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Xpress mail settings - for best battery use ..
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Posted by: sanboy22

can someone explain to me " smart power " option in the Xpress mail settings

I have enable push selected which is basically pushing my e-mail in real time .. but i have noticed the battery is going down very quick . i assume this is because it is " checking " for mail all the time ..

i woudl assume the best way would be just to manually check for mail --- just curious if someone can explain to me SMART power

Posted by: jyalexop2003

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Originally Posted by sanboy22

can someone explain to me " smart power " option in the Xpress mail settings

I have enable push selected which is basically pushing my e-mail in real time .. but i have noticed the battery is going down very quick . i assume this is because it is " checking " for mail all the time ..

i woudl assume the best way would be just to manually check for mail --- just curious if someone can explain to me SMART power

I push my Hotmail every 30minutes, via the Windows Live Mobile app I downloaded a few weeks ago, and still get 3 days out of the battery with normal daily use (30 minutes of voice calls, 10 SMS, maybe 10min internet
to check weather and get traffic maps, 5 minutes of viigo RSS feeds for
stock quotes, and auto push e-mail every 15 min).
You can use the manual send/receive but you will still need to
manually close the cellular data connection after you do this to conserve battery life.

Posted by: RF9

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Originally Posted by sanboy22

The old user guide online used to explain this. I don't see it in there now.

Basically smart power changes the schedule of how often it checks mail based on what time of day it is. 15 min during business hours. 30 min during the evening. And like every 1 or 2 hours at night or something. I don't totally remember. This applies to scheduled checking and not to push.
Push on the other hand sends a 'silent' sms to the phone to tell it to go check mail. If you get a lot of mail it'll use more power. If you get a little mail, it's the most efficient (vs. checking every 15 min.) That SMS triggers xpress mail to go do a mail check.

I recommend trying out Seven mail V7 Beta (Xpress mail is actually Seven mail V6.) The new version is much better and the push is much more efficient with battery life. It doesn't use the sms triggers like V6/Xpress mail. It uses a real TCP/IP data push.
It's 'beta' and totally free and by this point is very stable and works well (over a year in beta now.)
Go to:
http://preview.seven.com/

Make sure you turn off push on xpress mail BEFORE you uninstall it or you might get garbage text messages for a while.

I don't think closing your idle data connection will save much battery life like jyalexop2003 said. If you weren't going to use data for a whole day or something then perhaps. But if you use data on any kind regular basis it won't make a difference, in fact it could use more to disconnect/reconnect regularly.