Is your gmail syncing correctly?

doogald

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I have found the Samsung app is more reliable than gmail app so far. I do still get gmail in a timely fashion sometimes but not always. My doctor sent me a gmail yesterday at 1 pm that I received at 9 only because I opened the app to send an email. I have told my wife to use sms when she wants me to see message quickly.
Settings, under accounts, Google, tap your Gmail account - is it set to sync? If you tap the name of the account, is Gmail set to sync, and is it showing any errors?

See https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6212917?hl=en

Also, just to ask, have you disabled any apps on the phone? If so, maybe one of them is affecting account sync.
 

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Settings, under accounts, Google, tap your Gmail account - is it set to sync? If you tap the name of the account, is Gmail set to sync, and is it showing any errors?

See https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6212917?hl=en

Also, just to ask, have you disabled any apps on the phone? If so, maybe one of them is affecting account sync.
I tried those steps. Thanks though. I will check for blocked apps.

These are my blocked apps. I doubt any would affect gmail.
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doogald

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I think you should bring this to a Samsung Galaxy forum - I missed the hint when you mentioned the Samsung mail app. This is a Droid Turbo forum. You may get more help there...
 

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I think you should bring this to a Samsung Galaxy forum - I missed the hint when you mentioned the Samsung mail app. This is a Droid Turbo forum. You may get more help there...
Ah....I just did a search of gmail not syncing and found this. I doubt this is a device specific problem so I hope you won't mind if I continue to read comments here. If you look in the play store there are many complaints about gmail failing to push properly. I suspect it is more of a vzw related issue than a device related issue.
 

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It's definitely wifi for me. When my phone is on wifi, any wifi, the Gmail syncing almost stops except for spurts where it downloads a bunch at once.
 

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So as quickly as it went bad, it now seems to be good. I've suddenly been syncing consistently for about the last 48 hours.
 

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Mine still sucks
Hopefully it won't for long. I thought I read somewhere (maybe even in this thread but I'm too lazy to scroll back) that the problem seemed to have to so with Play Services. I believe Play Services updates in the background without my knowledge, so I'm thinking maybe that happened. No idea how to tell...
 

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Mine's still messed up too. Actually it's gotten even worse the last few days, since previously it seemed to mostly be a problem over night but then would be fine during the day, once I got it going in the morning. Now it's just not syncing at all, throughout the day.
 

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as of the last few weeks, i am not getting any gmail notifications.

i'll open up my gmail and i'll all of a sudden have new messages.
 

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as of the last few weeks, i am not getting any gmail notifications.

i'll open up my gmail and i'll all of a sudden have new messages.

Mine has gotten worse. First, not syncing to clear notifications after reading or deleting. Now, don't even know I have a new email, as you stated.
 

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Mine is still hit or miss. Sometimes messages show up and I get notifications, other times I'll get nothing for a while, I'll open the app, and the new emails pop in. I also use the Gmail app for Gmail only...
 

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