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I am a Manager at T-Mobile. When the Android G1 first launched my challenge was to find a program that would push/pull my Exchange email. There were many applications out there but none seemed to work for me. Once I found Touchdown, my troubles were solved. The support is excellent and the application has worked without error. If I had to recommend an Exchange application for your MyTouch or Android G1 – Touchdown by NitroDesk is your best bet.

— Philip Wilhelm

Version 6.1.0007 (Wednesday, 06/30/2010)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

Fix for memory leak and subsequent crash when viewing emails
Fix for high database size for recurring appointments

Version 6.1.0006 (Monday, 06/28/2010)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

fix for out of memory and crash after opening email view a couple dozen times
fix for "agenda view showing only upcoming appts always"
fix for zero-minute appts getting cut off
fix for birthdays and anniversaries showing a day off

Version 6.0.0031 (Tuesday, 06/22/2010)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

Enhanced Kill Code with the option of setting a phone number to send a confirmation SMS if/when the remote wipe is performed. Also requires you to enter the exchange password to set/change these items. If you dont enter the password right, you will have to exit settings and re enter settings to be able to try again. This is to prevent users trying to guess the password
Fixed issue where replying/forwarding emails in exchange 2003 activesync was not marking original email as replied. Side effect is that replies and forwards will do so in text mode. To disable the behavior, turn ON "Disable SmartForwards and SmartReplies" in the advanced tab
Fixed month/week view headers when using custom week view
in the last tab of settings, click Remote Kill button and set a Kill Code (e.g.: KILLME123), which will then enable you to wipe the touchdown data from the device remotely by sending yourself an email (from any email account) with the subject TDKILL: (as in ""TDKILL:KILLME123"" no need for quotes) - Dont ever tell your friends the code, or they will be able to wipe your TD data. Note that this will work in exchange 2003 and 2007 modes as well as activesync, but if you have polling turned on, this will wipe the data whenever the kill message is received (at the next sync)"
fix for some frequent wait/force close messages which users have observed while syncing
additional fields like Spouse, Manager, Assistant, Birthday, Anniversary, Dept, Office Location are now editable (activesync only) by pressing the More Fields button when editing a contact
Improves performance when opening appointments with large number of attendees
Fixed Bug which caused the "Appointment alerts during non-peak" setting to be not sticky
When moving between days on week and day view, tries to preserve scroll position
Fix for Pure Calendar widget losing connection with touchdown
Now supports attachments even though SD card encryption policy is enforced.
Fix for Froyo notification colors
Potential fix for provisioning failure against Zimbra
Better layout on quick configuration screen
Applies normalization (if selected) of phone numbers when dialing out from contact
Fixes Issue in searching emails where sender information was missing in results
Email view now shows only 3 lines of header information
Fixed to work on Froyo, displays emails properly, fetches calendar properly
Fixed issue on Froyo for contact photos not being downloaded
If you have CamCard professional installed, in contact list view, you can select Menu/More/Capture Card
Calendar now defaults to light theme
Calendar fix for missing calendar items when large download history is specified
Calendar fix for some recurring items ocurring monthly not being showed properly
Fixed issue where download remaining option was not displayed for partially downloaded email
Fixed issue where on exchange 2007, max download size was not honored
New option in email options for reversing position of sender and subject in email list view
Check box selector in email list changed to check mark
Thinner email list rows
Email list row fonts made smaller, second line made gray
Rendering of read/unread not diferentiated by colors anymore, neither are important emails highlighted in red
When searching for emails, check box selections still available
Clicking search button on email list pops up soft keyboard
Email list view header changed to show folder selector as a button
Buttons and menu items disabled/hidden when account is not yet configured, specific buttons for initial configuration
Push indicator changed to light bulb, enabling and Disabling push is now a menu option
Smaller font (and grayed second line) on home screen
Home screen task list will show only tasks which are incomplete, but with due dates
Slightly taller buttons on main screen
Potential fix for frequent force-closes and higher performance for some operations
Fixed highlighting for phone numbers with a . in them
Fixed text wrap issues in quick configuration
Support for editing ocurrences in recurring items (exceptions may not be sent to recipients)

Version 6.0.0000 (Monday, 05/10/2010)

Before you upgrade to this version, please make sure you do a Menu/Clean Queue and a Menu/Sync on your existing installation.

