IPhone 2.0 doesn't get past 'Checking for mail. . . " after unuse period
On both my original iPhone and my new iPhone 3G -- if the phone is unused for a long period, like overnite, the next time I go to check my POP email accounts, it gets stuck on "Checking for mail" for hours at a time. Eventually, like after 8 hours, it will cough up the email.
However, if I power down, and power back up again, email immediately begins working normally again.
This happens at home on my Airport Extreme wireless network, or out and about on the ATT network.
Same email accounts and setup parameters worked perfectly without this problem on my original iPhone pre-2.0.
Ideas?
This won't help I'm afraid, but you are certainly not alone with this problem. There are 3G and original iPhone users with the same troubles since firmware version 2.0 came out. You can find several examples of similar complaints in threads right here. I have had the troubles too. And turning the phone off and on works, but only temporarily.
Some users said they stopped have trouble after the restored their phone and set it up as a new phone, rather than reloading from backup. I did that last night and my phone is fetching mail on two POP and two IMAP accounts this morning, a good sign. It will be a little while before I'm prepared to say this is a permanent solution, though.
Restoring like this and starting from scratch is a pain and should not be necessary. I lost my Notes, old SMS messages (no problem for me), the pictures on the camera roll, and of course all the settings. Installed web apps are also gone. Contacts, calendar, music, podcasts, and videos all restore from their places on the Mac, and App Store apps restore too. If it makes mail work right, it will be worth it, but I am not sure it is a good idea for everyone.
I filed a report at the Apple feedback site. I hope others do the same. I haven't ever seen much of a sign that Apple itself is helping in the forums, so I don't know what impact these discussions have on their plans.
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