gmail issues

[prometheus]

I was having the same problem with my droid not receiving push email. It turned out that I had stopped the google talk program from running in the background. That is the program that gets the push gmail to the phone. As soon as I turned it back on I havent had anymore problems. That was about 2 weeks ago. I hope this helps for any of you guys in the future.

I don't know if I would agree with that statement entirely, because "talk" is NOT an email push app, it's an IM app..... but, it got me to thinking.

I am NOT a fan of app killers (task killers) - perhaps some of our friends here are having email delivery issues because core apps are getting killed by task killers. When they reboot (or pull a battery in some cases) the app restarts and the email gets delivered. They were thinking that there was some sort of sync error - when in fact they caused the device to "un-sync" by using these silly and pointless app / task killers.

I might be wrong here. But, I might suggest someone having email delivery issues either be sure to put EVERYTHING related to gmail / email in ignore lists -- or, better yet, uninstall the pointless (and often harmful) task killer app.

 

[golfpro#AC]

hey there, im completely new to android, and just got the droid today. with that being said, im lost as can be coming from the bb world. I need help setting up email and some of the new verbage. if anyone can help me try to set up my personal email i would apprecitate it. Im having a hard time

 

[PRNmeds]

For me I didn't realize I had deactivated syncing from the power management bar, try turning that sucker on if it isn't.

 

[prometheus]

hey there, im completely new to android, and just got the droid today. with that being said, im lost as can be coming from the bb world. I need help setting up email and some of the new verbage. if anyone can help me try to set up my personal email i would apprecitate it. Im having a hard time

golfpro, still up? what's happening? I have a cold and took some medicine - this stuff is making me all jazzed up and peppy. I'm just ramping up for the evening. Still need help?

 

[mobilemedic20]

I don't use an app killer, and I have e-mail delivery problems.

 

[prometheus]

I don't use an app killer, and I have e-mail delivery problems.

gmail or another one?

 

[golfpro#AC]

i think i got it but im not sure, seems like im not getting many emails compared to when i had my bb...i got my personal website imap up and running but this whole droid thing is kind of confusing

 

[mobilemedic20]

gmail or another one?

Gmail. New discovery, that correlates to what others have noticed... The gmail problem seems to occur after I turn on wifi! I've seen this twice now... The other day when i was at work, I enabled wifi, and then immediately noticed I wasn't receiving e-mails anymore. Just now, the same thing happened... wifi was disabled, I turned it on, and bam, no more Gmail e-mails.

That's a really unfortunate glitch - I want wifi, and I want e-mail, and those things shouldn't be mutually exclusive! I hope this is specific to the Droid and not Android in general so that the Nexus 1 will work better.

 

[prometheus]

No gmail on wifi, that's just weird. Mine works fine.

 

[MedlongOne]

When I try to do a manual sync with gmail, I get this message.

"The process.com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

I did all of the above suggestions, but it didn't work.


Ideas?

 

[samdroid]

"The process.com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

----> Go to settings --> Applications-->filter running apps --> clear cache for gmail.

This should fix it.

 

[MedlongOne]

I had done that already. I checked again just to be sure and it was already cleared.

 

[samdroid]

Oh ok, sorry about that. I had the exact same exception and clearing the cache fixed it. Beginners luck perhaps.

 

[MedlongOne]

Fixed the problem and didn't have to do a factory rest (thank God).
I cleared the data and cache for both Gmail AND Gmail Storage. I had cleared the Gmail only. On a whim I deleted the info from the storage and it worked. Now it's possible that I only needed to clear the storage, but I won't know until it does it again.

 

[dodgylegs]

I have tried all of this - do i need to go and do a reset?

When I go into Manage Applications, it doesn't list Gmail. If I go into 'Mini Info' it does mention Gmail.

I've cleared the cache, installed the Gmail Notifier but still have no luck.

Please help guys! Thank you x

 

[whippingboy]

I found this via the search- I'm on Evo 4G but I'm having this same sync issue.

I did kill Gtalk from the OS running services menu- I never use Gtalk and saw no reason to keep it running. My gmail stopped working and I could not get it to sync no matter what I did (even rebooting the phone!)

After reading this thread- I signed back into gtalk and then accessed gmail again- voila! I now have gmail sync. I'm no Tech guru so I can't say this is the way to solve it for everyone- but it worked for me. Thanks for the suggestion! (I also deactivated Wifi and tried to sync- but that alone did not work. Activating Gtalk and yes I was still on 3G only- that DID work- so take that for what you will.)

Android signs into all kinds of things I don't understand why- I 'm just watching the running services menu and QiK Engine Service is running- I don't use that app either! Really hope Froyo fixes this OS hog- as I'm running almost nothing and I only have 60MB of available memory?