[rainfreak]

Originally Posted by the7thson

Thank you! What does faster tower checks really mean? Quicker polling from the phone for a tower? Won't this be a battery drain? I'm not sure how this will help since the phone actually lights up pretty quickly on an incoming call, it's just the actual ringer that takes a while after that to start ringing. I.e. the phone already knows there's an incoming call, it's just not actually sounding the ringer yet.

I'm not knocking your advice in any way, just trying to understand what this is will actually do.

Thanks.

Yes, it polls the towers more often. At the default setting of 2 your phone will poll about every 2.5 seconds. At 0 it will poll about every 1 second.

I have never noticed any noticable change in battery longevity when doing this now or in the past (on both of my HTC Touchs and also my Mogul).

Technically, I would think it would help you from missing calls because you are registering the call quicker, so therefore the phone will ring quicker, and therefore you miss less calls.