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Kaiser Automatic email retrieval wont turn off

hi gurus
i have a big problem
i live in the uk, and have had my Kaiser for approx a month.
absolutely fantastic.
Only issue is that i need to regularly check my email. so i have set my settings to automatically retrieve email.
It does that superbly. but the problem lies there. i have an unlimited data plan (so called limits me to 2gb), When automatically retrieving my email every 2 hours. the connection remains and does not turn off. thus eating into my allowance and racking up a higggggggggggh bill as going over the 2gb is £1 p/mb
Any chance anyone can help me either with a reg edit or just simple settings to disconnect after checking mail. even after 10mins. or 5 mins.
please help gurus

How is the connection eating in to your allowance by just being on?
Surely it will only eat in to your allowance if it's actually downloading something...

thats what i thought but, im just doouble checking. i thought an active connection regardless of dowloading or surfing is still consuming data... maybe?

I'd assume it isn't.
There is probably some software you can use to monitor the data usage to make sure.
I'm sure somebody can recommend something that does the job.

Theres a bandwidth monitor that comes on the CD with the Kaiser.
And as far as I know it does eat some data just being on (networky type keep alive / config signals).
I have noticed this more when moving between locations (and presumably switching cells needed re-establishing the connections).
Can't say how much per day this uses though.
HIH
Joe

I don't think you are using any data (well maybe the odd byte to keep the connection alive).
Try http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/gprsmonitor/?en - I use this to track my data usage. It works well for me.

Anyway to schedule disconnect 3G/GPRS Data connection?

Hi,
Don't know if anyone else is experiancing this but i have activesync push email active and set to "as items arrive" and my peak times set up. When the end of day peak time comes round the mail stops syncing which is by design and cool but the 3G/GPRS data conection stays active (small icon on the signal bars). I have searched around but found nothing, basically i want to schedule the data connection to disconnect at the end of the day, and actually kill the open 3G connection...
Any ideas...?
I've looked at a few bits of software but currently it seems that all thats on offer is disconnect after x mins of inactivity or just disconnect after x mins, this is not really what im after and also these settings kills the similtanious voice and data connection which i don't want either....
If not i may look at writing this myself....

Try commgr pro @ www.commmgrpro.com. It's a fantastic program.
RK

thanks for the suggestion, had another look around and this one is far the best and does exactly what i want it to do: (active sync been running allday/as items arrive via push email) stopping as per schedule in AS at 18:30 then at 18:35 kill/disconnect the gprs connection using this software via the device - #disconnect command, sweet
http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?skschema/m_skschema.html

Hi _DrG_,
I totally agree with you about skschema . Its a great software that do just what i want, that is save my battery for example the night by deactivate the GSM (3G for Pushmail too).
Just a question: how do you deactivate only DataConnection but not GSM? Do you succeed in doing that? OR do you deactivate GSM so pushamil doesn't work ?
Thanks for your answer.

I'd use the reg file in this post I created earlier
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355742

Some of the more popular Profile Switchers ... like Phone Weaver (and probably PhoneAlarm) can do this.
For example I have a Night profile that turns on at 11:30pm that mutes the alert volume, lowers the phone ringer, dims the screen, and shuts off Push Mail.
At 5:30am the Day profile kicks in and turns everything back on.
From a communications standpoint PhoneWeaver can control Wifi, Bluetooth, Phone Radio, Push email, Default Internet Connection, and the cellular data connection.
check it out.

I also use PhoneWeaver to do this - great little app which also puts my phone onto vibrate during meetings etc.

