we’ve had various readers come to us while experiencing sync issues with gmail on their droid phone. they apparently have been forced to manually sync rather than use the phone’s awesome auto-sync feature. our first look was obviously to make sure they had “background data” and “auto-sync” checked in accounts and sync settings which they had. and then also made sure that if they clicked on the particular gmail account in question, that the “sync gmail” box was checked which it was.
and then we discovered this handy little trick…
Go to menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications.
Then click menu -> Filter -> All.
Scroll down until you see the Gmail and Gmail Storage. Click both of these and select clear data.
The phone will then resync with Gmail and all should be well.
let me know if you are still having gmail sync issues after this tip, but this should do the trick!
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6 responses to “quick tip: fix gmail sync issues on your motorola droid”
Add the power control widget, click on sync icon so that it is green. Then check gmail…there should be green check marks if not check them. It should auto sync from now on.
You can go back and remove the power control widget and it will still work. Enjoy
awesome…fixed my issue.thanx alot
I do not have Gmail Storage listed. I am having this issue, and have cleared cache and data, but can not find Storage (on 2.2 Droid and can't filter)
hey kellex I know this was long ago but Gmail has another issue which is that sometimes when u send a message it will not be sent and sit for hours on the Outbox
Do u know if there is a fix for this problem??
Have a droid x using gmail (corp accoutn) – your tips dont work