Enable always on mobile data

[Guest meinnit]

Anyone played around with this option in 2.1? It's found under:

Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks -> Enable always-on mobile data

According to this link it saves battery but no one can work out what the option does!

http://androidforums.com/support-troublesh...obile-data.html

I'm going to test it out for a while and see how it goes. I know for Android 1.5 disabling background data had a SIGNIFICANT effect on battery life. I'm not too happy with 2.1 battery life so far even with background data disabled :)

[Guest gusthy]

Anyone played around with this option in 2.1? It's found under:

Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks -> Enable always-on mobile data

According to this link it saves battery but no one can work out what the option does!

http://androidforums.com/support-troublesh...obile-data.html

I'm going to test it out for a while and see how it goes. I know for Android 1.5 disabling background data had a SIGNIFICANT effect on battery life. I'm not too happy with 2.1 battery life so far even with background data disabled :)

AFAIK it does nothing by itself.

It is just a flag apps can deal vith - it it is set to false, they must not use network data transfer when they are not in the front.

(Typically this is for apps that do over-the-air synchronisation - mailing apps, market, etc.)

Some apps are "well-behaved", like factory Gmail client, some are not, like K-9 mail.

So if you use well-behaved apps, and this flag is false, background apps dont use network, thus sparing with battery.

[Guest meinnit]

I think you are confusing this with Background Data option.

[Guest gusthy]

I think you are confusing this with Background Data option.

Sure, sorry...

[Guest meinnit]

I think that maybe it turns off packet data when not in use for a while?

[Guest irvine]

I think that maybe it turns off packet data when not in use for a while?

Must be something like that. When turned off Barnacle would give me an error saying something like NAT error: Network is down (can't recall exact message). It turns itself back on once you turn on the screen. Pretty annoying when ur on IRC and it kicks you off for no clear reason :D

Checking the option left me with a healthy Barnacle and a happy chap :)