[Q] How to delete emails - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've looked and could not find an answer, so I thought I'd ask. I wonder if there is a way to do a 'delete all' in the standard email app. I know that each email can be selected one by one then deleted, but I'd like to be able to delete all the emails in an account easily and quickly. Anyone know how to do this?

Nope, not in the standard gmail app.
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well i mean in gmail there should be check boxes you can press so you don't have to individually press each email and delete them but thats the only way

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Contacts Issue: please help

For some reason, all people I email ends up in my contacts. Even if I emailed them just once and not even from the phone. This never happened on my Nexus One... Any ideas? Thanks.
Go to contacts, menu, display options, select only show contacts with phone numbers.
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Ok but what if I have some contacts that are only email addresses. It seems the phone is getting contacts from within gmail's "all contacts" instead of "my contacts"
The only thing you can do is stop synching your gmail contacts.
This has happened on every android phone I've owned since the G1. Google remembers anyone you send an email to and it becomes part of your address book, even if it's not on your list of contacts. To show this, open up gmail in on a PC and type the first couple chars of that email address and it will pop right up.
I know what you're talking about but it didn't happen when I was running cyanogen or kangorama on my nexus one. Maybe it has something to do with Samsungs contact app instead of stock, I don't know...
nope same thing happened to me, i just deleted and move on though...
this is so annoying. Every android phone I have had syncs with 'My Contacts' (G1 and Nexus)...but the Vibrant syncs with 'All Contacts'...I haven't found a fix yet, or a good work around.
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In the gmail web portal setting there is an option to turn that off. I remember seeing it just three other day.
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I remember the days of the G1, when I had a separate "phone" list setup in google contacts, and I could display ONLY those contacts. Some numbers I do want to keep in google contacts, but only some I want to pop up when making a call.
Why did they change the contacts stuff so much? Does anyone else find this annoying?
any solution to this?
Beside this, can it show the actual group I put in the Google contact rather in the same group "Google"

Selecting Bulk emails for deletion . HOW ??

Sorry to ask such a simple ?? but I have googled extensively and looked on this site and cannot find anything. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to CHECK ALL emails in my email package for a bulk deletion ? i THINK lg MAY HAVE OVERLOOKED THIS TINY BUT VITAL procedure ? I can bulk select contacts if i want to do something in my address book but not in emails ? Am i missing something ? What a silly oversight if they have missed it
I suppose you mean Gmail by your "email package". Have you tried pressing the Menu hard key and looking for a Multi-select option (I don't use the Gmail app, so I'm not sure how it's worded)?
are you using the GMAIL app, or another email app? I use the gmail app from the market and all i have to do is tap the checkbox beside each email, and then select delete. all gone.
crashff said:
are you using the GMAIL app, or another email app? I use the gmail app from the market and all i have to do is tap the checkbox beside each email, and then select delete. all gone.
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Yes that is exactly right. I can do that no worries.
HOWEVER !
What happens if you want to to delete dozens and dozens of emails (as in my case with business communications etc ) with one single click rather than going through and selecting each individual one ? How in god's name do you CHECK ALL.
I have the CHECK all option in contacts !!
Try other email clients like k9. Or wait for ice cream sandwich.
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GMail App Question

I had this same problem with my HD2 and never found a solution i thought this would've been resolved with the GS2 unless im doing something wrong here,basically when i click on my Gmail app and delete messages and later on that evening on my laptop not all the messages are deleted, with my HD2 none of them used to delete when i tried doing it on the phone yet when i delete them on my laptop they delete ok, with the GS2 i deleted 30+ emails earlier ive just checked my laptop and 12 of the same emails i "deleted" are still there, does anyone know what's going on here?
Also why do i always have to "click to view pictures" on the Gmail app?
Is anyone else having this problem with the Gmail app?
Damn im amazed im the only one having this problem usually there's at least a couple of people in the XDA community with a similar issue, it's a bit annoying having to delete emails again,and also having to click on "show pictures" in order to view the images is a bit annoying too.
I don't delete, but I do label every email, and then archive. I quite often find messages re-appear after archiving, showing as unread, even though no new messages have appeared inside the thread.
This occurred on my old Nokia 5800, it actually seems to happen less on my SGS2.
Thanks for your response, i would just like to be able to delete the emails after ive looked at them on my phone and not have to delete them again on my laptop, sometimes the emails do delete out of 30 emails i deleted 2 days ago 12 were still there when i checked a few hours later that evening, yet this morning i deleted about 15 emails on my GS2 yet when i checked on my laptop they were still there showing as unread, i don'tu nderstand this.
Surely i cant be the only one having this issue?
I delete emails a lot using the Gmail app and I've never noticed this problem - weird.
AirfixPilot said:
I delete emails a lot using the Gmail app and I've never noticed this problem - weird.
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I had the same problem with my HD2 running Android, on the HD2 forums last year someone posted a fix for this before but it only worked for some people and unfortunately i wasn't one of them.
I'm thinking will i ditch the Gmail app altogether and just use m.google.com in X-Xcope browser i have tried deleteing emails via m.google.com before and they do delete, the Gmail app though is handy and something i use a lot.
check your account settings. Make sure delete from server is activated/checked.
war_timmins said:
check your account settings. Make sure delete from server is activated/checked.
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You don't have that option in the gmail app.
Does anyone know if i can create a shortcut for my Gmail on the phone i have the m.gmail.com saved in my browser (X-Scope) but i cant see any function for copying a shortcut to my main screen on phone, ive just deleted some emails in the m.gmail.com in X-Scope and checked Gmail on my laptop and the emails are gone so there's absolutely no doubt there is something amiss here with the Gmail app so im looking to delete it but id prefer to have a shortcut of Gmail on my phones main screen.
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Also on the m.gmail.com you don't have to click on "show pictures" every time cos the pictures just show automatically.
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Does anyone know if i can create a shortcut for my Gmail on the phone i have the m.gmail.com saved in my browser (X-Scope) but i cant see any function for copying a shortcut to my main screen on phone, ive just deleted some emails in the m.gmail.com in X-Scope and checked Gmail on my laptop and the emails are gone so there's absolutely no doubt there is something amiss here with the Gmail app so im looking to delete it but id prefer to have a shortcut of Gmail on my phones main screen.
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Long-hold the homepage to add a shortcut (not an application) and it should give you the option of "bookmark".
johncmolyneux said:
Long-hold the homepage to add a shortcut (not an application) and it should give you the option of "bookmark".
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cheers id forgotten about this, funnily enough when i do this it doesn't show me the bookmarks from X-Scope but from the stock browser which i don't use, im wondering why i cant see the bookmarks from X-Scope?
Anyway it also gives you the option for a "Gmail Label" shortcut but im not sure if this particular Gmail shortcut comes from the Gmail app which is no good to me, or m.gmail.com which is the one i want?
This Android Gmail app seriously needs improving like the Facebook one which is also crap

