ActiveSync with Gmail for push email support
 

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/200...l-support.html

Right now everyone is killing google's servers, so don't expect this to work just yet.

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i was able to get it working for my TP2 but noticed the battery life suffered quite a bit. So im going to stick with IMAP Gmail for now.

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Interesting. How long did you test this for, this feature was just released today. I can't imagine why this would take any more battery life than a regular exchange server. On my Samsung i760 I noticed little decrease in battery life with exchange. I haven't been using exchange on my TP2 though.

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I use Exchange sync with my TP2 and I also use IMAP to another personal domain (10 minute checks) and I get amazing battery life.

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i was testing it for about 2-3 hours today and noticed a 10% drop in battery life with it only receiving two test emails. I was going to give it 24 hours to fully test it but for me the IMAP version of Gmail is all i really need. I Sync my phone with my computer at work, without an Exchange Server, so i wouldnt need the Google Contact and Calendar sync just yet.

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So this actually goes through activesync or a third party program?

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it uses the activesync on the phone to connect to Google's servers

How to here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile...36&topic=14299

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Exact same setup here (and what I had on my TP1), and the battery life is tremendous.

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I noticed when I was testing the ActiveSync sync was running almost continuously in the background, ie, almost constantly in the process of syncing. Do you known if it was doing that on yours? That would likely be the cause of battery drain. I am hoping this is because everyone is hitting the server at once (like one poster said) and causing overload.

I plan on testing again later today or tomorrow after the initial surge is over. Maybe battery life will be better then.

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that might very well be the reason for the battery drain as i noticed it took a couple minutes to receive the email AFTER i got the notification through Gmail Notifier on my desktop computer. I will wait a week or so for it to die out a little and give it another shot/

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Same here. Maybe trying tonight or tomorrow like I originally said might be too soon..... But at least this is a step in the right direction.

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I just signed up for Mail2Web and got my forwarding all nice and setup and now this?

I'm amazed!

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Could not get it working on Sprint TP or TP2....

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Calendar and email is fine but I can't get my gmail contacts to sync to my phone...phone is new and had no contacts so I want them to go right to my phone...nothing...

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for those who can't get it to work, does it give you a message indicating it's not working?

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cant use it since im already using Async for the company exchange server...

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I tried it this afternoon and it took about 20 tries to even connect. I think Google's servers are getting hammered.

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every time i try to sync, it takes me to the enter password thing... is that because of the servers or am i doing something wrong? i putin the right password and everything, so i'm not sure what's going on. i did just sign up for a gmail account today...

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Uncheck Tasks it will not sync TASKS!!!

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I'm assuming that Google have different servers for WinMo and Apple...because my contacts sync onto my iPod Touch with NO probs today. ( I just did the set up today, since I upgraded to 3.0)

My TP2 synced calendar events, email AND contacts initially this morning...HOWEVER, since then, my contacts have NOT synced at all...I know they're still syncing to their servers, but its not coming back down to the phone. Did I mention that my contacts all disappeared this afternoon?? Over 200...sigh...

I'm hoping that the servers straighten up tomorrow, so I can get my contacts back. :protest:

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Oh ok...it's not just me then...I can't get contacts to sync either...

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This has been working flawlessly for me... I was using rk-smsSwitch before, but this is so much better.

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am i missing something? in order to get push gmail to work just sign up for a free gmail account at gmail.com then apply the settings when you add an email account on the tp2? i did this and when i try to sync it just tells me to correct my exchange server credentials...

can anyone help?

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Question about the data plans for Verizon and using Gmail Sync..
Verizon has 2 data plans, $30 and $45.
$30 is for light surfing of web and smtp mail
$45 is for work related....i.e. Exchange sync.

There rules state that if they see you setup and use Exchange Sync they will up your data charges to the $45 since the $30 is everything BUT Exchange Sync.

Has anyone seen or tried this with the $30 data plan?

I turned it on this morning and sync'd email and then thought about the data plan rules...and switched back to the old method (which works well for me as it auto checks every hour and Gmail is not my primary email account).

Thanks.

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Just in case anyone missed it! This fixed it ..thanks.

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I believe the difference in the two data plans is tethering, not exchange. I haven't seen any extra charges to my account, I have the $30 unlimited data plan.

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I tried this out, and got the continuously running Activesync. Seemed almost to be fretting about 0/1 Calendar and 0/1 Contacts constantly even when no changes made.

Also noticed the sync was *slower* than my Exchange running off my home server, but I assume that's due to the massive rush to try the service.

For contacts, it sucks because the only way to get your contacts to the phone from Outlook is to export to CVS, and import that file to Gmail. As in goodbye Outlook categories and your contact photos disappear.

Be warned about the limitations of Google Sync too -- things like recurring appointments have a LOT of bugs on the Google Side of things. I ended up with 3 copies of all my recurring appointments, but the other potential side effect includes the mobile device dropping it altogether:

http://google.com/support/mobile/bin...&answer=139655

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Contacts, calendar, and mail are working for me, but I can't get mail to show any attachments. Anyone have a fix?

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same here and bad battery life.

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If you can't even get it to sign in, I made a thread on connecting to googlesync on the TP2.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...ghlight=google