Any way to lower the IMAP sync time to something lower than 15 min? That is the lowest it allows via the gui. Something like 5 minutes would be nice.
mycomputerisjunk said:
Any way to lower the IMAP sync time to something lower than 15 min? That is the lowest it allows via the gui. Something like 5 minutes would be nice.
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whats the account? gmail, or other? Can be set up as an 'outlook' account if so - push?
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Wondering if anyone has tried to use Juice Defender with Touchdown activesync push? I need to receive my work emails immediately, but from what I can gather, Juice Defender turns off the mobile network with the screen off, which will prevent Touchdown from receiving push emails.
Is this correct? And if so, is there any workaround?
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You can set JuiceDefender to Balanced, Aggressive, etc. You want to choose 'Customize'. Then just take like 30 minutes to go through the settings tab and change it to your liking. One of the abilities is to set certain apps to always be connected to the internet(It's the very last setting, all the way at the bottom). I used it for a while but I noticed instead of having the usual x2.10 increased battery life it dropped down to about x1.54, now I don't even use JD at all. It just messed with my weather widgets too much.
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You can set JuiceDefender to Balanced, Aggressive, etc. You want to choose 'Customize'. Then just take like 30 minutes to go through the settings tab and change it to your liking. One of the abilities is to set certain apps to always be connected to the internet(It's the very last setting, all the way at the bottom). I used it for a while but I noticed instead of having the usual x2.10 increased battery life it dropped down to about x1.54, now I don't even use JD at all. It just messed with my weather widgets too much.
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Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I bought Juice Defender Plus in order to apply settings to specific apps. I chose "enable/screen off" for Touchdown, but when I send an email from my desktop gmail account to my Android's Exchange Touchdown account, my phone does one of two things:
1) It receives the email (delayed), and the 4g signal stays on in perpetuity
2) It does not receive the email. 4g is off and stays off until I turn the screen on. When the 4g signal turns on, the email usually comes in immediately, but is sometimes delayed a couple minutes.
I don't want either of these outcomes. I just want it to turn on 4g when Touchdown receives a push email, and then turn 4g off immediately.
What am I doing wrong?
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You can set JuiceDefender to Balanced, Aggressive, etc. You want to choose 'Customize'. Then just take like 30 minutes to go through the settings tab and change it to your liking. One of the abilities is to set certain apps to always be connected to the internet(It's the very last setting, all the way at the bottom). I used it for a while but I noticed instead of having the usual x2.10 increased battery life it dropped down to about x1.54, now I don't even use JD at all. It just messed with my weather widgets too much.
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So I've been using Juice Defender today, and I STILL see about the same drop in battery, despite the fact that it turns my MOBILE DATA OFF, only syncing 5 minutes every 15 minutes. I've been on Wifi most of the day, which also shuts off, only syncing 5 minutes every 15 minutes. In 5 hours, I've dropped 41% of my battery. I've had my screen on for a grand total of 26 minutes.
What's strange is, when I go into CPUspy, it seems that the phone has spent more than 40 minutes using either the 800 or 1000 mhz clock speed. I have Touchdown set to pass through JD, and when I go to spare parts, it says the app has been used for 15 minutes in "partial wake usage." In comparison, the Android System has only used about 13 minutes. SMS has used 45 seconds. I have activesync on, but I haven't received a single email today. Why is Touchdown in use for 15 minutes? Is this normal? Does it have something to do with activesync trying to run when JD has shut off all my data?
Someone please weigh in. This battery life battle is infuriating.
JD doesn't re-enable the data connection on our LTE devices. It's a known issue being worked on by the developer: http://feedback.latedroid.com/forum...vate-beta/suggestions/1341575-4g-wimax-issues
I'm using the HTC Mail app (Sense 3.5 - Endymion 3.2 ROM) for reading my work IMAP mail.
I don't want to poll this mail continuously, only poll/refresh manually.
My update frequency is set to "manual", however the app keeps updating regularly.
Once per 3 minutes it seems.
I do use JuiceDefender (set to 15 minutes), but that doesn't change the fact that the update frequency is set to "manual".
