This tag is for issues with Googles own mail app and service, called 'GMail' and also known as 'Google Mail'. For other mail apps/services, use the tag special to them or the generic 'email' tag.
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Adding email address from Gmail to Contacts
Suppose I have a contact in Contacts named John Smith. John's email address is jsmith@gmail.com. I've emailed him in the past, but I've never added his email to his contact details. Now, suppose I ...
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How to change gmail synch frequency in ICS
I am using a stock Nexus S that has been upgraded to ICS 4.0.3. I have noticed that gmail synchs far less frequently since the upgrade - at the moment it appears to be synching aprox every 8 hours.
I ...
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Just enabled 2-factor authentication for gmail, now on my Android phone I get “Sign-in error” to my google account [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Google's 2-step verification
As per today's Stackexchange Podcast I took Jeff's advice and enabled 2-factor authentication for my gmail account. However now when my ...
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Firm Gmail, i.e. Google Apps -email, with K9 -email program?
I am struggling with this kind of Google Apps -site, example from Google.com -site here.
I use two email-clients in Android: default Gmail -client (because it is tied to my Gmail) and K9. I ...
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How to turn off duplicate email notification messages?
Recently bought a Samsung Galaxy 2.
There's a built-in app for both Gmail and general e-mail. I've been using the general e-mail app.
I'm finding that I'm getting notifications from both apps for ...
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Gmail app on LG Optimus U doesn't get email anymore
I have an LG Optimus U from US Cellular and I use the stock Gmail app. A few days ago, it stopped receiving any new emails. When I click on refresh it doesn't do anything, just fails silently. Also, ...
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Does the gmail app stop syncing once the “Low on space” message appears?
Based on casual observation and anecdotal evidence it appears to me that once the "Low on space" message appears in the status bar the gmail app stops syncing and stops notifying me of new emails.
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Synchronization does not work
HTC magic
Android 1.6
A couple of weeks ago the built in sync of mail, contacts and calendar stopped working. Sync is activated for all three and it seems to sync sometimes, but not all the time as ...
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How do I delete a Non - primary Gmail account from Gmail app 4.3.1?
This was easy to do before the upgrade, now it doesn't do this. It doesn't make sense to have to do a factory reset! It's less intuitive!
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How to make Gmail in Android ask for user name and password as in laptop? [duplicate]
In my Samsung Galaxy Grand whenever I select the Gmail icon, it automatically takes me into the inbox, it doesn't ask me to give credentials like we do in laptop/desktop.
So the problem is when ...
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Is it possible to remove an account from the Gmail app but keep the account on the phone?
I have multiple Google accounts, synced to the phone.
For one of them I don't use GMail and have turned off syncing of mail. However the account still appears in the GMail app.
This means sometimes I ...
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Disable threaded email in Gmail app
How can I disable threaded email in the default gmail app on my s3 android.... I would like to see each individual email instead of all the threads mashed together.
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How to set up Google Apps Gmail on an Android -phone? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Firm Gmail, i.e. Google Apps -email, with K9 -email program?
I have this kind of firm url, https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/firm.com. I want to have an IMAP -email ...
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Why does Gmail force close when I open it?
Every time I open my Gmail app it force closes. This is the message I get:
The application Gmail( process com.android.gmail) has stopped
unexpectedly. Please try again.)
If it helps I am using ...
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How can I sign out from gmail in my Android? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How-to unlink the main Google account from android device without a factory reset
Logout from Gmail on my device
I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia. I have logged in on it ...
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How can I set notifications for gmail on the new version of the gmail app (2.3.5.2)
I recently installed CM7.1 (stable version for SGS). This has a new version of the gmail app (2.3.5.2). Unlike previous versions, this has no control for notifications. I like my mail to arrive ...
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Deleting emails in the online GMail list, does not delete them on my Android 2.2 Samsung Galaxy S, is this normal?
This morning I decided to clean up my emails list in my gmail account using the Windows wb browser.
However when I opened the gmail application on my Samsung Galaxy S running Froyo 2.2, the emails I ...
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Quick way to show unread emails in inbox in Gmail app?
Is there a quick (menu / tap) way of viewing the unread emails in your inbox? Or at least showing the unread emails at the top of the list of emails, in other words sorted by unread/read ...
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How can I set up my Google account without syncing Gmail?
I got a Nexus 7 tablet. Is it possible to use my Google account just to download apps and for backup purpose?
I'd rather not see my emails, chats and contacts on the device as it's not with me all ...
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Gmail notifications stopped working
I don't receive Gmail notifications on my phone recently, no sound, no light and nothing appears on the notification bar. Searching the web, I figured it might have happened because I turned syncing ...
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Links from Gmail all open in same Chrome tab
I just noticed that when I open a link from the Gmail app (in Chrome), then go back to Gmail and click another link, it replaces the first one in Chrome. I end up with only one tab open. Is there a ...
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Gmail stuck on “Waiting for sync”
My Gmail app recently stopped working. I'm on a SGS Captivate running this custom ROM -- while I realize there might be some ROM-specific glitch, I thought I could ask here for general ...
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Email sending issue
So the other day I wrote and email and it tried to send and failed with a temporary server error. Now I can't get it to stop trying to send and it doesn't show up anywhere. I sent it using the email ...
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How can I refresh an email in the native gmail app?
I get many emails with pictures in them. When I try viewing them in the native gmail app, it displays some of them, but not all. The only way to view the undisplayed ones is to preview them one at a ...
