"phone offline" and other syncing issues

Question

There's been several threads on the "phone offline" issue across many of the big Pre forums, but we're really not heard anything constructive from Palm on the matter...  It's basically leaving me unable to do email and a number of other features that are pretty much the main reason for me buying the phone.  I'm really feeling screwed by this considering I pretty much left Verizon for Sprint to get this since VZW wouldn't provision the pre on their service.
Whenever I enable Pop email to get my account with several thousand emails, my phone becomes instantly unstable, generating the "phone offline issues" every couple of minutes.  I also have my google calendar not syncing as this too seems to provoke these errors, even though I have NO scheduled items in there.  I also cannot get my exchange 2007 email like everyone else having issues, but mine hasn't even worked on 1.1 or 1.2 versions of webos.
Seriously, how long are we going to wait for a fix to these major issues?  This is exactly why I gave up on WinMo phones.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

Answer 1

I'll bet it is the size/volume of email in your inbox its trying to sync - not sure if this got fixed/better with 1.3.1.  One of the threads about google calendar causing this radio reboot issue indicated there was a memory leak in their java stack that was causing the radio to go offline, which got me thinking about my email.  As it turns out I had 20k emails or so in my inbox (I leave everything on the server and keep local filters to sort it out post pop), so the pre seemed to have issues dealing with this large of volume when pop'ing.  Now logic (to me at least) would dictate that if you tell it to only keep a week of email, it wouldn't matter as it would the email count, date, and index, and only grab the last weeks worth, meaning it shouldn't poop itself when trying, but it still does. Yours doing the same would indicate probably the same - excessive email count in inbox, at least beyond what the stupid pre seems capable of dealing with.
I would recommend as a short-term fix moving the bulk of your email into a local pst or just out of the inbox that the pre doesn't try to fetch a ton of email at once, at least then it's useable until they fix their buggy email app.  I wouldn't hold my breath and start working around it now - palm doesn't seem to concerened with fixing these issues in an expedient fashion.