What am I doing wrong?
I've had the opposite problem with the HTC mail app. Refresh set to push, but test emails take 30 mins to show up. Regardless of setting or hitting refresh. I've found it's just inconsistent. Does K9 mail do the same thing?
If juice defender is anything like tasker, it can force a refresh even if you have the apps frequency turned down. Tasker however, uses a plugin called Synker to do this, which you can specify what accounts are refreshed. Perhaps give it a go if juice defender it's the issue.
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Really basic question! Is the HTC email app or the standard yellow AOSP one better for battery life?
HTC mail in my opinion bcos it had peak and non peak period mail checking preferences which you can set how many days in a week and plus define your own timing of peak period. It also let you select minutes and hourly intervals.
The yellow one that you refers to I believe allows only hourly intervals without options to set peak periods preference. Currently I'm on ics senseless 2.10 and the yellow mail have maximum of 1hour intervals,that's it. So to summarise and answer your question, in my opinion is htc mail.
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HTC mail in my opinion bcos it had peak and non peak period mail checking preferences which you can set how many days in a week and plus define your own timing of peak period. It also let you select minutes and hourly intervals.
The yellow one that you refers to I believe allows only hourly intervals without options to set peak periods preference. Currently I'm on ics senseless 2.10 and the yellow mail have maximum of 1hour intervals,that's it. So to summarise and answer your question, in my opinion is htc mail.
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Thanks for your thoughts. Do you happen to have any specific/detailed information about how much drain each app uses? I am just curious which app is more efficient before using the filters you just mentioned.
Cant be that quite detail as from my setup with htc mail would be like peak hour: set from 8am-5pm @30mins interval. So after the peak hour i set it to 3hrs interval. if using the yellow mail, just imagine at every 1hr intervals of checks being performed. Hope you get the idea.
Edit: If email within the office hours is important then yes, you can double the frequency or else you can set at 2hrs or more intervals.
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Cant be that quite detail as from my setup with htc mail would be like peak hour: set from 8am-5pm @30mins interval. So after the peak hour i set it to 3hrs interval. if using the yellow mail, just imagine at every 1hr intervals of checks being performed. Hope you get the idea.
Edit: If email within the office hours is important then yes, you can double the frequency or else you can set at 2hrs or more intervals.
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Makes sense.
Which kind of notification consumes less battery ? Logic tells me that push notifications should consume more battery since it's almost instantaneous but I've read it doesn't exactly work like that , I'm quite confused now
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Push uses less battery.
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Push can use less battery but it depends on lots of stuff, including the server on the other end.
Push has the nice feature of instantaneous notifications because it's semi constantly connected to the server. It polls the server every X seconds and gets long each time there's no new message to keep connectivity alive. When the server gets a message it initiates the connection to the phone telling it to download new messages and then it pulls them down.
Pull on the other hand just checks at a set interval of every X minutes. You can do 15, 30, etc... If you have pull set to a fast check time say 5 mins, it will needlessly waste battery every 5 mins going into full active mode to check the server often times for no reason. If you however have your pull set to check ever 4hrs that may be less power than push but if you need email all during your day you'll obviously be checking in more often.
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Push can use less battery but it depends on lots of stuff, including the server on the other end.
Push has the nice feature of instantaneous notifications because it's semi constantly connected to the server. It polls the server every X seconds and gets long each time there's no new message to keep connectivity alive. When the server gets a message it initiates the connection to the phone telling it to download new messages and then it pulls them down.
Pull on the other hand just checks at a set interval of every X minutes. You can do 15, 30, etc... If you have pull set to a fast check time say 5 mins, it will needlessly waste battery every 5 mins going into full active mode to check the server often times for no reason. If you however have your pull set to check ever 4hrs that may be less power than push but if you need email all during your day you'll obviously be checking in more often.
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Thank you for the explanation, I have a better Idea now what push does , I'll make sure to use it, I still can't believe there are some apps that come with a 5 minute refresh selected by default! aka tweedle, ATE may battery the first two days I was using it , until I noticed the outrageous refresh rate
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.
ArtieQ said:
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.
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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