Message

Hey guys,
Previously on gb, i used the system app message, cant find on ics.
When i click on message, can see email, text.. Easy for me.
Now no more.. Can anyone help me on this?
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And they removed the original friendfeed as well, such great help for guys in China behind the great firewall.
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I just got my RAZR MAXX yesterday and miss this app.
It contained all of my email accounts and SMS icon. It showed which ones had new emails, etc. All I can find on ICS is basically a unified inbox widget of the actual messages.
Anyone know of an app to do something similar to the old Messaging App? I have looked in the play store but don't find anything similar.
OR, preferably, does anyone know of what the APK was called so I can try to find it and install it? I really miss this feature. My luck is it is going to be a system feature.
they could have taken ANYTHING else out of ICS but I wish they would have left the UNIVERSAL MESSAGING WIDGET alone ..... I MISS IT TOO
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they could have taken ANYTHING else out of ICS but I wish they would have left the UNIVERSAL MESSAGING WIDGET alone ..... I MISS IT TOO
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I wish I had the knowledge to extract or find the apk. But I am sure it is a system app and built in.
You should see the chat log I had with Motorola on this issue. And if it was available in ICS anywhere.
It basically ended with them responding that this "Is a new feature added when they went from Gingerbread to ICS!" LOL I said IT IS MISSING, NOT ADDED you DUMBASS!!!
My work around it's by stacking text, emails and my im together on home screen.. Not as good but will do for now.
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My work around it's by stacking text, emails and my im together on home screen.. Not as good but will do for now.
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Can you elaborate and post a screen shot?
The closest thing I can find just for email, is when you click the email icon it usually opens to the last inbox. At the top is an email icon, and it says Inbox and which email account. If you click Inbox, it gives you a dropdown with a list of your email accounts and the number of unread messages plus the option to create combined inbox. You can switch email accounts there. But I would still like them to all show like in a folder without having to click the dropdown. There is also a 1 x 1 email widget that you can set to a specific account. Do one for each account. Then those can be combined into a folder, but you don't get the number of unread emails superimposed on the account icon like the old app.
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Can you elaborate and post a screen shot?
The closest thing I can find just for email, is when you click the email icon it usually opens to the last inbox. At the top is an email icon, and it says Inbox and which email account. If you click Inbox, it gives you a dropdown with a list of your email accounts and the number of unread messages plus the option to create combined inbox. You can switch email accounts there. But I would still like them to all show like in a folder without having to click the dropdown. There is also a 1 x 1 email widget that you can set to a specific account. Do one for each account. Then those can be combined into a folder, but you don't get the number of unread emails superimposed on the account icon like the old app.
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Here you go.
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Gmail/IMAP question

Well, I searched the forums first, and the exact question I have is here, still unanswered. Hopefully this does not get me on anyone's bad side, but figured it was worth one more shot.
My question is pretty basic. I am on the HTC EVO 4G LTE, and I prefer to use the stock mail app instead of the specific gmail app, primarily because I use the "contacts" feature a lot, and like to be able to email people from that contact profile.
Whenever I send something to the trash from my EVO, it gets sorted into a label in (gmail on my desktop PC) called "IMAP/Trash". I want simply for this to go directly into my trash, and not be labeled/sorted separately. That's my whole question- is there a way to do this? With sent/trash/whatever, I'd like it not to get sorted into separate IMAP labels in gmail when I access it via my web browser.
I realize that this works seamlessly when using the gmail app on my EVO, but I'd prefer to use the generic email app. I do not see any setting which allows me to configure this on my phone, and I have tried every available option I can find in my gmail settings, but to no avail.
I would hugely enormously appreciate any help anyone might be able to give me.
Thanks in advance.
Have you looked through the settings while logged in from a browser? There may be something there to let you change where it goes.
Instead of IMAP setting, setup your gmail as exchange. Do a google search for the process. Then you'll have push email and all your folders should match. Hope this helps. Btw gmail searches my contact list? Not sure why yours can't. Good luck!
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I don't know if you found an answer, but I was able to fix it by going to the desktop Gmail settings, "Labels" tab > then check the "Show in IMAP" for Sent mail, Drafts & Trash. Then removed the unwanted Labels (IMAP/Trash, IMAP/Sent & IMAP/Draft).

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