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Help Whats a good reason to Keep "enable always on mobile data"

Nokia has a similar setting on their phones. When disabled it just takes a moment longer to establish a packet data connection as the phone has to do its session handshake first when an app requests data. When left on the data connection just stays alive at all times thus using more power. It just does what it says.
 
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I got a new one.. Pandora... if you leave your phone idle the music will stop playing... depending on what you're doing this could actually be a good thing with that setting enabled.

I disabled the 'enable always on...' late night and had Pandora running for about 30 minutes earlier with no issues.. I'll try to test some more tomorrow, but I did notice a drastic change in battery life. Then again I'm also not using the phone as much as I did the first day. ;):D
 
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Well I actually get my emails asap. I am using the gmail application, not the HTC mail app. And as far as the widgets, the only widget that is location aware that I have is the clock with the weather icon. I was just a few towns away at a wedding and it was updating the location. So as far as stock apps go, so far so good

I will try to figure this out myself, but just in case, can you walk me through getting email this way? I have been running with mobile off and just turning on once in a while to receive email. Not ideal, so very interested in you way :D.

EDIT: Okay, so I deleted my gmail account from the inc mail app and put my gmail app on my homescreen. I sent a test email but has not come through yet with mobile turned off. If this was the wrong way to do it lmk. She always does lol.
 
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For clarification you are talking about the 4th button on the Power Management Widget right? The one that goes

Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Sync(Not sure what this does exactly, Brightness.

Nope. It's the one under Menu->Settings->Wireless&Networks->Mobile Networks ( 3rd 1 down, "Enable always-on mobile data" )

The sync one is what most things will use to pull data. The always-on mobile data would allow stuff to push data to the phone, without the phone having to ask for it.

(BTW: Adamx Friendstream "should" be able to update without it, as long as you have the sync for it enabled. )
 
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I will try to figure this out myself, but just in case, can you walk me through getting email this way? I have been running with mobile off and just turning on once in a while to receive email. Not ideal, so very interested in you way :D.

EDIT: Okay, so I deleted my gmail account from the inc mail app and put my gmail app on my homescreen. I sent a test email but has not come through yet with mobile turned off. If this was the wrong way to do it lmk. She always does lol.


Thats strange, for me it is coming through. Actually I just payed my verizon bill and as soon as i confirmed the payment I got my email on the phone confirming payment. Sounds like you have it configured correctly...i just us the gmail app, nothing more.
 
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