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GPush (Push for Gmail) is out!

It's working again. At least for me it is.

Based on their twitter page, I'm assuming they'll make it available once again today or tomorrow if all goes well. They've started bringing their servers up one by one and plan on having them all online at about 17.00h today, 11.00h in the east coast.
 
So, I'm still a bit confused about the battery life consequences of this app.

Right now, I just check my mail manually, however, I'm interested in this app. Will my battery life suffer by having push notifications for gmail? If so, is it negligible, dependent on the number of emails I get?

This is a big factor for me as I already wish the battery life wouldn't drain so quickly, and so, don't want to add something that makes it notably worse.
 
tbm248 said:
So, I'm still a bit confused about the battery life consequences of this app.

Right now, I just check my mail manually, however, I'm interested in this app. Will my battery life suffer by having push notifications for gmail? If so, is it negligible, dependent on the number of emails I get?

This is a big factor for me as I already wish the battery life wouldn't drain so quickly, and so, don't want to add something that makes it notably worse.
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I'm sure someone might out-geek me on this, but here is my understanding. There are several terms that get interchanged, so to be clear: Gpush sends data to your phone via the same means as SMS messages, which is via the data stream your phone has with the cell network at all times. My understand is that this uses almost no more power consumption by your phone that when it is powered on and doing "nothing." So Gpush sends a text message to your phone that appears (if you choose) on your screen with the subj and beginning of the email. If you also choose, it will vibrate and/or make a sound. The badge on Gpush supposedly updates automatically reflecting the number of unread emails in your gmail inbox. The big power savings is that you can change your email to check manually (when you open the app) which is a significant power savings if you currently have it check periodically.
 
applehappy said:
I'm sure someone might out-geek me on this, but here is my understanding. There are several terms that get interchanged, so to be clear: Gpush sends data to your phone via the same means as SMS messages, which is via the data stream your phone has with the cell network at all times. My understand is that this uses almost no more power consumption by your phone that when it is powered on and doing "nothing." So Gpush sends a text message to your phone that appears (if you choose) on your screen with the subj and beginning of the email. If you also choose, it will vibrate and/or make a sound. The badge on Gpush supposedly updates automatically reflecting the number of unread emails in your gmail inbox. The big power savings is that you can change your email to check manually (when you open the app) which is a significant power savings if you currently have it check periodically.
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Thanks! Sounds pretty good.

Like I said, right now I check my email manually, but I would like to see notifications for gmail, and decide for myself if I want/need to open the mail app to read the mail.

Just one other question - The GPUSH notifications wouldn't count as an SMS would they? I don't think they would, but just want to make sure since I currently do not have a texting plan.
 
now i get an error that the Mail app can't connect to gmail to retrieve the message after gpush tells me there is new mail. my other gmail account, not tied to gpush, connects to google just fine.
 
maximus96 said:
now i get an error that the Mail app can't connect to gmail to retrieve the message after gpush tells me there is new mail. my other gmail account, not tied to gpush, connects to google just fine.
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Same here. In my Mail application on my mac tells me that there are too many connections or something. Maybe you can't run 3 IMAP gmail sessions at the same time?
 
looks like they still have bugs, i'm not getting anything pushed right now even though my credentials were accepted...
 
I was going to pass on this one but i think it might actually be pretty useful and you can't agrue with .99
 
i think they still have server issues. i only got one out of many emails pushed this morning, and even then, it came way late. hope they fix it soon...
 
hi, just purchased this today. accepted credentials first attempt but not recieved any of my test notifications. was wandering if i had to have my mail settings set up a particular way i.e push on or fetch etc?
 
duvall87 said:
hi, just purchased this today. accepted credentials first attempt but not recieved any of my test notifications. was wandering if i had to have my mail settings set up a particular way i.e push on or fetch etc?
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when it works, it works, there's no need to change anything in the mail settings. however, it seems to be hit or miss for users. it hasn't worked for me yet. it did work last week while they were fixing/upgrading their servers.

according to their tweets, they are only at 0.1% of the max server load so who know what the problem is.
 
It's not pushing for me at all. So far Mail is letting me know I have email and Gpush just sits there. I'm glad it was just .99. I wanted to use it to replace Mail and use the Gmail webpage to access my email. But if this isn't going to work I'll have to go back to Mail. It's a shame they don't have it so if you start the app after you get an email, it goes directly to Gmail for you. I can't image that being difficult to program.
 
try to resubmit credentials two or three times in a row. seem to have fixed it for me. it pushed the last two test emails very fast.
 
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