What to do if GMail stops pushing mails to your iOS device?

March 12th, 2011 | by | apple, internet, iphone, tech

Mar
12

Every couple of months I encounter the same problem: GMail stops pushing mails to my iPhone. I just ran into that problem again last night.

Rebooting the iPhone, re-setting according options to “push” and even deleting/re-adding the account(s) in question didn’t work.

What did work is:
Going to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> [Account Name] -> Mail Folders to push — and then selecting “[Gmail] All Mail”.

If you’re lucky this might work for you as well… 

Keep in mind: when normal pushing starts working again, you will hear to “bings” for each mail that arrives, one for “Inbox” and one for “All Mail”. You can take that as your signal to unselect the “All Mail” folder again, and then decide wether you’d like to revert the above changes.

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Smartphone Notifications done right – finally.

February 28th, 2011 | by | iphone

Feb
28

Watch this video, fire up Cydia on your iPhone, add http://phajas.xen.prgmr.com/repo to the repositories and install “MobileNotifier” NOW! It is even FREE!

EDIT: Keep in mind though, that this thing is still beta and some things still need fixing. Notifications aren’t shown on the locked Display anymore. You first need to either push the home button or the on/off switch to wake up the device in order to actually see the notification. If you have notifications that you didn’t read already, you won’t be able to see the time on the lock screen anymore. But I’m sure Peter Hajas will fix that soon… ish… ly… :)

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My iOS 4.1 wish list

August 27th, 2010 | by | apple, iphone

Aug
27

1. Let me use the lock screen to display info (such as my calendar).

2. Use the text to speech feature to tell me who’s calling me.

3. Let me choose custom notification sounds.

4. Let me choose different notification sounds for new mail in different mail accounts.

5. Let me set up mail/ sms text notification sounds for my contacts – just like it is already possible for phone numbers.

Thanks.

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iOS4 on iPhone 3GS problems with GoogleMail via Exchange?!

June 9th, 2010 | by | apple, iphone

Jun
09

So, I’m one of those people whose greatest virtue isn’t patience. :)

Minutes after its release I HAD to install iOS4 onto my iPhone 3GS. Since there’s no upgrade procedure implemented (yet?), upgrading took just short of a lifetime: the iPhone was completely wiped, then iTunes installed iOS4, then the backup was restored to the iPhone. All in all, an probably thanks to the enormously big Navigon app, this took almost 90 minutes. Everything looked fine… but after a couple of hours of normal usage I ran into a “little” problem…

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