Habusho: The nice thing about this app is that you don't have to leave it running. A popup will be shown when you get a new mail. See the first post for screenshots.
What do you mean hacktivated? Jailbreak? Yes it works with jailbroken devices.
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Habusho: The nice thing about this app is that you don't have to leave it running. A popup will be shown when you get a new mail. See the first post for screenshots.
What do you mean hacktivated? Jailbreak? Yes it works with jailbroken devices.
Hacktivate, Jailbroken, sim free. I have mine running on T-Mobile with Google Apps for my domain. If it's not running, how can it notify me of new email? Does it attach to the mail program or something?
Update; Ok, bought the app, Amazing, works better than my yahoo push account. The new mail sound is kind of annoying, any way to change it?
Update2: how can you login with your google apps acoount, that uses your own domain?
Just bought the app, it's nice to finally see that badge go away. Good work man. Now don't spend my $.99 all in one place lol.
Thanks for the purchase! I think the price point is pretty attractive considering the features we have. Help us spread the word - we're almost in the Top 20 on the Ultilities chart.
Thanks for the purchase! I think the price point is pretty attractive considering the features we have. Help us spread the word - we're almost in the Top 20 on the Ultilities chart.
No problem, even though I have the beta I figured I'd support it a little more. I'd say the price is pretty convincing for what you get also.
Even though you can now get push via Google Sync, I still like this app much better. It has louder notifications and I like the pop-ups as well, plus I was having problems when I was testing out the Google Sync method.
Bought the app and it has quickly turned into one of my favorite apps. This is now my main mail app that I use. It's so good it feels like it was written by Google. Everything works great. The only thing I would change is the logo. I would remove "Push" from the logo. (Very minor issue)
Let me know if you need more beta testers. Would be happy to help.
Let me know if you need more beta testers. Would be happy to help.
G Fungg, great app, I have a couple of questions for you. What do you see as the battery hit a person takes in using your app compared to the regular Push service with MS Exchange and others. Also, I'm extremely nervous about giving out our google apps credentials to a third party app like this. It seems to me that you're using your own servers to push the notifications, if so, isn't a higher security risk involved in this?
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Hello guys, regarding battery usage, here is the full explanation. What push does is that it keeps a live network connection with Apple's server 24/7. So using push will have some minor battery impact but still better than the fetch alternative. Fetch connects every 15 mins and wastes a lot of battery. In summary here is the battery usage from most to least:
1) Fetch - connects to network every X min
2) Exchange + Apple Push Notification - main TWO network connection 24/7
3) Exchange - maintain one network connection 24/7
4) Apple Push Notification (i.e. PushGmail) - maintain one network connection 24/7
5) No email account at all on phone - no network connections ever
So there you have it. This answers all your questions. Notice scenario 2, if you are using Google sync + Apple's push notificaiton, you are keeping two network connections alive and wasting battery. This is a key downside to google sync. Chances are you will have some apps that do push notification (e.g. news, IM, etc.) and if you use google sync, you are creating an extra network connection for no reason. Whereas if you use PushGmail, all your push apps will share the same network connection and hence save battery.
If you are asking if turning on push will drain more battery, then yes, but it shouldn't be significant. Let me know if this was helpful. Thanks!
1) Fetch - connects to network every X min
2) Exchange + Apple Push Notification - main TWO network connection 24/7
3) Exchange - maintain one network connection 24/7
4) Apple Push Notification (i.e. PushGmail) - maintain one network connection 24/7
5) No email account at all on phone - no network connections ever
So there you have it. This answers all your questions. Notice scenario 2, if you are using Google sync + Apple's push notificaiton, you are keeping two network connections alive and wasting battery. This is a key downside to google sync. Chances are you will have some apps that do push notification (e.g. news, IM, etc.) and if you use google sync, you are creating an extra network connection for no reason. Whereas if you use PushGmail, all your push apps will share the same network connection and hence save battery.
If you are asking if turning on push will drain more battery, then yes, but it shouldn't be significant. Let me know if this was helpful. Thanks!
Hey,
I have an idea for how you can fix the badge count issue.
Couldn't you have a function in the app seperate from the browser that checks the message count in your gmail? this way everytime you open the app it resets the badge to whatever is happening to your inbox. And everytime thres a notification can't it be added to the existing count?
Purchased this app today because Google Sync has been TERRIBLE the last few days. Not getting my mail at all. This app is fantastic. Getting my mail INSTANTLY.
I do like the suggestion above for the badge count. When closing the app, you can have the app connect to the Gmail RSS feed for that user (no?) and then re-badge the icon with that unread count. Also, on your server side, can you implement something to decrease the badge count if I read messages when not using my phone? I had mail, I read a message on my computer, but the phone badge stayed as it was. This doesn't have to be instant, but would be a nice feature to have. Other than that, this app is perfect and exactly what I was looking for (especially since I love the web interface for Gmail within the app).
Thanks for a great product.
I do like the suggestion above for the badge count. When closing the app, you can have the app connect to the Gmail RSS feed for that user (no?) and then re-badge the icon with that unread count. Also, on your server side, can you implement something to decrease the badge count if I read messages when not using my phone? I had mail, I read a message on my computer, but the phone badge stayed as it was. This doesn't have to be instant, but would be a nice feature to have. Other than that, this app is perfect and exactly what I was looking for (especially since I love the web interface for Gmail within the app).
Thanks for a great product.