Update History

Version 7.1.0012 (Monday, 12th Dec 2011)

Change List This update incorporates the following

  • After initial configuration, sets Tablet mode off by default if the device is detected to have a screensize less than 5"
  • Lotus notes users should be able to accept meeting invites now.
  • Fixed bug where when searching for contacts, contacts without email addresses may sometimes show email from other contacts
  • Updated the plain text email view to work better with theme colors
  • Changed the Default Device type reported to the exchange server as "Touchdown" instead of "Android"
  • New option in the email options list to show Plain text emails in web view. this enables you to pinch/zoom as well as copy text from plain text emails
  • New option in the settings advanced tab to show compact PIN screen
  • Default font on the reply body style is Calibri, 9pt to better match outlook
  • Body style now extends to the appended headers over the previous message, but color of headers are maintained as black regardless of specified stylefor the body
  • MUCH faster tab switching in tablet mode on Kindle Fire as well as other honeycomb tablets
  • Support for themes. In the last tab of settings, now you can choose Screen Background (aka themes) to be one of Basic, Dark, Black, Wood and Colorifikal
  • Fixed issue where gal search was hanging
  • Support for Quick Replies. When viewing email list, long-press an email, select quick reply and click on the quick reply you want to send
  • You can edit your quick replies by pressing the Quick Reply button in the last tab of settings
  • Sending messages now pops up progress window to prevent force closes
  • Long-press of the back button now opens up options to switch between sections
  • Partially addressed issue where encrypted emails which contain attached email message is handled (does not address multiple attached emails, some issues with parsing email headers for such emails)
  • Tablet version now remembers the splitter position per view
  • Tablet views now have a new way to resize the panes by clicking and dragging on the splitter in the middle
  • Potential fix for push not picking up on some Droids..
  • If the signature is empty, there wont be a bogus new line added to the end of messages
  • In tablet versions, where it shows number of unread emails and upcoming appts, you can tap on those to go to the respective views
  • Tablet version for android 2.x tablets now show more usable tabs in landscape mode
  • Smartphone versions now show larger nav buttons for those fat fingerers
  • Update with new scratch proof background on main screen, about box and welcome screen
  • Updated diagnostics screen to ensure pressing copy button copies entire log to clipboard. Samsung users should copy to clipboard and paste log into word document and attach it for sending logs to support. Apparently Sammies have a limit on how much text you can type into a message/edit box
  • Tilt to scroll implementation when viewing HTML messages
  • Fix for bug in reminder screen which prevents tap to open event
  • Fix for appointments showing one day earlier when day of appt is different at the originating timezone
  • Switch profiles now will not allow you to switch in the middle of a sync, to prevent data cross-feed
  • SMIME settings screen now asks for PIN confirmation
  • Added button in reminder screen to dismiss individual reminders
  • Fixed issue where certain calendar entries were being duplicated when exceptions are created
  • Fixed issue where setting honor background data was causing manual syncs also to be suppressed
  • Fixed issue with Acer Iconia 7" tablet with honeycomb version
  • Fixed issue with iconia where view message did not have buttons for responding
  • Swiping left on email will open emails in conversation chat mode
  • Fixed issue where when receiving certain messages in the background, the app overall becomes very sluggish
  • Added ability to send multiple images from gallery on android 2.x and above
  • Fixed issue where opening OOF message and saving it caused it to be corrupted
  • Addressed some autodiscovery issues
  • Fixed a bug in authentication to perform proper encoding of user id and password, should address issue of long userids and passwords failing authentication
  • Tablet version now has the option in Email options to open emails in conversation mode
  • (Non-tablet UIs ONLY) New option in Email options screen to open messages as conversations always. When this is done, touchdown uses the thread-id (not always reliable in modes other than activesync against E2010) to identify conversations and open a new conversation view similar to SMS, allowing to quickly repl-all in the thread. You can also click on any item in the conversation to open the full view of the item. Very useful for quick replies, but also gives you the option to open the full email with one additional click.
  • When using a pcf file to perform configuration, touchdown was not correctly detecting the tdpreferences.xml file
  • When encryption was turned on, filtering contacts on category was not working
  • Check box on email list turns on ONLY when on tap-up, and not when tapping down in preparation for a scroll
  • Deleting items from Draft folder handled better
  • Now displays total count against Draft Folder
  • Changed names of wakelocks to more accurately reflect which lock is taking up time.
  • Fixed issue where typing in contact name was not including middle name in display name

