Here is Proper instructions to Set up Hot Mail for your Phone: b33
To setup Hotmail on your DROID RAZR once you have already set-up your phone, follow directions below. If you are adding Hotmail account during your phone's initial startup, skip down to Set-up account menu (Instruction #3).
- Open Applications tray, touch My Accounts
- Select Add Account
- You will be at the Set-Up accounts menu with several other social network icons.
- Select Email icon
- Enter your full Hotmail email address, including "@hotmail.com" domain name in all lower case.
- Enter Hotmail password.
- Leave Automatically configure account checked.
- Tap on Next. phone will connect to your email server and state "Success!" if account was set-up correctly.
Your account is now set-up. Please test sending and receiving an email.
If you are having issues sending email from Hotmail after set-up, edit the Hotmail account Outgoing server settings, uncheck Use secure server and change the outgoing port from 25 to 587. (Use 587 for sending/outgoing settings with Wi-Fi )
- You should be able to send Hotmail email on port 25 if you are not on Wi-Fi .
During the connection, you may be asked to complete a manual set-up if your email provider is not recognized, your email address/password is incorrect, or if your email provider has restrictions on mobile email set-up. Please check with your email provider to obtain all the information above. You will need your POP3 or IMAP port and server settings to complete a Manual set-up. If you have this information ready, proceed to next section regarding Manual setup.
If prompted for manual setup, touch Manual setup. You can also get into manual setup by unchecking Automatically configure account after you entered your email address and password.
- Touch General Settings, confirm information in all General Settings fields are correct. Make any necessary changes, then select OK to exit this menu.
- Touch Incoming Server.
- Select POP Mail Server
- Enter POP3 server - pop3.live.com
- Activate check on Use Secure connection and Verify Certificate
- Enter Port 995
- Enter / Confirm your Username (complete email address including the @hotmail.com)
- Enter / Confirm your Hotmail Password
- Tap on OK
- Select Outgoing Server
- Enter SMTP server - smtp.live.com
- Do not check Use Secure connection, but check Verify Certificate
- Enter Port - 587 (or 25 when Non-Wi-Fi)
- Enter or just confirm your Username (complete email address including the @hotmail.com) if already displayed
- Enter or just confirm your Hotmail Password if already displayed.
- Tap on OK
- Tap on Other Settings
- Select length of time messages will be kept on phone. (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, Never Delete Messages)
- Tap on OK
- Tap on OK again to submit Hotmail set-up.
Your account is now set-up. Please test sending and receiving an email.
- If you are having issues sending email from Hotmail after set-up, edit the Hotmail account Outgoing server settings, uncheck Use secure server and change the outgoing port from 25 to 587
- You should be able to send Hotmail email on port 25 if you are not on Wi-Fi. If you are using Wi-Fi, use outgoing port 587.
***You can also bookmark the Hotmail Web Brower internet address into your DROID RAZR for full Hotmail functionality and access to your personal folders at http://mobile.live.com
Hotmail, Live, and MSN email accounts now supports CorpSync connection for email accounts.
You can get your email, calendar, and contacts pushed automatically to your phone using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). EAS keeps everything in sync between your phone and Hotmail, so whatever you do on your phone, like delete an email, add an appointment, or update one of your contacts with a new number, will also be reflected on the web, and vice-versa.
- From the home screen, touch Apps
> My Accounts > Add Account > Corporate Sync - Enter your email address and password.
- Enter the following settings:
| Field | Setting |
Domain | Leave this blank |
Password | Enter you password |
User name | youremail@hotmail.com, youremail@msn.com, youremail@live.com |
Use Secure Connection | Enable |
Proxy | Leave Blank |
| Server | m.hotmail.com |
- After the account has been validated, go to Settings > Accounts, look for the new account that was just created; it will have the same name of the account that was used to start this setup process.
- Select the correct account name; then tap on General Settings and change the account name to the correct name for your Exchange account followed by tapping on OK.
Transfer Hotmail contacts to your phone
To transfer Hotmail contacts to your phone:
Export your Hotmail Contacts
- Sign in to your Hotmail account.
- Click the Contacts tabs.
- Click the Print view.
- Align the cursor with the first letter of the 'Name' column.
- Highlight your contacts by holding down the cursor and dragging it down the list.
- Hold down the 'ctrl + c' keys to copy the list.
- Open Microsoft Excel (or a similar spreadsheet program that supports comma separated values).
- Select cell A1 in Excel (the top square on the left side).
- Hold down the 'ctrl + v' keys to paste.(Note: Do not use 'Paste Special' command.)
- Select File > Save as and type 'CSV (Comma delimited).' (Note: Make a note of where you saved the file.)
Import Contacts into Google Gmail:
- Log on to Gmail, and then click Contacts at the top of the page
- The Contacts list opens in a new window
- Click Import Contacts
- Click Browse, and then navigate to the .csv file that you created in the "Export Outlook Contacts" section of this article
- Select the file, and then click Import Contacts
- After your contacts are imported, a dialog box appears and displays the total number of contacts imported
Import to your phone:
- On your phone, from the Home screen, press the Menu key
- Touch Settings
- Touch Accounts
- Select your Google account marked with a "G" icon
- Make sure Sync contacts is checked with green checkmark.
- To immedately sync contacts, press Menu button, tap Sync Now
- Your phone will now sync and transfer your contacts from Gmail to your phone
