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Anyone know anything about this stereo -
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bluetooth-hands-free-car-kits/parrot-asteroid
Even, where it can be bought, how much it is? What OS it runs for that matter?
well it says that it has Android embedded, so the OS is Android
it looks pretty interesting too...
as for when/where/how much, the site says "Coming soon in 2011", so I'm guessing that it is yet-to-be-offered and they may not have decided their MSRP yet.
William
First, I don't know if I can post links yet. Second, I'm too lazy to dig it up. They had an article on Androidpolice during CES that included a speaker from Parrot showcasing it. I think he said a Q2 release. I'll be getting this the second its released, regardless of price.
anyone have any more details on this? Q2 is all they're saying...
I want one now!!
For the European markets, they say May. Hopefully the beginning of May
Hope they didn't get a developer team from Motorola, then it's going to takes at least another year
next week
i was infomrmed dynamicsounds expected to be stocked next week
wonder if its worth getting
i am currently considering getting it as i need a car kit any way
apperantly they are avalible as of today at 289 euro in the netherlands
I have one
I currently have an Asteroid sitting on my desk here
When I find some time tonight I'll take it for a testdrive and let you guys know!
Excellent. Please let us know.
What apps are available at the moment?
Im hoping for Spotify and proper navigation once the sdk is released...
Yay, someone that has the Asteroid!
Please, let us now!
And, tell us how the music player works.
I want to hook a big memory card, or if there's room a 40GB laptop harddisk to the unit.
Also, streaming from Bluetooth from your phone. Btw, what kind of phone do you have?
(And hmm.. Gorinchem.. That's not that far from my weekly commute.. )
Asteroid
Been driving around with the Asteroid for a while now and it's a pretty neat radio but not perfect.
Building it into the car was a breeze. With the radio came all the needed cables, like a 3,5mm jack, iPod cable, USB cable for usb-sticks, GPS dongle and microphone for the carkit. All cables were pretty long so you should have no problem routing them to whatever place you want them in your car.
Soundquality is pretty good and there are plenty of connections for subwoofers and external amplifiers so it should suffice even for cars with loads of fat speakers.
Connecting my phone, an HTC Desire with CyanogenMod 7.1 (nightly build), was easy through bluetooth and streaming music over bluetooth went without problems. Answering phonecalls and navigating the menu is pretty easy.
A few problems I ran into though. To use internet on the radio (for google maps, internet radio, coyote speed camera alerts) you can either use a 3g USB dongle (which costs you at least 10€ a month where I live) or tether your phone through bluetooth (maybe usb works, haven't tried yet). To do this, your phone needs to support the bluetooth DUN profile which android lacks. Nokia phones should be no problem though. I've tried using 3rd party apps like PDANet but to no avail.
Furthermore I found that the device lacks some tweaking capabilities. For example, when i'm navigating my contacts from my phone, the device tries to "read" the contacts for me using text-to-speech. I've found no way to turn this off. Furthermore I could find no option in the settings to turn off the traffic announcements from radio. The device now switches to radio when i'm listening to music from my SD card to bring me the traffic information (Which can be skipped by pressing the "back" button). Finally, the device came with a Dutch language setting and i've found no way to turn this to English, which is the language I prefer.
Please note, I have only used this radio for a short while and I might've missed some things! I think this is a very nice radio though and since it is the first model and only out for a week or so now I think there will be some updates from Parrot's side, perhaps expanding the capabilities of this device. The only major drawback is the lack of internet connectivity if you have an Android phone. This is not Parrot's fault though but rather Google's. I heard though that Honeycomb supports Bluetooth PAN and I think the Asteroid supports this for Internet tethering so i'm keeping my hopes up for Android Icecream to bring this feature to my phone.
Pro:
- Lots sources for music: Radio, USB stick, SD Card, iPod, 3.5mm Jack line-in
- Android with Google Maps
- Speed camera Alerts
- Large screen (for a single DIN radio unit)
- Lots of cables came with the Radio (With a Pioneer your need to buy overpriced iPod cables separately)
- Its a handsfree carkit, and Parrot knows how to make those by now
- Lots of tweaking possible with the sound
Con:
- Internet does not work with Android phones (yet)
- Lacks certain tweaking possibilities in the settings menu
Feel free to ask any questions
Thank you for the excellent review.
