I currently sync everything via g-mail (contacts, calendar, ect.), but I'm wondering if there is a way to limit when or how often this happens with auto sync on. There's really no reason I see that my contacts or calendar would need to update more than once a day, but they seem to by syncing constantly and probably negatively affecting my battery life.
Anyone have any advice?
Thanks.
anyone? I'd hate for my only option to be manually syncing from now on...
I'm pretty sure with Google it works on a push system. Gmail definitely works that way so this is only a guess as to other services. If I'm right it will only update if something needs to be updated. Say you're on your desktop and change a contact it will get pushed to your phone. Otherwise it stays idle. I just checked my accounts and the last sync I had was from last night.
jdubsss said:
I currently sync everything via g-mail (contacts, calendar, ect.), but I'm wondering if there is a way to limit when or how often this happens with auto sync on. There's really no reason I see that my contacts or calendar would need to update more than once a day, but they seem to by syncing constantly and probably negatively affecting my battery life.
Anyone have any advice?
Thanks.
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You could use an app like Tasker to toggle data sync for your device with the interval you want. Although this will change all syncing for you device to be on the same schedule.
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I'm pretty sure with Google it works on a push system. Gmail definitely works that way so this is only a guess as to other services. If I'm right it will only update if something needs to be updated. Say you're on your desktop and change a contact it will get pushed to your phone. Otherwise it stays idle. I just checked my accounts and the last sync I had was from last night.
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I just checked and everything except my gmail synced an hour ago with no changes made. I'll have to keep checking it periodically to see how often it's doing it.
Tasker seems overly complicated and I don't really want to pay for an app that I might not end up using for more than just this.
My mistake. I've looked back at my multiple Google accounts and various things like Gmail and calendar sync pretty frequently. But other stuff like drive and books were last synced last night. So long story short I can't help with your original question of how to change the frequency of syncs. Sorry about that.
You can always use Synker (free) from the Play Store to setup different sync buttons to sync the items you want. Its not really and automatic solution but saves battery by not using Auto Sync.
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I am on the stock ROM rooted. I have a gmail, google apps, facebook app - Not HTC Sense (contacts only) and weather(3 hours) accounts setup. Something seems to hang while syncing and the sync icon stays on for a long time. This will cause emails to be delayed in showing notification.
I cannot figure out what it is that is causing the issue. I am also assuming this is not good for battery life. When it is hung like that I can look at each account on the accounts & sync tab and none of them show active syncing. If I cancel the sync and then sync now they will all sync and complete as expected.
Any one else seeing this? Any ideas on figuring out what account is causing it?
Mine does this too. I'm rooted, running Perfect Storm v1.0. I also did the 'Kernal/OS tweaks'. I'm not sure what caused it, but it's been doing this on and off for a couple days. I also had that ooVoo video app installed and when I uninstalled it, the sync indicator went away. (I had previously set the ooVoo sync to off). I'll post if I find anything.
I selected each account and disabled sync for each one and it still showed the sync icon later on. Do we know what all triggers the sync icon?
Any one else having this issue?
I was having the same issue. No idea what was causing it, I thought it was Facebook, but I froze it and it still was popping up. I did install advanced radio tools in settings from Jcase and leankernal from Imoseyon...
Yeah I am unrooted still and have this same issue with gmail delay. I can send an email to my self and watch it pop up almost immediately on my old eris connected to wifi but actually have to launch gmail to get the email on the thunderbolt. WTF!? Thats basic stuff. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it works fine on the granddaddy eris but not on the grandson TB. I have one personal gmail account and one gapps account. The only difference in the phones (other than the obvious massive power difference) is 4g so I wonder if this 1st gen 4g device wasn't polished enough back at the HTC labs?
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I have one personal gmail account and one gapps account.
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I have 1 of each account type as well. What about other of you having this issue?
I've been experiencing this all day. Won't sync my g-mail accounts. I froze HTC Sense, could that be the cause?
EDIT: Unfroze sense and it still won't sync my g-mail. Syncs my contacts fine, just not my calendar or my e-mails. I deleted data and it did nothing except remove all of the e-mails that I had on my phone. Still wouldn't sync so I booted up my backup, and it STILL is not syncing. Please tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.
My phone is always Syncing something...I deleted all my accounts and re-added them...its getting to the point where it drains my battery so much. I'm running das BAMF 1.4 with 4.3b kernel. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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AisforAustin said:
My phone is always Syncing something...I deleted all my accounts and re-added them...its getting to the point where it drains my battery so much. I'm running das BAMF 1.4 with 4.3b kernel. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Maybe it's your Calendar. The Calendar kept syncing all the time for me on my Eris, Incredible, and now Thunderbolt. I just do a manual sync of the calendar after I make a change, and as soon as I see the time change, I uncheck the box and the circle stops spinning.
