Hi all you amazing developers.
Is there a way to change to options in the mail app to include more than 30 days of mail? Perhaps there could be 90 or 120 days? Or perhaps it could have an option for # of messages - like 3000 or 5000 messages?
I find it very limiting to have to chose between 30 days or "all", for me "all" is about 8000 messages - and it crashes the phone ;-)
ronnienyc said:
Hi all you amazing developers.
Is there a way to change to options in the mail app to include more than 30 days of mail? Perhaps there could be 90 or 120 days? Or perhaps it could have an option for # of messages - like 3000 or 5000 messages?
I find it very limiting to have to chose between 30 days or "all", for me "all" is about 8000 messages - and it crashes the phone ;-)
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probably should be in the apps/theme forum, or even q&a.
Have you tried some alternate mail apps? k9mail, etc?
K9 crashes and is terribly unstable in my experience...
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Short Answer: No, there isn't.
Long answer: If you are using exchange, SOME (very little) have a setting for how many messages (most of them are the amount of days) to sync. I've only seen one provider do that and I don't remember who it was, but it used to be free, then it started costing money, so I stopped using it.
So, sorry, you can't. Not with HTC Mail, anyway. I still like it much better than GMail, and if you synced by the amount of messages, it would delete older (sometimes important) emails, so that's why it does it by the amount of days. I don't think it deletes older emails already synced to the phone (but I'm not sure of this).
Hi Derek, yes it does delete things older than 30 days...that's the problem. On my Blackberry I could search way, way back in emails. With Android - only 30 days is a real issue in terms of usefulness IMO. Between that and the lack of push mail, I am hoping Froyo works some magic on the email front.
Thanks.
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I've scoured the forums for an answer but all of these seemed to be pointing to the actual stock SMS app or another like Handcent.
What I'm talking about is that on third party applications that send SMS data to a server, the timestamp (apparently for all motorola phones) is delayed on applications such as:
DeskSMS
Web Desktop
LazyDroid
I'm experiencing this problem. Although on texting applications on the phone the timestamp is correct, on these third party applications that send information to my computer the time is around 4-5 hours behind.
Any theories/fixes? I have a feeling the normal time fix app won't work for this...
It's a known problem for all text messaging functions (phone and tied to PC). It has to do with how the date codes are stored in the text message database (which all SMS programs use). If you use SMS Backup and Restore to backup, then view your messages, all your received would be a few hours older.
On the phone, Go SMS works just fine (probably reads and writes to the database itself, instead of going through Motorola's crappy SMS programming). Dunno about the PC end. Although if you use LazyDroid and GO SMS at the same time, you'll get two copies of the same message: correct and old dated. Not the best workaround, but it's something.
Technically speaking, the Motorola coding (with Stock and apparently Handcent use to interface with the database) causes the date to be written as if your local current time IS the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT 0). When another program reads the code without using the Motorola programming, it tries to convert the
"GMT" to your time zone. So for me on the East Coast of the US, I'm on GMT-5. Add a difference of 1 for Daylights savings time in the US, and my messages are 4 hours old.
I don't have any issues. I get texts basically instantly from chrome to phone as well with the stock messaging services.
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i'm going to bump this because I have a weird issue.
i use GO SMS Pro and wanted to use Light Flow to control the LED on the device. When you disable GO SMS native notification settings and uncheck the 'block other notifications' it allows the Light Flow controls to work, but I see the issue where all the received timestamps are 5 hours behind (I'm in the eastern time zone). However, if i do check the 'block other notifications' it works fine, but Light Flow blocks all use of the LED for text messaging. Kind of annoying since I don't see how Light Flow can reveal this bug, but after uninstalling the issue goes away.
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I've scoured the forums for an answer but all of these seemed to be pointing to the actual stock SMS app or another like Handcent.
What I'm talking about is that on third party applications that send SMS data to a server, the timestamp (apparently for all motorola phones) is delayed on applications such as:
DeskSMS
Web Desktop
LazyDroid
I'm experiencing this problem. Although on texting applications on the phone the timestamp is correct, on these third party applications that send information to my computer the time is around 4-5 hours behind.
