diff --git a/src/com/android/exchange/AbstractSyncService.java b/src/com/android/exchange/AbstractSyncService.java
index d06793842..59dc58b16 100644
--- a/src/com/android/exchange/AbstractSyncService.java
+++ b/src/com/android/exchange/AbstractSyncService.java
@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ public abstract class AbstractSyncService implements Runnable {
         }
     }
 
+    public void userLog(Exception e) {
+        if (Eas.FILE_LOG) {
+            FileLogger.log(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Standard logging for EAS.
      * If user logging is active, we concatenate any arguments and log them using Log.d
diff --git a/src/com/android/exchange/EasSyncService.java b/src/com/android/exchange/EasSyncService.java
index 2afc036c1..b22d2c81c 100644
--- a/src/com/android/exchange/EasSyncService.java
+++ b/src/com/android/exchange/EasSyncService.java
@@ -1025,7 +1025,8 @@ public class EasSyncService extends AbstractSyncService {
             userLog("Caught IOException: ", ((message == null) ? "" : message));
             mExitStatus = EXIT_IO_ERROR;
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            Log.e(TAG, "Uncaught exception in EasSyncService", e);
+            Log.e(TAG, "Uncaught exception in EasSyncService" + e);
+            userLog(e);
         } finally {
             if (!mStop) {
                 userLog(mMailbox.mDisplayName, ": sync finished");
diff --git a/src/com/android/exchange/adapter/AbstractSyncParser.java b/src/com/android/exchange/adapter/AbstractSyncParser.java
index 45c23e429..2a323cf8d 100644
--- a/src/com/android/exchange/adapter/AbstractSyncParser.java
+++ b/src/com/android/exchange/adapter/AbstractSyncParser.java
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractSyncParser extends Parser {
                         // Make this a push box through the first sync
                         // TODO Make frequency conditional on user settings!
                         mMailbox.mSyncInterval = Mailbox.CHECK_INTERVAL_PUSH;
-                        mService.errorLog("Bad sync key; RESET and delete contacts");
+                        mService.errorLog("Bad sync key; RESET and delete data");
                         wipe();
                         // Indicate there's more so that we'll start syncing again
                         moreAvailable = true;
diff --git a/src/com/android/exchange/utility/FileLogger.java b/src/com/android/exchange/utility/FileLogger.java
index 9c305d2d5..c5f463546 100644
--- a/src/com/android/exchange/utility/FileLogger.java
+++ b/src/com/android/exchange/utility/FileLogger.java
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ import android.content.Context;
 
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.Date;
 
 public class FileLogger {
     private static FileLogger LOGGER = null;
     private static FileWriter mLogWriter = null;
     public static String LOG_FILE_NAME = "/sdcard/emaillog.txt";
-    private static Object mLock = new Object();
 
     public synchronized static FileLogger getLogger (Context c) {
         LOGGER = new FileLogger();
@@ -34,12 +34,10 @@ public class FileLogger {
     }
 
     private FileLogger() {
-        synchronized (mLock) {
-            try {
-                mLogWriter = new FileWriter(LOG_FILE_NAME, true);
-            } catch (IOException e) {
-                // Doesn't matter
-            }
+        try {
+            mLogWriter = new FileWriter(LOG_FILE_NAME, true);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            // Doesn't matter
         }
     }
 
@@ -54,6 +52,15 @@ public class FileLogger {
         }
     }
 
+    static public synchronized void log(Exception e) {
+        if (mLogWriter != null) {
+            log("Exception", "Stack trace follows...");
+            PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(mLogWriter);
+            e.printStackTrace(pw);
+            pw.flush();
+        }
+    }
+
     @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
     static public synchronized void log(String prefix, String str) {
         if (LOGGER == null) {
@@ -87,14 +94,12 @@ public class FileLogger {
         sb.append("\r\n");
         String s = sb.toString();
 
-        synchronized (mLock) {
-            if (mLogWriter != null) {
-                try {
-                    mLogWriter.write(s);
-                    mLogWriter.flush();
-                } catch (IOException e) {
-                    // Doesn't matter
-                }
+        if (mLogWriter != null) {
+            try {
+                mLogWriter.write(s);
+                mLogWriter.flush();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                // Doesn't matter
             }
         }
     }