Adding an Account
1. Touch Menu > Settings > Accounts & sync. The screen displays your current
synchronization settings and a list of your current accounts.
Note: In some cases, you may need to obtain account details from IT support. For
example, you may need to know the account’s domain or server address.
2.
Touch Add account.
3.
Touch the kind of account to add.
4.
Follow the onscreen steps to enter the required and optional information about
the account. Most accounts require a username and password, but the details depend
on the kind of account and the configuration of the service to which you are connecting.
5.
Configure the account. Depending on the kind of account, you may be asked to
configure what kind of data you want to sync to the mobile phone, to name the
account, and for other details. When you are finished, the account is added to the list in
the Accounts & sync settings screen.
Removing an Account
You can remove an account, deleting it and all information associated with it from your
mobile phone, including email, contacts, settings, and so on. You cannot, however,
remove some accounts, such as the first account you signed into on the mobile phone. If
you attempt to remove certain accounts, be aware that all personal information
associated with it will be deleted.
1.
On the Accounts & sync settings screen, touch the account to delete.
2.
Touch Remove account.
3.
Confirm that you want to remove the account.
Customising Your Account Synchronization
You can configure background data use and synchronization options for all the
applications on your phone. You can also configure what kind of data you synchronize
for each account. Some applications, such as Contacts and Gmail, can synchronize data
from multiple applications. Others, such as Calendar, synchronize data only from the
first Google account you signed into on your phone, or from an account associated
specifically with that application. For some accounts, synchronizing is two-‐directional;
changes that you make to the information on your mobile phone are made to the copy
of that information on the web. Some accounts support only one-‐way synchronize; the
information on your mobile phone is read-‐only.
Configuring General Sync Settings
On the Accounts & sync settings screen, do the following:
Select or clear the Background data check box to control whether applications
and services can transmit data when you are not working with them directly (that is,
when they are running in the background).
If you clear this option, Gmail stops receiving new mail, Calendar stops synchronizing
events, and so on, until you touch the Refresh menu item or send an email.
