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G-Mail doesn't push on CM7 RC4

I just updated to CM7 RC4 and everything is working great. I simply thought I didn't get any g-mails recently. I found out they aren't being pushed. Is this a common problem or is this something that I can fix?

May not be a CM thing per se, my gmail hasn't been pushed as frequently either. Verified by using pc browser and sending myself gmail from another account, it was at least a couple minutes before it got to device, was in pc browser in seconds.
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I've been using the CM7 nightlies as my "daily driver" for months now. Never had a problem receiving Gmail. Sometimes the phone will let me know there's a new email a few seconds before I see it come into the web interface on my laptop.
The only suggestion I can offer is to make sure that your sync settings are still setup properly. From your home screen: Menu > Settings > Accounts & Sync. Make sure Background Data and Auto-Sync are both checked. Then make sure that your Google account shows up below, click on it, and make sure that "Sync Gmail" is checked

Mine can take up to 30 minutes to push mail, used to be a lot faster. I thought there was a setting for how often GMail checked email but I can't find any. So not sure if it ever existed or if Google removed that option. Also not sure if this is only a CM7 thing or happens with Sense based ROMs too.
edit: this only happens on my linked accounts (hotmail, ISP email, work email). mail sent directly to my gmail account comes in almost as soon as its sent. there is no setting in gmail (web based) that i can find that changes the frequency that it checks the other mail accounts, looks like the default is every 30 minutes.

kzoodroid said:
I thought there was a setting for how often GMail checked email but I can't find any.
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Interval sync settings are generally removed from apps once they achieve true push functionality, since at that point they are moot.
It's odd that we are experiencing such drastically different things. I don't have any idea why mine come in instantaneously while yours take up to 30 minutes. Very strange indeed.

kzoodroid said:
edit: this only happens on my linked accounts (hotmail, ISP email, work email). mail sent directly to my gmail account comes in almost as soon as its sent. there is no setting in gmail (web based) that i can find that changes the frequency that it checks the other mail accounts, looks like the default is every 30 minutes.
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Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I was writing my reply as you were editing so I didn't see this when I hit submit.

byrong said:
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I was writing my reply as you were editing so I didn't see this when I hit submit.
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This only recently started happening as all my mail used to be pushed to my phone a a lot faster. The change happened within the last two months so I think Google changed its policies as to how often they querry the other services for mail.

happens from time to time. go into settings, applications, gmail and clear data / cache. this will fix it.
Note : you will have to go into gmail settings after your inbox syncs and set your settings up again (ringtone, vibrate, etc)
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kzoodroid said:
Mine can take up to 30 minutes to push mail, used to be a lot faster. I thought there was a setting for how often GMail checked email but I can't find any. So not sure if it ever existed or if Google removed that option. Also not sure if this is only a CM7 thing or happens with Sense based ROMs too.
edit: this only happens on my linked accounts (hotmail, ISP email, work email). mail sent directly to my gmail account comes in almost as soon as its sent. there is no setting in gmail (web based) that i can find that changes the frequency that it checks the other mail accounts, looks like the default is every 30 minutes.
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I'm running a sense based rom and I don't have any settings for how often gmail refreshes
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Problem has been solved. I'm a moron and didn't check if everything in my Google account was being synced. Everything but Gmail was checked... I feel so stupidstupid
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No worries, I noticed the same thing when I installed CM7 for the first time the other day. Took me a while to realize why. It also took me a while to figure out how to turn the vibrate back on when I type a message!
Great rom though.
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Gmail users...Gmail app or Stock email app?

Looking for your thoughts? Which is better on battery life utilizing push?

OmegaDog said:
Looking for your thoughts? Which is better on battery life utilizing push?
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I always wonder why people use the Gmail app. People must have more than one account. So why not use an unified inbox, so you can view all your emails in one place?

jhericurls said:
I always wonder why people use the Gmail app. People must have more than one account. So why not use an unified inbox, so you can view all your emails in one place?
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Personal preference. I like keeping my inboxes separate. Also, I'm fairly certain the stock email app doesn't handle Gmail-specific functions such as importance markers, priority inbox, and labels.

