I've had this Samsung Galaxy S6 for maybe 5 years. Dual SIM: one for my clients, one for my life.
I need a mobile phone for one thing and one thing only: when an email arrives in one of my Gmail accounts ("for clients" Gmail address) I want a NOTIFICATION. That is, a bleep. Clients have been sending emails for maybe 10 years now more often than ringing. That's why. No other reason.
I couldn't give a flying eff about any of the other functions of my "smart" phone. I really could not care less.
For some reason, the *****s at Samsung (phone manufacturers generally) have always had a problem understanding that for some users (actually, who knows, maybe quite a few), this "notification of email" functionality is actually quite important. Stories of delayed email notifications are as old as "smart" phone technology itself: the history of frustrations of users of Samsungs (and other makes) is unending, because the manufacturers evidently have never given and continue not to give the faintest eff.
So the other day I got an email from Google telling me that my password on my "for clients" Gmail address had somehow been "spotted out in the open". It seemed a genuine alert. I went to Google and changed the password.
Since then the arrangements I have for notifications have stopped working.
In addition to the standard "Gmail" app on my phone I also installed something some time ago called "Spike" which occasionally manages to give me a notification faster than the Gmail app. This has also stopped functioning.
Naturally I have logged out and back in to my "for clients" account on my Gmail app, so as to update to the new password. But the notifications are still not happening.
None of the above is helped by the fact that you, seemingly, can't actually "uninstall" the Gmail app, switch off the phone and then switch it on again and do a reinstall. No doubt the efffing geniuses at Samsung have determined that, oooh, you never need to do this: the software and the hardware are so effing marvellous, you NEVER have a need to do this.
Anyone got any idea what I have to do here? Do I have to completely reset the entire phone? In fact, because I loathe these phones so much and want to have nothing to do with them, this is not such a big deal: in anticipation of something going wrong with this effing marvellous, dependable technology, I keep no data or anything (other than shopping lists) on the phone.
It's still a pain in the RS, however. Other solutions welcome.
I need a mobile phone for one thing and one thing only: when an email arrives in one of my Gmail accounts ("for clients" Gmail address) I want a NOTIFICATION. That is, a bleep. Clients have been sending emails for maybe 10 years now more often than ringing. That's why. No other reason.
I couldn't give a flying eff about any of the other functions of my "smart" phone. I really could not care less.
For some reason, the *****s at Samsung (phone manufacturers generally) have always had a problem understanding that for some users (actually, who knows, maybe quite a few), this "notification of email" functionality is actually quite important. Stories of delayed email notifications are as old as "smart" phone technology itself: the history of frustrations of users of Samsungs (and other makes) is unending, because the manufacturers evidently have never given and continue not to give the faintest eff.
So the other day I got an email from Google telling me that my password on my "for clients" Gmail address had somehow been "spotted out in the open". It seemed a genuine alert. I went to Google and changed the password.
Since then the arrangements I have for notifications have stopped working.
In addition to the standard "Gmail" app on my phone I also installed something some time ago called "Spike" which occasionally manages to give me a notification faster than the Gmail app. This has also stopped functioning.
Naturally I have logged out and back in to my "for clients" account on my Gmail app, so as to update to the new password. But the notifications are still not happening.
None of the above is helped by the fact that you, seemingly, can't actually "uninstall" the Gmail app, switch off the phone and then switch it on again and do a reinstall. No doubt the efffing geniuses at Samsung have determined that, oooh, you never need to do this: the software and the hardware are so effing marvellous, you NEVER have a need to do this.
Anyone got any idea what I have to do here? Do I have to completely reset the entire phone? In fact, because I loathe these phones so much and want to have nothing to do with them, this is not such a big deal: in anticipation of something going wrong with this effing marvellous, dependable technology, I keep no data or anything (other than shopping lists) on the phone.
It's still a pain in the RS, however. Other solutions welcome.
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