I am running Cyanogen RC and installed the "hacked" facebook app that allows for contact syncing. Everything has been working fine, no problems at all. I installed Tasker on Friday after the review on Lifehacker, but haven't really set anything up yet (just haven't had time to define a lot of tasks.) Since I installed it, I noticed that the "Older Posts" link in the News Feed doesn't get older posts like it used to - It looks like it's updating, but no older posts appear.
My job is high level software tech support, so I'm trying to go through all the typical troubleshooting steps in my head -
1) Is it the fault of the hacked FB app? But it worked when I installed it...I could go back to the Market version, but then I lose contact syncing.
2) Is it Tasker's fault? I don't see why that app would interact with FB, but it's odd that I started noticing it right after that install. I suppose I could uninstall Tasker and see, but I really want to start learning and using Tasker.
Any ideas out there?
Nobody???
I’m getting ready to root my EVO and load it up with a fancy new custom ROM but before I do that I still have a couple of questions. I’ve found extensive information on how to back up the current data but most of it applies to a device that ALREADY HAS BEEN ROOTED. Is there a “How-to” guide that covers how to back up everything BEFORE the device is rooted? I'd prefer a method that has been testing and will allow me to recover if I need to.
So far, I’ve been able to back up some, but not all, of the applications using Astro Tools. Google contacts will sync with google and my phone contacts are on my Outlook. A side question: Is there a way to move phone contacts to google contacts?
I would also like to ensure that my “contact links”, SMSes, and call history are saved.
What happens to purchased applications? Will “Marketplace” still be able to ID my phone and allow me to re-download these applications?
I also want to ensure that my 4G “keys” are backed up.
My final question is with regard to ROM recommendation. I know, I know, everyone is different, etc. I would like a ROM that is:
1. Stable Froyo based with the latest fixes (no 30 fps limit, good audio streaming over BT)
2. Allows me to remove some of the useless Sprint Apps like NASCAR (I think I should be able to do this with all the ROMs once rooted)
3. Allows me to use a bluetooth keyboard (not sure which ROMs have this capability, I’ve only heard that Cyanogen might)
4. Allows the use of the forward, back, buttons on my bluetooth headset when playing media (same as #3)
5. It would be nice if it allowed me to force roaming. When I’m at work the Spring signal is really bad and it kills the battery very quickly.
Thanks in advance.
I didn't completely read your post, but I'll get in a quick reply to help a brother out. Root with Unrevoked 3.2 and use Titanium. There's no real need to back up before rooting because Unrevoked doesn't wipe your phone.
The Android Market backs up your purchased apps if you are signed into your Google account. Not sure about your Bluetooth questions.
The best Sense rom in my opinion is Fresh 3.3. I would check it out. Cyanogenmod 6 is by far the best rom without Sense, but no 4G.
Your contacts are synced with Google. You can back them up by exporting them to your SD. I'm using the AOSP contacts app, but I think it's the same for the Sense contacts app. Hitting menu should bring up the option.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I'm glad that the purchased apps are tied to the google account and I probably should have thought of that; LOL.
I've heard quite a bit about Fresh and I don't mind Sense at all so I think I'll give that ROM a whirl first, especially if it supports the bluetooth profiles I need. If not, then I guess it's Cyanogenmod for me. Detroit area currently doesn't have 4G so wouldn't be losing anything.
I tried backing up my contacts before but when I ran the restore I found that the "contact links" were either not backed up or not restored. I guess I should restore phone contacts from Outlook or else I'll end up with a ton of duplicates anyway. I probably will have to re-link all the contacts anyway.
Glad to hear that rooting won't corrupt the phone but I'd rather have as much backed up as possible just in case.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but Google should maintain your contact links. As long as Google has backed up your contacts (you can check at google.com/contacts), when you set up your Google account on a new rom, they'll be back, linked as they were before. Some more input would be nice, though, as I'm not completely sure.
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Hey, I've been thinking of switching from the Evo to the Epic. I've been researching alot on the phone and it's problems. Will rooting the phone and removing Touchwiz get rid of the gps problems, the lack of email notifications, and the unresponsive back button? Or will I have to flash a new rom to get rid of that? And can anyone with an Otterbox post pics and how they like the case? Thanks for the help.
Rooting the phone won't add any capabilities other than increased permissions (namely root). You'll need to flash a new rom to really change anything.
I don't believe that any of the replacement roms make the gps location more accurate.