OmegaDog said:
Looking for your thoughts? Which is better on battery life utilizing push?
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Using Google and Gmail is less taxing on your battery. If you setup your Gmail account (on a computer from the Gmail inbox) to poll your other accounts, it will then push new emails to your phone. That means your phone is only active (in terms of getting emails) when a new email is being pushed to the phone verses the native email app that will poll your pop3 accounts on the frequency you select. It will do that polling whether there are new emails available on your server or not. Over at Android Central is an article titled "Using Gmail as your own personal push mail server". It explains exactly how to set this up.
I've been doing this for about two years now and love it. I think the Gmail is better than the native email app too.
Good luck.

Gmail app, hands down. You're going to miss so many functions compared to the basic email app.

I didn't even know there was a stock email app..

Gmail all the way.

Gmail of course. Never even touched the stock Email app on any phone I've had.

I'd only use the stock email app if I had to connect to an exchange server. Otherwise, Gmail can pull your email and label them - there is your unified inbox, with the best search in the world and many more features than the stock email app.

Gmail no doubt about it

chirea.mircea said:
I'd only use the stock email app if I had to connect to an exchange server. Otherwise, Gmail can pull your email and label them - there is your unified inbox, with the best search in the world and many more features than the stock email app.
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I wish Google would put all of its efforts into just creating one amazing email app instead of two ok apps. I need Exchange support so I'm forced to use both apps and honestly, neither compares to the experience I had on Windows Phone... Search was much better and faster on Windows Phone as well. The main advantage to Gmail app is the labels function, after that the clients in Androids competitors win in speed, zoom and ability to change views like swipe to view all unread messages, and swipe again to view starred messages.

Stock Gmail preferred, but have to use both since Yahoo won't connect to Gmail unless you pay them a premium fee. Yahoo account is basically collecting spam and an occasional message from someone who hasn't updated their contact list in a while. And c2dm is more timely and battery efficient than scheduled polling and sync.
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hmm well I have been using the stock email app forever. Mainly because I needed exchange support, first for school and now for work. But I got tired of exchange hogging the battery so I just have all my emails forwarded now to my gmail account. Might have to give it a try.

Seeing as I only use Gmail on my phone the Gmail app does the job (and I delete the stock app as I never use it)

Lol I freeze the stock mail app first time I flash a rom
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Using both apps here.
Gmail app for my "real" email and stock for Yahoo and Exchange.

What's the stock email app?

Geezer Squid said:
Using Google and Gmail is less taxing on your battery. If you setup your Gmail account (on a computer from the Gmail inbox) to poll your other accounts, it will then push new emails to your phone. That means your phone is only active (in terms of getting emails) when a new email is being pushed to the phone verses the native email app that will poll your pop3 accounts on the frequency you select. It will do that polling whether there are new emails available on your server or not. Over at Android Central is an article titled "Using Gmail as your own personal push mail server". It explains exactly how to set this up.
I've been doing this for about two years now and love it. I think the Gmail is better than the native email app too.
Good luck.
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My god man. I never knew this.:laugh: Set this up in a matter of minutes. Thanks for this.:good:

Have you guys ever had a look at the gmail app for the iphone? It is gorgeous! And same functionality as well. Ours works very well but I would like to see a little UI overhaul
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jhericurls said:
I always wonder why people use the Gmail app. People must have more than one account. So why not use an unified inbox, so you can view all your emails in one place?
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I pull other accounts into my main Gmail account, so everything ends up there (e-mails from other accounts automatically get labeled accordingly), and I can access everything through the Gmail app on my phone.

Facebook and Gmail push notifications?

