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English - Android => General Discussion => Topic started by: sliddington on May 02, 2015, 06:03:46 am
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Hi Kostya,
I love Aquamail, thank you and I hope it financially rewards you for your efforts, you deserve it!
I recently noticed that Aquamail has used 200MB of background data in about a week which alarmed me because there isn't that high a volume of new email coming in. It was after switching to a new phone but it wasn't all at the beginning but mostly over 2-3 days with a linear increase over that period. I can't quite remember but I think I increased the sync frequency around that time from the default.
I reduced the sync frequency in special settings for the 2 exchange mailboxes that I have setup to 2 hours and 15 minutes (from 5 minutes for both) and it has slowed down the data usage so I suspect exchange sync downloads more data than it needs to.
So the question is what does it do for an exchange sync?
I have the exchange accounts set to 100 messages so would not expect more data than 100 headers (or something like that) plus any new messages to download.
I also have calendar sync turned on and there are 2 calendars but they don't change much either.
Thanks,
Simon
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I guess you are using Androide version 5.0.x or 5.1, right?
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Yes 5.0.2 on Sony Xperia Z3... no actually that happened before I updated to 5.
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@mike -- "mobile radio active" is battery stuff, and this is traffic stuff, totally unrelated.
@sliddington -- Exchange (EWS) is a very "verbose" mail protocol.
AquaMail uses compression there, but still... XML based if that means something to you.
And having the app check mail every 5 minutes has its price, even if there are no actual new messages, the app still has to "look in" your account on the server and see if something's changed.
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@Kostya : Okay, understand. Thanks for your rectification. 8)
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Fair enough, I'm a software engineer so get what you are saying and doesn't surprise me Microsoft would make something inefficient ;-)