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Google Mail problem

Hope this isn't already covered somewhere on the forums, I've had a search but couldn't see anything. I've noticed since the last couple of Cyan updates that my gmail app doesn't seem to be working correctly. if i read a mail on my phone it's not marked as read on the web version and the number of unread mails still includes these on the phone. eg if i get three new mails and read them all on my phone, wait a while and get one more message, the app shows 4 unread mails in the statusd bar but only one in the app itself. if i look in the web version of gmail, all 4 are marked as unread. not exactly earth shattering, but a bit annoying.
the more serious problem is that i can't seem to send emails from my phone anymore. as soon as i hit send (either new mail of reply) it just sits there saying 'sending...' until i get bored and delete it 3 days later. the messages definitely don't get sent as i've tried tesating to myself.
Had a look arou nd the internet and I've seen people with mails showing as 'sending...' but actually being sent. that i could cope with, but this is beginning to get on my wick. I've had to temporarily more to the normal email app - works fine from there, but gmail is much nicer.
any ideas?
FYI I'm on a UK Vodafone HTC Magic 32B running Cyanogen 4.2.5 - last resort is going to be a full wipe and install from the ground up, but I don't want to have to re-download all my apps (not on SD as I've only got a class 2 16gb)

Well if you dont wanna do a full wipe, which would be required for the the other solution found, you can flash my theme template over here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=584521
which replaces the google apps, which should hopefully fix it
please make a nandroid backup before flashing just in case

thanks mate, i'll give it a whirl.

Tell us if it works! I hope it does lol

hmm... weirdly it just made it worse
tried a few reboots to make sure i wasn't going nuts, but since the update gmail won't even open. no FC or anything the screen fades out in the groovy eclair way and then goes straight back to the desktop. thought it might be something to do with not being sync'd (which i think it might be) but the sync menu iten does nothing. click on it and it doesn't drop to the sub-menu.
just restoring my backup now. thanks for the help though - any other ideas?

think a fix_permissions might help after flashing your template? completely forgot to have a go. the lack of error messages or FCs makes me think it probably won't

No if it didnt work dont reflash it. can you pull a logcat after attempting to send an email? i have a feeling its due to not resolving google.com as ive seen in many logcats.

hmm. tried again with a fix permissions and the same problem again. maybe chucking it out of a window will help... bloomin' technology...

thanks, i'll try a logcat later on (work pc at the mo, so can't track it from there)

well I've solved it in a more or less painless way. used backup for root users, wiped and installed 4.2.5 from scratch and restored my backup. gmail is now working properly. there seems to be a bit of an issue with backup for root users where some apps are showing as installed on the market but aren't on my handset, so i can't actually install them again (uninstall and open are both greyed out on the market app). only a couple of them though and nothing as vital as gmail, so i'll put up with it i think

Yes that was the actual solution, reflashing the ADP image and cyan. Using backup for root users is good and that market problem has been there for a while relating to cyans rom. I dont remember seeing a solution for it. I just realized that you may have been able to just restore your data.img from your nandroid after reflashing ADP and cyan and been able to preserve your data.

thanks. might give that a go tonight. as it is, it's only taskiller full, bump and bloo that I'm missing, so i've installed taskiller lite, blabber and ignored bump. ity seems whenever they get an update in the market it reinstalls correctly (that's how i got my calendar back), so i'm just waiting for them to get updated. was thinking about pulling the apks out of my nandroid image and then intalling them into the corrected version.

[Q] Help please! notifications gone!

ive noticed when i flashed assonance rom or axura rom..i dont get anymore notifications for my wordfeud or foursquare..and i have them all checked on..i just noticed today too i dont even get a sound notification for fb just the top bar i do..please help! only notifications i get is txt/sms..does that have to do with it? cause i got the bln thing..and ive already flashed everything all that the right way and followed instructions yada yada yada..what seems to be the problem? please help..thanks

Either a bad flash - or those features are broken due to the ROM you are running. I do know that a few builds out there that regular Voicemail notifications don't work due to ATT not recognizing the phone as an AT&T device.
I don't seem to have that issue - I have received notifications for gmail, txts, missed calls, and Facebook. But I don't have FourSquare installed but I'd imagine that would work too.
I'm currently running Assonance 5.0 with whatever SetIron kernel Mikey decided to use with this build.
I would try re-installing the application and if your restoring - DO NOT re-install the data part from TiBu. and see if that works.

avgjoegeek said:
Either a bad flash - or those features are broken due to the ROM you are running. I do know that a few builds out there that regular Voicemail notifications don't work due to ATT not recognizing the phone as an AT&T device.
I don't seem to have that issue - I have received notifications for gmail, txts, missed calls, and Facebook. But I don't have FourSquare installed but I'd imagine that would work too.
I'm currently running Assonance 5.0 with whatever SetIron kernel Mikey decided to use with this build.
I would try re-installing the application and if your restoring - DO NOT re-install the data part from TiBu. and see if that works.
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Yea I'm using the same rom ver 5.0..and some how I get notification now for wordfeud..just not for square checkins..when you say not data part..what you mean by that? Like system data or app and its data..or are they diff? Cause when I restore apps only will it keep my info and stuff too like login or do I have to input all that..what do I put to restore app and data app only or data..i think I'm almost gonna fix this..little more help please..thanks again
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When you do a restore within Titanium Backup you get an option to run the batch as "App and Data" or "Apps Only"
I always recommend if your having issues when restoring your applications to NOT restore the data part and using the "Apps Only" option. This will install just the application but none of your settings - so you would have to setup the application again from scratch but it won't migrate the issue to your new install.

Handcent SMS question.

