Hi everyone,
I know that google now has C2DM for Push Notifications. I know that the Facebook Android app uses that server now to decrease battery usage. Is there any Twitter app in Android that uses C2DM so that I can decrease my battery usage? I'm also using eBuddy as the IM which also uses C2DM.
Regards and thanks
Nobody knows?
only one
tweet pusher
If facebook uses c2dm then c2dm sucks I rarely get facebook updates from the app. Is there a setting I'm missing?
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Hi guys,
My unlocked unrooted Hero has been fine but since yesterday the HTC mail programme is not updating folders from my gmail account as it should. It is set to check every 10 mins but I can see it's been hours or overnight in some cases and no update has taken place. It manually refreshes ok but anyone know why it would sometimes stop doing it automatically? This is a bit worrying as email is important for work. Oh, and I'm using an always on wi-fi connection not mobile data.
Yeah. Dont kill the mail app with a task manager
I wondered that too once.
Thanks for that - seems to work. Strangely google mail app also opens opens up with the htc mail app. Can i shut that down? What is the relationship between the htc mail and google mail app - does the htc app use google mail?? As far as I can tell its impossible to remove google mail app to simplify things. Any thoughts appreciated!
the google mail app runs all the time as it is a push mail client. That and it'snot open source and is built in to the operating system.
seems a bit of a funny way to do it if you have a google mail account, why not just sign in and use the google mail app to get your gmail...thats what it's there for!
or is this a second gmail account?
rhedgehog said:
the google mail app runs all the time as it is a push mail client. That and it'snot open source and is built in to the operating system.
seems a bit of a funny way to do it if you have a google mail account, why not just sign in and use the google mail app to get your gmail...thats what it's there for!
or is this a second gmail account?
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I know I could do that. However the HTC mail allows me to use the widget and the icon on the front screen shows the number of new emails. I thought as I'd bought a new phone why not take advantage of it but seems like it complicates things. No big deal though and thanks for your input!
Hi everyone, I've got a htc wildfire running froyo (arrfff no root but it's not the thread)
I would like to know if it's possible to activce instant notification in facebook app, because the refresh shows only time to 30mn to 4hours and never, I don't know how I can do
Thank you
I dont believe its currently available for the adroid app yet, even the dev is riping his hair out and he used to write for the apple ipone. Only available way is to change the email address to a gmail account as gmail suports instant push notifications but only for events, messages etc not normal news feed.
Hope that helps...........
Works fine for me...
(Lags a little on mobile data connection)
Thanks NickHu but what's your setting in facebook official app ????
What'll drain more battery, the Samsung e-mail app on push 24/7 (with a single Gmail account), or the Gmail app with sync?
only one way to really find out since every ones phone behaves differently, try each one over two or three days.see how each one goes.
If you use the email app and set sync to just a few hours instead of a few minutes you may find that it uses less juice than gmail (you can also set gmail to sync less often)
If you choose to use one rather than the other don't forget to freeze the other app as they are system apps and will continue to run in background even if they are unconfigured
swatsbiz said:
If you use the email app and set sync to just a few hours instead of a few minutes you may find that it uses less juice than gmail (you can also set gmail to sync less often)
If you choose to use one rather than the other don't forget to freeze the other app as they are system apps and will continue to run in background even if they are unconfigured
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How do you change gmail to sync less often?
Thanks
The drain is not that bad, I always have mine on normal sync and drain is expected but not as bad it it seems using Gmail app.
I use Exchange on the Samsung App and that drains battery as there's a bug in the source code but not sure how that affects POP3/Imap.
It's a smartphone at the end of the day just enjoy it and charge nightly
Email App Error
Hi,
I am facing an error with my email app. Since i upgraed t GB 2.3.6 the app wont mark messages as read as soon as it is read. If i open the gmail app and mark a mail as read, then after a few minutes the email app also marks it as read, else stays as unread. Any help or suggestions appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
I hv S2 rooted with titanium, autostart and watch dog running.
After doing all this still i m not happy with the battery life. it dies by evening with push exchange mail, calls , wifi, sms, gmail. no game play or music. I hv freezed unwanted stuff.