Any theories/fixes? I have a feeling the normal time fix app won't work for this...
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I'd assume you do not use your phone on Verizon. Anyways - there is an app on the market called SMS Time Fix. I think it can solve your issue without having to replace standard SMS client.
I was using go sms for like 14 hrs. Deleted it, tho. It was nice to theme it but for some reason it kept reverting my theme to the default and or would revert some aspects of it while keeping others.
Ill just wait for a rom, I don't really have that big of an issue with the stock app.
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leobg said:
I'd assume you do not use your phone on Verizon. Anyways - there is an app on the market called SMS Time Fix. I think it can solve your issue without having to replace standard SMS client.
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Not sure if you're on a Droid3, but my SMS Time Fix doesn't work all the time on my Bell XT860 (running on Rogers). How has your experience been? Most of the time it gets the right timestamp, but sometimes it doesn't. Is there any way I can tell if the task manager is killing the app or...?
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Not sure if you're on a Droid3, but my SMS Time Fix doesn't work all the time on my Bell XT860 (running on Rogers). How has your experience been? Most of the time it gets the right timestamp, but sometimes it doesn't. Is there any way I can tell if the task manager is killing the app or...?
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I am indeed using Bell XT860 on Rogers. SMS timestamp fix works fine for me. Without it installed messages are stamped with GMT time.
Beside installing it you need to open it, set it active (it is disabled by default) and choose method to correct time (adjustment method) - select top one - Time zone.
Contrary to many threads I've seen all around the internet, my phone does NOT do this. My friend who is using the S4 can constantly keep typing and it will automatically change to one nice big MMS message after 160 characters. My HTC One (M7) however, does not do this. It sends all the messages separate, and most of the time, not even in the right order. How can I get it to automatically convert SMS messages that are over 160 characters to MMS? Thanks in advance!
What you are seeing is a feature of Touchwiz. Chances are you will need a messaging app capable of this.
Okay...any apps that immediately come to mind from anybody?... I looked up quite a few, but most were Wi-Fi centered IMing apps, not actual texting apps.
8sms can do it! (Been searching for this for hours and hours.)
An alternative I found is to add a subject, but everything I saw you have to do manually for each message.
Happy holidays everyone.
a few days ago I received a group text message on a few days back with about 14 people in the group. (merry christmas everyone!) I wanted to reply back but the send button never gets highlighted to be able to send.
a few hours later i received another group text message with a bunch of different recipients (there were some same recipients too). I was able to reply back to this one with no issue.
What is going on here? Is there some setting i'm not looking at?
running stock DOK2 firmware. Just received this phone less than a week ago and barely have any apps loaded on it.
There is a limit for group messaging on the stock messaging app (10 people). If you want to test it out, try to create a group text with 10 or less and the send icon will be available, when you go above 10 it will not.
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There is a limit for group messaging on the stock messaging app (10 people). If you want to test it out, try to create a group text with 10 or less and the send icon will be available, when you go above 10 it will not.
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I had no idea. It was so frustrating. What is their reasoning for this? Is that even documented anywhere? what's the workaround?
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I had no idea. It was so frustrating. What is their reasoning for this? Is that even documented anywhere? what's the workaround?
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Not sure what the reasoning is, but I just recall that the limit has always been 10 for group messaging within the default app (Android devices).
I use Textra right now as it works well for texting over Wifi. But most 3rd party texting apps don't have the 10 person limit.
Yesterday I set up my new Moto G5S Plus, and much to my dismay I am not getting any email notifications.
I have three email accounts: Gmail, Comcast and Yahoo. Unlike my previous phones, I had to set up all the accounts through Gmail.
This is my fourth smartphone, so it's not like I don't know what I am doing. I have gone through every menu and enabled every notification. I noticed that the quickest time to synch email is every 15 minutes, so I installed PNF No-root, which allowed me to shorten the time to every 5 minutes. This app worked very well on a previous phone. But it didn't help on my Moto G5S Plus.
