Is there a way to change the sync interval of gmail? I want to set it as every 10 or 15 min to save battery. Currently, I think it is constantly syncing.
No you cannot change it in the Gmail app. If you want to do timed email retrieval you will have to use a different email app.
Unless you're receiving many emails a minute, scheduled sync won't save battery.
Raymondlikesroot said:
Is there a way to change the sync interval of gmail? I want to set it as every 10 or 15 min to save battery. Currently, I think it is constantly syncing.
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The Gmail app works off of push notifications, not a sync interval, so as soon as you receive an email it'll get pushed to the mobile app in real time
I see. Thanks for all the answers.
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The issue I keep having is when I set up my exchange email account on this phone it syncs my emails just fine for a few hours and then stops syncing. I had it set to push automatically and also used the "every 15 min." setting. Both seem to stop syncing my emails until I delete the account and set it up again. What can the problem be? I have deleted and set back up my account 3 times today just to get my work emails. Any ideas?
My Exchange client is working fine checking every 15 minutes. I haven't tried Push, it's not necessary for me and the drain on the battery seals the deal. However, when I set it to sync my calendar as well, it almost always fails. So I've set it to only sync Messages and I dont' have any trouble.
Never had a problem at all with the HTC client. Works great with my Exchange 2007 setup. (I am the administrator)
how do i set up exchange ?
samven582 said:
how do i set up exchange ?
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Settings - Accounts and Sync - Add Account - Corporate
Does scheduled email check work while on wifi only? I booted up phone without sim, connected to wifi and set to check email every 10 min. I did get 2 emails but no notification and no unread email count. Only when I opened email app, notifications worked and email count appeared.
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You should use Push email really.
Push email does a http request to the server with a long timeout, 30 mins I think. When it timesout it does another. So if you're getting no email, nothing is really going on. When you get an email, the http request is responded to telling your phone it has an email.
If you have it polling every 10 minutes, imagine an hour you get no email. It connects to the server, does all the checking, 6 times an hour.
In the same hour with Push email, your phone does two http requests that timeout.
The amount of data transferred, and the impact on battery, etc, is much worse with polling than Push!
Not a lot of people seem to be aware of that!
chrisw99 said:
You should use Push email really.
Push email does a http request to the server with a long timeout, 30 mins I think. When it timesout it does another. So if you're getting no email, nothing is really going on. When you get an email, the http request is responded to telling your phone it has an email.
If you have it polling every 10 minutes, imagine an hour you get no email. It connects to the server, does all the checking, 6 times an hour.
In the same hour with Push email, your phone does two http requests that timeout.
The amount of data transferred, and the impact on battery, etc, is much worse with polling than Push!
Not a lot of people seem to be aware of that!
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Are you serious about this? I thought PUSH mail will drain battery quicky than does you checking every 5/10mins.
cenwesi said:
Are you serious about this? I thought PUSH mail will drain battery quicky than does you checking every 5/10mins.
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I think it will drain it faster polling every 10 mins. I've got 2 email accounts atm on push and they don't seem to have any negative impact on the battery. In fact when I had my work exchange email account on and set to poll every 30 mins the battery was a lot worse.
Its still doesn`t answer my question - why on iPhone I had unread email count on the MAIL shortcut, but I don`t have one on Sensation? Are there any special settings I need to do? Maybe it doesn`t work just on WiFi?
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Are you serious about this? I thought PUSH mail will drain battery quicky than does you checking every 5/10mins.
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Nope, as long as your phone is connected to the mobile network then the mail server is pinging back to the phone to say "I've got mail for you". You only transfer the data for your mails in total. For the polling method, as well as transfering the mails, you're transferring data every time you poll and there's no mail.
Just googled to see if I could get the definitive answer and it's amazing how many people still say it the wrong way round, "don't use Push it'll drain your battery".
I'm hoping some expert can back me up on this though, so I'll say I'm 99% sure to cover myself..
