Exchange Sync Never Ends

[cp33]

I had an issue with exchange services, which might or might not be related. When I looked at my data usage, it had downloaded 500 Mb of data, a huge amount. I ended up having the service only run on Wifi, and that seems to have solved the problem. I am not sure if the issue has to do with the backup of the phone to Google, but I cannot imagine it is due to emails. If it is a backup issue, it is a little infuriating that being mostly on Wifi all the time (have it at work), the phone would still need 500 Mb of 4G connection.

 

[CutlaSS]

exchange services are/is whats running in the background managing sync. thats what kills my battery and that what pulls the most data.
I don't know about the backup to google thing but its unlikely that it would be backing up your exchange mail plus my AOL mail doesn't behave like this does.
I gave up and re-installed touchdown - waiting for 4.0.3 or a good rom to flash.

 

[Cory Streater]

Its unfortunate that touchdown doesn't seem to integrate with the existing calendar. Now not only do I have 3 email programs to open (yahoo too) my google calendar seems to be separate.

You could setup the stock mail app to only synchronize the calendar and nothing else. If battery life is a concern, and you do not need real time synchronization of events, you could schedule it to only synchronize periodically.

 

[adjuster11#AC]

Maybe I'm a dummy, but I finally found the touchdown calendar. Mine does sync with my exchange Calendar, but I'm trying to figure out how to get the touchdown calendar on the desktop, as a widget.

For those as slow as me, open touchdown, long press the left bottom "return" icon, and the calendar is the top center icon in a row of 2.

Now if I can just get that icon widget on my desktop.

Figuring out the touchdown settings to "remind" are also working differently.

I'm not sure it's syncing the "dismissed" items from the Nexus to the exchange server, as I have to dump them on my desktop computer at work.

Maybe veterans can chime in on how that's achieved.

 

[dimsdale]

Agreed that Touchdown is the most powerful Exchange client you can run on Android.
But the Interface! It's really pretty ugly, even compared to Gingerbread. And ICS is so much better.
It's hard to go and use the Touchdown mail and calendar apps when you have ICS.
That's the problem for me. You don't just get Touchdown handling the mechanics of the Exchange account. You have to run its mail and calendar apps with it.

 

[CutlaSS]

I do need both my mail and my calendar to sync real time.
Now its a matter of getting the right widgets/apps to get the calendar agenda to show both google and exchange and ical.