Some deep digging by self-proclaimed Microsoft software deconstructor Rafael Rivera claims to have stumbled upon the reason for some Windows Phone 7 devices using up large amounts of "phantom" data, unbeknownst to their owners.
The culprit? Yahoo Mail.
Rivera examined some of the IMAP packets coming into the device and discovered that Yahoo's IMAP server was not responding to the phone's requests to fetch new messages with the correct response. Instead of sending commands that were just a few lines in length, the servers would send back code chunks that Rivera says are about 25 times larger than they need to be.
"This can also be read as: Your phone is downloading ~25 times as much data as it normally would, had you sided with another e-mail provider," Rivera said.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20030159-75.html
The culprit? Yahoo Mail.
Rivera examined some of the IMAP packets coming into the device and discovered that Yahoo's IMAP server was not responding to the phone's requests to fetch new messages with the correct response. Instead of sending commands that were just a few lines in length, the servers would send back code chunks that Rivera says are about 25 times larger than they need to be.
"This can also be read as: Your phone is downloading ~25 times as much data as it normally would, had you sided with another e-mail provider," Rivera said.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20030159-75.html