Gmail apps vs email app - XPERIA X10 General

I actually prefer to use the email app. Problem is, the email app doesn't seem to download updates until I open it (even with it on ignore in Task MGR). Email app set to download every 10 mins. The Gmail app, however, seems to auto download updates.
Any seen or know of a solution?

kud0s said:
I actually prefer to use the email app. Problem is, the email app doesn't seem to download updates until I open it (even with it on ignore in Task MGR). Email app set to download every 10 mins. The Gmail app, however, seems to auto download updates.
Any seen or know of a solution?
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The Gmail app supports push notifications, which means as soon as you get an email, you'll get it on your phone. But with the email app, it resorts to polling (checking for new messages every 10 minutes) so it refreshes only when you open it

Lucky you, but my gmail app doesn't do anything. I feel that its always off since I don't get any email notification on ie.

Makes sense. I just like the look of the email app better, but I guess u need to stick with gmail for the push ability.

Nimche said:
Lucky you, but my gmail app doesn't do anything. I feel that its always off since I don't get any email notification on ie.
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Go to Settings in the Gmail app and make sure that Email Notifications is checked. That's the whole point of using Gmail compared to Hotmail/Yahoo.. (atleast for now)

It annoys me how you can't select multiples in th stock app. I use K9, it has colours (including led flash) for each account, push, and most importantly, multiple select.
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Can the SE email app be removed without causing any problems?

pngface said:
Go to Settings in the Gmail app and make sure that Email Notifications is checked. That's the whole point of using Gmail compared to Hotmail/Yahoo.. (atleast for now)
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It is checked but I don't get any notification. Sorry to hijack the thread but let me know if you guys have any soluition to this,.
Cheers,

Nimche said:
It is checked but I don't get any notification. Sorry to hijack the thread but let me know if you guys have any soluition to this,.
Cheers,
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What about in Settings/Data Sync - I think you need Google Sync, and then Google Mail Sync selected too.

settings ---> data synchronization ---> synchronize with Gmail

right, I forgot to check that back after the 100th times of rooting.
Thank you,

sskeleton said:
settings ---> data synchronization ---> synchronize with Gmail
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nice one thx thats fixed my issue didnt even have to ask lol

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GMail Notifications

Not sure if there is a way to change this but the same thing happens on both my and my wife's G1. If I get an email to my gmail account I get the notification like I'm supposed to, but only the initial email from any given mail chain gives me a notification. If I reply to it, and they reply back again I receive no notification.
I've checked the settings and I see no way to change this. Am I missing something or is there nothing I can do about it?
Are you coming all the way out of them mail when you have read it, (pressing the back button till at homescreen)???
Additionally what ROM are you using is it stock or modded??
I've stopped using the default GMail app the moment I discovered K9 Mail.
Dantehman said:
Are you coming all the way out of them mail when you have read it, (pressing the back button till at homescreen)???
Additionally what ROM are you using is it stock or modded??
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Yes, I am backing all the way out. I am using the G1 as is, no mods, ROMs and not rooted.
Chahk said:
I've stopped using the default GMail app the moment I discovered K9 Mail.
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I tried K9, set it up with my gmail addy but got no notification at all when I sent an email to my address to test it out.
Does K9 not give notifications?
Sock Monkey said:
I tried K9, set it up with my gmail addy but got no notification at all when I sent an email to my address to test it out.
Does K9 not give notifications?
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It definitely does for me.
Chahk said:
It definitely does for me.
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Hmm, I must have missed something. I'll check it out again.
I have the same problem, after I've had my first notification I dont get anymore until I've cleared the top bar notification. I would like a way to get a notification with every email even if I've not cleared the last one.
I've switched to the HTC exchange app which does notify you with every email however I dont really like that mail as much as the gmail one.
Can anyone help?

