Problem after nandroid recovery - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all.
Having rooted with unrevoked and made a nandroid backup of my rom, I installed OpenDesire Team's Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM and radio on my phone. It worked well and it's the mod I am going to use. Problem is I don't have the time to set it all up now and reinstall everything and put all my settings as I'd like them since I am going to be on a business trip for the next 2 to 3 weeks. So I did a nandroid restore. All well and OK. Except I could no longer see any of my videos. Always an error telling me Sorry, you cannot play this video or whatnot. I rebooted and immediately after reboot I tried to play the same files. The first one started, then froze, and then all video files gave me the same error. Even files I had recorded with the phone. This went on for a few hours till I remembered the damn radio file. Thinking "it can't be that" I dloaded a previous version from the development section and flashed. Believe it or not, I can now play videos. Crises averted... except it's not.
Today I noticed that my Gmail app isn't syncing anymore. I receive mails in real time (pushed to the device) and can open and read them fine. I can even delete them from the inbox (or so it seems), but when I tried to reply to an email I noticed my mail just sat there saying "sending" in those red / pink letters. I tried to compose a new mail and sending that only to find all my composed mails since I had restored were still sitting in my outbox label / folder. And when I accessed Gmail from my PC's web browser, I found that all the mails I had opened in the Gmail app on the phone were still unopened on the servers. And the deleted ones were still there too, untouched. So it seems my Gmail stopped syncing. And I have already checked the settings. All else is working including calendar and contacts.
I have performed over a dozen restores now and tried all radio files in the forum. Nothing worked.
Does anyone have a solution for this issue? Please!!!!! Very urgent I fix it before leaving tomorrow evening.

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Gmail & ActiveSync Problems

Hello, I have a little question, Do you also have problemes using activesync and gmail ?
for me it work 1 time and then nothing more ...
mrassol said:
Hello, I have a little question, Do you also have problemes using activesync and gmail ?
for me it work 1 time and then nothing more ...
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Yes I have push gmail by using acrivesync and it worked for me about the last 3 weeks but today it says:
A network or server error is currently preventing your device from synchronizing with your exchange server. If this condition persists, please contact your system administrator.
Support code: 0x85010005
Last synchronized: Today 06:44am
I have almost the same problem ... before I change my phone, it worked fin on my iphone, and on my diamond for test, but now, nothing since 3 days ...
After a few tests, If I uncheck mail the synchro works fine, it should be a problem on google side ... ****
It was working earlier this morning....phew...I thought it was just me having the issue.
Hopefully Gmail will fix the issue.
I deleted my sync and re-established. no longer getting error.
try it out....see if that works for you.
I did it almost 10 times, got 2 or 3 mails, and then nothing else ...
it is fine now, i was getting no email updates previously, but now works fine
I don't, currently, sync my mail. But I do have other problems syncing with Gmail, for contacts and appointments.
1) It never actually synchronizes the first time I press sync (i have mine set to manual) I have to press it a second time for the data to actually sync.
2) Even if I make NO changes to any contact it always has a list of 20+ contacts it is updating (what is it updating??)
3) I stopped using HTC Favorites tab because all contacts in this list get screwed up everytime I sync with google, mainly loosing their photos and rearrangin how I have names displayed (reverts only these few back to standard last name first)
4) DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use Tmo My Faves if you plan on using google sync. If you do every time you sync through google Tmo will go through and change your my faves contacts back to how they feel they should be displayed, including getting rid of custom ringtones for that contact and their photo. And you will get a txt message for every change tmo did.
5) Evey couple of weeks it tells me a change on the server requires every contact, and or appointment, to be erased and re-synced! Terrifying the first time it happens, not knowing if you are gonna loose anything.
These are almost too much trouble to keep using google sync... and yet I persist with it, hoping these stupid bugs will be worked out.
I have since dropped my faves, since I have the good customer unlimited plan. And have stopped using the HTC favorites tab. Even so, I still get problems with some of the contacts that used to be favorites.
WIll try again to use push ...
It seems like Google is still working some stuff out. I had the same issue and another as well.
Apparently the HTC favorites thing stores some data in proprietary places in your contacts and so that causes problems.
Also, for me unticking "Tasks" for syncing has solved the problem before.
Gmail Emails are not instant, I switched to Live because of this!

