I downloaded and installed the new Gmail browser to my e70 and am unable to actually log in. It installed fine and I can launch it but even after I reboot the phone and try to log in it won't work. I get the Gmail log in page and after entering my user name and password and selecting 'Sign in' it just exits the application. I tried deleting the program, rebooting, downloading and installing program once again, rebooting and still the same problem. I even was sure to use the entire email address ([email protected]) as suggested on the Gmail page. Has anyone had this issue and if so how was it resolved. Anyone that hasn't had this issue have any ideas? The phone is 100% on browsing so that's most definitely not the issue.
Thanks for the help.
Problem solved... at first I had the keyboard open and I couldn't figure out the problem. I closed the keyboard thinking maybe it was a format issue. This worked and it signed in and worked just fine. What I was finally able to figure out is that the Gmail browser will NOT relocate the soft touch buttons below the screen. In other words, you still have to use the buttons as if the keyboard were closed yet the text that would indicate which button performs that task is along the proper bottom of the display. Hopefully that makes sense as it sort of does in my head as I type it.
Very unusual indeed. Seems to be a glitch that needs to be fixed or perhaps it was designed for the other phones in the series that don't have these changes so no need for the interface to function correctly. Dunno.
Jeremy,
Do you mind telling me which Gmail browser you are referring to? This will be the final piece of the E7 puzzle for me!
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Karl
Probably the one you get if you point your phone's browser to gmail.com/app
N/A wrote:Probably the one you get if you point your phone's browser to gmail.com/app
That's the one. I found that pointing your phone's browser to www.gmail.com to check your email works MUCH better and doesn't require the installation of any programs either. Much better interface and no extra work needed.
GMail has pop/smtp support. You can configure your phone to send/receive email messages through smtp/pop protocols. This is usefull if you access the internet on your phone through a GPRS/3G connection on which charges are applied per data traffic.
hey thanks Jeremy, very interesting thread, and Iknow exactly what lark is talking about. the GMail app is written in Java. These Nokia E-series devices have different keypad layouts to other phones generally, being full QWERTY as in our cases, and the mapping for ALL input fields and softkeys in this app are unifinsihed in my opinion, it is a long time in development so perhaps they only recently converted it to Eseries. For instance, the contacts part on the E61, when one is composing an email - try and lookup a contact! The input field thinks one is using the numeric T9 keypad layout of an typical handset!!! Argh...total bummer! It's impossible to find a name using this field.
Jeremy, can you tell me what happens on e70 when you use that input field? Weirdly the full qwerty keyboard works apart from this, so I may be wrong and it's Nokia's Eseries Java implementation that is wrong somehow, but I think it will be GMail not adapting to these devices. thoughts anyone? Lark?
Sorry I can't tell you what would happen because I recently had to reformat my e70 as the text messages were acting up. The funny thing is one of the most recent changes I made to my phone that made this phantom problem was installing the gmail app. I'm not saying it caused my text problems but since I made minimal changes to my e70 and people are having nothing but problems w/it on these phones I'm not going to install it again. I install very few programs and have never had a phone act up the way my e70 did this past weekend. There were NO settings set incorrectly yet I wasn't receiving 90% of my text messages and the ones I received were received days after they were sent. Sent text messages wouldn't send the first time and I would have to manually resend them several times before they would send.
I won't get into too much more detail since I've already started a thread regarding this nightmare but let's just say I'm not putting programs I don't intend to use and as a result don't plan to put the gmail app back on my phone.
yes, very weird problem sounds like you got there - but I would have thought more a firmware problem as SMS usually tightly integrated, and GMail is a java app, but possible as you say I guess. Good luck with sorting it out!