To the OP, sorry, I was kind of answering your question in a roundabout way - why not try using Push email to see if it works that way? You'll save on battery life as well.
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To the OP, sorry, I was kind of answering your question in a roundabout way - why not try using Push email to see if it works that way? You'll save on battery life as well.
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See this picture, isn`t that MAIL shortcut on desktop PUSH email?
http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/media/tracyandmatts_blog/windowslivewriter/htcsensationpressrelease_6840/htc-sensation_3view_2.jpg
My iPhone used to check email every 15 min, beep and show unread email count on MAIL shortcut.
Can Sensation do the same?
rbs_uk said:
See this picture, isn`t that MAIL shortcut on desktop PUSH email?
http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/media/tracyandmatts_blog/windowslivewriter/htcsensationpressrelease_6840/htc-sensation_3view_2.jpg
My iPhone used to check email every 15 min, beep and show unread email count on MAIL shortcut.
Can Sensation do the same?
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That mail shortcut just fires up the app. Once in the app, press menu key -> more -> Settings -> Send & Receive -> Update Schedule to see if you are on push or a poll.
There's also Notification Settings which says whether to notify you , play a sound, vibrate, etc.
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That mail shortcut just fires up the app. Once in the app, press menu key -> more -> Settings -> Send & Receive -> Update Schedule to see if you are on push or a poll.
There's also Notification Settings which says whether to notify you , play a sound, vibrate, etc.
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I don`t see "poll/push" settings anywhere
Why Sensation created these folders in my gmail? Any idea what settings I need to change?
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Hi there,
I have 6 POP3 email boxes configured to by sync'ed every hour, and also ticked the checkbox to get them synced when i open mail app.
I also use JuiceDefender Ultimate that is set to allow internet connection every 15 mins to sync things up
The problem is that i'm not getting emails every hour automatically, i'm getting them once i open mail app only.
Do you know what i can do to have them coming every hour like i set?
Hi everyone,
i have an question about the sync interval of gmail.
at this moment i'm using gmail so that when there is a new mail i'll be notified, this costs a lot of batterylife thru the day.
i want for example that synch interval will be done every hour?
how will i make this happen????????????
grtz roland
Push notifications
I actually believe that the official gmail application for android doesn't let you configure what you're suggesting because it uses push notifications, which means it doesn't wastes battery "asking" the internet when you have a new e-mail, but the internet tells it and it appears instantly.
The only time option in this application is about how many mails do you want your phone to storage in cache, measured in days. For example, if you type 7, you'll always be able to see much quicklier the mails you received last week.
I have three email accounts using the stock email app, and a gmail account using the gmail app. The three accounts using the stock app are all set to sync manually, and the peak schedule set to off. The stock app still syncs throughout the day, does anyone know how to set it so it will only sync when the app is opened up?
I had the same problem. Only way I could keep it from syncing was to turn sync completely off in the email app's settings. Then turn it back on when I wanted to manually sync.
Same problem with manaul sync of email
Bought my S7 today and have discovered the same thing. Setting sync schedule to manual does not seem to have any effect. If Sync account is on, I get mail; it's if off, I don't. I'd like to set Sync account to on, then request mail when I want it. The pdf manual reads 'To manually retrieve emails, swipe downwards on the screen.' But if Sync account is off, swiping down doesn't retrieve emails, and if Sync account is on, the emails are downloaded before you swipe.
Bug?
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I have three email accounts using the stock email app, and a gmail account using the gmail app. The three accounts using the stock app are all set to sync manually, and the peak schedule set to off. The stock app still syncs throughout the day, does anyone know how to set it so it will only sync when the app is opened up?
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Move your Gmail account to the stock email app and you can set it however you need. It would be easier to have all accounts in one place anyway.
Sir_Eagle said:
I have three email accounts using the stock email app, and a gmail account using the gmail app. The three accounts using the stock app are all set to sync manually, and the peak schedule set to off. The stock app still syncs throughout the day, does anyone know how to set it so it will only sync when the app is opened up?
