Today-screen says Emails: (0) although there are new messages (IMAP)

[Nico949494]

Hi guys,

I have a HTC Excalibur sporting WM6. I am using the default messaging app with an IMAP account. My problem is, that whenever I recieve a message, the message count on the today-screen says "SMS: (0), Emails: (0), MMS: (0)".

Does anyone know how to solve this? When using a POP3 account the same happened.

Thanks for your help!

[neomechanikos]

I have the same problem. Did you ever find a solution? It worked fine when I was on the T-Moblie ROM but now that I've flashed to the HTC 1.33 ROM it just says "Emails: (0)" on the today plugin even though there are new emails in pop3 or imap (non-outlook accounts). Does anyone know if there is a registry key that handles which account flags the notification? Thanks.

[leyvatron]

This happen to me too....
Go to Settings>Sounds> and change your new email sound. Mine was set at none.

It worked for me.

[neomechanikos]

Thanks for the reply although I don't see how a sound will fix the visual indicator on the home screen. I didn't try it myself since I've already found another workaround that I'm very happy with.

Good news: my Excalibur can count now!

After doing a little more research I found out that this is a bug in the HTC today plugin. Upon changing the homescreen layout file from HCT 1.11 to something else it will be corrected. I even attempted at writing my own xml file for the today screen and it worked just fine.
Bottom line is that there are many better looking and functioning home screens out there just use one of them instead of the built in HTC plugin...or just write your own. I'm using "Twilite (http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=17140&pid=160940&mode=threaded&start=)" and absolutely loving it.

Kudos to everyone out there for contributing to the community and helping to make our phones much better devices. Thank you!