Media Net Disconnect Program
Hello, I found these two programs to manually connect and disconnect from your network. I love the DataConnector program because it only requires you to launch the program and it takes care of the rest. The DataDisconnect, on the other hand, requires you to launch the program, select the network you want to disconnect, then press disconnect. I am using WisbarAdvanceDesktop2 and would like to be able to write a script that will launch dataconnector, update the weather (or whatever else), and then launch datadisconnect. I am hoping that someone here knows of a hands-off program that only requires the single tap of the execution file to disconnect from the network, or who could hack the datadisconnect program and make it hands-off.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
khoury4
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khoury4 said:
Hello, I found these two programs to manually connect and disconnect from your network. I love the DataConnector program because it only requires you to launch the program and it takes care of the rest. The DataDisconnect, on the other hand, requires you to launch the program, select the network you want to disconnect, then press disconnect. I am using WisbarAdvanceDesktop2 and would like to be able to write a script that will launch dataconnector, update the weather (or whatever else), and then launch datadisconnect. I am hoping that someone here knows of a hands-off program that only requires the single tap of the execution file to disconnect from the network, or who could hack the datadisconnect program and make it hands-off.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
khoury4
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Hi,
maby an app i use it's exactly what you are looking for. With this app you can schedule everything about your connection: it allows you at what time your mobile data/wifi/flight mode must be turned on/off.
The name of the app is connection commander
Hope this help

Diamond Battery 3G question and also GPS

Hi Everyone,
First post here so hopefully you guys can help. Been doing a lot of reading of the site over the last few hours since I got my Diamond - looks great. Am usually very literate in these things but have always tended to be an S60 guy so now breaking into the WM world properly..
Anyway, there are two things I wanna run by you which I'm sure you guys may know..
1. Battery/3G
As we all know, the battery sucks.. There's no denying that. I refuse to switch from 3G to 2G though cos that spoils the object. I have already conceded by turning HSDPA off and am now on normal 3G as it is. One of the things that can't be good for the battery is that it connects to check emails and then stays connected.. Whereas the beauty of the iPhone for example is that if you tell it to poll your imap server every 15 mins, it connects, checks and downloads and the disconnects. It connects again another 15 mins later.
I've set my Diamond to poll every 30 mins in the hope that it would then disconnect once it has downloaded the emails rather than staying connected for hours and hours at a time to the internet even though it's only checking my email server every 30 mins or so.. you follow?
So, I downloaded Advanced Customisation and have turned off the Auto Attach feature.. But what it does is stop the Diamond auto connecting the first time.. but then once it's connected, it stays connected to the internet.
You follow me?
Basically, I want a way for the phone to disconnect from the net when it has checked for messages then reconnect when it's time to check automatically again. Rather than staying connected or me having to switch to a manual check. Is that possible guys? Maybe that will help with the battery.
2. GPS/Battery
Other thing I heard was that if you go into the GPS settings and change the program port from Port 4 to None, then it saves on battery life. Only downside is that you then have to fiddle with the settings before you fire up Tom Tom or Google Maps. Is there any truth that the phone is always looking for GPS satellites even when satnav software is not switched on.
3. ALARM
Oh actually - there is a third question.
Is there a way of having the phone on silent but alarm clock on so that I can sleep knowing I will be woken up by the alarm but NO phone calls. It's a basic thing in Symbian/Blackberry/S40 but seems to be missing on my Diamond?
Thanks all - i have googled and searched through the forums looking for answers to these questions but had no luck.. Hopefully you can post some answers.
Have a good day and thanks in advance
Phil

I'm pretty sure that just because it's connected ie. the E or 3G symbol on the signal strength bar. It doesn't pull extra juice, extra power is only required to transfer data and not to 'maintain' the connection.
if your area has great 3G connectivity, then you could set the phone to 3G only instead of auto, cause that's what usually saps the power, the phone constantly trying to find the best band when it's feels that the signal strength isn't good enough.

