I thought i had it sussed....

alowen · March 17th, 2010, 04:45 PM

Hi all, couple of questions: firstly, how do i get the weather app to update by itself without me refreshing? Oh, and ive gone to settings and set update automaticly.

Secondly: Google mail, how do i get it pushed to my hero? as in real time?

In the settings i can see the "always on mobile" thing, do i need to tick that box to enable both of the above?

Thanks in advance

Al

P.S.

Been reading the forum for a while now, love it.

nx1977 · March 17th, 2010, 05:29 PM

Yup, turn that on.

alowen · March 18th, 2010, 06:24 AM

Thanks for the response.

Ive had it on now for 3 or so hours and nether emails nor weather has updated/appeared. Yet when i go to my email account and manually refresh theres emails there????

Sorry with all the questions, but thanks in advance.

Al

Slug · March 18th, 2010, 06:38 AM

I had issues with Googlemail not updating last week. I poll several other accounts via POP and forward the mail to my handset, and it hadn't refreshed for 6 days. I manually refreshed from the web page and within minutes Googlemail started working again. Perhaps a similar "kick-start" will help you?

alowen · March 18th, 2010, 10:33 AM

Thanks slug, but it hasnt help im afraid. I got my phone through carphone warehouse and used my voda sim in it and it wouldnt send mms to start with. I rectified that by searching the web to get new settings to type in, it now sends mms.

I wonder if the lack of updating of the weather and push of emails is caused by similar settings not catered for with a vanilla device with vodafone?

Al

lekky · March 18th, 2010, 10:45 AM

Probably not if the internet connection works otherwise. I don't suppose you use a task killer do you?

alowen · March 18th, 2010, 02:09 PM

Hi, yeah i use the free taskiller. Should i be putting the gmail and weather apps in the ignore list?

They come up yellow so that means they are caining the battery doesnt it?

Al

alowen · March 18th, 2010, 04:19 PM

Hang on did i just answer my own question (via lekky) ?????????

I'll give it a try, thanks

Al

lekky · March 18th, 2010, 05:38 PM

Hah, thats probably the problem :P

In order to auto-update, a task needs to keep a service open in the background. Most of the time this service will use little if any system resources, only coming into action when it needs to do something, like update a widget. Killing the service means no auto-update.

However, you are safe to kill the gmail app, if you kill this you WILL still get auto notifications of emails. But this doesn't apply to the default mail app, killing that will stop you getting email updates for any email accounts you have set up on it.

If you are using taskiller then yellow does mean it is using resources.

Anyway add the weather (and any other widget you want to auto-update) to your ignore list :P

Let us know if it works out!

alowen · March 19th, 2010, 03:33 AM

Hi, yep it worked for the weather but not my gmail account, do i have to sync it first?

Al

lekky · March 19th, 2010, 09:15 AM

Check the following:

Settings > Data Synchronisation >

Check 'background data'
Check 'auto-sync'
Check 'Google Mail'

Or let us know if they are already ticked.

alowen · March 19th, 2010, 02:59 PM

done all your tips lekky, will try out tonight. Just out of interest, how often does it search for updates/new mail?

Al

lekky · March 19th, 2010, 08:36 PM

the mail should be pushed to your handset as soon as its sent to your email address. Its "push" rather than checking the server at certain intervals, but don't ask me the technical process behind it! Should act like how you get sms.

alowen · March 20th, 2010, 04:53 AM

All working now, thanks guys.

Al