OK, here's something interesting I just discovered on my Opt-T and I'm sure this is a native Android/Google issue because I just looked at someone's AT&T And 2.2 phone and someone elses HTC 4G phone they all have the same issue. Neither I nor these other two folk realized what's going on. Do you?
On a POP3 account: There is no "Empty Trash" feature nor is there a way to group select "Trash" items and clear them. On my phone which I've had since 11/10, I have 2200 email msgs laying around in there. That's 53.3 mB of real estate being used up by stuff I don't want and never want to see or use again. How horrid is that?
Someone suggested elsewhere, opening the Trash, selecting one message and then press-hold the "Delete" button to repeat-del messages from there down or up. Sounded good until I tried it. It's faster to just indiv select and del.
Someone further suggested, deleting the whole POP3 account and starting a fresh POP3. A supreme pain.
Yes, you could move to another third party app that offers this feature. But I'm sort of used to the native app - it does what I need. Except...
Frankly, I can't believe the designers left this rather important feature out. So far today, I've trimmed off about 25% of this detritus (by indiv select and del). It took quite a while but already I can tell the phone is acting more "peppy'. Those of you with "slow" phones might take heed. I can see myself plopped in front of the tube tonight with this mindless activity. And, don't think that the indiv sel/del is going to be fast. Sometimes the OS gets overwhelmed and it can be a couple of minutes before the phone comes to order. I've learned to only select 20-30 items at a time to ensure I don't hang up the OS.
So, the problem remains, how do I (we) get to empty the Trash with a couple of commands or keypresses rather than the punishment meted out by poor design? I know you don't want to go into the folder tree and start ripping things out. Anyone know a secret keypress sequence? Is there a utility app in the Market that handles this? Does Google/T-Mobile ever issue updates to this native "EMail" applet?
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On a POP3 account: There is no "Empty Trash" feature nor is there a way to group select "Trash" items and clear them. On my phone which I've had since 11/10, I have 2200 email msgs laying around in there. That's 53.3 mB of real estate being used up by stuff I don't want and never want to see or use again. How horrid is that?
Someone suggested elsewhere, opening the Trash, selecting one message and then press-hold the "Delete" button to repeat-del messages from there down or up. Sounded good until I tried it. It's faster to just indiv select and del.
Someone further suggested, deleting the whole POP3 account and starting a fresh POP3. A supreme pain.
Yes, you could move to another third party app that offers this feature. But I'm sort of used to the native app - it does what I need. Except...
Frankly, I can't believe the designers left this rather important feature out. So far today, I've trimmed off about 25% of this detritus (by indiv select and del). It took quite a while but already I can tell the phone is acting more "peppy'. Those of you with "slow" phones might take heed. I can see myself plopped in front of the tube tonight with this mindless activity. And, don't think that the indiv sel/del is going to be fast. Sometimes the OS gets overwhelmed and it can be a couple of minutes before the phone comes to order. I've learned to only select 20-30 items at a time to ensure I don't hang up the OS.
So, the problem remains, how do I (we) get to empty the Trash with a couple of commands or keypresses rather than the punishment meted out by poor design? I know you don't want to go into the folder tree and start ripping things out. Anyone know a secret keypress sequence? Is there a utility app in the Market that handles this? Does Google/T-Mobile ever issue updates to this native "EMail" applet?
H