Hey everyone,
I'm sorry that this probably is not the right place for this but xda is my favorite and this is mainly for my nexus 4. If there is a better forum perhaps a mod can move it.
This is not a thread for everyone to just post their favorite email app.I have tried most of them already. Unless it fulfills my requirements below please do not post it.
OK, my biggest issue when restoring data after changing a rom or something is email. I am a website developer/designer/webmaster and because of this I have many email accounts. I have 7 gmail accounts, 6 live accounts, and many other accounts for other domains.
Currently I use the gmail app and the stock email app.
I have tried 3rd party apps but the problem is that contacts and calendars do not get synced.
I have actually 2 questions.
# 1 - Is there an email app I can use for all my emails that would also sync my contacts and calendars with the built in contact s and calendar app?
#2 - Is there any way to back up and restore email accounts across roms. I can back up gmail and the other email app using titanium but when restoring to a different rom usually the accounts are not actually restored.
One last thing I want to elaborate on is the 3rd party apps. I have bought and used many of them but I just have not ended up being happy. Either these apps freez up because of the amount of email processed or there is too much battery drain and them there is always the contact syncing issue.
I do not expect as miracle here but I would really be interested to hear from others that have many email accounts.
Thanks much!
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Quick questions, I want 3 exchange account on my Desire. For uni, gmail and google apps. I don't want to pay and would prefer to use a comprehensive email client. What options do I have?
I don't know of any free way of running more than one Exchange account, sorry.
Install the standard Eclair Email app (see here).
I've not tried it myself, but the APK is hosted by rhedgehog, and he frequents these forums so I'm sure he'll chime in if it doesn't work!
Dave
Cool - does that app suffer from any of the shortcomings of HTC's apps? What are the drawbacks?
well, gmail is seperate to default mail app.
so i have gmail, and my uni email both as exchange.
you'll just have to tough it out and use pull mail for the third account
I suppose 2 mail apps may be pushing a bit too much data, could use gmail for gmail and mail app for the others.
Me too, I have one work Outlook account and one support Outlook account on the same Exchange server. $20 for the professional email app is a bit much. Takes me back to the Symbian days when $20 would be a bargain.
So I had a weird thing just happen.
I restored my phone to the CM rom and then restored my data via mybackup. I then setup my exchange account and for some reason my exchange calendar old items were being resent to all invitees in each invite. Since I ways always a required person I got all the emails as well. I quickly deleted my exchange account and the sending stopped.
The emails did get sent to other people because I got out of office replies from many.
I am scared to put my exchange account back on...
Edit: I forgot to say. The invites were from my exchange calendar, but the invites being resent came from my gmail account to all my exchange people.
Ok so I think the mybackup is what triggered this issue.
Good to know for the future.
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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:
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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.
Does anyone knows?
Tks
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It does. My Exchange calendar syncs with my stock Nexus calendar just fine.
If you're getting the error where your calendar keeps crashing, go into apps and delete all calendar data and have it resync again. This resolved my crashing calendar issue.
Thanks bro... my problem is that my calendar does not even show as available... only google's.
Kinda frustrated...
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wisefreakz said:
Thanks bro... my problem is that my calendar does not even show as available... only google's.
Kinda frustrated...
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This may seem obvious but make sure your Exchange account on your phone is set to sync the calendar.
You can also try removing your Exchange account and re-adding it to your phone.
Do you know for sure that your Exchange server/administrator allows syncing calendar with mobile phones?
Hi... all that you said i tried before. No sucess.
And yes it does allow as with touchdown it works.
Damn...
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didn't want to start a new thread, so i'm resurrecting this one.
