“Your email will appear shortly” Android Error

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Posted By: News on Apr 05, 2009 in Mobile Phones

On Android devices, Gmail is automatically synced with the Gmail server, and vice versa. If you experience problems with syncing, try clearing your phone’s Gmail data and doing a fresh sync with the server.

Just follow these steps:

1. Press your phone’s < Home > button, then press < Menu >.
2. Select Settings and then Applications.
3. Select Manage applications.
4. Select Google Mail Storage and then select Clear data. Answer OK when prompted.
5. Return to the list of applications by pressing the < Back > key.
6. Select Google Mail and then select Clear data. Answer OK when prompted.
7. Restart your phone (Press and hold the < End call > button, then select Power off. Press < End call > to power on).

Your phone will re-sync with the server after restarting (this may take several minutes).

This worked for me, so hopefully it does for you!

  • JPU

    It worked fine on my htc my touch 3g!

    Thank you!

  • nas

    Cheers for this. The forum at the first result in google was useless with suggestions like factory reset and “kill yourself” so it’s a shame this isn’t higher in the results.

  • David

    Worked a treat. After days trying to fix this problem, it was great to find such simple, precise and easy to follow instructions. I wish every problem was as easy to fix. Many thanks.

  • Amit

    Thanks a lot…
    Worked fine for my LG GT540 1.6

    Amit

  • Srikanth

    Hi,
    I have Tried the Same Thing on My Sony Xperia Mini 10 .. Still i am seeing
    “Your email will appear shortly” it been a day.. its still not loaded.

    Can any one help me on this ?

  • Briggi

    It worked for me just fine, thanks a lot. I didn’t even have to restart my phone. :o )

  • Ivan

    Google Mail Storage isn’t on that list… I’m screwed.

  • Ivan

    I was able to fix my problem by going to Settings then Account syncs.

  • Aatish

    Thank you! This worked perfectly. One thing I can add is that under Manage Applications, the Google Mail Storage and Google Mail tabs were not visible on my phone (samsung galaxy 550). To fix this, when in the Manage Applications page, push the menu button and set Filter to All (instead of Downloaded).

  • Allyson

    I was also having this issue and clearing data & rebooting would not work. However I was also getting an “application data space low” error, so I went into the Internet application and cleared the data there – Gmail synced right up. Seemed like Internet was sucking up all the memory and wouldn’t allow Gmail to sync.

    • Brian

      Allyson you are a star. I cleared the internet data and gmail then synced just fine. Thanks for posting.

  • http://www.diomessageboard.com TeRRyZx

    I was having this same problem on my Droid Incredible and after seeing this I cleared data on my GMail and which I did before to no avail, but this time I also cleared the Internet data. Then I took several of the largest size apps and removed them off of the phone memory and restarted and then everything synced right away and my GMail was back. Upsetting that I was on the phone with numerous people from HTC who kept telling me I just have to wipe the phone and start over. They have no clue. Bur thanx for the suggestions here as they worked for me.

  • Bob_bob

    had the same prob, i fixed it by downloading the latest update and then when the msg came up i press options then restart. worked fine. 

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