Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Android - Gmail and Calendar not receiving new data

This has been very frustrating - on my new phone, as I was going through the installation (Android 7.1) I picked the option to use the automatic restore from Google using my google account. All seemed ok, but then I noticed weird thing. My phone never notified me on new email messages or calendar events. I had to manually open the application and refresh (in fact run the refresh twice) for the new messages/events to show up.
I tried everything I found online - all settings, preferences, etc. After almost giving up and reinstalling the phone from factory reset, I found a cure.
Go to the: Settings -> Accounts, click on the "..." at the top-right corner, un-check and re-check the "Auto-sync data" option. This is it - ever since that all my push messages are getting in :)

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