Google Sync struggling to push Gmail to iPhone?

Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

• Meams

  I synced up my iPhone the first week sync came out, and have never had a problem. Th only time anything had an issue was when I didn’t have a strong enough connection. Even the tags are there…I’ve added new contacts and use the calendar syncing part too… It’s all running just as big brother like as one would expect… Perfectly.

• peterg

  well, the push seems to be working for me also, however i did a test of 3 emails all at the same time and 2 came right through, the third took 11 minutes.

  also i have been using gpush with sync and it works fine, i kinda got used to the notifications window that gpush supplies and a louder sound

• fizz

  yeh its not working for me, i just set it up and sent a few test emails from hotmail to my gmail. none of them pushed through and i had to go into my mail for it to pull them in.

  so far no “push” for me

• JGN

  I’ve been unable to sync the rest of my messages. Only the last 5 or 6 have come through.
  JGN

• Repsol

  I am having problems with push Gmail on my iPhone. It is saying I am having problems connecting to the server after already setting things up last night and have it all working fine. It stopped working from the looks of it around 10am earlier today MST.

• Fousheezy

  I was excited to hear this on Tuesday, but was immediately disappointed. Push isn’t working for my Gmail account at all :/

• Method

  @peterg

  You say push is working for you and 1 of 3 emails you sent to yourself showed up 11 minutes later? Huh??

• James

  I left my old account on the iPhone just in case… luckily. It worked for about 8 seconds when I set it up mid day yesterday, then it stopped pushing. I went to remake the exchange account, and it started giving me server errors.

  So I went back to my old method, tried again late thursday, and it worked okay, up until this morning, when trying to delete messages or get new ones, the mail app threw a myriad of different server inaccessible messages.

  I’ve swapped back over to the old method again. Every 15 minutes is better than nothing at all.

• FlightNinja

  I setup the sync yesterday and was thrilled that I could get my google calendar on my iPhone using iCal. Today though it stopped working around 10am or so. I was having problems with Gmail on the computer as well, so maybe it’s just a glitch.

• Will Park

  I actually just deleted my non-push gmail account on my iPhone. I hope that doesn’t come back to bite me in the …

• Shimmy

  After having some initial issues, it seems to be working decently well. Emails will get pushed to the phone, with about a 5-15 second delay. Sometimes, however if I read something in the browser, it will not update as read on the phone.

• Swissbaglady

  I get an error message telling me that the password is incorrect, yet I have checked it *1000* times and it is correct. Any suggestions (of the helpful variety )

• jayq330

  ever wondered if its not google thats the problem? i mean iphone cant even mms a message right? so think about the carrier…at&t got the bad end of the deal any problem with the iphone and they can just blame at&t and when there exclusivity runs out iphone will still sell meanwhile at&t’s reputation will be down the drain for not being able to handle all the iphone accounts.

• darwiniandude

  It’s not AT&T… I’ve removed all accounts from my iPhone, then just added Gmail push. Doesn’t push. I’m in Australia, on WiFi, on the 28th. Come on Google. I have a few months before Mobile ME renewal, help me save some $$$.

• Motley

  It’s not working for me.

  I remember at some stage after I set it up, it worked perfectly. Except now, maybe a week or so later, it won’t push. I’ve noticed that sometimes it will push, but much later than when the email was originally received.

  I wouldn’t blame the carrier, as it’s still not pushing while I’m on WiFi and certain I have an internet connection.

  I’d say that it’s got something to do with the Google Push Servers, perhaps they’re completely flooded with the amount of Gmail users and the information the server needs to hand out to every single iPhone.

• Chris

  It’s a joke, right now. It worked fine for a while but now it’s regularly on a 2+ hour delay. In fact one day, my email never updated throughout the entire morning, afternoon, and evening. It’s completely useless.

• Chris.E

  Same problem with no pushing (or very random fetching even though push is on) – stopped working after working fine for a few weeks. May turn off push and try regular fetching.

• Brian T

  I’m having the same problem as Chris E. It started on the weekend at some point, probably Saturday, February 27. This is very frustrating as it seems to have been working fine since I got my iPhone in November. I’ve switched off the push mail function and am retrieving mail manually by IMAP and it’s working fine. Clearly this is a problem with the push function and/or the exchange method of setting up email on the iPhone (although calendar and contacts updates are working fine). It would be nice to see this fixed, or to at least know Google is doing something about it.

• Chris Simpkins

  I was having the same problem with long delays and think I have found a fix:

  When you notice the push being delayed, go in to SETTINGS, MAIL, CONTACTS, CALENDERS, choose your account, turn mail push OFF. Turn the phone off and then back on. Then repeat the first process but this time turn the mail push on. Then re-boot the phone again. It started working again for me immediately but I had to reboot the phone (off,on) the second time. This usually works for about a month and then the delays start again. I don’t know what causes the delays to start in the first place.

  If you completely delete the account on your iPhone and then re-set it up, it will (has for me) accomplish the same task.

  I hope this helps some of you. It has worked great for me. Just have to repeat it about once every month or two.

  Best wishes.

• Chris Simpkins

  P.S. While I was typing the last message I received an email and it pushed to my phone in a matter of seconds. I completed the above procedure last night and it immediately started working again. I knew I had two emails that were not showing up on the iPhone. As soon as I completed the second “re-boot” of the iPhone the messages were there waiting for me. I have no idea why this works but so far it has for me on several occasions. Now if we just knew why it starts to crap out in the first place.