Perhaps this has already been addressed, but I haven't found the thread for it. I prefer using the Gmail app over the garbage Messaging aggregator. But somehow, Motorola has overwritten the Add account function in the Gmail app, which now launches the Add Account form for the Messaging app. When adding an account in the fashion, the account never gets added to the Gmail app, but instead, the Messaging app. Has anyone had this issue, and if so, have you found a way around this?
When you are in the screen where you add the new account to add instead of clicking on the EMAIL icon click on the black G (google) and add the account from there.... then when you are in the screen where to chose what to sync select email...
I know it sucks... I m reading everything I need to know to root the phone advantages and disadvantages to understand whether it's worth it to get rid of all this f***ink bloatware that Motorola and Verizon loaded into this amazing phone...
Both of you are trying to add a google account in the wrong place. settings/ accounts/google Done!
same thing... settings -> account is what I cryptically described as "the screen where you add the new account"... you can reach it in 200 ways...
the bummer is that it's all mixed up in there...
Roland_D said:
same thing... settings -> account is what I cryptically described as "the screen where you add the new account"... you can reach it in 200 ways...
the bummer is that it's all mixed up in there...
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we must be talking about 2 different things then. settings/ accounts/ add account/ google.. there is only one button for it, very simple.
if you go settings/ accounts/ add account/ email accounts/ google, this is the "blur confusion" and IMHO you should only use it for NON google accounts.
wardo5757 said:
Both of you are trying to add a google account in the wrong place. settings/ accounts/google Done!
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Should be the way to incorporate another Google account.
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Hey,
I have two issues and two questions regarding them......
1) I would like to sync the Tasks app. with Google however I do not see Google in the Sync Task profile only my Samsung account.
2) I'd like to sync the Memo app. with Google. It says that I'm not logged in to Google Docs however when I put both my email and password in the login tab does not light up, if I use a different email address it does.
As an added note I also declined a popup from Google about permissions to see what would happen. The window disappeared and nothing did happen!..... At least thats what I thought till now! Not sure how to undo that and suspect that's the problem!
I have also tried to remove my Google account, this only seems possible if you hard reset-which would have to be a last resort for me. I've also been on to my Gmail and Google docs setting via P.C. and am unable to find any setting there that would be affecting these issues.
Any Ideas on how to fix this?
I also have this problem and can not solve it.
I have google docs installed on my phone, but the e-mail address which is registered does not end with gmail.com but a different domain. I can use google docs without a problem but I can not login inside Memo to sync it with my google account.
Any ideas?
I prefer this app. Works great for me http://www.appbrain.com/app/gtasks/org.dayup.gtask
dr0idman said:
I prefer this app. Works great for me http://www.appbrain.com/app/gtasks/org.dayup.gtask
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Thanks a lot, this saved my day!
Regards.
dr0idman said:
I prefer this app. Works great for me http://www.appbrain.com/app/gtasks/org.dayup.gtask
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Is very good (I use it a lot)... But doesn't solve the sync of Memo... Any recommendations?
i use document to go for google doc... they work fantastic!
Since there's still no way to sync memo with google, i just use Simple Notepad. Color note sounds good too, it supports online back up and sync but haven't try it yet ...
Im using Mobisle Notes. Is very good, not perfect... But... the best u could find.
Any solution on this problem? I also would like to sync my task and memo with my google account. But when I hit the "Sync task" only Samsung Account is available for sync. When I hit the "Add Account", I can only add Exchange ActiveSync account".
I read in this forum and elsewhere, many have successfully sync their task with google task. I wonder is it really possible to sync stock task app with google task? Maybe it is the bug of my ROM. I am using stock ROM Gingerbread 2.3.3.
Use Google docs ore dropbox
ynamojn said:
Any solution on this problem? I also would like to sync my task and memo with my google account. But when I hit the "Sync task" only Samsung Account is available for sync. When I hit the "Add Account", I can only add Exchange ActiveSync account".
I read in this forum and elsewhere, many have successfully sync their task with google task. I wonder is it really possible to sync stock task app with google task? Maybe it is the bug of my ROM. I am using stock ROM Gingerbread 2.3.3.
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I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobisleapps.notespro
And also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dayup.gtask
pepemosca said:
I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobisleapps.notespro
And also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dayup.gtask
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Thanks for the information. But since the Tasks is already available for TouchWiz, I would rather use the built in Tasks app. I think the only way is to configure the Gmail Account as an Exchange ActiveSync account. There is a sample configuration for that in the Internet.
