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Hamster said:
I'm having an issue with K9 mail at the moment. I've got 4 email accounts (on my rooted Desire Z with CM7) set to push and each with it's own notification tone. (3 gmail and a work email address, all IMAP)

When my phone has been idle for a little while, the notifications stop and only start again once I've activated the phone. I know it must be a K9 setting issue as it never happened before I reset the phone; I always got the alerts within a few seconds of the incoming email, irrespective of whether the phone was active at the time or not.

Any ideas folks?
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Not a direct answer for you, but I would consider piping them all through Gmail if I were you. Maybe they've got better, but push mode on Gmail used to halve my battery life.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Not a direct answer for you, but I would consider piping them all through Gmail if I were you. Maybe they've got better, but push mode on Gmail used to halve my battery life.
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Thanks. Excuse my ignorance but what do you mean by 'piping' through gmail? At the moment I'm just using K-9 and I don't have the gmail app installed.
 
Go to Gmail in your browser, find settings and click the tab for Accounts and Import. Set Gmail up with you Pop3 details and it will bring your mail in to you gmail account. You can use filters to put certain labels on them, or drop them into certain folders to stay organised.

The one draw back is, it's not real push like an actual gmail account, as it will only check the pop3 every 30 mins to an hour I think, so it may not suit your needs due to that. Once Gmail has it, it will push it, but it wont be real time push from your Pop3, if that makes sense.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Go to Gmail in your browser, find settings and click the tab for Accounts and Import. Set Gmail up with you Pop3 details and it will bring your mail in to you gmail account. You can use filters to put certain labels on them, or drop them into certain folders to stay organised.

The one draw back is, it's not real push like an actual gmail account, as it will only check the pop3 every 30 mins to an hour I think, so it may not suit your needs due to that. Once Gmail has it, it will push it, but it wont be real time push from your Pop3, if that makes sense.
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Thanks. At the moment, my MS Outlook at home is set up with the same email accounts and using POP3. If I started using POP3 on the phone, would this not mean that emails would only appear on either the PC or the phone, but not both?
 
stoke1863 said:
I just tried using Splashtop on my android Touchpad to play diablo, expecting the worse but it is surprisingly playable!

It would be hard on harder difficulty because you are relying on using the action bar but it works! If you has a Asus Transformer with the keyboard dock it would work perfect. Harldy any lag, text can be rick to read but it does work nice with that style of game

Ill upload a video tomorrow
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Hamster said:
Thanks. At the moment, my MS Outlook at home is set up with the same email accounts and using POP3. If I started using POP3 on the phone, would this not mean that emails would only appear on either the PC or the phone, but not both?
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Well, if you were going to do it this way, I guess the best thing would be to then ditch Outlook and use Gmail on the PC too, which is of course identical to what you have on your phone.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Well, if you were going to do it this way, I guess the best thing would be to then ditch Outlook and use Gmail on the PC too, which is of course identical to what you have on your phone.
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Thanks. Outlook is something I would find it very difficult to live without! I flashed a new rom onto my phone last night and, so far, everything seems to be working ok. More than likely a settings problem somewhere.
 
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