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There's no setting for auto retrieval of email. It's always on. If you're having issues, go into your Settings, Accounts and Backups, Accounts, then choose your Gmail account, then choose Sync account. Make sure you have sync turned on for Gmail. If sync is turned on, don't bother with troubleshooting. Save yourself time, remove that Gmail account, and add it back again.
I have noticed that Gmail accounts had a different "set sync schedule" setting, than my other accounts did. By default this appears to be set at 15 minutes or at least mine was. I changed it to "Auto (when recieved)."
My Note10+ slipped off the counter and onto my tiled floor in the sunroom. I wasn’t paying attention and had set it on top of my iPad which was on a slant having been set on top of a tea towel. Very careless of me but it was a hell of a week of busyness. Two weeks, actually. I’m lucky I didn’t misplace any children last week.
It was a hard fall for the phone. I had dropsy that week because I also dropped my iPhone XR down the staircase. That’s why I don’t sell my old phones. I would rather Apple/Google/Samsung put them through their refurbish process than sell a phone that I dropped even though it seems fine. I do care that the people who get my used phones get a good one.
Thankfully I had the rugged case on my Note. All my phones have survived my week of derp.
After all that, I put a rugged case on my 11 Pro, too. Sheesh!
It was a hard fall for the phone. I had dropsy that week because I also dropped my iPhone XR down the staircase. That’s why I don’t sell my old phones. I would rather Apple/Google/Samsung put them through their refurbish process than sell a phone that I dropped even though it seems fine. I do care that the people who get my used phones get a good one.
Thankfully I had the rugged case on my Note. All my phones have survived my week of derp.
After all that, I put a rugged case on my 11 Pro, too. Sheesh!
How are you enjoying your Note otherwise? I’m still on the fence about whether to get the Note 10+, the Pixel 4, or the XS Max.
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Oouch! Sorry to hear. Its very slippery but i still won't put any covers.
If you can find your way to do so, also consider the iPhone 11 (unless you hate that display) or the 11 Pro/Pro Max. The cameras are excellent so far. Connectivity over WiFi and cellular seems improved over that of the XS Max.
My husband hasn’t been very happy with his XS Max. It won’t get signal in many rooms in his office building. When he’s commuting it gets spotty coverage compared to his Note 10+. His 11 Pro Max is much improved and compares well to his Note.
For me, call clarity is slightly better on my Note10+ than on my iPhone 11 Pro, but my dad says the 11 Pro is acceptable. My dad is my usual test subject and generally hates how I sound on IPhones. I usually have to call him on my Android phones.
Getting back to the Note 10+, I’m loving it. My husband who didn’t originally even want a Note loves his. If you’re not dependent on iOS for your social life, it’s a great choice.
I find myself yet again tied to people who are kind of fanatic about iPhones. Parents of my kids friends. We do a lot of sharing of photos over Air Drop or iMessage. There is an ease to it that’s hard to deny. So I’m stuck.
I do also rely on my Apple Watch and the integration with Apple maps.
if you remove those things from the equation, well then the Note has more power because it can do split screen multi tasking. It just plain looks better running videos and movies and YouTube.
It sounds so much better playing on my affordable name brand Bluetooth speakers from Amazon. I have Bluetooth speakers from Oontz I use a lot and on my iPhone the sound is mushy and muffled. Through my Note it sounds more clear. For iPhones to sound great, it seems like you need to shell out for the Beats stuff. I could be wrong but it’s been that way with the Bluetooth stuff I own.
S-Pen is great for a student. I’ve had to use it to sign some online documents from school for permission slips and so forth.
I had a lot of annoyances with the proximity sensor on my S10+ not turning the screen off during phone calls. That was kind of a fatal flaw to me and I am happy to report I have not yet run across that on my Note 10+.
iOS is kind of buggy right now, too. Jeez is it ever.
The points against Note and Android in general are if you are in the iOS ecosystem and social life. Also my husband says most apps he uses for business and finance still are designed better for iOS than Android. I don’t use the same apps he does and I find acceptable parity on the limited number of third party apps I use on both platforms.
I do find biometric authentication into apps and web sites tends to work better on iOS with Face ID than on Samsung with Touch ID. It is so seamless on iOS.
Ironically the Shop Samsung app and website work better on iOS
seriously I couldn’t get my Note preorder to process through on my S10+. I had to use my iPhone XR.
I know I’m not exactly helping am I. The pros and cons are tough to weigh for another person. So I’m just throwing my observations out there
But if it were me, I would easily toss one of your choices out the window:
Since you’re a student and your finances are more constrained and you’re also going to be up a creek if your one and only phone malfunctions, I would not even consider a Pixel 4.
They couldn’t even get consistent quality control on phones with basic technology. Now they’re introducing a new Face ID module and a radar based interface?
Hey that’s cool for phone hobbyists like some of us on this forum who have multiple phones to rely on and money and time to sort the bork out.
