Quite right, I do work for CommonTime. As for the Droid update I know that it is being worked on at the moment but we want to test throughly to make sure it is a great solution for you guys! It will be sooner rather than later but we don't have a date as yet - if you are in contact with our Support Team over email then they will let you know as soon as. We are as keen for people to get using it as anyone. As soon as I know, you will know...that is if Support don't get there first!
Hi Holley. I use the latest version of mNotes wireless to sync with my Palm Pre and with my HTC Hero. Brilliant idea by Commontime to pretend to be an exchange server. Means no client needed on the phone, and theoretically any phone that supports activesync should work with mNotes. My Pre works nicely, except for some emails who come through without their bodies, but am expecting a new version of the PC software today that Alex said should fix it. Having lots of problems with the Hero though. Keep getting server sync key mismatches. My biggest problem is that I cannot send emails from the Hero. The sent email disappears from my outbox but never makes it to the recipient. Alex had a look at my logfiles but couldn't see anything. I suspect it is a problem on the Hero itself. Any ideas? Am currently trying to run Touchdown on the Hero against the mNotes server. Any help on correctly configuring Touchdown for mNotes will be most appreciated. Tx.
One of our TouchDown customers has tested out Syncing (with push) with Traveler 8.5.1. But this is a private beta, so you might want to email our support alias for it.
cheers
-g
Hi Nitrodesk guy, I am trying to get Touchdown to work on my HTC Hero running against the Commontime mNotes server. Do you know of anyone that has managed to do this successfully. Any help will be appreciated. Touchdown connects to the server, but I get a Policies: NOT INITIALISED error.
Hi Borderless. Price cut is actually effective from today! CommonTime has cut the price of mNotes Wireless by 50% to $69.95 / €49.95 / £45.95. A really competitive price for the quality of the product I think. 14 day free trial s obviously still available so hope you can check it out:
I am OK with the wireless option, but does this require some sort of integration with the corporate servers? Or is it a client that would run on my PC?
I ask because the phone isn't a company issued phone, and all I have is "local access". This is why I asked about a Desktop Sync option.
EDIT: Ouch - just looked at the pricing. The wireless option is a little out of my price range, so maybe I would be better off with the Desktop option if one ever becomes available. I am still interested in the capabilities of the wireless version - could I use my personal Android phone with it, without any involvement from our IT department?
Thanks again,
Jeff
Hi spiff72 - hope you saw the note about the price of mNotes Wireless coming down. CommonTime has cut 50% off the price pitching the product at under $6 a month and more in line with the desktop pricing Still not free as we would all love our 3rd party software to be, hopefully it will mean it is a more realistic option for you.
Hi Holley. I use the latest version of mNotes wireless to sync with my Palm Pre and with my HTC Hero. Brilliant idea by Commontime to pretend to be an exchange server. Means no client needed on the phone, and theoretically any phone that supports activesync should work with mNotes. My Pre works nicely, except for some emails who come through without their bodies, but am expecting a new version of the PC software today that Alex said should fix it. Having lots of problems with the Hero though. Keep getting server sync key mismatches. My biggest problem is that I cannot send emails from the Hero. The sent email disappears from my outbox but never makes it to the recipient. Alex had a look at my logfiles but couldn't see anything. I suspect it is a problem on the Hero itself. Any ideas? Am currently trying to run Touchdown on the Hero against the mNotes server. Any help on correctly configuring Touchdown for mNotes will be most appreciated. Tx.
Hi Edgarloxton - you are obviously in touch with Support here at CommonTime and I would say the questions about Touchdown best directly to them, or Touchdown I guess. I am unsure how they would work together. I am in no way good for answering technical questions I am afraid! Glad you are finding mNotes will work for you on the Pre despite the frustrations with the Hero - always good to get positive feedback and I know people are using the Hero with success for hope you find a resolution soon.
Hi spiff72 - hope you saw the note about the price of mNotes Wireless coming down. CommonTime has cut 50% off the price pitching the product at under $6 a month and more in line with the desktop pricing Still not free as we would all love our 3rd party software to be, hopefully it will mean it is a more realistic option for you.
