blackberry useage?

[freakgirl]

So on my virgin account details it list's blackberry useage for every 15 mins or so even though i haven't used it in a few hours looks like this

15-Jul-10 16:41:07 BlackBerry usage £0.00
15-Jul-10 16:27:07 BlackBerry usage £0.00
15-Jul-10 16:12:09 BlackBerry usage £0.00
15-Jul-10 15:57:11 BlackBerry usage £0.00

Is that normal or is some app doing this, the one i have downloaded is twitter but im not signed on to that at the moment

[Graham M]

Do you have your Blackberry setup to check your email?

[dilli-theclaw]

Don't Blackberrys have a push system like iPhones? Maybe it's that.

[freakgirl]

Originally Posted by Graham M

Do you have your Blackberry setup to check your email?

Yeah I set up an email on it, is that refreshing every 15 mins or so looking for new emails?

[Graham M]

Probably, yes

[freakgirl]

Originally Posted by Graham M

Probably, yes

Ok so next question if it's doing that every 15 mins how much of my 25mb email useage is that going to be using?

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by freakgirl

Ok so next question if it's doing that every 15 mins how much of my 25mb email useage is that going to be using?

Surely that depends how big the emails are? - attachments that kind of thing.

[freakgirl]

Originally Posted by Thomas T

Surely that depends how big the emails are? - attachments that kind of thing.

Thing is i haven't recieved any emails yet, but it's still doing something every 15 mins or so

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by freakgirl

Thing is i haven't recieved any emails yet, but it's still doing something every 15 mins or so

It has to connect to see if you have any emails. That's what it'll be doing.

[freakgirl]

Originally Posted by Thomas T

It has to connect to see if you have any emails. That's what it'll be doing.

But if i'm not recieving anything it won't really affect my useage if it does it every 15 mins or so? noone has my email yet lol.

Oh is the email useage 25mb a day or a month cause I read somewhere it was a month but on the virgin site on the fair policy section it said it was a day

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by freakgirl

But if i'm not recieving anything it won't really affect my useage if it does it every 15 mins or so? noone has my email yet lol.

Oh is the email useage 25mb a day or a month cause I read somewhere it was a month but on the virgin site on the fair policy section it said it was a day

It can't receive anything unless it checks to see if there is anything to get, maybe you can send yourself an email to check it's all working ok?

I doubt you're going to go over your limit just by it checking.

BUT

Here's a couple of thoughts. Do you NEED to have your emails within 15 mins? Why not an hour or even two? You could change the setting to check it less often then it would use less data. and save the battery a bit too.

There will be a setting somewhere that will allow it to just download the subject / heading so you can check to see if it's worth downloading the rest of the email. If you do that you can just not download the ones with pictures 'till you can look nn your computer.

You'll have to wait for someone else to give you blackberry specific replies I'm afraid - I've got a HTC Desire so I can't help with that, sorry

edit - it's 25mb per day.

[freakgirl]

Originally Posted by Thomas T

It can't receive anything unless it checks to see if there is anything to get, maybe you can send yourself an email to check it's all working ok?

I doubt you're going to go over your limit just by it checking.

BUT

Here's a couple of thoughts. Do you NEED to have your emails within 15 mins? Why not an hour or even two? You could change the setting to check it less often then it would use less data. and save the battery a bit too.

There will be a setting somewhere that will allow it to just download the subject / heading so you can check to see if it's worth downloading the rest of the email. If you do that you can just not download the ones with pictures 'till you can look nn your computer.

You'll have to wait for someone else to give you blackberry specific replies I'm afraid - I've got a HTC Desire so I can't help with that, sorry

edit - it's 25mb per day.

Yeah i'll change it if I can figure out how to so it only checks every 2 hours or so, the email address is a blackberry one, haven't bothered setting up my hotmail one most of my emails are just from internet sites rather then people

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by freakgirl

Yeah i'll change it if I can figure out how to so it only checks every 2 hours or so, the email address is a blackberry one, haven't bothered setting up my hotmail one most of my emails are just from internet sites rather then people

Let us know how you get on

[freakgirl]

Will do

[Graham M]

Also normally when it checks your emails it'll only download the headers normally so a fairly small amount of text which will barely dent your data plan