Sorry, you mean Task or Notes is on TouchWiz?
Also, can you post the "There is a sample configuration" you mention?
I would like to see it.
Thanks!
I feel strange asking a stock question here, because I've always come here for rom issues, but I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
I am trying to set my gmail app to display my notifications, which it does, but not play any sounds. I want this happen independently from all my other apps and notifications. I've discovered the sounds tab in personalize, but unlike cyanogenmod that I was running on my incredible, there is no (silent) option. At this point, I've tested changing "Email" sound and it didn't have an impact on what played when I received an email.
...what am I missing with this new version of sense?
i3igi3yrd said:
I feel strange asking a stock question here, because I've always come here for rom issues, but I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
I am trying to set my gmail app to display my notifications, which it does, but not play any sounds. I want this happen independently from all my other apps and notifications. I've discovered the sounds tab in personalize, but unlike cyanogenmod that I was running on my incredible, there is no (silent) option. At this point, I've tested changing "Email" sound and it didn't have an impact on what played when I received an email.
...what am I missing with this new version of sense?
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In gmail, press the menu key, and press more. Hit settings, and then tap your account. Scroll down to notification settings and click Labels to notify.Then inbox. Then ringtone, and silent should be in there. Hope this helps
... I just added my second gmail account. I'm even more confused now. At this point I have a google account that my phone was set up with and a gmail account that my second account is synced with. It seems that one is set up as a gmail and the original as a google account... Wtf is the difference? And since the gmail account (the second one) isn't seen by the gmail app, but instead by the mail app... What am I supposed to use. Any clarification would be awesome.
i3igi3yrd said:
... I just added my second gmail account. I'm even more confused now. At this point I have a google account that my phone was set up with and a gmail account that my second account is synced with. It seems that one is set up as a gmail and the original as a google account... Wtf is the difference? And since the gmail account (the second one) isn't seen by the gmail app, but instead by the mail app... What am I supposed to use. Any clarification would be awesome.
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In the Mail app, go to more>settings>notification settings. Then turn off email notifications. Then in the gmail app, go into more>settings, and under account settings, click the account you want. If it is not there, add it with the add account button. Then, scroll down to notification settings, and click label notifications>inbox>ringtone>silent
I feel so stupid. Now I remember going through all this when I set it all up before. I think I just thrown for a loop with te option to set up a google account or a gmail account... Where the gmail account used mail app, not the gmail app, but uses a gmail notification icon where the gmail pp uses the stock mail notification icon. I love this phone. I am a die hard HTC fan, but only the hardware. I know ice cream sandwich is going to hit the rezound, but a they going to skin it with sense 4.0? I'd love the option from a manufacturer instead of having to root it and throw ROMs at it.
Thanks again guys for pointing out the obvious. Don't suppose ere is a equally simple way to set the notification icon to the red gmail icon is there?
i3igi3yrd said:
I feel so stupid. Now I remember going through all this when I set it all up before. I think I just thrown for a loop with te option to set up a google account or a gmail account... Where the gmail account used mail app, not the gmail app, but uses a gmail notification icon where the gmail pp uses the stock mail notification icon. I love this phone. I am a die hard HTC fan, but only the hardware. I know ice cream sandwich is going to hit the rezound, but a they going to skin it with sense 4.0? I'd love the option from a manufacturer instead of having to root it and throw ROMs at it.
Thanks again guys for pointing out the obvious. Don't suppose ere is a equally simple way to set the notification icon to the red gmail icon is there?
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Not without root. That is trademark to the Mail app. Glad you got your problem fixed
A co-worker of mine has a full stock S4 (work phone, Knox-enabled) running the official 4.3. He installed LinkedIn from the Play Store and set it up to sync his contacts to the phone. Within a few minutes there was a handful of them showing up in the custom list filtered to show only Exchange (TouchDown HD) and LinkedIn.
TouchDown contacts total near 4,000 and LinkedIn is nearly 10,000. (I know...)
Once all of the contacts show up, is there a way for the phone to automatically merge them and display the LinkedIn photo for the merged contact?
As far as I know u would have to do it manually, its gonna suck having all those contacts but that's the only way its possible on an HTC device.
Under the contacts menu there are options to merge accounts. Then I use the app sync.me to choose which social site to pull photos from. I'm pretty sure it supports LinkedIn. After it syncs, you need to go into the sync.me settings and enable photo override for it to remove the current/default pictures.