Thanks Holly - that price is better, but the trial will be the determining factor for me. I am hoping that it handles recurring meetings well (especially when individual occurrences of meetings are cancelled).
What I also need to know is when you expect to support the Android 2.0 operating system on the phone (specifically the Motorola Droid)? I can't run the trial until this support is in place.
I use CompanionLink on my G1, unfortunately it only syncs the calendar, to-do list, and the address book. There is no email support. Our company also does not run off of Microsoft Exchange servers, so there aren't any other good options thus far... I think Lotus Notes is a horribly inferior email program compared to Outlook and other Enterprise solutions. I feel like IBM is stuck in the past and is quickly watching other, more fluid development companies fly right by.
You can try Seven's beta program. SEVEN ? Proven Push Platform for Mobile Applications. It is free, supports Lotus Notes and Android handsets. At this stage provides only wireless email sync, but hopefully calendar and contact sync is not too far behind. Sign up for the beta program, download the pc connector software for Lotus Notes. The pc connector can push email to 25 Lotus Notes users. I have found Seven's support quite good - provided via the beta forum on their website.
You can try Seven's beta program. SEVEN ? Proven Push Platform for Mobile Applications. It is free, supports Lotus Notes and Android handsets. At this stage provides only wireless email sync, but hopefully calendar and contact sync is not too far behind. Sign up for the beta program, download the pc connector software for Lotus Notes. The pc connector can push email to 25 Lotus Notes users. I have found Seven's support quite good - provided via the beta forum on their website.
Shoot - that is basically the opposite of what I want - I just want the calendar and contacts - and email is not as important (I can just forward to gmail account)...
Does anyone know if the Commontime Mnotes Wireless application relies on a completely separate dataset than the built-in contacts, email and calendar databases? I am looking for someting that allows a single view into everything, versus a need to open the work calendar application and then open up the included calendar app to determine if I'm available.... does that make sense?
This would also give me the ability to change my calendar view and exclude my work calendar or email on the weekend, etc.
Anyone?
mNotes use the built-in contacts, email and calendar apps on the Android phone. There is no mNotes app on the device. It uses the built-in exchange activesync for wireless synchronisation.
Honnestly, working for IBM I can tell you this is a pure waste of time. IBM is not interested in such sync application market - and anyway, there is already a solution for syncing Lotus Notes with Android : just look for "CompanionLink for Google Android".
Go to Ed Brill and get it straight from the horse's mouth, or in this case straight from the mouth of IBM Lotus director in charge of product management.
I see some people have managed to get their Palm Pre's working with IBM Traveller, using the built-in activesync capability of the Pre, so it is maybe possible to achieve the same with Android. My company is installing IBM Traveller next week. I will try it with my HTC Hero and post an update here.
Go to Ed Brill and get it straight from the horse's mouth, or in this case straight from the mouth of IBM Lotus director in charge of product management.
I see some people have managed to get their Palm Pre's working with IBM Traveller, using the built-in activesync capability of the Pre, so it is maybe possible to achieve the same with Android. My company is installing IBM Traveller next week. I will try it with my HTC Hero and post an update here.
I got an email from Companionlink claiming that they will have a USB sync solution for Android sync within 90 days.
I emailed them back about the issues that they seem to have with repeating meetings in lotus notes not syncing well with google, and they claim that goolge doesn't support some of the same kinds of recurring custom meetings that Notes does.
My biggest problem is with meetings from a recurring set that are individually canceled or rescheduled. THese never disappear off my google calendar.
In the past, mNotes desktop has always handled these like a champ. That's why I am mostly interested in the wireless mNotes (even though a USB/local sync would be perfectly fine with me). I really want to do the trial to see if it works around our firewalls and such - but I am still waiting for them to support Android 2.0 (and the Droid, specifically)...
I got an email from Companionlink claiming that they will have a USB sync solution for Android sync within 90 days.
