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push of choice?

just curious what everyone is using for push? i was using mail2web but was seeing serious battery drain when it was on. anyone else seeing this? anyone use something with more success?

Push of choice:
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I'm using mail2web as well, but I've not got it set for push, but scheduled sync.
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Reno, what do u consider battery drain? I also use mail2web push and if I use my phone normally and don't surf for more than 2 hrs a day, the battery lasts the entire day. That's fantastic in my book.
Does your battery not last that long?

well i guess my issue is then that im surfing more throughout the day. that has to be why im seeing more drain.

i just use the messaging app that comes with windows

I don't think your battery drain is dependent on the provider you use for push email. It has more to do with the constant GPRS connection and the data that is transferred. I am not really sure about this, but perhaps the interval that is used to check for new mails is very short, so the phone sends a lot of data? Perhaps this interval is dependent on the provider after all, could it be that mail2web contacts your phone more than other providers do? On the other hand, it only needs to contact your phone when a new mail comes on their servers, so I don't see the need for constantly contacting your phone. the other way around, your phone only needs to contact their exchange server to sync when something changes on your phone in the calendar, tasks, etc. Why would mail2web keep contacting your phone to see if something has changed when the device should be able to send the message to the server that there are changes and a sync is needed?
not a lot of help from me I'm afraid, sorry!

I'm using mail2web as well. I have it set for push ("as items arrive") and the battery life isn't really that much shorter than normal. I just put the phone on the charger after 36 hours of moderate to high use, including 2-3 hours of gaming) and had %12 when I connected it.
Do you keep the clock speed at 200mhz? Are you using wifi or bluetooth excessively? My use was at 200mhz and with wifi and bluetooth disabled.
fwiw, I'm using Summiter's AKU2.3 rom "test2"
I think it's a no-brainer that direct push is going to use extra battery life. Perhaps you could set it to push only during peak times, which would cut down on your use of the GPRS heartbeat.

I'm using both mail2web's Exchange Direct Push and also using VGSMail's IMAP push transport as well. On a typical day I never drop below 70% battery, but I'm not getting that many emails either. The VGSMail transport does have a nice feature where you can customize the heartbeat to the IMAP server between 1 and 20 minutes. I'm guessing that the Direct Push has a hard coded or registry configured heartbeat period. Either way I'm quite happy with the battery life.

Password help

When I go to settings>lock the option where it says "prompt if device unused for" is greyed out and I can't deselect it, please help this is very annoying.
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did you tick the box next to "Prompt if device is unused for"

It's ticked already but it wont let me un-tick it.

I did some searching and this guy has the same problem
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=986936
I also just set up an exchange server.

bump... anyone?

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bump... anyone?
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if you remove the exchange server does the option come back? Im looking over my exchange settings now to see if there is a fix, i dont have the problem though

It is a policy thing that your exchange administrator has set up. I have Goodlink, which is just like exchange sync (it is exchange sync with an exchange server that is behind a firewall, in effect), and I have an unremovable password policy as well. The really annoying thing with my policy is that it is a 30-minute max, so the password screen keeps popping up at inopportune times, like when I am using GPS in the car on a trip that is more than 30 minutes long (I have to type in the password while driving to get back to the GPS screen; sheesh, talk about unsafe at any speed!).
If you have friendly exchange admins, talk to them about it. I work for a big company, and don't even know what continent the admins are in.

i just removed the server source then did a soft reset and it still wont let me un-tick that option, when i first set up the exchange server on my mda it kinda hung for a while when it attempted to connect to the exchange server then it said something about security crap and prompted me to enter a pin. if there's no work around for this i wouldn't be surprised.