Those drawbacks are major issues,
but Im hoping Parrot will come up with some patches
soon.
The Asteroid is not on sale here yet, and it might take a while.
But I am going to Holland later this month..
Anyone know a place close to Schiphol that sell Parrot equipment?
I also have the Parrot Asteroid for a few days now. But I can't get thetering trough Bluetooth working on my HTC Desire Z (Android 2.2).
I used an app called "PdaNet" or something, with that I can enalbe "Dun - Dia-up Network". And I can make a connection with the parrort trough Settings > Network > Bluetooth. But as soon as I try to use an application that uses internet, it won't work and says I need a internet connection.
Anyone know how I can use DUN or PAN, because an Asteroid doesn't have WiFi and can't tether trough USB ??
Thanx!
RobertR21,
Android does currently not support PAN or DUN so using that is probably not possible without any 3rd party software. I tried PDAnet aswell but it did not work.
You might try connecting your phone to the 3G dongle port on your asteroid through USB, as android supports USB tethering, I have not tried this myself. I can verify though that DUN works, I tried it with my Nokia and it worked flawlessly.
I hear there's rumours on the Internets though that Android icecream is going to support PAN though, so maybe then we can use our android phones. Maybe before that time Parrot will find a solution.
Does anyone know which 3g USB dongles work with the Asteroid?
In my case: I have a Trekstor/Huawei MiFi which can also be used as a "Stick" - Will this work via USB? My Asteroid Device ships in (wish me luck) tomorrow. Pimpin' my Ride is planned at Saturday ;-)
ThX
Hi, I've got the this Parrot Asteriod also.
And For you guys I can use bluetooth internet though my old HTC Hero. I can do it also with other phones. but there is a trick for it.
First root your phone, this is absolutely nessasary.
Then download from the market 'Wireless Tether for root users'(it is a free app).
This one has internet tethering through bluetooth.
Go to menu and select bluetooth instead of wifi.
then go to access-control and eneble it.
Make the bluetooth visible in the tether program.
On the asteroid go to setting and then network and then bluetooth is will find your phone(again) and press the nice parrot butten and it connects.
then on your phone again give it authorization to use the tether and you have your internet.
One problem is that you have to connect manually every time. (your carkit does it automaticly) but not the internet. But at least you can then enjoy your live radio and google maps if you want to.
You only have to have the tether active and connect only through the radio other steps are not needed anymore after.
Internet through usb with your doesn't work, to bad.
One issue that I've encountered with this radio the front panel will become pretty hot after playing an half hour on a high volume. does anyone else have this problem also?
Hi,
I am also considering getting an Asteroid. I have several questions:
- Is there also offline navigation available?
- Can any app from the normal market be installed? Or is there a special Parrot market?
- What Android version is installed?
- Anyway to root it? (What ever functionality this would add?)
Greetings
karlv
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Furthermore I found that the device lacks some tweaking capabilities. For example, when i'm navigating my contacts from my phone, the device tries to "read" the contacts for me using text-to-speech. I've found no way to turn this off. Furthermore I could find no option in the settings to turn off the traffic announcements from radio. The device now switches to radio when i'm listening to music from my SD card to bring me the traffic information (Which can be skipped by pressing the "back" button). Finally, the device came with a Dutch language setting and i've found no way to turn this to English, which is the language I prefer.
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For disablieng the traffic information go to tuner, select a radio station then press the menu button there you can edit if you want traffic information on or of.
text to speech, try the menu button in the app contacts you can change it there. I like that so I didn't look at it yet.
The most options regarding a app can be found in the app it self. try to look for tweaking option there.
karlv said:
Hi,
I am also considering getting an Asteroid. I have several questions:
- Is there also offline navigation available? NO, not yet at least
- Can any app from the normal market be installed? Or is there a special Parrot market? Special Parrot market, apps that are avaible can be found on the parrot site then put on usb stick and then install.