I emailed them back about the issues that they seem to have with repeating meetings in lotus notes not syncing well with google, and they claim that goolge doesn't support some of the same kinds of recurring custom meetings that Notes does.
My biggest problem is with meetings from a recurring set that are individually canceled or rescheduled. THese never disappear off my google calendar.
In the past, mNotes desktop has always handled these like a champ. That's why I am mostly interested in the wireless mNotes (even though a USB/local sync would be perfectly fine with me). I really want to do the trial to see if it works around our firewalls and such - but I am still waiting for them to support Android 2.0 (and the Droid, specifically)...
mNotes wireless has not worked well with my HTC Hero. Numerous issues including that not all the calendar entries propagate from Lotus Notes to the phone. Also have been unable to send any emails from the device via mNotes. The email disappears from the phone, so looks as if it got sent, but it never makes it to its recipient. I think the problem may lie not so much with mNotes but rather with different Android implementations and apps. On the Hero for example it makes use of HTC's email app. As mNotes does not install a clientside app on the handheld it is more exposed to the vagaries of the Android variant and apps on the handheld. Ed Brill made the same point in his blog. Using a combination of Nitrodesk on the phone and IBM Traveller/mNotes at the back-end may be a more stable arrangement. I haven't been able to get Nitrodesk to work with mNotes yet though.
This works. I've been doing this since I got my Droid. We have Lotus Travler running but many people on this thread don't have that so this won't be an option.
it's also worth noting that the Touchdown/Traveler solution is passable but is far from perfect. For example, the Group Addressbook Lookup (GAL) does NOT work. Also, most HTML emails are not properly parsed and you end up with just a pure text email. Finally, tasks don't appear to be coming over either.
I got an email from Companionlink claiming that they will have a USB sync solution for Android sync within 90 days.
I emailed them back about the issues that they seem to have with repeating meetings in lotus notes not syncing well with google, and they claim that goolge doesn't support some of the same kinds of recurring custom meetings that Notes does.
My biggest problem is with meetings from a recurring set that are individually canceled or rescheduled. THese never disappear off my google calendar.
In the past, mNotes desktop has always handled these like a champ. That's why I am mostly interested in the wireless mNotes (even though a USB/local sync would be perfectly fine with me). I really want to do the trial to see if it works around our firewalls and such - but I am still waiting for them to support Android 2.0 (and the Droid, specifically)...
This is consistent with my experience. Prior to having Lotus Traveler installed, I tried using CompanionLink on my iPhone. It was a complete mess. It took me weeks to clean my calendar back up. Repeating meetings didn't show up properly. The invitees to the meeting were pasted into the body of the calendar entry. I hate to bad mouth a product but I would be EXTREMELY careful in using CompanionLink.
I apologize if I'm not posting this in the right place, but would really appreciate some help. I'm wondering if there is a way for me to access Domino Web (work email) from my Samsung Moment. I have no problem accessing my work email from a computer, but when I try to access it with my phone a message comes back saying the server is not available (ie. it won't let me in from my mobile phone). I don't know if this is a firewall security thing with Lotus Notes or if my phone's browser can't handle it. Is there a certain android browser I should be using or is there an app that I can download that will allow me to access by webmail?
Thanks Alphadroid. Is MyLink a server based solution? If so, there's no way I'll get my company to do that quickly. I work for a large company. It's not even a big deal to me if I can't sync my email and calendar. I just want to be able to view my email through the web from my phone.
I work as an admin for a big company and I asked Wave Global directly. You have 2 options. You can use the MyLink Advanced version to sync your data via USB or you can wait for MyLink Enterprise (their server based solution for businesses) to be adapted to individual users where you can use your own laptop as a server and don't need admin intervention. Hope this helps.
Thanks Holly - that price is better, but the trial will be the determining factor for me. I am hoping that it handles recurring meetings well (especially when individual occurrences of meetings are cancelled).
What I also need to know is when you expect to support the Android 2.0 operating system on the phone (specifically the Motorola Droid)? I can't run the trial until this support is in place.