I would never send my student out with a Pixel 4 and all that new tech. Google has a LOT to prove to me before I’d trust them with my own kid. I don’t recommend them to a forum friend. They’re basically making customers pay through the nose to be test subjects. Again, that’s cool for those of us old farts with time and money to play around with this stuff.
You need a phone you can rely on to get you out of jams and that can get signal inside those huge campus buildings. It may be your alarm, your calendar, your device to record lectures. I wouldn’t trust all that to a manufacturer that made a phone that crashed when my husband was trying to take pictures of animals and stream music at the same time. Or that used to drop the sound when we were trying to have a conversation when I was having car trouble.
I love what the Pixels are meant to do. Mine hasn’t given me many problems. But it’s thrown enough curveballs I sadly decided not to make it my daily driver over a Note. My husband did use his 3XL as a sole daily driver for several months. He rode out some of the quirks and he did love a lot about it but ultimately finds the Samsung more consistently reliable and smooth.
As far as cameras go, all the choices are more than acceptable.
Is it the Samsung rugged case you're using? I was just going to ask if anybody has a real life review of the rugged case or the Spigen tough armour add I'm unsure which to choose!
My wife could give a review of the Otterbox case. She had an accident recently where due to some mechanical issue, her motorcycle went into a violent wobble and she and the bike were separated at 50 mph. The jacket she was wearing at the time wore through the pocket as she slid and wore into the case. But other than some heavy wear from the road, both the case and the phone survived impact, the slide and the tumble (as did my wife luckily).
Something to be said about ATGAT (All The Gear All The Time). They were impressed that she came off her bike at 50 mph, walked in to the urgent care, had no skin missing, nothing broken (a lot of bruises) and left with 4 stitches in one finger.
Something to be said about ATGAT (All The Gear All The Time). They were impressed that she came off her bike at 50 mph, walked in to the urgent care, had no skin missing, nothing broken (a lot of bruises) and left with 4 stitches in one finger.
How do you change to auto please/
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The UAG cases are really good. I like mine so far.
Glad to hear she was okay, bike crashes can be nasty.
Yeah, in a large part she got lucky, but was also wearing good gear. Good Arai helmet (bruised mandible rather than broken), jacket, Forcefield Armored shirt (several bruised ribs rather than broke), armored pants, etc.
@vine-boating, I probably should have clarified that I was talking about with the Samsung Mail app. I am not sure if that was the app you were using to check mail. If you are using the Samsung Mail App, under that hamburger menu in the upper left corner, open that up and click the gear icon, scroll down to your Gmail account and click it, look for the menu item "Email Sync Schedule," see what it is set at. Mine was defaulted to "every 15 minutes. Click that and the time line should read "Set Sync Schedule" and say underneath "Every 15 minutes." Click that again and change it to "Auto (when received). There are a bunch of settings that rane from Auto (when received) to Once a Day. You can also alter the schedule when roaming and set a "Peak Schedule" if you don't want to check as frequently during off-peak hours.
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Better I suppose is a matter of opinion. I prefer the UI, aesthetics, split screen landscape mode, dark mode, etc. Of Samsung Mail over Gmail. I also prefer the ease of how I can switch between all mail and individual accounts all in the lefthand folder archive.
My personal preference is Samsung Mail or Outlook over Gmail, but I am sure some folks prefer the Gmail app.
I like the Samsung rugged case because it did protect my phone from a fall to hard tile and it’s got two non bulky kickstands that let me position the phone vertically or horizontally. And it’s attractive, too. I have the gray one. I wish I could get this case for my iPhone 11Pro.
Oh Lord have mercy! Thank goodness she (and her phone) are all right. I have a friend who had a similar accident. But he didn’t do so well and had to have his legs rebuilt with a lot of metal screws and pins. This happened before I met him and he walked pretty well from what I could see. I wouldn’t have known if he hadn’t told me. But he says he had to relearn how to walk on rebuilt legs because the muscles weakened while the bones healed. I’m so glad your wife was spared all that.
In regard to UAG cases, I was going to get one for my 11 Pro. But I saw a Poetic case that actually offered more protection to the screen and looked similar to the UAG but didn’t have the branding covering up the Apple logo. Also it was only $12 and the UAG was close to $40. So I decided to try it and so far I like it. Makes my 11 Pro look kind of badass and I can still see the spinach color. It actually emphasizes the color a bit. So anyway it’s a nice alternative for UAG fans on a tight budget.
As good a service as Gmail is, I find the Gmail app to be pretty subpar on all platforms compared to many other options. Spark is my favorite, followed by Outlook. Hell, I’d use the iOS email client on iPhone for my Gmail account before using the Gmail app. Like @SDColorado, I’ve seen many state their preference for the Samsung email app over the native Gmail app.
Yeah I can’t stand their app. I use the apps that come with my phones and on my Pixel I use Aqua Mail.
