If you are one of the ‘lucky’ ones still using a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and reading your gmail using the standard imap interface (the default way) then your phone is screwed. Apparently Google made some change on their side that does not play nice with the imap client software on these devices. The result is that the tmail.exe process goes haywire and runs at 100% (or close) of CPU time. This has the effect that the device is first, extremely slow, the battery drains in something like just an hour or two and your gmail is not actually working anymore.
Early suggestions to temporarily fix this was to switch the receiving server (protocol) from imap.google.com to pop.google.com but even this didn’t help me. Even setting the refresh polling to manually cause the process to spike which cause the same problem. So for now I had to totally remove the gmail account just to get the rest of the phone to work normally.
Mode details here.
Hopefully they will fix it soon!
[Update: I’m glad to report it looks like they solve the problem!]
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