Do you get no email like this on your phone and miss for days? Then no doubt your Android device is probably not syncing them. Luckily, you do not have to experience this hassle for long because you can fix this to your own ease. This article shows how you notice your emails syncs with your Android device might have an issue, we need to list the ways to solve this problem.
1. Ensure Automatic Email Sync Is Enabled
General email clients feature automatic sync, therefore you get emails at the moment they come. Nonetheless, if you turned off the sync feature in your mail app, you’ll no longer receive emails on your Android smartphone.
A straight forward approach would be to use auto-sync setting. By choosing auto-sync from the Settings menu of your email app you are able to do that.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Open the mail app, you prefer most like Gmail.
- Open the hamburger icon (the three–line icon) and go to Settings.
- If you have more than one email account in your phone, decide which one to use.
- Scroll down and make sure Sync Gmail or something comparable is enabled.
Ensure that your Battery Saver mode is off, are you have the sync option enabled. By simply use of ‘battery or power-saving mode’ you may turn-off background syncing. Now let us check this by going to Settings > Battery > Battery Saver and turning off Use Battery Saver.
2. Perform a Manual Email Sync
If automatic sync does not work you can go for the manual sync instead. This solution acts like the synchronization method, only you must initiate a change in the settings as you select an option.
This means that the background activity synchronizes you, searches for, and downloads new emails to your device.
To manually sync your emails on Android, follow these steps:
- Go to settings, locate the menu of options, and then locate About phone. If you own Samsung phone, you should go to Settings > Account and backup > Manage accounts.
- Secondly, tap Google account.
- From the list provided, select the email address you want to use.
- Tap Account Sync on the following page.
- Then, go to the toggle beside Gmail to disable auto sync, click again to perform a manual sync.
3. Clear Your Android Device’s Storage
While your phone is downloading an email; it is taking space in the storage section of your device. You might be out of luck if it’s because you don’t have space on your phone, especially if the attachment for the email you are trying to download is quite large.
You will save memory by removing the files which you don’t need in your device storage.
Here’s how to do this:
- On your device, launch the Google Open Files app by hitting the hamburger icon in the top left of it.
- Tap Clean from the several choices.
- Now choose Select files from any of the options available and view the files you want to remove.
- On the next page, tap it to delete the files or select all items by tapping the top of the screen.
- Then, click on Move X files to Trash icon. Lastly, click on View at the bottom.
- Delete Select “Select All Items” at the top menu to select all files, next click “Delete” to delete permanently and free up space.
4. Ensure You Enter the Correct Password on All Your Devices
When you change the password to your email account (and you must always make sure it’s secure yet memorable), you should change it to that password in the email app on your phone. Otherwise, your phone cannot complete the process of syncing the new emails, as it is not allowed to sync them.
This problem can easily get resolved by going to your email app and entering the new password. By the way, don’t forget to change the password everywhere where you use email accounts (computers, tablets, etc). You can make a password manager like Google Password Manager to keep your passwords secure and safe.
5. Clear the Cache and Data
Your email app, just like any other app on your phone, saves data and keeps files on your phone. Though these files typically do not cause any problems, it is still advisable to clear them and see if it can resolve the email sync issue faced on your Android device.
Just removing data files and cache won’t remove your emails because emails are saved to your email provider’s server.
To clear up the cache, follow these steps:To clear up the cache, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Settings menu, drop down the Apps.
- Find Gmail (you might need to select See all X apps at first) then choose the Storage & cache option.
- What’s great about the feature is that you can see just how much space your email app takes up. Hit the Clear cache button.
Another option is Clear data. Nevertheless, be aware that this action deletes all the app’s data from your phone exactly as if you uninstall and reinstall it. So you’ll have to sign in again.
6. Update Your Email App
Make sure to keep your apps updated so you are having trouble-free experience. If it has been a while since you updated your email app, make sure you check if an update as available on the Google Play store.
New updates usually put an end to that many already known bugs including syncing problems.
Here’s what you need to do:
- On your phone, go to Play Store.
- Click on the avatar in the upper right corner of the page and choose Manage apps & devices from the provided options.
- Next, see Updates available.
- If download page is open right below the Update tab, just tap the Update button to download and install the update. Instead, Update All would do the same thing.
7. Re-Add the Account(s) to Your Email App
If emails are not synced yet it may just be because you have an issue with account configuration. In this case, try removing your account and adding it again in the app in order to solve the problem.
Here’s how to do this:Here’s how to do this:
- Go to Settings>About phone>Google account. If you have a Samsung phone make sure to look in the settings > accounts and backup > manage accounts section of your phone instead.
- Select the affected email account if you have many by going to the ‘Passwords and accounts’ page.
- On your next page, click on “Remove account”, then click on “Remove account” from the coming up box.
- Next, once again enter the same account from the Passwords & accounts page by hitting the Add account button at the bottom.
8. Enable Email Notifications
Lastly, emails can be delivered to your inbox perfectly, but your phone won’t inform you about their arrival. The correct thing to do here is turning on the notification for your email app.
:Here’s how you can do this:
- Open the drawer of your app and find the icon for your email app there.
- Tap and hold the app icon and then tap the blue Info icon to display the app information page.
- Tap the Notifications option.
- Turn on all Gmail notification. Customize the notification categories, if possible, based on your selection.
Email applications in the most cases run on Android fluently. For example, suppose you are not seeing your emails because your phone is not syncing them, then I hope you were able to fix the problem with the help of troubleshooting steps suggested.