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And while I realize that I only paid $.99 for this app...a little attention would be nice after 3 or 4 days of waiting. I *did* pay for it.

One further comment...when I try to select a label, it tells me "Something went wrong. Please try again." Then it allows me to select a label when I try for a second time. 

Hello. I really really would like this to work. Any help you can offer is appreciated. 

I have this issue on my nexus 7. Rooted, running Cyanogenmod 10. Issue persists with any launcher I use. It will not show any email on load nor update. My Gmail app is configured exactly as directed. I did get the paid version...