philliplavelle said:
3. ALARM
Oh actually - there is a third question.
Is there a way of having the phone on silent but alarm clock on so that I can sleep knowing I will be woken up by the alarm but NO phone calls. It's a basic thing in Symbian/Blackberry/S40 but seems to be missing on my Diamond?
Phil
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you can just put the phone on flight mode. that way no one will bother you with phone calls. (not tried it but i think it will work)

marauderz said:
I'm pretty sure that just because it's connected ie. the E or 3G symbol on the signal strength bar. It doesn't pull extra juice, extra power is only required to transfer data and not to 'maintain' the connection.
if your area has great 3G connectivity, then you could set the phone to 3G only instead of auto, cause that's what usually saps the power, the phone constantly trying to find the best band when it's feels that the signal strength isn't good enough.
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Hi
BTW, to set to 3G only, is it UMTS(800+2100) or UMTS(1700) in the UK?
Cheers

Sorry i'm from MAlaysia so I wouldn't know your settings. But in anycase you can leave that at AUTO. Just force it to UMTS instead of GSM or AUTO

firedup said:
Hi
BTW, to set to 3G only, is it UMTS(800+2100) or UMTS(1700) in the UK?
Cheers
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UMTS in the UK is 2100.
So 900+2100 i suppose

govnah said:
you can just put the phone on flight mode. that way no one will bother you with phone calls. (not tried it but i think it will work)
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This definitely works. I do it every night before going to sleep

philliplavelle said:
Hi Everyone,
First post here so hopefully you guys can help. Been doing a lot of reading of the site over the last few hours since I got my Diamond - looks great. Am usually very literate in these things but have always tended to be an S60 guy so now breaking into the WM world properly..
Anyway, there are two things I wanna run by you which I'm sure you guys may know..
1. Battery/3G
As we all know, the battery sucks.. There's no denying that. I refuse to switch from 3G to 2G though cos that spoils the object. I have already conceded by turning HSDPA off and am now on normal 3G as it is. One of the things that can't be good for the battery is that it connects to check emails and then stays connected.. Whereas the beauty of the iPhone for example is that if you tell it to poll your imap server every 15 mins, it connects, checks and downloads and the disconnects. It connects again another 15 mins later.
I've set my Diamond to poll every 30 mins in the hope that it would then disconnect once it has downloaded the emails rather than staying connected for hours and hours at a time to the internet even though it's only checking my email server every 30 mins or so.. you follow?
So, I downloaded Advanced Customisation and have turned off the Auto Attach feature.. But what it does is stop the Diamond auto connecting the first time.. but then once it's connected, it stays connected to the internet.
You follow me?
Basically, I want a way for the phone to disconnect from the net when it has checked for messages then reconnect when it's time to check automatically again. Rather than staying connected or me having to switch to a manual check. Is that possible guys? Maybe that will help with the battery.
2. GPS/Battery
Other thing I heard was that if you go into the GPS settings and change the program port from Port 4 to None, then it saves on battery life. Only downside is that you then have to fiddle with the settings before you fire up Tom Tom or Google Maps. Is there any truth that the phone is always looking for GPS satellites even when satnav software is not switched on.
3. ALARM
Oh actually - there is a third question.
Is there a way of having the phone on silent but alarm clock on so that I can sleep knowing I will be woken up by the alarm but NO phone calls. It's a basic thing in Symbian/Blackberry/S40 but seems to be missing on my Diamond?
Thanks all - i have googled and searched through the forums looking for answers to these questions but had no luck.. Hopefully you can post some answers.
Have a good day and thanks in advance
Phil
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I think you need to set the auto disconnect drop down in Advanced Config. I've set it to 10 secs and it works for me.

govnah said:
you can just put the phone on flight mode. that way no one will bother you with phone calls. (not tried it but i think it will work)
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There is an easier way... Just turn down the call volume to zero, leave system volume up. This will keep the alarm ringing, but calls won't bother you.
SMS messages however will also still ring. So if you are afraid of being woken up by those, just turn them off in the notifications setting.
Oh yeah, and don't forget to turn up the volume of calls again after you wake up I missed some calls because of that, hehe.