- What Android version is installed? Android 1.5
- Anyway to root it? (What ever functionality this would add?) No, maybe also later.
Greetings
karlv
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Everyone can correct me if I'm wrong
anyone already tried getting in touch with the radios file system?
I assume those usb ports only are usb hosts?
there's a new firmware out:
http://download.parrot.com/Parrot_Asteroid_soft_update/asteroid_update_fr_FR.plf
It's nearly 90 MB, so it looks as a complete android software build.
can we get this extracted? modders, come on
EDIT:
there exist some plftools for other Parrot Devices. Maybe they can be used to extract useful stuff out of the Asteroid firmware files...
Links:
http://embedded-software.blogspot.c...howComment=1311293537224#c8852365956008835373
http://sites.google.com/site/repurposelinux/df3120
EDIT2:
part of the firmware update file:
parrotparts=nand0:256K(Pbootloader),16M(Pmain_boot),4M(Pfactory),241408K(Psystem) console=ttyPA0,115200 loglevel=8 update
maybe it is possible to divide the plf file into parts and mount them somehow? (http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=478.0)
EDIT3:
Serial output of AR Drone Update, wich also uses plf update files and is based on linux:
http://kapejod.org/download/ardrone_install.txt
Are there any ICS roms out there right now with bluetooth MAP support. CM has it on GB builds now but it doesn't appear to have been ported over to ICS yet.
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,10699
This is the merged change. I'm willing to compile a rom from source if anyone can give me insight into how I could include this on an ICS rom. Cherry picking into CM ICS has failed for me every time I tried, and I assume this would be expected.
Is there any movement on this?
Still no Bluetooth MAP support for GN Galaxy ICS?
Every Moto Droid since the 1st one has it in Stock but I was really hoping to try something new.
Bluetooth MAP support
I really want to see this feature on my GNex too! I came from a DX and before that an OG and haf MAP on both of them!! I have a Ford F150 with Sync and really miss being able to have my girl read me my messages!
Also wondering on this as well. Sub'd
I am also looking for MAP support as well as the ability to see song tracks and album art. Cannot figure out why this is not included.
I'd also love for this to be built into future roms.
Wondering why I couldn't receive sms messages on my touchpad from my phone!
You'd think it would be standard?
waiting for any info still
I've tried compiling without luck.
Anyone have success?
I'm also interested in this. My BMW does not sync its sms, emails, or show bluetooth song titles. This sucks, for a brand new phone! my older BB worked fine on my bmw.
Can't get a word out of Android on this. Hope somebody here can get this figured out.
Working on it....
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Working on it....
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Update?
See my post here. This has been tested and works, and should be available when the next nightly for maguro is released!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25047065&postcount=24
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Can't get a word out of Android on this. Hope somebody here can get this figured out.
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CM9 nightly has the Bluetooth MAP profile added as of 4/19. I just confirmed that this works on my BMW. Joy!
Is there anything special that needs to be done to enable MAP support for a particular device? I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and a Lexus GS 350 which claims to use MAP support to read messages, and works with other phones. I tried putting the latest nightly (cm-9-20120507-NIGHTLY-toro) on the phone, and no extra profile features showed up in the bluetooth settings. The car doesn't treat the phone any differently.
Any way I can verify whether I really have a working MAP profile? Thanks for any help!
Well, for whatever it's worth, I ran sdptool browse local on the phone while it had the CM9 nightly rom installed, and amongst other bluetooth profiles, it showed this:
Code:
Service Name: OBEX Message Access
Service RecHandle: 0x10005
Service Class ID List:
"" (0x1132)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 16
"OBEX" (0x0008)
Profile Descriptor List:
"" (0x1134)
Version: 0x0100
I assume this means the MAP bluetooth profile is present on the phone. However, the Lexus GS still does not treat the phone special in any way, and clicking the bluetooth settings for the Lexus GS device only shows bluetooth audio and bluetooth phone profiles associated with it. I assume that somehow this means the MAP profile on these nightly builds is just not compatible with the Lexus GS.
