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And for God's sake, if you own a Blackberry, you must have Berrybuzz. You can make the LED sing and dance for days on end with multiple reminders going at once using visual/audible and vibe. Thing of freakin beauty.
 
howarmat said:
Unless you have a 3rd party app, BBs LED notification will go off after 15 minutes.
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No third party app -- and no expiring notification after 15 minutes.

Can't tell you the difference -- or the reason why -- but this is simply not an arguable point.
 
filippo said:
I proved! Yes, it is the the action of killing Clock which ceases Gmail notifications. After waiting for 30 minutes to ensure that my Incredible is snoring, I send an email to my Gmail account entitled "are you awake," and 30 seconds later, my Incredible beeps--what a beautiful noise!

Now I can trust my Incredible as a reminder. Thank Mr/Mrs Marcelob for your valuable opinion :)
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Sorry, are you saying that you have to "kill" the Android/Incredible/SenseUI clock in order to make notifications persist?
 
ImWithGoogle said:
Incorrect. My BB Curve indicator times out all often depending on battery life. Therefore, it is designed with the same regard as the Droid indicator.
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Incorrect. My Curve's notification never times out -- regardless of battery condition. Again, no disrespect -- but this is not an arguable point.

AND -- it's important to note that my (former) Incredible's notification light ceased to persist REGARDLESS of the battery charge. It turned off after 5 or 6 minutes with a full charge -- AND -- it turned off even while on the recharger.

Just like the differences between our Curves -- this behavior may not be universal, but it seems to have been documented by a slew of other users and confirmed by HTC and Verizon.

I suppose YMMV.
 
filippo said:
No, don't kill clock then you should have notifications persist--it is true in my case.
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Update: In Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks settings, please don't shut "Enable always-on mobile" down. Otherwise,
you may not get email notifications.
 
filippo said:
Update: In Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks settings, please don't shut "Enable always-on mobile" down. Otherwise,
you may not get email notifications.
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you should still get them, you wont get them until you wake the phone up though. But yeah i have had to tell alot of people to turn that back on after a thread told everyone to turn it OFF for better battery
 
howarmat said:
you should still get them, you wont get them until you wake the phone up though. But yeah i have had to tell alot of people to turn that back on after a thread told everyone to turn it OFF for better battery
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there are probably a whole bunch of people experiencing similar issues. that's what happens when people change settings but don't know the side effects.
 
BzB said:
there are probably a whole bunch of people experiencing similar issues. that's what happens when people change settings but don't know the side effects.
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i know...and whats bad is the OPs dont change their original posts with the new information and many people dont care to actually read the results in the rest of the posts....sigh
 
ajonofreo said:
forgive me for understating the issue; not only is it my opinion that the notification light isn't persistent enough, I also believe it is not visible enough relative to the virtual beacon found on Blackberry; this seemingly minor compromise, for power conservation reasons that apparently don't impact Blackberry to the same extent, clearly will not matter to everyone
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The notification light is only good for showing the charge state. For notifications, IMO, it's useless.
 
filippo said:
Update: In Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks settings, please don't shut "Enable always-on mobile" down. Otherwise,
you may not get email notifications.
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Thnak you, I re-enabled auto sync and wasn't getting gmail notifications while in sleep mode. Checked this
Setting and sure enough it was unchecked. Must have unchecked it a couple weeks ago in an effort to conserve power.
 
FYI- I have found using HTC mail with an exchange account (on an exchange 2010 server) that if I am in wifi only mode, I only get email notifications while the phone is awake. When asleep, nothing until I turn it back on.

When I leave 3g on (even when using Wifi) they come in reliably, even while sleeping.

Not sure if it is my phone, some bad habit I get when turning off 3g, or what, but now I just leave 3g on. Luckily it does not seem to drain my battery too too much- can still get a day of use.
 
jacobsjg said:
FYI- I have found using HTC mail with an exchange account (on an exchange 2010 server) that if I am in wifi only mode, I only get email notifications while the phone is awake. When asleep, nothing until I turn it back on.

When I leave 3g on (even when using Wifi) they come in reliably, even while sleeping.

Not sure if it is my phone, some bad habit I get when turning off 3g, or what, but now I just leave 3g on. Luckily it does not seem to drain my battery too too much- can still get a day of use.
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Isn't 3G left on by default when you enable WiFi? Just curious because I don't receive emails in the gmail app while using WiFi and I don't manually turn off the 3G.
 
Yes. There is a separate toggle switch you can add to your home screens (or access via settings) to turn of 3g. Just having wifi on does not disable 3g. I had been toying with squeezing out more battery life so tried disabling 3g while on wifi, and that is when I ran into the issue with push email not waking up the phone. Like I said, leaving 3g on (regardless of wifi connectivity) has it working great for me now.
 
If you want to have WIFI on and 3g off - and still get notifications...you could try disabling the WIFI sleep (15 minutes by default).

Menu>>Settings>>Wireless & Networks>>WI-Fi settings>>Menu>>Advanced>>Wi-Fi sleep policy (Set it to "Never") and you should receive notifications even when phone is asleep.

Good luck.
 
I'll bet that would fix it, yeah. I'll give it a shot and report back. I never thought to look at menu from within the menu like that, lots of exploration to do with that settings now...

I am assuming that wifi uses less power than 3g, else no benefit to doing things this way...

Thanks for the tip!
 
Nope. It doesn't wake it up. It does seem to be around 15 minutes where push email stops working, but the setting didn't seem to have any effect. Back to 3g always on, and 15 mins->sleep for wifi.
 
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