stay signed in?

[billhansen]

In the past, I was able to stay signed in to my Gmail account between
times when I wanted to access it (awkward sentence, I know, but I hope
the meaning comes through). In the past 10 days or so, I have to sign
in to my Gmail account anew, each time I want to access it. That's a
small thing, but it was nicer to be able to stay signed in, and not
have to input my password every singel time I want to look at mail. Is
there a setting I can change to recover the ability to stay signed in?

Bill Hansen

[Marko Vuković]

Hi Bill

Try deleting cookies and clearing your browser cache.

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[Zack (Doc)]

As Marko's said, you need to check cache and cookies.  The ability to stay logged in, is based on cookies.  Make sure you've checked the box on the sign-in page to stay logged in; and make sure you're accepting/storing cookies for GMail.  Also, clear them like Marko said, cause you could have a stale cookie that is causing the re-login.

[billhansen]

Marko and Zack - Somehow I had apparently signed out/in without re-
checking the "stay signed in" box, so part of the problem is solved -
but I still need to sign in each time I access Gmail on the cell
phone. I'll take that up with the Droid forum.

Thanks for your help - Bill

On Feb 7, 9:48 am, Marko Vuković <marko.vuko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill
>
> Try deleting cookies and clearing your browser cache.
>
> Regards
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> Marko
>

> On 07 Feb 2011, at 16:09, billhansen <billhansen2...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> > In the past, I was able to stay signed in to my Gmail account between
> > times when I wanted to access it (awkward sentence, I know, but I hope
> > the meaning comes through). In the past 10 days or so, I have to sign
> > in to my Gmail account anew, each time I want to access it. That's a
> > small thing, but it was nicer to be able to stay signed in, and not
> > have to input my password every singel time I want to look at mail. Is
> > there a setting I can change to recover the ability to stay signed in?
>
> > Bill Hansen
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[Sarah Hill]

If you log in to gmail directly on web from your browser by going to
gmail site, you have the same option to tick the box "remember me".
Using android 2.2, I find I have to use the older version of gmail to
get certain features, & some other things to work like follow
hyperlinks.
The gmail app that came on my htc phone is pretty awful, but wants to
do auto log in, so I rarely bother with it, also direct access with
browser provides me with a much more current view of my mail, as I've
no desire to have my phone continually trying to sync accounts.

[Marko Vukovic]

On 8 February 2011 21:08, Sarah Hill <mail...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you log in to gmail directly on web from your browser by going to
gmail site, you have the same option to tick the box "remember me".
Using android 2.2, I find I have to use the older version of gmail to
get certain features, & some other things to work like follow
hyperlinks.
The gmail app that came on my htc phone is pretty awful, but wants to
do auto log in, so I rarely bother with it, also direct access with
browser provides me with a much more current view of my mail, as I've
no desire to have my phone continually trying to sync accounts.

Hi Sarah

The Gmail web app also has to poll the server periodically. It uses Ajax technology to do this. I'm not sure if your HTC phone's mail client supports it, but others such as the Apple iPhone use Push IMAP which maintains a persistent connection to the server and receives notification of new messages that way. This is much more efficient than the Ajax over HTTP method.

Regards
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Marko

[wgh2005]

Sarah -

This sounds like the solution which will work. I haven't used the DroidX app
for Gmail. Instead I logged in from my Droid's browser and then made a
shortcut of that URL to the Home screen of the Droid. But I'll bet that
either my shortcut or my original log-in to Gmail (from the Droid) has been
changed. I'll wipe off the shortcut, log in again from the Droid's browser,
and I expect that all will be well once again.

Thanks - Bill