Mail App not working with Gmail after Gingerbread update - Desire HD General

Hi Guys,
I updated to Gingerbread a couple of weeks ago and the Mail stock app (Not the Gmail app) does not get the new emails from my Gmail account.
I does not have problems with other email providers, only Gmail.
I deleted the account, created a new one and get a few messages initially, but after that initial sync it desn't download any new email. If I sync manually doesn't work either.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Did you do a hard reset after upgrading with Gingerbread?
If not - do it.
Hope this helps.
Regards.

reinstalling the app usually fix's this kind of error. if it is a stock app go to market and find the app and look for updates.

As the previous 2 people said, all i'd suggest is reinstalling the app, making sure it's up to date or even just setting up your account again (in the app)

I found it was caused by gmail app being setup for the email address aswell as the HTC mail app. They seemed to be conflicting with each other when syncing. Disable the gmail app and see if that helps.
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Thanks kujoswrath, that sorted it out

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Epic email issues?

Forgive me if this topic has been raised before -- I searched and didn't see anything.
I am seeing two issues with my Epic relating to e-mail I haven't seen raised.
1. Generic e-mail client doesn't sync reliably. It ran reliably for a day or two, but has stopped polling, and now the only way I can get the accounts in it to update is to go into the client and open them.
2. I cannot seem to get more than 2 gmail accounts added to the gmail client. I have three google accounts, and I had to set up my third one in the generic client after repeated attempts to add it to the gmail client resulted in server connection fails.
Anyone else seeing this? Is it possible I have a defective phone or something I did during the course of rooting (noobnl's one-click v 2.2.9) broke some functionality? Is it possible that the service responsible for the client's polling activity got broken?
Thanks in advance.
My email has been updating automatically fine. I've only had my Epic for a little over two weeks, though. I don't have multiple Gmail accounts so can't say. Also, I'm not rooted yet ( I've been waiting for the 2.2 upgrade). I'm not crazy about everything in the generic client but it does seem to work very well.
I thought I was having the same issue as OP, but I found that I guess I accidentally switched automatic updates off in the settings.
I have had my Epic since it launched and yes this has been an issue for me. I thought maybe I had something set wrong but I don't. I actually check my Yahoo acct through the browser now. It doesn't really bother me to much though so I deal with it. Facebook for Android is the same way usually too.
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This is a common issue if you search around.
I've given up on the stock email app and just use K9 mail. Works perfectly. Has a few more options than the stock app too, although like a lot of open-source apps, maybe too many. I still haven't gotten all the fonts to look the way I want. But it's functional and doesn't give me any problems with syncing. An email app that won't tell me when I have new email is useless to me, and the stock app would only do that for maybe a day unless I rebooted. K9 always notifies me of email immediately.
I'm having a problem of my own. I just tried to send an attachment in the stock email app but I get a FC when I hit attach. In the gmail app however it works, gives me the option of gallery or astro. Could the FC in the email app occuring because I uninstalled the myfiles app and it defaults to it?
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badasscat said:
This is a common issue if you search around.
I've given up on the stock email app and just use K9 mail. Works perfectly. Has a few more options than the stock app too, although like a lot of open-source apps, maybe too many. I still haven't gotten all the fonts to look the way I want. But it's functional and doesn't give me any problems with syncing. An email app that won't tell me when I have new email is useless to me, and the stock app would only do that for maybe a day unless I rebooted. K9 always notifies me of email immediately.
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Exactly the same problem. Stock email client works for a while then just quits.
But anyway, thanks for the tip re K-9 mail. Just installed it and will give it a try. It is indeed considerably more complimicated and will probably take some fiddling to get everything the way I want it, but that's OK -- I guess if I wanted simple but uncofigurable functionality I'd have a feature phone or an iPhone.
Seems like the FB app does the same thing. Anyone have a suggestion for a good 3d-party FB client?
Oh, and does anyone else have more than 2 accounts in gmail?
reboot will fix it for a short period
same problem here... worked for two weeks and now only syncs if manually. Rebooting the phone gets it going again... for a few more days and then it will no longer sync again!

