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Which program do you use for gmail?

Hello there,
i use the program gmail that comes by default, and i think it´s great.
But, one thing i´ve noticed is, this software doens´t work with the multiscreen. Only messaging. But messagin it´s not push email, but only sync from time to time, which it´s diferent from the gmail program.
Which one do you use for gmail? the messaging program, or the gmail app?
many thanks

By messaging app is that the stock samsung email app? If so that's what I use only because I monitor 4 email accounts. If I had only a Gmail account to monitor I'd use the stock Gmail app. I find it much better then all other email apps put out by the companies.

Yes it is.
But if we want to use the multiscreen we have to use the messaging app, which its not push, But the gmail one
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Correct. For push you need stock Gmail app. However I think in jb someone said there are more options for multiscreen. Or on the Note 2 essentially you could do any apps. Hopefully that will make its way to us.

Nefariouss said:
Correct. For push you need stock Gmail app. However I think in jb someone said there are more options for multiscreen. Or on the Note 2 essentially you could do any apps. Hopefully that will make its way to us.
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but when?
i´m starting to loose hope

taita said:
but when?
i´m starting to loose hope
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March 13th 2013 at 4:57pm mst.

Nefariouss said:
March 13th 2013 at 4:57pm mst.
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DAMMNIT!!! March 13th 2013 at 4:58pm mst, works out better for me

banderos101 said:
DAMMNIT!!! March 13th 2013 at 4:58pm mst, works out better for me
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Have no fear fellow XDA'er your needs have been heard. It will be available for you at that time.

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Have no fear fellow XDA'er your needs have been heard. It will be available for you at that time.
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WHOAHHHH!!! Samsung really listens.......i.mean.REALLY.listens........WHOAHHHHHHHHHHHH :good:

The samsung email app does work with push on gmail.
Just configure as "exchange server" and use m.google.com as adress.
Disable calendar syncing at next dialogues (as it would sync your gmail calendar twice)
I will continue to use the gmail app, I'm holding out until the note2 like multiscreen update.... anyway, the email app does have interesting features, like rich text editing and pasting graphics inside a mail

E-mail

In using outlook. Com for e-mail but I would like more than just a notification in the gear. What do you guys use? I am not saying much luck with the stock e-mail app.
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muddychief said:
In using outlook. Com for e-mail but I would like more than just a notification in the gear. What do you guys use? I am not saying much luck with the stock e-mail app.
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Are you on a Corporate Exchange Server for your Outlook? The email on watch for Gear 1 was broken, again, from the last update. I recommend Cloudmagic, as it brings the email text to my Gear again. Give it a shot.

muddychief said:
In using outlook. Com for e-mail but I would like more than just a notification in the gear. What do you guys use? I am not saying much luck with the stock e-mail app.
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I just switched from K9 (only thing useful on my last watch) to the stock email app on my Galaxy S3 (running 4.2). I can now read the entire contents of emails once I open the notification and can refer to them in the email app. BEST FUNCTIONALITY *EVER*!! It's really useful to just pull up the email without pulling out the phone (or even having the phone on me). My boss is tech resistant, but even he thought it was really cool.

BigDanInTX said:
I just switched from K9 (only thing useful on my last watch) to the stock email app on my Galaxy S3 (running 4.2). I can now read the entire contents of emails once I open the notification and can refer to them in the email app. BEST FUNCTIONALITY *EVER*!! It's really useful to just pull up the email without pulling out the phone (or even having the phone on me). My boss is tech resistant, but even he thought it was really cool.
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I`m usig also the stock email function but I do not see any email vi this app - please help me !

peter7 said:
I`m usig also the stock email function but I do not see any email vi this app - please help me !
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There are a few things that could be amiss. Are you using one of the supported phones? Do you have the notifications for email turned on in the Gear Manager?
I've heard that "starting over" will sometimes work. Unpair the watch from the phone. Factory reset the watch. Uninstall Gear Manager. Reinstall Gear Manager. Pair the watch to the phone. Re-enable notifications. ymmv.
Good luck.

I changed the custom rom and now it is working great
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Help: Gmail notifications weird issue

Hi all,
OK - I have the Sony Gmail app installed on my SW2 and I'm using a stock (rooted) LG2.
On the phone, I don't need (or want) Gmail running in the background so have all notifications & sync disabled - basically, I just want Gmail to work a) when I check it manually or b) occasionally when I'm waiting for a mail to come through and need notifications on my watch and will enable them.
Weird bit.
I disable everything as mentioned, and the phone happily shows me no notifications, BUT the SW2 does!
I check the phone when one comes through on the watch and sure enough there's none there and I have to swipe down to poll the account.
My question: which app is polling the account - is it the Gmail app or the SW2 extension - and more importantly, how can I stop either/both of them doing it and save battery life/my sanity?
Is the phone secretly checking in the background for mail but not showing me any notifications?
Thanks for any tips.

