I have another account configured with the Gmail settings, and it works perfect fetching emails, so I guess the problem is with Exchange.

Is there another way to Push Mail, Contacts and Calendars without the crappy Exchange? Please Google, male it!

I would probably turn off (GoogleSync/Push) once after I updated all my Conacts and Calandars jsut to save battery life. Use it only once-in-while during changes.

I decided between the spotty performance and the potential battery issues to switch back to fetch. It’s a good thing — and here’s a tip — that instead of deleting the Gmail account I initially added to the iPhone, I just turned it off when I added the Exchange account. Now I’ve just turned off Exchange and turned Gmail back on. Easy enough.

Besides, it dawned on me that I get enough e-mails that I’m not sure I want the notification going off for each one. This way I can just check every 15 minutes to see what’s up.

I have to say that it works, but it is quite a bad service. First of all, if you have a “tilde” in your name like me (Javier González), exchange send the mail like Javier Gonz?lez. It may not be so bad; hawever there is a major bug; when you write a large mail, exchange will tabulate it randomly, so the reader will find out an extremely unpleasant reading…

In my view there is still too much to do, even when this is a great concept for a new service!

1. fully charged my battery. at 4pm disconnected from charger
2. Usage: 3 hours 36 minutes, Standby 23 Hours 42minutes.
3. 20% only left.

Verdict: FAIL !

I really like the push notification pop up from gpush as it let’s me see who the email is from and the subject. This way if it is not important I put my phone back down and can read the email later.

Any insights?

But, I didn’t know you could sync with google calendar. Does it sync both directions? I currently just use iCal, and when I tried setting this up, I don’t think any events from my iPod made it to google calendar. I thought it might be useful to sync iCal and google calendar, but I’m not sure it works like that.

So why would Push affect your battery more than say the app GPush. Does Push Notification use battery even when you don’t have any emails coming in? Since every time I’m notified I have an email I fetch it I can’t understand why this would be any different?

Thanks.

I’ve been using GPush for a month now and it seems like it required less power for that. Do you think there’s any difference between push notifications and the Gmail push services in terms of power consumption?

Thanks!

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EVEN MANUALLY GOING INTO MAIL APP DOESN’T FORCE A FETCH of the new email. this is totally unacceptable. I guess google is back in beta :/ I’ll just keep using my 15 minute fetch thank you very much.

Contacts and calenders both synced and work fine though…

maybe you set this copy option in your GMail control panel on the web?

How is this different from setting up the address to imap gmail. It updates my inbox fine, havw been using it it for 2 years

It will tell you within a minute or two that mail has arrived.

This way you will not miss that notification from the Ex President of Nigeria telling you about the 850 Million he wants to share with you.

Other than timeliness, it adds nothing. Its a cute toy for 98% of the people who wanted it (including me) but it wastes more battery than fetch on a 30 minute cycle.

Then use Pop for your Touch, since it does not always have a connection. It will download all the mail when it does connect.

It seems to me that the swirly at the top of the screen keeps running directly proportional to the number of Mail days to sync setting you used.

For very busy mail account, where you have lots of mail sitting around, setting this too high seems to keep the swirly on forever.

Gmail never did this before. Anyone else seeing this?

Well, no, Nuevasync is not perfect. I used it for a while, but no more. They have more outages than Gmail.

Plus, you have entrusted your password to a third party to store on their servers, and log into your account. Always a bad idea.

Plus they take up one of your login count. (You can only have something like 10 stations logged in at once, overkill for most of us, but our Illustrious Leader Herr Rene managed to get oversubscribed and didn’t even realize it.

Their instructions also do not seem as clear as before.

Instructions?

If you had Contacts/Calendars syncing, all you have to do is go to that account on the phone and Move the Mail slider to On just like the Contacts/Calendars.

You’re done.

1. That thread I linked to is a month old, so I’m not aware of any acknowledgement Google gave of load issues today.
2. Like Gregory Foster said, it seems to work off and on. For a while it seemed pretty quick, but my last two tests took 9 minutes and 5 minutes before I dinged.

Regardless, hopefully it settles down in the next couple days and weeks as people aren’t bogging down the server getting themselves setup.

It could be the way it was supposed to be done and that’s what it’s acting crazy. I’m a putz, I get it.

Google does seem to have confirmed a load issue, though…

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3ee4959c6b22532e&hl=en

Here’s a thread for those having similar problems: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=7c618ffbba5650ca&hl=en

Hoping a little time will fix it, but its relatively inconvenient. Don’t really want to re-add my GMail account the old fashioned way for it to work, but maybe I need to give it a couple days to settle down.

I also go a message saying “This Message has not been downloaded from the server.” and I can’t see the body of the email.

Wait, really? So its kind of useless for those of us with iPod touches. I was hoping that I could set it up to push mail to my phone so it would magically get mail whenever I had wifi (doing the check every 15 minutes thing drains the battery when it gets blocked by not having wifi).

But anyway, how do you set it up? is it in Mail settings or gmail settings or what?

The email push would give me badge, sound and optional vibration, but I’d only know there is mail, not what mail there’d be.

Although I appreciate the fact that this might be useless, or next to it, for people who get a huge quantity of email, it suits my needs quite well.

Then, personally, I’ll turn off push email and keep to push notification (fetching email manually when I know something interesting has turned up in the inbox).

That doesn’t seem to make much sense. Your mail application will get a badge, and optionally vibrate. Why would you also need a pop up about mail?

If you’d like to enable Google Sync for your domain, follow these steps: The google help des In the Service settings section of your Dashboard, click Mobile. Select the checkbox next to Enable Google Sync. Click Save changes. This feature is currently available only in the Next Generation version of the control panel.

I am not seeing any of this when I look at my gmail inbox. Closest thing Is ee is “settings,” and nothing in there shows anything mobile. What am I missing?

Seven message came thru fine, and now the account is saying it can’t connect to the server anymore, and the swirly thing is running constantly.

Well it was fun while it lasted. A few bugs to shake out I think.

Push Email just pushes the email to your phone, rather than your phone fetching. Push Notifications are the popups you refer to

However, it gets a little murky when you are talking about an Imap mail account.

Most people run google as Imap, (you can choose, but there’s little reason to use pop).

With imap, the message is not actually pushed to your phone, only the notification of the message, and maybe headers and subject.

The actual mail is not fetched till you tap on that message.

But no pop-ups in either case, nor with any other mail. I suspect this would be a little unmanageable given the volume of email most people get.

Then, personally, I’ll turn off push email and keep to push notification (fetching email manually when I know something interesting has turned up in the inbox).

Push Email and Push Notifications are two different things. Push Email just pushes the email to your phone, rather than your phone fetching. Push Notifications are the popups you refer to

Further you get to choose which folders to push so you can filter the unimportant stuff aside with your google control panel.

With google handling imap quite well, it’s really only the notifications that are being pushed so this should not lead to massive battery drain. (Since the actual mail message itself is only fetched on request).

It’s fast too.