What lack of email notification are you having?
i saw on a couple video reviews that any email account other than gmail doesnt refresh itself or doesnt notify you when it does. that could very well be a settings thing, but the guy doing to review isnt dumb so i figured that it wasnt a settings thing.
jeffy2walgreens said:
i saw on a couple video reviews that any email account other than gmail doesnt refresh itself or doesnt notify you when it does. that could very well be a settings thing, but the guy doing to review isnt dumb so i figured that it wasnt a settings thing.
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yeah, the email app is not super reliable.... it will usually check and retrieve your emails, but not all the time. but there are 2 good email apps you can download from the market, K9 mail and Maildroid.... those are said to work much better than the stock email app. and yeah, the native Gmail app works perfectly.
i guess i could learn to get used that. but if im getting the phone, i need the front buttons to work and the gps too. the gps on the evo is great, always locks on and it doesnt take too much time
Hi
Has anyone else encountered this issue, or know of a solution? I've searched and have found similar problems but nothing exactly like this.
I've just upgraded to Stock gingerbread using the RUU download.
I use Exchange Activesync to sync only my mail from Gmail. However, when set to 'Push' email it will go into a constant loop of syncing.
One thing I noticed, after deleting and re-setting up the account a number of times, is that it works fine until I delete emails. Once I delete, the non-stop syncing begins....
Apologies if this has been asked before-I searched, honest!
Many thanks in advance for any info.
Unbranded DHD on stock Gingerbread, Virgin, UK.
Do you use GMAIL or the htc mail app?
In the htc mail app, it is looping if you set the app to synchronize more than one day (3days beeing the default value)
With 1 day, it is working partially : many sync will end in error, but will succeed later.
definitively, htc isn't able to provide a stable solution for AES...
For my part, I still use the Froyo stock mail app, wich is working very well with hotmail, but unfortunately without html support. (you can easilly install it with the apk)
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Do you use GMAIL or the htc mail app?
In the htc mail app, it is looping if you set the app to synchronize more than one day (3days beeing the default value)
With 1 day, it is working partially : many sync will end in error, but will succeed later.
definitively, htc isn't able to provide a stable solution for AES...
For my part, I still use the Froyo stock mail app, wich is working very well with hotmail, but unfortunately without html support. (you can easilly install it with the apk)
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Hi
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this did not work for me.
Yes-I'm using the HTC Mail app.
I deleted the account and set it up again , reduced the syncing to one day as you suggested, but as soon as I delete any emails, it goes back into the continuous syncing loop.
Would I have to be rooted to install the Mail app from Froyo?
Thanks again!
I have same issue. If I setup Gmail as an exchange activesync with m.google.com it continuously syncs and sometimes authentication error, then it works fine again.
With other exchange accounts it is fine.
I prefer the Mail app over Gmail app as I prefer not to have conversation view and it will view.docx word files.
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I have same issue. If I setup Gmail as an exchange activesync with m.google.com it continuously syncs and sometimes authentication error, then it works fine again.
With other exchange accounts it is fine.
I prefer the Mail app over Gmail app as I prefer not to have conversation view and it will view.docx word files.
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Yes-I prefer the Mail app. Nice clean UI. Always used to work well for me with Froyo. Giving Moxier a trial right now, Seems to work fine but a bit pricey.
Same boat here.
Prefer the HTC mail app but getting sick of the constant syncing.
I'm using a custom Rom, could that be the problem?
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Would I have to be rooted to install the Mail app from Froyo?
Thanks again!
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No, you can install it on unrooted phones.
BTW you are able to uninstall it like all apps later...
You'll find below the version I'm using.
If anyone has the stock 2.3 mail app, and that it is better, well I wouldn't say no...
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Same boat here.
Prefer the HTC mail app but getting sick of the constant syncing.
I'm using a custom Rom, could that be the problem?
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I don't think having a custom rom is the culprit as I've got HTC Stock Rom on a debranded but unrooted DHD, and I've got the same issue.
By the way, as I said earlier, I have been trying out Moxier mail and it does not seem to have this syncing problem....BUT-it's a bit expensive and overkill for my needs really.
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No, you can install it on unrooted phones.
BTW you are able to uninstall it like all apps later...
You'll find below the version I'm using.
If anyone has the stock 2.3 mail app, and that it is better, well I wouldn't say no...
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Big thanks for the APK, Samsenteur!
I have the same problem on a unbranded DHD after the Gingerbread update.
Has anyone sorted out a fix for this?
Does installing the 2.2 mail app solve the problem?
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Does installing the 2.2 mail app solve the problem?
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Of course not!
But you'll have another mail app that will work with hotmail push.
jngago10 said:
I have the same problem on a unbranded DHD after the Gingerbread update.
Has anyone sorted out a fix for this?
