does anyone get this? i use gmail on i4 with iOS5 and frequently my email will contain an endless number of emails saying (No Content) (No Subject) and is dated 12/31/69. it wont open, all i can do to get rid of it is reboot my phone. anyone else have such oddity and/or know a fix?
iPhone 3GS, iOS 5
This device is Jailbroken isn't it? It is against the T&Cs to provide support for jailbroken devices
I just experienced the same issue - and I believe it happened previously as well. I saw it on my ipad but I was unable to delete it. I accidentally opened it and the date of the message reset to the year "00". I checked the iphone and Mac and it did not appear on either. I was getting ready to contact Apple when I changed some email settings and it has disappeared!!!!! Don't know what to do, if anything.
no, my phone isn't hacked...i can barely operate the thing as it is much less try to change it. it started this about a month after i got the phone which was right after 4s hit the market. i reboot the phone and it goes away and maybe a week later i get it again.
When it happens, have you tried logging into your gmail account in a browser and see if the messages are actually on the server? I'm just curious from the description of the phenomenon whether it is a gmail app issue, and account issue or a gmail server problem?
yes, i've been at home and have checked my gmail from my pc and it isn't there, all is normal. it's not a real problem...i hope. it just makes me think there may be other emails that aren't showing because of the. it shows 3-5 new emails in my box but you can't scroll past them the list just keeps going. when i reboot my phoe there may be 2 or 3 or more emails. i just wondered if it was a real problem and if anyone ekse had this happen.
From the screen shot you are using gmail app correct? Is your gmail account enabled as an IMAP mail account? If so, have your tried setting it up in the iOS mail app and reading mail there - do these phantom emails pop up then?
My thinking is this may be some issue with the gmail app itself, since from your last post it would not appear to be a server or account problem on Google's side of things. If the gmail app is using some sort of database (sql lite or something like that) for it's underlying mail data structure, it may be a glitch in the app itself.
For what it is worth, I only use the iOS built in email reader, but I do have 3 IMAP enabled gmail accounts on my iPhone - I've never seen anything like this in any of my gmail accounts (but a two of them are not heavily used either - really just have them for the google voice numbers I wanted).
I don't know if this helps narrow down the problem but I have pop email account and received the same email which I accessed through the mail reader icon on the ipad. I bypassed the email reader on the computer and logged in to the earthlink account and found no trace of this phantom email. When I located the email in the inbox of the mail on the pad I noticed that the emails were organized by thread and changed that setting; when I went back to the emails it was nowhere to be found in the inbox. I switched it back thinkng I would find it again but it was gone. What shoyld be done if it happens again? Could this be something damaging? As I said, if you click it, the date resets to the year 00 and then went back to the 69 date before I lost it.
I don't think it is anything damaging. It sounds like maybe the message time stamp is getting messed up, but whether it is from something on the receiving end or senders end of the transmission I don't know. I suppose if the sending email server had a fubar'd time stamp on the message, a mail client may mess that up at first but then over-write the bad data with correct data based on it's own system clock. If that were the case, then I'd expect some consistency in the messages in terms of where they originated from (ie. one sender may have an outgoing server problem, but not all your mail would be effected then).
Sounds like merely an oddity though - annoying, but not something to fret over.
no i'm not using the gmail app that is out for iphone. it's whatever email that iphone uses when i added my account in settings. my son downloaded the gmail app for his, but i had my gmail added through the add account in settings and it worked fine. i didn't know if i could remove the email app that came on iphone and is through settings and i couldn't see having two email apps for one account. my guess is that the problem lies in gmail somewhere. maybe some with yahoo or msn have the same thing come up, i don't think the iphone is malfuctioning and losing my emails...no one has complained i didn't reply, or that the phone is transforming them. i think email servers somewhere are on the blink. who knows. i thought it was kinda funny...emails from 1969. maybe it's the postal service. i worked there 25 years and it's about like something of theirs!
Emails from 12/31/69???
