I just noticed on my 1020, that I don't have an option to sync items as they arrive anymore; only 15 min, 30 min, hourly, 2 hours and manually. I've still got this option on my L920. Any idea how to get this back?
can you explain more rdubmu? I would like to do this. I cant stand not getting my email "as it arriveS". It only sinks every 15 min. To the OP, do you mean the phone no longer makes the email noticfication sound when you get email? Instead it just adds to the tile count silently?
It's very easy to get real-time push email for a Gmail account on a Windows Phone. Just do the following:
Go to your Gmail inbox in a browser. Click the settings button (gear icon) in the upper right and choose Settings. Go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Next to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" specify the email address of your Outlook.com account or other ActiveSync-capable account. You can choose to leave copies of the emails in Gmail or delete them, up to you.
Now when you get email in your Gmail account, it gets immediately forwarded to your Outlook.com account, which then immediately notifies your phone. Easy and effective.
I just noticed on my 1020, that I don't have an option to sync items as they arrive anymore; only 15 min, 30 min, hourly, 2 hours and manually. I've still got this option on my L920. Any idea how to get this back?
Repeat myself from another thread. Yes you can get push mail but you need to set up your gmail as exchange account. Here is how to do it:
when you add your email account, don't choose Google. Choose Outlook (outlook.com,exchange, office 365) instead. First just enter your email address and pw, it will fail. Then you can enter domain "google", it will fail again. Click advanced, then enter server name "m.google.com". See What Are the Gmail Exchange ActiveSync Settings? - About Email for settings.
Will you still be able to sync contacts and calendar, receive send invites from your Gmail account if you set it up as an exchange account?
Repeat myself from another thread. Yes you can get push mail but you need to set up your gmail as exchange account. Here is how to do it:
when you add your email account, don't choose Google. Choose Outlook (outlook.com,exchange, office 365) instead. First just enter your email address and pw, it will fail. Then you can enter domain "google", it will fail again. Click advanced, then enter server name "m.google.com". See What Are the Gmail Exchange ActiveSync Settings? - About Email for settings.
CCan't you just add the email name below the outlook tiles? Like name them whatever you want to name them so you cam differentiate between the two. I have six outlooks and I labeled each one so I know which is which. Of course if you have tiny tiles this wont work cuz you can't see the tile name.Thank you so much for that, it worked great. Only nit now is that I have two Outlook icons on my start screen (second one is for work email that I don't want to merge with this). Oh well. If Microsoft would get off their butts and give me a way to merge Outlook.com accounts, I'd merge everything over there. I was one of the ones that signed up for a brand new outlook.com email address instead of creating an alias on their current Microsoft Account.
I'll follow this up with another tip for anyone that happens to be reading this thread. The default behavior for ActiveSync with gmail when you delete mail is to just remove the inbox tag instead of actually deleting it. This would drive me crazy. To fix that, go to:
https://M.google.com/sync/settings/
Find your new Windows Phone and enable "delete email as trash". Simple as that, not sure why it's not the default behavior. A few months ago, you weren't able to go to that link from your Windows Phone and had to do a hack on desktop IE where you set your user agent string to iPad, but I can confirm that I was able to do this on my 1020. You had to have https, the capital M as well as the trailing / to get it to work though.