Version 7.0.0012 (Monday, 2nd May 2011)

Change List This update incorporates the following

  • Fixed issue with some devices where html and text attachments with a space in the file name would not open up
  • Exporting pcf allowed now even when SD card encryption is turned on
  • Adding new event from agenda view did not set the start time correctly
  • Clear Search option in the search screen fixed.
  • When creating contact, middle name was not being added to display name
  • Fixed issue where if recipients dont have public key, encryption was not working correctly
  • Draft message was not preserving the sign and encrypt options
  • Tablet version now honors the "After delete go to" option for email list
  • If in manual sync mode, sync button is now shown on the top bar in honeycomb versions
  • Fixed issue where on Exchange 2007 connection mode, Fetch All wasnt working correctly
  • Fixed issue where weekly ocurrences for more than one day of the week were not syncing correctly to device
  • Added ExcludeImagesFromGallery option to the PCF settings
  • Fixed issue where .pcf file was not downloading from website
  • Fixed issue where the calendar working times slide when configuring using PCF
  • Fix for issue where Exchange 2007/2003 connection modes syncing doesnt work, and choose folders was broken
  • Fix for appointments from Hawaii being an hour ahead when DST was different
  • Task reminders were not shifting when marking task as completed.
  • Tablet version not popping up PIN when changing screens on idle time elapsing
  • Fixed an issue which was preventing embedded images from being shown on lotus traveler environments (though an unsupported scenario)
  • Recent button when selecting folder was including non-syncd folders which were selected earlier for move operations
  • Fix for draft messages not being sent as signed or encrypted
  • Battery life improvement fixes
  • Changed push timeouts to improve reliability
  • Fixed issues with Task completion
  • Fixed issue where recent folder list was including folders which are not sync'd when selecting
  • Reliability fixes for folder corruption
  • Fixed the Recent folders list disappearing periodically
  • Changed and enlarged the icon for expanding and collapsing folder lists, to make them taller and hence the lines thicker.
  • Changes in the S/MIME handling to support non-ascii characters like umlauts in email body
  • Fix in S/MIME encryption, where if a PIN was set, encrypted emails could not be sent
  • Localized versions beta available at http://nitrodesk.com/tddownloads/loc/nitroid-droid.apk, nitroid.apk and nitroid-honey.apk
  • Fix in viewmessage, where policies require disable copy/paste, on some OS versions, it was disabling scroll
  • Task marking as complete/incomplete should now reflect immediately
  • Cosmetic fixes in Honeycomb version
  • Changed the Folder selection dialog to prevent accidental taps on the folder when expanding or collapsing.
  • Fixed S/MIME handling so that if you select a PIN for the cert, it will prompt for PIN even if the timeout is set to 0
  • Fixed an error in day view where changing the zoom % caused the day view to show less hours than 24 unless closed and reopened
  • Autosaved or draft emails are now available in the Drafts folder. But these are not syncd to the server. That is impossible.
  • When unselecting or selecting folders for syncing from the setup advanced tab, now orphaned emails will be purged from the database.
  • Fix for unread count widget to exclude deleted and sent items
  • Security fixes for S/MIME processing attachments
  • Updated the android 2.x version to not hide some menu options such as the email compose button when used on honeycomb devices
  • Fixed issue where certain emails with a sequence of numbers would cause the message view to crash in Motorola devices
  • Changed the icons for some of the tablet screens
  • New option "Push in battery saver mode", which makes push less aggressive, in an attempt to prolong the timeouts from the server. If set, battery savings may be higher, but there is a possiblity of delayed messages if routers/network timeout unexpectedly.
  • TDPreference mechanism added to allow admins to customize touchdown behavior by placing configuration file on email IIS server
  • When switching profiles, failover server information is not cleared, causing issues when using any profile along with office365
  • Changes to fonts in task and calendar views
  • Fixed the repeated 451 failures when dealing with office365
  • Updated tab display for non-hdpi devices, such as nook (old tabs were unreadable)
  • Fixed sorting issue in contacts when data encryption is in force
  • Updated simpler rendering for agenda view
  • New Month box in calendar view in tablet which lets users navigate between days easier
  • Updated the Calendar view for tablets to change the selection mechanism for Agenda, Day/Week/Month
  • New increased timeout for configuration connections
  • Fixes for S/MIME receiving emails sometimes does not show certificate information
  • Contact detail view screen changed
  • Contact list view fastscroll implementation
  • Contact list view changed in tablet mode, shows photo, name and company only
  • Email view rendering changes
  • Email list view rendering changes
  • Changes to the email list view rendering, and new option to not show email summaries in email list view
  • Attachment names should now preserve spaces.
  • Additional option for S/MIME to turn on signing for every new email sent.
  • Fix for notification rule type selection being lost when editing rules which do both notification and color
  • Calendar history restriction MDM option was not working correctly
  • When performing MDM config, config is not autostarted until EULA is accepted
  • When creating events, reminder selection was one off
  • In message view, if the current message in question is not found, closes window
  • If policies prohibit PIN recovery, the options menu item will not be shown
  • Prevents app closing when composing message
  • Compose message autosave made more reliable
  • Default signature changed for Nook Color users
  • Notification had no space between From and sender name
  • Remote wipe now removes notifications as well.
  • Now any file with .p7m is treated as an s.mime attachment, not just smime.p7m
  • Now handles soft-deletes properly, helping keep the deletions in sync with server better
  • Fixed bug where in some cases, Maximum email download size policy was causing negative download sizes sent to server
  • Fixed bug in Tablet version which caused frequent force closes
  • Fixed bug where encrypted + signed messages sent from TouchDown was not being opened properly
  • Fixed bug where some weekly appointments were causing the calendar sync to hang in processing