Consolidate email and auto power off/on

Is there a way to have all your email accounts show up in one spot or an app that does it for you? Also on my BB8330 there was an auto turn off/on feature that turned your phone off at a certain time and back on again at a designated time. Does the Hero have the same capability or an app? Sorry for all the questions.
dsgb73 said:
Is there a way to have all your email accounts show up in one spot or an app that does it for you? Also on my BB8330 there was an auto turn off/on feature that turned your phone off at a certain time and back on again at a designated time. Does the Hero have the same capability or an app? Sorry for all the questions.
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You can connect just about any emai account to the 'Mail' application that you have, you don't have to check g-mail through the gmail app. If you use the Mail app you just have to change the IMAPI settings on the gmail website.
Auto on and Off like a BB? - Never used it when I had one. Seemed kinda pointless lol.
Kcarpenter said:
You can connect just about any emai account to the 'Mail' application that you have, you don't have to check g-mail through the gmail app. If you use the Mail app you just have to change the IMAPI settings on the gmail website.
Auto on and Off like a BB? - Never used it when I had one. Seemed kinda pointless lol.
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I'm pretty sure he was talking about a unified inbox, like what is possible on the Blackberry. I'm not sure if that can be done or not. There is this great feature on the Market though, it's called "Search". It's amazing.
honda931 said:
I'm pretty sure he was talking about a unified inbox, like what is possible on the Blackberry. I'm not sure if that can be done or not. There is this great feature on the Market though, it's called "Search". It's amazing.
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Ahhh I see - You could just have all your accounts FWD'd to another single account....
Doesn't one of the 2.0+ ROMs have a mail client with a unified inbox?
Kcarpenter said:
Ahhh I see - You could just have all your accounts FWD'd to another single account....
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Like the gmail account you need to use the phone
Then you have a unified inbox, separate inboxes via labels, a favorites folder across all inboxes using the starred feature, and battery saving push mail alerts. Other than Exchange I see no reason to use the actual mail app as it's inferior.
Blackberry users need to realize Gmail = BIS, without the 7% downtime.
gbhil said:
Like the gmail account you need to use the phone
Then you have a unified inbox, separate inboxes via labels, a favorites folder across all inboxes using the starred feature, and battery saving push mail alerts. Other than Exchange I see no reason to use the actual mail app as it's inferior.
Blackberry users need to realize Gmail = BIS, without the 7% downtime.
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Only 7%? Let's be honest now.
Kcarpenter said:
Only 7%? Let's be honest now.
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Heh. I forgot the native contact and calendar sync in my list. And I quote the 7% figure from RIM. They claim an average of 93% uptime and seem proud of that ptitful figure lol. No need for me to kick them while they are down

Timescape update problem

i'm having trouble with my timescape app and it's driving me nuts ~~ when i turn the phone on ~ it'll show the latest news ie facebook miscall whatever on my main screen, and it'll stay there forever. what i mean is it won't change/update to another one even though it's newer. example, someone changes their status on facebook. it'll show that on my homescreen. 1 day later it'll still show the same one, with the exact same time stamp like 5mins ago 1hr ago etc etc.. how do i get it to change? the only way i can get it to gurantee change is turn off and turn back on the phone again. it's driving me nuts
wai_lai416 said:
i'm having trouble with my timescape app and it's driving me nuts ~~ when i turn the phone on ~ it'll show the latest news ie facebook miscall whatever on my main screen, and it'll stay there forever. what i mean is it won't change/update to another one even though it's newer. example, someone changes their status on facebook. it'll show that on my homescreen. 1 day later it'll still show the same one, with the exact same time stamp like 5mins ago 1hr ago etc etc.. how do i get it to change? the only way i can get it to gurantee change is turn off and turn back on the phone again. it's driving me nuts
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well if u have a task killer installed, then that is stopping the timescape from updating. jus add timescape as a exception to the task killer nd it'll work fine..
or just uninstall the task killer...
cheers
i'll give it a try thx
Hate to steal this thread but its appropriately titled for this inquiry as well. I just got my X10....finally, and I can't seem to get timescape to sync with my gmail?? I would assume this is possible. When I go into "set up services" only facebook and twitter are available options and when I go into "set up an email account" it says that I already have an account set up, which is my work email through hotmail that I do not want to sync with timescape. Any thoughts??
brunswick000 said:
Hate to steal this thread but its appropriately titled for this inquiry as well. I just got my X10....finally, and I can't seem to get timescape to sync with my gmail?? I would assume this is possible. When I go into "set up services" only facebook and twitter are available options and when I go into "set up an email account" it says that I already have an account set up, which is my work email through hotmail that I do not want to sync with timescape. Any thoughts??
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Unfortunately Gmail dose not comes for timescape, only emails setup through standard email client of X10 will display.
If you don't want mails that configured via so called standard email to display, simply in the timescape mode click settings and untick customize tiles and splines
I don't have a x10 yet, but I'm planning on buying.
This I don't really understand.
I have a gmail and a hotmailaccount, and I like to have both in Timescape.
That is not possible?
Can you explain to me what my options will be to set up both accounts on the x10?
Thx
you can get both email accounts on the phone but only ur hotmail account will show up on ur timescape which isn't really that big of a problem
Hi - You CAN have your gmail on timescape as well as any other mail accounts.. if you go into the standard mail program (NOT the Gmail one).. add you're Gmail account into there and it will start popping up in Timescape too... it'll have it's own icon too (little red envelope if I remember right).
Thx for both your answers!
Now I can get myself a x10, knowing that I'm doing the right thing!
cvchetan said:
well if u have a task killer installed, then that is stopping the timescape from updating. jus add timescape as a exception to the task killer nd it'll work fine..
or just uninstall the task killer...
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Yesterday my Timescape stop updating facebook, i don't know why. I have already uninstal task task panel, even i reset my phone to factory setting the problems still not fix. Can someone help... tks
After i read the new email thru timescape, new email icon still shown on notification bar.
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a quite related question here
could we import profile picture of facebook contact directly to phonebook contack?
phonebook contact can be link to facebook contact but I can't find a way to import profile picture
Use fbsync to sync pictures with facebook
tuxStyle said:
Use fbsync to sync pictures with facebook
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mind telling where to find this function fbsync?
chaki208 said:
After i read the new email thru timescape, new email icon still shown on notification bar.
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it will.. the notifications for email only clear when you clear them on the Notification bar
gaolinde said:
mind telling where to find this function fbsync?
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Search on the market for fbsync.
Is an application.

