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  • yup it happenned to me. exactly as you described it.
    it went on from yesterday to this morning. I thought i’d got it working buy uninstalling the updates.
    so maybe what I did is what fixed it, or perhaps google fixed it behind the scenes.

  • this was happening on my tbolt running Shi5tAO5P (cm7 fork rom).  I have a  google account and google apps account and my google account flickered and then disappeared which then allowed me to use my google apps account, but my google account is now gone. 

  • Glad to hear Google has recognized this and it will be addressed. Have been experiencing this problem on my OG Asus Transformer ever since the ICS update. Calendar also seems a little “buggy” following ICS, but that might be another issue altogether.

    …fingers crossed… 

  • Happened to my Droid RAZR. Had to factory reset to fix it. Stock.
    Couldn’t open any messages….looked as if app was constantly reloading the inbox page and only the HOME button would escape out.

  • I’m actually having issues with GMail sending my emails, It will constantly say ‘Sending…’ for days on end. I just go to gmail in the browser to answer emails, because everything else still works.

  • It happened on my stock Droid X last night.  Rebooting, removed the battery and nothing seemed to work.  I had to reset my phone and it worked.  Do you know what it’s like trying to reinstall 140+ apps? HAHA!

  • Wow, I actually did have the gmail app problem on my GNex… I thought it was just me, rebooted the phone and all was well. It was only a 10 minute problem for me.

  • Somehow I get the impression this issue isn’t affecting ICS users, who represent a huge chunk of the DL population.

  • I had the problem for about 6 hours yesterday on my stock Bionic.  Tried clearing the cache and user data which didnt seem to work.  Eventually the problem seemed to work itself out and by yesterday evening everything was back to normal

  • I had it happen on my bionic this morning. I thought it was my phone so I did a factory reset…pain in the azz… But that fixed it

  • Latest update from Google ~1:10pm Eastern Time

    Hi everyone, 
    Thanks for posting. We are working on an update so that you won’t need to do a factory reset. I’ll update as soon as I have more information. 

    Best,
    Brittany

  • Did even notice that I havent had a notification for my gmail yesterday or today.  So when I read this im checking it and its stuck in loading.  Wierd.  (AOKp M4)

  • Yes I have been having real trouble with this as of yesterday! Glad to know I wasn’t the only one.

  • on stock HTC thunderbolt with latest ota update. gmail started flickering 2 days ago. If i open it directly to an email i can read the email but once it gets to the inbox screen, it keeps refreshing the screen and only the home button responds to the touch screen. I tried downgrading (cant fully uninstall without root) and upgrading to latest version but both the downgrade and the reupgrade did not solve the problem.

  • My Rezound seems to be suffering still, but my Xoom running ICS seems to be working just fine. My wife’s Dinc2 is having the issue as well.

  • Use the regular Mail app? That’s like telling me to ride a bicycle to work because my GSXR is broken.

    /app snob off

  • I have this problem.  I found a work around by setting up my gmail account on the regular email app as opposed to the stock gmail app.

  • Interesting! I just noticed about 2 days ago that when I would receive and delete messages from my phone, they would not sync and disappear or move their assigned folders. Manually refreshing did not make that deleted ones go away on the tablet and vice versa. Don’t know if this is related or not?

  • My primary google mail account is gone. Completely, doesn’t even show up in the mail app. Everything else on the phone under that account works. If I try to add it, the phone says this account already exists. And since this is my primary account, I can’t remove the account with a factory wipe. 

    Yeah not so happy right now. 

  • I still have this problem, first noticed it this morning. Been discussing this all over the internet (reddit, androidforums.com, code.google.com…) Still no solution. I’d lose my root on my Droid X if i factory reset, so that is a really sucky option for me.

  • The only problem i have been having is it hasn’t been pushing my mail consistantly.

  • Google has been a disaster since Larry Page took over. I know this isn’t his fault and has nothing to do with him personally but the company seems to be undergoing some serious issues as a whole. 

  • My Gmail has been fine but my Exchange Email has been killing my battery the last few days. It is always trying to sync.

  • I had this happen on my Droid 4 two nights ago. Flickering and non responsive to touch. I did a hard reset and that fixed it.

    • Have you ever had the screen “flicker” and refuse to accept your lockscreen pattern?  Like it knows you touched a dot, but it refuses to connect the dots?  Frustrating as hell.

  • I noticed last night that mine would hang at the bottom of the inbox screen, with the “Loading conversations” message just kind of hanging there.  It never would load any more conversations.  Seems to be working fine now, though.

    • I’ve been getting that off and on, interestingly enough, on their website the past two days.

      (PaleMoon and Chrome on Win7)

  • Haven’t seen it (knock on wood) on my gnex yet. Though the damn phone has been restarting itself about twice a day… grr

      • I’m stock for now. Had to do a warranty replacement for an unrelated issue a few weeks ago, and am still new enough to the rooting game to need to set aside some quality time to make sure i don’t mess anything up. Almost every time I open the camera, though, i get a freeze and restart – seems to be a common problem that should be fixed in 4.0.5. Fingers crossed.

        • Have you unlocked the device at least?  I would suggest doing a nandroid and trying either one of the 4.04 zips out there or AOKP…

          I know… you’re waiting.  But at least don’t wait ti unlock…it wipes your device completely.  Even if you don’t plan on rooting or flashing a ROM for a long while, it is best to unlock right away, before you accumulate a lot of stuff you’ll end up losing.

          (Disclosure: Running AOKP b28 on CDMA G’Nex with TW4 launcher.)

        • that’s really weird.  i can’t count the number of times my gnex has restarted itself on like half a hand.  which is amazing to me coming from moto’s mess.  been on both stock and roms.

          • My Gnex has only restarted itself once. My gmail app does not notify me when I recieve new gmails anymore. It notifies me when i get emails from my hotmail account through the other email app though. I am stock too.

    • Same here…    not as many reboots though.  Just a few random ones while running TED.  I’m running all STOCK and unlocked bootloader.

    • Have heard of this restart issue so much that I feel ‘blessed’ that my GNex haven’t restarted on its own, ever. (* finds a piece of wood and knocks hard *). My earlier dumb phone (LG Crystal) used to do that a lot.

  • I had this issue last night. I tried everything to fix it, clearing cache/data on the app and google framework, emptying my inbox. Didn’t help. Oddly enough if I was quick I could get into my labels/folders and the other folders didn’t have the issue. Also when I added a second gmail account to the phone it didn’t have the issue either.  My only option at that point (not rooted yet) was to do a factory reset on the phone.

    T-Mobile Galaxy S II

    • All good now though? I hate to have people do that. Google says they can fix it without forcing people to do that.

        • Just got a Spectrum and after installing Go Launcher and NoLed etc I got this gmail bug and thought it was related to apps not being compatible. I did a hard reset and all is good now but man that was really annoying.

          BTW Kellex I will be at Staples Center watching my Lakers beat your Trailblazers tonight haha.

          • If gmail hadn’t been installed as a system app (or had I been rooted) I would have tried re-installing it first.

    • I just waited through over a day of no access using K9 instead until it came back on its own just now.

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