my phone should be coming in tomorrow
ive had the motorola droid series of phones since the star 1,2,and currenly 3 with this phone i got lazy with new apps and really trying out much
but with my dna i intend to really get back into it and use it for all its worth
so my first 2 questions about apps would be how is the stock email and stock browser
currently i use k-9 email and dolphin hd browser
should i stick with stock on dna for both of these if not what do you recommend as an email and browser client if not k-9,dolphin or stock
I like the sense mail app actually. That, and the gmail one.
I saw a review of 'mailbox' on the verge the other day, looked great, but only for iPhone. It looked a lot like sparrow. Wish we could get one of those mail apps over here on android.
I use Chrome more than the default browser. I like the gesture features and that it's pretty much just the desktop version and syncs all my bookmarks and history. I'm not such a huge fan of the stock email app. I use it for my work Exchange email, and all of the messages pretty much have letterhead images or documents and I've had to go into the setting and tell the app to download all attachments to get all the images as soon as I open the email. Otherwise it takes FOREVER to get the full message downloaded. Just my .02.
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Hi All,
I was just wondering I have been using the stock htc mail application to get my company email on my Eris. The application does not have a "all documents" view. This pretty much makes it useless to me because I use a lot of mail rules to move my email into folders as I receive it. I can see I have unread messages but I would have to comb through folders to find the actual mail.
I had this problem while working on the stock 1.56 android release that came with the phone and also with the 2.1 leak.
I was wondering if anyone has encountered this before and has come up with some sort of fix, or has a suggestion for another mail application. Also even if there was a way to show number of unread messages in the folders view that would also work.
Just one more FYI my company email comes through exchange.
Thanks!
You could try the Touchdown app. I personally did not like it, (also using Exchange) but they offer a free trial period to try it out.
Using Touchdown I am having the same issue that I had while using k-9. It pretty much does not work.
I am getting the email OTA Via an exchange server but the email is actually lotus notes based. Its a pretty crummy setup but because my office only supports blackberry it was the only OTA solution I could come up with.
Has anyone used Commontimes - Mnotes with K-9 and got it to work?
If so could you post instructions
Hey Guys
Just joined the android bunch when the wife got me a new Xperia X10 for my b'day/anniversary. Its awesome and i'am loving every bit of it especially the personalization part of it.
However coming from the iPhone I have a few queries and would be great if someone could help me with it. Have searched the forums and haven't really got any useful info of it (mind you i could have terrible searching skill, btw did anyone see my keys??)
I have two mail id's like most people. One is my personal gmail id and the other is my corporate mail id. I have configured them both onto my phone and I'am indeed recieving all mails without a glitch. Unfortunately I don't have an option of sorts to configure my office calendar to sync with the native app. The calendar option does not exist for the second mail option(The option to sync my personal gmail calendar exists and is working fine).
However while using the iphone3g previously I was able to simultaneously use both the calendars (gmail & corporate) and an update on either of the two calendars from my desktop would show on the calendar.
Question1
Is it possible to have a similar system on the android as well. The backend for my corporate mail is provided by gmail and so is the calendar and everything in it. Someone suggested elsewhere that i could share the calendar to my personal mail and i could use it that way. Unfortunately it not enabled for me and the only option for sharing lets my personal account to see if I'm free or engaged at any time. This would be of very limited use to me.
Question 2
Whenever i receive a mail with a calendar invite on the corporate id, the mail appears empty with a small attachment. Using the preview option on the mail app displays text based data that pretty much random stuff overlaid on the meeting name etc(i guess this is the program info or something). Is there anyway if and when i receive an invite i would be able to add them to my calendar or refuse it right-away etc..
These two queries are the biggest of my worries as of now on the otherwise enjoyable experience. I'm terrible sorry for the long post but thought I'd give as much info as possible.
Thanks for your time and help!!
Cheers!!
PS: Some background info, Phone: Xperia X10i, Firmware 2.1-Update1(India), unrooted, baseband 2.1.54. If there is any other app that would help me do the same(Paid or Free), it would be awesome.
Hi there,
I use my phone in a similar way, I have 4 accounts in my gmail app. 3 corporate and 1 personal. If I can remember back to 2.1 (eclair) you can only have 1 gmail account in that app. Then you have to use the mail app for up to 5 more (not sure about moxier mail, I never used it).
