Want Facebook to tell you when someone posts on your wall instantly instead of wait for the hour sync or more depending on what you have refresh set at? I actually have mine set to never refresh. Saves so much battery. The fix just required me to test something out by going to my local Sprint store.
I have tried forever to get push notifications ever since the first day the EVO 4G came out with no luck. Recently my wife got an Epic and the got instant Facebook notifications. I compared her Facebook settings on phone as well as Facebook.com and all were the same. Today I decided to look at her apps on Facebook.com and I noticed a difference. She has the Facebook for blackberry app. Her previous phone was a blackberry tour. So i decided to take a trip to the Sprint store since we sold her blackberry. I logged into Facebook from the in store demo. Sure enough I now get push notifications on my EVO and of course I signed out on the store demo. Still gettin push notifications and i love it. Hope it works for you. Of course if you have an active blackberry you won't have to go to a store. Good luck.
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Want Facebook to tell you when someone posts on your wall instantly instead of wait for the hour sync or more depending on what you have refresh set at? I actually have mine set to never refresh. Saves so much battery. The fix just required me to test something out by going to my local Sprint store.
I have tried forever to get push notifications ever since the first day the EVO 4G came out with no luck. Recently my wife got an Epic and the got instant Facebook notifications. I compared her Facebook settings on phone as well as Facebook.com and all were the same. Today I decided to look at her apps on Facebook.com and I noticed a difference. She has the Facebook for blackberry app. Her previous phone was a blackberry tour. So i decided to take a trip to the Sprint store since we sold her blackberry. I logged into Facebook from the in store demo. Sure enough I now get push notifications on my EVO and of course I signed out on the store demo. Still gettin push notifications and i love it. Hope it works for you. Of course if you have an active blackberry you won't have to go to a store. Good luck.
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hmmm my facebook app actually does push notifications without me having to set anything else up. my evo 4g never did it though, so this was a nice surprise.
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Gmail is acting kind of funky on this phone...
Every now and then Ill take a look at the Gmail account on my phone and Ill see:
Inbox (1)
But all my emails have been marked read on the phone. So Ill log in on a desktop, and see that one of my e-mails is unread, even though I just marked it read on my phone.
Sometimes Ill get a zero unread count in my app, login on a desktop and see that Ive got 3 or more that were never marked read.
Gmail used to be the best email experience out there on a mobile device, in my opinion. But its now gotten to the point where this bug plagues just about every email I receive.
Am I the only one? Is there even any action I take to prevent this?
Sounds like a syncing issue. Everything works fine for me. Are you on a custom ROM?
Stock rooted.
I seem to remember having the same issue on my G1 and the myTouch Slide, though not to this gravity. I guess it must have something to do with my account itself, but I would really hope not. Starting over with a new Gmail isnt the most elegant solution...
I'm getting this today too. Frustrating.
my wife's Vibrant can't even sync with gmail since yesterday
I know awhile back I read on pluse that you could get your push notifications working on Android by logging into a blackberry phone. Well I did not have a blackberry available so instead I used my daughters IPod Touch. I logged into my Facebook account on her touch and let it load my data. I then logged out. With in minutes I begain receiving push notifications on my photon. Just wanted to share my findings with everyone.
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On Saturday I had used 426mb of data on my AT&T plan and my cycle ends tomorrow. Purchased Galaxy S2 phone on Sunday at around 11:30am. The guy at BestBuy original set up my accounts email etc.. Yesterday I got a text from AT&T stating that I had used 80% of my data plan. This morning at 9:27 I got another text from AT&T stating that I had used 90% of my data plan. I then recieved another text at 11:13 stating that I went over my limit and was going to be charged $10. Now the kicker is my cycle starts tomorrow so I was not that worried about the 90% limit that I hit earlier because I figured tomorrow it would reset anyways. Well after the last text I tried to figure out what app may be causing the issue and I downloaded an app called "My Data Manager" it showed that my email app was the culprit. The amazing thing is I kept refreshing the app every few minutes and It showed that my email app was averaging 8mb of data used per minute. I quickly did a hard reset and started using the gmail version of the mail app and I have not had a problem. Funny thing I was wondering over the course of the last 2 days why my battery life was horrible and my phone would get extremely hot sometimes. Earlier today I even took a risk and purchased the only extended battery I could locate for this version of the Galaxy on Ebay. Come to find out the email app that comes on the phone could have been the cause for all of my issues. I have also noticed such a drastic change in battery life since I reset my phone.
