ok so I was sitting at home when i looked down, phone was auto sync'ing. I was like ok cool
well a little bit later it looked down and it was doing it again...?
Thats when it hit me. we need a program that controls when everything autosyncs, like contacts and calender once a week or once a day and email every so many hours.
if I know what the hell i was doing I would go and create a program to do this, but unfortunately I dont so I cant.
anyone share my dilemma? auto-sync drains the battery but i dont want to turn it completely off, just delay it every X amount of hours.
THANKS
dtmcnamara said:
ok so I was sitting at home when i looked down, phone was auto sync'ing. I was like ok cool
well a little bit later it looked down and it was doing it again...?
Thats when it hit me. we need a program that controls when everything autosyncs, like contacts and calender once a week or once a day and email every so many hours.
if I know what the hell i was doing I would go and create a program to do this, but unfortunately I dont so I cant.
anyone share my dilemma? auto-sync drains the battery but i dont want to turn it completely off, just delay it every X amount of hours.
THANKS
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Mine does this with the contacts, so I only turn contact sync on if i make a change to the contacts. Calendar sync happens invisible pretty much. Contact sync was draining my battery real bad so I disabled it.
ranger7424 said:
Mine does this with the contacts, so I only turn contact sync on if i make a change to the contacts. Calendar sync happens invisible pretty much. Contact sync was draining my battery real bad so I disabled it.
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Between this and turning off cell location my battery life has been phenomenal.
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Hi. Agile Messenger shuts down every time my XDA Exec goes to sleep. Is there a way that I can stay logged onto AOL and Yahoo IM's even though my PDA is conserving its battery power a bit? Like I guess I would have to only make the screen turn off but the PDA is told not to sleep? (Is this going to make my battery life really short?) Please let me know what I would have to do. I have my GPRS set to be Always On, btw.
Also it would be cool if I knew I wasn't going to chat for a little while, if I could have the PDA sleep. But if when I turned it back on, the software was ready to start logging on right away.
Edit: Sorry for stupid question, I'm just getting fed up with the PDA. I guess that's what I have to do and my battery life would be maybe 3-4 hours or so then. I was trying to think of another solution like logging on through a web browser or something else more like a plain old cellphone does.
lelepu said:
Hi. Agile Messenger shuts down every time my XDA Exec goes to sleep. Is there a way that I can stay logged onto AOL and Yahoo IM's even though my PDA is conserving its battery power a bit? Like I guess I would have to only make the screen turn off but the PDA is told not to sleep? (Is this going to make my battery life really short?) Please let me know what I would have to do. I have my GPRS set to be Always On, btw.
Also it would be cool if I knew I wasn't going to chat for a little while, if I could have the PDA sleep. But if when I turned it back on, the software was ready to start logging on right away.
Edit: Sorry for stupid question, I'm just getting fed up with the PDA. I guess that's what I have to do and my battery life would be maybe 3-4 hours or so then. I was trying to think of another solution like logging on through a web browser or something else more like a plain old cellphone does.
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give palringo a try..it has a battery save feature. if it works or not is another store, but it really does drain the battery alot less then the other apps.
I've had my inspire for a few weeks now and am very happy with it after I rooted and installed afr003. However, my battery life is terrible. From reading other forums it seems this is a common issue. If I disable background data and turn off auto sync the battery life is acceptable. But in that configuration I don't seem to get emails, the weather doesn't update, and the Facebook app doesn't update (the main things I look at regularly). When auto sync is on the refresh symbol is constantly present in the upper tool bar, which I'm not sure is common or not. With background data and auto sync enabled I seem to lose 1% of battery every 2-4 minutes. If anyone can help me make my battery last at least 10 hrs while still being able to get email and weather updates I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
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Are you syncing friend streams, Facebook or news? And how often are they set to sync. This would have a huge impact on battery life. If the phone has to keep going to the network to sync,it's bound to use up the battery faster.
As of now I'm only syncing my Google account and the weather. I disable the HTC sense sync and that seems to have helped the battery life some. Exactly what does HTC sense sync anyway?
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It appears that your text messages, wallpapers and a slew of other things not clearly defined. It really soaks up the battery during the sync process, but seems to settle down once it's completed. I removed the account and don't have any further issues with the battery.
dgrooman said:
As of now I'm only syncing my Google account and the weather. I disable the HTC sense sync and that seems to have helped the battery life some. Exactly what does HTC sense sync anyway?
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Sense lets you ring your phone remotely from the site and locate it. It also allows you to lock it remotely or forward calls. The sense site is very buggy and those features only work some of the times. I decided to remove my sense account from my phone.
By the way, are you guys heavy users? My battery life seems pretty good and I'm rooted and OCed at 1.229Ghz. I went to bed with my phone around 70% battery and when I went to bed the next day with normal usage, it was around 26%. I can do heavy usage and still get through the day without charging.
I only have my gmail, calendar, and contacts being auto synced. I have weather synced every 3 hours as well via a widget.
