Hello,
I am a new Focus user with ATT and have a couple of questions:
1. Is there a way I can set the size of the email download size ? I would like to limit individual email size to 20KB ( like I was able to in WinMo 6.5)
2. I have 2 email accounts (a) Exchange push email and (b) IMAP Account set to download every 15 mins.
When both 3G and WiFi is On, which connection is actually used? I have Wifi at home and at work. Today I was checking the Data Usage on ATT website and there was 6MB transfer during night (which shouldnt happen, since I am at home and the phone should be using the always-on WiFi, right?)
3. WRT WiFi - When I press the power button to bring the phone out of standby, the Wifi appears to be activating and connecting. Does this mean that when the phone is in StandBy the Wifi is not used for data transfers ?
Thanks in advance.
d2t said:
3. WRT WiFi - When I press the power button to bring the phone out of standby, the Wifi appears to be activating and connecting. Does this mean that when the phone is in StandBy the Wifi is not used for data transfers ?
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I am totally curious about this as well (per my other [Q] post). If WiFi actually turns itself off after X time when the screen is off and all the data is leveraging the 3G, I'm going to be very saddened.
That makes sense, I was wondering why I was using data in the middle of the night while I was on WiFi... hopefully Microsoft fixes that one with the update they are supposedly pushing out "soon."
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After upgrading my SPVM3000 to ROM 2.16.1.3 FRE (Orange), I set up a push email account at 4smartphone and all work fine.
But while Push Email is activated, if I activate WiFi and browse internet with PIE, Wizard freeze as soon as the first page is dowloaded.
If I switch Push Email and Edge connection off in Comm Manager before switching on WiFi, I can browse internet without problem.
Have anybody noticed/resolved this problem ?
Do I have to think I'm the only one with this problem ?
I believe your problem is because push email always uses the GPRS connection regardless of the state of wiFi. When WiFi is activated and the push email heartbeat kicks in, Gprs is brought back up and your WiFi connection is trashed. YMMV on the end results I guess. On mine, PIE can't connect.
This is a bug IMO but I understand the issue. Consquently, you must disable push email in connection manager before enabling WiFi. Fortunately, the two buttons are right next to each other
I'm a little surprise that it's a bug, as nobody speak about it in this great forum.
Problem with disabling push mail is that if you want to not have push mail during the night for exemple, when enabling push mail this is lost and push mail is always on at all hours.
Other thing is, I'm using VJVolubilis to toggle WiFi (via a hard button) and not connection manager.
I suspect more a bad parameter somewhere...
PS : Bad english I know, I'm french. I expect you understand me.
hmmm... your WiFi handler most likely explains your lockup complaint that I don't experience. Believe me, the GPRS downgrade caused by the push email heartbeat is a bug. However, it's very possible that this hasn't been explored much here due to the low number of AKU2 upgraders who also run push email. Also, my experience shows that sometimes you don't even notice that the WiFi connection "downgrades" to GPRS when the heartbeat kicks in again. This because the wifi tower icon is still shown and the only real way to spot it is to run a thruput test like www.2wire.com.
M$ really needs to make the direct push driver WiFi aware, however there may be something to do with the conflicting requirement to leave our Wizards in standby mode during email reception that makes this a difficult feat. Perhaps a better (read "more possible") implementation would be for it to open a seperate hidden GPRS connection that's not tied to your ISP or Work network connection settings.
I didn't want to admit it
I have the same problem. I am running 2.17.7.2 WWE, 2/10/06, 02.07.10, 413.1.03.
Can anyone confirm that they are able to use GPRS/WiFi simultaneously with no issues on any ROM? Preferrably, with Direct Push enabled.
Look here for a possible fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=50223
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Look here for a possible fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=50223
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hi ,
Page not found ????!!!
Prob a silly question, but once the phone goes into standby (screen turns off), I take it the Wi-Fi connection is broken ?
Asking in case of push mails, because I do not get anything when in standby I take it that because Wi-Fi is also down.
Note - Just trying not to use GPRS, 3G when at home.
Another question does anyone know what the Wi-Fi power does, best battery or best performance other then what it says how is it doing that ?
Yep, Wifi is broken when your phone is in standby.
And Pushmail only works with GPRS and not with Wifi as far as I know.
Cheers,
Drifter
thanks.