If you don't want to poll Gmail, then, remove the extension from the watch.

n3vry said:
If you don't want to poll Gmail, then, remove the extension from the watch.
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Yes, but if you read my post you'll see that I occasionally do need to poll Gmail.
Your suggestion is a bit like "if you don't like being stuck in traffic, sell your car".

I use an app called Watchify, in it you can enable/disable notifications pretty much on the fly. It's now a paid app, but free trial for 14 days. I liked it enough to buy it. You can turn off Gmail notifications when not needed, then back on when needed. But you will have to do it from SmartConnect on the phone. I think maybe you might be looking for a filter for Gmail.

n3vry said:
I use an app called Watchify, in it you can enable/disable notifications pretty much on the fly. It's now a paid app, but free trial for 14 days. I liked it enough to buy it. You can turn off Gmail notifications when not needed, then back on when needed. But you will have to do it from SmartConnect on the phone. I think maybe you might be looking for a filter for Gmail.
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Yeah, I use Notfify Smartwatch ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.shuisky.notify ).
I can use this actually instead of the Gmail app.
I'm still confused as to what's polling the Gmail account though. The phone certainly doesn't seem to be, but these extensions don't work independently.
Do you see what I mean? It's like the phone is polling the account, just not showing any notification to prove it is.
It's very odd.

I guess the first question I should have asked is, what apps/ext on you running on your SW2?

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I guess the first question I should have asked is, what apps/ext on you running on your SW2?
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Call Handling
Messaging
Gmail
Notify Smartwatch
That's it.

The extension works independent - directly accesses your account not using Gmail App. So it's correct that the extension ignores what your phone notifications tell or hide

Trespassing said:
The extension works independent - directly accesses your account not using Gmail App. So it's correct that the extension ignores what your phone notifications tell or hide
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Wow. Is that so..
So, question answered then - thanks very much.
it's a bit hit and miss. e.g. this email notification came through, but the notification for the other thread replies didn't.
Not much use anyway!

I think it might be following the rules of categorising in Gmail website where those mails might be put together in one thread. But idk... I'm using stock Xperia Email and Extension.
On my S4 I used AquaMail with AquaMail Extension. Worked well.

Trespassing said:
I think it might be following the rules of categorising in Gmail website where those mails might be put together in one thread. But idk... I'm using stock Xperia Email and Extension.
On my S4 I used AquaMail with AquaMail Extension. Worked well.
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Yeah, you could be right.
All seems to be working well now with the Gmail SW2 app removed anyway.
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kryogenik said:
All seems to be working well now with the Gmail SW2 app removed anyway.
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you sold the car then?

No, just changed the type of fuel it uses..

To the makers of this Gmail smart extension.....I noticed today that my data was being used so I decided to investigate, 1.47 GB was used for Gmail smart extension. What the F---? This is a bad app and I demand a solution to this as you just cost me most of my data plan!

Gmail and Calendar question

I've read different reviews and I'm a bit puzzled since I still don't have the watch i ordered weeks ago.
I have a S6 and I read that even with a Samsung phone you need to download android Wear to be able to respond to Gmail emails? Is this true? I was under the impression i can reply to emails and delete them without anything installed.
Also with the Calendar is it true you can't create calendar events?
Thanks

arf8 said:
I've read different reviews and I'm a bit puzzled since I still don't have the watch i ordered weeks ago.
I have a S6 and I read that even with a Samsung phone you need to download android Wear to be able to respond to Gmail emails? Is this true? I was under the impression i can reply to emails and delete them without anything installed.
Also with the Calendar is it true you can't create calendar events?
Thanks
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Not sure about GMail but replying to Samsung's inbuilt email app is possible. However, typing an email reply on the tiny keyboard is a bit of a chore. It takes patience.
It is true that you can't set up calendar events directly from the watch. This is a big disappointment but it is possible it could be included in a future update.

apprentice said:
Not sure about GMail but replying to Samsung's inbuilt email app is possible. However, typing an email reply on the tiny keyboard is a bit of a chore. It takes patience.
It is true that you can't set up calendar events directly from the watch. This is a big disappointment but it is possible it could be included in a future update.
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Thanks for the quick reply, I assume you have the watch. I don't use the inbuilt email app i think the app is an envelope with @ logo in it. I use Gmail so I read that if you want to reply to a Gmail email you have to install Android Wear which I'm not sure if this is true or not. If you can test this I would appreciate it and by reply I mean voice recognition response not typing on the watch keyboard. I have a hard enough time on the phone fat fingering everything so now way I could do it on the watch, this is where i miss my blackberry.
Very disappointing on the calendar event. This is one of the reasons i ordered this watch along with the phone call option.
Cheers

arf8 said:
I use Gmail so I read that if you want to reply to a Gmail email you have to install Android Wear which I'm not sure if this is true or not.
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Android Wear is an operating system used by other smartwatches. It can't be put onto the Gear S3.

