Essential Android Apps

pooley · 3 Dec 2012 at 22:51

philtor said:
Control Panel for Android is worth a mention. Excellent little app.

Yep, very handy

Philtor · 3 Dec 2012 at 23:13

Now here comes my 'noob' question... I have the Gmail app installed which is great but I have to manually check for mails every so often. Can I not have a method that alerts me to emails? I tried using the built in email app on ICS and configured IMAP, but that went wrong badly... was showing every bloody email I had got in the last year or something

I just want a facility to alert me to new emails without having to manually check using the Gmail app. Any help would be much appreciated

rogueblade · 3 Dec 2012 at 23:15

shouldn't the gmail mail auto receive emails as soon as they come in? Can't recall ever configuring it to have to receive email automatically

maddness · 3 Dec 2012 at 23:16

you should have a notification option with gmail, i.e. when launched, select settings, general settings, here you can select notification settings

I had a little trouble finding this option lol, but its there, each time you get an e-mail you get a notification

Philtor · 3 Dec 2012 at 23:27

maddness said:
you should have a notification option with gmail, i.e. when launched, select settings, general settings, here you can select notification settings

I had a little trouble finding this option lol, but its there, each time you get an e-mail you get a notification

Found it! Now to test it.......

Thanks

Philtor · 3 Dec 2012 at 23:31

Fixed it

Had auto sync disabled just! Let's continue this thread and sorry for my wee hijack there....

aceface57 · 4 Dec 2012 at 13:24

Finally been invited to play on Ingress but stuck inside at the moment. Are many of you guys playing this game?

Finguz · 4 Dec 2012 at 16:27

aceface57 said:
Finally been invited to play on Ingress but stuck inside at the moment. Are many of you guys playing this game?

Make sure you fully charge your battery before setting off to try it for the first time. It absolutely slaughters the battery in my Nexus 7, but it's fun :cool:

Murray · 4 Dec 2012 at 16:51

Been waiting for an invite to Ingress for ages

DAnDan · 4 Dec 2012 at 17:23

Got an invite to Ingress last week, haven't had a chance to actually go out and have a play properly though.

Finguz · 4 Dec 2012 at 17:25

Murray said:
Been waiting for an invite to Ingress for ages

I have one here, but there doesn't seem to be a pm function on these forums, you got an email address?

Murray · 4 Dec 2012 at 18:28

Finguz said:
I have one here, but there doesn't seem to be a pm function on these forums, you got an email address?

You can also click use trust for sending people emails if they have it set up.

Thanks!

Finguz · 4 Dec 2012 at 18:57

You have mail, and you're welcome.

Merry early xmas

Murray · 4 Dec 2012 at 19:00

Thanks! Nice of you

Finguz · 4 Dec 2012 at 19:02

No problem, I had several and can only use one at once

koooowweeee · 4 Dec 2012 at 20:53

if you got any more can i have one please.

Finguz · 4 Dec 2012 at 21:05

Sorry, not at the moment

Nexus18 · 4 Dec 2012 at 22:37

Ad block plus has been updated, you can now hide the icon in the notification bar, just have a big blank space before notifications now though

ChrisD. · 5 Dec 2012 at 11:46

Got an issue with mightytext, it's not syncing messages with my phone. I can send a message fine through the web, but it won't display the response even though it's on my phone. Any ideas?

tom_e · 5 Dec 2012 at 11:47

tried restarting your phone? Sometimes it just needs a kick in the right direction.