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Gmail error "The user name or password for Gmail is incorrect"

Starting the other day I am getting the above error when I try to access my gmail account on my iphone4 and I get the same error on my iMac. This is the 2nd or maybe 3 time this has happened. The last was exactly month ago.

Also keep in mind I can access gmail directly on the web using the same id and pw that is in iphone and mail app on imac. The last time in Jan I tried deleting and reinstalling my gmail account 4-5 times but with no luck, same error msg and gave up. A couple days later and it just started working again.

Any idea's on what could be causing this and is anyone else having similar issue with gmail?

iMAC, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 11, 2011 7:44 AM

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Sep 21, 2012 10:34 AM in response to Kevin Frey

some of us have 2 step verifaction on, so the captcha wont work,

This is what you do, Click on this link

https://accounts.google.com/SmsAuthConfig

enable 2 step verification on your google account.

then type in the password genator box, iphone gmail click generate

it will generate some long redicelous password, then click on mail in the settings of your iphone, then gmail, then put your email address in, your account description. then put the generated password in as your own, ignore the spaces and there you go all fixed.


if you want to sync your contacts and icloud, instead of gmail, click on microsoft exchange then leave domain blank, type your email address in as user name, put your generated password in as your password and m.google.com for the server, now you can backup all your stuff to your google account cheers

Gmail error "The user name or password for Gmail is incorrect"

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