If anyone who has this phone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate them.
Can you be more specific? Are you not getting any new email, not getting any notification that you have a new email, or not getting the notification sound when you get a new email? You can also try another email client, like K9 mail, and see if that makes a difference.
cameraz said:
Yesterday I set up my new Moto G5S Plus, and much to my dismay I am not getting any email notifications.
I have three email accounts: Gmail, Comcast and Yahoo. Unlike my previous phones, I had to set up all the accounts through Gmail.
This is my fourth smartphone, so it's not like I don't know what I am doing. I have gone through every menu and enabled every notification. I noticed that the quickest time to synch email is every 15 minutes, so I installed PNF No-root, which allowed me to shorten the time to every 5 minutes. This app worked very well on a previous phone. But it didn't help on my Moto G5S Plus.
If anyone who has this phone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate them.
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Can you be more specific? Are you not getting any new email, not getting any notification that you have a new email, or not getting the notification sound when you get a new email? You can also try another email client, like K9 mail, and see if that makes a difference.
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I have done several tests, emailing to and from my computer to my three email accounts. I don't get any sound or visual notifications on my Moto G5S Plus. However, I do get sound and visual notifications within minutes on my Honor 5X phone.
The email does eventually show up in the email app on my Moto, but I have to swipe down (refresh) on the screen for them to appear.
I don't want to switch to a different email client since my phone should work the way it is set up. The fact that I was the first person to post this problem with the Moto G5S Plus leads me to believe that everybody else's phones are working properly.
Note: I have also accessed the hidden System UI Tuner, and set the Power notification controls to Level 5 for my emails, but that hasn't helped either.
It usually happens when the phone is in 'Power Saving' mode. Other than that, I faced this when I added my Outlook email in the Gmail client (or as exchange account - don't exactly remember).
You may also check the 'Sync' settings. Maybe you've unchecked Emails there.
It should work just fine, though. If you don't have much data (or don't have problem backing it up) and/or don't want to mess much, do a factory reset and add the account.
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I have done several tests, emailing to and from my computer to my three email accounts. I don't get any sound or visual notifications on my Moto G5S Plus. However, I do get sound and visual notifications within minutes on my Honor 5X phone.
The email does eventually show up in the email app on my Moto, but I have to swipe down (refresh) on the screen for them to appear.
I don't want to switch to a different email client since my phone should work the way it is set up. The fact that I was the first person to post this problem with the Moto G5S Plus leads me to believe that everybody else's phones are working properly.
Note: I have also accessed the hidden System UI Tuner, and set the Power notification controls to Level 5 for my emails, but that hasn't helped either.
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Well, that's why I asked what your specific problem was. I'd say you're not getting the push notifications in a timely manner. And I've had that problem before. When I checked my phone in the morning, it would show no new emails, but if I refreshed a sync, several would show up that should have been received over night. I'm not sure I changed anything but I don't seem to be having the trouble any more. But I've played around with the phone more since I've gotten it and might have tripped over a setting that fixed it unknowingly. Is your Battery saver mode turned on? And again, I'd install K9 mail and load one email service you have into it. You can run more than one email program at a time. Then send an email and see if either mail programs receive it. Then you can uninstall K9. But at least you'd know if it was the email program or something else.
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Well, that's why I asked what your specific problem was. I'd say you're not getting the push notifications in a timely manner. And I've had that problem before. When I checked my phone in the morning, it would show no new emails, but if I refreshed a sync, several would show up that should have been received over night. I'm not sure I changed anything but I don't seem to be having the trouble any more. But I've played around with the phone more since I've gotten it and might have tripped over a setting that fixed it unknowingly. Is your Battery saver mode turned on? And again, I'd install K9 mail and load one email service you have into it. You can run more than one email program at a time. Then send an email and see if either mail programs receive it. Then you can uninstall K9. But at least you'd know if it was the email program or something else.
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There's also the Lenovo forum you could ask. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-G5S-Moto-G5S-Plus/bd-p/Moto_G5S_G5S_Plus
If you find a solution, it would be nice if you posted back.