Does installing the 2.2 mail app solve the problem?
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After a lot of messing about I firstly discovered that after a short while using Moxier Male, the problem returned. However Touchdown works perfectly. Unfotunately this is a rather pricey cure for the problem. I think the reason Touchdown works for Push mail is something to do with the fact that there is an option in the Touchdown settings, to only delete emails from the phone rather than the server. Having this ticked I have had no problems at all with the constant syncing issue. As for why this should make a difference...I'm afraid someone with more technical knowledge would have to try and answer that!
I'm having the same problem with this. Anybody find a solution? Not keen on the gmail app.
GB has proven to be a flakey update for me. Lots of stuff worse than Froyo (for me).
Has anyone found a fix for this yet?
I have a HTC Desire (not desire HD) and have just changed to a gingerbread rom and now have the constant sync problem with push mail. I did not have this when i was using froyo...
same problem
Same here with DHD on 2.3.3 (stock). No fix yet, I assume...
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Of course not!
But you'll have another mail app that will work with hotmail push.
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why install the 2.2 htc mail app then and use it if it doesnt solve the problem (resending the deleted items and push issues) ??
i restored a froyo build of one of the roms i use and mail htc mail was working flawlessly (imap/pop3 and hotmail activesync).
the problem seems to be in gingerbread.
anyway to get over this? ideas ?
thx.
It seems you don't understand me :
-Installing the Android mail stock app doesn't solve the problem in HTC MAIL. (of course)
But it allows you to use a mail app that does work correctly with hotmail AES. (we don't want imap/pop, do we?). I don't have any push issue with Android stock mail. It works perfectly. My only concern is that there's no html rendering.
Touchdown is able to push mail with Hotmail AES and provide html rendering, but the app is expensive, I personnaly find the interface heavy, and it only supports one AES account at the same time (I have 3).
- I had the same exact issues on Froyo. And this is why I was already using the Android stock mail app.
Well I don't know what ROM/s you were using on Froyo that had constant syncing problems with the stock HTC email app. I've never had any problems on Froyo whilst running Leedroid, ARHD or Coredroid.
The only time I have ever encountered or even heard of this problem was on Gingerbread.
I've just gone back to Leedroid 2.2.3 Froyo & this problem doesn't exist on that ROM.
I don't see any benefit to using Gingerbread on the DHD (without Sense 3), it seems like HTC have gone backwards to be fair...
I was using the native htc Froyo ROM.
Sync was looping on first message when using push in Hotmail (no pb with other accounts, and no pb with pop/imap). As I've seen in XDA, I was far from beeing the only one to have this issue... You can find many threads in this forum.
Anyway, I'm quite happy with google stock mail app, so I no more use the htc's one.
Ah that must be why I've never come across it on Froyo, as I use Gmail & not Hotmail.
Do remember hearing of some people having problems with Hotmail on Froyo but never with Gmail. Think the Gmail problems are limited to Gingerbread.
I recently convinced my management to test an android device (dinc2) to possibly replace our Blackberry server/smartphones.
I got the Dinc2 over the weekend, rooted it (MIUI 1.8.5) and updated the kernal Tiamat 1.1.2.
I added my corporate email account (stock email client) with no issues, send and receive work fine... everything is wonderful except two things.
I seem to have trouble resolving my companies GAL-Global address list.
sending an email to anyone in my contacts works fine, their name is presented as a selection... anyone within the company but outside of my contacts resolves maybe 5% of the time.
We are running exchange 2010.
Is this a common problem?
Is there anything i can do to fix it?
I looked at Touchdown and K9 but i didnt see any info referring to this specific question of mine.
The second, i dont seem to be able to change the font size within email, is there anywhere i can change that?
I know there is an option to change font size within phone settings but it doesnt apply to email.
Suggestions are appreciated
no suggestions..... this issue is really becoming a problem and a real deal breaker.
i would hate to have to go back to BB
Our GAL works just fine with my DInc2. Running MIUI rom with Exchange 2007 server.
Im running the latest MIUI with the JDKernal and do not have any issues with my corporate email.
Curious, why did you root and then test? Have you tested this with stock?
Is your company going to root the phones if they switch from Blackberry?
Also, the stock email has very few settings that can be modified. There are better mail apps in the market such as K9, I think its called, that are much more customizable.
Well, for some reason from home i seem to be okay,names resolve most of the time.
It seems that when im not on WiFi names do not resolve.
Going to have to do more testing to confirm the potential issue.
Stock seemed okay... from my home and on my wireless network. I did not test stock other than my home... impatient i guess.
Some folks will root and some will not, i need to cover all bases.