FYI, I was able to get this to work with the Lexus GS 350 after all! I was just looking in the wrong places... the phone bluetooth device settings gives no indication the MAP profile is enabled for the car. However, I found an info screen on the CAR which did reveal the MAP profile was enabled, and I was able to verify I could send and receive text messages via the car. Thanks for this function!
danjb said:
FYI, I was able to get this to work with the Lexus GS 350 after all! I was just looking in the wrong places... the phone bluetooth device settings gives no indication the MAP profile is enabled for the car. However, I found an info screen on the CAR which did reveal the MAP profile was enabled, and I was able to verify I could send and receive text messages via the car. Thanks for this function!
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Curious can anyone get this going on the BMW?
cyberoptics said:
Curious can anyone get this going on the BMW?
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Yes, it works in BMW, but only SMS. Not email, tasks or calendar. I have a 2012 F10.
I just picked up a my new Note II yesterday, have done nothing to it except install the latest update. This thing is STOCK. My issue is with the Bluetooth connection in my car. I have a 2009 BMW with IDrive which has the Bluetooth integration built in to it. My HD-2, Sensation, GNexus, original Note all connect very nicely to the Bluetooth but my Note II is struggling. I paired it yesterday on the way home from the AT&T store and it worked fine. When prompted to allow the phone book during my initial pairing I checked the box "Don't ask me again" and clicked "Yes", same thing I've done on all my other phones. This morning however it would continue to drop out. It would connect for 15-20 seconds and I would see the little icon that tells me the phone is transferring the contacts then it would simply drop out. 15 -20 seconds later it would recycle and do the same thing again. When I was looking at the contact list on my car's screen it was showing AT&T address book which I do not use (it was just one contact, "something" AT&T) and in fact froze everything AT&T I could through the settings menu . I then deleted the phone from the car's menu and repaired it to the IDrive but this time I said no to allow the phone book. It was not dropping the connection but was constantly trying to obtain the contact data based on the icon on my car's screen. Then all of sudden I received an alert stating an "SOS Call System Failure", my car has a built in SOS function like Onstar....I deleted the phone again and the warning in my IDrive regarding the SOS failure went away.
I searched the BMW forums and found other people with this problem but these were from the '07-'08 time frames and that fix was software to the car. The software in my car is updated and so is the B/T profiles I also found a thread here regarding a similar issue but there was no resolution. Has anyone else had this experience with the Note II? I know enough to get myself in trouble but not enough to figure this out. Is it possible the Bluetooth in the phone only wants to transmit the AT&T address book vs. the Google contacts?? I guess it could be the software in the car but my other Note, whether running stock or CM 9/10 ran flawlessly with regards to the Bluetooth.
Weird, yesterday it's fine and today not so much. Did the last software update have anything in it that affected the B/T?
Any insight would be much appreciated, thanks.
UPDATE-appears my car cannot handle a Bluetooth profile of 4.0. All my previous phones were no higher than 3.0. Hoping BMW will offer a software update at some point but in the mean time if I go with a custom ROM will they probably keep the Bluetooth profile the same as stock or is that something they change??
There are various threads on this forum concerning bluetooth connectivity to the GN 10.1 2014. Most notably, keyboards that keep disconnecting.
I ran into this problem with my Logitech K810 keyboard, which works perfectly on my PC, as well as my Ipad 2 and my Galaxy S4. Three different units, three different operating systems, and with flawless performance.
Then I buy the pinnacle of Tablet technology; a spanking new Galaxy Note, and realize that the keyboard disconnects every three to five seconds.
This is something like buying a shining new bike, coming home full of expectations, and unpack it. Only to discover that the wheels are stuck. They won't turn. It would have been hilarious, if the tablet wasn't so bloody expensive.
I tried various "keep bluetooth alive" and "change to another screen keyboard" apps, to no avail. Then I read a thread from someone who could make the keyboard work if they played music to another unit via bluetooth: I tried this, and voila! As long as I keep my phone paired and connected to the note, the keyboard works perfectly.
This could give a hint as to the nature of the problem; could it be that the keyboard, unlike the Galaxy S4, doen't actively work to keep the bluetooth radio active when you are not typing, and that what ppl assume to be Samsung's new implementation of the bluetooth standard in the GN 10.1 2014 doesn't take such devices into account?