I hv noticed that in task manager my email app shows ram usage of upto 28 mb and cpu @ 15% and it turns red in color. is there something i need to do.
Any more suggestions.
my e-mail is also draining most of my power. going to try and look for a fix later and post on here if i find anything. otherwise i'll just install another e-mail app and see?
EDIT: I was also using "Never" sync mail, contacts, calendar... I've been refreshing it manually and even when I don't refresh it, it is the major cause of battery drain.
If your root you can navigate to system/app and delete email + email widget apks, with the stock samsung email even if you dont use it its still running in the background eating battery.
k9 mail is a very good alternative.
Also check out betterbatterystats its very good for seeing whats draining battery.
fanta182 said:
I hv S2 rooted with titanium, autostart and watch dog running.
After doing all this still i m not happy with the battery life. it dies by evening with push exchange mail, calls , wifi, sms, gmail. no game play or music. I hv freezed unwanted stuff.
I hv noticed that in task manager my email app shows ram usage of upto 28 mb and cpu @ 15% and it turns red in color. is there something i need to do.
Any more suggestions.
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fanta182,
I fixed my problem. K9 didn't work for me because it would not connect to the exchange server for some reason. However this worked:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1287121&highlight=email
[Q]How can you have push email with the Samsung stock / native email app? Not pull at certain time intervals.
Important:
1.In my test push email was much more battery & data friendly that pull (at every 30min for exmaple). If there was only a few emails per day coming in, there was very little awake time from the Email app.
2.I know the Android native Gmail app does push very well, but I don't like it as much, and it doesn't support Yahoo. (get it google doesn't support yahoo )
3. The Samsung native email app has features that I like: it's dark (black), it has a widget, it integrates very well with the rest of the i9300. So don't send me to use other email apps please. We will discuss this separately.
When I had the S2 i9100 it used to be quite simple (although in some isolated cases the push option was missing). For email accounts such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail there wasn't any problem to set it up to push email instead of pull.
Back at that time, Samsung was working with a service they called Social Hub . They integrated every thing inside it: instant messaging (gtalk, yahoo, msn), tweeter, facebook, etc. It was working pretty well.
A member on XDA considers Samsung is spying on us with this service - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2007571
The idea with push was Samsung servers were constantly checking if you had email and only wake up your phone when you really received new email.
Let's say I don't care about Samsung knowing my password right now and I want push email back.
Now with the S3 i9300 and JB, they dropped that project. I saw no trace of Social Hub on the S3.
The bad thins is there is no more push option, only poll at predefined intervals.
There are users who advice on using Exchange to push gmail - thanks to Google because they offer this function for free. I tested it, it works, but it is not battery and data friendly. It keeps the phone awake 5min/8h only for the gmail account, when Samsung Email on S2 used to wake it up for less than a minute per 8h. And it uses much more date, about 10 times as much. I saw other complaints on this forum about Android-Exchange large data consumption.
Other disadvantages are that lack of support for Yahoo (I understand you need to pay to have Exchange support for Yahoo).
This is the Exchange app vs. the Email app:
Right now I'm using the Email app for my yahoo and gmail account with the best settings I found for battery and data vs utility:
-pull email every 1h;
-size to retrieve emails: only headers (back on the S2, pull brought me also some content and the data consumption was not higher)
[Q]How can you have push email with the Samsung stock / native email app? Not pull at certain time intervals.
I found an answer on another topic:
" The native email client does not support IMAP idle. It only offers interval polling. If you're on Exchange, push does work but only with the active sync protocol."
I hope there is a way around it because I don't like Exchange on Android.
I found an interesting post which shows that IMAP IDLE, even if it provides Push email without third party servers, is battery hungry
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27219447&postcount=34.
In the past I have benn trying out AquaMail for my gmail account. Event though it is a very complex and well thought app, I had it to use Imap Idle Push and the battery and data consumption is still high compared to Seven/social hub.
It still consumes about 500KB per night even if there is no email coming into my gmail inbox. In a similar situation, social hub wouldn't have had consumed anything.