Samsung email app aint syncing my gmail

Hi, as title says, I have problem with provided application from samsung, while using premium accpunt, so my emails can be pushed to me... happened to me a second time, that its not getting any new messages for some reason, not even when I refresh it manualy... anyone has similar issue?
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Edit: When in settings I try to update incoming server settings, it asks me for password and email, after entering those it gets me 'An error occurred while sending data. please try again. (104)'
But my other account on LIVE works just perfectly, its just this gmail account that sometimes works sometimes doesnt...
Ok, seems nobody else is having a problem in here, so there must be something wrong with my security settings on gmail then..
Umm, why not use the Google-made Gmail app?
David Horn said:
Umm, why not use the Google-made Gmail app?
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I dont like it, you also cannot get hotmail/live/any other mail into it, I dont like the look of it, and it lacks push notifications...
Tried K9 mail, looks better, but doesnt have the Push either...

[Q] Galaxy S4 Stock Email App. So many flaws?

Got my new Galaxy S4. What is up with the email app? are you able to have it push email? i dont want it to poll every 5 minutes, i need my emails instantly...
I turned on sync in the email app, which apparently this is not push, anyways, throughout the day when i open the email app i get a popup saying email sync disabled. Why?
Can anyone confirm that the search function works?? I have my email set up as an imap account, whenever i want to search something in my email i get 0 results, and if i hit the search on server, it does not bring up anything either. This happens with all my email accounts on my phone, and my wife's accounts on her GS4. Any idea why??
I have a rooted S4, not using a custom rom. I have tried K9 email but it is just plain ugly. I actually like how the stock email app looks but nothing works!
I searched all over the internet and i dont see anything on most of these issues so im assuming im doing something wrong if nobody else is talking about this. Please, any help would be awesome. My wife wants her iphone back because of this.
I use the stock email app with no issues. I have it set to recieve from my work exchange account, my outlook and gmail accounts. All are push, and all of mine are searchable with no issues.
You may try erasing the account, and then resetting it. I know my outlook account is also an exchange server, but the gmail I think is IMAP. All mine have the check box "sync email" checked, and I set all to push notifications. Be sure you are setting up the account in the email app itself, that may help.
aawshads said:
I use the stock email app with no issues. I have it set to recieve from my work exchange account, my outlook and gmail accounts. All are push, and all of mine are searchable with no issues.
You may try erasing the account, and then resetting it. I know my outlook account is also an exchange server, but the gmail I think is IMAP. All mine have the check box "sync email" checked, and I set all to push notifications. Be sure you are setting up the account in the email app itself, that may help.
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Where do you see the email push setting? only see sync, and whenever i turn on sync, i get a popup a few hours later when i open the app that sync has been disabled. Even when i enable sync, it gives me the option for sync schedule for at most every 15 minutes.
As far as the search, i use godaddy imap and yahoo. I cant search anything out of what is showing when i open the app. It shows me default of i think 25 emails when i open the app and if i scroll to the bottom it starts to load more. When i do a search, it only searches through what is loaded and when i do continue searching on server i get nothing more. The only results is what is in the 25 loaded messages, or 50 messages if i scroll down at let it load more...
crammer04 said:
I searched all over the internet and i dont see anything on most of these issues so im assuming im doing something wrong if nobody else is talking about this. Please, any help would be awesome. My wife wants her iphone back because of this.
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The email app on the iphone is far better than the stock email app on the SGS4. I think the stock email app on the SGS4 is utter crap, at least with IMAP. Maybe it works better with exchange. I use Kaiten, which is an upgraded/updated version of K9. Another one that I looked at briefly was AquaMail.
GeorgeP said:
The email app on the iphone is far better than the stock email app on the SGS4. I think the stock email app on the SGS4 is utter crap, at least with IMAP. Maybe it works better with exchange. I use Kaiten, which is an upgraded/updated version of K9. Another one that I looked at briefly was AquaMail.