If that is the case, the problem should not be related to hardware issues with the bluetooth antenna, like someone suggested, but is more likely software-related, and hence, a bugfix shouldn't be impossible.
Could this be achieved with an app written by some skilled coder, or do we have to wait for a bugfix from Samsung? Any ideas guys?
Finurliig said:
Could this be achieved with an app written by some skilled coder, or do we have to wait for a bugfix from Samsung? Any ideas guys?
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It's a h/w problem. There are plenty of N10.1-14 owners that aren't having any BT issues including with the K810 which comes up frequently. I have a BT mouse and keyboard connected for hours at a time without any disconnects. I leave BT on continually on my N10.1-14 and as soon as the mouse or keyboard are turned on they connect immediately. There's a lot of discussion in the BT thread in the general section discussing possible causes on devices having problems. Exchange it or send it in for warranty repair.
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It's a h/w problem. There are plenty of N10.1-14 owners that aren't having any BT issues including with the K810 which comes up frequently. I have a BT mouse and keyboard connected for hours at a time without any disconnects. I leave BT on continually on my N10.1-14 and as soon as the mouse or keyboard are turned on they connect immediately. There's a lot of discussion in the BT thread in the general section discussing possible causes on devices having problems. Exchange it or send it in for warranty repair.
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Thanks for advice, but for an exchange of the device to be meaningful, we will need some confirmation that Samsung has identified the problem and corrected it?
Finurliig said:
Thanks for advice, but for an exchange of the device to be meaningful, we will need some confirmation that Samsung has identified the problem and corrected it? Besides, they refused to do just that when I spoke to their support? Nevertheless: I will mail them again about this. Thanks!
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If you bought from Samsung, I'm not surprised they told you they would not exchange it. Samsung told me they don't warrant that their product will work with a third-party product. They also said there were no Samsung keyboards at this time that were compatible with this tablet. Fortunately I got mine from a retailer that was willing to exchange. Unfortunately the second unit I got about two weeks ago also has the problem.
Your best bet might be to send it to Samsung rather than play "exchange roulette." Here's what to tell Samsung customer support...
"Hi Mary, I spoke to someone earlier about a BT problem I was having. The BT peripherals I connect work fine initially but can't maintain a connection; meaning they drop the connection and either I have to reconnect them manually or sometimes they'll reconnect themselves only to drop out again. The person I first spoke to was pretty sure it was the devices I was connecting and not my tablet.
Here's what I did. I completely reformatted my tablet to the way it came out of the box. I didn't even allow any of my apps to be loaded on it after I reset it. So it was a clean untouched stock as it left the factory Samsung configuration. The same problems of random disconnection occurred. I went to Best Buy and they were really nice. They allowed me to connect all the BT peripherals I was having problems with to their three floor models. They all worked fine and kept the BT connection active. So clearly, there's something wrong with my individual tablet.
I have a couple of friends with this tablet and while the majority of their devices work fine some are having the same issue I am. There's obviously something wrong with a subset of these tablets for individual examples to perform differently with the exact same BT peripherals."
If you still meet resistance...
"I'm sorry you won't help me get my problem solved. Do you think a supervisor might be able to help me or should I just contact the BBB and my local attorney general's office as you're refusing warranty work I'm entitled to in spite of the steps I've taken to isolate a problem and demonstrate to you that there's an issue with my specific tablet. Also, can you please give me your name again? I didn't write it down when you came on the call."
Thanks BarryH.
engaged ricultsc
Good Evening.
There are new on this issue?
I have k810 keyboard too, and in the beginning the keyboard worked normally, but lately, I have more and more disconnections.
Before, it was enough for me to restart the tablet, and the keyboard walked fine.
But now, I have constantly disconnections, every 5 seconds.
It becomes unusable
I tried to flash roms of over counties, I tried CleanRom, but the problem stays.
I'm worried, because my Knox is on 1, and I just read that Samsung voids the warranty, regardless of the problem...
Do you found other solutions since?
