Good for enterprise email app

[the DRIZZLE]

Does anyone use the good for enterprise email app for android? I just started a new job and this is the only way they will let me use email on Android. The reviews seem terrible. Right now I'm using an OG Droid but was planning on going to a GNex. However, it wouldn't even run on my Droid because it's rooted.

I'm thinking of just having the company pay for a BB and account and keeping a personal line for the GNex. I'm currently on a family plan anyway so the cost isn't that bad but I'm not sure if I really want to carry two devises.

 

[mammador]

Most would say Touchdown, which works well with MS Exchange.

In my experience though, the default Android e-mail app works well with MS Exchange. All that's needed is just the server name from your firm's Systems Admin or Helpdesk.

 

[Dulanic]

I would also say stock app. I love K9, but man does it suck with exchange.

 

[alent1234]

Isn't that the one which puts your email into an encrypted lock box?

 

[the DRIZZLE]

I would also say stock app. I love K9, but man does it suck with exchange.

You guys don't understand. "Good for enterprise" is the name of the app. It provides a higher level of security than exchange and is mandatory.

 

[the DRIZZLE]

Isn't that the one which puts your email into an encrypted lock box?

Yeah. I think I'm just going to get a company BB and get the Gnex on my personal line. The Good app requires a different data plan which is apparently not even compatible with my existing account.

 

[lein]

Our company supports Android email through Good. I hate it and most people I know in the company hate it as well. Often times emails will take hours to arrive on my phone either on wifi or 3g/4g (despite the most battery draining settings). I didn't need a fancy data plan for Good to "work" though.

At least there may be an end in sight...company may move to the native client w/ ICS

 

[the DRIZZLE]

Our company supports Android email through Good. I hate it and most people I know in the company hate it as well. Often times emails will take hours to arrive on my phone either on wifi or 3g/4g (despite the most battery draining settings). I didn't need a fancy data plan for Good to "work" though.

At least there may be an end in sight...company may move to the native client w/ ICS

Apparently the data plan issue is only on Android on Verizon. Android and iphone users on other carriers and iphone users on Verizon can use regular data plans. It's basically a way for Verizon to force Android users to pay the old BES BB prices.

 

[lein]

Apparently the data plan issue is only on Android on Verizon. Android and iphone users on other carriers and iphone users on Verizon can use regular data plans. It's basically a way for Verizon to force Android users to pay the old BES BB prices.

I'm pretty sure that's not true at our company, unless there are different versions of Good. I know Verizon Android users that use it on their personal lines with their standard data plan. The only fancy data plan needed here is BES on BlackBerry (no BIS). Android and iPhones work with the standard plan. Then again, your Good service may not actually suck

 

[pm]

I use Good for Enterprise. It's the only thing that they will let us use at my company to access the corporate email system on Android There are no other choices. It's "Good for Enterprise" on Android, and then the integrated systems on Blackberry and iPhone. They won't provision any other apps, and the company is tight on security so I wouldn't dare try to work around the restrictions.

I don't have a special data plan. Just the a regular AT&T 200MB/month plan and I have a standard family plan (along with my wife).

It installed fine on my Samsung Galaxy S2 which is rooted and running a custom ROM (Unnamed).

It works well enough. I use it daily, check it constantly, add things to the calendar and send plenty of emails with it. It's never crashed, and it's had no issues really except that the time-out for the password lock is really short and I wish the contacts were integrated with the contact list on the phone so that I didn't need to look up people in Good. But these almost certainly are problems with the way corporate IT require things. It's fine for viewing attachments and handles all of my calendar appointments (recurring and otherwise) without issues across the 7 times zones of people that I work with. I get appointment notifications. I really have no serious complaints and it is undoubtedly the app that I use the most on my SGS2.

I know people at working using Good for Enterprise with a Galaxy Nexus and they are all generally happy too. Based on my experience I would definitely not get a Blackberry instead and carry two phones...

 

[the DRIZZLE]

I'm pretty sure that's not true at our company, unless there are different versions of Good. I know Verizon Android users that use it on their personal lines with their standard data plan. The only fancy data plan needed here is BES on BlackBerry (no BIS). Android and iPhones work with the standard plan. Then again, your Good service may not actually suck

Maybe it's a setting on the company side that causes the data plan problems. I can tell you the app did throw an error message because of it before it told me it wouldn't work because I'm rooted.

 

[pm]

Maybe it's a setting on the company side that causes the data plan problems. I can tell the app did throw an error message because of it before it told me it wouldn't work because I'm rooted.

Well that's weird. I'm definitely rooted and custom ROM'd and it installed and runs fine by me. You could always install it first and then root.

I just checked again (by running Titanium Backup) and I am rooted.... <shrug> And I was definitely rooted when I installed Good for Enterprise because the ROM was rooted for me. So I had root from the start...

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Necro bump.

Anyone else deal with this? I got hit with everything - couldn't install root - so I did a temp unroot. Now I have to get past the Verizon Enterprise data requirements. Maybe it's just my company or something, but I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon like others mentioned above... This is quite insane, I'm not paying $180/Year ($15/mo) in order to be able to work on the go. As much as I want to...

 

[dawheat]

I think it's up to your corporate policy. My company uses Good and it works fine on rooted phones running modified ROMs. No issues on AT&T, though weird restrictions on Verizon wouldn't surprise me.

I find it less featured than a normal Exchange client, but it does its job, though it is limited in the type of docs it lets you view.

 

[trmiv]

There is no way past the enterprise data requirement with Verizon. It's a Good/Verizon thing, nothing to do with your company. My work re-reimburses me that extra ~$20/m (after taxes it's close to $20) though.

Good will work on rooted phones, unless denied by policy.

<--------Used to be a Good/BB admin until we spun our wireless support off to a vendor.