403 Forbidden Error Driving me CRAZY!

I recently flashed my Tilt/Kaiser/TyTnII to the Hyperdragon 3.. Everything worked great, and life was good. Within the last two weeks something happened and I can no longer access any page in the IE browser. My email and google maps still work, but every page I go to says 403 forbidden, you are not authorized to view this page. I tried calling ATT, but they stepped me through a process and got stuck when they asked me to go to Programs>>Tools>> Proxy manager. The problem being the new rom doesnt have a tools menu under programs... Am I missing something? Also all the posts Ive read say to reset my proxy by following that same link...
PLEASE HELP THE ROOKIE! I need my Internet back!!!
Also, I have seen posts of people getting 2-3 days of charge out of there phones??? What am I doing wrong??? Even before the ROM flash I was lucky to get a day, usually only 1/2 to 3/4... I do receive at least 15 emails (usually closer to 40), send roughly 50 texts a day, and probably talk on it somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-5 hours... I use it ALOT for work... so is my battery life reasonable?
Thank you in advance for any help.

Well, as for the forbidden error, I'm as clueless as you. Did you try a hard reset? However, as for the battery question, I use my Tilt a ton to surf the MEdia Net, and I get about a day out of it. If you are using the device for that much stuff, I would think that your battery life is normal. And I hear if you have Push Email enabled, your battery life will be even worse. Hope that helps you.
Dave

I'm lucky if i get a day out of my tilt. I text heavily, recieve about the same amount of emails, talk about average but surf the web extensively! If you want to save battery life then i'd suggest limiting your push peak and off peak hours under the activesync settings and maybe start disabling 3g/hsdpa when not browsing the web.
as for your problem with PIE. Although other apps are accessing the net fine i'd suggest going to start-settings-connections tab on bottom, then connections icon. Once thats open select the advanced tab on the bottom then select networks. Whats selected in the first drop down box? My ISP or Media Net? Whichever it is (i'm using media net) go through the settings and make sure they're right.
another suggestion would be do get the removehiddenproxy.cab and restorehiddenproxy.cab Search for them on this forum. First try removing the hidden proxy, exit completely out of PIE (go to task manager in settings-systems tab on bottom then task manager to see if its still running in the background) and disconnect your data connection (tap on the E, H, or 3G icon on the top and click on disconnect in the bubble that appears). Then open up PIE and try to load a site.
BTW when the rep told you to go to Programs->tools->Proxy Manager, the proxy manager folder is supposed to have the restorehiddenproxy.cab and removehiddenproxy.cab that i've mentioned.
Hope this helps you and gets you closer to your solution.
update: Here are the links for the restore hidden proxy and remove hidden proxy

i have been having the same problem, usually it self resolves. I currently have two Tilts. on mine, when i encounter this error, i click on the large 3G icon in the upper toolbar and disconnect from the network. then i reconnect by navigating to the website i was trying to get to. this normally works on my device...however, on my wife's this procedure did not work. after 45 minutes with AT&T customer service, it was narrowed down to a bad SIM. I swapped SIMs and the problem occurred on my device with her SIM in place and her device worked fine with my SIM. AT&T suggested i get a new SIM.
Hope this helps
Joe

[Q] Battery drain issues - update: solved

After configuring everything to work I have noticed that the battery seems draining at least twice as fast as on WM6.5. My wife's exactly the same phone has retained 3/4 of a battery by this morning from yesterday's night charge, while my Android is almost fully drained.
What could be the problem? What configurations would help to save battery? I remember in WM there is a trick to set idle data connection cutoff time which helps a lot. I can't find anything similar in Android.
I'm running a 36 kernel with "not so free super froyo" ROM on a Bell's HTC Touch CDMA, I have Google account confifured to sync calendar and contacts, and Google Apps email configured through IMAP access in Android's Mail client, set to sync every 15 min.
Is there any way to adjust how often to sync Google contacts and calendar? Any other tips?
Thanks.

Also, is there an easy way to replace battery icon to one with percent indication, or a specific widget to place on the desktop?

