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Email is supposed to check every 15 mins, but it doesn't!
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still, it should be checking every 15 minutes regardless. my iphone is on edge about 99% of the time and still checks... well, sometimes.
For me, push email never worked properly from iDay until 1.1.1, I think that's when it started working right. But it seems that it hasn't been working right since 1.1.3. I have had to manually check email for about 3 weeks now. It's really sad because I had grown to love it.
With all the problems that Yahoo seems to be having lately with closing down some services, layoffs, and possible buyouts, I'm thinking I need to start migrating everything to my Gmail account.
I am trying this Data Roaming suggestion to see if that will help.
Edit: About 5 minutes after turning on Data Roaming, I started getting email pushed to the phone without manual check.
With all the problems that Yahoo seems to be having lately with closing down some services, layoffs, and possible buyouts, I'm thinking I need to start migrating everything to my Gmail account.
I am trying this Data Roaming suggestion to see if that will help.
Edit: About 5 minutes after turning on Data Roaming, I started getting email pushed to the phone without manual check.
One thing I found, which may or may not apply to everyone is that it seems to not like my pop3 account. I have my work account which is IMAP, and if that is the only email account I use, it works great. However, if I add my pop account, it doesn't check mail every 15 minutes, nor does it notify me when new mail comes in.
I went through 2 phones before I figured this out. As long as I keep my work IMAP account as the sole account on my phone, I am good to go.
I went through 2 phones before I figured this out. As long as I keep my work IMAP account as the sole account on my phone, I am good to go.
I just got an iPhone and I recently changed the Mail settings to get mail every 15 minutes. Since doing so I noticed that every so often I would hear the phone alert me that I got an email. I don't know if the phone was doing its job every 15 minutes but it was definitely checking for mail on its own.
What I'd like to know is does setting the phone this way use up more battery? Today I noticed that my battery is getting depleted fairly quickly and I'm not really using the phone. The phone is having to check for mail via the EDGE network since I don't have wifi at work. Checking for mail over the EDGE network every 15 minutes must use up more battery than not checking for mail until I open Mail, don't you think?
It's also possible that I have a bad battery and I'm going to bring the phone to the Apple store to have it checked out. My phone has been running a bit warm.
I have been wondering though about what the most battery-efficient settings are that don't detract from the overall iPhone experience. Your thoughts?
What I'd like to know is does setting the phone this way use up more battery? Today I noticed that my battery is getting depleted fairly quickly and I'm not really using the phone. The phone is having to check for mail via the EDGE network since I don't have wifi at work. Checking for mail over the EDGE network every 15 minutes must use up more battery than not checking for mail until I open Mail, don't you think?
It's also possible that I have a bad battery and I'm going to bring the phone to the Apple store to have it checked out. My phone has been running a bit warm.
I have been wondering though about what the most battery-efficient settings are that don't detract from the overall iPhone experience. Your thoughts?
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I'm having this same problem, and I just bought a brand new Iphone last Friday! The mail auto-check has been working just fine all week; in fact, it was working fine this morning. Tonight, however, I became suspicious because I hadn't heard my familiar new email "beep," and I checked my mail on my laptop. I had two new messages that had been received into my Gmail account four hours before I checked them! I had my email set to auto-check every hour, and it had missed four auto-checks!
I don't know what to do. On one hand, I love most things about the Iphone. But on the other hand, little bugs like this seem to crop up at random times. I've already had to reset my phone because of a weird freezing problem that it had a couple of days ago, and now this. What should I do?
I'm having this same problem, and I just bought a brand new Iphone last Friday! The mail auto-check has been working just fine all week; in fact, it was working fine this morning. Tonight, however, I became suspicious because I hadn't heard my familiar new email "beep," and I checked my mail on my laptop. I had two new messages that had been received into my Gmail account four hours before I checked them! I had my email set to auto-check every hour, and it had missed four auto-checks!
I don't know what to do. On one hand, I love most things about the Iphone. But on the other hand, little bugs like this seem to crop up at random times. I've already had to reset my phone because of a weird freezing problem that it had a couple of days ago, and now this. What should I do?
Turns out for myself, I had a bad battery. I brought my refurb iPhone to the Apple Store yesterday and they gave me a replacement (another refurb). This one is working much better. By now my battery would have been down to about 2/3 full, but it's still totally charged.
I did ask the technician about the Mail program on the iPhone. I noticed on my old iPhone that I would read an email on the iPhone and moments later it would appear to be unread. I think if your connection with your email server is weak, especially over the EDGE network, you can experience some odd things in Mail on the iPhone. But I'm not yet ruling out that I simply had a bad iPhone. I'll be keeping an eye on this with the new phone. So far, no problems, though I'm not sure if I want to turn on the auto-check every 15 mins.
The technician also mentioned that the Alarm Clock feature on the iPhone drains the battery, since she noticed I had an alarm set. So if the Alarm Clock can drain the battery, checking mail every 15 mins must be a bigger strain. I think it might be best to wait for Push eMail technology and simply update your mail when you need to by opening Mail yourself. But then maybe my new iPhone's battery can handle the auto-checking better.
I did ask the technician about the Mail program on the iPhone. I noticed on my old iPhone that I would read an email on the iPhone and moments later it would appear to be unread. I think if your connection with your email server is weak, especially over the EDGE network, you can experience some odd things in Mail on the iPhone. But I'm not yet ruling out that I simply had a bad iPhone. I'll be keeping an eye on this with the new phone. So far, no problems, though I'm not sure if I want to turn on the auto-check every 15 mins.
The technician also mentioned that the Alarm Clock feature on the iPhone drains the battery, since she noticed I had an alarm set. So if the Alarm Clock can drain the battery, checking mail every 15 mins must be a bigger strain. I think it might be best to wait for Push eMail technology and simply update your mail when you need to by opening Mail yourself. But then maybe my new iPhone's battery can handle the auto-checking better.
I have a 16gb iPhone on 1.14 and have the same issue with my gmail account via IMAP. Will turn wifi roaming back on and see if it fixed it, but wouldn't that drain the battery faster? Also is the auto check option only for wifi or is it supposed to work on edge too?
Thanks
Chris A
Thanks
Chris A
how do you set up hotmail??? what do you type in for the different settings and all?
my pathetic object oriented programming skills could erect a pop email client along the lines of the one posessed by the iPhone.
It just has to get better, doesnt it?
It just has to get better, doesnt it?
My iPhone at times does check every 15 minutes, but other times I might look at Mail.app and it won't have checked for several hours. I haven't been able to find a pattern, but it might be tied to signal strength, since the lower the signal, the more battery life it takes to establish a connection.
It's a bug. Whether or not it is known (I would hope so) I don't know. It's service independent. It's a Mail bug, simple as that.
A restore works because it requires a hard reboot of the phone, but it's the hard reboot that fixes it, NOT the restore itself.
So yeah, if you want to fix it, hold the Home button and the sleep button together for about 10 seconds. That should shut down the phone. Turn it back on and you should be good.
Well, at least until the condition that causes the bug occurs again, but it's been fine for me for weeks since then.
A restore works because it requires a hard reboot of the phone, but it's the hard reboot that fixes it, NOT the restore itself.
So yeah, if you want to fix it, hold the Home button and the sleep button together for about 10 seconds. That should shut down the phone. Turn it back on and you should be good.
Well, at least until the condition that causes the bug occurs again, but it's been fine for me for weeks since then.
