Battery Life difference with Push email

makryger · #1 (**permalink**) 05-17-2010, 01:10 PM

I just thought I'd relay my experiences with battery life. Up until now, I had Windows Live Hotmail set to deliver emails immediately, "As items arrive". I would unplug my phone in the morning at about 7am with 100%, and it would be down to 15% or less by 9pm. (Worse if I actually did some heavy usage). I recently decided that I didn't really need to get emails instantly. I instead set it to once every 15 minutes. Now, at the end of the day, my battery still has about 50-60% of its charge!

So moral of the story- push email is a HUGE drain on battery life.

juandelahoz · #2 (**permalink**) 05-17-2010, 01:22 PM

Yeah you can try this too!

fwaits · #3 (**permalink**) 05-17-2010, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by makryger

So moral of the story- push email is a HUGE drain on battery life.

Yes, yes it is. One of the biggest battery savers is to do what you described.

cbreze · #4 (**permalink**) 05-18-2010, 02:45 PM

Thats a big difference. I had mine constantly synced to my exchange all day long, off at nite and never went below 60%. I did tether some tho which recharged it a bit. just my .02

fluidj · #5 (**permalink**) 05-19-2010, 07:31 AM

I never tried this because I thought I just HAD to have push email...just because I could.
But I decided to give it a go yesterday and BOY!!!You are right!
My battery life was bananas yesterday! just before bed time I was still at 70%!

**Getitnowmarketing** · #6 (**permalink**) 05-22-2010, 11:53 PM

The best way to do it is to foward your emails to exchange which pushes them. With exchange on full push I get far better battery life 2 to 3x better than with 2 emails account set on 30 minute and 60 min pulls. Exchange uses heartbeat packets where push hotmail which works different eats your battery alive.

alexbric · #7 (**permalink**) 06-21-2010, 01:02 PM

thanks for the APP great saver for me