Version 6.5.0002 (Monday, 2nd May 2011)

Change List This update incorporates the following

  • Support for Office 365 accounts
  • Better handling of server failover in clustered environments
  • Fix for re-sync happening when switching Droid Globals from GSM to CDMA or back
  • Unique PCF ID sent to server in HTTP UserAgent field
  • Support for sending/receiving S/MIME signed or encrypted messages
  • Support for setting S/MIME certificates in the last tab of settings, with optional PIN prompting before certificate usage
  • Support for easier selection of the Client certificate from any location in the SD card or internal storage
  • Fix for Exchange 2010's policy changes update causing sync to simply stop
  • Fix fof policy changes from the server causing TouchDown to re-sync the data repeatedly.
  • Folder changes causing loss of sync, and to cause a looping sync
  • Fixed contact edits so that in Activesync modes, changes are visible immediately even though changes may have not yet been made to the server
  • Fixed Network issues causing touchdown syncrhronization to hang and for push to not recover
  • GAL Search failing under some situations for Lotus Notes users when policies have changed.
  • When sending S/MIME encrypted emails, now have the ability to fetch the recipients public key from the activedirectory
  • Fixed issue with contact photo not updating to phone or deleted in phone when changed in touchdown
  • Reduced accidental PIN prompting when server sends policy update.
  • Fixed issue with bogus limits on email body truncation size for some servers
  • Notification rules now let you select the color of the email subject for certain rules
  • New ability to long-press an event you are invited to and respond as Accept/Decline/Tentative
  • File selection screen now starts at the SDCard folder and sorts files properly
  • Work Fax now sent to the device phone book
  • All encryption now performed with AES256
  • Calendar fixes for timezone issues and all day events showing on two days
  • Peak time fix for non US timezones where peak time setting is changed on pressing OK
  • Feature in contact view where you can click a button to see all emails/events for the selected contact (works only when encryption is not enabled)
  • Updated email list view to show highlighted unread items by default
  • Fixed scrolling issue when viewing large notes.
  • New Widget for showing unread email count
  • Bigger buttons in PIN entry screen
  • Appointment view now enables links to websites
  • New ability to long-press a .txt or .html file in attachments list and setting the content as the signature
  • New Hotkeys for common operations when using a device with a hard keyboard

