So I've searched all the threads, googled everything, and tried for days to get it working, but no luck.
Has anyone out there had any success with gmail and IMAP setup? I'm on a stock ROM with VZW. IMAP works fine with my work email address, and I've followed the steps from the google wiki, but no luck.
Any suggestions or help is Much appreciated!! Thank You!!
Here's the Google wiki imap info setup:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78886
(oh, and my specific error is "Messages cannot be downloaded to your mobile device. Make sure you are connected and that your email account settings are correct. Then, try to download messages again." I have of course gone through the setup numerous times double and triple checking the directions and my account info.) Thanks!
Well, after going to all of the effort to post, it looks like I have it working. I just started from scratch and created a third IMAP account for gmail with the same settings, and this time it worked!! I don't know the variable... I deleted the bad account and now all is well. Thank you to all who read and I'm lovin xda, thank you!
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I had the same problem with a Yahoo! business email account. It took several attempts using the same settings to get the emails to come through. Third time really is the charm. I know I didn't add information to the thread, but at least I know I wasn't alone with this issue
Maybe someone else can reply who knows what we may have done wrong so in the future, this won't happen.
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Greetings.
For the past few months, I have been trying to solve a problem with POP3 email. I have posted in the Ralph & Software sections to no avail.
The issue is how email gets sorted as it arrives. In outlook, email is properly sorted based on when it was sent to you. When using the Fuze and POP3 email however, the sort is all messed up. It sorts based on when you log in to check for messages, not when they were sent.
Take a look at the 2 pictures. One is the Outlook account and the other is the POP3 account.
You will see that they do not look the same, but they are for the same email address and both updated within a few seconds of each other. They should look the same, but they do not.
Does anyone know why this is the case? I need to use POP3 when I am not in the office and it does not really work the way it is supposed to. I have tried every imaginable ROM and the results are always the same. 6.5, 6.1 it doesn't matter. I fear that I may be forced to dump my poor beloved Ralph in favor of a BlackBerry if I cannot get this to work reliably.
I am still surprised that this does not seem to hold a larger disaffection. Perhaps not many of you use POP3 email accounts.
Thanks for any advice.
Doug M.
All my POP3 accounts get sorted by received date by default or I can change it in the TOOLS -> SORT BY menu. The pics aren't attached so I can't see what your talking about.
I am using aim mail and yahoo pop3 accounts and do not have this issue. As suggested previously, you may want to review your settings
dwmackay said:
Greetings.
For the past few months, I have been trying to solve a problem with POP3 email. I have posted in the Ralph & Software sections to no avail.
The issue is how email gets sorted as it arrives. In outlook, email is properly sorted based on when it was sent to you. When using the Fuze and POP3 email however, the sort is all messed up. It sorts based on when you log in to check for messages, not when they were sent.
Take a look at the 2 pictures. One is the Outlook account and the other is the POP3 account.
You will see that they do not look the same, but they are for the same email address and both updated within a few seconds of each other. They should look the same, but they do not.
Does anyone know why this is the case? I need to use POP3 when I am not in the office and it does not really work the way it is supposed to. I have tried every imaginable ROM and the results are always the same. 6.5, 6.1 it doesn't matter. I fear that I may be forced to dump my poor beloved Ralph in favor of a BlackBerry if I cannot get this to work reliably.
I am still surprised that this does not seem to hold a larger disaffection. Perhaps not many of you use POP3 email accounts.
Thanks for any advice.
Doug M.
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Looks to me as though your POP3 server is timestamping the messages as you access them, not when they arrived. My POP3 mailbox looks just like your Outlook one.
Cheers,
Steve.
Sorry about the missing pics. They are now attached.
The problem for me comes in when you do not check the POP account on a regular basis. As shown in the picture, the time stamp on the POP account seems to be when I did the download; in this case 9:21 am. So all of the messages get sorted based on the same date & time. Outlook email is sorted correctly based on when it was sent.
