Gmail doesn't auto-sync

[H2ORip]

I'm pretty happy with the droid 2 so far, especially coming from a BB Storm 1.  But obviously coming from a BB, i've got pretty high expectations for the email side of things.  Right now it doesn't seem that my gmail accounts are auto-syncing at all.  Basically I want the mail to get pushed to the phone (or at least sync frequently).  If I manually sync - the mail comes through, but the prospect of having to go through and manually sync 3 email accounts any time I want to update the mail is a bit concerning.  

Likewise, if i delete an email, it doesn't delete it on my web gmail app until syncing.  Initially when I got the phone it seemed to do all of that instantly and would push new mail to the phone....but not anymore.

I tried clearing the gmail cache, made sure to set it on 'ignore' from taskiller, reset all the accounts I could without factory resetting the phone.  Data delivery settings are as follows:  Background Data is checked, data roaming is unchecked, and data enabled is checked.  (Currently connected over  3G and wifi).  Sync over wifi is not checked.

[sdpk]

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H2ORip wrote:

I'm pretty happy with the droid 2 so far, especially coming from a BB Storm 1.  But obviously coming from a BB, i've got pretty high expectations for the email side of things.  Right now it doesn't seem that my gmail accounts are auto-syncing at all.  Basically I want the mail to get pushed to the phone (or at least sync frequently).  If I manually sync - the mail comes through, but the prospect of having to go through and manually sync 3 email accounts any time I want to update the mail is a bit concerning.  

Likewise, if i delete an email, it doesn't delete it on my web gmail app until syncing.  Initially when I got the phone it seemed to do all of that instantly and would push new mail to the phone....but not anymore.

I tried clearing the gmail cache, made sure to set it on 'ignore' from taskiller, reset all the accounts I could without factory resetting the phone.  Data delivery settings are as follows:  Background Data is checked, data roaming is unchecked, and data enabled is checked.  (Currently connected over  3G and wifi).  Sync over wifi is not checked.

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In Settings > Data Manager > Data Delivery > Email and Corporate Sync > Email Delivery is Data Push enabled?  What fetch schedule do you have?

I hope that helps.

[H2ORip]

I'm not signed up for a corporate email plan, so the email and corporate sync option in there is grayed out.  (At least i'm assuming that's why i can't access it)

[H2ORip · Accepted solution]

Ahh got it figured out thanks to another forum:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-2-tech-issues/71265-gmail-no-longer-sync-ing-solution.html

Just in case others have the issue, that did it for me.  Nice to know its actually easy to turn off auto-sync whenever I want.  

[sumwar]

H2ORip thanks for sharing the link.  Data push used to work correctly on my phone before it got "upgraded" to 2.2.

I don't know why the update disabled that option.

I couldn't follow step 3, i.e. the check boxes will now appear under the Account for sync-ing.

Motorola Droid 2 tech support was useless.

Thanks,

[FW]

H20Rip, thanks for this helpful link.

Bogey2u

[Suarao]

Thanks for this link...the widget solved the problem.   Who knew?