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It is a policy thing that your exchange administrator has set up. I have Goodlink, which is just like exchange sync (it is exchange sync with an exchange server that is behind a firewall, in effect), and I have an unremovable password policy as well. The really annoying thing with my policy is that it is a 30-minute max, so the password screen keeps popping up at inopportune times, like when I am using GPS in the car on a trip that is more than 30 minutes long (I have to type in the password while driving to get back to the GPS screen; sheesh, talk about unsafe at any speed!).
If you have friendly exchange admins, talk to them about it. I work for a big company, and don't even know what continent the admins are in.
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30 minutes? wow the max on mine is 24 hours which is still inconvenient cause it still asks me when i reset my phone. But 30 minutes that sucks

I was having this problem and found the following solution:
You have to edit the registry and change the following value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 1023
(DWORD Value) (Base Dec)
Change it to 1

None of my google calendars can be added in the calendar!

Hi,
I'm running Donut Unofficial v1.2.0 + Google Patch (unofficial) on an N21 / DSTL1.
I have a real problem that none of my Google calendars are showing up on the calendar program. When I go to 'my calendars' an click on add, there's nothing in the list for me to add to 'default' which appears to be the non-synced local calendar. I have 4 calendars that I need to sync. I tried making a new one to see if that made any difference - it didn't.
I've tried clearing the calendar data and rebooting as per several forum suggestions. I'm at a blank otherwise - is there some setting in gcal that I'm missing - it's like none of the calendars are being synced with the phone. The sync tick is ticked in the 'data sync' settings screen...
Help!
Thanks in advance
Tom.

Try going to menu-settings-data syncronization-Google and see if it still has your account log in. You may need to fill out the account information again.
Note that you can still be recieving your google e-mail etc and not have it registered to sync for your calander.

Hi,
I don't seem to have an option to re-sign in to the account...
See attached under the data synchronisation settings.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Tom.

How on earth do you have dual sim?
Untick auto sync, manually sync calenders then turn auto sync back on see if that works.

This phone has dual-sims neat huh.
That's what prompted me to move to Android - Sadly, your manual sync idea didn't work - see the pics:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/tjrundy/AndroidPhoneCalendar
Any other thoughts?
Thanks again,
Tom.

Do you have any calendars on the account you are using? Double Check, by going to calendar.google.com.
You have default there which is a sign that your calenders should be/are syncing properly =/.
There is one weird thing though... have a look at my calenders:
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The "Default" Calender is labelled with my googlemail address and it has always been like that, on yours it's simply labelled "default" which seems pretty weird. Maybe someone else can come along and shed some light.
Does everything else sync ok? EG Contacts, Email etc.
Also, mind doing a mini review of your device? where you got it from and how much it was etc? I've always wanted a dual sim device but they all look pretty crappy tbh.

Yeah it's really wierd... everything else syncs and calendars are definitely there...
So you're right, this default calendar is syncing properly. I actually quite liked this device - it's got dual-radios which means that you can take / place calls from two sims - you can also select which sim will provide the internet connection; handy as I live between Germany and the UK, so I hoped to have a decent (cheap) internet connectivity in both places at last.
Sadly this lack of calendar sync is a dealbreaker
I was about to pack this phone back into its box, and flashed WM 6.5 onto the i780 that I'd been using till now, but then I found that the Google sync for windows mobile only syncs one calendar!
There's a review here: http://www.mobileburn.com/youtube_video2.jsp?Id=7753
It's a chinese phone so it's not the world's best quality, but does work (mostly), runs android and does have two phones!

Surely it can't be a problem with the device though.
Like I said, double check and see if you have more than one calendar? Poke around on the settings on the actual google calendar web app ie calender.google.com. You may have just somehow turned all your calenders private or something.

