……or most other phones for that matter.
With the screen mysteriously dying on my w800i, I decided was forced to upgrade early. It turns out not to be a bad thing and can honestly say I am really impressed with the K800i. The camera is first class, the ui quick and well designed and the hit on size and weight I have taken compared to the w800 is bearable. This truly is the first 3G phone that I would consider having after all the bricks I have seen my friends with.
I digress though…. naturally Vodafone UK doesn’t really push email on the K800i, presumably due to larger margins on their MMS messaging or whatever Vodafone Live options they are trying encourage you to use. The K800i does have a very usable email client though, which is more than can be said about the standard web browser, and is just waiting to be utilised. After a lot of trial and error, reading and re-reading of conflicting forum posts, I have now got my K800i working with Gmail.
I am not certain but I would expect these settings to work with most of the current generations of Sony Erriccson handsets and could be quite easilty adapted to most new mobiles with email.
- First up, log into Gmail / Googlemail and enable POP for your account. Click on ‘settings’ in the top right hand corner and click on the ‘Forwarding and POP’ tab. I would recommend selecting ‘Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on’.
- To send Mail using Gmail you need to download and install two certificates. Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer and ThawtePremiumServerCA.cer, these can be downloaded from here. To install either send them to the phone using Bluetooth or the supplied cable and S E File Manager software. For the latter, connect the phone to the PC, keep it in phone mode, open File Manager and drop the file individually on the icon and follow the on screen (phone) instructions.
- Navigate to Messaging\Email\Settings on your K800i and create a new account called ‘Gmail’ -though this can be called anything.
- Edit the account and alter or confirm the following options:
- Connect Using : Contract Internet
- Email Address : (Your full Gmail or Google Mail email address)
- Connection Type : POP3
- Incoming Mail Server : pop.gmail.com
- Username : (Your full Gmail or Google Mail email address)
- Password : (Your full Gmail or Google Mail password)
- Outgoing Mail Server : smtp.gmail.com
- Select Advanced settings and alter or confirm the following options:
- Download S+R : Subjects only
- Encryption – Incoming Server :SSLOutgoing Server :TLS
- Outgoing Username :(Your full Gmail or Google Mail email address)
- Outgoing Password : (Your full Gmail or Google Mail password)
- Icoming Port : 995
- Outgoing Port : 587
- That’s it you are done! Try sending and receiving to download your messages and then sending a couple of test emails.
Great guide. Found this after googling for “gmail k800i” instructions. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for this “How to”…!!
I’m a french k800i user happy… I could send and receive email.. Cool…
Change incoming username to “recent:@gmail.com” to only receive last 30 days of mails.
Cheers for the procedure Ben – worked on my w850 on T-Mobile well
Great tip, thanks Bruce.
Hey… Thanx a lot… It really helped… K800 user from india…
can u please help to configure successfully on my k800i hand set??
hi there
this works fine in the UK, but when you take your phone abroad to any country, you cannot send/receive email or view internet.
Im in Portugal at the moment and am connected to the Optimus Network, but as I am with Orange at home, I think it only tries to connect to the orange network back home and thus doesnt work.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Paul
@Shippo,
These settings use the connection settings on your mobile for GPRS. If you can browse the web while abroad using GPRS then you should be able to connect using the same settings.
If you are abroad and having problems, I suggest you first contact your service provider, in this case Orange, and ensure that you can use your GPRS while overseas. Second I would check the data charges for using GPRS while out of the UK, I am guessing it would be astronomical. Maybe an internet cafe would be the more economical way to check your Gmail?
I’m trying connect to gmail with this configuration but I can’t receive email. The error is: [AUTH] username and password not accepted.
But username/password are correct! Any suggest?
@ Rafa,
Sounds as though you may not have enabled pop3 on your gmail account. See the first point above in the instructions.
I had a similar proble (e.g. username and password not accepted). Take a look at the google support site:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60870&topic=1557
It helped me!
do these settings send all emails to your phone in the same way as you would recieve a text message or do you actually need to go into the email regularly and manually check for new mail?
Please! Help . I want to setup yahoo mail on phone k800i . How can i install it ? thanks! Hope u can help:)
I have download the 2 certs and email to my mobile K800i, but I cannot install them. I can only save the file. Is that I must use cable to download the file again, thanks!
Hi ben I hope you can help, I was bored / hungover on a sunday morning and tried to set up my email on my phone aas it was soo easy for outlook and it has become a bit of an incubus! I have a W880i and can recieve messages from my Googlemail account (same setting as you have posted however the sending of messages is not working. I have tried to load the certs from your site and I am probably not loading them correctly as it not working. I havespoken to Vodafone too many times any they know….nothing!! Can you help??? Cheers
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!
A year after I first tried to get Gmail to work on my SE W810i, I found your website, and now it works.
Just one little difference: I had to select the profile called “Vodafone GPRS” instead of “Vodafone Contract”, but apart from that, your instructions are flawless…
Of course, you can also use the excellent Gmail java application, but I wanted to send attachments (photos from the phone), and you can’t do that with the java application.
Vodafone technical support didn’t know how to do it, and neither did Phones4U.
THANK YOU!
Well done…took me a while to find this guide…and its the only one that managed to fix the GMail not sending problem.
Many Thanks!
Thank You! It works on my k800i!
Awsome dude thnx worked on my K800i
Hi, great tip. I wonder if that’ll work on my k550i though? Try your settings and still haven’t got anything. Cheers anyway!
This has now completeley stopped working on my k800i in the UK, Ive not adjusted any settings on it.
Is it working for everyone else still?
Cheers
Shippo
Hi Ben! I’m having trouble with my Blog on K800….how did you post your pictures from the phone, here?
I have a K800i and it’s a great phone. I take great pictures with it which is a huge improvement on the Nokia 6230 that I used to have. I can also recommend a cool add on for it. It’s called i-Citizen and it came out recently. It’s the world’s first 3D world and the k800 works like a charm on it. Its fun to play and you can meet people and chat to them as you might have guessed. They have promotions where they give away PS3’s and Xboxes to people in a place called i-Bid in the app. Its beta release was announced in March 2008 and anyone can give it a try. You can get it from your mobiles browser or your pc by going to http://wap.icitizencommunity.com.
@callie
Nice plug, but it does look interesting.
i don’t know what to do . is there any coniction for free?
how to use coniction free is there any popel for helpping
I have a Sony Ericsson K530i phone and I tried to setup gmail in my mail settings….
but can’t connect….
please help.
Thankyou in Advance
works a treat!
it says another application is running and to close it and start again . me too!! its really not good…i need this phone and cant afford a new one wat could the problem possibly be? ive checked if there’s any other applications running but there isnt!
Sorry dude, i dint work for me
my sexy k800i is saying connection error
thanks, it even works with google apps mails
Hi i am not able to send or recieve. It says Failed to resolve server address. can anyone help?