How do I retrieve my email account?

For your old email, you need to sign out from here and login with you old email account
1) From your email, click on the blue circle on the right hand top
corner and then click on sign out.
2) Now you should go to the sign in page again
3) Click on "Sign in with a different account"
4) Now put in your old usename and password

To retrieve your old email data, you need to be able to log into the old email. If you can do this, you can have all the info in that old email account "forwarded to a new gmail address...

contact gmal customr service.

Yes, it would appear gmail assigned you a new account.
To Delete the NEW account from Google:

1. Sign in to the NEW account at accounts.google.com.
2. At the top, click Data tools.
3. In the Data Tools box, click Delete products.
4. Click Remove Gmail permanently.

Now, to get into your OLD gmail account through your new smart phone, you first need to delete the NEW gmail account from the phone. I do not know what kind of phone it is, so I suggest you go into the store where you purchased the phone and ask for assistance.
Apparently, incorrect selections were made while attempting to put your OLD gmail account into the phone, and Google assigned you a gmail account based on your name. It is similar to the old account name.
The specifics of your phone's operating system prevent me from knowing how to properly help you. But it's obvious you need to delete the NEW gmail account, install the OLD gmail account, so when you tap the gmail icon, you get what you want. The people who sold you the phone will be able to help you the best.
Sorry I couldn't do more.

Delete or restore Google Account
Try this link to retrieve your gamil account.
Electro help

You can combine multiple Gmail accounts into a single, primary Gmail account by using the POP3 Mail Fetcher application built into Gmail.
The Mail Fetcher enables you to retrieve email from POP3 email accounts, including Gmail, and send mail as if from a different email address all from within your primary Gmail account. Configure your primary account to manage your other Gmail accounts with the Mail Fetcher.

Sign in to the Gmail account that you want to use to manage your Gmail accounts.
Click the "Settings" icon, represented by a gear cog, in the top left and click "Mail Settings."

Click the "Accounts and Import" tab.
Click the "Add POP3 Email Account" button.
Enter the email address of your secondary email account and then click "Next Step."
Enter the password of your secondary email account and then click "Add Account."
Click the radio button beside "Yes, I want to be able to send email as
[SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS]" and then click "Next Step."
Enter the display name for your secondary email address and then click "Next Step."
Click "Send Verification" and then check your secondary email account.
Click the link contained in the verification email to confirm the integration of that account with your primary Gmail account.
All mail sent to your secondary Gmail is now delivered to your primary account, and when responding your secondary Gmail address is displayed in the From section of the email.

Access all your gmail accounts
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-merge-multiple-gmail-addresses-in-one-account-2010-12

Access the Gmail ID page and click on "I can't access my account."
Choose the appropriate selection from the page that loads.
Options include, "I have forgotten my password" and "I have forgotten my user name."
If you select "I forgot user name," then click on "retrieve user name page," which you will see further down on the page.
Enter the alternate e-mail with which you registered the account.
The user name will be sent to that email.
Select "I have forgotten my password" If you know your user name then choose and click on "retrieve password" page.
Enter your user name on the page that comes up and then answer the confidential question that is asked.
Send password reset instructions to an alternate email and access your old Gmail email account.

http://www.gmail.com/

Probably the best and easiest solution is to set up email forwarding from your old account to your new account.
If not, you will need to basically download all your email from your old account and upload it to your new account. This will require some type of desktop email client and quite a bit of setup.

http://lifehacker.com/5521065/how-to-migrate-email-from-one-gmail-account-to-another


If you're not interested in moving your old email then you could just delete the old account.

Hope that helps!

Two suggestions:

1) Retrieve from Google:

Follow the steps on the Google account help page:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46346

If you don't know your account user name, click on "I forgot my username". Then follow the steps outlined.

2) Retrieve from computer:

If you accessed your Gmail account on your computer, the account information (user name and password) may be stored in your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). You can retrieve that using a free software program "GooglePasswordDecryptor", which will display all of the Google/Gmail account information stored in your browsers or other installed programs. You can download the program at:
http://www.securityxploded.com/googlepassworddecryptor.php

I'm not sure if this is of any help
to anyone but these are the steps
I used to set up email on my
Monte. I'm using an old hotmail
account that didn't support IMAP
or SMTP properly.
1.Set Up a GMail account eg.
[email protected]
2.Set GMail to allow IMAP via the
settings link the the top right
hand corner. (under Forwarding
and POP/IMAP)
3.Under accounts and import set
up the send mail as to send mail as
[email protected]. Set this
to default send adress
4.In the same tab under check
mail using pop3 set up the pop3 to
recieve from someone@
hotmail.co.uk
5.Under Email Accounts on the
Monte set up email with the
following charecteristics:
Account Name: Hotmail
SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 465
Secure Connection: SSL
Incoming Server Type: IMAP4
IMAP4 Server: imap.gmail.com
IMAP Port: 993
APOP login: greyed out
Secure Connection: SSL
Download Limit: 500
IMAP4 incoming email: New
Retrieving option: Whole Message
Keep on server: checked
My email adress: someone@
hotmail.co.uk (This is the adress
the phone puts in the from line of
an email)
Username: [email protected]
Password: gmail password
Pop before smtp: greyed out
SMTP auth: checked
Same as POP3/IMAP4: checked
Username: greyed out
Passowrd: greyed out
This should allow you to recieve
new messages from the time you
set up the gmail account on your
phone and to send emails with all
the appearences of coming from
your hotmail account while
actually coming from google's
smtp server. Really do check that
the GMail is set up properly, make
sure it recieves emails adressed
to your hotmail and that it sends
in your hotmail account's name.