I'm the newest owner of the LTE GN. While I absolutely love it over my Rezound (mostly because of ICS and the sleek factor of the device) I've noticed that both the Gmail and Facebook apps aren't pushing notifications to the phone. I've scoured the phone for the options to enable them, but I'm just not seeing them. Gmail isn't a big deal since I switch to the standard email app and that pushes no problem, but Facebook would only push messages, not wall posts or replies. Any suggestions? Thanks!

For Gmail, tap Menu, Settings, tap your email address, Email notifications.

Ravynmagi said:
For Gmail, tap Menu, Settings, tap your email address, Email notifications.
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Did that, didn't work.

Sharrock said:
Did that, didn't work.
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Do you have background data and sync turned on? and "sync gmail" checked under your account options?

martonikaj said:
Do you have background data and sync turned on? and "sync gmail" checked under your account options?
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Okay I did that, now it works. Thanks! Now about that pesky facebook...

Sharrock said:
Okay I did that, now it works. Thanks! Now about that pesky facebook...
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Facebook doesn't have official push notifications. The fastest polling period you can select in settings is 30 minute sync. I've noticed that for things like friend requests and event invites its usually like 5-10min behind the site updates.
I've never been able to get notifications consistently though. I use the Facebook Messenger app for push messages and that does work. That's all I care about really.

martonikaj said:
Facebook doesn't have official push notifications. The fastest polling period you can select in settings is 30 minute sync. I've noticed that for things like friend requests and event invites its usually like 5-10min behind the site updates.
I've never been able to get notifications consistently though. I use the Facebook Messenger app for push messages and that does work. That's all I care about really.
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Facebook is meant to have push notifications but in reality it doesn't work. Some say it does but they're few and far between

EddyOS said:
Facebook is meant to have push notifications but in reality it doesn't work. Some say it does but they're few and far between
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Rad. So any alternative apps that can get me push notifications?

What about friendcaster? It says
"★ Gmail/K-9 Push Notifications. FriendCaster can check for emails that Facebook sends to you telling you that you’ve got a notification."
"★ Notifies on Facebook Messages, Friends’ Birthdays & Notifications"

Sharrock said:
Rad. So any alternative apps that can get me push notifications?
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I don't enough to try and fix it, all I wanted was contact sync which although some custom ROMs do the picture resolution is piss poor. I now use HaxSync and I'm happy with it

I get FB push notifications. It's not instantaneous, but rather in the period of 2-10 mins.
You just set your refresh interval to "Never" and you're set.

Choose E-mail account to send photo

1) Take picture
2) Go to sharing screen
3) Choose e-mail photo
4) New e-mail opens up with photo attached, showing default e-mail account
5) No way to change to a different account?
Am I missing something? This is like the simplest thing. I have never seen a phone not give you the option to change which e-mail account you're sending from.

For GMail? When I click share, it takes me to the compose page in GMail, and if I tap the email account, it gives me the drop-down to select other GMail accounts.
If you mean the stock "EMail" app, I only have 1 account there, can't check.

martonikaj said:
For GMail? When I click share, it takes me to the compose page in GMail, and if I tap the email account, it gives me the drop-down to select other GMail accounts.
If you mean the stock "EMail" app, I only have 1 account there, can't check.
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No, the e-mail client. You never get an option to change the account after you choose e-mail. It just creates a new mail using your default account and there's no way to change it.

greyhulk said:
No, the e-mail client. You never get an option to change the account after you choose e-mail. It just creates a new mail using your default account and there's no way to change it.
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Weird. Guess you'll have to just have to go to the EMail app first, and attach from there.

martonikaj said:
Weird. Guess you'll have to just have to go to the EMail app first, and attach from there.
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Yeah, well I obviously already know that works. It's a disappointing oversight. I have never had a phone that wouldn't let me pick the e-mail account I was sending from and I have had a lot of android phones.

greyhulk said:
Yeah, well I obviously already know that works. It's a disappointing oversight. I have never had a phone that wouldn't let me pick the e-mail account I was sending from and I have had a lot of android phones.
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Quite annoying. The integrated EMail app is pretty decent (3rd party ones are better), but they would obviously prefer you use GMail. I just use EMail for my university account, which is an Outlook/Exchange setup.

