Re: Auto mail-check even if powered off?

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From: oreo (_at_)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:05:52 -0800

My power timeout is 10 minutes. It takes seconds to download headers
from 10 test messages. 2k headers x 10 = 20k bytes for download over
DSL. The power options don't seem to have an effect.

"Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices]" <e_dadu@nomospam.yahoo.com>
wrote in message news:uxUPS4U9DHA.488@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Steven ,
how long do you have your ppc set to saty on before it powers down?
This
would located under the power options on your device. I'm thinking that
if
it's set too short then maybe the device is powering back down before it
can
finish it's download. I have my ppc set to auto shutoff after 3 minutes
and
this seems to be enough time for it to wake up, connect to the internet
through my bluetooth phone, connect to my vpn here at home and then
collect
my mail. I'm not sure if it will fix the problem you're having but it
may
help. 

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"Steven Frank" <stevenf@spam.catcher.panic.com> wrote in message
news:2004021622284216807%stevenf@spamcatcherpaniccom...
> On 2004-02-16 18:43:32 -0800, "oreo" <@> said:
>
> > I tried it again. The account option is set to connect and check
every 3
> > minutes. Sounds & Notifications has Inbox event set for Play sound
which
> > I confirm with the arrow button, Display message on screen, and
Flash
> > light for 60 minutes.
> >
> > I connect to WLAN, open Inbox, and connect to email server. I
minimize
> > Inbox, and go to Suspend. Device is in the cradle for power, but not
> > connected to USB and not synchronized.
> >
> > I send test messages to the email server and they are downloaded to
the
> > PPC. The WLAN LED on the PPC flashes for 10 seconds as the email is
> > received.
>
> I decided to give this another try.  I set up my Ipaq 4355 just as you
> described.  I ultimately would need this to work with Bluetooth, but
> for comparison purposes, I'll use WLAN like you.  New IMAP account.
> Auto-check every 2 minutes.  Same notification settings.
>
> What seems to happen is: when the time comes for it to check email,
the
> WLAN LED starts flashing, screen does not come on (so far so good).
> But the flashing LED lasts only a few seconds, then stops.  After
> powering it on, I can see that it did indeed download some messages
> while suspended, but not all.  Suspend it again, wait, it downloads
> some more, but still not all.  After several attempts, it finishes
> downloading everything and finally gives me the notification.
>
> What seems to be happening is when it does this half-awake mail check,
> it has a timeout of just a few seconds.  It grabs what it can in that
> interval and then goes back to suspend.  (At least, that's what it
> looks like is happening.)  When I tried it with bluetooth, it did the
> same thing, but this span of time it wakes up for is too short to make
> a successful Bluetooth DUN connection.  It goes back to suspend, and
> the phone says that the bluetooth connection was dropped.
>
> Can this "time window" for mail checks while suspended be increased?
> Why doesn't it keep going until all the mail is collected?  Or am I
> just totally confused?  (Possible!)
>
> Steven
>
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