Jeegnesh,
To my amazement active sync works when your device is in standby and WLAN is enabled.
I use it now on the office and at home to receive my e-mail.
But to get it working properly you will have to disable "when new items arrive".
My device sync's every 5 minutes and notifies me when there is a new message.
Cheers,
Drifter
Hello,
I dont know if this has been brought up. But I dont have a data plan but I would like to have push mail which I know is not possible with Wifi. As far as I know, push mail sends a message to the phone and tells it to connect to server to DL message.
Is there any way to intercept that message and have Wifi turn on to download the message?
Thanks
If you turn on the wifi before launching the email doesn't it use it instead? this does not solve the problem as you mentioned but at least you get the email via wifi...
pushmail and wifi is just a bad idea. pushmail only works properly with an "always on" connection. wifi sucks way too much power and i doubt and device can stay on for more than 6 hours. also wifi it turned off as soon as the device goes into sleep mode to save power
that said, i game across cooked roms in the past that had pushmail enabled on wifi
Hello everyone,
I need some help because my "data connection" turns off by itself on my htc hd. I am on standard EnergyROM 'Genesis' as follows :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524032
Someone have this problem?
Tanks,
Yogui
Yep mine does the same (same rom) but it turns its self back on when its needed.
I believe there is a setting on HDTweak where you can set time period for data connection to remain on or you can disable this time period. Thing is, you wouldn't want it to remain on at all times due to costs depending on your phone tariff charges and also power drain on battery. It would be better if your data connection disabled when not in use and then connected again when required as pointed out by jakari above.
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I believe there is a setting on HDTweak where you can set time period for data connection to remain on or you can disable this time period. Thing is, you wouldn't want it to remain on at all times due to costs depending on your phone tariff charges and also power drain on battery. It would be better if your data connection disabled when not in use and then connected again when required as pointed out by jakari above.
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I have already verify this things on HD tweaks and it's disabled ("6.1 Disconnect After" menu on HD Tweaks). So why it turns off itself? That's the question ...
But thanks for your help
i have the same problem as well. i 've flashed many different roms including the official roms. but that problem still exist. very annoying when u use msn or twitter, it keeps dropping off. anyone please give us some help~~~~~~
Yes, same problem here. I left Yahoo messenger working via Opera on the Wifi and woke to find it had switched overnight to the phone network, with the data connection becoming active all by itself.. I downloaded Nodata which seem to prevent this sort of thing happening.
Its not so critical now as I've signed up for 'unlimited' mobile web access but I would still use the program, if and when I go abroad.
I'm having a problem. My university wifi often requires me to use a browser before I can actually use the internet. The problem is that my email and text messages rely on the internet.
Is there any way to shut down wifi after some minutes if there is no internet connection? I really like my battery life when wifi is on, as opposed to always having 3g on.
Why would text messages rely on Wifi? (assuming you are using SMS through provider). You can turn 3G off and then use the notification power controls to turn wifi off quickly.
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Why would text messages rely on Wifi? (assuming you are using SMS through provider). You can turn 3G off and then use the notification power controls to turn wifi off quickly.
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Well when wifi is on it shuts off 3g and android uses data connection to get emails and MMS. Regular text dont use the data connection I guess. I have noticed I cannot recieve MMS when im on wifi as well. Any wifi
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I'm having a problem. My university wifi often requires me to use a browser before I can actually use the internet. The problem is that my email and text messages rely on the internet.
Is there any way to shut down wifi after some minutes if there is no internet connection? I really like my battery life when wifi is on, as opposed to always having 3g on.
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Not sure about that option, but you sure can shut down Wifi, when the phone goes into stand by.
Settings >> Wireless & Network >> Wifi Settings >> Click on Menu & select Advanced >> Wifi Sleep Policy. Select when Screen turns off.
I would also mention, any type of wifi setup that requires you to login via the browser will not be a good option. As soon as the phone puts wifi to sleep, you logout, so when it wakes up, wifi might be connected, but that doesn't mean you get past the login page. Luckily at my university, there is a special wifi for faculty/staff that doesn't have that page like it does for students/guests.
I use Google voice for everything so my text messages rely on the internet. Disconecting wifi during sleep would solve my problem, but now I'm relying Solely on wifi since I switched to the Samsung tab data only plan, which oddly enough doesn't work on android phones.
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