Thanks,
Jeff
Hi Jeff
This support for Motorola Droid has been a long time coming, but I am told that it will definately be shipped next week (if not tomorrow possibly). You can sign up for another trial no problem if your first one has now lapsed, but just make sure you are downloading the latest mNotes Wireless - it will be v5.11 in the members download area of www.commontime.com
I got an email today announcing version 5.11, but it won't be available until next week - sounds like they are confident that it is nearly ready!
I am anxious to see how well it works (and how well it handles those pesky recurring meetings in Lotus Notes that no one else seems to be able to deal with)...
I got an email today announcing version 5.11, but it won't be available until next week - sounds like they are confident that it is nearly ready!
I am anxious to see how well it works (and how well it handles those pesky recurring meetings in Lotus Notes that no one else seems to be able to deal with)...
HI spiff72 - certainly confident that 5.11 would ship - and it has - but perhaps should not have been so confident that Droid support would be guaranteed in that release. Unfortunately it failed a couple of items on the final pre-release QA testing so we couldn't release it officially. It will be another couple of weeks it looks like. Seems a couple of things are quite unstable and we can't guarantee support for something that doesn't work 100% of the time. Can sign up here for updates for mSuite (and mNotes really!), or of course I will post (although I am not able to everyday so...!)
HI spiff72 - certainly confident that 5.11 would ship - and it has - but perhaps should not have been so confident that Droid support would be guaranteed in that release. Unfortunately it failed a couple of items on the final pre-release QA testing so we couldn't release it officially. It will be another couple of weeks it looks like. Seems a couple of things are quite unstable and we can't guarantee support for something that doesn't work 100% of the time. Can sign up here for updates for mSuite (and mNotes really!), or of course I will post (although I am not able to everyday so...!)
Thanks - I have been in frequent contact with support regarding the release, and they told me about the Droid problem...disappointing for certain, but I will manage. Will 5.11 work for calendar and contacts by chance? That is all I really want. If the issue is with email, I can probably manage...
Unfortunately companienlink will not work for me, since it replicates notes to gmail. We use Lotus Notes at work and ot would be a serious security offense to replicate via an email account on the internet.
Hang on a moment. Do I understand you correctly, that you want to have you Lotus Notes calendar be part of your Android calendar without being part of your GMail calendar? I'd think that anything that's on your phone is automatically also in GMail. Or am I wrong?
I ask because I too would be very glad to have my Notes calendar on my phone. Emails and Contacts are no biggie for me --in fact, I'd rather not have them-- and the security aspect is also a concern in my company.
Yes I am successfully using HTC Sync to Synchronise my Lotus Notes calendar with my HTC Hero. I am running Lotus Notes 8 client against a mail8 database design. HTC Hero will also synchronise contacts but i don't use that functionality. It will not do email and I can not remember it having an option to do To-Do list or personal journal.
Hey, that would be just fine for my needs. But do tell, can you then see the entries that come from your Notes calendar in your GMail calendar? If so, what is your employer's stance on this (my coworkers frequently include pin numbers in teleconference invites and such)?
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And yes I simply connect the Hero to the computer by USB and either select Synchronise Now on HTC Sync on the computer and select the option on the phone to Synchronise. There are options to get it to automatically synchronise whenever the phone is connected via USB. Would be nice if I could do this over bluetooth but only appears to work via USB.
So there's some software to install on your pc as well. This comes from an installation cd that came with the phone, I suppose? Is any registration (with HTC) required, or may any Android/Notes user make use of this software?
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I guess it will only synchronise with a HTC because there is some software also running on the phone and this software is pre-installed and not available to load on another phone.
I would like to know if application managers (such as Astro) would be able to make a backup of that software?
I ask of course because I don't have an HTC phone...
[quote=KlaymenDK;195627]Hey, that would be just fine for my needs. But do tell, can you then see the entries that come from your Notes calendar in your GMail calendar? If so, what is your employer's stance on this (my coworkers frequently include pin numbers in teleconference invites and such)?