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As far as I know u would have to do it manually, its gonna suck having all those contacts but that's the only way its possible on an HTC device.
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It's a Galaxy S4
Towle said:
Under the contacts menu there are options to merge accounts. Then I use the app sync.me to choose which social site to pull photos from. I'm pretty sure it supports LinkedIn. After it syncs, you need to go into the sync.me settings and enable photo override for it to remove the current/default pictures.
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But do I still need to manually trigger each merge? Or is there an app that can compare names for and do that for me?
NotATreoFan said:
But do I still need to manually trigger each merge? Or is there an app that can compare names for and do that for me?
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It's been a while since I had to do this on my phone. But I think what happens is, TouchWiz automatically brings up a list of all contacts with the same name and asks you to 'join' them. I can't remember if there is a select all option, or if there's a 'join' button next to each pair of contacts.
Or what you could do is just merge all accounts into Google (automatic through settings), then customize display to Google contacts.
Towle said:
It's been a while since I had to do this on my phone. But I think what happens is, TouchWiz automatically brings up a list of all contacts with the same name and asks you to 'join' them. I can't remember if there is a select all option, or if there's a 'join' button next to each pair of contacts.
Or what you could do is just merge all accounts into Google (automatic through settings), then customize display to Google contacts.
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Merging into Google isn't an option with our company security policy. I'll have to play around with the phone some more, which will be difficult since he's in an office hours away.
NotATreoFan said:
Merging into Google isn't an option with our company security policy. I'll have to play around with the phone some more, which will be difficult since he's in an office hours away.
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If it's not automatic in the settings, this app looks promising: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compelson.optimizer
Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
Well, more years ago than I can remember I pretty much linked all of my emails to Gmail, so I've had this functionality across all platforms since then.
For as long as I can remember the android app has also let me choose which of these addresses to send from.
I'd recommend that approach tbh.
Can be done from the site. This app-feature lead me to it so that was useful. But I can read all the email accounts by anything accessing the gmail, Android and desktop applications.
Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
DrGreenway said:
Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
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That's not gmailfying, thats just adding an account to the gmail app (which has been around for years). Gmailifying means gmail completely takes over, when you open gmail (from any device) you will have the mail from the gmailified account alongside your gmail. Adding an account the way you describe is just local on the app. What you need to do is "link" an account, not just add an account. To do this, after you add an account, go into the setting and chose link to gmail. However, if you already have 1 account linked it will tell you that you can't have another one linked. I hope this makes sense.
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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Nope. Doesn't work. ?
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ozaghloul said:
Nope. Doesn't work.
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Awww, sorry ಥ_ಥ
DrGreenway said:
Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
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Well there's a 0% chance that I ve ever used the gmail app on my devices. I'm playing with CloudMagic email app now, it does what I want it to with all my email addys across the spectrum (course the stock Samsung email app did most of that, but wasn't installed on this custom rom)
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i got my m20p on thanksgiving eve, been playing with it. It just came to me that my calendar from google is not showing up in the calendar app, where i had no problems with the m9, and m10p. can someone please help me with that??? i did try adding an account to the calendar app, but its saying the account is already being used.
thanks
I gave up with the stock app as it kept complaining about needing internet connectivity & other annoyances while using it, so I've downloaded Google's own Calendar app from the Play Store & removed the built in one. The only issue with this is that when pressing the Date in the notification menu, it doesn't go through to the calendar app (they've hardcoded it to launch com.android.calendar), but that's only a minor complaint really...
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i got my m20p on thanksgiving eve, been playing with it. It just came to me that my calendar from google is not showing up in the calendar app, where i had no problems with the m9, and m10p. can someone please help me with that??? i did try adding an account to the calendar app, but its saying the account is already being used.
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In the account settings of the calendar app can't you select your account (smt like [email protected]) in the Gmail account section, and deselect MyCalendar?
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In the account settings of the calendar app can't you select your account (smt like [email protected]) in the Gmail account section, and deselect MyCalendar?
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No its not there, so i thought it was not link to my account. when i tried adding an account, then it tells me the account has already been links. which i dont see it anywhere to select of deselect.
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I gave up with the stock app as it kept complaining about needing internet connectivity & other annoyances while using it, so I've downloaded Google's own Calendar app from the Play Store & removed the built in one. The only issue with this is that when pressing the Date in the notification menu, it doesn't go through to the calendar app (they've hardcoded it to launch com.android.calendar), but that's only a minor complaint really...
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holy moly...its good to know...thanks:good::good: