huawei mate 20 pro gets all those still luckily.
i'm going to try to flash to the global/eu rom today and see if that helps at all

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those work on mine, just push notifications are spotty on my tmo service in upstate ny. still haven't gotten one work slack blip and only get emails if i have the app open, but screen off. i dunno, i'll give this phone another week and if i can't figure it out it's going back to giztop and i'll just grab the 1+9pro from the tmo website
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Make sure to have the AutoStart enabled and also disable battery optimizations.
Also i noticed something the first time i setup my phone.
It tends to "learn" the app behavior somehow.
I'm saying this because after installing all my apps sometimes notifications didn't came trough right away.
It took one or two days until everything worked flawlessly without me doing anything special other than adjusting the config/permissions for each app.
I saw this behavior by watching the battery app and looking what process was using it the most.
And of course i saw android system process that was running. This one stopped after two days or so and everything was smooth since then. So i'm guessing the MIUI optimization process and some other functions are running in the background at start setting things up.
Also note that i didn't disabled/removed via ADB any preinstalled Chinese applications ( only those that were possible to remove from within the xiaomi getapps application - uninstall section )
I just muted the ones i didn't care about and i'm happy with my battery life ( i'm monitoring it via the battery app built in and also accubattery pro where i can see exactly how much each app is consuming between charges )
So my advice is to set the applications properly and have a bit of patience
Cheers !