If you don't want to use your GMail in Mail, turn the Mail option off in the account's settings when the account is created.To sync more than one calendar (after you've set up the account on the iPad) go to this page and enable the.

It is more like you are logged in to your PC (Windows, Linux, OSX) then logged in to any particular google service. How To Stay Logged Into Gmail Settings Just set up the GMail account in Settings Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Calendar appointments, gTalk, Google Voice, the search widget, voice-to-text, push notifications (for just any service that uses C2DM), and any other service that may show up under your google account in Accounts & Sync can and will need this authentication token at any given time. Even when you create, edit, or delete a contact on your device, because it syncs that data to your account on google servers. If you were to sign out, then every couple minutes you would have to put in your credentials so your device could check for updates and new mail.Ī large set of the services built-in to android use your authentication token. The reason you can't 'sign out' is because then you would not be able to check for new mail, get application updates and other things like that that happen in the background. When the applications, like gmail, go and check for new mail, they use that token to tell the gmail servers that you are 'you'. tasks like syncing your Gmail with your Google Calendar and Google Maps to make. A new token can also be exchanged at other times, but you are unaware that it even happens. When youre signed in, all of the Google services you use work together. When you set up your account, an authentication token is requested and stored on the device. On the device is sort of the same, except it is not a 'cookie'. Even when you are 'logged in' when you use a browser, this is handled by the storage of a cookie with an authentication token stored in it.

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