Comments on: Pushing your Gmail vs. the Gmail BlackBerry app

By: John Baker

John Baker — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:49:14 +0000

Good one – also a good post on this:
http://techietrick.blogspot.com/2009/11/blackberry-tip-1-search-all-your-mails.html

Has some good rationale for why google rocks!

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By: Tay

Tay — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:05:43 +0000

omg y’all are such lifesavers
thank you :)

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:58:42 +0000

Yes, assigning Gmail to BIS is push, and will work just fine.

By: Tay

Tay — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:53 +0000

thanks Joe
and how about assigning Gmail into BIS?
is that still push email ?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:47:58 +0000

Tay, it won’t count as push email. It will count as normal data.

By: Tay

Tay — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:13:53 +0000

Will the Gmail App option be a part of an unlimited push email plan by the provider?

I mean I have a phone plan which has unlimited push email. And this is an app, I dont wanna be paying extra for accessing apps so I am not sure if Gmail App will count as push email?

By: Tom Levine

Tom Levine — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:12:47 +0000

This problem looks to be getting resolved:

“Sidenote on BB Push and GMail: My issue remains, email deleted on Gmail Browser, does not sync to BB, forcing duplicate deleting on the BB. An annoyance.”

I noticed just today that emails are now getting deleted on the BB, when deleted in Gmail Browser. Something’s been fixed, either on the Google side, or on the BB side…Would love to know who did what. It did, however, take approximately 2 hours before email was ‘reconciled’. Ideally, it should be close to instant. Hopefully, more improvement will be seen in the future?

Any insider info on the fix for Gmail BB IMAP push working today, would be greatly appreciated.

By: capricornmom9

capricornmom9 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:39:55 +0000

I use the gmail app and totally love it. I have the bb 8900 running on OS 4.6.0.250, and it flashes red whenever I get new gmail messages. Works for me. What I’d like is when my bb viberates and flashes red, I take it out of the holster, I’d like for it to automatically open up the gmail message instead of me having to click on the gmail icon to get in to see the message. As for bbm messages, it opens up and shows the message as soon as I take it out of the holster. hmm.. my 2 cents.

By: Tom Levine

Tom Levine — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:41 +0000

Alexa, I haven’t played with the label feature too much on the Gmail App, but I’m guessing the issue is a similar bug to the notifications problem. Further thread-reading on the subject, leads me to conclude it is related to the initial battery pull.

So, you download the Gmail App, everything is working fine. Then, you perform a standard battery pull on your BB to clear memory and restart, and suddenly, things are missing from the GMAIL APP (such as notifications and probably labels)…bugs.

Let’s hope these issues are related to the BB OS 4.7, as some have suspected, because if so, then perhaps the release of 5.0 will resolve these and other bugs relating to GMAIL APP, along with a long anticipated resolution to true 2-way GMAIL IMAP push through BIS.