[Q] Gmail native app not pushing emails

Hey Guys,
Been experiencing gmail issue for the last couple of weeks.
Desire Z, now with the OTA update - used to have root, task managers, but did factory data reset which should remove those two, correct?
Upon boot, gmail functions well, and pushes my mail thru well, then after a while, i'd go into the gmail app and refresh, and a flurry of emails would come thru, some hours old.
I've done several factory resets, at the moment have weather sync every 3 hours, gmail, exchange (push), facebook for sense every 12 hours, and whatsapp.
Not sure how the native gmail app works, is it exchange? proprietary sync? imap idle? or thru the google cloud service?
been reading and people have cleared the gmail cache as a temp workaround, but I find this annoying, and its results are hit and miss.
I have tried on gmail app version 2.3 and 2.3.2 (latest)
any ideas?
PS - background data on, sync on, all on!
Native gmail app is pushhhhhh. It should be pushing down....
I have had troubles with syncing but I flash so muchstuff I'm never in the same place at the same time. So a wipe is always the fix everytime.
If I were you id quit on the weather (look up at the sky) and facebook. Eliminate the junk if you are trying to fix something substantially important. See what happens. Try a wipe they feel good actually.
vision
Thanks for the suggestion,
over the weekend (Xmas weekend) i wiped twice, both times i didnt install anything else, both times after a period of time, it would stop pushing.
I have no idea now hahaha
Ok, so i just did it again, factory reset, formatted SD card, completely clean phone.
installed only my gmail account and my work exchange account. nothing else.
my push gmail worked for about 1/2 hour, and stopped again.
The problem is with Gmail. They just updated the.app. go to the Market and download the new app before you.delete your whole phone or something.
billyskip said:
The problem is with Gmail. They just updated the.app. go to the Market and download the new app before you.delete your whole phone or something.
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do u mean version 2.3.2? if so - tried that
ive deleted the phone half a dozen times already this week. kinda used to it hahaha
is there a newer version out that I'm not aware of?
sephstyler said:
do u mean version 2.3.2? if so - tried that
ive deleted the phone half a dozen times already this week. kinda used to it hahaha
is there a newer version out that I'm not aware of?
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Yea.. I was having the same problem yesterday. Went to the market, saw there was an update. After I downloaded it, it fixed everything. Hummmm. Let me check my version # yup. I'm 2.3.2

[Q] Twitter stopped working

Ok, this is really pissing me off.
A couple days ago Twitter app (the official one) stopped updating. So i opened it manually and tried to scroll down the tweets to make it load the new ones, but a popup message came out, the one usually displayed when no connection is available. First of all i checked my sync settings, and they were just fine.
Then i tried rebooting the phone, no way.
So i tried wiping cache, still no way.
Then i decided to try and reinstall the app. I did, but funny enough it didn't even allow me to login. I tried tons of other twitter apps and it's still the same, all of them displaying some "unable to login" message.
Right after that (quite pissed indeed) i decided to go the hard way, so i fully wiped and reflashed Oxygen 2.1.4. Guess what? Nothing changed.
I have to point out that i CAN login from the browser, so it shouldn't just me being idiot lol.
Now i'm really running out of ideas, any help would be appreciated.
I attached a logcat too, just in case.
Any suggestion?

