I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm using my X10's Gmail client for all my emails, but one problem which I have is that when I receive email, the name of the sender is not displayed, only the email address. This means having to memorise people's email addresses in order to determine who sent it exactly.
I know definitely that I have names in my address book, when I go to compose the name is there perfectly. But it doesn't show up on received mail. Any way to fix this? This is for ALL of my email, not just a few.
Thanks for any help.
ganny said:
Any way to fix this? This is for ALL of my email, not just a few.
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Strange, works fine for me in that it does display the name and can't find any settings to change it so it doesn't.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Strange, works fine for me in that it does display the name and can't find any settings to change it so it doesn't.
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Thanks for your attempt anyway. Its a really strange issue, I swear it used to work before.
I just noticed that I'm facing the same issue on my desktop Gmail too... Perhaps I've set something wrong with desktop Gmail?
EDIT: Actually I just realised: http://ask.metafilter.com/140633/Can-I-change-a-senders-display-name-in-Gmail
It looks like Gmail doesn't cross-reference back to contacts. That's terrible in my opinion, as I'm using my phone here in Japan, where everyone has incomprehensible emails, and they don't change their "From:" tag, making things a real pain.
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Anyone else have this problem? I'm using Exchange within the email app and have a strange problem. If I type for example: I'm, I've, Don't, or anything utilizing an apostrophe, I get the following: I'm. It seems to only happen within the email app. If I check my sent email from my Evo3D, I see the garbled mess which is not only annoying but embarrassing if I'm sending professional emails. Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated. Maybe turn off HTML but that doesn't seem like a good fix.
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Anyone else have this problem? I'm using Exchange within the email app and have a strange problem. If I type for example: I'm, I've, Don't, or anything utilizing an apostrophe, I get the following: I'm. It seems to only happen within the email app. If I check my sent email from my Evo3D, I see the garbled mess which is not only annoying but embarrassing if I'm sending professional emails. Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated. Maybe turn off HTML but that doesn't seem like a good fix.
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yeah, it's a known issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16873
sounds like 3.2 fixes it.
Thanks for that link.
I've switched to touchdown mail due to this issue and the fact that pictures did not display properly either. Was pretty embarrassed when i sent an email to my boss that had garbled letters.
Hi, I have a weird issue with one of my contacts. An old number they no longer use just won't delete! I Tried to delete the contact altogehter, and add it again, even tried to change the name by adding something extra to it, but whenever I try to text the person, the previous number shows up, THEN the current number (and not just the name of the contact like it should. Something to keep in mind is that the old number does not show up in the actual contacgts directory, ONLY whenever I text them, and it doesn't show their name, which is really REALLY annoying!!! Can anyone help? I tried uninstalling/reinstalling using Titanium Backup, even the data wipe of the messaging app, didn't work! Still doing the same thing, seems like the app won't disassociate the past number from the current, and the weird thing is that I had deleted that number from the contacts long before, when I was still on 2.1 (stock). Now that I have updated to the stock 2.3.3, it brought that number back! Please help, this really sucks and I don't know what to do, don't want to do a repair install, so much work :-( Another issue I found is that the messaging won't sound the notification I set, it does blink the LED light, but won't vibrate or sound the notification I set up for it... What should I do??? Thanks in advance...
sorry just tried merging the posts to my first post, but can't delete this one.
Same as the upper post, sorry again...
I had a similar problem. You can edit your contacts at the actual gmail website from your internet browser. Also remember when adding contacts from phone, click save to gmail and sync contacts every now and then if auto-sync is disabled.
Really? Where do I edit my contacts??? When I check my contacts in Gmail, it only shows me the email contacts I have, no actual phone numbers
Pharaoness said:
Really? Where do I edit my contacts??? When I check my contacts in Gmail, it only shows me the email contacts I have, no actual phone numbers
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At the top right there should be a contacts option, look a bit lower and there should be more options pertaining to it.
I did check that, explored all the options within, and none of my phone contacts show up! Only my email contacts!!! Any other way to handle this??? The sound part seems to have resolved (sometimes it does ring my notification tone), but the messaging app still shows the number I deleted months ago, no idea why it won't disassociate the number. In my contacts list, that number doesn't show. But in messaging, when I try to send that person a meggae, instead of showing the NAME of the person I am sending it to (like it should), it shows the old number and then the new number!!! Any ideas???
Pharaoness said:
I did check that, explored all the options within, and none of my phone contacts show up! Only my email contacts!!! Any other way to handle this??? The sound part seems to have resolved (sometimes it does ring my notification tone), but the messaging app still shows the number I deleted months ago, no idea why it won't disassociate the number. In my contacts list, that number doesn't show. But in messaging, when I try to send that person a meggae, instead of showing the NAME of the person I am sending it to (like it should), it shows the old number and then the new number!!! Any ideas???
