Questions about message inbox. (email, SMS, gmail)
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First off, hello all. I've been lurking around here for a week or so, comtemplating purchasing my first BB and I finally picked up a Curve from AT&T yesterday. Loving it thus far and I'm sure even more as I learn the in's and outs.
Now, my question... On my home screen I have a folder for "messages" (presumably text and mms), a second folder for "xxxxx@gmail.com" (my email), and then thirdly my gmail mobile app I downloaded. Seems a little redundant to me. Not only do my emails show up in both the "messages" folder AND my "email" folder, but then I end up loading the gmail mobile app to respond and manage my mail. (I know I CAN replay via the other regular "email folder" but I really love the gmail mobile.)
Ideally I would want ONLY my text and MMS messages to come to the "messages" folder and in addition some notification from the gmail mobile app when I have a new email. I really see no reason for the other "xxxxx@gmail.com" folder. It's just an extra place I have to click and delete the mail from after I deal with it in gmail mobile.
Sorry if that's a bit confusing, but does someone understand what I mean?
Well I suppose I could simply hide the message folder since it's effectively useless to me since I'm using the gmail mobile. That would eliminate that eyesore. However I'm trying NOT to have both my email and text messages come into the same "messages folder". What I'm trying to accomplish is separating them. Simply hiding the email folder doesn't eliminate my problem of them both still going into the general "message" folder.
A little update. I was able to get them in separate inboxes when using the zen theme. I typically use, and generally prefer, the AT&T theme though and while using that theme it doesn't seem possible to separate them.
John, I took your advice and separated them using the method you told me, however after I did that, ONLY my email messages showed up in the "messages" folder and I couldn't locate my SMS messages at all. (is there somewhere else they go when separated?) The only way I was able to find a SMS message I received was to combine the messages again and then there it was back in my "messages" folder along with my emails. Again, this is using the AT&T theme.
It seems like such a simple thing. SMS shows up "here" and emails show up "there". Two distinctly different types of messages that definitely shouldn't be lumped together as simply "messages".
Once you've chosen to separate them, look around (I think it's in the Applications folder) for an SMS/MMS folder icon. I believe it gets created when you choose the option to separate them from the other emails.
AHA! Thank you sir, that worked great. Now I have a specific folder for my SMS + MMS messages and another folder for my emails. Almost perfect.
So then I chose to hide my email folder. (since I use gmail mobile to check them) The only thing is when I get an email now the notification still comes up at the top of the screen with the number of emails, I check them in gmail, but that notification will stay up top until I go back into the now hidden email folder and delete it there. Does the phone not realize I've checked and deleted the email in gmail? Seems like I still have to use that email folder to delete the message.
Your gmail emails are being pushed to the BB, which is why the indicator lights up. If you are going to be checking your gmail through the mobile app only, I suggest removing the account through your BIS website.
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That would be fine, except how would I get any indictation that I had a new email? Gmail mobile doesn't have a notifier like on my desktop does it? Otherwise I'd just have to randomly check for emails which isn't very efficient.
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That would be fine, except how would I get any indictation that I had a new email? Gmail mobile doesn't have a notifier like on my desktop does it? Otherwise I'd just have to randomly check for emails which isn't very efficient.
No, the gmail mobile app does not have a notifier. This application is separate from the BB native email client which only provides BB notfications for email accounts setup through BIS/BES.
Well it looks like that's the end of the line then for me. I'm destined to have duplicate email folders for now until google comes out with a notifier download for mobiles. Thank you all so much for your help.
Does anyone make an application that would color code the emails depending on which account they came from? I like the idea of having one folder to check, but hate not knowing which account they're from (without opening them, etc.) PIN messages show up in red; how can I get the other messages to be different colors?
Update: If you download and install the current binary OS for your BB (such as the new AT&T OS 4.2.196 (bundle 154) then you'll get the separation of MMS/SMS messages from your main messages Inbox. There isn't a way to separate your Internet Message accounts - they still default to the main Messages "bucket" folder. A hassle for us all in the BES world who have customers asking for this feature to split them up on a daily basis. However, if you are a Gmail users just download the Google Mobile apps... it does work better, and the new Yahoo! mailer app promises to be better.
Questions about message inbox. (email, SMS, gmail)