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

Support for Pure Calendar Widget
Support for creating recurring appointments
Fainter rendering of tentative items in day / week views
Agenda view date headers now show week of day
Fixed Incredible issue with viewing text format messages, kinetic scroll
Faster deletion of messages from email view
When continuing a draft message which is reply or forward, now preserves original reply or forward information
Change PIN now requires you to enter original PIN
Displays birthday and anniversary in contact
Clicking item in draft folder now lets you continue server drafts
Fixed issue in Exchange 2003 not correctly receiving meeting acceptance (may also have positive result on 2007 and zimbra)
Fixed issue with droid Incredible not showing contacts from TouchDown.
New fields shown in contact view at the bottom : Birthday, Anniversary, Manager, Assistant, Location, Department
New Reminders screen which does not require PIN prompting
Updated contact view to ensure that phone numbers and email addresses in Notes field is highlighted for linking
User interface updated, more contemporary interface
Speed improvement in screen transitions
Completing a recurring task will now create the next ocurrence of the task
In ActiveSync mode, progressbar for sycning on main screen
Fix for email rendering issue and erratic zoom buttons, now the header will stay until you scroll the message a bit, then disappear
Fix for Google accounts where calendar information is not populating properly. Bonus : Now you get HTML email as well
Fix for characters being eaten up after phone number highlights in event view
Fix for attachment names getting mangled when downloaded to the device or saved to SD card
Fix for attachments not showing up on Kerio server, along with ability to get HTML email
Potential fix for Contact copying not completing (blocks refreshes when copying)
Support for Availability information (Menu/Availability when creating event) for users who are on an exchange server which has legacy FB enabled
Potential solution when database gets corrupted, provides user with the option to recover settings and resync data
Changed time representations to match locale (those with 24 hr times should see a difference)
Support for attached .ics files (appointments)
Fixed encoding problem for subject headers in outgoing emails containing non-ASCII characters
Support for attached .vcf files (importing from .vcf) as well as share contact (press menu when viewing contact)
If a message has been replied/forwarded FROM the device, it is shown with appropriate icon overlay
Added Buttons at the bottom for create/cancel when editing contacts.
When marking email as unread, shows a blue header indicating it
Support for Activesync 12.0 interface for Kerio
Volume Up/Down keys when viewing emails will take you to Nex/Prev email, and camera button (untested) toggles the read state
Important emails now show a red highlight
Potential fix for map links not working when viewing appointments
When no configuration found, home screen shows tap to configure
Updated button bar on email view and message view and quick configuration
Fixed failing (HTTP400) quick configuration when your MEID contains non-standard characters
Fix for Importance flag not syncing in Exchange 2003 mode
Fix for failing send message with communigate server
New feature : Propose new time for calendar invite (long-press the invite and select propose new option)
Fix for exchange 2007 where unchecking Enable HTML was still fetching HTML
Ability to forward meeting invites
Added new option in settings (checkbox) for "Include phone contacts in pick list". disabling this (default now) will cause phone book to not be checked when composing emails and selecting addresses. Expected to speed the search up
Added new option in contacts view menu options : Call Log Import (now you can select an item from the call log and add as contact in touchdown/exchange)
Support for AutoDiscovery (inside quick configuration) for servers that support it (exchange 2007)
Fixed glitch with GMT timezone issues (requires refreshing calendar if you are upgrading)
Added support for sorting emails
Limits the attachment size to whats specified (if any) in exchange policies
Limits email download size to max size specified in exchange policies
Implements password recovery process for exchange 2007 servers, new button on PIN screen
Fixed issue where sync failed on large SD cards
Support for recurring appointments editing and creating (no exception support, so editing can remove exceptions)
Opening .html and .txt files done through the system browser
MAJOR CHANGE: Database now split into two, with a separate database for holding emails etc. expected to improve perf and reduce crashes
Full Text Search now accessible by pressing the search hardbutton on the main screen (by default searches emails, but you can customize this by pressing the button on the top right)
Full text search available only on new data downloaded after this version is installed. So please refresh contacts calednar and tasks
Fixed issue where upgrading from earlier version was refusing to show any emails
Fixed issue in Kerio/Zarafa which caused updating events, tasks and contacts to fail if they didnt have description/notes field
Added options for server search, selecting folder, date range and recursiveness
New TouchDown search (accessible by pressing the search hardware button when on the touchdown main screen). Lets you search for email, contacts, calendar, tasks for any string you type
Server Email Search implementation (available ONLY for exchange 2007 ActiveSync users : Press Menu/Server Search in email view
Warnings added in the Max History selection and signature box fields in last tab of settings
Speech notification now routed to the notification volume
Image attachments now show a preview in the attachment list. additional option to disable it
Option for appt/task reminders even during non-peak times.
Option to poll even during non-peak times
Event view now handles phone numbers which has PIN inside them
Ability to Accept/Decline without sending a response to organizer
Attachment upload now restricted to 20 Mb
Open .3gp files (mime set to video/3gpp)
PIN Prompting was not working on compose email screen
Changed "Serial Number" to "License key"
Support for cleaner specification of Email CHecking Frequency
Support for cleaner spec of Email download history
Support for Calendar download history
Support for selecting syncable folders from the Menu options in Email list
Fixed the 123423232 string appearing against all day events in the widget

Version 5.1.0026 (Tuesday, 03/02/2010)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