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Well, that's why I asked what your specific problem was. I'd say you're not getting the push notifications in a timely manner. And I've had that problem before. When I checked my phone in the morning, it would show no new emails, but if I refreshed a sync, several would show up that should have been received over night. I'm not sure I changed anything but I don't seem to be having the trouble any more. But I've played around with the phone more since I've gotten it and might have tripped over a setting that fixed it unknowingly. Is your Battery saver mode turned on? And again, I'd install K9 mail and load one email service you have into it. You can run more than one email program at a time. Then send an email and see if either mail programs receive it. Then you can uninstall K9. But at least you'd know if it was the email program or something else.
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There's also the Lenovo forum you could ask. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-G5S-Moto-G5S-Plus/bd-p/Moto_G5S_G5S_Plus
If you find a solution, it would be nice if you posted back.
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Thanks! I will certainly check it out. I just got off a chat with Moto support, and they had me go into Safe Mode and clear my cache, but that didn't solve the problem. Although I knew it wouldn't.
tarun0 said:
It usually happens when the phone is in 'Power Saving' mode. Other than that, I faced this when I added my Outlook email in the Gmail client (or as exchange account - don't exactly remember).
You may also check the 'Sync' settings. Maybe you've unchecked Emails there.
It should work just fine, though. If you don't have much data (or don't have problem backing it up) and/or don't want to mess much, do a factory reset and add the account.
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Thanks. I will try unchecking Power Saving mode. My Synch settings are all where they're supposed to be. Also, I spend many hours reloading all of my apps, photos, etc. on my phone, but it looks like I'll have to do a factory reset. Thanks again.
tarun0 said:
It usually happens when the phone is in 'Power Saving' mode. Other than that, I faced this when I added my Outlook email in the Gmail client (or as exchange account - don't exactly remember).
You may also check the 'Sync' settings. Maybe you've unchecked Emails there.
It should work just fine, though. If you don't have much data (or don't have problem backing it up) and/or don't want to mess much, do a factory reset and add the account.
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You were right! I turned off the Power Saving mode and immediately got email notifications -- both sound and visual. Thank you very much! I'm surprised that Motorola support couldn't have told me this.
Power Saving Mode main intention is so you can save some juice to pass the day or give you more time until you can charge it again when your battery reached threshold like 5% or 15%.
It's pointless to turn it on 24/7 unless you're on survival situation where email and such aren't as high priority as battery charge. It's more advisable to use the 'turn on automatically' option.
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You were right! I turned off the Power Saving mode and immediately got email notifications -- both sound and visual. Thank you very much! I'm surprised that Motorola support couldn't have told me this.
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My pleasure
Those people rarely provide satisfactory answers, if at all! The kind of service they offer questions the very significance of having such a department because they only irritate the customers with the template answers - reboot, safe mode, clear cache and reset. I'll be surprised if they ever provide any other answer for any problem.
In a nutshell, contacting them is as worthy as putting axe on one's own feet, especially when it's a 'Lenovo' brand.
At least for the mobiles and related issues, we have this awesome XDA community.
Gmail Delay in Sync and no Notifications sound problem has been hounding me for months now.
Tried all listed methods on the net . Gmail removed from battery optimization, checked, reset all Gmail settings, cleared cache & Data on Gmail app mutiple times, but my problems continue.
Anybody has a solution to the issue? Please help to sort out my gmail issues.
Am i the only one having Gmail issues?
Can somebody please help me no this.
I have the same problem, tried as you did, with no results, I ended using macrodroid to sync every 10 minutes, and sounding an alert when a new email arrives, just a workaroud, but it works
winol said:
I have the same problem, tried as you did, with no results, I ended using macrodroid to sync every 10 minutes, and sounding an alert when a new email arrives, just a workaroud, but it works
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Thanks for answering and if this is a big problem being encountered by many users, why is it not being discussed?
