I am trying to get my phone syncing contacts and calendar with google.com as the nuevasync is no longer free. My phone recently crashed and most of my settings were wiped. As a result, I had nothing set up in mail for exchange.
I open it up, click next, enter e-mail address, user name & password, leaving domain blank, click next and it sits there forever. I never get to a next screen where I can edit settings. Has this happened to anyone else? How can I flush it or something similar to get mail for exchange working?
Has no one else experienced this? I am without the ability to sync my calendar and contacts if the mail for exchange doesn't work. I have google'd all sorts of ways and can't find any hints on what to try.
There are now two of us with no solution, and no contact or calendar sync. Surely someone has run into this problem, or could at least recommend a starting place. Are there MFE settings that can be reset?
There are now two of us with no solution, and no contact or calendar sync. Surely someone has run into this problem, or could at least recommend a starting place. Are there MFE settings that can be reset?
I had exactly the same behaviour! The only thing I could do was reflashing the device to reset all MfE settings (after trying many things like clearing the gconf settings).
But I'm having a new problem with MfE, it does not save the settings after running the wizard (other thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67530). MfE seems to be a very buggy software part of N900 =(
Now there are 3 persons having the same problem...
I believe that the domain setting gets auto-filled with appropriate SRV and/or auto-discover records in DNS, and if your organization doesn't have these records, you might just need to know and fill-in the domain info manually.
I believe that the domain setting gets auto-filled with appropriate SRV and/or auto-discover records in DNS, and if your organization doesn't have these records, you might just need to know and fill-in the domain info manually.
According to all of the walk throughs I have seen for using MFE with google(gmail) accounts, the domain doesn't matter. They simply recommend to fill in anything. I have tried,
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nothing
gmail
gmail.com
as well as leaving it blank. With every option the screen just sits there. I have left it for a few hours before, forgetting that I was still troubleshooting this.
According to all of the walk throughs I have seen for using MFE with google(gmail) accounts, the domain doesn't matter. They simply recommend to fill in anything. I have tried,
.
medom
nothing
gmail
gmail.com
as well as leaving it blank. With every option the screen just sits there. I have left it for a few hours before, forgetting that I was still troubleshooting this.
Just to let you know that my response wasn't hypothetical, I use an Exchange 2007 server with MfE on the n900, and my domain is auto-filled from DNS, via autodiscover, SRV records, etc...
As for google mail and exchange support, I think the consensus is that it sort of works, hit and miss, but that google isn't actually providing exchange support, and google's mail servers aren't actually speaking exchange, which is related to why it only 'sort of' works.
In any case, I agree that for google mail and MfE on the n900, the domain setting doesn't matter, and I didn't realize that this was a google mail/MfE sync discussion when I posted my last reply.
Even MfE support with Exchange (2007) on the n900 is buggy, as the sync settings seem to be 'forgotten' every so often -
Just to let you know that my response wasn't hypothetical, I use an Exchange 2007 server with MfE on the n900, and my domain is auto-filled from DNS, via autodiscover, SRV records, etc...
As for google mail and exchange support, I think the consensus is that it sort of works, hit and miss, but that google isn't actually providing exchange support, and google's mail servers aren't actually speaking exchange, which is related to why it only 'sort of' works.
In any case, I agree that for google mail and MfE on the n900, the domain setting doesn't matter, and I didn't realize that this was a google mail/MfE sync discussion when I posted my last reply.
Even MfE support with Exchange (2007) on the n900 is buggy, as the sync settings seem to be 'forgotten' every so often -
Ah, no problem. Thanks for the information. I am not sure that this problem is related to the server at all, however. I don't even get to a screen where I could enter server information. I used to use nuevasync's free service until they removed it and made it a pay only service. I would still use my email@gmail.com on the first screen, and then enter nuevasync.com on the second screen I believe. However, I can never get past that first screen where I've simply entered email, user, password and domain. I have even tried putting entries that make no sense whatsoever, and it never times out. That's why I think it's my MFE that's somehow broken.