New Features

Support for Settings Field suppression when doing Mass Enterprise deployment (see configuration guide)
Support for Live Folder view of all emails (now you can create a folder on the android desktop which will show ALL EMAILS)
Trial period increased to 30 days

Bug Fixes

Crash/slow loading Month view fixed
Pressing back button at a PIN prompt causes next PIN prompt to cause a crash
Accept/Decline/tentative responding to a meeting will immediately cause a sync, so the response wont be delayed, regardless of defer server updates setting
When performing operations on multiple items selected in the email list, clears the selections after performing the operation
Updated Email options to add mor flexible choices for what to do after deleting an email being viewed.
Update to ensure that PIN expiration is handled more promptly
Deleting contents of notes in Contacts, tasks and events now update correctly to the server
Fixed issue with opening certain HTML emails in Exchange 2003 EAS mode
Status update when updating contacts was not showing name when there was no full name set
Fixed issue where PIN prompting was happening frequently for users whose server did not specify a timeout
Support for Simplified Chinese folder names in activesync and support for exchange 2003 and 2007 for simplified chinese
Sending attachments now sends the mime type in the email
Potential fix for slow address lookups when composing a message
Inability to get attachments from server due to policy now results in more clear error message
on exchange 2007, timeouts of less than 3 minutes now handled properly
Editing contact does not clear out the prefix anymore
Fixed speech notification, routes the notification to the Ringer rather than Media
Bumped up max email download size on exchange 2003 activesync to 100kb, from 20kb
If you delete the first event in a series, the exception was not being saved properly

Version 5.1.0000 (Monday, 02/01/2010)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

New Features

Support for Mass Enterprise deployment (see configuration guide)
Auto-suggest includes recipients of messages recently opened.
Filter for Active Tasks
Option to speak out email notification (under Email Alerts option) - Note speak option works only on Android 2.0, and does NOT work for appt alerts
Able to download attachments of arbitrary size (except exchange 2007 mode)
Custom notifications based on rules (click Manage Rules button on last tab of settings)
Calendar options now has a calendar Zoom option which can be used to zoom out the calendar (day and week) views - Droid and Nexus devices had too small a Calendar
Support for Fax numbers in contacts
New option in Email options to go to next message on Delete - default is off, so deletes will take you to the email list
When you open any email, the senders photo (or a contact icon) will appear on the top left (if the sender is in your contacts) if the sender is found, tapping the icon will take you to the contact view, from where you can call. If not, tapping the icon will let you create teh sender in your contacts
New setting in the last tab of settings to set the body style. Note this is a tricky one. This is the content of an HTML style tag which will be applied to the BODY tag of all sent emails. Common use of this is to set the font, color, size of outgoing emails.
Option in last tab to normalize phone numbers in contacts as they are saved (x becomes a space, w becomes ; and p becomes ,
Option in last tab of settings to exclude attachment images from showing up in Gallery
Photo now shows up on email reading screen on leftmost side
New Task Filters for "No Due Date" and "With Due Date"
Month View shows green lines on top where there are all day events
All day events now shown on top of calendar
New Edit Inline button in composing email. This will convert the original message to text format and add it to the body being composed
Show week numbers on first day of the calendar month view
Now when accepting meeting request you can enter a message
Stick Pusher implementation - for more reliable push when network appears to stall
New Go To Date option in calendar
3-level Sort option in Contacts and Tasks

Bug Fixes

Better resilience against the database resetting issue on Droid and Nexus
GAL dialogs clears strings when opened
Conversation threading on 2007 excludes RE: and FW:
Reply All for Events includes all attendees in the CC list
Navigating from a fully downloaded message to one that has not been downloaded yet was not showing the "Download Full" button
If you select multiple emails in the list and mark as read, the selections are not removed, this is so you can immediately do a delete if required
Fixed accidental notification during off-peak times when long-standing push retrieves mail.
Fixed issue where attachment list was not shown if exchange policies required Data encryption
Removed the serial number field from settings
Potential fix for issue where 2003/2007 mode seems to skip new messages ocassionally
Fixed issue with dialer for post-dial sequence
When looking up a contact from viewing an email message, now it uses a case insensitive search
Task notifications fixed (now should show subject)
creating appointment off by a few hours.
Fixed the bogus polling that happens when device is restarted
Fixed bug where HTML tags were showing up on some 2003 HTML emails
Saving task/contact/appointment in a subfolder was accidentally moving it to the default task/contact/appt folder
Changing Email address in settings now enables Save option
Task sorting made case insensitive
If subject is empty, message view was showing previous subject when moving between messages
Fixed HTML parsing error which was causing some HTML emails likethe one from Facebook from being read in Exchange 2003 server activesync mode
Saving a contact from GAL will now sync it with exchange
Now opening calendar from widget should not move view to previous month
Fixed bug where orientation change trashes reminder list
If recurring appt instances have changed reminder schemes, they are reflected in device
Reminders for appts are updated from outlook to the device (change in outlook should reflect on device for future appts)
If using exchange 2003 and activesync, appts created in TD with a newline in the description fails to be added in exchange
Some significant changes in the mail message sending encoding and decoding - possible impact in non-English languages. Chinese emails now readable, forwarding multi-byte charset messages doesnt break
Pressing New Event in Calendar should now create it in the selected time slot
Now reply/reply All honors the ReplyTo address specified instead of the From address of the sender