[Q] ARGH! PLEASE HELP! Gmail force close again

Process: com.google.android.gm NOT "gapp"
had an issue with it not syncing a few weeks ago...wound up wiping, using Titanium to restore everything that was on it. Made a nandroid thru CWM after it was confirmed everything was fine
NOTHING changed on my phone, from yesterday to today...it just started force closing out of the blue. Going to back to the Nandroid backup did nothing
My cache is 0.00kb (for those of you about to say 'clear cache in manage applications' lol)
I'm getting really sick of this happening, and losing things from weeks past in hopes of recovery.
FWIW, I had 3 gmails syncing. 2 worked fine, but the MAIN ('assigned' tot he phone) is the one that this keeps happening to. I can check, delete, and send emails from the other two, but now when I go to do anything in the primary, or switch between accounts it force closes. I removed those 'extra' accounts to no avail either
Any ideas?!?! (I have also wiped data in Titanium, which is what fixed it the last time.) I had issues on and off with Facebook force closing (I uninstalled it last week, before this happened)
Even re-installed before posting this, and when I did that I got the gmail force close (even though I wasn't syncing any contacts from gmail)
Silly Question:
Is there anything else to use for gmail, other than the gmail app? It seems to have more issues than it's worth. Which is extra annoying, since it is native to the phone/OS, down to it's very core lol
andr0idn00b said:
Process: com.google.android.gm NOT "gapp"
had an issue with it not syncing a few weeks ago...wound up wiping, using Titanium to restore everything that was on it. Made a nandroid thru CWM after it was confirmed everything was fine
NOTHING changed on my phone, from yesterday to today...it just started force closing out of the blue. Going to back to the Nandroid backup did nothing
My cache is 0.00kb (for those of you about to say 'clear cache in manage applications' lol)
I'm getting really sick of this happening, and losing things from weeks past in hopes of recovery.
FWIW, I had 3 gmails syncing. 2 worked fine, but the MAIN ('assigned' tot he phone) is the one that this keeps happening to. I can check, delete, and send emails from the other two, but now when I go to do anything in the primary, or switch between accounts it force closes. I removed those 'extra' accounts to no avail either
Any ideas?!?! (I have also wiped data in Titanium, which is what fixed it the last time.) I had issues on and off with Facebook force closing (I uninstalled it last week, before this happened)
Even re-installed before posting this, and when I did that I got the gmail force close (even though I wasn't syncing any contacts from gmail)
Silly Question:
Is there anything else to use for gmail, other than the gmail app? It seems to have more issues than it's worth. Which is extra annoying, since it is native to the phone/OS, down to it's very core lol
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is your phone running on a customer "rom'? if so, what rom? i had that happened to me a couple of times and had to odin back and do the whole process all over. does your phone dialer work?
I get my gmail through the default email.apk. I have it set to receive from gmail, yahoo, hotmail and Roadrunner.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
I kept saying to myself 'list ROM etc' and that's the one thing I left out lol
I'm on the ACS ICS
can I use multiple gmails with the email apk?it just seems so much slower than gmail
and yes,phone dialer still works
ok...try this, boot into cwm, do a factory reset in cwm, then install acs, do it twice and see what happens. before you installed acs, did you do a nandroid backup?
already 'fixed' it...
WIPED IT BACK TO COMPLETELY STOCK
re-rooted, re-installed ACS and then did the latest CWM nandroid back-up (12/23/2011)
Gmail works as does everything else
Now I'm updating everything that has updated since 12/23, and going to do a nandroid and Titanium back-up tonight
SUCH A PITA
I love the ROM, but this is the 2nd time in a month this has happened. Both times I had to take it back to stock, and start ALL over...
Have you tried switching to a third party app such as k9 mail? That has been my preference for a while now. It has tons of options, and I find it more capable than gmail or the stock email apk's.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda premium
I will look into it...up until 10seconds ago I never knew about it
THANKS!!!