I just got my Nexus S on April 12th, don't have many applications installed. My battery only lasts about 10 to 12 hours and I haven't been able to figure out why. I've noticed other people have much longer battery life than this. I have 3G and mobile data disabled and use only WiFi and that too only when I'm home. From the "About > Battery use" place I discovered that Display uses around 50%. I had my brightness settings set to auto always. Today I fully charged it and after an hour or so it was on 83%! I didn't even touch it. It sucks to have an awesome phone and to not be able to use its features because of fast battery drain! please help.
Check email sync ...
Check always sync ...
Check weather sync ...
Check facebook sync ...
Check all syncs
Mine can last up to 2 days
But I don't sync like crazy ...
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I just got my Nexus S on April 12th, don't have many applications installed. My battery only lasts about 10 to 12 hours and I haven't been able to figure out why. I've noticed other people have much longer battery life than this. I have 3G and mobile data disabled and use only WiFi and that too only when I'm home. From the "About > Battery use" place I discovered that Display uses around 50%. I had my brightness settings set to auto always. Today I fully charged it and after an hour or so it was on 83%! I didn't even touch it. It sucks to have an awesome phone and to not be able to use its features because of fast battery drain! please help.
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my brightness is on 0% are you using any white wallpapers?
set everything to black if you can.
what about apps that auto sync? set the interval for sync to be longer
Whatever you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Provide as much detail about apps and running services and someone can help you.
The battery will last longer if you don't use it...just saying.
j0hnZ said:
The battery will last longer if you don't use it...just saying.
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then that would defeat the purpose of the phone... just saying encore?
zephiK said:
then that would defeat the purpose of the phone... just saying encore?
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I thought you would be happy I'm spreading your message, or your quote without calling anyone's phone a whore.
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I thought you would be happy I'm spreading your message, or your quote without calling anyone's phone a whore.
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the quote had nothing to do about not using the phone. its just saying treat it well and it'll treat u back well but apparently that message is too hard to get to your head.
zephiK said:
the quote had nothing to do about not using the phone. its just saying treat it well and it'll treat u back well but apparently that message is too hard to get to your head.
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It is about using your phone, clearly you can't get that through your head. I'm not going to keep defending arguments against someone who can't understand simple concepts. Consider yourself blocked, so it doesn't happen again.
Enough hi-jacking. Let the OP feel comfortable enough to post info that will lead to help.
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j0hnZ said:
It is about using your phone, clearly you can't get that through your head. I'm not going to keep defending arguments against someone who can't understand simple concepts. Consider yourself blocked, so it doesn't happen again.
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Cool, you're just doing me a favor because I'm getting sick of you mocking me in every way possible.
Agreed with ScooterG. Pretty much johnz had a thing against me because of a previous battery thread yesterday.
How do I change sync settings? I thought all syncing was disabled when I turn it off on the widget (the one with wifi, bluetooth, etc.). I have sync turned off from there always and enable it when I'm in a WiFi range.
@zephiK I have a dark wallpaper, I'll try setting brightness to zero.
I unplugged around 8am and now its 12am here and the phone is down to 86%. only 4 hours later. And I didnt use much during those 4 hours. No texts, no calls and just 1 email after I turned sync thing on and used WiFi to browse this thread. Thats all I did. Battery use shows Display using 69%! This is not normal right?
Here are the apps I have installed.:
Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash player 10.2
Advanced Task Killer Free
Angry Birds Rio
AppBrain App Market
Barcode Scanner
BattStatt
Camera360
CamScanner
Cover Art Downloader
DanteInferno
Dropbox
ES File Explorer
Facebook
FatBooth
FlashLight
Foursquare
Fruit Slice
Goggles
gReader
HDR Camera
Live Holdem pro
Lyrics App
Mango
Market
mig33
Music (this is the leaked 3.0 version)
NinJump
Opera Mini
photoshop Express
pulse
Quick Settings
Raging Thunder 2 Lite
Sketchbook Express
Simple Calendar Widget
SMS pop
Songbird
Twitter
Wapedia
WebSharing Lite
Wifi Manager
And here are the running services.:
Settings
Twitter
BattStatt
Camera360
Songbird
Simple Calendar Widget
Google Services
Music
Maps
Android Keyboard
I read somewhere about battery training or something?
ifreaker said:
How do I change sync settings? I thought all syncing was disabled when I turn it off on the widget (the one with wifi, bluetooth, etc.). I have sync turned off from there always and enable it when I'm in a WiFi range.
@zephiK I have a dark wallpaper, I'll try setting brightness to zero.
I unplugged around 8am and now its 12am here and the phone is down to 86%. only 4 hours later. And I didnt use much during those 4 hours. No texts, no calls and just 1 email after I turned sync thing on and used WiFi to browse this thread. Thats all I did. Battery use shows Display using 69%! This is not normal right?
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I read somewhere about battery training or something?
