iPhone hangs on "Adding Account" after trying to add gmail account?

I can't believe this question was never answered. Did you ever end up figuring it out?

I just restored an iPhone 4s to 7.0.4 and I can't add Gmail thru exchange (like I have for years) and I can't add Gmail through the native selection. Both verify my username and password, and then sit on "Adding Account" indefinitely. Even if you force close settings, then reopen settings, no account has been added.

Try using the GMail app.

derezzer wrote:

I just restored an iPhone 4s to 7.0.4 and I can't add Gmail thru exchange (like I have for years) ...

Google pulled the plug on Active Sync almost a year ago, though if you had it before 1/31/13 you may still be able to use it but only on the device it was activated with. Restoring should not affect this, but if you were setting up a new iOS device you can't use Exchange.

I suspect that the problem you and the poster above you are having is related to Google's "two-step verification" process. This hasn't affected me but other users have had to disable (or maybe enable) this from a computer. The other thing that can hang up a Gmail setup is if you're on a Wi-Fi network that blocks such activity, such as a company network.

Worse case, try resetting or even restoring again to see if it works. Or, use the Gmail app (which I hate, terrible UI).

FIXED!!!!! This problem was weirder than I thought. I'll try to be very specific and include all the keywords I searched for, so that people can find this thread and fix this.

Under "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" I couldn't add any type of account, couldn't delete my iCloud account, or change any settings. Didn't matter whether it was gmail, exchange, yahoo, or even carddav.Adding accounts would verify, but once I hit "Save" it would get stuck on "Adding Accounts" with the spinning circle. Adding a carddav account would verify, but the "save" button on the top right was greyed out, and the "Back" button was greyed out as well, forcing me to force close the Settings app. Attempting to delete the iCloud account would freeze the Settings app as well.

I have fixed this problem by restoring the phone, skipping the setup of iCloud, then adding the email account. I found this solution at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3457089 where only the answer to the original post solved my problem. Unlike that poster, however, I was able to actually access the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" settings, I was just not able to make any changes whatsoever. I have not tried adding my iCloud account back in, but the other poster tried adding it, and he stopped receiving emails from the non-iCloud account.