For some reason, my Handcent app will at least once per day display its release notes when opened as if I just installed it, and any changes I made to its settings will be reset. This is particularly annoying because I use custom notification tones for different contacts & for new texts in general. What could be the issue? It's not set to autoupdate.

Elektrisk said:
For some reason, my Handcent app will at least once per day display its release notes when opened as if I just installed it, and any changes I made to its settings will be reset. This is particularly annoying because I use custom notification tones for different contacts & for new texts in general. What could be the issue? It's not set to autoupdate.
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App updates through the market don't mess with your saved data/app settings, so that's probably not it. The next time it happens, uninstall/reinstall the app and see if that helps. Do this through the market, not from a Titanium Backup batch or anything similar. Also, I believe Handscent has an option to back up all of your user settings. The next time you have to reconfigure everything, make a backup of your settings. At the very least, it will save you a hell of a lot of time until you figure out what the problem is.

10tonhammr said:
App updates through the market don't mess with your saved data/app settings, so that's probably not it. The next time it happens, uninstall/reinstall the app and see if that helps. Do this through the market, not from a Titanium Backup batch or anything similar. Also, I believe Handscent has an option to back up all of your user settings. The next time you have to reconfigure everything, make a backup of your settings. At the very least, it will save you a hell of a lot of time until you figure out what the problem is.
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I reinstalled it like you suggested. I also tried reinstalling via EasyUninstaller. Neither fixed the problem.
Also, to backup the settings, you have to be a premium user.
The only thing I can think that would have affected the app is I installed a custom theme for it. It wasn't a theme from within the app itself, but a mod a user had made to change the keyboard color and some other things. I thought I had uninstalled it, though. I installed it via AppsInstaller with the apk being on my sd card. I'll try to find the thread I got the apk from.
OK, here it is: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/team-fusion/34058-release-themed-handcent.html

What Rom are you running? Stock Captivate or ?. Some roms cause this issue, resets the app (s) for some reason. I've had the issue on a few other apps but not handcent. I also registered the app, might make a difference.

tazman171 said:
What Rom are you running? Stock Captivate or ?. Some roms cause this issue, resets the app (s) for some reason. I've had the issue on a few other apps but not handcent. I also registered the app, might make a difference.
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I'm running Darkys 7.0.1 port, if you've heard of it. It's VERY nice on appearance and battery life, but this problem just sucks!
Would registering it fix the problem? I don't want to pay $3 just to remove the ad bar.

There is a free registration. Not sure if that will fix the problem but hell, it's free and saves your settings.
I have restored handcent using TiBu for at least the last 10 rom flashes, app + data and never had a problem, just did it this morning when going to Perception 9.5, and every things is working fine, logged in and it restored all my theme settings, preferences, etc.
That's with the free registration. Quote from them " Register free handcent account, get online quicktext and online themes services"
Other thing is, are you running the latest update? Every update has always fixed any issue I was having with the program.

Saw this: "with the new version of Handcent just released and it seems to break handcent even after resigning the app. " From the link you posted.

[Q] I dont want it to remember this stuff

Ive had my phone rooted and cm6 mod for a while and its good. But its starting to get so slow, even when im texting theres huge lag making it almost unusable. I re-flashed sprint rom and then rooted and reflashed cm6...but it still remembers my apps and installs them for me without me telling it. How can i prevent this? I want it completely fresh with absolutely nothing remember of what ive had on the phone before. Is there an easy way to do it? Thanks for the help.

that's from google backing up your apps. When you sign in with your google account, I believe it asks you if you want to restore your apps, or something along those lines.

After you flash a rom and boot into setup, when you get to the page to enter you Google acct info, hit menu. There is an option to disable restore.
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Yep. These gentlemen have got it right. Do what they said and you'll be fine.

[Q] No Group MMS Threading!!

Wondering if anyone else is having this problem. I got my Nexus 4 (Yeah!), started it up, logged into my google acct, everything started downloading/restoring from google. I checked out the Messaging app and settings, and noticed a "group messages" setting. Sweet!!! But then I got a system update notification. I obviously installed it. After installing it, I used gobackup pro to restore my messaging threads. NOT THE APP, just the threads. Checking the settings again, the "group messages" setting was gone! Just gone! Not sure if it was the system update, or the thread restore, but I am perplexed. I've done 2 factory resets since, but the setting is still gone. Messaging ver. is 4.2-57622 or something like that (don't have the phone with me at the moment.) I'm guessing it had to do with the system update, and that is why it's still not there after the factory resets, but, I really have no idea. I am stock, no root, or unlocked bootloader. Stock, pure stock (the reason I bought a nexus device). Any help or related info would be greatly appreciated! I've searched everywhere, and seem to be the only one with this issue. Any screenshots of anyone else's messaging settings running that app version would help too. Thanks

You'd probably get more help if this was in the Q&A section.
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Messaging v4.2-527622

Rusty! said:
Messaging v4.2-527622
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Man, I'm confused. I have no idea what happened. The group part is totally omitted from mine. I've tried to reinstall the app, but can't get very far without root. Thank you for the screenshot. At least I know that the setting isn't just hidden in the Ota update.

Have you tried the reset settings to default option? Or clearing the data for the messaging app?

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Have you tried the reset settings to default option? Or clearing the data for the messaging app?
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Yeah, done both. One thing someone just said in another thread, isit may be carrier dependent, and the OTA update hides the setting unless your carrier supports it. Being as I have only played with the phone on wifi just to make sure I am happy with it and don't want to return it,(as it is a christmas present ) I'm starting to wonder if that is my problem. I have no sim installed, so the settings may be hidden until you pop a sim in and the phone recognizes that your carrier supports it.