[Q] "Account wasn't found. It may have been removed." - Exchange Server

Hi all - I searched for references to this issue, but haven't found anything yet. Hope someone here can help.
I've been using my Galaxy Nexus (LTE / Verizon) since mid December, locked, unrooted, vanilla - and it's been great. I've been using the native email apps for my GMail account and my work/corporate account on our company's Exchange Server. All has worked perfectly so far. First sign of something weird happened last night.
Last night I backed up, rooted and unlocked my GNex (using the WugFresh utility). I followed the directions closely -- all worked pretty much perfectly. As suggested, I took 2 backups: first without system apps and settings, and the 2nd including them. After I was done rooting and unlocking, I restored the big backup with system apps and settings. Only thing I noticed is that passwords are apparently not part of the settings that can be saved/restored (makes sense!), so I had to reenter credentials for my email apps.
This done, I sync to both GMail and Exchange Server, receive and send mail just fine. Only weird thing is that when I tap the EMail icon to start up the email client that talks to Exchange Server, in addition to opening up my inbox properly, I ALSO see two error messages in sequence:
"Account wasn't found. It may have been removed."
and
"Folder wasn't found. It may have been removed."
The errors then fade, and email is perfectly usable.
I'm guessing that some folder and account entry was restored along with the apps from my backup, and that whatever these pointed to no longer exist, and were superseded by they email app when I reconnected to the Exchange Server during setup after rooting / unlocking.
I've looked - and only see a single account configured in the app -- the correct one. I've checked in Settings / Apps, and there are no options to clear data or cache.
I'm wondering if I should delete the one account I see and re-add it...not sure if that will make a difference.
Anyone have a clue what's going on, and what I might do about it?
thanks in advance,
Jon
Im having the exact same problem!!
jaseandjess said:
Im having the exact same problem!!
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In the end, I wound up doing a factory reset on the phone. I was tempted to delete and recreate the account, but I'm convinced there was a phantom (non-existent?) folder / account that the email client kept trying to refer to and that this would have persisted. A factory reset cured the issue, and this time I did NOT restore my entire backup including system apps and data. Instead, I let Google Play and Amazon App store reinstall 99% of my apps, leaving me 3 or 4 that I had to do by hand. In the end it didn't take long at all to do this, and result is a happy Galaxy Nexus once more.
Jon
jonstrong said:
In the end, I wound up doing a factory reset on the phone. I was tempted to delete and recreate the account, but I'm convinced there was a phantom (non-existent?) folder / account that the email client kept trying to refer to and that this would have persisted. A factory reset cured the issue, and this time I did NOT restore my entire backup including system apps and data. Instead, I let Google Play and Amazon App store reinstall 99% of my apps, leaving me 3 or 4 that I had to do by hand. In the end it didn't take long at all to do this, and result is a happy Galaxy Nexus once more.
Jon
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Hi, just wanted to let you know what the solution was in my case. I was messing around with everything, wasting two full days with about 100 times recreating the account, trying to restore/replace Mail/ExchangeServices app/data in various different ways, factory reset, reflashing system, etc. etc. ... nothing helped!
Finally, a few minutes ago I got it: Just recreate the stupid homescreen link! I never thought about trying to start the Mail application via "all apps". If I did (earlier), I would have seen (earlier) that the message does not appear then. It only appears when starting it via my homescreen link, which is actually a widget (looking like a normal app link), configured to open a certain folder of a certain account. So the actual problem was just that this widget could not find the "old" account anymore (probably because some account id changes if an account is deleted and recreated). The reason I've been fooled over and over again (even after factory resets and system flashes) is because I always restored my homescreen stuff in one way or another, so I always used the same old broken link.
D'OH!
Hope that next time someone comes across this issue this post will help. Currently there seems to be no (other) solution to this on the internet. At least I did not find anything in the past two days.
Thanks for posting an easy solution!
mychi said:
Hi, just wanted to let you know what the solution was in my case. I was messing around with everything, wasting two full days with about 100 times recreating the account, trying to restore/replace Mail/ExchangeServices app/data in various different ways, factory reset, reflashing system, etc. etc. ... nothing helped!
Finally, a few minutes ago I got it: Just recreate the stupid homescreen link! I never thought about trying to start the Mail application via "all apps". If I did (earlier), I would have seen (earlier) that the message does not appear then. It only appears when starting it via my homescreen link, which is actually a widget (looking like a normal app link), configured to open a certain folder of a certain account. So the actual problem was just that this widget could not find the "old" account anymore (probably because some account id changes if an account is deleted and recreated). The reason I've been fooled over and over again (even after factory resets and system flashes) is because I always restored my homescreen stuff in one way or another, so I always used the same old broken link.
D'OH!
Hope that next time someone comes across this issue this post will help. Currently there seems to be no (other) solution to this on the internet. At least I did not find anything in the past two days.
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Thank you so much. I just had to recreate my account settings (5 of them since Ihave corporate but also use exchange settings for hotmail) and hated to see this message (and a second one similar but about a folder who could not be found). I removed the icon on the home screen and put the Email app (not the widget to avoid the same problem in the future) back and not more error! I really did not want to reset my phone.

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