bobsmyuncle

Months ago, my phone started giving me a popup to the effect of;

"password or email address incorrect...IMAP..."

I discovered that turning off WiFi corrected the problem which was good enough a solution at the time.

Jump forward to today, I turned WiFi on. The problem arose again. Turned WiFi off, but this time it didn't correct the problem.

During both instances, I can effectively log on to Gmail using Safari with NO problems.

Actions taken so far;

Restarted

Deleted account attempted to add account

With Bell tried to add account as "other" (instead of "Gmail") using POP

Nothing has worked. I'm now being told to wipe the phone to factory settings and restore.

To do this, after backing the phone up, do I simply hit "restore" in iTunes? or should I go into "settings" on the phone and use "Reset"?

As always, help is greatly appreciated.

smashedbanana

A Question,

Are you adding a Sympatico e-mail to your phone or a G-mail?

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bobsmyuncle

I'm adding a Gmail account. Thanks for getting involved.

Joker Eh

Is this the only email account on the 'phone'? Which iPhone (assuming its an iphone)? You up to date with the software?

Is this device jailbroken?

After deleting email account have you tried a hard reboot? Holding down home button and power button at the same time until the phone restarts and shows the apple logo.

Bell won't be able to help you as they can't do anything with Google or Apple. So forget them. Restoring will be the standard answer to everything.

bobsmyuncle

There is and always has been a second Gmail account on the phone.

It is an iPhone 4

It is NOT Jailbroken

I DID perform a hard reboot (amusingly BELL instructed me to do this using the slider).

And likewise thanks!

Joker Eh

So what is the other account? How have you determined that the Gmail is the problem? The problem could be your wifi. I have 5 gmail accounts and none have ever had any problem over any connection. If the problem first went away when you turned off wifi then that is where I would start.

bobsmyuncle

The other account is a second Gmail account which has always worked flawlessly.

WiFi is working well (using it now actually).

bobsmyuncle

Any thoughts on 'Resetting' through the 'Settings' menu opposed to restoring through iTunes??

Lawrence

Sounds like a "Keychain" problem,
Try deleting "Sympatico" from your keychain.
You may have to re enter the info later, But hopefully that will fix the corruption.

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bobsmyuncle

Soooo I found the solution.

The problem is common apparently, and involves CAPTCHA.

There is a site (google it) that you visit and you confirm the address and password and fill in a CAPTCHA lol.

Now that said, I visited the site and needed to confirm an "Additional Verification Step" prior to
doing the CAPTCHA. Turns out that this was enough to repair the problem.

Thanks to everyone for the input!!