Basically what your best doing is rooting the phone to get it up to 2.2 (froyo) that way use have much more control over what sync's from each account. I would recommend tripnraver's froyo. He has a new 1.2.0 coming tonight. You do have to put up with some minor bugs, but the benefits far out weigh the negatives.
A lot also depends on what type of email accounts they are. Either way froyo is way better for your needs.
If you don't wish to dabble with your new present, wait a few months when sony bring out 2.3.4 gingerbread!
I have had a few close shaves, while flashing my phone but approx 10 roms later, I'm pretty sure it's hard to brick it. Worst case restore it back using the sony software.
Hope that helps.
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Hi guys,
Recently I noticed with a bunch of e-mails that I received in K-9 mail app, that normal hyperlinks to websites in e-mail bodies do not open the browser at all or do anything. They are clickable, but nothing happens when clicked.
Since I receive the same exact emails on my Droid X in K-9 (same Gmail account), I tested on there and those same links work just fine and open in Dolphin HD. I don't get it??
I made sure the Tab has Dolphin Browser set as default, it does. No other browsers are installed besides the stock one. I even downloaded Dolphin Mini and removed the default selection from Dolphin HD (so technically the links should prompt which of the 3 browsers I want to open the sites with), but still, nothing at all happens when I click them.
Keep in mind this is most links in emails but not all. There seems to be no difference among the links that work and don't work. Again, they ALL work on my DX.
K-9 mail was good on GTab 7 but not so good on 10.1. I uninstalled it and using the stock e-mail client which is perfect.
Well K-9 is perfect on the 10.1 just like on my DX except for this issue. I'd like to continue using it if possible.
Doesn't the stock email client (the icon is the letter with the red circle seal over it right?) not do push email? Going through setup now, it only gave me options for interval poll checking for my gmail??
EDIT: Oh you mean the Gmail app, not the Email app.
I guess I'll try this since it has cool tablet columns support, but I really love that you can theme and edit every bit of K-9 in settings (colors, font sizes, number of text lines, etc). I would really love to figure out the links problem in K-9. Damn.
Anyone else having trouble with the stock email app? Its brutally slow and freezes the whole phone. The problem is that it syncs with the stock calender app which I need. K9 mail does not as far as I know. I wish it was possible to remove our replace the stock email app with a newer or older or fixed version or something, but I don't have root and I don't know how to without it. Any suggestions for this problem or similar experiences?
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I was having issues with the stock email app. Any message I would send from my phone it would stay in the outbox and not actually send the email. I would try manually pushing the email and that would not work. My suggestion is to try enhanced email from the market. I have been using it for a week now and the customizations above the stock email are worth the price. I believe you can Google it and download a free week trial version from their website.
You can try other mail clients but if you are using your phone for work and connecting to an Exchange (or exchange-like) ActiveSync server, take it from someone who is not only a heavy email user but also the email co-admin for a 5000 user environment, Touchdown by Nitrodesk right now is the only fully functional non-buggy exchange mail client for Android. If you are only a casual or occasional email user then Enhanced Email is ok, but still has a lot of bugs. I have a lot of experience supporting everything else out there (Including a few hundred Blackberry Enterprise users, and iPhone users) and right now Touchdown for Android is the only stable one that has feature parity with a real corporate email client.
Having said that, the stock mail client on CM7 is a lot less buggy than Samsung's, HTC's or Motorola's. So if you really need to use stock for some kind of calendar integration or because your favorite widget only supports stock mail and you are comfortable with flashing custom roms then CM7 give a try.
Hi, i'm really new to all this root/cwm/flash thing, i hope i am posting to the correct thread. It seems that the stock email client will not work on unNamed rom, probably because social hub is not installed. It just won't set up the account. (I did install social hub using the addon provided by the unNamed, but didn't work, social hub won't add any account for that matter) Gmail does work. I just wanted to point out this issue, to see if someone is having the same situation.
Sorry, i'm a complete noob.
I have to set up an Exchange account to get my work email, and I must say that the stock 4.1.2 mail app is pretty good, except for one thing - I can't figure out how to fit the emails to screen like I can in the Gmail app. Even if I pinch to zoom out, it will still not fit the whole (HTML) email to screen.
Please tell me that there is some way around it. I have looked at the other mail apps (K9, EE, etc), and I just don't like them.