Countdown, 27 Days: Sync or Swim
Biggest issues for the day were sync-related.
1. My email continues to be a hassle. My email service doesn’t “officially support” Android yet, and the issues I’m having with the email now I never had with my ancient Symbian phone, or any web browser. Via G1, I get occasional emails that come through will “null” as the content. Last night, this even led to confusion with a friend about meeting up. I spoke with my email provider’s help desk, which proposed two options. The first is reducing the amount of email in my inbox to the minimum, so there’s less to sync. I’ve now done that, but I still woke to problems: over coffee, I delete messages in the G1, and they’re still in my inbox when I check from my computer. Hassle. The second option to change the email account settings in my G1 to those other than recommended on the email service’s website. I’ll try that in the next few days.
2. The other sync issue was truly random, and from what I’ve read of the next Android OS update, it may already have been taken care of. The issue is that I’m getting alerts a day early for a few calendar events. Specifically, for “all day” calendar events, not for those with a timed start. Let me take this moment, now, to praise the Android calendar. For me, back with the Palm a decade ago, the calendar was (along with contacts) the tool that killed; the calendar in Android is better than anything I ever experienced with Palm. Though even back a decade ago, I never got alerts a day early.