Let me try this MacroDroid app. & hopefully it works satisfactorily.
winol said:
I have the same problem, tried as you did, with no results, I ended using macrodroid to sync every 10 minutes, and sounding an alert when a new email arrives, just a workaroud, but it works
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Have been trying to make work the Gmail notifications through MacroDroid for the last 2 hours or more, but unable to do so.
Can you let me know the exact Triggers, Actions & Constraints to be used ?
Please help.
winol said:
I have the same problem, tried as you did, with no results, I ended using macrodroid to sync every 10 minutes, and sounding an alert when a new email arrives, just a workaroud, but it works
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Just for your info., i have mutiple Gmail accounts and is it possible to set a different sound notification for each of them through Macrodroid?
Zappapp said:
Gmail Delay in Sync and no Notifications sound problem has been hounding me for months now.
Tried all listed methods on the net . Gmail removed from battery optimization, checked, reset all Gmail settings, cleared cache & Data on Gmail app mutiple times, but my problems continue.
Anybody has a solution to the issue? Please help to sort out my gmail issues.
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Any more help on this?
In macrodroid I made 2 macros
1 ) trigger recurrent all days, every 10 minutes
Action sync account, google, I use 2 gmail accounts sincyng
google, syncs both
2) for sounding alerts
Trigger notification present, gmail,, any
Action speak text or play sound, or both as you preffer
winol said:
In macrodroid I made 2 macros
1 ) trigger recurrent all days, every 10 minutes
Action sync account, google, I use 2 gmail accounts sincyng
google, syncs both
2) for sounding alerts
Trigger notification present, gmail,, any
Action speak text or play sound, or both as you preffer
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Thanks for replying. I have been able to get the above and implement it, but i am facing 2 issues -
1) I get the same sound notifications for all my Gmail accounts, i just see my primary account for auto syncing . How to correct this.
2) In speak text, i have written Gmail. Macrodriod repeats/speaks "Gmail" twice or more times.
Please advise. Again, thanks for your help.
winol said:
In macrodroid I made 2 macros
1 ) trigger recurrent all days, every 10 minutes
Action sync account, google, I use 2 gmail accounts sincyng
google, syncs both
2) for sounding alerts
Trigger notification present, gmail,, any
Action speak text or play sound, or both as you preffer
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Finally switched to Blue mail and everything is almost perfect now, though as per what i read, my information may be compromised.
I am getting instant mails and notifications now, much better than my notifications of gmail on this & other mobile.
Just been having this same issue for months on my Canadian Note 8 and it's been since the June 1 security patch update. Gmail is delayed (seen upwards of a bit more than an hour), Samsung's default Messages app sometimes is delayed as well (but if I have my Gear S3 on the text will come through on that but not my phone which is weird AF) and then a couple authenticator apps that send push notifications also don't come through or are very delayed. It's starting to piss me off and got no help thus far from Samsung. If this isn't fixed soon then it's my last Samsung device I will ever buy.
Forgot to mention, also tried factory reset and still not working (along with now the Messages app is stuck on an older version and won't update so now I can't even use custom notification sounds per thread anymore). Absolutely ridiculous! I know I can sideload the updated version but I shouldn't have to do that, so frustrating!
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Just been having this same issue for months on my Canadian Note 8 and it's been since the June 1 security patch update. Gmail is delayed (seen upwards of a bit more than an hour), Samsung's default Messages app sometimes is delayed as well (but if I have my Gear S3 on the text will come through on that but not my phone which is weird AF) and then a couple authenticator apps that send push notifications also don't come through or are very delayed. It's starting to piss me off and got no help thus far from Samsung. If this isn't fixed soon then it's my last Samsung device I will ever buy.
Forgot to mention, also tried factory reset and still not working (along with now the Messages app is stuck on an older version and won't update so now I can't even use custom notification sounds per thread anymore). Absolutely ridiculous! I know I can sideload the updated version but I shouldn't have to do that, so frustrating!
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Finally moved on to BlueMail after trying to sort out Gmail issues for 8 months or so.
Everything sorted out and gmail notifications now come in a jiffy .