Thank you for the thorough reply! I have the same worries about the Pixel 4. It’s sad that a billion-dollar company cannot make a reliable phone. It’s really sad. I’ll be considering the XS Max or the Note 10 Plus then (I don’t like the bulkiness and weight of the 11).If you can find your way to do so, also consider the iPhone 11 (unless you hate that display) or the 11 Pro/Pro Max. The cameras are excellent so far. Connectivity over WiFi and cellular seems improved over that of the XS Max.
My husband hasn’t been very happy with his XS Max. It won’t get signal in many rooms in his office building. When he’s commuting it gets spotty coverage compared to his Note 10+. His 11 Pro Max is much improved and compares well to his Note.
For me, call clarity is slightly better on my Note10+ than on my iPhone 11 Pro, but my dad says the 11 Pro is acceptable. My dad is my usual test subject and generally hates how I sound on IPhones. I usually have to call him on my Android phones.
Getting back to the Note 10+, I’m loving it. My husband who didn’t originally even want a Note loves his. If you’re not dependent on iOS for your social life, it’s a great choice.
I find myself yet again tied to people who are kind of fanatic about iPhones. Parents of my kids friends. We do a lot of sharing of photos over Air Drop or iMessage. There is an ease to it that’s hard to deny. So I’m stuck.
I do also rely on my Apple Watch and the integration with Apple maps.
if you remove those things from the equation, well then the Note has more power because it can do split screen multi tasking. It just plain looks better running videos and movies and YouTube.
It sounds so much better playing on my affordable name brand Bluetooth speakers from Amazon. I have Bluetooth speakers from Oontz I use a lot and on my iPhone the sound is mushy and muffled. Through my Note it sounds more clear. For iPhones to sound great, it seems like you need to shell out for the Beats stuff. I could be wrong but it’s been that way with the Bluetooth stuff I own.
S-Pen is great for a student. I’ve had to use it to sign some online documents from school for permission slips and so forth.
I had a lot of annoyances with the proximity sensor on my S10+ not turning the screen off during phone calls. That was kind of a fatal flaw to me and I am happy to report I have not yet run across that on my Note 10+.
iOS is kind of buggy right now, too. Jeez is it ever.
The points against Note and Android in general are if you are in the iOS ecosystem and social life. Also my husband says most apps he uses for business and finance still are designed better for iOS than Android. I don’t use the same apps he does and I find acceptable parity on the limited number of third party apps I use on both platforms.
I do find biometric authentication into apps and web sites tends to work better on iOS with Face ID than on Samsung with Touch ID. It is so seamless on iOS.
Ironically the Shop Samsung app and website work better on iOS
seriously I couldn’t get my Note preorder to process through on my S10+. I had to use my iPhone XR.
I know I’m not exactly helping am I. The pros and cons are tough to weigh for another person. So I’m just throwing my observations out there
But if it were me, I would easily toss one of your choices out the window:
Since you’re a student and your finances are more constrained and you’re also going to be up a creek if your one and only phone malfunctions, I would not even consider a Pixel 4.
They couldn’t even get consistent quality control on phones with basic technology. Now they’re introducing a new Face ID module and a radar based interface?
Hey that’s cool for phone hobbyists like some of us on this forum who have multiple phones to rely on and money and time to sort the bork out.
I would never send my student out with a Pixel 4 and all that new tech. Google has a LOT to prove to me before I’d trust them with my own kid. I don’t recommend them to a forum friend. They’re basically making customers pay through the nose to be test subjects. Again, that’s cool for those of us old farts with time and money to play around with this stuff.
You need a phone you can rely on to get you out of jams and that can get signal inside those huge campus buildings. It may be your alarm, your calendar, your device to record lectures. I wouldn’t trust all that to a manufacturer that made a phone that crashed when my husband was trying to take pictures of animals and stream music at the same time. Or that used to drop the sound when we were trying to have a conversation when I was having car trouble.
I love what the Pixels are meant to do. Mine hasn’t given me many problems. But it’s thrown enough curveballs I sadly decided not to make it my daily driver over a Note. My husband did use his 3XL as a sole daily driver for several months. He rode out some of the quirks and he did love a lot about it but ultimately finds the Samsung more consistently reliable and smooth.
As far as cameras go, all the choices are more than acceptable.
Thanks
Yes the app isnt great and I always have to go to my mail app to fetch new mail.
I have downloaded outlook and it seems better already! Do you have to alter the notification settings in anyway to get new mail instantly?
One thing I wish Outlook would do is the split screen in landscape like Samsung Mail (picture below), but I haven't found a way to do it.
One thing I wish Outlook would do is the split screen in landscape like Samsung Mail (picture below), but I haven't found a way to do it.
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Opps my bad to early in the morning realised it was mobile app he was talking about now LOL
Yes I prefer the Samsung stock email layout
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The dark mode for outlook looks fairly decentGo to View/layout
I have 3 panes - folder structure/mail list/Preview Pane
ie To the left of your screen shot I also have the folder list shown (inbox/sent/trash etc etc)