You are incorrect! Android wear is an app in play, look it up, this is what one user said he installed to get more functionality out of the S3 with google apps.

arf8 said:
You are incorrect! Android wear is an app in play, look it up, this is what one user said he installed to get more functionality out of the S3 with google apps.
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Yes, but it can only be used if you are pairing with an Android Wear smartwatch. it won't do anything for gear S3.

Not according to an S3 owner who posted this. I don't have the watch yet so I can't say for sure that is why I started this thread. According to him he installed it to gain more functionality to the gmail app. I'll test it myself when the watch finally arrives and post my own results here. Cheers

Android Wear APK include library for notification action on the Android OS. I do not know why Google do not include directly this library in the master OS but they are on the Android Wear phone app. So just install it to have this feature. No need to connect any Wear watch on the phone

dersie said:
Android Wear APK include library for notification action on the Android OS. I do not know why Google do not include directly this library in the master OS but they are on the Android Wear phone app. So just install it to have this feature. No need to connect any Wear watch on the phone
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So what exactly does it add?
Notifications are already passed to the watch.

Add buttons for notifications action like
- Mark as read
- Reply
- Archive
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I tested now, and it is actually correct. By installing Android wear(and not doing anything else), I suddenly can reply to GMAIL e-mails from the S3 without using the Samsung Mail App.

I do not whether Android Wear app adds anything but indeed in the Pebble sphere, one would add the Android Wear app to gain additional features. Depends if they are hooking to the APIS's enabled by the app.

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- Mark as read
- Reply
- Archive
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ga123 said:
I tested now, and it is actually correct. By installing Android wear(and not doing anything else), I suddenly can reply to GMAIL e-mails from the S3 without using the Samsung Mail App.
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Thanks for the confirmation, so going back to my original question, by default if you do not have Android wear installed, you cannot reply when receiving Gmail emails? is this correct?
Cheers

I have the watch and I'm able to reply all natively without installing any Android wear apps.
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Thanks for the confirmation, so going back to my original question, by default if you do not have Android wear installed, you cannot reply when receiving Gmail emails? is this correct?
Cheers
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I have the watch and I'm able to reply all natively without installing any Android wear apps.
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I understand you can reply to the native Android email client, but are you able to reply to Gmail app is the question?

sorry, i wasn't clear...it's through the gmail notification on the watch but strictly through the notification, If you've swiped the notification away then you can't and you'd have to go through samsung's email app.
arf8 said:
Thanks for the confirmation, so going back to my original question, by default if you do not have Android wear installed, you cannot reply when receiving Gmail emails? is this correct?
Cheers
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I understand you can reply to the native Android email client, but are you able to reply to Gmail app is the question?
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Ok that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, just confirming you can reply, archive, etc, from the Gmail notification or just reply or delete in the native app (no archiving). The only thing the native app adds is the ability to look at your inbox, and reply to one of those emails. Once you've replied or swiped away the Gmail notification, there's no way to get into Gmail.
What I didn't realize, is that there is no way to initiate an email! Only reply. Strange...

When you say native app i assume you mean native email app on the watch correct? I don't use the native email client from android OS. I use google but i assume you mean watch native email app.
I apologize for all the questions, this would be easier if i had the watch but its on backorder.
Thanks

Gmail
ga123 said:
I tested now, and it is actually correct. By installing Android wear(and not doing anything else), I suddenly can reply to GMAIL e-mails from the S3 without using the Samsung Mail App.
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My friend how you install Gmail on S3. I have android wear installed too, but just the default email, not the real Gmail icon.

Anyone using MailDroid?

MailDroid is my standard mail app, used it on many phones. But I'm having trouble using it on the Mate. When a message comes in the notification sound is cut off very quickly or doesn't sound at all.
The developer says the app works OK on the latest Android, but I think it might be related to the unusual Huawei chipset.
Is anyone else here using MailDroid?

I use it and it works just fin, NO notifications problems.
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Curron said:
I use it and it works just fin, NO notifications problems.
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Thanks! Thats good to know. I've been using a different app but would like to get back to it. Will have another go with the settings.