[Q] CM6 and Exchange

I'd like to know about other people's experiences with CM6 and Exchange. With the stock email app, I have noticed at times that at times it would start using a lot of cpu, and stop receiving emails. I did have "all email" sync, but these issues would happen randomly after all of my mailbox was downloaded; could this have anything to do with it? I would have to reboot my phone for email to start working again. After reading about people's experience in the CM6 thread I thought it might be appropriate to have an altogether separate thread. I did notice some users having similar issues, and that TouchDown is a good alternative.
So about 2 weeks ago, I started trying it. Problem is, when I go to add a contact (discovered this by long pressing a number to create a contact), it will let me create a "TouchDown contact", but only with names. I contacted touchdown support and they said that no other applications can have access to TouchDown data for "security". I did put in a feature request for an optional contacts integration, because my Aria is a work phone, and every contact I add I *need* synced. I did think about adding contacts to Google account, and then installing Google/Outlook sync on my work pc, but this seems too convoluted.
Has CM6 exchange improved in any of the nightly builds? If I choose to go back to the stock email app, is there any way that if I run into these issues again I can provide debugging information? The only thing I really liked about TouchDown was the search email feature, but this is in no way a feature request for the stock email app. xD
Why not ask in the cm6 thread instead of starting a new one?
I've been using stock exchange mail client since the beginning of CM6 on aria, haven't ran into any major issues with it. The only problem I have with it is that sometimes the deleted email on aria still show up on desktop outlook.
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Just wanted to add that stock client does stop getting emails ( very rarely for me), instead of rebooting, I just forse close the app and restart it again.
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For adding/syncing contacts (using touchdown for email) I added the exchange account (under stock email settings) and set it to never check mail, but still sync contacts and calendar. I am going to see if this combination with touchdown works, as the email app is required to run if syncing exchange contacts is to work at all. I hope don't run into the process hanging without email actually syncing. I'm still waiting this trial out to see if touchdown is worth it; they did add a new feature that shows the number of new emails in the notification icon (I don't recall if this is in the stock email app).

Gmail account sync problems

Lately i have problems with syncing contacts to gmail. I get error and try later again... anyone a solution?
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it works very well on my phone..
or try to flash the rom again ?
Have you tried deleting your Google account from the Sync menu, rebooting, re-adding it ?
Or full-wipe ?
magnum73 said:
Lately i have problems with syncing contacts to gmail. I get error and try later again... anyone a solution?
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Are u facing it after an update to Gingerbread?
No I have not gingerbread and i will try to erase the account and re-add it... do i have to do a complete reboot or fast reboot?
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I would go with normal reboot (ref : http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Fastboot), I don't think fastboot has to do with that - but I'm no expert, I could be wrong. Plus I didn't said this would undoubtedly fix your issue, but it's worth trying.
Deleting the account doesn't work. I can't delete it unless I go to factory settings...and that ain't worth it.
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As a test I borrowed an iphone 4 off a colleague...setup his gmail using activesync m.google.com and guess what....He also gets authentication error. Syncs ok and then stops working. Works then stops working randomly.
I strongly believe this an issue with gmail side. But googling around I can't anything on other websites/forums about it.
In CM7 if you try too setup yahoo mail it gets (user name/password incorrect) but gingersence is fine. w i e r d
Unwanted sync
I have the opposite problem, and would appreciate some help.
I have Gingergread (Alien) on my Atrix 4g and when I set up my tree gmail accunts (one carries contacts, calendar and mail), the other two just mail.
When I did the set up , I had the chance to select which service does each account provide (of the three).
Now I just went and checked and the THREE accounts are doing sync for the three services.
Why could this happened, A gingerbread problem, an Alien Rom problem on wth,
I have deleted the accounts, except for the one linked to the phone account (which I cannot delete) and when I set them up again, I have no chance to select what type of sync I want,,, the three services are being synced for the three accounts.
Any idea?