I also want to say that I did go into settings and made sure back ground sync was turned off before resetting the phone. When I opened the email app to go into the settings to remove my account information the data literally started churning away immediately I had a Samsung Captivate prior to this phone and I have never ever had this problem before. Called AT&T to see if they could at least get rid of the charge based off the fact that I typically only use 1gig of data monthly and they should be able to tell that using 400mb per day was not normal based on my past. No dice but I am just glad I was able to figure out the problem.
It totally depends what types of email account you set up and whether or not you're using Push email (GMail is push email). And what email server you're hitting. Yahoo, for example, has been blamed for its faulty IMAP server implementation in the past.
Thanks. I did have my yahoo mail account synched as well so may that was the culprit. I may try and use the native application again this weekend to see if I can replicate the problem again and since I will be home I won't have to worry about burning thru my data plan.
If you have million emails all left in the inbox, they all have to be synced over to the phone when you first connect, especially you're not using GMail or any Exchange ActiveSync. Gmail will only sync recently mails until you need to read more. Exchange ActiveSync only syncs last 3 days of emails out of box unless you set it to sync all. You don't have that kind of control on other email types like POP3/IMAP emails.
Strange missing emails. Since yesterday various emails have disappeared form my inbox on my EVO 3D. Normally my inbox on my desktop and on my phone look the same. For example this morning I deleted the exchange account on the phone, then remade it. Everything downloaded correctly, by the time I got to work I was missing 2 emails. Now in the afternoon I am missing 8 emails. No rhyme or reason. we have rebooted the server and I have tried every combination of settings on the phone. Does anyone have any ideas? TIA
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Strange missing emails. Since yesterday various emails have disappeared form my inbox on my EVO 3D. Normally my inbox on my desktop and on my phone look the same. For example this morning I deleted the exchange account on the phone, then remade it. Everything downloaded correctly, by the time I got to work I was missing 2 emails. Now in the afternoon I am missing 8 emails. No rhyme or reason. we have rebooted the server and I have tried every combination of settings on the phone. Does anyone have any ideas? TIA
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How old are the emails and how many days do you have exchange set to sync?
I have only checked back a few days so I am not sure about anything older. My phone will show say 20 emails in the morning, and this matches my inbox for outlook. Then 2 hours later I will check it and my phone will be missing 12 emails. Even if I sync they don't show up and never do. They are just gone, they are still in my outlook, even outlook web. I have the sync setup for 30 days right now but have tried 7 and 5 I think. Have also deleted account and reestablished a few times. Everything will sync up and look good for say half a day and then emails start disappearing. About ready to do a hard reset. What do you think?
Reset the server again and reestablished the exchange account on the phone. Everything was good until about 2:30 today. Now i am missing 11 emails... Maybe I should shoot the phone with my 357?
Lost everything but one email today. Everything is on my computer but just disappears off the phone. Can't figure this out...
I wish I had the expertise to help you further but I am stumped as well! Is there anyone else in you office that maybe has an Android phone? You maybe can check their settings against yours to see if they match!
Thanks for your help. One other guy has Android and has no issues. I think it is the phone. I will try a hard reset over the weekend and let people know if that worked.
No luck with the hard reset. also borrowed a friends Samsung and set it up with my email and no issues. sprint is sending a replacement phone in the next day or two. I will let you know if that fixes the problem?
Ok, went to sprint service center, they ordered a phone for me. One week later, phone shows up. I get home reset all my stuff and am excited this is going to fix my problem. Next day go to work, sure enough early afternoon Emails start disappearing. I am ready to shoot this phone. Also had the IT guys download and install the software to manage the wireless accounts on the server. had them delete all my accounts and reset them.
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Ok, went to sprint service center, they ordered a phone for me. One week later, phone shows up. I get home reset all my stuff and am excited this is going to fix my problem. Next day go to work, sure enough early afternoon Emails start disappearing. I am ready to shoot this phone. Also had the IT guys download and install the software to manage the wireless accounts on the server. had them delete all my accounts and reset them.
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Sounds like possible an issue with HTC software. What app are you using? Have you tried another one.
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OK, I have narrowed this down but still no fix. I experimented by not opening my outlook and just worked out of outlook web access for two days. NO MISSING EMAILS. WTF!