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Maybe it's your Calendar. The Calendar kept syncing all the time for me on my Eris, Incredible, and now Thunderbolt. I just do a manual sync of the calendar after I make a change, and as soon as I see the time change, I uncheck the box and the circle stops spinning.
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it's not. I unchecked it and it still was syncing. I even unchecked the box to totally stop background sync and it still syncs... =/
I get the same sync too. So annoying. I think thats why the phone is so slow.
I keep sense unchecked for sync. Seems to stop the constant syncing
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If it's syncing your mail (it did this to me shortly after installing das bamf 1.4) go into each email account, menu -> more -> settings -> send and receive -> update schedule, and change the frequency for peak and off-peak to manual. even with sync set to off, it'd still sync all my email accounts. This means you'll have to manually check your mail though.
i know this probably isnt your problem but just incase... i tried to delete friend steam and i had that same problem
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Maybe it's your Calendar. The Calendar kept syncing all the time for me on my Eris, Incredible, and now Thunderbolt. I just do a manual sync of the calendar after I make a change, and as soon as I see the time change, I uncheck the box and the circle stops spinning.
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I'll give this a shot and see if it stops my sync problem. I mean, I'm getting 7hours of idle battery life sometimes. Usually slightly better but man it's rough.
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I keep sense unchecked for sync. Seems to stop the constant syncing
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What he said. Mine was constantly syncing too. After doing some fiddling, I narrowed it down to my Sense account.
It could possibly be a sync started, and even thought you've disabled Auto Sync, it might just be completing the sync. I turn on autosync, wait for the circle to show up, then disable it but the arrows stay. Just my .02
I updated to BAMF 1.5 and the sync issue went away for me. Still have sense checked and no friendstream.
I'm having the same issue but I KNOW its my primary Gmail contacts. (Under accounts & sync its spinning constantly). I noticed someone said that they deleted friend feed and I have also done that.
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*edit*- reflashed the PS ROM and this time didn't delete the friend stream thing and now I have no issues. (I as well have sense sync checked and no issue with that either).
I've had the same issue on BAMF 1.5. I've found my Exchange constantly spinning until I go into the Sync options and then it would complete and stop. I thought it might have something to do with the security mod for Exchange mail so I installed the stock mail.apk I haven't noticed the sync sticking again since but I have noticed the Facebook contact sync will take awhile to complete. I have that set to sync once a day.
I've been searching for a real answer to this question high and low... and yet the answer doesn't seem sufficient.
I am using the stock Gmail app (2.2). I'm trying to get push emails -- but it doesn't push, mostly because it doesn't seem that my account syncs very often even with auto-sync turned on. For example, I went to the Account window at 2:58pm, and it said the last sync was at 2:33pm, so I wasn't getting "push" email in the interim at all.
How do I consistently ensure that my Gmails arrive regularly and avoid this sync issue that obviously isn't a real "push"? I can't be getting emails on my phone 25 minutes after they're sent. And there's no way to set the frequency apparently, at least not with the Gmail app.
So does the lack of response mean that nobody knows the answer? Surely I can't be the only one this is affecting.
You are not alone ;-)
I am having the same issues today, (I flashed and unofficial version of gingerbread on my Desire yesterday)
With Android 2.2, I had no problems, I have no idea what the sync frequency was, but it seemed adequate. With Android 2.3, I am having the same kind of issues. My laptop knows I have new mail, but my phone doesn't.
If it is not possible to find out or update the sync frequency, then there are some gmail notifier apps in the market which may provide an acceptable solution.
Interesting, this was a problem for me always (2.1 and now 2.2). I thought it was attributed to the internal Android sync which seems to me to occur every 30 minutes (even though the "auto sync" checkbox should mean a little more frequently, no)?
What Gmail notifier apps would you recommend, and do they bypass the internal "Accounts and sync" settings? That's not the ideal solution at all, but I'll take it if it means my Android will check emails more frequently -- like as they arrive.
Hi,
I had the same problem after flashing CM7.
Under menu, accounts (Were you can see all accounts you sync with) press on Gmail account. There you need check if everything is activated.
On my phone the checkbox for sync gmail was missed. Contacts and calender where checked
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On my phone the checkbox for sync gmail was missed. Contacts and calender where checked
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Gmail is checked for me. My settings are correct. Like I said before, it's syncing every 30 minutes. That's not acceptable if my emails are really "push" as this doesn't seem like "push" to me.
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Gmail is checked for me. My settings are correct. Like I said before, it's syncing every 30 minutes. That's not acceptable if my emails are really "push" as this doesn't seem like "push" to me.
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Ok, cant help you then. Push is working for me.
Hope you find a solution soon...
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Possibly a stupid question, but, on your main accounts and sync page, do you have "background data" checked? I have that checked and auto-sync checked and I get my G-Mail on my phone about 10 seconds after I get it on my desktop. Just asking because I don't see that mentioned anywhere here. BTW--I am running CM7.