Google always does this, they forget about multiple accounts
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Contacts Sync

Just got my Fire Phone a couple of days ago and I knew exactly what I was getting into when I bought it. First thing I did was install Play Store along with all the apks are are important from Google.
But as the title suggests, I am just curious on if there is a way to sync Google Contacts quickly. My Contacts apps syncs fine with my Gmail, but it takes every bit of hour for them to sync. Whereas as when you add a contact in Gmail on the computer they sync immediately with an Android Phone. We have tried the different syncs options on the Fire Phone but to no avail. Just more curious than anything. If there isnt a way, it really doesnt bother me to much instead of being more a nuisance than anything.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

beeson76 said:
Just got my Fire Phone a couple of days ago and I knew exactly what I was getting into when I bought it. First thing I did was install Play Store along with all the apks are are important from Google.
But as the title suggests, I am just curious on if there is a way to sync Google Contacts quickly. My Contacts apps syncs fine with my Gmail, but it takes every bit of hour for them to sync. Whereas as when you add a contact in Gmail on the computer they sync immediately with an Android Phone. We have tried the different syncs options on the Fire Phone but to no avail. Just more curious than anything. If there isnt a way, it really doesnt bother me to much instead of being more a nuisance than anything.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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How did you get them to sync? My contacts app doesnt show any contacts I have on Google. :/

rjmohit said:
How did you get them to sync? My contacts app doesnt show any contacts I have on Google. :/
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I had to set up the Fire Email app with my Gmail address to get the contacts & calendar to sync. I actually like the email app more than I thought I would but can't seem to find two critical things:
-Notify once for emails (not every email)
-Different notification sounds for different accounts
Am I missing a setting somewhere?

rjmohit said:
How did you get them to sync? My contacts app doesnt show any contacts I have on Google. :/
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It was pretty automatic for me. I logged in using my gmail account. I will try to help you though but you prolly already have all the correct settings. When you open your email app from the OS (not some installed app from the store), left swipe to get to your settings. In my email app, the only email I have as an account is Gmail. Go to settings in the menu. Bottom option. On next screen click Contacts Settings. From there you have an option to Synchronize contacts. Make sure that is set to on. Try that and let us know what happens. This is where is may take to up to an hour for it to sync. My original question here was if there is a faster option to get the contacts to sync because many times I need the contact sync immediately.
It prolly just built into the OS to sync at a certain time frame.

ItsDon said:
I had to set up the Fire Email app with my Gmail address to get the contacts & calendar to sync. I actually like the email app more than I thought I would but can't seem to find two critical things:
-Notify once for emails (not every email)
-Different notification sounds for different accounts
Am I missing a setting somewhere?
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beeson76 said:
It was pretty automatic for me. I logged in using my gmail account. I will try to help you though but you prolly already have all the correct settings. When you open your email app from the OS (not some installed app from the store), left swipe to get to your settings. In my email app, the only email I have as an account is Gmail. Go to settings in the menu. Bottom option. On next screen click Contacts Settings. From there you have an option to Synchronize contacts. Make sure that is set to on. Try that and let us know what happens. This is where is may take to up to an hour for it to sync. My original question here was if there is a faster option to get the contacts to sync because many times I need the contact sync immediately.
It prolly just built into the OS to sync at a certain time frame.
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Gotcha!! I basically disabled the built in email app and installed googlecontactssyncadapter.apk in an effort to sync contacts. Unsuccessful, I moved to using CM11 and loving it!! Thanks for the detailed explanations!

I disabled most of the amazon apps as well, and noticed that my contacts stopped syncing. Looked into it a little more and saw that it was tied to the email app. The email app is okay, but it doesn't have any of my gmail labels so that was out, and it was using too much juice as was so I had to find an alternative. This app will connect to google, or a number of other contact sync services, and you can set the sync rate on it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.carddav.sync