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2009-12-08
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Originally Posted by HugoSon
How did this half-assed implementation get past any quality controls? Do the Maemo folks have any quality control? This makes me rethink the N900, I'm glad I've been holding off on buying one.
Using Exchange 2007 - yes I can connect and sync. But - comeing from E90/E72 - MfE implementation on the N900 is bad...
- MfE syncs every single folder; not able to select witch; what a waste of bandwith (costs!), space and time!
- MfE does not display unread messages in all these folders
- MfE shows folders in a LIST; hello: we have folders to hide and group stuff - MfE just ignores the ussage of folders and offers us such a bad usability (compare this with the E72 - just a different world!)
- MfE does not offer to search the GAL; even my "old" E90 offers this
- sometimes MfE does not jump into the eMail shown in the notification window but into messages root; so I have to make 3 more clicks to finally see my new message (if itīs not in one of these listed folders where I can not find an unread message...)
- no option to display i.e. the "To:" line
- no desktop widget to display my messages (compare this with MfE for Symbian devices)
- Calendar integration is also behind the Symbian implementation. I.e. please let me accept meeting requests and add it to my calendar while sending a reponse to the meeting organizer again!
And so on - well; yes it works (for me at least) - but the usability is just horrible and misses a lot of features I was already used to from the "old" Symbian implementation. Now maemo is the new "flagship platform" - and the MfE implementation is just so far behind... I know - firmware "1.0" but still... just disapointing.
Please Nokia, fix the freakin' MfE! Don't make it a 3rd class citizen on the Maemo platform!! And add support for provisioning while you're at it.
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2009-12-08
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#303
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Originally Posted by rjzak
And a pony.
And add support for provisioning while you're at it.
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2009-12-08
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Originally Posted by HugoSon
Using Exchange 2007 - yes I can connect and sync. But - comeing from E90/E72 - MfE implementation on the N900 is bad...
- MfE syncs every single folder; not able to select witch; what a waste of bandwith (costs!), space and time!
- MfE does not display unread messages in all these folders
- MfE shows folders in a LIST
- MfE does not offer to search the GAL; even my "old" E90 offers this
- sometimes MfE does not jump into the eMail shown in the notification window but into messages root; so I have to make 3 more clicks to finally see my new message (if itīs not in one of these listed folders where I can not find an unread message...)
- no option to display i.e. the "To:" line
- no desktop widget to display my messages (compare this with MfE for Symbian devices)
- Calendar integration is also behind the Symbian implementation. I.e. please let me accept meeting requests and add it to my calendar while sending a reponse to the meeting organizer again!
And so on - well; yes it works (for me at least) - but the usability is just horrible and misses a lot of features I was already used to from the "old" Symbian implementation. Now maemo is the new "flagship platform" - and the MfE implementation is just so far behind... I know - firmware "1.0" but still... just disapointing.
I would suspect part of the shock is you are coming from an E Series device to an N series. E series is all about email, N series is about lifestyle.
Not a lot of help I know but might explain the rudiamentry support
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2009-12-08
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#305
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if you are using exchange 2007 and non-provision allowed.
try changing the date format to finnish and try synching, if it fails try switchingto english uk.
some people managed to synch this way.
keep an eye on this bug report
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6467
please keep the discussion here
try changing the date format to finnish and try synching, if it fails try switchingto english uk.
some people managed to synch this way.
keep an eye on this bug report
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6467
please keep the discussion here
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2009-12-08
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#306
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Originally Posted by HugoSon
It was decided for simplicity as far as I remember. By UI designers. Do you need a graphical user interface to be able to configure which folder shall be displayed and which not? Will "hacker" approach (an ability to set the list of folders which shall not be synced via gconftool-2 command-line tool) satisfy you?
- MfE syncs every single folder; not able to select witch; what a waste of bandwith (costs!), space and time!
- MfE does not display unread messages in all these folders
- MfE shows folders in a LIST
- MfE does not offer to search the GAL; even my "old" E90 offers this
- sometimes MfE does not jump into the eMail shown in the notification window but into messages root; so I have to make 3 more clicks to finally see my new message (if itīs not in one of these listed folders where I can not find an unread message...)
Could you file a bug against this behavior? I will try to push it forward but without external support it is not so easy as this behavior is considered to be "obvious" by many people.
- no option to display i.e. the "To:" line
- no desktop widget to display my messages (compare this with MfE for Symbian devices)
- Calendar integration is also behind the Symbian implementation. I.e. please let me accept meeting requests and add it to my calendar while sending a reponse to the meeting organizer again!
And so on - well; yes it works (for me at least) - but the usability is just horrible and misses a lot of features I was already used to from the "old" Symbian implementation. Now maemo is the new "flagship platform" - and the MfE implementation is just so far behind... I know - firmware "1.0" but still... just disapointing.
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2009-12-08
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#307
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Originally Posted by rjzak
Quality control is not about missed features. Quality control is about the amount of bugs in the planned and implemented features.
How did this half-assed implementation get past any quality controls?
Yes, Nokia has it.
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2009-12-08
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#308
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Originally Posted by keesj
If you came from linux world, the following instructions can help you:
Coming from the Linux world I find it hard to see a progress bar stopped at 1/3 of the progress and a message saying "error" without some explanation.
1) install syslog and reboot
2) open xterm
[optional steps begin]
2A. sudo gainroot
2B. cat /dev/null > /var/log/syslog
[optional steps end]
3) Issue the following commands:
gconftool-2 -s --type=int /apps/activesync/AsDaemon/Syslog/MinLogLevel 0
gconftool-2 -s --type=int /apps/activesync/modest/Syslog/MinLogLevel 0
gconftool-2 -s --type=int /apps/activesync/AsProvider/Syslog/MinLogLevel 0
gconftool-2 -s --type=int /apps/activesync/AsBackup/Syslog/MinLogLevel 0
gconftool-2 -s --type=int /apps/activesync/asapplet/Syslog/MinLogLevel 0
gconftool-2 -s --type=int /apps/activesync/AsStatusApplet/Syslog/MinLogLevel 0
3) check /var/log/syslog
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2009-12-08
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#309
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Originally Posted by nux
E means "Enterprise"
In my old E71 I used to have them, why so big setback in functionality?
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2009-12-08
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#310
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try changing your device date format
keep an eye on this bug report.
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6467
please keep the discussion here.
keep an eye on this bug report.
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6467
please keep the discussion here.
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- MfE syncs every single folder; not able to select witch; what a waste of bandwith (costs!), space and time!
- MfE does not display unread messages in all these folders
- MfE shows folders in a LIST
- MfE does not offer to search the GAL; even my "old" E90 offers this
- sometimes MfE does not jump into the eMail shown in the notification window but into messages root; so I have to make 3 more clicks to finally see my new message (if itīs not in one of these listed folders where I can not find an unread message...)
- no option to display i.e. the "To:" line
- no desktop widget to display my messages (compare this with MfE for Symbian devices)
- Calendar integration is also behind the Symbian implementation. I.e. please let me accept meeting requests and add it to my calendar while sending a reponse to the meeting organizer again!
And so on - well; yes it works (for me at least) - but the usability is just horrible and misses a lot of features I was already used to from the "old" Symbian implementation. Now maemo is the new "flagship platform" - and the MfE implementation is just so far behind... I know - firmware "1.0" but still... just disapointing.
Last edited by HugoSon; 2009-12-08 at 10:23.