Version 6.4.0002 (Thursday, 17th February 2011)

Change List This update incorporates the following

  • Fix for issue on certain mail servers which caused subject line to be garbled when sending emails from Touchdown

Version 6.4.0002 (Thursday, 17th February 2011)

Change List This update incorporates the following

  • Fix for issue on certain mail servers which caused subject line to be garbled when sending emails from Touchdown

Version 6.4.0000 (Tuesday, 15th February 2011)

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

  • Fixed issue where opening .eml with encoded headers were showing garbled header fields
  • Fixed issue where email from draft folder in exchange was not actually being sent.
  • Fixed issue with Samsung Galaxy S on T-Mobile where opening a contact fails to find contact when using exchange 2003 connection mode
  • Added line in diagnostic log for showing exchange server activesync version numbers
  • Fix for database corruption check optimizations
  • Changed rendering of contact items in contacts list
  • Icons updated on the home screen
  • Fix for enabling deletion of items from Deleted Items folder (now when deleting items in Deleted Items folder, it will be permanent)
  • Security fixes for configuration information stored in the database
  • Changed menu item ordering on contacts, tasks and notes lists
  • Increased reliability of PUSH email
  • Fixed bug where a VERY long subject line in a sent message causes it to be garbled on receiving side
  • Select All is now enabled when you are searching in email list
  • Rules are now included in settings backup and restore
  • fix for editing appts making the user owner of the appointment
  • FIX: End time when editing appt is shown in 12h clock even though the system is using 24hr clock
  • Ability to send and receive S/MIME signed email
  • Fix for tablet email view resetting when new emails come in
  • Fix for repeated PIN prompts, especially in tablet modes
  • new flag in calendar options to suppress tasks in agenda view
  • Pinch To Zoom on email list and contacts list
  • Ability to now verify signature on signed SMIME emails
  • New option "Active" in filters for tasks, which either have no start dates or with start dates of today and before, that are not complete
  • Changed Task Entry screen to automatically set start and due dates to today, and to ensure that if start date moves, due date is moved proportionately
  • Fixed issue where email contacts tasks notes and agenda scroll back to top when new items arrive
  • More options when long-pressing a task in the agenda view
  • NEW FOR E2010 : In last tab of TouchDown settings, you can now turn on "Enable SMS Sync". Once you do this, and outlook is restarted, you can, from Outlook 2010, send SMS messages through touchdown, which will use the device to send the SMS message to the specified recipient. This will also cause any newly arriving SMS message on the device to be sync'd to the inbox in Outlook
  • Ability to long-press a task in main touchdown screen and select the delete option
  • Changed task rendering to lowlight tasks that are either overdue, or completed
  • Added "Unflagged" option in the filter choices for email list
  • Added option in calendar options to show Overdue tasks at beginning
  • Agenda View and task view rendering changes
  • Fixed some potential performance issues with autosave causing issues when clicking Send on compose mail
  • Implemented mechanism to save off Device ID or generate one if not found, for the GTablet issue of missing IMEI number
  • Agenda view now shows tasks which are due on each date
  • Fixed bug in handling .csv file launching (changed mime type from application/csv to text/csv)
  • Turning on Recent option in the folder choice dialog in email list causes Choose Folders for Sync to show empty list
  • Now reminders due more than a day ago are ignored
  • Added option for honoring the background data setting for disabling and enabling comms based on that system flag
  • Support for gzip compressed communications from the server
  • Fixed issue where automatic update to phone book when contact is changed was not working
  • Fix for Multi-day All day events spanning the whole day in Day View of calendar