I have tried to use Tools>Sort By, but the time stamp seems to be the problem. In the example posted, the POP emails on the list are mixed up over about 3 days but all show 9:21 am. Lower in the list are messages from today.
Any help is appreciated.
Doug M.
StevePritchard said:
Looks to me as though your POP3 server is timestamping the messages as you access them, not when they arrived. My POP3 mailbox looks just like your Outlook one.
Cheers,
Steve.
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That is the strange thing. When you open the message, it has the correct "Sent" date. But when viewing the Inbox Header list, it has the wrong date. Take a look at the attached and you will see what I mean.
Thanks for the help.
Doug M.
I thought I just saw a cab that fixed that over in the Topaz forums:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4766831&postcount=1831
It's an SMS Timestamp fix but perhaps the bug also effects emails, which would make sense. The cab posted is in that link.
Problem Solved - Sort of...
Thanks for the replies. I tried the timestamp CAB to no avail. To experiement a bit I loaded a few other POP accounts from different hosting sites. They all worked fine. The problem must be with my work POP hosting account. I switched it to IMAP (which I did not know we had) and all is well.
Thanks again for the assist.
Doug M.
dwmackay said:
Thanks for the replies. I tried the timestamp CAB to no avail. To experiement a bit I loaded a few other POP accounts from different hosting sites. They all worked fine. The problem must be with my work POP hosting account. I switched it to IMAP (which I did not know we had) and all is well.
Thanks again for the assist.
Doug M.
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I love it when I'm right.
Glad you got it sorted.
Cheers,
Steve.
Hello All,
My phone is i9100, using KG2 stock Hong Kong rom. When I made some changes in one of the contacts on the phone then saved the changes, it said save had been done. But after the phone handshaked with Gmail (it took about 40 seconds) all changes were revoked, so nothing was changed. I have around 3000 contacts. Is it related to large number of contacts on my phone?
I did a testing, is to disable all data connection so that my phone was isolated from the Internet. I made some changes in one of my contacts on the phone then saved it. Then waited for 2 minutes and then turned on data connection. The changes were revoked.
So I believe it is the matter of synchronization between phone and Gmail. This problem exists on my HTC Incredible S phone. There are so many experts making ROMs, do you have any clue on this?
Thanks!
This should be in Q&A section...
I can't find any in Q&A, can you help? Thanks!
The this should be in Q&A meant you should follow the rules Questions go in Q&A .
Not the answer is in Q&A .
Is it not in Q& A section anyway .
jje
Anyone can help? Thanks
no one can help? pls!
Go to contacts, click menu>more>Settings>save new contacts to
If that isn't set to Google, try doing that, other than that, I am stumped
achillies400 said:
Go to contacts, click menu>more>Settings>save new contacts to
If that isn't set to Google, try doing that, other than that, I am stumped
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"So I believe it is the matter of synchronization between phone and Gmail." <--- does this sentence in my post give you some hint that my contacts are being synchronized with Google's Gmail? if I chose save to phone only, not google, how can my contacts be sync with Gmail?
Thanks
scott4 said:
"So I believe it is the matter of synchronization between phone and Gmail." <--- does this sentence in my post give you some hint that my contacts are being synchronized with Google's Gmail? if I chose save to phone only, not google, how can my contacts be sync with Gmail?
Thanks
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Firstly I am just trying to render some assistance to someone who needs it.
Secondly, I do not have your phone with me so I was hoping you could confirm that setting as it is the first thing that should be checked.
Thirdly, the moment you turn the phone on for the first time and enter your Gmail credentials, all you contacts are synced, however, the default option in touchwiz (on all the roms I have used) is for that particular setting to be set as "Always ask"
fourthly, sorry for trying to assist in the thread that you created asking for assistance, also sorry for trying to confirm some basic settings before going further, as this has been an issue for others on this forum.
