Android: Setup Hotmail as Push Email Using Exchange ActiveSync
Posted by Rob Rogers in Android
If you want to get away from the limitations of POP3 and enjoy instant notification for your Windows Live Hotmail account (plus sync your calendar and contacts as well), setting up your Android device is quite simple.
1. Using your Android device, select the Email application.
2. If it is the first time using the app, it will automatically begin the steps for setting up a new account, if not, tap the Menu button and select Accounts. Tap the Menu button again and select Add account.
3. In the first textbox, input your hotmail.com or live.com email address. In the second textbox, input your account’s password. Select the Manual setup button.
4. Select the Exchange button.
5. In Domain\Username textbox, input a backslash (\) followed by your email address (again). You will not use a domain.
6. Input the account’s password in the Password textbox.
7. Input m.hotmail.com in the Server textbox.
8. Check both the Use secure connection (SSL) and Accept all SSL certificates checkboxes.
9. Select the Next button.
10. Use the Email checking frequency dropdown and select Automatic (Push).
11. Set the other options to your liking and then select the Next button.
12. Input a name for your account and select the Done button.
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June 04, 2011 at 5:59 am, Anonymous said:
Will this work on HTC Desire S ? and with gmail account ?
June 06, 2011 at 6:24 pm, Taylor Wimberly said:
Gmail has its own native app. There is no need to use this method with a Gmail account.
August 25, 2011 at 5:53 pm, Vernand J Glaser said:
Worked great! Thank you! I had spent most of one day working with several email accounts that I have trying to get one of them to click. Even my Gmail account didn’t work.
September 13, 2011 at 9:34 pm, J876 said:
Thankyou for this guide, this is fantastic. Why don’t Microsoft tell hotmail users how to do this in their help files/knowlege base?
October 01, 2011 at 3:37 am, Sam said:
I did exactly what was recommend and it worked fine until Sep 21st. than it stopped suddenly
any solution will be appreciated
best
Sam
April 10, 2012 at 9:54 pm, Danish Backer said:
Worked