Any luck setting up iCloud on Android?

Thanks Panerai36 🙂 Can you confirm if Push works with these settings? Or does the phone just check at selected times for new mail etc?

Also, how does the phone sync new contacts and iCal entries with the computer?

No push, the phone checks every 15min. I haven't got it to sync on my computer for contests and iCal yet. But I'm working on it.

Thanks Panerai. If it doesn't work an Android phone is a no go for me 😢

Hi Panerai,

Thankyou for your post. I know you probably didnt mean it to be so helpful but the outgoing mail server and the no security settings you used just brought my 5 hours slog with mobileme/icloud to an end. You have been more helpful in one post than apple senior technical support were over a 90 minute phone call.

Thankyou!

No problem guys.... Trust me I was about to give up and go back to my boring, small, slow iPhone. But after a few hours it was success! 🙂 I hope the new iPhone has big changes otherwise Ill stay with Android.

Hi helosk,

My story was the same as yours, I spent over an hour on the phone to apple technical support who kept passing me on to more senior advisors, eventually I was given a link to this page: <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864?viewlocale=en_US> which states the servers and settings to be used in order to get iCloud/MobileMe mail working on 'your device' this didnt work either for my mac or my Galaxy nexus. After much investigation, I found that the imap address I was allocated was 'p04-imap.mail.me.com' by setting mail up with my account on a different computer running Lion. I am running leopard, sadly, on mine. I was able to set up the email on my computer using this. I had to select it as an 'IMAP' email account when setting it up instead of a 'MobileMe' account and manually input all of the servers and settings.

I have now managed to get iCloud/MobileMe email working on my galaxy nexus. As others have mentioned, push email is not supported with iCloud on andriod, but pull seems to work fine for me as my primary email adress is a Gmail account which works absolutely seemlessly in ICS 4.0.2. The settings I am using for iCloud are as follows:

Incoming Settings:

Username: xxxx@mac.com

Password: New iCloud compliant password (capital letter, number etc.)

IMAP server: p04-imap.mail.me.com

Port:993

Security Type: SSL/TLS

Outgoing Settings

SMTP Server: smtp.me.com

Port: 587

Security Type: None

Require sign-in: YES (tick)

Username: xxxx@mac.com

Password: New iCloud compliant password (as above)

I have tested both incoming and outgoing mail and they both work fine. I have not experienced any problems so far, however, I have only just managed to get it working. I suggest you find out which pXX number you are allocated as I know mine is p04. I found mine out from mail on a different computer, I don't know how else you could find this?...

I hope this will help to solve the problem for anyone out there experiencing the same issues. If anyone reading this has only a @me.com email address, changing the usernames above to @me.com should not cause a problem, but I can only guess at this being as I used .mac mail when it was first rolled out and so @mac.com is my original email address.

Thanks for your patience in reading this long reply but I hope it helps!

I think you made the right choice my friend! 🙂

I used to be all for apple, now I have turned and joined the Google rebellion! 😉 and not just because google are getting better, but because apple, as far as i'm concerned have completely drop the ball. Not only in terms of build quality and what you get for your money in terms of pure power, but also with customer service. I have been left out in the cold on more than one occasion by even managers both in store and over the phone.

If you compare a top range android phone to the likes of the iphone 4s, the google phone specs. win EVERY TIME! the software side of things may not be as polished but i deffinately prefer it!

Now I have everything working on my nexus, I cant see myself turning back!

Markoustic, when you say "Pull" I'm guessing that means it just checks for new Mail at set intervals, right?

Also, you all seem to finally be having some luck with Mail. But what about iCal and Contacts?

If you enter a new iCal entry or new Contact on your phone, how does that then sync with your Mac - and vice versa?

If you all can't already tell, I'm also desperate to leave the Apple bandwagon. I've been a Pro User for nigh on 10 years and I've just seen their attention and customer service detriorate 😠

There are 2 interesting apps on the play store to sync contacts and calendars with iCoud. I have been using them for 4 months and they work great.

I have pull email, daily sync of my contacts and calendar.

I am really happy with my setup and being able to marry my galaxy note with my cloud services is a huge deal for me.

Thanks Max. What are they called?

Emails I would need to be Pulled often as I need constant contact due to my business.

Calender and Contacts being synced once aday is no problem though.

How do you guys find putting music and films on via iTunes?

Hi Alpesh,

Yes that is what I mean. Your phone will check for emails at the intervals you set and pull new emails down from the server.

As to the iCal and Contacts, I stopped using the mac services because I could not get them to work properly. I now use Google services for these instead which intergrate seemlessly with ICS. However Max seems to be onto something with these applications. Do you know the names of them max?

I completely agree with you there! I am in the same situation. Had every model of computer up until they rolled out the intel computers, since then we've bought every other model alongside 3 macbooks and not even going to count the numbers of ipods, iphones and ipads we've bought. Apple seems to have no interest in rewarding customer loyalty or even providing support for computers or products that they built if applecare wasn't purchased with them! I dont believe we should have to buy applecare to get the product repaired or replaced, as long as the issue is a manufacturing issue and is not caused by damage to the product by other means.

Look for Marten Gajda on the Play Store.

The guy is pretty quick responding on witter too in case you have questions.

After exhausting all of these, I found what worked for my setup:

HTC Incredible

iCloud

K9

IMAP:

username: xxxxxx (NO @me.com, NO @mac.com)

password

p02-imap.mail.me.com

SSL (always)

Authentication type: PLAIN

Port 993

IMAP path prefix: leave blank. (Ghosted, it already reads, "Automatic using NAMESPACE if available")

Checked these boxes: Mobile, Wi-Fi

Panerai36 wrote:

Here is what worked for my Galaxy Note....

user name without @.com

imap.mail.me.com

SSL

port 993

smtp.me.com

security type none

port 587

require sign

user name without@.com

smtp.me.com is incorrect, post back when your outging mail stops working.

Hi Csound1,

I thought the same thing when I set mine up, however it seems to be working just fine using this server from both mail in mac and my phone. They can both send and receive emails without any problems, for the time being at least. As far as I can see, if it is working now it should continue working for the foreseeable future, or until Apple 'in their superior wisdom' decide to change things once again!