I hope someone is able to help you figure out your problem as the other suggestion that I have is better kept to myself as your attitude was greatly unappreciated
Thank You
PS. If you are having issues syncing contacts to gmail, you should state in the Opening Post that you have confirmed that you contact list is set to sync to gmail.....
achillies400 said:
Firstly I am just trying to render some assistance to someone who needs it.
Secondly, I do not have your phone with me so I was hoping you could confirm that setting as it is the first thing that should be checked.
Thirdly, the moment you turn the phone on for the first time and enter your Gmail credentials, all you contacts are synced, however, the default option in touchwiz (on all the roms I have used) is for that particular setting to be set as "Always ask"
fourthly, sorry for trying to assist in the thread that you created asking for assistance, also sorry for trying to confirm some basic settings before going further, as this has been an issue for others on this forum.
I hope someone is able to help you figure out your problem as the other suggestion that I have is better kept to myself as your attitude was greatly unappreciated
Thank You
PS. If you are having issues syncing contacts to gmail, you should state in the Opening Post that you have confirmed that you contact list is set to sync to gmail.....
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no, it is not simply a general issue in sync contacts to gmail. The contacts on my phone were sync from my gmail account. you should take much time to understand the question.
Thanks
Saw a few threads mentioning there are issues with Gingerbread and outlook e-mail.
Anyone know how to get it working?
I tried touchdown, it helped me sync the calendar, but not the e-mails.
Mike
Some notes:
1: I've been able to get G-mail working.
2: Calendar will sync for Exchange.
3: Tried both touchdown and Moxier Pro.
4: Able to send an e-mail.
5: Have entered appropriate APN
6: Know exchange server will work with other Android phone running Gingerbread.
I found a post on the SE site which seems to indicate a solution.
http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/40628#40628
Tried contacting my Microsoft Exchange email server admin and he said the solution was specific to a particular setup
and that ours didn't match since we use Cisco routers.
Can anyone explain how the solution in this link is supposed to work? It seems to imply all that needs to be done is make
an adjustment in the MS Exchange server for the SE setup.
However, I don't understand enough of the explanation to understand what really needs to be done.
Mike
Found the answer.
I'm surprised no one else has run into this issue. Issue turned out to be the last thing I would have expected.
My inbox was too big! I never considered this would be an issue since I set the retrieve option for 3 days worth of my e-mail.
There's some sort of issue with the way the sync works. The guys at touch down helped me identify this problem.
Maybe this will save some other poor soul hours of investigation.
Here is a tool that was helpful for testing the active sync connection. active sync diagnostic.
I'd recommend using touchdown to because it can also be useful for tracking down why e-mail connectivity isn't working. They provide a diagnostic log. They also have a very helpful google groups community.
Regards,
Mike
I recently solved a real pain of an email issue I was having, and wanted to pass along the experience. I had tried searching these forums for several days, but didn't quite find my problem, and didn't find the solution all in one place. With that in mind, I'm hoping this information helps someone, even if a bit of it may be covered in other threads (sorry if so).
I had upgraded recently to JB 4.1.1, and was having a lot of problems getting my corporate/exchange email account to work. The calendar and contacts would work sometimes, and the email never got past the "waiting for sync" screen. Anytime the calendar and contacts would work, they would break after a reboot of the phone.
I also found that sometimes exchange account would stick around after it stopped working, and other times it would disappear (from the Android settings > accounts list) completely. I had set the accounts up both through the stock email app, and through a third - party email app (Enhanced Email, a good app).
I tried deleting and recreating the accounts, with varying settings (port numbers, accepting all security certificates, etc.). Later on, I went to my company's online web access for Exchange, and deleted all the mobile connections so that it would create a new connection for my current phone and ROM. I recreated the account (for what seemed like the 50th time) after that. Still no good.
The thing that made the difference: I finally read a tip somewhere to force stop the (stock) email client, and clear its cache and data. After that, the email app needed to be set up again, but email synched for the first time since I installed this ROM, and my calendar and contacts work reliably. It's been several days and reboots, and no further problems have come up.
