I’m a proud owner of an Android phone – an HTC Desire, slightly hacked to run Android 2.2. In fact, I like it so much, I bought one for Mrs Dear Geek – an HTC Legend, unhacked.
These phones synchronise beautifully with our Hosted Exchange solution, so we always know where we are and who we’re talking to.
Over recent months I have been falling for Google Apps in a big way. I have some clients on Premier, some more on Standard. It fits their needs perfectly, at an excellent price.
So, I thought I’d follow suit and migrate my own accounts. Sure, it won’t be quite so seamless at the PC end, but Google Apps Sync for Outlook works very well and recently added support for Office 2010 64-bit.
This evening I started the changeover. Making the DNS changes, configuring the domain on Google, starting off the Outlook sync, no problem – I’ve done it a few times now!
While that’s running, it won’t take a moment to sort out the mobiles. After all, the Exchange ActiveSync support at both ends is great.
Oh.
Oh dear.
It appears there is a little bug, possibly related to the HTC Sense addition to Android. No matter what you do, it keeps demanding password changes to passwords that don’t exist.
No problem. Google = Android = easy Google account set up. So, I’ll do it that way.
Oh dear. Again.
We already have other Google accounts on our mobiles. I’ll need to delete them to add the new account. No problem.
But I cannot. The way Android ties itself into its Google account, the only way to delete the account is to factory reset the phone.
I could do that, but I really don’t want to go through recreating everything I’ve already done.
And I definitely wouldn’t want to have to do that on a customer’s phone.
I’ve changed back to Hosted Exchange.
Please, any iPhone users, don’t gloat…
A Microsoft Certified Professional with many years of large corporate experience and training, he now focuses on helping small businesses make the most of their IT.
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