Version 6.2.0012 (Wednesday, 27th October 2010)

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

  • Bug where a password authentication failure from the server would cause sync issues
  • Added menu options for Tablets to choose folders when in vertical email view
  • Minor performance enhancements to reduce size of the blobs database
  • Fix for SD card wipe issues

Version 6.2.0003 (Thursday, 21th October 2010)

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

  • Bug where users in certain European timezones were unable to create events in TouchDown calendar
  • Bug where the home screen was showing tasks from farther into the future than current day and the next

Version 6.2.0001 (Wednesday, 20th October 2010)

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

  • Bug where repeating events created in a DST-honoring location would cause the ocurrences to be shifted when DST changes
  • UI polish for tablet devices
  • Hires icons and buttons for high dpi devices
  • Bug where .xlsm files were not being opened
  • Bug where returning to a compose screen from another, or from device sleep would fail to display the quoted email body.
  • Preserve recent option in folder selection screen
  • Added 2 days, 3, 4, 5, 6, w week in reminder options
  • Added icons for .doc and xls files
  • Links phone numbers etc now enabled in subject lines of appts, tasks and notes, as well as in the bodies of tasks and notes
  • Now the calendar view (day/week) scrolls down to the work hours automatically
  • Long-press on the email view (ONLY HTML MAIL) to enable copy mode. once enabled, swipe over text to copy
  • Added new items in Calendar Options screen to select the default fields for new appointments
  • PCF File export now includes the remote kill code as set in the template installation as well as SMS for remote wipe notification
  • PCF file now supports suppression code 240 for suppressing editing of the Remote Kill Code
  • Fix for saving/restoring signatures which are 127 characters long
  • Fixed an issue where in Exchange 2003 connections, contact downloading was interrupted due to a timeout
  • Fixed issue where deleting items from home screen wasn’t properly updating the notification status
  • Added INTENDEDSTATUS for calendar appointments, to suggest busy status for attendees
  • Check boxes in conversation view sub-items
  • Dismiss All button positioning in reminder list view
  • Pressing back button in settings now asks for confirmation (Android 2.x only)
  • Categorize button in edit contact, note and event views
  • Categories… button when creating editing tasks
  • Move option gone when viewing .eml attachments
  • Long press menu on contact now has Send Text option
  • Performance tweaks in database queries
  • Daily Recurring tasks enqueueing one day earlier
  • Better tree-based folder selection with a numb area on the right side
  • Notifications wont beep/light or speak if they happen in succession more than once every 10 seconds
  • Tries to send in HTML format even for EAS protocol 2.5 when the message is not a reply or forward
  • Possible fix for Kerio not able to create contacts, events and tasks without entering a description
  • Added possible fix for deletion of events not sending cancellation
  • Minor crash/lockup fixes
  • In widget and app main screen, now shows ONLY tasks which are due today or earlier, sorted in reverse order of due dates
  • Added context menu in email list for making tasks and events from emails
  • Added context menu items in home screen for Creating tasks and events and for editing tasks and events
  • Fix for Lotus appts which have timezone specified in them, expanding to a day earlier
  • New art for home screen buttons
  • Work for more efficient expansion of recurring envents
  • Potential fix for re-enqueueing recurring tasks
  • Fixed bug of duplicate contact in drop list
  • New option to show all day events in the calendar and universal widgets
  • Fixed universal widget to show up to 6 appts
  • Tasks in Widgets and home screen now can show the same filtered list as in main task list (new option in last tab of settings)
  • Long-pess tasks on home screen now has edit option
  • New Task filter option for Today or Overdue
  • Fix to not lose Contact2 fields through touchdown
  • Fix for calendar items not syncing when timezone is not set to a standard one.
  • Support for expand/collapse folders
  • Fix for X-AOL… issue in attachment names
  • Fixed Server search to enable search on even unsync’d folders
  • Fixed localization issues with European languages in HTC devices with unlocalized ROMs
  • New button in Email options to select the buttons to show in email view
  • Delete multiple messages did not update unread count in folder title.
  • Support for Brazilian Portuguese for exchange 2003 connection mode