I have a GSM Galaxy Nexus (running the latest release stock 4.0.4 IMM76I) and i'm having mixed results with ICS Stock calendar sycn. i've read (and posted similar feedback) on the Google forums discussing this "bug"
my setup: i have 3 exchange accounts - work (2010), family (Office365/2010) and personal (2007) - set to push email, contacts and calendar. contacts and mail works flawlessly for all three accounts. calendar sync works flawlessly for family and personal accounts. the calendar on the work account is where i'm having problems. it syncs some event and consistently excludes the several single and recurring events. I’m a program manager and rely HEAVILY on my calendar to manage my various assigned projects.
i've followed all the suggestions: clear data from calendar storage, delete and re-add the account, don't use the stock calendar widget when setting up the account (that worked for about 1 week) but still no luck with the work calendar. if i open one of the excluded events via the outlook client, make a minor change (e.g., reminder time) and then save the event, it will sync to phone, then after that a duplicate entry appears, then a triplicate entry, then it quadruples. Basically, it adds the same entry on the phone for each sync/refresh. on my outlook calendar on the pc it shows only 1 event. if i add a "test event" via the outlook client/phone, it will sync to the phone/client as a single entry, but at the next refresh, the phone entries follow the same pattern as above.
i installed a trial version of Touchdown and the work calendar syncs perfectly no issues at all. i also have a lumia 900 (wife won it at work and didn't want it) and it syncs without issue. i have a Nexus One and HTC Sensation and they sync fine, granted both are using Gingerbread. IT has told me there are no issues with my account; the fact that Touchdown and the Lumia work seems to supports my account is ok. [FONT="]
since i need my calendar for work, i purchased Moxier Mail (and use it just for calendar sync) because it's closest to the ICS stock layout. it's very frustrating that i have to cobble together software to get basic functionality to work on my GNex. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks in advance to anyone who offers suggestions.
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OK.. so I'm a little confused here. I've got 2 gmail accounts setup as exchange services on my SGS3.. one of them has all my phone contacts, which I've been syncing to for a couple years on my iPhone (up until the SGS3). The other one (also a gmail) has no phone contacts in it (that I am aware of) though I'm sure has email contacts as gmail likes to cache senders and recipients to help your email experience - which is fine.
Ok, then add to the mix, Mobile Life contacts from T-mobile which I guess is part of the stock rom which I am using, then google plus, which is also pre-installed I guess unless I installed it and don't remember (which is possible, since I installed a bunch of stuff in the beginning setting it up and playing around).
Then we can also add calendar entries which are also being sync'd, again should only be from my 1 single personal phone email - but I'm not getting sync'd twice.
OK: So to core of my question/problem. Now I have multiple duplicate entries when I send an email etc, and they are like multiples of the same people, same information, some correctly formatted, some not.... and somehow my calendars merged and I get multiple alerts and notices from 2 calendars for the same entry, even though I only added it to my 1 calendar on the personal phone gmail account.
Just a little background so everyone will fully understand, whenever I learned about syncing via exchange with my iPhone to a Gmail account, I made a personal PHONE ONLY gmail (ie: [email protected]) which I used pretty much exclusively for contacts, calendar, email from/to the phone. Then with every new phone, syncing all my personal info was simple. The other gmail account has like 3 or 4 emails accounts (business, personal, etc) all forwarded to it - but I never used it as a cloud for contacts or calendars. Google + and Mobile Life I didn't even know about until this phone.
SO: How do I edit and remove the MULTIPLE duplicates while keeping the cloud god's happy? Like as an example, one of my son's contacts has his email contact 4 times, and only 1 is formatted correctly...
IE: John's Phone <[email protected]>
the other three are formatted something like this
"John's Phone" <[email protected]>
[email protected] (John's Phone)
<<"John's Phone"> <[email protected]>>
All very strange.... some have pictures set for the contacts, others do not....... its a mess.:silly:
NOTE: I'm sorry to whoever actually has [email protected] - I hope this doesn't get spam to your acct
Go to account settings and when you select an account you can uncheck what you want to sync, so just uncheck contacts and calendar on the accounts you don't want
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i have the same problem . Now i have 3 or more similar contrats. I want to be able to choose which to display like in gibgerbread. You can check or uncheck. Or either have gmail not syncing my contacts
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