I use HTC sync as well for syncronizing my notes calendar entries to my hero. The notes entries is not syncronized to my gmail account, so this should not be a security issue for you :-)
So there's some software to install on your pc as well. This comes from an installation cd that came with the phone, I suppose? Is any registration (with HTC) required, or may any Android/Notes user make use of this software?
You will find the HTC sync software on the SD card that comes with your phone or you can download from HTC web page. I am not sure that this software can be used with any android phone or if it only works with HTC phones
Hey, that would be just fine for my needs. But do tell, can you then see the entries that come from your Notes calendar in your GMail calendar? If so, what is your employer's stance on this (my coworkers frequently include pin numbers in teleconference invites and such)?
I use HTC sync as well for syncronizing my notes calendar entries to my hero. The notes entries is not syncronized to my gmail account, so this should not be a security issue for you :-)
So there's some software to install on your pc as well. This comes from an installation cd that came with the phone, I suppose? Is any registration (with HTC) required, or may any Android/Notes user make use of this software?
You will find the HTC sync software on the SD card that comes with your phone or you can download from HTC web page. I am not sure that this software can be used with any android phone or if it only works with HTC phones
I think it was stated earlier that the HTC sync software on the phone wasn't able to be extracted off the phone (the phone comes with the software already on it). I thought this was mentioned somewhere else in this thread.
BTW... I'm new, just joined up. HELLO! Android is AWESOME on my Sprint Hero.
I have tried the touchdown option and am failing miserably. Those of you who have it working via the tutorial link in the one post... are you using traveler 8.5.1? I'm on 8.5.
BTW... I'm new, just joined up. HELLO! Android is AWESOME on my Sprint Hero.
I have tried the touchdown option and am failing miserably. Those of you who have it working via the tutorial link in the one post... are you using traveler 8.5.1? I'm on 8.5.
Active Sync did not work on Traveler 8.5. You will need to upgrade to 8.5.1 to use most of the new phones, such as Android, Palm Pre, or iPhone.
OK - after all of this, I am a little confused. (I am a novice...)
On my pc, I use a web page to access L-Notes remotely, which first validates who I am via entering my id and an rsa key. A virtual connection is made (and a pop up is initiated for this connection), and from there, I log in to web based L-Notes.
Could something like this be supported in an Android environment?
Or.... Better yet, could I access both email and calendar functions vis the software mentioned elsewhere in the thread - but what would have to be done about the connection to my company's network?
Given that I'd have to ask a few questions of our Notes support personnel, what questions should I be asking? I'd love to connect into Notes, as my Droid has provisions for Microsoft Exchange email.....
mNotes wireless for Moto Droid available (v5.12) - initial impressions
Hey all,
I was notified last week Friday that they finally released the version that supports the Droid, and I just installed the trial version this morning.
The initial setup was a little confusing I followed the instructions for the Droid Eris, which is posted on their software download page (but I had to make a few tweaks)...
Go to "Settings", "Accounts and Sync", press the "Add Account" button, choose "Corporate", entered my Lotus Notes external (internet style) email address and password, and then things get tricky...
The next screen shows fields for several settings, which I set up as follows:
Domain\Username - You have to enter the "alias" as described in the Droid Eris document, followed by backslash and the username of my Lotus Notes account (which is also described in the Eris setup document). So mine looked like "alias@email.com\Jeff" (without quotes). The alias can be a different email address than your notes email - it depends on how you set up the software and your account with commontime.
Password - your notes password
Exchange Server - eas.commontime.com
I unchecked the use secure connection item (not sure if it works if you leave this checked). I did this because it looked like they had it unchecked in the Eris document. I might try doing this with secure connections and see if it works.
I think the next screen checks the server connection. Mine was successful and it said mail was on the way. You also can set up whether you want push email or pull (with a time interval to check for mail).
There was only an option for syncing contacts here, which I checked. I was concerned here, since I wanted calendar sync too, but I will get back to this in a minute.
Once I did the above, my mail started coming, in the "Email" app (not Gmail).
