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[lasvegasoutlaw]

For some reason email is not being pushed to my iphone 3G from my Yahoo account. This has been going on for abut 3 weeks. I don't have mobileme. I only get email notifications when I go into the mail app. If I turn 3G off though, push starts working again. I've tried deleting the account and re-adding it, but nothing works except turning off 3G. Anyone else experiencing this?

[charlie]

Yahoo has been hit or miss for me. Most of the time it works fine. But every couple of weeks or so it just stops. Deleting and re adding the account works sometimes, but not always. It will just start working again after a day or two. Sorry I don't have an answer.

[lasvegasoutlaw]

Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder if it's a problem with 3G. Since I turned 3G off 2 days ago, push works flawlessly. When I turn it on, it instantly stops pushing.

[Jeremy Sikora]

This has been going on since the first iPhone with Yahoo. Get what you pay for and the Yahoo "push" is not very reliable. There are a few older threads about the same topic. It's just something Yahoo users will have to deal with.

[charlie]

Originally Posted by lasvegasoutlaw

Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder if it's a problem with 3G. Since I turned 3G off 2 days ago, push works flawlessly. When I turn it on, it instantly stops pushing.

No, it's not 3G. My 3G is always off because there is no coverage where I live. I think it works well considering it's free. I've never really cared all that much about instant email anyway.

[lasvegasoutlaw]

Yeah it works well with 3G off, but in my case it doesn't work at all with 3G on. That just leads me to believe it's a 3G problem. I know Yahoo is free, but the phone certainly wasn't. I purchased the phone under the impression that Yahoo Push was reliable. And it was reliable up until about 3 weeks ago, and is reliable still with 3G off.

[Jeremy Sikora]

Originally Posted by lasvegasoutlaw

Yeah it works well with 3G off, but in my case it doesn't work at all with 3G on. That just leads me to believe it's a 3G problem. I know Yahoo is free, but the phone certainly wasn't. I purchased the phone under the impression that Yahoo Push was reliable. And it was reliable up until about 3 weeks ago, and is reliable still with 3G off.

Can you browse the net with 3g? If you can, it is not a data issue. Also, try deleting your Yahoo account and then put it back on the phone. If that still does not work give it a day or two and see if it clears up.

[lasvegasoutlaw]

Yeah I did the delete and re-add thing. That didn't help. I can browse just fine with 3G on. The only thing that works for me to get push to work is turning 3G off. As soon as I do that, my test emails go through almost instantly.

[stonefree97]

For me I average 5-10 emails a day (17 yr old don't get much important stuff)...and only 1-2 of those gets pushed to my phone. This only happens when im in the vicinity of my house's wireless. Whenever I'm at school or anywhere else I never receive my email even though i know im getting it at home. I don't care that much as of now...

i just hope when i go to college and start using my college's email A LOT MORE that it does not do this otherwise i might be looking at a different phone


oh yeah it's been doing this since i've got the phone at the end of the summer. nothing's fixed it yet.

[Jeremy Sikora]

Originally Posted by stonefree97

For me I average 5-10 emails a day (17 yr old don't get much important stuff)...and only 1-2 of those gets pushed to my phone. This only happens when im in the vicinity of my house's wireless. Whenever I'm at school or anywhere else I never receive my email even though i know im getting it at home. I don't care that much as of now...

i just hope when i go to college and start using my college's email A LOT MORE that it does not do this otherwise i might be looking at a different phone


oh yeah it's been doing this since i've got the phone at the end of the summer. nothing's fixed it yet.

More than likely it's a Yahoo issue like I mentioned above. Keep in mind the only phone that pushes Yahoo is the iPhone. If you need more reliable internet in the future look into MobileMe or a Exchange account.