MS Exchange on Android phones

mammador

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I have a Samsung phone with Android v. Eclair, and I can't get my work MS Exchange account set up on it.

Has anybody else had this problem?
 

s44

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There are lots of tweaks you can do to make the stock Android email program play well with Exchange, but if this is a business account, do the simple/foolproof thing:

buy Touchdown

Also, if you have a Fascinate, Odin Froyo onto that sucker ASAP.
 

postaled

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I've had no issues using the stock froyo mail client on my nook color and thunderbolt.

I am assuming you are sure its not anything server side?
 

Binky

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The stock 2.2 and 2.3 clients are pretty decent but minimalistic. I don't remember the stock 2.1 client working well with our exchange server.

Like they said above, buy touchdown for $20 and make it easy on yourself. I bought Roadsync ($10) which worked great for me until my company changed exchange servers now I can't get it to sync. Roadsync is a pretty good exchange client for $10 but I'm not sure I'd recommend it at this point since it's completely broken for me on Android 2.3 and Exchange 2010.
 

thedosbox

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I have a Samsung phone with Android v. Eclair, and I can't get my work MS Exchange account set up on it.

Has anybody else had this problem?

Many companies won't allow pre-Froyo devices to synch with Exchange due to missing security features such as remote wipe, enforcing a PIN and maximum idle. Touchdown is the alternative if you're stuck on Eclair.