[horde] ActiveSync and Nexus 5 / Kitkat

[Thomas Bühlmann]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Buehlmann" <tomnet at tbuhl.ch>
To: <horde at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [horde] ActiveSync and Nexus 5 / Kitkat


> Hi all
> Zitat von Robert Wagner <robert at duff.de>:
>
>>>> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Quoting Tom Seeley <horde at tomseeley.co.uk>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anybody tried this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm having all sorts of issue and I'd like to check if it was just 
>>>>>> me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have a device capable of running KitKat to any
>>>>> appreciable extent, so I have not tested this. What kinds of
>>>>> problems are you having? Do you have a sync log?
>>>>
>>>> I have 2 nexus 5's, both have had problems, although I appear to
>>>> have fixed one without any idea as to how.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately problem occurs on the client side, and I've no idea
>>>> how to get a log of this:
>>>>
>>>> 1. initial sync appear to work fine:
>>>> a) all the contacts appear
>>>> b) recent inbox appears
>>>> c) calendar seems to be up to date, but there isn't much of this
>>>> so I'm not sure
>>>>
>>>> 2. then (probably a min after the initial sync appears to have
>>>> finished) the contents of the contacts vanishes.
>>>>
>>>> 3. if I do anything to the client copy of the mailbox (ie delete
>>>> or read a message) and then try and sync the changes back to the
>>>> server, I get a blank mailbox (it says I have no messages),
>>>> sometimes "Exchange services" crashes on the device.
>>>>
>>>> 4. even if I don't make any changes as above, the mailbox will
>>>> appear empty sometime later
>>>>
>>>> Note that this was happening on both Nexus 5's, so I doubt its a
>>>> broken device.  If its a client bug I'm guessing its software.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just FYI, received my Nexus 5 yesterday, i have exactly the same issues 
>>> :(
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> i just upgraded my 2012 nexus 7 to KitKat (krt16s), also the same
>> issues. after working some time with kitkat here are my experiences:
>>
>> - E-Mail: Works most of the time, sometimes all mails dissapear but
>> come back after a resync. When deleting mails "Exchange-Services"
>> crashes on android device and the deletion is not synced to server.
>> - Calendar: seems to work
>> - Contacts: Not working at all, no sync.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
> AvtiveSync is imho unusable on Kitkat.
> On my updated  Nexus 7 (2013) Kitkat E-Mail is working more or less,
> stops syncing after some time, if manually refreshed,
> "Exchange-Services" crashes.
> Calendar: sometimes also not synced.
> Threse's also a problem with using ssl with certificats.
> Contacts: on my device ther is no contacts app, so i can't tell..

Just found the contacts app.  No sync here too :(
>
> I now switched to imap and Caldav on horde until Google sorts this out :(
> Sorry for ranting, but at this time, i cannot recommend KitKat for 
> syncing.
> My "good old" xperia z on 4.2.2 does show no problem syncing with horde.
>
> --Tom
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