I'm running Superfroyo (which has a percent indicator) on a Sprint Touch, and my battery life isn't too hot either although the FAQ here indicates the reads are just estimates based on the heat of the battery. I am keeping an extra charger at work and another in the car, there are cheap OEM ones on ebay.
Two things--
1) if you go to settings->about phone->battery use you can see what is pulling juice since the last recharge.
2) my house has great cell coverage, my work does not. I noticed that that my battery barely budged yesterday at the house after the phone was on but not being used. For the 14 hours it was unplugged but only picked up once or twice, it went down maybe 10% tops. So I am guessing strength of signal is huge, because it drains much faster than that at my work.

OK, I have solved this issue.
Problem: All HTC Touch CDMA (vogue) users know that battery is not its strongest point and active data connection suck the juice quickest. But what I have found (I'm sure I'm not the first here, but I could not find this in the forum) is that Android is different from WM in syncing calendar, contacts and email. In WM6.5 you can set sync and email to check at specific time intervals, after each request the data connection is automatically closed (and this idle time can also be adjusted in registry). In Android we can't set this time interval, because Google sync in Android uses "push" technology by design, so your web email, calendar and contacts sync instantly when changed. That means that the data connection is constantly open and when Google server "ticks" the phone, it gets the email. That's the main reason for the much faster drain.
Solution:
1. I'm now using regular Android Mail client (not Gmail) to retrieve email from Google Apps/Gmail by standard IMAP interface, where you can set how often it checks for email.
2. I have turned off "background data" and "auto sync" check boxes in "accounts and sync settings".
3. I have created a shortcut on the desktop for "sync" settings that allows me in a few clicks to manually sync contacts and calendar. I don't need it synced often. I would prefer an option to sync it automatically every few hours or once a day, but I could not find any means to do so.
That way I still get my email checked every 15 or 30 min (or whatever I prefer) and calendar/contacts are synced manually on demand. Battery drain looks normal now, which means it should be at least enough for a full day of use (like WM).
Another issue:
I did have a couple of spontaneous reboots for no reason. Anybody knows why it can happen? I'm using latest builds of 36 kernel with "not so free super froyo" ROM on a Bell's HTC Touch CDMA.

romandesign said:
OK, I have solved this issue.
Problem: All HTC Touch CDMA (vogue) users know that battery is not its strongest point and active data connection suck the juice quickest. But what I have found (I'm sure I'm not the first here, but I could not find this in the forum) is that Android is different from WM in syncing calendar, contacts and email. In WM6.5 you can set sync and email to check at specific time intervals, after each request the data connection is automatically closed (and this idle time can also be adjusted in registry). In Android we can't set this time interval, because Google sync in Android uses "push" technology by design, so your web email, calendar and contacts sync instantly when changed. That means that the data connection is constantly open and when Google server "ticks" the phone, it gets the email. That's the main reason for the much faster drain.
Solution:
1. I'm now using regular Android Mail client (not Gmail) to retrieve email from Google Apps/Gmail by standard IMAP interface, where you can set how often it checks for email.
2. I have turned off "background data" and "auto sync" check boxes in "accounts and sync settings".
3. I have created a shortcut on the desktop for "sync" settings that allows me in a few clicks to manually sync contacts and calendar. I don't need it synced often. I would prefer an option to sync it automatically every few hours or once a day, but I could not find any means to do so.
That way I still get my email checked every 15 or 30 min (or whatever I prefer) and calendar/contacts are synced manually on demand. Battery drain looks normal now, which means it should be at least enough for a full day of use (like WM).
Another issue:
I did have a couple of spontaneous reboots for no reason. Anybody knows why it can happen? I'm using latest builds of 36 kernel with "not so free super froyo" ROM on a Bell's HTC Touch CDMA.
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Wow very good explanation what configurare in my Vogue if I notice that the battery lasts longer I comment..
The sporadic restarts remember that Android is not 100% stable, everything is a matter of testing between several ROMs and see which is the most stable and best meets your needs. I tried about 10 ROMs android before to decide for which currently I use what is Fresh Froyo which is not perfect but it is pretty stable and fast.
Greetings and again thanks for the information.