bennyvdMy first tutorial for iPhonefreakz. Today we’re going to show you how to set the interval of automatic server checking from 15 minutes to 1 minute!
Requirements:
– jailbroken iPhone :)
– IMAP account (Google’s the best)
– OpenSSH installed on your phone
– WinSCP installed on your computer
So, let’s begin:
– Connect your iPhone to your access point via Wi-Fi
– make sure your computer is in the same network
– Open WinSCP and connect it to your iPhone
– to do so type in the IP of your iPhone within your network, starting with 168.192…, login: root and your password (alpine or dutty)
– after clicking Login you have to wait about 30 seconds if you use OpenSSH for the first time
– if this message appears just relax and keep waiting, it’s all fine! :)
– finally you should have access to your iPhones’ files
– if you are running 1.1.3 or newer copy this file to your computer:
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mobilemail.plist
– if your iPhone is running an older version you should copy this file:
/var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mobilemail.plist
– Now switch over to this nice webpage >>click<<
– select the com.apple.mobilemail.plist file you’ve just copied to your computer, hit Convert on the webpage and finally save it back to your computer
– open the converted file with WordPad, Editor or just something else :)
– do you see the AutofetchInterval Key? Just change 15 to another integer like 1(=1 minute)
– save the file and send it to your iPhone via WinSCP
– Congratulation! You’re iPhone will now check your email every minute!
Note! If you go into Settings/Mail/Auto-Check in your iPhone, your iPhone willreset the interval to 15 minutes and you have to redo everything!
Leave a comment if you like this tutorial!
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\\ tags: automatic server, Google, imap, iPhone, mail, openssh, push, tutorial, Wi-Fi, wifi, winscp
May 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Technically not push, but thanks for the tutorial. This will especially drain your battery (more than Yahoo! push email)
May 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
You are correct. The titles is a bit misleading. But thanks to Benny for his first super post !
May 20th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
is it true that the new software will have not only push, but also somethig very similar to “blackberry” messenger’?
i wonder if theyre going to be compatible…for example, will i be able to chat from my iphone with this messenger with a blackberry user?
May 20th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
this tip is great..the thing is it will only work as push if youre 24/7 on wifi…or else it will charge the hell outta you on Edge..
kills ur battery as well…
February 11th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Just for the record, with the 2.2.1 firmware, the plist file to look for in the /var/mobile/Library/Preferences directory is called com.apple.persistentconnection.plist, and the autofetch interval is now called “PCDefaultPollInterval”… Thanks for the tip, though, it pointed me in the right direction when I was searching how to change this setting beyond the proposed options!