Went back to using my outlook and started loosing emails again.
Check all your settings in outlook. Is Outlook only keeping so many days of emails. Since I've never messed with Exchange, I'm not sure how it works, but it could be because outlook imonly shows so many days of emails if set that way, or maybe the app is set to only show so many days.
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My unrooted GN2 isn't fetching mail. I'm not sure if it's a bug or user error and would appreciate some help. I've got just one [pop3] email account and use the stock email app with the latest firmware. In the settings for this account under Period to sync it's 1 month or 100 emails. Under Sync schedule both peak and off-peak are set to every 15 minutes. I haven't roamed yet but it's set to the same settings while roaming. All the server settings are correct because when I manually send and receive it works fine. If I go to settings/email from the home screen the account is listed and below it it says sync disabled, with no way to enable sync-ing. Would be grateful to get this issue solved.
I haven't use the native email app in four years now. I did this a long time ago and it's worked great for me: http://www.androidcentral.com/using-gmail-your-own-personal-push-mail-server
If you don't want to use the Gmail app, you might want to consider using one of the 3rd party email clients in the Play Store. It seems that K-9 is the most popular.
If you want to stick with the native email app I would recommend that you remove the email account and reinstall it. Someone that uses that app will probably have some better advice for you soon.
Good luck.
Thanks- I'm gonna give it a little time before I change apps. Re-installing the account will be the next thing I try if I can't figure it out soon. In the past I've used and been pretty happy with K-9 and Kaiten but after using the new phone for a week I'm happy with the stock email program- seems just as good as the others for my basic needs. The phone itself... what a leap up from the other smart phones I've owned! It's a million times better than my last two phones- Droid X and Charge.
I'm actually having the same problem. I use the stock email app for my Hotmail account. It worked fine when I first got the phone, but now I never get notifications and even when I go in and hit the sync button, it will say "last synced at x:xx" but there won't be any new messages. But if I check my mail on my laptop, there's a ton of new messages.
I'd switch to K-9 if it wasn't so friggin ugly.
Sorry- that stinks. I'm still able to get my mail but only by manually hitting the sync button. I'm gonna go give Kaiten a try again since the native app is buggy.
Update- Kaiten apparently stinks now too. There's a beta out that everyone says is not good so I went with K-9. Installed and set up easily and got is syncing properly.
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I'm actually having the same problem. I use the stock email app for my Hotmail account. It worked fine when I first got the phone, but now I never get notifications and even when I go in and hit the sync button, it will say "last synced at x:xx" but there won't be any new messages. But if I check my mail on my laptop, there's a ton of new messages.
I'd switch to K-9 if it wasn't so friggin ugly.
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K-9 syncs automatically like it's supposed to. Looks like it's just a bug in the native app.
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I'm actually having the same problem. I use the stock email app for my Hotmail account. It worked fine when I first got the phone, but now I never get notifications and even when I go in and hit the sync button, it will say "last synced at x:xx" but there won't be any new messages. But if I check my mail on my laptop, there's a ton of new messages.
I'd switch to K-9 if it wasn't so friggin ugly.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qs.enhancedemail&feature=related_apps
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qs.enhancedemail&feature=related_apps
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Have you tried that app? For ten bucks I'm gonna pass but I do appreciate the help and if there's another [free or at least only a few bucks... I'm cheap] mail app that works well I'd appreciate the pointer. Kaiten is apparently not great, K-9 works well but is ugly and the stock app is buggy. That's all I've tried so far.
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Have you tried that app? For ten bucks I'm gonna pass but I do appreciate the help and if there's another [free or at least only a few bucks... I'm cheap] mail app that works well I'd appreciate the pointer. Kaiten is apparently not great, K-9 works well but is ugly and the stock app is buggy. That's all I've tried so far.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maildroid&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emoze.Emozesync&feature=search_result
There are a lot of them to try!! I've used Mail Droid and it worked well.
Good luck.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maildroid&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emoze.Emozesync&feature=search_result
There are a lot of them to try!! I've used Mail Droid and it worked well.
Good luck.
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I'll work my way thru some of these and see what I like. Tried Mail Droid and it was a little wonky for me. I installed Aqua and Emoze- will give them a try next.
AquaMail seems to be the best of the bunch. Haven't had a glitch since I started using it about 10 days ago. It's also, by a pretty big margin, the most customize-able so if you like like that it's well worth trying.