I am in the process of setting up and exploring my new Note. It appears that a lot of this involves a Google account. I have an old Google account, but it does not use a gmail email.
Will I have to setup a separate account with Gmail to access the extras?
reubenray said:
I am in the process of setting up and exploring my new Note. It appears that a lot of this involves a Google account. I have an old Google account, but it does not use a gmail email.
Will I have to setup a separate account with Gmail to access the extras?
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I think you can just use your Google account. It should still give you access to the market.
But to be safe.... I'd make a Gmail account. Great way to manage your contacts, calenders, etc
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This has been a bit frustrating.
When you go through set-up, it gives you the option of adding a Google account which is necessary for using Market. But it also syncs your e-mail into the Gmail app and syncs your contacts. I don't want either of those because my Exchange has both contacts and I want to use the HTC mail widget for my Gmail.
I have tried various ways to prevent this from happening, but all have failed.
1. I went through set-up connecting to wifi and adding my Gmail. Then I went to options and removed syncing. But my e-mail and contacts are still in the Gmail app.
2. I did not connect to wifi so that I can first go to options and removing syncing, but that didn't help.
3. I created another generic gmail account just so I can use it for market. However, now that account is connected to my GTalk app instead of my normal account.
So here is my goal:
Use my everyday Gmail with GoogleTalk app, but without it syncing my Gmail contacts or my e-mail with the Gmail app.
Is there any way to do this? Am I missing something? Can you go to the syncing options without actually setuping the Google account first?
Thanks for the help.
Also, while we are on the topic:
What is the main difference between the two? I keep reading online that the Gmail app is supposed to be Push e-mail, but I have also read just as many posts saying it doesn't work or it doesn't do that.
I figured out a solution:
1. Go through set-up and connect to Wi-Fi, but do not set-up a Google account. Skip it.
2. Go to Settings>Syncing>Checking Auto-Sync and Sync in Background
3. Settings>Add Account>Google Account
And here is where you need some fast fingers...
4. Settings>Check Sync in Background and Auto-Sync and quickly click on Google Account you just set-up and uncheck Sync Contacts, Calendars, and E-mail.
I was able to uncheck e-mail sync, but it had synced some of my contacts already. That wasn't a problem b/c I haven't set up my Outlook account so I just deleted all the Google contacts it had synced. But I was fast enough where I didn't let it sync Gmail account.
Now no e-mails in Gmail app and I can use Google Talk.
I have just got my SII and am trying to connect to both of my Google accounts - my Gmail account is the one I use for trash & Market, my Google Apps account is the one I need for email, contacts & calendar.
It syncs the Gmail account fine, connects to the Google Apps account fine but only shows Calendar & Contacts for sync, the email account is missing. I was using a Nexus One fine with both accounts but the SII just won't see the G_Apps email.
Anyone got any ideas ?
Handset from O2 UK, locked I assume.
cottinghamm said:
I have just got my SII and am trying to connect to both of my Google accounts - my Gmail account is the one I use for trash & Market, my Google Apps account is the one I need for email, contacts & calendar.
It syncs the Gmail account fine, connects to the Google Apps account fine but only shows Calendar & Contacts for sync, the email account is missing. I was using a Nexus One fine with both accounts but the SII just won't see the G_Apps email.
Anyone got any ideas ?
Handset from O2 UK, locked I assume.
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That is a bit of a bummer. I use at least 2 Google Apps accounts... Though I'm pretty sure that this sort of functionality comes from the Google stuff, rather than Samsung...
Did you add them both in the same way?
cottinghamm said:
I have just got my SII and am trying to connect to both of my Google accounts - my Gmail account is the one I use for trash & Market, my Google Apps account is the one I need for email, contacts & calendar.
It syncs the Gmail account fine, connects to the Google Apps account fine but only shows Calendar & Contacts for sync, the email account is missing. I was using a Nexus One fine with both accounts but the SII just won't see the G_Apps email.
Anyone got any ideas ?
Handset from O2 UK, locked I assume.
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prolly your are forgetting a checkbox... are you syncing both accounts?
in gmail app, under accounts do you see both accounts?
I have both a GMail account and a Google Apps account - both are syncing fine here, showing sync options for calendar, contacts and mail for both accounts.
So must be something specific to your setup - definitely not a SGS2 or Google limitation
Can't work out why this happened, it is working now so it may have been a setting or anything, I deleted the G_Apps account & added it again & it all worked.
Thanks
So i purchased some apps on android market on my old Evo 4G. Now that i have the 3D im not sure how to get those apps on my phone. The Sprint Employee set up my phone and asked for my gmail account. I gave him the one i have all my contacts in but my market account is on another email.
How do i set up the market on a different account?
You'll have to merge your contacts into the account you want the apps from. The sync account on the phone is "google" i.e. the whole thing (contacts,calendar,market,gmail,etc.). You could use an app to backup your contacts to SD and then sign off/delete the current google acct. in settings/acconts + sync, then sign on the correct one, and import your contacts. Hope this helps.
You can add another gmail account and access that way. More than one gmail accounts are allowed.
Jye75 said:
You can add another gmail account and access that way. More than one gmail accounts are allowed.
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how do you add another account?
So since the latest google voice update, instead of selecting a different account for google voice, it now forces you to add the account. Now i'm wondering a) am i the only one sharing a google voice mailbox between 2 phones and b) should i perhaps go to a multi-account setup?
pre update:
my wife had a google account and used my google voice account
i had my own google account, so anytime a message was left for either of us, no matter who's phone we had we could get the message. Now if i had my account to her phone she also gets my gtalk, gmail, etc, unless i set them not to sync, but it's very easy to accidentally start gtalk with the wrong id, etc. It got me thinking, maybe I should create a new gmail account for things we like to mutually have i.e. a voice mail box , calendar and contacts and then we each have our own accounts for gmail, gtalk, etc
Having never used 2 accounts on one phone will this be pretty seamless? Anyone using this method? Anyone have ideas what some of the problems might be with this issue?
I have set up a Gmail account as required to use the Google market.
I don't allow this email to backup my contacts etc. Just to be able to use the Google Market.
I need to to set up my primary Gmail account without having it linked to the device. The normal email account set up doesn't allow me to download attachments and is not stable.
How can i do this?
Thanks.
Are you using the gmail app from the market? Works fine for me. I have 2 gmail accounts.. 1 for market, 1 for other stuff, both work with the app.
tkirkland said:
Are you using the gmail app from the market? Works fine for me. I have 2 gmail accounts.. 1 for market, 1 for other stuff, both work with the app.
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Thanks for your reply.
Yes I use the Gmail app from the market.
Once installed and before I enter my main Gmail account it asks me to resync, which I do.This brings up the default gmail account needed to run the phone.
Then I can add another Gmail account but it links it to the phone which I don't want it to do. I want to keep my main email account separate from the phone. i.e I don't want it to have all my details in the phone to be in my primary Gmail account. ( if that makes sense).
bluegrass55 said:
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I use the Gmail app from the market.
Once installed and before I enter my main Gmail account it asks me to resync, which I do.This brings up the default gmail account needed to run the phone.
Then I can add another Gmail account but it links it to the phone which I don't want it to do. I want to keep my main email account separate from the phone. i.e I don't want it to have all my details in the phone to be in my primary Gmail account. ( if that makes sense).
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I am not sure I understand your problem entirely, but if it is of any help, you can choose what to sync and what not to sync to your account from the Settings-> Accounts.