Google Sync Turned Off?

[STVEIDE]

Perhaps you exhausted all of your high speed data. I did just that and found my sync turned off.

 

[cferrell3]

On Motorolas go to Accounts>Menu>Click Auto Sync On

 

[Andrea Bailey]

I spent forever on the Motorola, and even had to go to Level 2 support, to find the simple solution to this problem. The below solution works for Android **Lollipop**, and in particular it worked on the Moto X (I imagine it will work on the Nexus 5, and maybe others as well).

I say it is simple, but the menu location is about as non-intuitive as it could be, so I am sharing it here. To re-enable autosync with all of your Google Apps (calendar, contacts, gmail, etc.), do this:
Click on Settings / Data Usage / GMail / App Settings / your_account_email , and then check the box that says 'Sync Gmail'

At this point, it will not only turn on auto-sync for GMail, but for all of your Google Apps.
Now that you have successfully re-enabled autosync for all Google Apps, you can refine them by doing this if you'd like:
Click on Settings / Accounts / Google / tap on your account / toggle any individual sliders for any individual apps (i.e. contacts, Google Play Books, etc) that you don't want to auto sync.

Thank you so much! I couldn't find this setting anywhere and it was driving me nuts to have to remember to manually sync my gmail.

 

[pheasant62]

how do I turn my gmail sync on and off on my galaxy note

 

[Dave Abela]

KUDOS to you!!! Thanks so much for posting this. Very frustrated trying to manually sync. I have no idea how that got turned OFF either!

 

[Robert Petrin]

I spent forever on the Motorola, and even had to go to Level 2 support, to find the simple solution to this problem. The below solution works for Android **Lollipop**, and in particular it worked on the Moto X (I imagine it will work on the Nexus 5, and maybe others as well).

I say it is simple, but the menu location is about as non-intuitive as it could be, so I am sharing it here. To re-enable autosync with all of your Google Apps (calendar, contacts, gmail, etc.), do this:
Click on Settings / Data Usage / GMail / App Settings / your_account_email , and then check the box that says 'Sync Gmail'

At this point, it will not only turn on auto-sync for GMail, but for all of your Google Apps.
Now that you have successfully re-enabled autosync for all Google Apps, you can refine them by doing this if you'd like:
Click on Settings / Accounts / Google / tap on your account / toggle any individual sliders for any individual apps (i.e. contacts, Google Play Books, etc) that you don't want to auto sync.

Thanks for the good and clear answer.

I loged out of my account to download a location ap, and then when I wanted to log back in, I had a few problems. One of them was the sync functions. I have an S6 with Android 6.0.1, and the procedure is as you mentioned.
Accounts may be synced one by one, to make sure the problem is solved.

 

[bluehaze911]

Thank you so much!!! I would always forget to manually sync and couldn't figure out how to set it to auto sync.