Seriously Drained Battery w/ Mail Hack

[brn2ski00]

All,

Just a quick heads up, but when I recently performed a hack to check for mail every minute, my battery life went from 3 days to less than a day! So unless you are charging your iPhone every night and not talking on it at all, then I don't recommend simulating "push" email on the iPhone just yet.

The hack can be done by editing the mobilemail.plist file and changing the AutoFetchInterval.

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Side Note: I did find this pretty cool Mail.app signature hack. Its actually really neat when done correctly: http://dfbills.com/display/240

 

[jeffmc]

All,

Just a quick heads up, but when I recently performed a hack to check for mail every minute, my battery life went from 3 days to less than a day!

haha well yeah, what did you think was going to happen?

 

[brn2ski00]

haha well yeah, what did you think was going to happen?

Not sure to be honest. I was really hoping that it wouldn't be so poor, but I was proven otherwise. IMO, this feature needs to be implemented.

 

[stevin]

Honestly... I think that horrible battery life isn't the biggest issue...

Every time you check email it takes something like 10-15 seconds... so basically everybody that calls you gets a 45 second window.. or gets sent to vmail. I don't know how apple plans to implement push, but I doubt they'll be able to make edge blow any less....

On a side note... this obviously wouldn't be the case if you are using wifi.. and i guess it also makes an argument that the release of push style mail fetching may coincide with a 3g iphone