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Old 02-06-2008, 08:33 AM
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Balance between battery life and Email

Right now I have my Touch checking every 2 hours for new email. I would like to reduce this time. What is a good balance between battery life and checking email?
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Old 02-06-2008, 08:38 AM
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I have mine check every 60 minutes (hour) and get excellent battery life. I'm sure others will have different settings.
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:19 AM
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Is there a way to automatically "hang up" the data connection once the email check is done so the connection isn't active all the time?
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:54 AM
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I check mine every 15 minutes and I usually have three bars left in the morning when I plug it into my work computer to sync again.

This also depends upon how many emails you get and how important those emails are. For me, I depend on email while others probably don't as much. However, its a trade-off that you will need to decide.
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Old 02-06-2008, 11:01 AM
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I'm using Outlook OTA sync + 2 pop accounts, all check every 30min.....data goes inactive after checking.....depending on how much phone use, surfing, texting & signal strength, I'm usually down to 50%-70% by the evening.
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Battery life is dependent on way more than just frequency of email syncs, but to answer your question directly, as long as you dont go below the 60 min mark, it should not adversely affect your device. But even when going below that mark, drainage will most likely be marginal. (mine is set to every 5 mins and i get great batt performance) as with all thing ppc though YRMV.
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Old 02-06-2008, 03:04 PM
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Does your email service support exchange activesync? If so it should just update when something is received.
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I would be more concerned by your notidcation type rather than how much. For a few days I was getting alot of emails and I had it check every 10 minutes. Battery would give warning in the evening.

I lost my email service one day and I still had 60-70% that night. started thinking about this and figured where I was loosing power was on the vibrate notify. Switched to 15 minute checks on my primary account and turned off the vibrate for mail. Gee, Battery lasts the whole day now unless I'm in a weak signal home that I visit once a week.
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If you're using Exchange activesync or hotmail theoretically you should use less battery actually having it set to "As Items arrive". This forces the server to push the email when it hits the server instead of your phone querying the server every hour or whatever time you have set. I have my hotmail account setup this way and played with this setting set to check every four hours and noticed no difference in battery life.
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If you're using Exchange activesync or hotmail theoretically you should use less battery actually having it set to "As Items arrive". This forces the server to push the email when it hits the server instead of your phone querying the server every hour or whatever time you have set. I have my hotmail account setup this way and played with this setting set to check every four hours and noticed no difference in battery life.
anyone know what exactly happens when a new email hits the server? How does it get pushed to the ppc? I just like to know how things work, lol
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