Active Sync popping on at odd times - and more

[Guest DeepBlueEditor]

First of three issues - Anyone else seeing this? As we have to go into the Task Manager to kill apps, I quite often see that Active Sync is running in the background for no apparent reason. I always kill it off since I hardly ever use it. I think it tends to pop on by itself when i am checking mail a lot. I am wondering if you are seeing this too.

Second issue - I have now had to hard reset the device 3 times in less than a month due to it loosing it's ability to send outgoing smtp mail traffic through Verizon's servers. I use roadrunner as the inbound and that always works but once in a while I'll be unable to send. Lat time I spent about 45 minutes with a very relaxing tech named Candice (I think) and we checked all the settings, killed my account and started from scratch, nothing worked. It came down to a hard reset. I escaped it that time as I had done an SPB Backup (full) about a week before when I had it all set up just the way I wanted it and that was able to restore the outgoing mail. I have no idea what has been happening but I did another Backup tonight to make sure I had a good current copy handy. I keep the latest full backup on my memory card, just in case.

3rd and last issue for tonight, and this is just a fun sort of FYI thing. I tried the front facing camera app that is missing from the US i910s. It activates the rear camera but in a much smaller lower res style. FYI.

Thanks folks. Great forum here. Following the GPS thread like a hawk too.

S.

Edited February 27, 2009 by DeepBlueEditor

[Guest Funkyriffic]

I get the same thing with ActiveSync, it must have an auto-detect feature that you can't turn off.

Hmmmm

[Guest DeepBlueEditor]

I get the same thing with ActiveSync, it must have an auto-detect feature that you can't turn off.

Hmmmm

I like a lean system in my PC and other devices. It's a little annoying is all that it is on and possibly eating up CPU time/cycles. I guess I won't sweat it.

S.

[Guest dwethiswar]

can't comment except on the first issue: I noticed it as well, and it seems kinda unpredictable: sometimes the phone is on for hours without ActiveSync popping up, than at once it's there..

Edited March 2, 2009 by dwethiswar

[Guest modacian]

First issue: if you have mail, you will have active sync! this is WM thing, I use exchange so I must have active sync up :(

second issue: yeah whats up with that? I am almost unable to send emails at all from my IMAP or POP accounts? tried everything, even the microsoft fix, but didn't work... if someone can help us!

Third part, well, what missing application to activate fron facing camera? I have i900, and don't have that too!

[Guest DeepBlueEditor]

First issue: if you have mail, you will have active sync! this is WM thing, I use exchange so I must have active sync up :(

second issue: yeah whats up with that? I am almost unable to send emails at all from my IMAP or POP accounts? tried everything, even the microsoft fix, but didn't work... if someone can help us!

Third part, well, what missing application to activate fron facing camera? I have i900, and don't have that too!

I don't use Active Sync to sync my Outlook mail but I wonder, if I delete that e-mail account in my messaging if Active Sync will still come on? Worth an effort I suppose since I never use it. I sync with pop3 from roadrunner for incoming and Verizon for outgoing. (RR won't allow outgoing as we know unless it's from your home setup)

On the program, I forgot what the file name was but search for Omnia i910 camera and see if you find it. It was a small exe file I loaded to my card. Here's a hint however - there is no front facing camera in the i910 apparently. I thought it might be a case of it being in there but disabled by simply not giving us access to the enabling software. Really sucks that they didn't leave the second camera in there for video conf type calls. I work in a business that deals with a lot of that stuff and to have it would have been great.

Sorry, forgot to mention, the only cure we could find for the outgoing mail goofing up is sadly, a hard reset. OR - SPB Backup. Last time she suggested a hard reset was the final step to try before saying it was the hardware but in the nick of time I remembered the SPB Backup I had made just a week before when everything was perfect. Something inn the complete backup got it going again. I changed nothing that should have upset that functionality but obviously something did change. She wrote down that SPB Backup was able to restore it. I keep an exe of the backup on my memory card now as it saved my butt at a remote location where a hard reset would have been my only other option.

S.

Edited March 3, 2009 by DeepBlueEditor

[Guest DeepBlueEditor]

Anyone else? Should I stop worrying and just learn to love it or is it eating up battery power and CPU cycles?

S