I have found a modded Gmail app to always show pictures but I need one for the default email app for my Exchange account. I'm coming from an iPhone and I'm very used to that feature. Also is there a way I'm missing to have the email accounts to auto fit the email to the screen so there is not so much panning and zooming. Thanks in advance!
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I have my main email account going through gmail but it takes ages for the emails to come through.
Would I be better using the normal email app and removing the account from gmail? Does the email app have something like push notifications?
No, your Gmail account should work fine. It's push email meaning it works practically the same way as SMS: someone sends an email, Gmail will send an alert to your phone.
The Email app is crumy at best. From what I know, the Email app isn't push, but rather a constantly refreshing (at your discretion) your email boxes. In theory, it could refresh faster than Gmail, however with all the stuff that integrates with Gmail, it's not worth it.
My guess would be that you have gmail set up to pull email from your main account, which will take longer. A better approach would be to have your main email account forward to your gmail account, which will be pretty close to instant.
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muzicman0 said:
My guess would be that you have gmail set up to pull email from your main account, which will take longer. A better approach would be to have your main email account forward to your gmail account, which will be pretty close to instant.
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Agreed, I set my yahoo acct to forward to gmail and it completely bypassed yahoo and is instantaneous in gmail. I also get my phone updates within a few seconds of an email being sent.
Thanks to htcclay's glorious SuperBad I am enjoying Eclair godness.
One thing I was wondering is, how can you choose the account which is used to send an email with the email app (not the GMail app!).
I have successfully set up an exchange email account and a private email account (imap) and do recieve emails (including push emails). The combined email inbox is great, too.
But if you use something like the 3d gallery app and want to share a photo, you can select email as the sharing option, compose the email BUT there is no option to choose from which email account to actually send the mail...? What am I missing here, tipps & hints welcomed ;-)
This is probably an android noob thing, but I cannot seem to understand how to use the "email" app and the "gmail" app.
I want to use the stock/default android email app, you know, the one with the black background? However, I am seriously annoyed by the fact that when I receive a single new email, I get two notifications in the notifications bar; One from the gmail app and one from the stock/default email app.
How do I use this? It's required to set up a gmail account for marketplace to work. But I hate replicate notifications.
Do I just delete one entirely from the app folder?
Whats the best way to work along/around this?
You can turn off the Gmail apps notifications by delving into it's settings.
Go to gmail app, hit menu, go to more, select settings, uncheck Email Notifications. Gmail app will no longer notify you.
but if you just turn off the notification it will still be syncing in the background so if you dont want to use the gmail app go into accounts & sync and under your mail address uncheck sync gmail
the gmail app is used for just that, gmail. the email app is used to connected to exchange servers, pop3 accounts, imap accounts, basically any email that isnt gmail.
lemonspeakers said:
This is probably an android noob thing, but I cannot seem to understand how to use the "email" app and the "gmail" app.
I want to use the stock/default android email app, you know, the one with the black background? However, I am seriously annoyed by the fact that when I receive a single new email, I get two notifications in the notifications bar; One from the gmail app and one from the stock/default email app.
How do I use this? It's required to set up a gmail account for marketplace to work. But I hate replicate notifications.
Do I just delete one entirely from the app folder?
Whats the best way to work along/around this?
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you get two notifications because you have set up your gmail account on Email app. Gmail app is way better than Email app (my opinion)
Option1: Delete gmail account from Email app and just use the Gmail app.
Option2: Go to Gmail app settings and disable notifications and use Email app (it will still be synchronizing).
Option3: Uninstall Gmail app and use Email app.
sstang2006 said:
you get two notifications because you have set up your gmail account on Email app. Gmail app is way better than Email app (my opinion)
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sstang2006 said:
Gmail app is way better than Email app (my opinion)
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Agreed!
If only I could make my ActiveSync account (work Exchange) to use the Gmail app for mail display instead of Email.apk's viewer.
Personally I think the Gmail app sucks ****. Its so annoying to see the Gmail notification (like push email) and then only go into Mail to actually read it after hitting refresh.
Real cockup in my opinion, but then again I don't hold android in the highest light anyway.
I personally like the gmail app. I never need to press refresh. My push works great. I see the notification or the green trackball (color I set for gmail) then pull down menu and select the notification for Gmail and it loads that message right up.
couchpotato7 said:
Personally I think the Gmail app sucks ****. Its so annoying to see the Gmail notification (like push email) and then only go into Mail to actually read it after hitting refresh.
Real cockup in my opinion, but then again I don't hold android in the highest light anyway.
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That's pretty much wrong if I understand you correctly. If I get a notification from the Gmail app of a new mail, I press it and it's right there in my inbox without having to refresh it first.
I also like the Gmail app better than the built-in e-mail app.
The Gmail Push?
I have nexus one, it normally syncs every hour (i set it so)..
Why dont I get the push option? (my operator supports push mail)
If you use Gmail app - the push is automatic and the only way. You don't configure the sync time, because it has no such option.
If you use Email app for Gmail - check if you can set it to Automatic(Push) option (it's the topmost option on the list).
If you set Gmail as Exchange, it can push. If it's set as IMAP then it has to be set to poll.
Ok did that, and and yeh, its push.
Its a lil slow though (it gets a lil delayed).. but Im glad it works..
My mother use i9000 and she can't zoom in gmail application.
I try settings, menu but there is no option for zoom inside of Email. She complain that font is too small.
So is there any solution for this ? But without changing application ?
you can easily use pinch and expand to zoom in and zoom out
just like iphone
Pinching doesnt work with gmail app. You have to use samsungs email app. Open your gmail account with samsungs email app and you should be good to go...
Sent from my GT-I9000M
I can't zoom in gmail... Has there been some sort of update that my phone has failed to recognize?
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The default e-mail client is kinda useless if it doesn't support nested conversations and push e-mail, especially considering how laggy it is... Why doesn't google's own client work with zooming?
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App
warfanax said:
Pinching doesnt work with gmail app. You have to use samsungs email app. Open your gmail account with samsungs email app and you should be good to go...
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True,
there are 2 email software included with the phone.
I always use the Samsung Push Email (Samsung Hub) you can configure all your email accounts Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, etc
and you can zoom and unzoom by pinching the email.
Now I have the Froyo (jpk) ROM and I can't remember if I already had the option before.
But now in GMail app, in settings you can choose the text size.
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Now I have the Froyo (jpk) ROM and I can't remember if I already had the option before.
But now in GMail app, in settings you can choose the text size.
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ah that is great. Can't wait update then
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ah that is great. Can't wait update then
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but you can use it now even without the update
just setup the email to work on the Samsung Email, and you are done
Is there some setting I can't seem to find that allow you to always by default Display Images when viewing HTML email in the mail app?
Annoying to say the least when you read an email and have to keep pressing the Display Images option at the top.
Thanks
Guess that is a no...or time to hack the apk