I also was confused about the contact sync and whether it worked. It appears that they are maintained separately from your google contacts, and you have options in the contacts app to show or not show contacts from each source account that is set up on the phone. Mine is set to show both, but it appears to merge the contacts from what I can see. In other words, you can pick a contact and if it is both a google contact and a local address book contact from Notes, you will see the google contact info first, and the corporate contact info below. I still need to try and see what happens if you don't show the google account contacts.
Finally, the calendar. After setting up the exchange account, I started the corporate calendar app, and as I watched, my calendar started populating (I was in month view). As far as I can tell, it synced all my meetings/appointments/all day events (including repeating meetings). Time will tell whether it deals with some of the Lotus notes custom recurring meeting options. (The first test will be when someone cancels a single occurrence of a repeating meeting). I suspect that it will work, since I think Google calendar's inability to handle some of these odd recurring meetings was the issue. The corporate calendar doesn't appear to show up in google calendar.
After I went back to this new exchange account in "Accounts and Sync", there was a check box to turn on and off the calendar sync. I guess this doesn't happen until you actually run the Corporate Calendar app.
So far I am pleased with the way it works. But I intend to take the full 30 days to evaluate the software and see if I am willing to pay for this new functionality on my phone. I am also interested to see if I can accept meeting invites from my phone. I haven't been able to do that in the past, but the Exchange functionality might make this possible.
I tried using the secure connection option, and it appeared to work, but I later got a "partnership error" notification that when I clicked it, told me I needed to resync my calendar. This ended up giving me duplicate entries in my calendar on the device (but fortunately my actual calendar in Notes was unaffected).
I wasn't sure how to fix this, so I deleted the account, and recreated it, making sure not so choose the secure option.
However, I still got the partnership error notification about an hour later. This time I said cancel instead of letting it resync the calendar. So I don't think this was a side effect of the secure connection option.
Now I don't seem to get any more calendar updates.
I will see if I can find info on the commontime web site about this notification (or open a trouble ticket).
Thanks - I have been in frequent contact with support regarding the release, and they told me about the Droid problem...disappointing for certain, but I will manage. Will 5.11 work for calendar and contacts by chance? That is all I really want. If the issue is with email, I can probably manage...
Thanks,
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
As you know, 5.12 is now released. With support for Droid (and Nexus One). I hope that any of your calendar issues get ironed out with help from the support team. The feedback you give is always really appreciated and any major issues I spot here I will pass onto R&D for a patch.
Hope it works out for you and please do let us know if not!
I tried using the secure connection option, and it appeared to work, but I later got a "partnership error" notification that when I clicked it, told me I needed to resync my calendar. This ended up giving me duplicate entries in my calendar on the device (but fortunately my actual calendar in Notes was unaffected).
I wasn't sure how to fix this, so I deleted the account, and recreated it, making sure not so choose the secure option.
However, I still got the partnership error notification about an hour later. This time I said cancel instead of letting it resync the calendar. So I don't think this was a side effect of the secure connection option.
Now I don't seem to get any more calendar updates.
I will see if I can find info on the commontime web site about this notification (or open a trouble ticket).
Thanks,
Jeff
It looks like the "Partnership Error" is a common problem (not necessarily with mNotes)...
I followed the directions, and it worked for me to solve the duplicates issue. Still not sure what caused it. It hasn't happened in about 18 hours...
Still trying to get a handle on how well it handles canceled instances of repeating meetings. Will be trying some things later to see if I can figure it out.
"Finally, the calendar. After setting up the exchange account, I started the corporate calendar app, and as I watched, my calendar started populating (I was in month view). As far as I can tell, it synced all my meetings/appointments/all day events (including repeating meetings). Time will tell whether it deals with some of the Lotus notes custom recurring meeting options. (The first test will be when someone cancels a single occurrence of a repeating meeting). I suspect that it will work, since I think Google calendar's inability to handle some of these odd recurring meetings was the issue. The corporate calendar doesn't appear to show up in google calendar.
