Want push email on your iPhone? No problem
Well, kind of. How ’bout your email application checking every 5 minutes instead of the minimum 15 minutes? Want it faster? How about 2 minutes? That’s what we’ve been able to figure out with the help of Arminius2. In this simple step-by-step guide you’ll be on your way to fake push email heaven! That BlackBerry is looking worse and worse… Full instructions with pictures after the jump!
First, you’ll need ssh installed on your iPhone. We use Terminal, but this method will work for anyone using a SFTP client. You want to copy the com.apple.mobilemail.plist to your computer. Be aware that in order for this to work, you will have to have auto-fetch on already and not set on manual. The .plist is located in /var/root/Library/Preferences/
Once the .plist is copied to your computer, you’ll need to use a Property List Editor (.plist) to edit the file.
In the .plist you will see the "AutoFetchInterval" at the top. Simply double-click this value.
Then, just change the value to anything you want. It could be 10 minutes, 8 minutes, 1 minute — you get the idea!
Then all you have to do is replace the existing file on the iPhone with your edited .plist. That’s it! You’re so hip you can feel it!
Quick note: this will remain active on your iPhone and you should experience no issues but, there is a but. If you go into Settings/Mail on the iPhone, it will reset the .plist and your changes will be lost. You can feel free to go into Settings and change anything else, just don’t go into the Mail section or this will be undone. That’s it! Let us know how it works for you. We got ours set to 2 minutes and don’t notice a big drop in battery life, if any!
On Jan 6, 2008 @ 7:15 pm, joec Said:
Most of the time my Iphone receives email faster than my BB curve. Push or Pull, who cares as long as you receive mail..
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On Jan 31, 2008 @ 10:28 pm, chardo Said:
Jason: I actually work in a sales environment where electronic leads are generated from time to time and the first email response gets assigned to it. So in this (admittedly narrow) scenario, it actually makes a difference.
joec: Is this using yahoo push or with the hack described in the above article to check every 1 or 2 minutes?
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On Feb 1, 2008 @ 12:34 pm, Ben Said:
HELP Anyone!!! I dont understand the directions, and really need this hack! Please let me know if anyone out there can help me get this working on my iphone
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On Feb 7, 2008 @ 9:38 am, Vincent Said:
Well use another editor then, ever heard of VI or nano?
People who call macs gay are gay.
I come from the Linux world, discovering that Mac is Linux + so much more!
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On Feb 10, 2008 @ 4:09 pm, Jeff Said:
On Oct 1, 2007 @ 11:51 pm, Chris Said:
I don’t know why you aren’t realizing that in most areas, you wont be able to receive ANY phone calls if you have your iPhone connecting to EDGE constantly…
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I am curious about this. I currently have a Treo on sprint and this happens to me constantly - If i’m on the web or using any sort of push email app, phone calls will rarely interrupt the data stream and come through. Meaning that anyone who calls me finds that it goes straight to voicemail and I don’t receive a missed call notification. If they don’t leave a message the call will be a phantom, I’ll never know it happened at all.
This sucks. I have asked a lot of people if the iPhone separates the voice and data streams well and no one has really known too much about it. I’d like to set my mail to be checked at least every 15 minutes if and when I get an iPhone, but I don’t want to be worrying about this issue.
Anyone have any insight on this?
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On Mar 16, 2008 @ 3:58 am, blueenigma Said:
As I read this post, I am repeatedly baffled by the comments about the 15 minute lag for blackberry BIS sevice. This Simply is Not True!! I have the blackberry 8800 with BIS only (this is my private phone with no corporate exchange server attached) and I receive INSTANT email. while sitting at my desktop, mail often hits my blackberry even before it hits my desktop.while at work surfing the internet, I often come across items of interest that I want to save to my home desktop. I’ll email the item to my home email address, which is associated with both my home desktop and my blackberry. The item reaches my blackberry within one second. No lag. In fact, me and my blackbery toting friend frequently use our email as an instant messenger, writing back and forth (we use PIN too, but switch up invariably since there is no difference in timing). Maybe you guys claiming a 15 minute lag on blackberry BIS simply do not know how to set it up. Or maybe your service provider does not support it. I’m with T mobile, and I simply logged on to MY TMOBILE, added my personal email accounts, waited a few seconds for veification, and I was set.
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On Apr 23, 2008 @ 10:27 pm, Ubeans2001 Said:
well that’s why I keep my brightness all the way down and my sounds turned off, and I keep it on standby if I’m not using it.
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On Jul 14, 2008 @ 4:03 pm, Lin Said:
Blackberry? OMG, that is a lame, there is NO comparison between the goofy teeny button Blackberry and an iphone.
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On Jul 18, 2008 @ 8:26 pm, George P. Said:
haha, that’s hilarious
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On Jul 23, 2008 @ 1:56 pm, Gyty Said:
Wow, you all sound like you need to get laid.
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On Aug 6, 2008 @ 6:21 pm, To The Geek Squad Said:
You all need to get out and play outside, get a life! Check your email right now and see who’s writing you…NO ONE, if it was that important agent 007, they would have called you instead. Get the point?
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