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Help email? what email?

uchi

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Jun 14, 2010
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since 2.1 has entered my life the phones ability to retrieve email has been crap. thats putting it nicely. im running juice defender like i was with 1.6. but on 1.6 id still get email through out the day. 2.1 isnt quite as happy to check my hotmail and most of the time i have to check it manually and even then sometimes it wont pop up for several hours. its set to check every 15 minutes, ive tried every 5 and even every 30 and sometimes itll get a handful of emails at once, sometimes i can go a few days without checking it and when i finally do itll retieve emails from a few days back. im using the original email software and im a little lost with it. 1.6 was good for this, 2.1 seems to have botched it pretty good. anyone else having these issues? anything i can do to resolve them?
 
since 2.1 has entered my life the phones ability to retrieve email has been crap. thats putting it nicely. im running juice defender like i was with 1.6. but on 1.6 id still get email through out the day. 2.1 isnt quite as happy to check my hotmail and most of the time i have to check it manually and even then sometimes it wont pop up for several hours. its set to check every 15 minutes, ive tried every 5 and even every 30 and sometimes itll get a handful of emails at once, sometimes i can go a few days without checking it and when i finally do itll retieve emails from a few days back. im using the original email software and im a little lost with it. 1.6 was good for this, 2.1 seems to have botched it pretty good. anyone else having these issues? anything i can do to resolve them?

While maybe not much help... I have switched over to K9 mail from the Market.

I find it quite reliable. I do not have hotmail but my son does and it seems to be working ok.
 
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Note, I also run Juice Defender on 2.1

While I use K9 mail... it has a setting the 'allows background sync'. I have this selected.

I do not have any accounts in the stock email app to check for this same setting but it is probably there or something like that. I think this setting will go and check for emails in the background even if the Juice defender is running.

Hope this helps.
 
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