Does AIM's push ruin a phone's battery life?

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Dizzy714

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Wasn't sure where to put this, but, naturally if you have an AIM client application on your phone and set it for push then it's obvious it's going to tear your battery life up. I'm talking about setting up AIM on your computer an linking your SN to your number, so that when you're signed off of AIM on the computer and somebody IM's you it'll just forward to your phone - does this affect a phone's battery life? I've always wondered this because I've always seemed to have shit battery life [had an iPhone the past 4 years], my theory is that there's pings being sent back and forth from my phone to AIM's servers. I have like 15 SN's with my number linked to them, majority of them being forgotten SN's by now and yeah.
 
Well any app you run will use prossesing power.

Just like a PC.

So the app will run down your bat faster than not using it.
 
It's not an App though, it's just my number tied to AIM so when somebody IM's me when I'm offline it forwards to my phone.
 
So it comes as a text? Mine used to be like that. If that is how it is set up, it will use up just as much as a regular text.
 
Correct. Good news then I don't have to stress it, cuz like I said I have probably 10-15 different SN's with my number linked for when I'm offline - if there was pings going back and forth on all of them, man that battery would be over workin'.
 
Dizzy714 said:
Correct. Good news then I don't have to stress it, cuz like I said I have probably 10-15 different SN's with my number linked for when I'm offline - if there was pings going back and forth on all of them, man that battery would be over workin'.
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Haha that's a lot. And yeah, no worries, your phone won't do all that work.
 
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