quick tip: fix gmail sync issues on your motorola droid
Thursday, February 11, 2010we've had various readers come to us while experiencing sync issues with gmail on their droid phone. they apparently have been forced to manually sync rather than use the phone's awesome auto-sync feature. our first look was obviously to make sure they had "background data" and "auto-sync" checked in accounts and sync settings which they had. and then also made sure that if they clicked on the particular gmail account in question, that the "sync gmail" box was checked which it was.
and then we discovered this handy little trick...
Go to menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications.let me know if you are still having gmail sync issues after this tip, but this should do the trick!
Then click menu -> Filter -> All.
Scroll down until you see the Gmail and Gmail Storage. Click both of these and select clear data.
The phone will then resync with Gmail and all should be well.
6 comments
Is the auto-sync feature really that great? My battery takes a huge hit when I turn on auto-sync. I'm thrilled that GMail has a "refresh" button right in the app -- I wish the calendar, contacts, and picasa all made it that easy to manually sync.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't need to know the instant you get a new e-mail, it's much nicer pulling mail than getting it pushed to you (at cost to your battery).
didn't work :( I just sent two test emails from my work email and i had to hit the refresh button to receive them.
ReplyDeleteI love auto-sync because I don't have to think about it. Although I still manually refresh at times.
ReplyDeleteAnon: How long did you give it?
Hey Kellex....I tried it again just now..waited a half hour and unfortunately, it didn't work. I just manually sync'd it and the email came through
ReplyDeleteWell crap. I'll have to play around some more. I'll let you know.
ReplyDeleteI use the Email app rather than the Google Mail app & that stopped downloading new emails yesterday (after the 2.0.1 upgrade.. but I don't know if that's what caused the issue). I've followed the instructions above, clearing down the cache for the Email app as well & that seems to have fixed it for now. I'll keep my eye on it, but thanks for the tip!
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