Hi,

I am a very light mobile user, and use a $0 plan, just paying for calls I make plus data usage. I would like to have my phone setup so I can receive calls, but only check email when I wish to - not automatically. Automatic checking of emails is costing me on the phone bill I think, negating the point of having the $0 plan in the first place.

I haven't been bale to find a way to stop the automatic email checking except to turn the radio off - which then stops incoming phone calls too. Phone is a 7290.

Can anyone advise - I'm thinking it surely must be possible.

Thanks.

There is no good/easy way to do that. The BB doesn't work that way. To use email, you must have a BB data plan which automatically pushes email to your device.

If your ISP and email is accessible by OWA, then that would be a possibility, but you would really eat more data than you want to think about.

If this is a requirement, then I am sorry to say, you have the wrong device.

I'm not sure how it is in the States now, but here there seems to no longer be a requirement for a special 'Blackberry Data Plan' in the sense that there was a few years ago (when I bought the device while living in the US). At that time the prices of Blackberry usage was astronomical (at least here in Australia) due to that need to have a special Blackberry data plan. Now I have it connected on a plain old mobile plan to an Australian carrier (I had to go through AT&T to get it unlocked which was fun) on a regular mobile plan. I can send/receive email, browse too (if I had any inclination to, which I don't). It just seems a bit shocking that one can't turn emails on/off independent of turning the phone on/off.

Again, the BlackBerry was designed from the ground up with push e-mail. There is no way in the US to get push e-mail without a BlackBerry Data Plan. There is also no way to shut it off.

honestly it's absurd to not be able to turn emails off. I've been searching everywhere for a way to do it but still haven't found it.

I'm desperate to learn how to make it so that my emails don't get forwarded to my phone but I am still able to send messages. (I have a primary email account from which I do not want to get notifications every time I get a forward or spam but I still want to be able to send my pictures by hitting "send as email")

Seriously - you got the wrong device. Maybe the iPhone or a Windows Mobile device that isn't designed around push e-mail.

you log in to BIS page.
You click edit on the email account
you find the box that says "FORWARD TO HANDHELD" and UNCHECK IT.

Then, you wont get email to your device, but still be able to send email.

you ave to check and uncheck as necessary when you want email pushed to your device or not.

And you can't change that on the BB itself. You have to go to the web based BIS site.