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Have you tried through Settings > Accounts long press on Google and turn off Automatic Sync in there for G-Mail and any other Google services you don't want to sync automatically.
Then when you open the G-Mail app just pull the screen down to update your messages which will sync manually.
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Move your Gmail account to the stock email app and you can set it however you need. It would be easier to have all accounts in one place anyway.
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I have recently added Gmail to the stock email app.
ag4751 said:
Have you tried through Settings > Accounts long press on Google and turn off Automatic Sync in there for G-Mail and any other Google services you don't want to sync automatically.
Then when you open the G-Mail app just pull the screen down to update your messages which will sync manually.
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If you turn auto sync off, it will nor sync by pulling screen down.
Sir_Eagle said:
If you turn auto sync off, it will nor sync by pulling screen down.
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If you turn it off then when you open your gmail app and slide the screen down you will see the circle icon rotating and any new emails will be loaded into you inbox, I know it works because I use it, if you have no new emails nothing will change.
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I have three email accounts using the stock email app, and a gmail account using the gmail app. The three accounts using the stock app are all set to sync manually, and the peak schedule set to off. The stock app still syncs throughout the day, does anyone know how to set it so it will only sync when the app is opened up?
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Same here. For the gmail account I use the gmail app. For the other two accounts (one is yahoo one is work POP account) i use the S7 stock email app. The stock email is better for me as it allows me to sort by unread and select all. All set on manual but keeps synchronizing. Very annoying...
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Very annoying...
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Yes it is. And there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it.
LGLemay said:
Bought my S7 today and have discovered the same thing. Setting sync schedule to manual does not seem to have any effect. If Sync account is on, I get mail; it's if off, I don't. I'd like to set Sync account to on, then request mail when I want it. The pdf manual reads 'To manually retrieve emails, swipe downwards on the screen.' But if Sync account is off, swiping down doesn't retrieve emails, and if Sync account is on, the emails are downloaded before you swipe.
Bug?
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I have the exact same problem.
I want manual sync (no automatic sync) for my work email after 17:00, but I want to be able to open the app and browse emails offline (WITHOUT the app instantly triggering a sync). This worked in my S5 but has now changed in S7.
Agree that it is a bug!
Simon
Any suggestions??? More bugs - bought S7 -just set up my business email as POP3 (yahoo small business with email on Yahoo server) thru email that comes with S7. Want all my emails from my email acount on phone - several years of them that amount to under 2GB (sometimes need see all conversations from past with client while not hear laptop in home office) and then want to sync every 15 min and have new emails sent to phone - (on laptop use microsoft outlook set up as pop3 to leave on server when download). Also since I am starting new bus but want to see emails from old bus only way to do on phone is Pop3 (if stop paying Yahoo yearly fee will delete emails from its server for that email account). My old Blackberry did this perfectly - downloaded all , then every 15 minutes just downloaded new when synched and could just flick thru them. In prior Samsung S (did not own one) used to have setting in synch to "period of time" to sync - in S7 now asks "how many emails to load"- even if set on TOTAL does not seem to be willing to download all my emails. to the phone. Only loaded three months then went back while phone still on, and only one month shows. Whole purpose of Pop3 is to download ALL emails in an email account. Then when delete an email deletes from phone and server. Any fix for this anyone knows? If this just a limit in the native email app in phone or in Android OS so in all phones? If just this app anyone know an email app for non-exchange and exchange servers that will permit you to download ALL emails in email account set as pop3?
Yes - this sucks - I have used a note3, note4 and the manual sync rmail works great - I tried a note5 and it would sync automatically (even though I set it to only manual sync) I KNOW how to so this (since I did it with the note 3&4. ---- the note 7 also has this problem - WHY didn't samsung fix it? It's ANNOYING to be woken up with email alerts, and it's annoying to have to turn sync on and off. We paid a lot of money for this phone - it should work.... come on Samsung......