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The thing is i actually really like the email app on the GS4. I think the layout is nice and the email app is one of the few times i actually feel that the air view feature is really useful. The problem is, is that it is not reliable. I need my emails instantly and the email app is not getting it for me. I just figured out the search problem i was having. If i just change in the settings messages to load from 25 to "total" all of my messages will be there and search is fine. I still wish there is a way to have my emails come instantly rather than every 15 minutes. Aside from the push issue, what else do you dislike about the stock app that the other apps have? The only thing i noticed on the iphone is the push option...
GeorgeP said:
The email app on the iphone is far better than the stock email app on the SGS4. I think the stock email app on the SGS4 is utter crap, at least with IMAP. Maybe it works better with exchange. I use Kaiten, which is an upgraded/updated version of K9. Another one that I looked at briefly was AquaMail.
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on the app go to settings, tap on the account, then on Sync Schedule, set it to Push.
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on the app go to settings, tap on the account, then on Sync Schedule, set it to Push.
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You must be talking about an exchange account. You don't have that option with IMAP.
I dont see the push option, here is what i see
aawshads said:
on the app go to settings, tap on the account, then on Sync Schedule, set it to Push.
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I dont see the option for push, this is what i get-
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crammer04 said:
Aside from the push issue, what else do you dislike about the stock app that the other apps have? The only thing i noticed on the iphone is the push option...
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Four major issues are (and there are other minor issues):
- Lack of IMAP IDLE (push)
- When you reply to someones message, the text in their message is reformatted in your reply (font changes and line spacing changes). Looks unprofessional for work email.
- html hyperlinks are sometimes not properly parsed and are unclickable. I get a news service hyperlinks to articles. None of the hyperlinks work on the stock email client. I have to forward the message to gmail or something to click on the hyperlinks.
- emails sent from stock email client do not sync properly and have a different format on my outlook client.
Kaiten has none of these problems. These are not problems with the iphone app either.
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You must be talking about an exchange account. You don't have that option with IMAP.
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plus, to update on the syncing being disabled. I set the sync to on, reboot my phone, opened the mail app and i get the pop up that says sync disabled. I open the settings and the sync option is no longer checked.
Just tried Kaiten...It was downloading so many copies of my emails. It showed each email at least 4 times...uninstalled...
They are correct, the one I looked at was my Outlook.com email address, and my work address. The gmail address shows the same thing as yours.
I guess the news hasn't gotten around fully. Gmail accounts to do not support push with anything other than the native stock android gmail app anymore (since, when exactly, I don't remember. March or April of this year?). In that particular case, it's not the fault of the Samsung email app. No other app besides the official "gmail" app will receive emails by push from a gmail account, and that includes any email applications on any other system from iphone to any other operating system. Blame gmail.
The only thing I miss by using the stock email app is that I can't get it to come up in the combined inbox by default...I have to select it each time which is a bummer.
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I guess the news hasn't gotten around fully. Gmail accounts to do not support push with anything other than the native stock android gmail app anymore (since, when exactly, I don't remember. March or April of this year?). In that particular case, it's not the fault of the Samsung email app. No other app besides the official "gmail" app will receive emails by push from a gmail account, and that includes any email applications on any other system from iphone to any other operating system. Blame gmail.
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If this is true its embarrassing.
Is there any workaround?
hmmm
this is strange cause i have a s4 and only get the 15 minute option, but on my note 3....i get the push option!!! that very strange
Use solmail....
Works with gmail and has neat interface
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you think you got it bad, i paid for unlock code on a rogers 1337m and had the push option.
when i inserted a telus sim and and unlocked it, it force reset the phone, force factory reset rather, and now i dont have push.
i also picked up some crappy apps from telus
confused.

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