Version 5.0.0002 (Monday, 12/07/2009)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

Improved support for activesync policies including data encryption
Supports syncing folders for Contacts, Calendar and Tasks
Universal Widget improvements and reliability
Filtering Contacts by Folder and category
Filtering Tasks by Folder
Ability to forward attachments without downloading them
Better policy support for PINS : History, alpahuneric, Max Failed attempts
More reliable remote wipe
Honors request to encrypt data on device
Disable attachment downloading if SD Card usage is limited or encryption is requested on it

DROID ONLY : The following features are specific to Android 2.0 (e.g: Motorola Droid)

Ability to speak out an email
Ability to dictate individual sentences when composing emails
More seamless contact-phonebook integration

Version 4.0.0008 (Wednesday, 10/21/2009)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

Ability to backup your settings (Backup Settings button in the last tab)
Ability to restore backed up settings (Restore settings button in the last tab)
"Enable Contacts Syncing with Google" option now independent of the "Update Contact Changes to Phone" option
Better suggestion mechanism when typing in contact name in the To, CC and BCC boxes in Compose Message screen (contacts from phone show (phone) suffix, and the suggestion drop down is wider too
Fixed the issue where some HTML emails from exchange 2003 was not being decoded correctly. these are messages which were in multipart/mixed format.
Now if you try to edit a contact in the phonebook, it will give you the option to edit the contact in touchdown. If the contact is indeed imported from touchdown, this will open up the touchdown contact editor and let you change the contact there, and the changes will be sent to exchange and will be reflected back in the phonebook, effectively making the update at all locations.
CHange PIN Entry screen to leave focus on the PIN entry box if the password is found to have non-digits in them
Fixed Settings Backup/Restore to ensure that the PeakTimes as well as Folder selections are restored
Fixed bug in .PFX certificate setting, where it was breaking instead of asking for password
Fixed Profiles list to guide the user to long-press for options
New options button on email views
Selectors and Move to any folder - now moved to Options Screen
Option to suppress confirmation on Delete
Option to set the message viewing toolbar - Show, Hide or Toggle on Shake
Option to replace the Mark Read button with the Forward button on the toolbar
Fix bug where even if inbox was not selected for syncing, activesync was including it in the folders to sync.
Fix for DST bug where times were shown wrong when the DST switched. To Fix the calendar, perform a Calendar/refresh after upgrading
Ensure that when returning from the Appointment creation screen, the selected time is preserved in the calendar
Ensure that user cannot select Notes or Outbox for syncing (Activesync only)
bug in the email options screen, where settings selected were not being preserved.
Fixed a bug where an appointment scheduled from a user in a region without DST was not being picked up
Fixed bug where when attendees accept invitation, the attendee list inside touchdown was getting duplicate entries
Fixed bug where sorting of folders was wrong under certain situations
By default, Touchdown sets maximum message size to 20k (Zimbra - 10k)
Fixed issue with sending large attachments
Email search now defaults to requiring the user to type in the string and then press the Go button
You can change above behavior and make instant searches by enabling it in the Email options page
When editing All Day events in the calendar, it was always adding an extra day to the event, fixed
Now settings backups are made to the SD card and not on the device. this ensures that uninstalling the app will not cleanup the backup
Addressed issue where kanji character sets in HTML email for Exchange 2003 was not being correctly recognized
Addressed issue where when you delete phone numbers/email/address fields from contacts, the deletion was not being correctly handled in TouchDown
Addressed issue where week titles were shown wrong in month view when week was customized
Added some support for Google Apps Accounts with activesync enabled. Still a little lame and unpredictable though
Added support for email flags (exchange 2007 - activesync only)
-- To set email flag, long press an email and select Flag for Follow up and Mark Completed or Clear Flag
-- While viewing message, press the gray flag on the left side to set the flag
-- If flag is set, click once to mark completed
-- if marked as completed, click once to clear flag
Filtering implemented for UnreadMessages, Flagged Messages, Messages with Attachments, High Importance
Conversation option implemented in filter
Fixed issue in conversation view on exchange 2003, opening conversation filter causes exception
Added "Importance - High" filter for emails
Added more padding to conversation lines, to prevent fat-fingering
Added ability to email a contact from the biult in phone book app
Fixed some issues with HTML rendering on exchange 2003
Now shows rough attachment size even before downloading
Embedded images in HTML emails are downloaded when email is opened (you can suppress this in Email Options) - ActiveSync Only
Conversation view now shows unread messages in conversation.
Some perf improvements in email view
Fixed bug where meeting invites were setting the meeting property to private
Fixes for HTML rendering issues for 2003 mode (almost 80% addressed)
Fixed PIN timeout for Exchange 2007 (it may start prompting for some users now)
Fixed issue where opening a single new mail directly was not removing the lights..