  • Fixed issue where creating appts placed contact name in the invitation rather than contact email address
  • Dynamically expanding recurrences as you navigate the calendar
  • New option for different Polling interval during non-peak
  • Changed button layout on the ViewMessage screen, shows more buttons on landscape mode (NOTE: in portrait mode, there is only a single REPLY button, which pops up a choice of whether to reply, reply all or Forward)
  • Created 4X4 as well as 3X2 widgets for email, contacts and calendar
  • Context menu items for emails on the home screen
  • 4X1 Widget for upcoming events
  • potential fix for issue with exchange 2007 non sp2 not showing email bodies.
  • Fix issue with show next 100 in the contacts list not showing sometimes
  • Widget update (Email, calendar and Task widgets) now changed to 4X3 sizes
  • Fix for date localization breakage in 2.2 for Desire in Europe.
  • Fix for backgrounds of list controls not showing highlights (HTC Blaze)
  • appointment reminders were causing exceptions and failing to fire
  • Changed background of create event screen
  • issue where the “show next 200” button was not showing up in email list view sometimes
  • Multi day appts were showing only on first day on agenda
  • Clock icon is shown for appts whose reminders are still pending
  • Badge on notification icon with new email count
  • New Search Option under Menu button in calendar view
  • Fixed min complex rule to ensure that the user enters min non-letters as specified
  • If you view a message in sent items which had a very large to list, now it shows only up to 3 lines in the header, earlier it was making the header too large, eating up space
  • If you want confirmation for pressing send button, you can now go to email options and turn on the "Confirm for send button on compose"
  • Fixed the PIN handling for "minimum complex" rule. Minimum complex now requires true complex characters, not letters or digits
  • New button at the bottom of diagnostics to copy contents to clipboard
  • Disable softinput when entering the settings and diagnostics screen
  • When soft input is active, pressing Send button will require confirmation before the email is sent
  • When typing into the to/cc boxes, we customize the IME with a done button which closes the keyboard, and tailored towards entering email addresses easier
  • Issue where moving between emails was not updating the content of the popup recipient lists
  • Fixed issues with profile switching not working sometimes
  • Fixed colors on day and week views when you touch an appt
  • Fix for TouchDown opening and immediately closing due to corrupt databases
  • Fix for duplicates appearing on Incredible contact list
  • Exchange 2010 users can now press Menu/Availability when creating an appt to see other users free busy information (if they are from the same company of course)
  • Notes support completely implemented for Exchange 2010 Activesync users
  • Fixed DroidX issue with Universal Widget getting chopped off on the left side
  • Fixed an issue where task filters and sorting was not preserved
  • Deleting a profile was failing if you delete an empty profile, and also not deleting the databases and attachments for the profile, both fixed
  • Pressing Search hardware button on Calendar, tasks and Notes will now open search box
  • Fixed issue with embedded images not showing automatically when SD card encryption is in effect
  • Setting in last tab to select the name format to use when copying contact to the phone (F/MI/L , L/F/MI, FileAs)
  • Email list : show gray background for read emails (under Menu/Options, select "HighLight Unread emails")
  • Email search : sort search results when showing
  • Show date when viewing calendar event
  • Show time on all emails of previous days
  • Contacts : add appts from contact (When viewing contact, press Menu/Create meeting) only for contacts with email address
  • When performing search in touchdown, sort emails by received date
  • Send and cancel buttons docked to the bottom on composing emails
  • Option to request read receipts and delivery confirmations (press menu/options when composing)

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
    Note that the OOF text can be HTML.

    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.
    Note that not all the attachments can be viewed on your G1. By default, you should be able to open pictures, sounds and text or html files. If you have a PDF viewer installed, .pdf files can also be viewed.
    Please note that on Exchange Server 2007, loading unusually large attachments can cause an error.
    Gotcha: At this time it is not possible to show the size of the attachment before it is downloaded.

    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.