Curron said:
I use it and it works just fin, NO notifications problems.
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What settings are you using for Connection Management?
I'm using Stay Connected on WiFi, and Close Connection on mobile with check mail every three minutes. inc while sleeping. I've tried other settings but the problem stays the same.

RR-99 said:
MailDroid is my standard mail app, used it on many phones. But I'm having trouble using it on the Mate. When a message comes in the notification sound is cut off very quickly or doesn't sound at all.
The developer says the app works OK on the latest Android, but I think it might be related to the unusual Huawei chipset.
Is anyone else here using MailDroid?
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I am having the same issue. Any resolution? I have tried different stock sounds as well as my own; all get cut off or play for a split second.

Still no fix here. I thought it might be due to the Mate's very strict battery saving. But I've tried all the settings without success.
I know MailDrid's tech support were looking into it - perhaps you could drop them an email?

RR-99 said:
MailDroid is my standard mail app, used it on many phones. But I'm having trouble using it on the Mate. When a message comes in the notification sound is cut off very quickly or doesn't sound at all.
The developer says the app works OK on the latest Android, but I think it might be related to the unusual Huawei chipset.
Is anyone else here using MailDroid?
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RR-99 said:
Still no fix here. I thought it might be due to the Mate's very strict battery saving. But I've tried all the settings without success.
I know MailDrid's tech support were looking into it - perhaps you could drop them an email?
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I sent an email to the Dev. We'll see what happens. I am like you, love Maildroid and have used the paid version for years. I have MD on my Mate8 and I do not have this issue with the notification sounds.

It's a real pain only getting a short beep, always a danger of missing emails coming in.
It doesn't happen with the built-in Mail app, but that is nowhere near as good.
If you hear something, please come back here. I'll do the same.

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It's a real pain only getting a short beep, always a danger of missing emails coming in.
It doesn't happen with the built-in Mail app, but that is nowhere near as good.
If you hear something, please come back here. I'll do the same.
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I have an email into the dev, but no response yet. Did you get a response? How did you contact them? I could have sworn they had a Google+ page or something similar where I posted an issue and within an hour he posted a response. I can't find that group anymore.

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I have an email into the dev, but no response yet. Did you get a response? How did you contact them? I could have sworn they had a Google+ page or something similar where I posted an issue and within an hour he posted a response. I can't find that group anymore.
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I emailed to the address on the Maildog Pro page on Android Play. Got a reply to say they are working on it. If you didn't get a reply I would try again.
They do have a forum but it seems to be disfunctional.

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I emailed to the address on the Maildog Pro page on Android Play. Got a reply to say they are working on it. If you didn't get a reply I would try again.
They do have a forum but it seems to be disfunctional.
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Thanks. I sent a follow-up email, still no reply. What are you using in replacement in the meantime? I tried AquaMail - seems ok. Blue Mail, Outlook + myMail look nice, but not customizable.
I really need an app that is customizable where I can have multiple accounts, be able to specify Reply-To, etc

I'm using BlueMail at the moment. As you say it's not as flexible but at least you can hear when you get a message.

RR-99 said:
I'm using BlueMail at the moment. As you say it's not as flexible but at least you can hear when you get a message.
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Try this... activate notifications in the Gmail app. Turn sounds + icon notifications off in Maildroid. Place a Maildroid widget on your Home Screen which shows the badge count of new emails. When Gmail sound-notifies, open via Maildroid. Once the message is read, the Gmail notification icon disappears from Notifications Bar.
PS... still no response from the dev from my 2 emails.

Thanks! I'll try that, and give the developer another email

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Thanks! I'll try that, and give the developer another email
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Still no fix or response from dev, There have been (2) updates to the app since our last posts; none fix the issue.

Yes, I've been following it. I'm not at all sure that this is 100% a MailDroid fault. Some other email apps are affected, some aren't.

I gave up. I switched to AquaMail Pro. Very similar and highly customizable. $4.99. No notification/sound issues!

Hi guys im using stock mail app but I don't like that it synchronize gmail,yahoo and Hotmail every 15 minutes... Is there any mail app that synchronize "on time"?

RR-99 said:
I'm using BlueMail at the moment. As you say it's not as flexible but at least you can hear when you get a message.
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I am using bluemail but one annoying thing is that it does not show any unread email tag
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Hi guys im using stock mail app but I don't like that it synchronize gmail,yahoo and Hotmail every 15 minutes... Is there any mail app that synchronize "on time"?
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You mean to say push ? For that you will have to use some other email client
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