Version 3.3.0027 (Wednesday, 9/16/2009)

Change List The following are some of the notable changes in this version

PIN Entry should not popup the android keyboard if your PIN does not require alphanumeric
Pressing ENTER when in PIN entry should be equivalent to pressing OK
You should now be able to send mail from other applications using touchdown
Potential fix for the multiple prompts for the PIN in certain cases
Better shading/appearance on calendar events in day and week views
Recurring calendar appointments dont drop off when you dismiss a reminder on outlook
Email list shows title with folder name and folder selection, tapping folder name or folder selection button pops up new improved folder selection box with hierarchical rendering of sync'd folders (along with unread counts), tapping a folder takes you to it, clicking 'All Folders' button on top shows All Folders view
Moving email items to folders show hierarchically arranged folders. (NOTE GOTCHA AT BOTTOM)
Crashes fixed when sometimes calendar and contacts are viewed
Fix for contact deletion from phone book when phone is restarted
Contacts now copied to phone book will not replicate to google, causing sync issues
Clicking Choose Folders in the last tab of settings shows folder list in hierarchy
Fixed issue where touchdown was syncing every minute in cases where the network gateway was timing out prematurely. Better battery usage as a result.
Changed the widgets to make them a bit more transparent, and changed the email subject font on widget to bold
Multiple profiles support (To manage profiles, click Menu/More/Profiles on the touchdown main screen)
Remote wipe will clean up ALL profiles, including those on SD card
Categories support in Appointments, Tasks and Contacts fetched and shown
Color coding of events according to category
Long-press contact/Task/Event and select Categorize to set category from device
A New menu item is available when viewing/editing events/contacts/calendar for setting category
Fixed bug with "Xth friday of every Y Months" type recurring event
Fixed date format in MIME when sending email
Smaller check balls on email list
Recent folders option when choosing folders
Search button on top of email list
Jerk the phone to turn on/off the new bottom toolbar when viewing message
deleting message while viewing goes to the next message
Fixed bugs in appt recurrence processing, especially cases where recurring events were disappearing.
Changed shading of read emails.
A Green bar before unread email in email list

GOTCHAS Due to some of the underlying changes, it is recommended that you perform a reconfiguration of the application if you upgrade to it. You can try performing a quick configuration, but at the very least, you should do the following
go into the last tab of settings and click Refresh folders
go into the calendar view and refresh the calendar
go into the contacts view and refresh contacts (and if you have copied contacts to the phone, do that again).
go into the tasks view and refresh tasks.

Version 3.2.001 (Wednesday, 7/15/2009)

Email Importance Now you can set importance when composing email.

Optimization More optimized Change checking
Eliminated the checking of unchanged folders when sending emails, updating read status etc.
Added a "Deferred update" option to defer updating of read status etc until next server-invoked or scheduled refresh
Eliminated unnecessary repeated new mail alerts

Calendar Improvements Added Free/Busy Status setting for new events
Added the ability to set appointment sensitivity/privacy
Calendar view shows color coded events based on availability
Calendar view shows indicators for private appointments as well as recurring appointments
Calendar Widget shows upcoming appointments Calendar View has a new Options screen invoked from the Menu button, allowing the following settings

24 hour display in calendar view
Ability to customize start and end week days in week view
Ability to customize start and end working hours for the day
Ability to show a light-themed calendar rather than the default dark one
Ability to show the upcoming appointments for the next 7 days in agenda view
Ability to show All Day Events in the old style (starting at 12:00 AM rather than spanning entire work hours)

Contacts Contacts preserve postal addresses when copying to phone

Settings Fixed issue where changes to settings and license key were being overwritten when an update was in progress
Fixed issue where folder selection in email view was not being preserved
New Settings for enabling/disabling LED notifications for emails and appointments

Deleted Items New emails appearing in “Deleted Items” folder does not cause new mail alert.

Folder Language Support for Italian language folders
Support for Spanish Language folders

Contact Selection Typing in contact names when composing emails or creating appointments now also fetch contacts from the phone contact book.

Task Shortcut Now you can add Android Desktop shortcuts to Tasks.

Dial From Event Event View now has ability to click and dial phone numbers in subject, location and body of the event

Searching Menu/Search option in Contacts to quickly find a contact
Menu/Search option in Email view to quickly search email subject and addresses for keywords

Email Addressees Email View now shows list of addressees with the ability to add addressee to contact and to open contact view for addressee

Default Send Mail Now if you click on an email link in a browser, you get TouchDown as an option to send email from.