After I went back to this new exchange account in "Accounts and Sync", there was a check box to turn on and off the calendar sync. I guess this doesn't happen until you actually run the Corporate Calendar app."
I am not finding a Corporate Calendar App in Accounts and Sync under my Lotus Notes. In my other gmail there is a calendar selection, but not under Notes. Any thoughts? I believe there was another post related to this, but I couldn't find an answer.
I am not finding a Corporate Calendar App in Accounts and Sync under my Lotus Notes. In my other gmail there is a calendar selection, but not under Notes. Any thoughts? I believe there was another post related to this, but I couldn't find an answer.
First of all, I am assuming that you are using a Motorola Droid...
Corporate Calendar is an Application on the phone itself that you would find where all of your other applications are (in the lower "tab" that you swipe up to see). It isn't located under the Accounts and Sync section.
There are actually two Calendar apps: one is just called "Calendar" (which is the app that shows your calendar as synced from you Google account), and the other is "Corporate Calendar" (which is your Exchange account calendar).
First of all, I am assuming that you are using a Motorola Droid...
Corporate Calendar is an Application on the phone itself that you would find where all of your other applications are (in the lower "tab" that you swipe up to see). It isn't located under the Accounts and Sync section.
There are actually two Calendar apps: one is just called "Calendar" (which is the app that shows your calendar as synced from you Google account), and the other is "Corporate Calendar" (which is your Exchange account calendar).
O.M.G. You have GOT to be kidding me. This is what erks me about Notes. Their pathetic instructions (there was no Droid user guide on the website until a few days ago. It was emailed to me directly). Oh, and there's lots others :-) But I'm stuck with it. THANK YOU!
Was syncing calendar with mNotes, now getting "Activity Partnership error in application Corporate Calendar is not responding. Force close." Any ideas anyone?
There is a link in that post with instructions that will resolve the issue (at least temporarily). I think this is a problem on Android (not specific to mNotes). Hopefully there will be a firmware update that addresses this in the future.
Lotus has also committed to development of Lotus apps directly for the Android platform and there's been considerable discussion of such in the last couple of weeks, especially with Lotusphere in January.
Lotus has also committed to development of Lotus apps directly for the Android platform and there's been considerable discussion of such in the last couple of weeks, especially with Lotusphere in January.
Oh and to the fellow who says IBM's fallen behind more agile development companies...like whom praytell? Microsoft? Agile? LOL!!!
That can be helpful, but some companies (like mine) don't have any interest in supporting users personal phones (let alone Android phones). I don't have any influence over this policy, so a solution like mNotes wireless can be useful. It is unfortunate that you have to have your computer on all the time, but this is a necessary evil when you can't have a server based solution (and thus don't need any IT support to make it work).
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the solution is out of my price range, so I guess I will have to look for another solution to replicate my notes calendar and contacts
CommonTime has cut the price of mNotes Wireless by 50% to $69.95 / €49.95 / £45.95. A really competitive price for the quality of the product I think. 30 day free trial is available so hope you can check it out: CommonTime : Products : mNotes
F Y I ...I've been using Companiuonlink Express USB sync (My company doesn't allow syncing internal calendar with Google) and it is working fine for me. It has hiccups when individual recurring meetings are rescheduled but I have been syncing one way Notes---> Droid and it does a pretty good job. Updates are coming at a good pace with additional features (It uses a custom calendar app (CL USB in the market) on the droid and is a secure way to sync Notes with the droid.
...Just thought I'd jump in with another solution to the Notes sync dilemma
I just got a new Android phone. I would like to get both Lotus Notes email and Sametime for this phone, because I use these in my office. Is there any status updates on IBM releasing these for Android?
If you have access to webmail you may want to try this;
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--Download the Dolphin Browser from the Apps Marketplace - its free.
--After installed, go into settings
User agent ===> change to Desktop
--go to notes.rd.cat.com and login
--you can view and modify email and calendar
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Glad you are finding mNotes will work for you on the Pre despite the frustrations with the Hero - always good to get positive feedback and I know people are using the Hero with success for hope you find a resolution soon.
