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Posted by: Marc997GT3

I am new to the 9300, I currently have my VZW BB and thats my all in one. I set up a tmobile line and now got my unlocked 9300. Works fine as a phone reception is decent and size is fine. What and how do I get email going and what do I do to retreive it.

Posted by: jpfx

are you asking about push email (a la blackberry) or pop/smtp (conventional) software?

Posted by: Marc997GT3

Either option but was talking POP

Posted by: jpfx

Assuming you have a plan that allows internet access via your phone...
Ignore this if you already have internet access:
Nokia usa can send a text message to a phone which inserts the correct settings automatically into your phone. As tmo don't support 9300's you can probably get away with pretending to be another nokia phone like the nokia 6600 and getting those settings sent to your phone instead.
What you do is go to the nokia usa site here, choose the 6600 as the model and tmo as your provider and it will send your phone an sms which will automatically do the settings for you.
alternatively ask tmo what the settings are. They can give you the generic settings but you will have to find exactly where to put them yourself.
Normal procedure is create a name for your connection settings, insert number, login and password in the relevant places and save. Then choose that connection as the default one for internet, etc.

For email, you can probably get tmo to give you the settings which you will have to fill in or they can send a text control message. Probably best to say you are using a 6600 to avoid 'we don't support blurb...'

Posted by: choco_bunny

a lil late but...
www.seven.com or www.alwaysonmail.com for a mail client that will give u push email. I have a friend using it on his 9300 and it works well...I've used it on series 60, Windows PPC, Windows Mobile and it works like a charm. If u have an unlimited data plan this is a great program. The only real drawback is that battery life may decline as u will be runnin gprs/edge 24/7.
check it out and post back to let others know u like it

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Originally Posted by marc996miami

Either option but was talking POP

Posted by: mch

If your 9300 has 5.22 firmware you can actually use the blackberry connect software with T-mobile's blackberry service.

http://nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,,80370,00.html

Another alternative is profimail which can be set to poll a POP3 or IMAP4 mailbox at fixed intervals. It's not push email, but there isn't going to be a monthly fee in excess of your data plan. $20 from http://www.handango.com/

I tried alwaysonmail and for some reason it rendered my 9300 unstable. Had to get rid of it, but it may work out well for you. A good deal if it works though at US$50/year

Posted by: jpfx

I've tried using profimail to pull mail once an hour on a 9300 and a 6682 (s60) phone. The drain on battery life was incredible. There's a free program called automail for communicator phones which I haven't tried. It schedules the built in mail client to check mail at user specified intervals. It might be less power hungry.

Posted by: manchuia

well I don't think it's the program as it is the phone constantly connecting each hour to the data tower to pull email. I think any email client with that feature will drain at an alarming rate. Just a thought.

Posted by: mch

I wonder about the battery drain.

The BB client and alwaysonmail keep a GPRS/EDGE connection open constantly (as opposed to polling at fixed intervals) and don't seem to compromise battery life too much. However, I do charge my phone daily. I'm in the habit of dropping it in its charging cradle when I go to bed.

I would think that would be more expensive in terms of battery power to keep a connection open constantly, but I guess it depends on exactly how profimail is implemented.

Personally, I'm using the BB client software on my 9300. It seems to work quite well.

Posted by: jpfx

are you sure about the gprs/edge being always on?
I'd hypothesize that the phone receives an alert similar to an SMS and flashes up long enough to receive the data. The difference being the BB server contacts the 'phone' to initiate the transfer.

@manchuia: I agree that the repeated connections is the problem but I also think that some programs use more processing power duing the whole process and contribute too.

Posted by: choco_bunny

the connection does stay open unless of course u get a call...it does NOT transmit data constantly tho...maybe every 12 seconds or so for AlwaysOnMail, depends on the phone i think cause it worked "best" wit the Audiovox smt5600 and nok6670 i had~

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Originally Posted by jpfx

are you sure about the gprs/edge being always on?
I'd hypothesize that the phone receives an alert similar to an SMS and flashes up long enough to receive the data. The difference being the BB server contacts the 'phone' to initiate the transfer.

@manchuia: I agree that the repeated connections is the problem but I also think that some programs use more processing power duing the whole process and contribute too.