Hey guys.
So something iv'e noticed on my photon. I have two gmail accounts connected to my phone (one primary and one that just syncs mail)
Whenever the market tells me i have updates, i click the notification and the market opens with my second account active and just shows google apps under "installed apps" with no updates.
to fix this i have to click menu > accounts and change to my primary gmail address then all is good, it shows all my apps and any updates i need.
this happen to anyone else?
Yep. That is a feature, if you have one address for work let's say, and one for personal use. Your boss needs you to have certain apps linked to your work account, (free and purchased), but tells you not to link them to your personal account, (because the company credit card can only be linked to your work account for purchasing apps.) It is a feature. Don't fret.
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deedscreen said:
Yep. That is a feature, if you have one address for work let's say, and one for personal use. Your boss needs you to have certain apps linked to your work account, (free and purchased), but tells you not to link them to your personal account, (because the company credit card can only be linked to your work account for purchasing apps.) It is a feature. Don't fret.
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I don't think u understand the OP's question or maybe it's the way it was typed.
I have this same issue, not a feature but a bug.
It switched from ur primary account to the secondary account without ever notifying the user. U have to manually switch it back whenever you launch the market which is very annoying. Anyone figured out how to make it stop doing that?
five40 said:
I don't think u understand the OP's question or maybe it's the way it was typed.
I have this same issue, not a feature but a bug.
It switched from ur primary account to the secondary account without ever notifying the user. U have to manually switch it back whenever you launch the market which is very annoying. Anyone figured out how to make it stop doing that?
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Thanks for clearifying that. I now understand that this is a bug. Sorry for the confusion.
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Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
lvond555 said:
Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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that was a really annoying "feature" of the samsung fascinate. I guess the only way around it is to use the AOSP contacts program. I will attempt to restore it from titanium backup and see if it works
it usually sets it as gmail right out of the gate when i'm creating contacts, etc...i find myself checking every once in awhile now anyways. it is truly annoying!
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evilmansin said:
I don't have a thunderbolt but that **** would piss me off. If they have you an option to save settings as defaults but thats lame sauce... Eff VZW
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A) language
B) It's a feature of sense, therefore htc, not vzw, is to blame.
however, yes, annoying. One solution would be to export contracts to SD from phone, import from SD to google.
(you would have to keep doing this, but it's a good way to back up before wipe/flash.)
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evilmansin said:
I don't have a thunderbolt but that **** would piss me off. If they have you an option to save settings as defaults but thats lame sauce... Eff VZW
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butthurt n00b detected....launching all countermeasures!!!
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butthurt n00b detected....launching all countermeasures!!!
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LOL! Couldn't have said it better myself.
edited my previous post. Seems go contacts wouldn't solve the issue.
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however, yes, annoying. One solution would be to export contracts to SD from phone, import from SD to google.
(you would have to keep doing this, but it's a good way to back up before wipe/flash.)
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I did the same thing. I went into gmail and organized/updated all my contacts. So now all my phone contacts are Google contacts. Be sure to go into gmail and do a perge/merge of any duplicates. This makes porting contacts over that much easier.
What really annoyed me was the linking/suggested linking of contacts on the phone vs google vs facebook. After you centralize everything around your google contacts things become much easier.
To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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I think if you create the new contact in your google account (vs on the phone) then it will sync up and everything will be OK.
I have to get into my google account contacts and clean up some stuff, duplicates, etc., that seem to appear every now and then.
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To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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Thanks, this is one step closer to what I need. I have a couple GMail accounts on my phone one of which I use solely for work contacts and I use the option of selecting which GMail account I added the new contact to. Really missing this feature
Any word if the AOSP contact app works?
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To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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That just changes which contacts show. I am talking about entering a new contact and letting it be a Google contact by default. I don't want to accidentally set it up as a phone contact which will not sync to your Google account.
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Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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I gotta say Contact Management with Android has been probably one of my biggest frustrations. I like the ability to sync my GMail contacts, that's easy enough. But between getting pictures and "linking" "synching" and "attaching" contacts via Twitter, MS Exchange, and other means... TO not being able to only populate mobile numbers when creating SMS/MMS's and such, it is just way more difficult than it should be.
It could and SHOULD be much simpler. Maybe I'm just a wii-todd, idk.. Either way, I feel your pain dude.
Ya so was I.... Maybe since u have a mixture it isn't working for u.....Export all your contact to Google then remove ur Google account from the phone then delete all ur contacts off ur phone then sync with Google and do the steps I posted before
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That just changes which contacts show. I am talking about entering a new contact and letting it be a Google contact by default. I don't want to accidentally set it up as a phone contact which will not sync to your Google account.
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So for some reason I get a server error when I buy apps now. My main Gmail on my phone is my schools email an which all my already purchased apps are tied too. I believe its because I can't use my school email anymore with Google checkout. Is my only option to create a new gmail an start over? I can log into android market on the computer with my school Gmail, an install apps. But if I try to buy one it just sits there loading.
So basically I can only have Google checkout with my alternate gmail but that's not my primary gmail. Any suggestions?
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have you tried logging into the market directly on your computer and not your phone?
Yeah I can log into the market on my computer. What do you mean and not on my phone?
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meaning can you select an app on your pc and get to the market from it (as opposed to doing it on your phone).
dunno, try clearing cache, data, etc on the phone and restart the market.
appbrain has an app on the market as well that lets you access your market account. appbrain is just a thin wrapper on top of the normal market (so it's not a separate one). Maybe that would work.
