Anyone else having issues with your GAFYD account on the Droid? So far I have found the following issues:
1. Cannot buy paid apps in the market.
2. Unable to use my maps layer in maps app.
The first issue is easily resolved by adding a gmail account (and setting it not to sync, so as to not disturb the GAFYD account whic already recieves mail from the gmail account). I am unsure of any workarounds for the second problem.
For what it is worth, the guy at the Verizon store told me the market problem was because Verizon intentionally limited GAFYD functionity on android phones. He said this after I told him I had no problem on my G1 for the past year. Is it true? I wonder if Droid Eris has the same problem?
There are probably other issues that I have not discovered yet.
Edit:
2 was resolved by doing a factory reset and using a Gmail account from the beginning (this would resolve 1 also). But it created a new issue:
3. When adding GAFYD as a secondary account, you are not given an option for syncing the calender. Any solutions?
Sharing the GAFYD calender with gmail will not work. It only shows when you are busy with no details or sync.
Edit again: After fiddling around with the accounts it seems to work like this...you can share gmail calender details and management with GAFYD, you can still use the GAFYD calender when on a computer and have access to this on the phone if you add it to the gmail calender when creating the event (NOT the GAFYD calender). So I think everything is set for now.
1. Cannot buy paid apps in the market.
2. Unable to use my maps layer in maps app.
The first issue is easily resolved by adding a gmail account (and setting it not to sync, so as to not disturb the GAFYD account whic already recieves mail from the gmail account). I am unsure of any workarounds for the second problem.
For what it is worth, the guy at the Verizon store told me the market problem was because Verizon intentionally limited GAFYD functionity on android phones. He said this after I told him I had no problem on my G1 for the past year. Is it true? I wonder if Droid Eris has the same problem?
There are probably other issues that I have not discovered yet.
Edit:
2 was resolved by doing a factory reset and using a Gmail account from the beginning (this would resolve 1 also). But it created a new issue:
3. When adding GAFYD as a secondary account, you are not given an option for syncing the calender. Any solutions?
Sharing the GAFYD calender with gmail will not work. It only shows when you are busy with no details or sync.
Edit again: After fiddling around with the accounts it seems to work like this...you can share gmail calender details and management with GAFYD, you can still use the GAFYD calender when on a computer and have access to this on the phone if you add it to the gmail calender when creating the event (NOT the GAFYD calender). So I think everything is set for now.