2.3 and Mail app

I use hotmail and with the Android 2.3 update whenever I delete emails through the Mail app they just keep coming back. If I delete a new message before opening it it comes back as a new message and give me the notification and everything. I have not had issues with hotmail and the mail app until 2.3. Will probably flash back to 2.2 if this is a known issue unless someone has any info. thanks.
I had this issue on 2.2 (htc hero) when I flashed between different roms. If you aren't currently using your Exchange (active sync) email account on your phone. I ended up setting my hotmail up with that and used some settings I found online. Once I did that I didn't have the 'new message' issue anymore.
I actually ended up finding the default android email app online and installed that and it now works properly. Unfortunately it doesn't show the nice little number on the envelope for how many emails I have but that is a minor issue. I deleted the HTC Mail app using titanium. Guess I keep it as is for now.
I was trying out mik shifted g, and yahoo would not work with the htc app at all. Even went back to cm to copy all the settings on paper to input manually on sense, but it will not pull my emails, although it says connection is fine.
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Setting up facebook sync returns "Incorrect email address"

Hey,
as I realized last week that my facebook events and birthdays are not in sync, i checked the account sync's status, apparently it had failed to sync and still did. Then I deleted my sync account and tried to set it up again. But this failed too:
After entering my login data for a new integrated facebook account, it just reports "Incorrect email address". I am 100% sure this data I used is the same as in a browser.
Using the facebook account delivered with the official facebook app works, but can only sync contacts, not the calendar. Can anyone at least confirm it is no general bug to the samsung delivered account style?
Thanks!
byterapper said:
Hey,
as I realized last week that my facebook events and birthdays are not in sync, i checked the account sync's status, apparently it had failed to sync and still did. Then I deleted my sync account and tried to set it up again. But this failed too:
After entering my login data for a new integrated facebook account, it just reports "Incorrect email address". I am 100% sure this data I used is the same as in a browser.
Using the facebook account delivered with the official facebook app works, but can only sync contacts, not the calendar. Can anyone at least confirm it is no general bug to the samsung delivered account style?
Thanks!
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Try updating Facebook in market.
Seems to have a few bugfixes.
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xchasa said:
Try updating Facebook in market.
Seems to have a few bugfixes.
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I did, even though this should not change anything (and it didn't).
My issue is with the Samsung distributed version of the facebook sync (which used to work even without a facebook app installed)
I'm having a similar problem with Facebook calendar:
Recently I changed my email address in Facebook, after that I removed my Facebook account on the SGS that contained the old email and created a new one with the new email address. Contacts are syncing fine but in Calender no events from Facebook appear.
Going into Calender settings I can see that it is trying to sync to my old Facebook email.
Is there any way I can get calendar to sync to my new email address?
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Hi guys,
I had the same problem when I updated my rom.
You probably need to clear the cache of the phone by using the 3 button combo option of the phone.
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fipbento said:
Hi guys,
I had the same problem when I updated my rom.
You probably need to clear the cache of the phone by using the 3 button combo option of the phone.
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Of course I tried wiping cache partition and dalvik cache, but no change
byterapper said:
Of course I tried wiping cache partition and dalvik cache, but no change
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That's very strange, normally clearing cache always worked for me... Then I dunno what else to suggest... But keep us posted if you find out the solution to the problem.
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Of course I will. Since I have a custom rom (Darky Rom 10.2) I confirmed with a buddies identical phone that it is basically working, so no ( at least totally) rom related issue.
I just hope to avoid my last resort, that is reflashing.
EDIT: Solved it. Never trust those lists of system app's purpose. Apparently one of those 3 is important to register this kind of sync account, not to run it: Dlna, GoogleFeedback, Layar, MtpApplication.
As I cleaned them after setting up the rest of my phone (to make sure everything is still working, with obviously backfired), I never realized that problem, so for people that mess around with their phones, don't forget to check those messy areas (and don't forget them like I did)
Thanks for the help!

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