LG Stock Email Experience

[Squezz]

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the stock email app refresh appropriately? To explain, if I have my Exchange or Gmail accounts synced with the phone, and I get 5 emails, I get a notification and in the pull down area, I see the short previews for the 5 emails. Say I read them on a different client and just swipe away the notification. An hour later, I get 5 more emails, and in the notification area, instead of showing 5 emails, it shows 10, even though if I click into it, it refreshes appropriately to show the 5 new emails.

This is a bit annoying to me, as I rarely read emails on my phone during the day, as I mostly read them on my laptop. By the end of the day, I'm getting notifications that say I have 100 new emails, when I really only have 1 or 2.

 

[paintdrinkingpete]

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the stock email app refresh appropriately? To explain, if I have my Exchange or Gmail accounts synced with the phone, and I get 5 emails, I get a notification and in the pull down area, I see the short previews for the 5 emails. Say I read them on a different client and just swipe away the notification. An hour later, I get 5 more emails, and in the notification area, instead of showing 5 emails, it shows 10, even though if I click into it, it refreshes appropriately to show the 5 new emails.

This is a bit annoying to me, as I rarely read emails on my phone during the day, as I mostly read them on my laptop. By the end of the day, I'm getting notifications that say I have 100 new emails, when I really only have 1 or 2.

Granted, the choice is obviously yours, but I don't understand when folks use an email client to fetch GMail on Android rather than use the native app. I suppose there is an argument for having a single app for all email, but even when I had a BB I personally never liked that anyway. Frankly, I've never found any advantages to using gmail via client (i.e. the stock email app) that outweigh the advantages of using the built-in app...but that's just me. (It would, however, fix the problem you speak of, at least for GMail).

Often, issues like this center around the account type and how the device syncs activity across the account. My guess, based on the behavior you describe, is that the app is only checking for new mail on regular intervals, then syncs other activity, such as "read status" only once the app is opened. I could be 100% wrong, it's just a guess. One suggestion, if others aren't able to suggest a fix, would be to try other email clients to see if they behave the same way.

 

[Squezz]

I would agree. The one thing that I just can't stand with the native app is not being able to disable conversation view. This is a complete deal breaker for me, because it makes it too difficult for me to follow/reply to the appropriate email. Have already started looking into some other email apps, but didn't know if anyone thought they behavior was a bit annoying as well and found a good workaround.