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Gmail app does not refresh email read status
The first thing I like to do in the morning as I wake up is to read new emails in the Galaxy S. I refresh my Gmail account in the Gmail app, the mails show up, I read them and everything works ...
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Understanding Sync & Transferring one account to another
I've tried to find information about understanding syncing account information on Android but cannot find any definitive guide to answer the below questions
What does syncing actually mean? Is it ...
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Notification of new label e-mails [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can gmail notifications be customized by label?
I have a filter in gmail that sets some of the mail to skip the inbox and be archived (unread) under a specific label. On ...
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Latest Gmail update is not working on my Samsung Galaxy S3. What is the solution?
I have the Gmail app installed and in the latest update it said we could reply to emails directly from the drop-down status bar without having to open the app. I don't see any feature like this. How ...
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How to edit doc from mail attachment in drive?
I have an email with a .doc or .xls attachment and I wanted to copy some text from it. JB 4.2 opens it by default with the "document viewer app", which doesn't allow copy/paste.
I tried downloading ...
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Some Emails Not Pushed to Gmail App
I have 2 accounts within Outlook 2007 - work email through Microsoft Exchange and a Gmail IMAP account. I have a rule set where email sent to the work account will also be copied to the Inbox of the ...
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Problem syncing Gmail contacts on Android tablet
I have a Teac tablet (classic101) with Android 4.0.
After signing in on Gmail and Drive and everything, my contacts won't show up anywhere. It doesn't show when I start writing an address in Gmail. ...
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how do i manually configure an account?
I downloaded the google play app, and it says I need to add an account to access. When I go to accounts/sync and add account, I do not get the same prompts as I do on my phone. The phone asks which ...
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how to sort my contacts from pc on google account to most frequently used. not including the default email list
How can I sort my contact list from my PC to show the most-used contacts or most-recently-used from my Google account without my Android in hand? This does not include the default 20-most-contacted ...
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Can't select date in calendar and Gmail not coming to phone
My question is 2 fold:
First, when I go into calendar monthly view and hit say the 15h of the month...it won't pull up the info that day. When I do a battery pull, it will work for a few hours then ...
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Create a Gmail address for a Google account but use another email as the login
I want to add a Gmail address to my account (that I will not use) but I don't want that address to be my main address (i.e. my login) for Google, because I already use me@example.com everywhere.
I ...
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How to remove Samsung native email app from Galaxy S2? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How can I uninstall applications that are locked by phone vendor?
How can you uninstall an app that you didn't install on your Droid?
How can I uninstall built-in ...
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Contacts synchronisation
I synchronized my Samsung S2 with mail Exchange account, and downloaded my contacts from Exchange server, but now I want to upload my contacts to my Gmail account. In my Gmail mail app I created new ...
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Stuck on the Gmail inbox
When I click on Gmail app, it takes me directly to my inbox. I cannot get out of it. I also cannot find my contacts, or the sign-in or sign-out page. I tried to uninstall it, but it would not let me.
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Change existing contacts from 'phone' to 'gmail' [duplicate]
When the contact items (or several) are set to 'phone', how can they be changed to 'gmail' in order to sync?
In the post Contacts Sync problems: phone contacts not syncing to Google,
it says that ...
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Can I change the gmail account associated with google play store? [duplicate]
When I got my android phone I had a gmail account, gmail-1, but have now created another account, gmail-2. Is it possible to transfer my play store info (i.e. app download history) from gmail-1 to ...
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How to protect my Google account credentials on my Android phone?
Currently I use Gmail on my desktop with 2-step verification (by SMS) enabled and I consider it secure. Now I'm buying an Android phone and I'd like to check Gmail on it sometimes, but I don't want to ...
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g-mail app: download without an attachment
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2. I use GMail, and I am using the GMail app on this phone.
Is there a way to have emails downloaded to my phone without the attachments? So when I open the email I have the ...
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Can't get Google Play after flashing firmware
I've recently rooted my phone in pursuit of freeing up the internal memory from system apps. I then tried uninstalling Gmail by deleting the file and then trying to reinstall it from the play store ...
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Gmail app - cancel notification but see number of unread
I have two problems with the Gmail app:
I'm using LAuncherPro and have the Gmail app icon in the down task-bar, but I don't see the unread mail count. How can I make the unread number appear there?
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Should I reset my phone and how do I back up my phone's data?
I've got a new Telstra Smart-Touch Next Generation and I logged on to my G-mail account so I could use the calender and other apps. After a while I realised that my credit was being eaten up bit by ...
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Sprint HTC shift: delete all gmail contacts with no phone number
After syncing my phone with a gmail account, all of my gmail contacts were loaded onto my phone... Now any app that pulls all my phone's contacts, such as RingDroid, will include hundreds of email ...
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Sync Google contact photo to Android phone
I created a contact a while back of a friend, just her name and mobile number. Today I added her Gmail address to the phonebook in her contact card.
When I go into Gmail Contacts I see her Google+ ...
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Upload PDF file to Gmail
After downloading a PDF file from Gmail with the help of ASTRO File Manager in my Samsung Galaxy S III, I tried to find the PDF file to attach in the email (Gmail). Unfortunately, only ...
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When I write an email using the Android mail apps, how can I send it 2 hours later?
When I write an email at 2:00 AM or 2:59 AM I don't want to send it at that time (because I want to go to sleep), but instead tell Android/GMail to send this email a few hours later, because of ...
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GMail attachment download does not complete
I am using Jelly Bean on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. I have been trying to download an attachment from the GMail app. All I see is a progress bar which shows 0% progress and an icon added in the ...