Version 3.1.028 (Sunday, 6/21/2009)

Email Importance Shows email priority when you are using ActiveSync mode.

Calendar Fixes In this version, we have fixed several bugs with the time calculations in the calendar, and have made it less susceptible to errors due to DST and timezone changes

All Day Events Now all day events are shown from the beginning to end of the work day.

Agenda View We have made the Agenda View display the next 7 days of appointments. Optionally you can also lock the agenda view to the current date.

Calendar Options We have added the following calendar options:

Ability to switch to 24h time display
Custom work week in week view (choose any start weekday and end week day)
Customizable workday start and end times
Lock Agenda view to today

To change Calendar Options please click Menu/More/Options when you are in the calendar view

Version 3.1.020 (Tuesday, 6/16/2009)

Tasks If you use ActiveSync mode, or Exchange 2007 mode, Touchdown™ now supports viewing creating and editing tasks. To enable tasks for syncing, please make sure that you click "Choose Folders" option in the last tab in settings and ensure Tasks is checked.

App Widgets In this version, you can add widgets to Androids Home screen, which show up to 4 Appointments, Emails or Tasks. To add a widget, click Menu/Add/Widget and select the type of widget you need. Note that the widgets are designed to fit a 3X2 icon area.

Event Detail Enhancements When viewing any event, you can now choose to show details of participants and organizer. When this list is shown, you can either add each participant to your contacts list directly if they are not found, or open the contact directly from the list if they are already in your contact list.

Version 3.1.000 (Friday, 5/29/2009)

Quick Configuration Touchdown™ now features a quick configuration mode which asks for a few key pieces of information about your account and then attempts to find the right configuration for you.

Out Of Office (OOF) In this version, if you are connecting to a Microsoft(R) Exchange 2007 server, you will see a new button at the bottom of the third tab in settings, which will let you configure your Out Of Office settings. Here you can

Disable OOF
Enable an OOF with separate External and Internal Messages
Enable a Scheduled OOF

Reliability Enhancements If you are one of the users who have been plagued with blanking out of the data every once in a while, this version should behave much more reliably. We have made several changes to try to make sure that the database does not get corrupted under certain conditions.

Contacts Syncing We have made the syncing of contacts to the phone more robust, and try to preserve the original contact IDs when syncing, so that you can now create shortcuts to your phone contacts on the desktop and they should stick even when contacts are refreshed.

Contact Photos We are excited to provide ActiveSync users with the ability to set contact photos in the application. If you use ActiveSync Only mode, you can now refresh your contacts again and the photos you have in outlook should appear in the contact details on TouchDown™. They should also be refreshed into the phonebook if you have setup syncing to the phone.
In addition, you can simply tap a photo on any contact in TouchDown™ and choose a picture for the contact either from the picture on your phone or directly from the camera. Once you select or capture a picture, you will be shown the photo with the ability to crop out a 64X64 area of the picture.
Next time you are meeting one of your contacts, you can whip out your phone, open the contact, touch the photo and take a picture of him/her for keepsakes.

Supports ZIMBRA If you have a Zimbra server, now you can use the Easy Configuration option in TouchDown™ to connect with your account and receive your emails, contacts and calendar.

New Home Screen Now the home screen of TouchDown™ shows you more than just buttons. It has a new panel which takes more of the screen, displaying you the most recent 5 unread emails from the past 24 hours, as well as all your appointments for the current day. Depending on the layout mode, and the number of items you have, you may have to scroll down to see all the items. But clicking on any item should take you directly to the item.

Contacts List Size Now the contacts list shows an additional button at the end of the list, clicking which will increase the number of contacts shown in the list. You can use this to progressively see more and more contacts in the list.

Navigation Buttons When viewing emails, now you can tap on the message header to reveal a set of buttons which you can use to perform quick operations such as Moving to next or previous emails, replying, forwarding and deleting messages.

FIX: Delete emails from Outlook A bug has been fixed in the ActiveSync modes where deleting or marking emails beyond the past 24 hours did not reflect on TouchDown™.

Appointment Reminders The appointment reminders list which pops up in this version lets you long-press on an appointment to present you with options to delete, dismiss, snooze or open the appointment. You can also click on an appointment on the reminders list to open the event.