Same problem!
Any good new guys?
I've got the same problem on my dstl1.
All GCalendars aren't public but access from my account is permitted (obviously!). The only difference between my default calendar and others is that non-default's ones are shared with other people.
Thx in advance!
Have a nice WE
Depo

N1 POP3 Email client size limit

Got the new N1 yesterday and found a very serious issue.
I used Hero before. When I set the POP3 email setting, I can limit the download size of each email (e.g. 10k). This is very good, as sometimes I have big attachments, which I will not download to my phone.
However, for N1, when I set the POP3 email a/c, there's no such size limit setting I need to download all emails (with all attachments). This will be a big issue, as I'm not using unlimited data plan.
IS there any app or method to set the email size limit?

black818pro said:
Got the new N1 yesterday and found a very serious issue.
I used Hero before. When I set the POP3 email setting, I can limit the download size of each email (e.g. 10k). This is very good, as sometimes I have big attachments, which I will not download to my phone.
However, for N1, when I set the POP3 email a/c, there's no such size limit setting I need to download all emails (with all attachments). This will be a big issue, as I'm not using unlimited data plan.
IS there any app or method to set the email size limit?
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Did anyone give an answer to this?

A good question, would like to know that too..
perhaps there´s an app for that ?

any solution yet?

Hi guys,
Try out K-9 email client. It might have that option but i'm not sure. They say it's the best but I didn't like it much though :S
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Email size in K-9 or N1 client
All incoming emails (empty, without attachments) are a minimum 0.2MB. This is causing havoc to my data plan. I have compared data usage for K-9 and regular email client and found problem to be the same in both. I haven't found any threads to this effect and do not understand the problem. The same empty email received in GMail uses no more than 0.01MB. Any help would be good.

Froyo e-mail apk?

Anybody know whether the Froyo e-mail APK is likely to work on a rooted-but-otherwise-stock 2.1 Vibrant?
The Samsung-provided mail client is pretty unreliable. Heck, it might be worse than the Google mail client. It tells me I have new e-mails when I don't, and it sometimes fails to download mail from one account or another for hours at a time. I was having zero problems with mail hitting the same accounts running Froyo (CM6) on my G1.
Or -- if nobody knows, if somebody can get their hands on that APK I'll install it and try it.

Try downloading the Nexus One CM6 RC, and extract the desired Mail APK. I can't tell you whether or not it will function properly (and you may need to uninstall the Samsung Mail first), but that's where I'd begin.

have you tried k9 email?

Freedomcaller said:
have you tried k9 email?
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k9 mail is great!! http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/
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CappyQ said:
Try downloading the Nexus One CM6 RC, and extract the desired Mail APK. I can't tell you whether or not it will function properly (and you may need to uninstall the Samsung Mail first), but that's where I'd begin.
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Finally sat down and gave this a shot. Dropping the Nexus Email.apk directly into system/app (after saving the stock apk and odex) didn't work. Moving it to the sdcard and running something like appInstaller didn't work ("problem with image").
For those suggesting K9, I tried it quite awhile back on the G1 and didn't like it. And since it's based on the original Android mail app, and I found THAT to be flaky and unreliable, I can't say I have a lot of hope for it's future value to me. But maybe I'll give it another shot though, Samsung's email app is so bad it's actually causing business issues (e.g. costing me money); I think it might be worse than my 1.x mail clients.

CappyQ said:
Try downloading the Nexus One CM6 RC, and extract the desired Mail APK. I can't tell you whether or not it will function properly (and you may need to uninstall the Samsung Mail first), but that's where I'd begin.
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Even worse issues on my Samsung Captivate and stock froyo mail...with eclair setup to corporate exchange server, I had email and calendar events working great, but now after froyo flash + minor [non-mail] mods, calendar won't sync pretty much at all from my company's outlook server (and yes, I have it setup properly).
Anyone else having froyo + Outlook exchange server problems w/ calendar? Missing my meetings is fun for a while, but it's starting to hurt

Make sure you set the permissions right for the email.apk. I used the gingerbread email.apk on a rooted tmobile 2.1 rom and didn't seem to have any issues. Also make sure you restart after moving it to system/apps and clear cache and settings in the email under manage applications.

Try improved email
Improved Email for Android | AppBrain.com
Worked great for me on 2.1 and still using on 2.2
NO issues.

krackers said:
Try improved email
Improved Email for Android | AppBrain.com
Worked great for me on 2.1 and still using on 2.2
NO issues.
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Are you getting work email (and calender) pushed to your phone from an Exchange server?
Are you running in Vibrant or some other HW?