Yeah I can install free apps fine. But apps that cost, ill select my app an then it just goes to a loading screen an sits there. I tried deleting data from market an no go. I think it doesn't work because my my main gmail account on my phone is in compatible with Google checkout. I wish I.could go back to where I can manually enter my credit card info when purchasing apps from my phone.
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I know there's an option in google business/education accounts just from using them that allows you to convert it to a normal google account. I can't remember if it's an admin or user setting offhand though. I think it's under https://www.google.com/accounts/b/1/ManageAccount
Is it something under personal settings?
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Is it something under personal settings?
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If the link didn't work, then it must be am admin option only. I have admin access to the account/domain I checked. I can take a screen shot when I get home later.
The link you provided worked, I just don't know where to go from there.
Try turning in multiple sign in, I think that forces it to be a normal google account.
No go, unless there's something else should be doing. All I did was turn it on an check the boxes. I turned it on for my .edu account(primary) an also for my gmail(secondary) .
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Hmm. I am out of options right now. I would contact google and see what they can do about not being able to access your applications if you are unable to that you paid for and/or porting them to another account.
Okay, I may just contact the couple devs for the paid apps that I really use an see if they can refund me when I bring them over to my other account. Thanks for the help and ideas.
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Probably a repost, but I didn't see it here. Anyone have the email app connected to Google apps working? Mine keeps saying cannot connect to server. I don't want to just use gmail app because its for my work email and I want to use the peak/off peak settings so I don't get notified of every work email while sitting at my work computer.
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If you mean a using a gmail account in the stock email app yes i do because the stock email app allows you to embed images and no other client or app does. I have no issues with this account in stock email app.
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I have the exact same issue as the OP and there are a couple of threads (somewhere?) with no resolution.
Before everyone chimes in with "My Gmail works fine" the problem is with google apps accounts. That is a google email account with your own domain that you most likely pay for or use with business accounts.
It is a really frustrating bug. You put in the correct credentials and setup works fine but upon returning to the mail screen the app just says 'Cannot connect to ACCOUNT"
One possible workaround is to use the mail app from the galaxy note or similar devices as described in a thread in the themes/apps section but you loose the peak/offpeak settings.
If anyone has any more info please chime in!
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I have the exact same issue as the OP and there are a couple of threads (somewhere?) with no resolution.
Before everyone chimes in with "My Gmail works fine" the problem is with google apps accounts. That is a google email account with your own domain that you most likely pay for or use with business accounts.
It is a really frustrating bug. You put in the correct credentials and setup works fine but upon returning to the mail screen the app just says 'Cannot connect to ACCOUNT"
One possible workaround is to use the mail app from the galaxy note or similar devices as described in a thread in the themes/apps section but you loose the peak/offpeak settings.
If anyone has any more info please chime in!
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Right now I'm using IMAP and it works....but the whole point of exchange active sync was to utilize the peak and off peak settings while I'm at my desk so I don't get duplicate emails and it saves battery as well.
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I just updated my Sprint Evo 3d to ICS last night and before I learned that you can't see Facebook contact images in 3rd party apps without some tinkering I deleted my gmail and Facebook accounts from the phone thinking that would help. When I put my accounts back Facebook only automatically linked half of my contacts. I selected the option to sync with existing contacts. Is there any way to get it to automatically link the rest? I don't want to manually link 100+ contacts. Is there a way to manually trigger the linking? Also, I don't know if it matters, but before the ICS update I had Facebook and Facebook for sense on the phone. Now it is only Facebook.
The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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All the names are identical so that isn't a problem and they linked perfectly fine when I first got the phone with gingerbread. When I first set up the phone periodically the phone would alert me to possible contact links every so often until they were all linked. It isn't doing that now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639275
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Sitlet I think that is for a different issue. My problem isn't that 3rd party apps can't get the pictures (well that WAS my problem originally), it is that the link is not being established in the first place. I can fix the picture issue but I need the phone to prompt me about potential links between the contacts so I don't have to do it manually. The fix in that thread won't LINK my contacts right? It will just allow 3rd party apps to get the contact photos.
In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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Yeah for a few days it forced me to login every time. It wasn't just the mobile app though it was doing it to me on the regular web version as well.
Now that I have this all figured out it leads me to my next question. I used syncmypix to grab the high quality images from FB instead of the **** low rez ones that it imports itself and it synced it to my gmail account. However, the phone is set to default to the FB picture not the Google version. I can go into each contact and tell it to use the gmail photo but once again, I would rather not have to do that. Anyone know of a batch way of doing this?
Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
Well, more years ago than I can remember I pretty much linked all of my emails to Gmail, so I've had this functionality across all platforms since then.
For as long as I can remember the android app has also let me choose which of these addresses to send from.
I'd recommend that approach tbh.
Can be done from the site. This app-feature lead me to it so that was useful. But I can read all the email accounts by anything accessing the gmail, Android and desktop applications.
Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
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Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
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That's not gmailfying, thats just adding an account to the gmail app (which has been around for years). Gmailifying means gmail completely takes over, when you open gmail (from any device) you will have the mail from the gmailified account alongside your gmail. Adding an account the way you describe is just local on the app. What you need to do is "link" an account, not just add an account. To do this, after you add an account, go into the setting and chose link to gmail. However, if you already have 1 account linked it will tell you that you can't have another one linked. I hope this makes sense.
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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Nope. Doesn't work. ?
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Nope. Doesn't work.
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Awww, sorry ಥ_ಥ
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Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
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Well there's a 0% chance that I ve ever used the gmail app on my devices. I'm playing with CloudMagic email app now, it does what I want it to with all my email addys across the spectrum (course the stock Samsung email app did most of that, but wasn't installed on this custom rom)
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