Version 3.0.031 (Thursday, 4/22/2009)

ActiveSync Only mode If you have ActiveSync enabled for your account and are running Exchange 2003 SP2 or above, you can now use the more efficient and faster ActiveSync ONLY connection mode. It is recommended that in order to use this mode, you first uninstall your program and reinstall, since the procedure for upgrading can be a little tricky. For more information on configuring activesync only mode, please download and read the configuration PDF document here : http://tinyurl.com/tdstart

The following are benefits (and gotchas) of activesync only connection mode

Much faster email/contacts/calendar downloading, and instant alerts and updates
More optimized data transfer (a fraction of that of other mechanisms)
No need to manually refresh contacts or calendar
Entire calendar (see condition below) available on the device
- Expands unlimited appointments to the first 100 instances
Instant updates back to server on reading emails, deleting and moving them
GOTCHA : Exchange 2003 does not directly support HTML Email through activesync.
GOTCHA TOO : To sync your contacts and calendar you must select them in the Choose Folders option in the advanced tab

Live-Contact update to phonebook Now in addition to the ability to copy contacts to the phone, you also can enable a mode where any change to the Exchange contacts list will be instantly refreshed to the phonebook. For this, you should ensure the following :

Make sure you have Contacts checked in the Choose Folders list
If you just checked it, go to the main screen and perform a couple of Menu/Refresh actions(if you are in activesync only mode)
Go to the Contacts view and do a Menu/Copy To Phone
Go to the last tab in settings and enable "Update contact changes to phone" and save settings
Now any changes you make to your exchange contact will reflect in the PhoneBook
GOTCHA : If you ever refresh folders, you may see duplicate contacts on the phonebook. If so, simply go to the contacts view and perform another Menu/Copy to Phone.
GOTCHA : Changes to the contact on the Phone Book will not be reflected back to exchange, and may be overwritten. Always change TouchDown™ contacts in the TouchDown™ Contact list.

Live Lists If an update to emails/contacts/calendar happens when you are viewing the corresponding lists, the list will be updated in real time.

Peak Times setting You can now go to the advanced tab in settings, click on the Peak Times button at the bottom and specify for each day of the week, times during which TouchDown™ should check for new messages. If your peak times are not a single block of time during the day, but the inverse (e.g.: 12.00 AM to 9:AM and 8:00 PM to 11:59 PM), select the NON-peak time in the range and check the box which says Non-Peak. However, you should note that keeping a VERY long non-peak time (> around 24 hours) can interfere with correct operation of the Exchancge 2007 mode.

Edit Simple Calendar Appointments Now you can edit non-recurring calendar appointments, Simply open the appointment and press Menu/Edit, or long-press an appointment and select edit.

Fetch Older Email A new option in the Email Views menu allows you to fetch older email. Select Fetch All and select the number of days to go back in history. In ActiveSync mode, there is some rounding-up that happens (1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month) and it will not fetch more than 30 days of history. If nothing happens when you do this in activesync mode, perform a couple of Menu/Refresh actions, or send yourself an email.

Home Screen Shortcuts Now you can drop shortcuts to Emails Contacts and Calendars on the home screen. Simply press menu when on the Google Phone home screen, and expand the shortcuts option and pick TouchDown™. You will get a choice of Shortcuts to drop on the desktop.

GAL Search within Contacts You can now perform GAL search within contacts. Press Menu/Search GAL and enter the search criteria. If you click on the result list, the contact will be opened in a contacts view, where you can call or email the contact. You can also Press Menu and save it as a contact in TouchDown™. But note that it will not be synced with the exchange server, and will disappear from the contacts list when you perform a refresh-all.

Reset PIN If your activesync system requires you to enter a PIN, and you forget the PIN, you can now reset your PIN by entering your Exchange password.

Version 2.0.010 (Monday, 3/16/2009)

PUSH Email If you have ActiveSync enabled for your account and are running exchange 2003 SP2 or above, you can now enable push mode. To enable push mode, please do the following :

Go to the second tab in settings, press ActiveSync button, and press the Refresh ActiveSync button in the popup window
Go to the last tab in settings and press Refresh Folders button
In the last tab of settings, check ON Enable Push
Save and Close Settings
Ensure that the Push Active indicator comes on in the main page and stays on

Copy Contacts to Phone You can now copy the contacts in your Exchange address book to the phone book by selecting the Copy to Phone menu item in the contacts view.

Auto Recover If TouchDown™ crashes when you are composing an email, clicking on the new Outbound button on the main screen will show you a list of pending messages.

Device Local Drafts When composing a message, now you can save the message as draft. To access the draft message, select the Outbound button on the main screen

Suppress Delete from Server A new option in the advanced tab of settings now lets you ensure that deleting emails will not reflect on the server.

Suppress Mark-Read from Server A new option in the advanced tab of settings now lets you ensure that marking emails as read or unread will not reflect on the server.

Send Attachments Now when sending emails, you can add attachments to them (Note that very large attachments may fail to be sent).

Security PIN If you have activesync enabled, you will be prompted for a PIN if the administrator has configured your account for high security.

Remote Wipe If you have activesync enabled, and you have enabled push, if you are on Exchange 2007, you can initiate a remote wipe of your TouchDown™ data from Outlook Web Access (Administrator has to initiate the wipe in 2003).

Version 1.5.000 (Thursday, 2/12/2009)

Calendar Views New Day/Week/Month/Agenda views. You can touch and slide the views to the left or right now.

