Yahoo Email On Droid

[Ghees_Mail]

I noticed when I troed to add my yahoo email account to the Droid I always get the message that I have entered an invalid name or password and I tried it several times. I also see it says that some yahoo email cannot work with the droid. Well I have the basic free yahoo so I am not understanding which yahoo accounts will and will not work on the Droid, Anyone know anything about this? Thanks.

[gmack35 · Accepted solution]

had the same problem with my yahoo mail, even after following the manual setup directions from other sites. finally got it to work by turning off the wifi first, as suggested in another forum:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f169/normal-yahoo-mail-does-work-droid-here-s-how-358339/

Go to manual setup > IMAP account and change to these settings....


Imap server - imap.mail.yahoo.com

(SMTP server will be on the next page)

SMTP Server- smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE WIFI DISABLED

[Ghees_Mail]

Thanks so much. That worked like a charm.

[tob1234]

This also worked for me; I too had to turn off wi-fi. I tried it several times before I turned off the wi-fi and I wouldn't work. I turned the wi-fi off and it still wouldn't work the first 4 times I tried it. I finally made sure the wi-fi was off then I turned the phone off and back on. When the phone came back on I tired it again and it completed the process with no problem.

[djrun33]

I've setup my yahoo mail account this way, and mail is coming in, but even after I read it, a few minutes later it is back marked as unread.  Any ideas?

[Androidatic]

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tob1234 wrote:

This also worked for me; I too had to turn off wi-fi. I tried it several times before I turned off the wi-fi and I wouldn't work. I turned the wi-fi off and it still wouldn't work the first 4 times I tried it. I finally made sure the wi-fi was off then I turned the phone off and back on. When the phone came back on I tired it again and it completed the process with no problem.

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This happened to me too. I had to power down the phone and then power it back up.  As soon as i did that, I was able to get it set-up.

Thnaks!

[jpascual]

In the Android Market I just found a new app for Yahoo Mail that will automatically turn wi-fi on and off to check yahoo mail.  It is called ROID.

[tylerldt]

Thanks!!!  Works perfectly!

[Laytimator]

This process didn't work for me.  It says my user name or password is wrong, but I've done it numerous times and I know they're correct.

[Laytimator]

I'm not getting to the SMTP option because I get the error after inputting the IMAP server name. Am I the only one?

[bumble]

I just figured out for mine. I have att but the server is yahoo.

go to email on droid

add account

enter email and password

manual set up

pop3 account

when you enter your username you must include the entire email address not just the beginning (i.e. @.........net/com etc.)

incoming pop3 server (if you have att) is : pop.att.yahoo.com (or you can find what your settings must be in your yahoo email server settings in your mail options account)

IF you go to your email account (yahoo, att etc.) and click on mail options and find the page for email server settings) should be under Article/FAQ # kb401570

it will list all the information you need to enter into your droid when doing setup.

you will have to manually add in incoming server, outgoing server, full email address, incoming port # and outgoing port#

[jeffpack1957]

I too had the same problem, and just switched to the K9 E-mail client, and yahoo works fine.

[cooled209]

Worked Great, Thanks.

[maflanc]

I found this on the Verizon site...  its says you must be a mail plus subsciber to get mail on your phone.

I have the ERIS and while I was able to set up the account it would not sync with my inbox (ie actually get the mail.)

http://support.vzw.com/how_to_use/eris_email_setup.html

[GunnyD]

Here is what I do.

1.  There is an option in (free) yahoo that allows for mobile mail.  Log into your yahoo account and it will be in the top right hand corner. 

2.  Click the mobile mail link and it will prompt you for your phone number.

3.  It will send a DIRECT mail link to your phone via text message.

4.  This link will allow you to access your mail without logging in again.  Reason being, you had to log in initially in order to send the text to your phone.  Again, this will be a direct link to your yahoo mail.

5.  Create a bookmark using the link that was sent via text mesage from yahoo.

6.  This bookmark works with the data plan and WiFi.   Again, this is not the same thing as creating a bookmark using the browser and just saving it.  It's a direct link to your yahoo mail account.  Just make sure you enter your correct phone number.  If not then you will send a direct link to someone else's phone and they will have access to your mail.  However, they still won't know what your password is.  So change it if you put in the wrong number.

7.  The downside to this is there is no notification process.  You have to manually check it for mail.

[dj928]

I was able to get signed in following the instructions on this site. However, I then got the following message every 5 minutes on my phone until I removed the email account all together.

"The application Email (process com.android.email) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

Does anyone know a work-around to this? I had the Voyager before the Droid and used Yahoo mail without problems. I didn't assume that using the droid would be more restrictive than the Voyager.

Thanks

[GrillMouster]

Here's the deal. Yahoo fears that Google's integration with the latest Android phones is cutting into Yahoo's market share. Therefore, Yahoo is trying to make things difficult for new Android phone users to access Yahoo Mail using the droid's email client. The email client bypasses ads on the Yahoo site, whcih is how Yahoo monetizes its free email. Yahoo plays nicely with iPhone and BlackBerry, and even features them on their websites, because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". I just checked Yahoo's website where it says how to set up Yahoo Mail access on your mobile phones other than iPhone and BlackBerry.  The site says that it no longer supports mobile IMAP access.  That's why we've had inconsistent success with the manual work-around to using the Droid's email client. Yahoo wants you to pay for POP3 access. The fact that sometimes people can get through and other times they cannot makes it unclear whether it's Yahoo or Android that's to blame, but, trust me, it's Yahoo.

When I first noticed the "Wrong Yahoo Username/Password" error in the Droid email client, I just switched to using the browser to access Yahoo mobile mail. Although I couldn't get new email notifications this way, I was at least able to view my HTML email messages as web pages by clicking on a "View in Full HTML" link that Yahoo put at the top of each email. Some weeks ago Yahoo stopped putting that link there, so now I can only view email as text. That sucks, because now a bunch of HTML email I used to get is cumbersome to browse in all-text, and also the email is broken down over several pages. So, now, I go to the desktop (not mobile) version of Yahoo site in my droid's browser.

I'm fed up with Yahoo because of this. I switched to Gmail years ago for 99% of my stuff and only have a couple of old retailer accounts and message boards linked to my Yahoo account. I've been too lazy to update those with my Gmail account, but I'll be doing that soon and completely abandoning Yahoo for email. I'll only use it for a couple of FlickR groups (Yahoo owns FlickR).

[GrillMouster]

Oh, and by the way, I did try what GunnyD suggested a few posts ago, and the link Yahoo sent is the same link I already had bookmarked on my droid's browser. It still doesn't allow me to view full HTML email as a web page.

[pimht]

Thank you! So far so good!

[AFguy]

Yea, I tried over and over at setting up my yahoo email on my Droid and kept getting "Invalid username/password"  and I tried with and without @yahoo.com.  I finally gave up and called yahoo tech support and what I put in my above post was what they told me.  This was on Monday of this week.  Unless people are finding other ways to setup their yahoo mail on their droid, yahoo said I had to upgrade to the Plus account.  Needless to say, I was bummed out cuz I have used my yahoo email for over 15 years.

[dave213]

Same here I got my phone 5 days ago and have been trying to get yahoo mail on my phone ever since and can't do it.  Not upgrading to yahoo mobile however, I'll just look it up on my browser.