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Help yahoo mail on HTC desire

vijaymanda

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I have just got the HTC Desire today with an Orange UK contract. Unfortunately, I can't set up my yahoo mail account on it. It always say username/password incorrect. I have tried manual settings as well with no success. never had this problem with HTC Touch HD which was runnig on Windows mobile unlike Desire which has an Androd platform. Can anyone tell me how to set up yahoo mail on HTC Desire. Thanks.
 
hi
i know this problem and kind of sulution for it but going to your yahoo mail options won't solve the problem unless you have yahoo plus account,but here is the solution we discussed at samsung galaxy thread:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/57283-i7500-problems.html#post489158

just scroll down and you'll see what to do
haven't tried myself yet but i bet it will work
let me know if it works ok?
 
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I have Yahoo working, but as above you must be a premium/plus account to make it work.


  1. Make sure Wi-Fi is turned off
  2. Press the E-Mail icon (the default Android E-Mail application)
  3. Enter your Yahoo/BT address and password
  4. Press "Manual Setup" in the lower left hand corner
  5. For "Incoming Server Settings" set the IMAP server to "imap.mobile.mail.yahoo.com" and the Port to 143
  6. For "Outgoing Server Settings" set the SMTP Server to "smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com" and the Port to 587
  7. Check "Require sign-in" and press Next
  8. Select how often your phone will check for Email, and choose default options
  9. Give the account a name and set your display name for outgoing messages
There is a known issue when sending mail of getting duplicates, and the above will only work using your network provider; not wi-fi.
 
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Thanks everybody for the suggestions! After lot of trawling on the net and hours on the phone...I finally made yahoo mail work on Desire.
The following needs to be done:
As Specialjim had advised, I made sure that the POP forwarding was checked in my regular Yahoo account (Not yahoo Plus). This could only be done if you change the preferred location of your yahoo account to Asia! So I changed it to Asia from UK. Apparently POP forwarding is free only if the preferred location on Yahoo Account settings is Asia! Otherwise this is not possible!
Then I put my email address and password in the phone and it automatically set the account! All done! And yes it doesn't matter if the wifi is on or off....as long as you have internet access on the phone.
Cheers!
 
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Hi all, I'm planning to get a HTC Desire soon. Currently I'm using a Nokia E71. I use Nokia email messaging application to access my Yahoo mail, which uses IMAP access. I was wondering if the Desire auto configs to IMAP settings for Yahoo mail or is it only POP? Let me know if anyone has been able to configure Yahoo IMAP (like in Nokia's built-in app) BTW, I'm also a Yahoo plus subscriber, if it helps.
 
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Thanks everybody for the suggestions! After lot of trawling on the net and hours on the phone...I finally made yahoo mail work on Desire.
The following needs to be done:
As Specialjim had advised, I made sure that the POP forwarding was checked in my regular Yahoo account (Not yahoo Plus). This could only be done if you change the preferred location of your yahoo account to Asia! So I changed it to Asia from UK. Apparently POP forwarding is free only if the preferred location on Yahoo Account settings is Asia! Otherwise this is not possible!
Then I put my email address and password in the phone and it automatically set the account! All done! And yes it doesn't matter if the wifi is on or off....as long as you have internet access on the phone.
Cheers!

Thanx a lot buddy, it really helped!!!
 
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I have just got the HTC Desire today with an Orange UK contract. Unfortunately, I can't set up my yahoo mail account on it. It always say username/password incorrect. I have tried manual settings as well with no success. never had this problem with HTC Touch HD which was runnig on Windows mobile unlike Desire which has an Androd platform. Can anyone tell me how to set up yahoo mail on HTC Desire. Thanks.

I had the same trouble initially.
I followed the standard setup but noticed the phone had my pop and smtp as btopenworld.com.
It should have read mail.btopenworld.com for both of these and then it worked a treat.
Hope that helps.
 
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Hi All

I managed to set my Yahoo up with just the user name and password.

It seems to be working 95% so far and the only issue I have is if I delete an email from my account whilst logged into my PC and then go to the phone I still see the email on my phone!

I have to manually remove the email from my phone as well (I didn't have to do this when I had an iPhone).

Anyone have the same problem as this or know of a fix?

Xray
 
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I have a US based yahoo.com account. It won't change to any Asia setting. If I want to alter the PoP settings, it says I have to sign up for a premium paid for account. I don't want to do this. Is there still a method I can use to set up yahoo on my Desire, so I can send emails directly from my handset via my yahoo account?
 
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thankssss. my yahoomail is working now. just activated the 'pop and forwarding' option in the yahoo mail options.
my network was already on yahoo asia. so dint have to do anything abt tht part. but I want to find out where to change this option. just to know.
after that, just put in my username and password in the 'create new mail account' in desire. rest got through itself.
are these settings already saved in desire for all major providers like yahoo?
one thing I cudnt find is an option to change mail notification alert sound but its there in the gmail app which came default with the desire.
nyways, it is retrieving yahoomail for me, most of the time.
 
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Hi All

I managed to set my Yahoo up with just the user name and password.

It seems to be working 95% so far and the only issue I have is if I delete an email from my account whilst logged into my PC and then go to the phone I still see the email on my phone!

I have to manually remove the email from my phone as well (I didn't have to do this when I had an iPhone).

Anyone have the same problem as this or know of a fix?

Xray

Did you ever get an answer to this? Its driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!
 
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