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Well 86% after 4 hours is a great battery life! 96-86=10% It gives you (4/0.1) a theoretical battery life of 40 hours !!!
On the battery manager click on the graph to see what causes your battery life to decrease very fast: GPS, Wifi, Awake or Screen on.
I also noticed the battery meter app used quite a bit of energy you should remove it, remove also the task killer it may drain you battery as well.
I'm trying out the suggestions in this thread right now. They seem reasonable. It might be useful for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937080
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Well 86% after 4 hours is a great battery life! 96-86=10% It gives you (4/0.1) a theoretical battery life of 40 hours !!!
On the battery manager click on the graph to see what causes your battery life to decrease very fast: GPS, Wifi, Awake or Screen on.
I also noticed the battery meter app used quite a bit of energy you should remove it, remove also the task killer it may drain you battery as well.
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Yes! Thats great battery life! You see, after I made my first post I read somewhere that you should drain the battery completely and then do a full charge. So I kept on playing with it until the phone shut down and then plugged it in before I went to bed. I made the second post after I woke up and didn't realize that at that time the battery life has increased. I havent charged since that post and been using it, the battery is now at exactly 30%. Been running for 17 hours and 45 minutes.
I guess my problem is solved
Hi.. i lost 20% over 5,5 hours in standby mode.. is that normal or something sneaky going on?
Do you have any apps syncing all the time? Some news apps sync every 15 minutes or so.
That seems like a high rate to me. Have you messed with any of the power options on it (made it not go into standby, etc...?)
I barely got that much drain watching a 3 hour movie.
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Do you have any apps syncing all the time? Some news apps sync every 15 minutes or so.
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I'd also check email syncing - if you a bunch of accounts that sync very often, it can affect the battery as well.
Also make sure your Bluetooth is turned off.
It happens to me sometimes and it seems like a reboot fixes it.
A reboot does sometimes work. Otherwise also make sure you close out office programs. I've noticed that sometimes runs down battery a little, though not that much. Are you hooked into WiFi, and is the connection where you are reliable?
i uninstalled few apps and rebooted and its okay now.. maybe it was because of Appygeek app.. try it out
Turn off all live tiles (maybe except mail, messaging and people which are useful) and don't allow any lock screen apps to run in the background which you can change via pc settings. This should significantly improve battery life.
How can I set so Gmail is set to sync manually? Now whenever I get a mail it notifies me instantly. I've checked every setting but can't find the sync option.
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How can I set so Gmail is set to sync manually? Now whenever I get a mail it notifies me instantly. I've checked every setting but can't find the sync option.
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disable it in google sync first. now if you want to check for new mail, open gmail, then swipe down on the screen. or, press the menu(top right, 3 dots), then press refresh
Phone settings
Accounts/Google
Click email of choice
Uncheck Gmail
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Ah thanks guys, I must have missed that one lol. Will be interesting to see how much of a difference this will make to the battery as I get a lot of emails but usually just check my mail like 5 times a day or so.
ArtieQ said:
Ah thanks guys, I must have missed that one lol. Will be interesting to see how much of a difference this will make to the battery as I get a lot of emails but usually just check my mail like 5 times a day or so.
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I wouldn't expect anything drastic
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You're turning on the screen to check for email, isn't that potentially worse for battery life?
You could look into tasker to automate it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en
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You're turning on the screen to check for email, isn't that potentially worse for battery life?
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Uhm, I don't think so? Before Gmail was fetching all the time which meant the process was active at all times, now it's terminated so I would assume battery life will improve.
mistahseller said:
You could look into tasker to automate it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en
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Gonna take a look at it.
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Uhm, I don't think so? Before Gmail was fetching all the time which meant the process was active at all times, now it's terminated so I would assume battery life will improve.
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The process just listens, it doesn't actively seek out anything. The process is still "active" even if you manually sync. With a scheduled refresh you will be "hand shaking" every time so this obviously uses more power than push. If you're only manually syncing 5 times a day, this can't be on that level so you may see a small increase (well you probably wont "see" or "notice" the difference) in battery life.
You'd have to have the screen on to read them anyway but it would be on longer with a manual sync as with push the e-mails would be already there and pull - you'd have the screen on whilst waiting for them to come in.
I don't think you will see any noticeable difference, but will be interesting to see your results...
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Uhm, I don't think so? Before Gmail was fetching all the time which meant the process was active at all times, now it's terminated so I would assume battery life will improve.
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As mentioned before, it does not fetch email. Google's servers send the messages to you only when you have a new one. Fetching is when your phone wakes up at predefined intervals, checks the server for new messages and then goes back to sleep. Fetching wastes battery and is inefficient. Disabling sync on your gmail is pretty much pointless and will have next to 0 impact on your battery life. It sounds to me more like you are unhappy with being notified very often of new messages. For that I suggest you simply disable notifications for the various inbox labels in your gmail app. I currently have 4 gmail accounts actively syncing, and this is what an overnight battery test looks like for me