(.. and sorry for my bad english..)
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Finurliig said:
There are various threads on this forum concerning bluetooth connectivity to the GN 10.1 2014. Most notably, keyboards that keep disconnecting.
I ran into this problem with my Logitech K810 keyboard, which works perfectly on my PC, as well as my Ipad 2 and my Galaxy S4. Three different units, three different operating systems, and with flawless performance.
Then I buy the pinnacle of Tablet technology; a spanking new Galaxy Note, and realize that the keyboard disconnects every three to five seconds.
This is something like buying a shining new bike, coming home full of expectations, and unpack it. Only to discover that the wheels are stuck. They won't turn. When you call the manufacturer support; which I did in relation to the Note, they politely inform you that they have never guaranteed theat the wheels on the bike would turn. They have only said that the bike HAS wheels,..... not that they can actually be used for anything..... so they refuse to take responsibility, and refuse to give you a refund.
This is, in point of fact, the answer I got from Samsung: they market the unit as having bluetooth functionality, but won't take responsibility if it doesn't work, and the user is stuck with a pieece of equipment that can't be used for the intended purpose. It would have been hilarious, if the tablet wasn't so bloody expensive.
So much for Samsungs costumer support. Now to my own investigation into this problem:
I tried various "keep bluetooth alive" and "change to another screen keyboard" apps, to no avail. Then I read a thread from someone who could make the keyboard work if they played music to another unit via bluetooth: I tried this, and voila! As long as I keep my phone paired and connected to the note, the keyboard works perfectly.
This could give a hint as to the nature of the problem; could it be that the keyboard, unlike the Galaxy S4, doen't actively work to keep the bluetooth radio active when you are not typing, and that what ppl assume to be Samsung's new implementation of the bluetooth standard in the GN 10.1 2014 doesn't take such devices into account?
If that is the case, the problem should not be related to hardware issues with the bluetooth antenna, like someone suggested, but is more likely software-related, and hence, a bugfix shouldn't be impossible.
Could this be achieved with an app written by some skilled coder, or do we have to wait for a bugfix from Samsung? Any ideas guys?
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I have had the same problem with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse not working correctly, I found if I turn off the wifi radio on p600 I have up to 3 co current bluetooth connection going at he same time. when the wifi is on and active the bluetooth is dropping off think it has to do with wifi 4.0 radio in the tablet or the placements of the attennas in the tablet.
What I do is connect a bluetooth device to play music continuesly, so that the connection doesn't drop. Then the BT keyboard and BT mouse will stay connected. Keyboard and mouse disconnect when you stop typing. The music BT device keep the signal alive, and it never drops. You can try this if you want and check if it works for you.
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I have not experienced this issue and I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse abort 20 hours per week.
Via my Note 3
Bit of an old question now, but I'm getting this on my K810 too Did anyone sort it out?
Theres an app called bluetooth keep alive, it works well
Cheers moabizza, I just tried it and sadly it didn't work Oh well, looks like it's going to have to go back for repair.
Don't send your device in for repair- there's nothing wrong with it. I use a BT keyboard and a BT mouse all the time with this device and they work quite well- the issue is pretty obviously the Logitech K810, not the Note 10.1 .
I have been using BB Hub+ on my Xperia Z5 Premium since last August with no problems.
Ever since my device upgraded the OS to Nougat 7, Hub only syncs with my corporate email while connected to our company wifi. Other than that nothing at all. Although the native built in mail client of the device works flawlessly in all conditions. Also all other devices within my company are working with no problems.
Since I am the IT Manager of the company I was able to take a look at the firewall logs (ISA 2006) and found out that the traffic coming from the phone while not connected to the company wifi is being rejected because it not recognised as anything defined within the FW rules although when connected to the corporate wifi it works fine and is recognised as activesync traffic and hence applying the appropriate rule to it.
I have opened a ticket with BB and tried several things with them including sending them my device logs to their level 2 tech support. We even went to the point of completely resetting my phone but nothing seemed to work.
It is really frustrating that I have to wait to come to the office to update my mails, contacts and calendar.
Can anyone help please
Thank you in advance