Verizon tech support is not active at this hour. So I thought I would try to see if there is any help here from you Android veterans.
I have just come off of iPhones for the last seven years. I guess in general the only thing I find difficult with the android base is that it is staggering for its lack of intuitiveness.
After initial set up, I was having difficulty getting the N4 to automatically sync for emails from my Comcast account. I could manually call up emails but no matter what I tried to do in setup I could not get it to automatically sync. It does not help that the shortest time spacing you can pick for automatic sync is 15 minutes as you have to wait 15 minutes just to see if the last changes you made actually did anything.
Tonight out of frustration I called VzW tech support and together we set up my comcast account anew from scratch. It looked like that was going to work and they were shutting down tech support for the night. But here it is 12.29 in the morning. The last time my email on the N4 was updated was at 11:58 and I already have one new email in my inbox that I can view on my computer that is time stamped at 12:08 and another time stamped at 12.24. Nothing on my N4.
It also does not help that this device does not tell you what you have selected to turn on. When I look at Email Account settings. Sync is defined as "off". I can tap it to manually sync but then it goes back to showing me that sync is off. When I look a screen deeper into Account Sync settings it shows a check box where your choices "Master Sync is Off" and if you un-select that your only other option is "Sync is Off". One or the other. Nothing ever tells you that you have turned something ON!!!!
VzW totally flummoxed could only completely set up my Comcast account from scratch because they could not tell what was on or not on either.
What settings should be selected to get this thing to sync automatically on a the schedule?
In the name of all that is holy how can I get this thing to sync automatically on the 15 minute interval or even sync automatically on any schedule? It shows that the 15 minute interval has been selected. But nothing seems to happen unless I manually force emails in. I have not chosen to add any peak schedule changes for the interval.
Is this all about my misunderstanding for how Android does business. In other words, I can swipe up which to me seems like manually syncing and new emails will be brought to my screen. But if in fact the N4 does check for new emails every 15 minutes or on the interval you select but does not display them to the screen or even as a different number of emails in your inbox...then what good is that. If I have to "manually" do anything to call up new emails from a practical perspective there is no difference to me than manually syncing. Very frustrating!!!
I have just come off of iPhones for the last seven years. I guess in general the only thing I find difficult with the android base is that it is staggering for its lack of intuitiveness.
After initial set up, I was having difficulty getting the N4 to automatically sync for emails from my Comcast account. I could manually call up emails but no matter what I tried to do in setup I could not get it to automatically sync. It does not help that the shortest time spacing you can pick for automatic sync is 15 minutes as you have to wait 15 minutes just to see if the last changes you made actually did anything.
Tonight out of frustration I called VzW tech support and together we set up my comcast account anew from scratch. It looked like that was going to work and they were shutting down tech support for the night. But here it is 12.29 in the morning. The last time my email on the N4 was updated was at 11:58 and I already have one new email in my inbox that I can view on my computer that is time stamped at 12:08 and another time stamped at 12.24. Nothing on my N4.
It also does not help that this device does not tell you what you have selected to turn on. When I look at Email Account settings. Sync is defined as "off". I can tap it to manually sync but then it goes back to showing me that sync is off. When I look a screen deeper into Account Sync settings it shows a check box where your choices "Master Sync is Off" and if you un-select that your only other option is "Sync is Off". One or the other. Nothing ever tells you that you have turned something ON!!!!
VzW totally flummoxed could only completely set up my Comcast account from scratch because they could not tell what was on or not on either.
What settings should be selected to get this thing to sync automatically on a the schedule?
In the name of all that is holy how can I get this thing to sync automatically on the 15 minute interval or even sync automatically on any schedule? It shows that the 15 minute interval has been selected. But nothing seems to happen unless I manually force emails in. I have not chosen to add any peak schedule changes for the interval.
Is this all about my misunderstanding for how Android does business. In other words, I can swipe up which to me seems like manually syncing and new emails will be brought to my screen. But if in fact the N4 does check for new emails every 15 minutes or on the interval you select but does not display them to the screen or even as a different number of emails in your inbox...then what good is that. If I have to "manually" do anything to call up new emails from a practical perspective there is no difference to me than manually syncing. Very frustrating!!!
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