Create/Delete Appointments You can now create or delete appointments from the calendar. Click Menu/Add event or long press a time in the day/Week/month views to create appointments. To delete an appointment, open it and select Menu/Delete

Faster Email List Loading If you have too many emails, you might have noticed that the system take a while to load the email list. This has been alleviated somewhat by making the email list load only the first 100 emails, and showing a button at the bottom for getting the next 50 and so on. This should provide a little more speedy loading of the email list.

Scheduling fixes This version includes some changes which affect the way automated polling is scheduled. This is to address cases where TouchDown™ seems to be stopping the schedule due to errors or other situations. Please let us know if this is more effective, or if the scheduling appears to be affected.

Sliding Views When you are viewing the calendar, now you can touch and drag to the left or right to move to the previous or next day/week/month depending on the view.

Email Multi-Selection This version should remember your choice of showing selection indicators against the email items.

Folder Hierarchies in French This version should let you select French as another folder language.

Force-Refreshing There may be times when your server is non responsive or your internet connection is flaky, causing a refresh to hang. If this happens, and you try another refresh from the main screen, now you have the option to kill the running refresh and start a new one. But please use this carefully, and only if you feel that the delay is due to network or server lag/outage, since killing the running refresh could jeopardize your database if there is any real activity going on.

Version 1.4.052 (Monday, 1/26/2009)

BUG FIX GAL search was attempting to send email to the name instead of the person's email address. Fixed

Version 1.4.051 (Monday, 1/26/2009)

Global Address List! This much-requested feature has been added to TouchDown™. When composing an Email, you can now press the GAL button to start a search in your global address list.

Meeting Invites This version will let you receive the following types of messages.
- Meeting invites
- Meeting responses to invites you have sent

Accept/Decline/Tentative Response If you wish to respond to a meeting invite, you can do using two methods.
- You can choose the Respond... option in the context menu that appears when you long-press the invite
- When you open up the invite, there will be a response button on the top right corner. Pressing this will let you respond to the invite. In this release, we do not allow typing in a message as a response, something we hope to fix in an upcoming preview.

International Languages Emails containing foreign language characters were not correctly displayed (typically email bodies). This included the Umlaute characters in european languages as well as characters in other languages such as Korean and Chinese. This should be fixed in this version.

European Languages Earlier versions of TouchDown™ had problems dealing with folders in other languages such as German, Dutch, Swedish. In this version, we have added a new option in the last tab of settings which lets you choose from German, Dutch and Swedish for Folder Language. Once you select a different language, you must "Refresh Folders" to get the functionality working correctly.

Blank EMails(BugFix): In earlier versions, some users occasionally received completely blank emails in their inbox. This was due to TouchDown™ attempting to mark non-existent (deleted) items on Exchange as READ. Exchange does not check to see if the item is present, and goes ahead and creates a Zombie message. This has been addressed, but if you delete an item in Outlook, and later open the same item on the device, you may still get a blank email.

Version 1.4.040 (Wednesday, 1/14/2009)

Contacts Sync Now you can long-press a contact and choose to 'Add to Phone'

Add Contact on Incoming call This is a new option in the third tab of settings. If you turn this on, when an incoming call is from an exchange contact that doesn't exist in your phone contacts, it will be copied to the phone contacts. This is currently tested to work only in the US T-Mobile network. To ensure that this works, you will need to do a Contacts Refresh-All to normalize the stored numbers.

Attachments! Once you install this release, attachments will be enabled for any new emails that you receive after the installation. When viewing an email with attachments:

Click the attachments button at the top right corner to access the attachments.
This will open up the attachments view which will list the attachments.
You can click once on an attachment to download it.
Once downloaded, you can click on it again to open it.
Additional options such as saving to SD card etc are available when you long-press an attachment.

Contacts Update button removed The ever so confusing update button has been removed from the contacts screen

Contacts Search For those of you with large number of contacts, this version will let you start typing in the contacts list and popup a search bar for finding your contacts. You can type in the first or last name of your contact to quickly find it in the list. Clicking the X next to the search box will close the search view and take you back to the full contact list.

View Original When you reply or forward an email, now the compose window will also show the original message below the area where you type in your new message.

Backup and Restore Now you can backup your database when it is in a stable state. In case you ever face data corruption or settings get wiped out, you can restore to the previous backed up state by performing a database restore. These two options are available by pressing the Menu button in the Settings screens.

Selection Buttons The selection buttons for multi selecting emails had the nasty tendency to open up emails if you are not accurate enough. This problem has been addressed.

Last Refresh Time Now the main screen will show the last time of refresh and the next expected refesh time

Version 1.4.035 (Monday, 1/5/2009)

SEVERE BUG FIX Fixed a serious bug with 1.4.033 emails sent from the phone were repeated multiple times.

Version 1.4.033 (Friday, 1/2/2009)

SEVERE BUG FIX Fixed a serious bug with 1.4.032 where settings were being wiped out on a refresh.

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