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Originally Posted by TurboFool
I'd love to get that kind of battery life. On mine I have to sip off my computer's power throughout the day to make it. I can be at 50% by noon if I don't have it plugged in in the car and charging from my computer while I work. I have it downloading from three IMAP accounts (15, 30, and 60 minutes each) and Exchange push. I run SPB Mobile Shell and SPB Pocket Plus in the background, and that's about it for what's always running. My wife, meanwhile, gets amazing battery life. Maybe I should try changing to manual-only for my e-mail and see how big a difference it makes. Then again, I get my extended battery back today, and that always did much better for me.
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a little off topic here but it's my solution to get better battery life for push email.
Although it's not really push, I have all my email accounts forwarded to my sprintpcs.com email. I then have the sprintpcs account text notification enabled. whenever i get an email from any account...I get a text message from my sprint email, informing me to manually check on the phone. This solution gives me the ability to always know when a new email has arrived, as well as disabling the evdo when i'm done using it. thus...saving battery life.
Only reason i can think of as to why this wouldn't be the best solution for everyone, is if u can't pinpoint by the sender, (which is included in the text message u get from your sprintpcs email account) u don't know exactly which account to check when a new email has arrived. but a minor workaround, would be to jus check them all.
a trick i've been using for years even since i had a flip phone (and i'm now finally deciding to share) that most people probably aren't aware of. but i have seen some using the same method.