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It is somehow either associated with your google account or your at&t account, does you at&t plan have an online back up by chance?
I'm actually with Rogers, and have never used their online backup (nor have I checked to see if they provide any). But something rather weird happened, I deleted the messages, asked my friend to send me a text, and when they did, their name showed up like it is supposed to! I hope it is resolved now, thank you all for trying to help
Will update if the problem persists.
Does anyone have a code example for getting the unread mail count from K-9 mail? (Either per-account, or an overall value?)
All I've been able to find is documentation on receiving new mail notifications.
benjymous said:
Does anyone have a code example for getting the unread mail count from K-9 mail? (Either per-account, or an overall value?)
All I've been able to find is documentation on receiving new mail notifications.
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Did you ever find any, I've been looking through the source code of K9 mail, and there seems to be no easy way to just get the unread count.
^I'm_With_Stupid said:
@benjymous
Did you ever find any, I've been looking through the source code of K9 mail, and there seems to be no easy way to just get the unread count.
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Actually, yes. Here's the code for a dashclock widget I made, that should provide a nice self contained example.
I haven't tried it in a year or so, so things might've changed again, but it should point you in the right direction, at least.
https://github.com/benjymous/dashclock-k-9
benjymous said:
Actually, yes. Here's the code for a dashclock widget I made, that should provide a nice self contained example.
I haven't tried it in a year or so, so things might've changed again, but it should point you in the right direction, at least.
https://github.com/benjymous/dashclock-k-9
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Edit: IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to forward a message using the native gmail app on android to a group of contacts already established on gmail? I often need to forward an email to a group of employees but have found no way to do it other than logging on to gmail on the computer which isn't very efficient. I've searched quite extensively but have found no solution. It seems hard to believe - anyone know how to do it, or know of a third party app that works with gmail to do so? I'd really appreciate any response!
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Well I don't know about a group. But you can add as many as you like. Just tested a mass Email to 35 people. Just open up the message. On the right hand side towards the top you'll see a star, an arrow facing left, and a triangle facing left. Press the triangle and a menu will pop up Reply, Reply All, and Foward. Then when box pops up for send to just add as many Contacts as you'd like.
Yes, that works, thanks, but then I'd have to memorize the names or emails of everyone in my group which isn't my strong point (especially for groups with lots of members)....
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A backwards way of doing this, I figured out, is to copy the message text you want to forward to a group and then go into a program like Go Contacts, select the group you want, click email all, then paste the text into the email body. A bit cumbersome bit the only solution I can find. Anyone else have any other more straightforward solution? I can't believe the gmail app wont allow for this.
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Has anyone tried Contact Lookup Pro for contact searching (particularly for groups) and then bulk emailing?
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abqslim said:
A backwards way of doing this, I figured out, is to copy the message text you want to forward to a group and then go into a program like Go Contacts, select the group you want, click email all, then paste the text into the email body. A bit cumbersome bit the only solution I can find. Anyone else have any other more straightforward solution?
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I use Group Contact Manager Pro application. It has option "Copy all email addresses to clipboard." which make possible to paste all group addresses into forwarded email. Maybe it is not perfect solution but at least it is a real forward displaying as such in gmail.
I have two IMAP email accounts. One of them is working fine, but on the other one my phone does not show the body of plain text emails. Emails are received properly and all the other information downloads and displays properly (subject, sender, time, etc.) but when I go to view the body I just see a blank screen and there is no text there at all (not even white on white).
I have deleted the account and set it up again and have the same issue.
slap_shot_12 said:
I have two IMAP email accounts. One of them is working fine, but on the other one my phone does not show the body of plain text emails. Emails are received properly and all the other information downloads and displays properly (subject, sender, time, etc.) but when I go to view the body I just see a blank screen and there is no text there at all (not even white on white).
I have deleted the account and set it up again and have the same issue.
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Sounds to me like it must be something on the server side. Are both accounts hosted on the same server? Do you have control over the MTAs? Can you compare the setups of the two accounts? If that doesn't help (they're the same) then are there any differences in the definitions of the two accounts in your mail client?
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Sounds to me like it must be something on the server side. Are both accounts hosted on the same server? Do you have control over the MTAs? Can you compare the setups of the two accounts? If that doesn't help (they're the same) then are there any differences in the definitions of the two accounts in your mail client?
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Thanks for the suggestion. I checked with my web host and it turns out there was a SmarterMail server patch that caused the bug. It has since been patched and is working now. Thanks for the suggestions, though -- that was good advice.
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slap_shot_12 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked with my web host and it turns out there was a SmarterMail server patch that caused the bug. It has since been patched and is working now. Thanks for the suggestions, though -- that was good advice.
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Glad to hear that you're sorted - and good to hear that your host is on the ball too