iPhone Mail App showing "negative" number

Same problem here.

I have three accounts on my iPhone. 1 GMail, 1 IMAP and 1 MS Exchange. After I disabled the GMail account the IMAP account showed a negative new-emails badge. ( image: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3136/img0001boy.png )

I tried deleting the account and recreating it on the iPhone, but it didn't help. Also tried to re-enable the GMail account, also didn't help.

After I disabled the GMail account I watched some TED seminars using the TED application, which during one of these video's completely locked up the iPhone. I force-shut down the iPhone, started it back up again (took longer than normal). After the reboot the iPhone was showing erratic behavior (contacts would quit when pushing certain buttons, etc).

A few reboots later the erratic behaviour was gone, but I instead was left with the -2 email badge.

Hopefully this elaborate description of the events that took place will help someone locate the problem.

- Robert

Try resetting your iPhone by pressing the home and sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.

Didn't help 😟

The next troubleshooting step is to restore. See p. 141 of the manual... http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

That did the trick! Thanks!

I was afraid it would be a lot of work to restore the iPhone, but it was no hassle at al 🙂