I hope this helps someone, and again, apologies if the information is duplicative. I couldn't find it all in one place, and was really beating my head against the wall trying to find a fix.
buzban said:
I recently solved a real pain of an email issue I was having, and wanted to pass along the experience. I had tried searching these forums for several days, but didn't quite find my problem, and didn't find the solution all in one place. With that in mind, I'm hoping this information helps someone, even if a bit of it may be covered in other threads (sorry if so).
I had upgraded recently to JB 4.1.1, and was having a lot of problems getting my corporate/exchange email account to work. The calendar and contacts would work sometimes, and the email never got past the "waiting for sync" screen. Anytime the calendar and contacts would work, they would break after a reboot of the phone.
I also found that sometimes exchange account would stick around after it stopped working, and other times it would disappear (from the Android settings > accounts list) completely. I had set the accounts up both through the stock email app, and through a third - party email app (Enhanced Email, a good app).
I tried deleting and recreating the accounts, with varying settings (port numbers, accepting all security certificates, etc.). Later on, I went to my company's online web access for Exchange, and deleted all the mobile connections so that it would create a new connection for my current phone and ROM. I recreated the account (for what seemed like the 50th time) after that. Still no good.
The thing that made the difference: I finally read a tip somewhere to force stop the (stock) email client, and clear its cache and data. After that, the email app needed to be set up again, but email synched for the first time since I installed this ROM, and my calendar and contacts work reliably. It's been several days and reboots, and no further problems have come up.
I hope this helps someone, and again, apologies if the information is duplicative. I couldn't find it all in one place, and was really beating my head against the wall trying to find a fix.
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Hi there, I think im glad i found this thread although not sure it will help with my corporate mail problem. My problem exists only with contacts not syncing from my corporate exchange account. My mail and calendar is ok just no contacts sync.
You mention to force stop the stock email client, can you advise the steps and exact name of the process? Do you mean in manage apps - All - Email ? I cant seem to stop that process its all greyed out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, due to my role i really need my exchange contacts to sync.
Cheers,
Hi guys,
My experience is different.
If you have problems to sync your email you need to clear all previous mobile connections from outlook (via outlook web access) and set up your account from zero on the device.
Quick question why do you use a third party email client? Do you have Samsung device? Got the same problem and had to move to a asop (CM10)
Samsung email client and exchange doesn't work well since the original Galaxy.
Regards
Sent from my GT-P1000 using Tapatalk 2
solution for me
For me what solved was a solution I found in another post here in the forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774978&page=2
In summary:
"Settings --> Data Usage --> Menu --> and check Auto Sync Data
Try setting up Exchange account again and you'll see the prompt to activate a Device Administrator this time. "
I have an email account (gmail) that I have since forgotten the password too. I set it up and immediately put the credentials in K9, then never accessed the account from a browser again. Well recently I've needed to get in to it but I can't. I have tried recovering the email through google's forgotten password thing, but it doesn't work (it was set up with very generic, and scarce information). I know the password is stored in K9 and still working, so I was direly hoping I can get the password from this.
Please, any and all ideas are greatly welcomed. I appreciate any and all help as well. Thanks.
JustAk said:
I have an email account (gmail) that I have since forgotten the password too. I set it up and immediately put the credentials in K9, then never accessed the account from a browser again. Well recently I've needed to get in to it but I can't. I have tried recovering the email through google's forgotten password thing, but it doesn't work (it was set up with very generic, and scarce information). I know the password is stored in K9 and still working, so I was direly hoping I can get the password from this.
Please, any and all ideas are greatly welcomed. I appreciate any and all help as well. Thanks.
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I had lately the same Problem...
Tried everything ... network sniffer,Brute Force , ...
took way too much time that it was worth it ...
try, if not done already the normal password recovery ...
sorry
I will try that
Looks promising :fingers-crossed:
https:// "cryptofuture.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/k-9-mail-password"
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