Samsung might make nice mobile phones ...

[RogerS]

...but they write lousy software.

Take the email app on the Ace. I've hunted high and low to find a way to delete all the emails in one go. But can I find out how to do it? Nada. Seems like you have to delete emails one by one by one. A five-year old could write a better app.

But wait...could it be any worse? Yup..it can. After you have deleted your emails one by one by one. They don't get deleted. No..sirree..they go into your trash folder. So your trash folder gets bigger and bigger. But hey...those clever buggers at Samsung have thought about that, haven't they? No. To empty your trash folder, you have to delete each email AGAIN one by one by fu**ing one.

Please tell me I have got it all wrong.

 

[Mattty]

...but they write lousy software.

Take the email app on the Ace. I've hunted high and low to find a way to delete all the emails in one go. But can I find out how to do it? Nada. Seems like you have to delete emails one by one by one. A five-year old could write a better app.

But wait...could it be any worse? Yup..it can. After you have deleted your emails one by one by one. They don't get deleted. No..sirree..they go into your trash folder. So your trash folder gets bigger and bigger. But hey...those clever buggers at Samsung have thought about that, haven't they? No. To empty your trash folder, you have to delete each email AGAIN one by one by fu**ing one.

Please tell me I have got it all wrong.

What email app is it? Have you tried others? Why not just delete them on your pc?

 

[chippy1970]

Don't know if it will work on yours but on my HTC running Android I just tick one of the emails then press a menu button and I get a choice to select all then I press delete. Maybe that will work for you too if its Android.

 

[RogerS]

...but they write lousy software.

Take the email app on the Ace. I've hunted high and low to find a way to delete all the emails in one go. But can I find out how to do it? Nada. Seems like you have to delete emails one by one by one. A five-year old could write a better app.

But wait...could it be any worse? Yup..it can. After you have deleted your emails one by one by one. They don't get deleted. No..sirree..they go into your trash folder. So your trash folder gets bigger and bigger. But hey...those clever buggers at Samsung have thought about that, haven't they? No. To empty your trash folder, you have to delete each email AGAIN one by one by fu**ing one.

Please tell me I have got it all wrong.

What email app is it? Have you tried others? Why not just delete them on your pc?

It's the standard email app that comes with the Ace and is called, erm, email!

Not tried any others yet. Kaiten maybe?

I don't sync between phone and Mac so deleting on the Mac won't help.

 

[RogerS]

Don't know if it will work on yours but on my HTC running Android I just tick one of the emails then press a menu button and I get a choice to select all then I press delete. Maybe that will work for you too if its Android.

That has been reported as the way to do it. But it doesn't seem to have been implemented on the Ace 2. To get to delete, you select Menu, which then opens up selection boxes alongside each email. You can select one for deletion but if you push Menu again, the only options are an incredibly useful Refresh (duh? WTF?), Font Size (my God that is so awesome) and Folders.

It is Android.

 

[Mattty]

Don't know if it will work on yours but on my HTC running Android I just tick one of the emails then press a menu button and I get a choice to select all then I press delete. Maybe that will work for you too if its Android.

That has been reported as the way to do it. But it doesn't seem to have been implemented on the Ace 2. To get to delete, you select Menu, which then opens up selection boxes alongside each email. You can select one for deletion but if you push Menu again, the only options are an incredibly useful Refresh (duh? WTF?), Font Size (my God that is so awesome) and Folders.

It is Android.

I think its because you haven't synced it. Try a different app?
Cheer up Roger!

 

[gregmcateer]

Hi Roger,

We have heard you sounding sad for too long, these days.

Hope I can cheer you up.

On my Ace, if I go to emails it lists tem all, (in my default, chronologically, most recent at top). If I tap the lower left (Menu?) button, one option is Delete. If I touch that, I get blank tick boxes by each email. I simply tick the ones I want to delete, then, hey presto! - They're gone. BEWARE, though, as it does assume you meant to do it and doesn't ask you to confirm.

HTH

Greg

 

[toysandboats]

Hi Roger,
like you I quickly got fed up with the basic Samsung email app on the Ace. After a couple of days I had downloaded K-9 Mail and it is a far superior product.
However, you're right about the trash bin - you do have to delete everything twice which is a pain but very quick on K-9, just use select all.
Hope this helps

David

 

[RogerS]

Hi Roger,

We have heard you sounding sad for too long, these days.

Hope I can cheer you up.

On my Ace, if I go to emails it lists tem all, (in my default, chronologically, most recent at top). If I tap the lower left (Menu?) button, one option is Delete. If I touch that, I get blank tick boxes by each email. I simply tick the ones I want to delete, then, hey presto! - They're gone. BEWARE, though, as it does assume you meant to do it and doesn't ask you to confirm.

HTH

Greg

Hi Greg...I know you can do them one by one...but I have 100's! Which is why I wanted a delete all.

David...thanks for the recommendation for K9. I'll give it a go.

 

[JakeS]

If it's anything like my Samsung phone, it's not Samsung you have to blame for it, it's Google - it's the standard Android email app.

I'm pretty sure the reason you can't delete emails in bulk is because it's intended that you just synch it with a GMail account, and the encouraged practice with GMail is to just leave all your emails and never delete them. Otherwise how would Google data mine them?

 

[RogerS]

..... Otherwise how would Google data mine them?

:lol: Good point.

K9 seems pretty good.

 

[RogerS]

If it's anything like my Samsung phone, it's not Samsung you have to blame for it, it's Google - it's the standard Android email app.

Good point. Mind you, the PC software that comes with the Samsung phone is KIES and written by Samsung, I think. That has definitely been written badly/specified badly !

...Otherwise how would Google data mine them?

True...oh, so true.

 

[morfa]

K9 Mail ++ it's the best mail app out there

 

[JakeS]

Mind you, the PC software that comes with the Samsung phone is KIES and written by Samsung, I think. That has definitely been written badly/specified badly !

Yeah - I've stuck to only using that when I absolutely have to for firmware upgrades, and it's a pain just for that!

 

[RogerS]

Mind you, the PC software that comes with the Samsung phone is KIES and written by Samsung, I think. That has definitely been written badly/specified badly !

Yeah - I've stuck to only using that when I absolutely have to for firmware upgrades, and it's a pain just for that!

Tell me about it. They ignored the Apple software guidelines and take over total (and I mean total) control of the desktop and Mac. You can nothing (apart from switching off, at a guess) until it has finished. It also has some daft background tasks continuously running that insist on writing to the console log. Every 10 seconds.

 

[JakeS]

It also has some daft background tasks continuously running that insist on writing to the console log. Every 10 seconds.

(As an aside - is that useful again now? I found the one in Snow Leopard would take forever for logged items to show up, so I stopped looking at it.)

 

[RogerS]

Not too sure what you mean, Jake

 

[JakeS]

Not too sure what you mean, Jake

I used to monitor console log messages for a couple of things, but I found that after upgrading to Snow Leopard, the log messages would sometimes show in the console several minutes after the event that wrote them out, rather than the 'instantly' that I was used to from previous versions of the OS. I assumed it was a bug, I was wondering whether they'd sorted it post-Snow Leopard so the logged messages actually show up instantly again? I stopped checking it a while ago as it was more or less useless, and these days I don't do much development on the Mac anyway for various reasons, that included.