So... I nuked my settings because MfE was hanging at one point (yes, I should have sent logs then) and I shut down the device. Since then, as-daemon was sucking my battery dry (I had tried to remove the account and that hung too, then later tried to remove the cal, and that hung too, etc... )

Basically, any time I was trying to add the account back in, it was hanging at about 80% on the "Calendar and tasks" progress.

Suffice to say, I jacked it up myself

So, to keep it from doing anything for the time being (this was a bit severe, not recommended, and may not have the intended results) I nuked my settings with the following command.

NOTE: Don't run this unless you are plain silly and like to jack things up.
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/activesync/ActiveSyncAccount1

At this point, I shutdown the device and restarted it (may not have been needed), went to settings -> Mail for Exchange after booting up, reconfigured my account, etc. and...

still hanging. Damn.

Let me know what logs you'd like to see, or what you'd like me to test out...

Thanks,
.jason

Update - the more I mess with this, the more I think it's my calendar that is screwing things up - I tried to remove the old cal I had in there and it still hangs in limbo... now to go mess with that some more...

Hi guys,

I've just received my N900 and I'm trying to connect MfE with the exact same settings I have on my E71.

I tells me that the Host Address is invalid on the exchange server (translation from french);

Anyone know what I can do ?

Edit : could it be because my employer asks for a lock on MfE for Symbian ? However I used roadsync on symbian before without a lock and it worked fine...

Hi Vitali,

First a warm congratulations on the 102 pages in this thread - that is impressive, and completely impossible to find your way around, if you are "just a normal user, who thought you bought a well-functioning business phone" like me - coming from a Nokia N95 8Gb.

I may very well be asking the same question that someone else already did, and for that I am sorry - but Nokia can not expect normal people to read through all of this. Much of it so technical, that you lost me.

My questions are:
- Why does mfe syncronization (with a 2003 server - Yahoo - managed to find that information!) put all answers to meeting-request first in my inbox? I have 14 accepts/rejects and even some "undeliverable" messages on top on my Nokia N900 inbox, but they are not on top when I open Outlook at my laptop.

- Why is it impossible to see who sent the accept/reject message? It says no recipient (translated from danish) - which is confusing, since I must be the recipient - I need to know who the sender is! Bottom line is, that I receive a lot of accepts/rejects - but cannot see who they are from. Why is this?

- I was used to be able to look up contacts in my company adress book, but this is no longer possible - thus preventing me from being as effective as I was with my old phone. I've seen that I should wait for the next firmware update in the mfe Wiki, but thats not an answer.

Now that I am at it, I'd like to take this opportunity to speak my oppinion about the software release policy of Nokia. Let me give an example: If I buy a new car, take it out for a drive and find out it only turns left, no matter what I do, I'll take it to the garage and expect them to fix it. I do not expect them to tell me to wait patiently without any clue about when my car will work. Why is Nokia any different? Do you expect your customers to have different standards when they buy an expensive phone?

I would like to encourage Nokia to change this standard, whether it is an industry norm - it is annoying your customers! And this comes from one of the most loyal ones you've ever had!

Regards, Morten

There's apparently a way to go around this as Roadsync on S60 does not ask me to give a lock code while MfE does...

I'm really praying that this will be added in the very near future as I'm not able to use my corporate email now...

Tx !!

Just for information, N900 synchronize well with OBM 2.3 since a recent patch just for that: http://code.google.com/p/o-push/source/detail?r=293

Thanks to o-push devellopers and OBM ones: http://obm.org
Both on GPL license.

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The MfE client could just "lie" to the server advertising features which are actually not implemented (remote wipe, locking, etc) but Nokia clearly stated that they do not intend to go this route, and as far as I understand the situation/platform full provisioning is not something we can realisticaly expect.

I love my N900 dearly, it's absolutely the best gadget I had in years, but whoever thinks it's an enterprise phone, is sadly mistaken, and it will never be, and looking back at things I don't think it was ever intended as such. I'm just sorry for the users who bought it for that purpose.

Does anyone know if the activesync code used on the n900 is open?

If Nokia can't or won't allow our devices to lie about its capabilities (understandable), certainly we could build an extras package that does.

I really need exchange support but there is 0 chance corporate will change the server policy just for me.

Ugh, so. 102 pages of thread and we don't have a work-around for the google incompatibilities? bummer.

right now, syncing my n900 to google contacts/calendar initially works but after I change one too many details from my n900, the sync no longer works. Methinks this stinks.

No I'm not saying: SOMEONE SHOULD FIX IT FOR ME xD it's ok, just bummed out to see that real support wasn't implemented. oh well.

If Apple iPhone can support provisioning, I don't see a reason why N900 could not offer it.

If N900 were not intended to be an enterprise phone, it would not have MfE in the first place. It would be waste of resources to develop the phone just for "Linux geeks" and forget "enterprise users".