I have Background data, and Auto-sync both ticked. I have now been waiting several hours for emails (that I know are waiting) to appear - they haven't, so I'm not even getting 30 minute responses.
The "Sync all" button has no effect either, so I guess that my problem is different
That is using 2 gmail accounts, both correctly setup - in theory.
OK, my problem is fixed. I switched off auto-sync, then I was able to manually sync everything: mail,calendar,contacts,books. I then switched auto sync back on, and now I am being notified of email from all sources in 2-3 minutes.
Yup, Background data is on. maersi - this might be my issue. Trying it and will see what happens.
it seems my phone likes syncing data when i'm about to use it. For some reason, syncing data becomes very CPU intensive thus making phone almost unusable until it finishes. It's getting really annoying
Anyone else suffering from this? is there a way to specify when to sync? Facebook for instance, can be set up to sync once a day, but it picks the worst time to do it. I'd like to set sync to be done at 4am, for everything except gmail.
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Almost every message I get with the built in email app using Microsoft ActiveSync with my office Exchange server comes 5-10 minutes after the message's time-stamp. Coming from the iPhone 4S & Galaxy Nexus where every message was delivered within seconds, this is becoming a major concern. The GMail app is better (though not perfect) as messages usually arrive within a minute. I tried playing with the settings in the Email app and made sure that push was activated for both peak and off peak hours but the issues remains. Does anyone else have these issues and if so, is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance.
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Almost every message I get with the built in email app using Microsoft ActiveSync with my office Exchange server comes 5-10 minutes after the message's time-stamp. Coming from the iPhone 4S & Galaxy Nexus where every message was delivered within seconds, this is becoming a major concern. The GMail app is better (though not perfect) as messages usually arrive within a minute. I tried playing with the settings in the Email app and made sure that push was activated for both peak and off peak hours but the issues remains. Does anyone else have these issues and if so, is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance.
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I've struggled to fix this as well. The only advice i've gotten was to try a 3rd party app. I still have my e-mail setup on my old iPhone and my iPad, both get the e-mails pushed within a second of each other. My HOX can vary between 5-45 mins before it gets delivered. I have several exchange e-mails, all of them exhibit the same thing. I have a similar experience on my HP tablet that is running CM9. Judging by the number of threads that have complained about this, it seems that iOS simply handles Activesync better than Android. I'm still enjoying everything else about the HOX.
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I've struggled to fix this as well. The only advice i've gotten was to try a 3rd party app. I still have my e-mail setup on my old iPhone and my iPad, both get the e-mails pushed within a second of each other. My HOX can vary between 5-45 mins before it gets delivered. I have several exchange e-mails, all of them exhibit the same thing. I have a similar experience on my HP tablet that is running CM9. Judging by the number of threads that have complained about this, it seems that iOS simply handles Activesync better than Android. I'm still enjoying everything else about the HOX.
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Can't be an Android thing being as my Galaxy Nexus was just as good as, if not better than, my iPhone.
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Can't be an Android thing being as my Galaxy Nexus was just as good as, if not better than, my iPhone.
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I really hope so, hopefully a fix can be found soon.
there is nothing to fix, it's a feature called SmartSync.
Go to Email setting, sync schedule change it Push, default is SmartSync.
More frequent you open email app, the more frequent the sync.
Check your sync settings. HTC uses a couple different things with Sync to improve battery life. One of them is peak hours. It'll push during "peak hours" and then switch to every 2 hours outside of them. They also have a smart-sync setting that I believe will sync more frequently in relation to how often you open and close the actual Mail app.
Check those settings first.
Thanks, i double checked everything and both peak and off peak are both set to Push. The phone isn't throwing any errors nor is exchange management console. I'll see how it performs today and give an update. So far this morning it has been pushing pretty consistently.
As I said in my OP, both peak and off-peak are set to push and NOT smartsync. That's not the issue.
I've gotten it to recieve @ about 5 minutes but that's as good as it gets for now...
side note I've gotten some really good LTE numbers in ATL... 42mbps
Go and get Touchdown in the market.
Problem solved.
I had to disable the Gmail app completely for my Gmail account to work with Microsoft exchange through the email app.
It was giving me errors with my syncing but I had to use google due to the play store etc.
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Yeah I'm having problems with my gmail account as well. When I check to see if its synced it shows a red circle and apparently the sync isn't working so it's not just about push email its the syncing to google account. Not sure what the problem is. Im thinking it has something to do with the WiFi connection. It might break and its causing interruption in the sync
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I'm going to try leaving it on LTE for a little while...I have a feeling it might be an issue with the Wifi connection when the screen is off.
I'm experiencing a delay, as well. It's almost like Smartsync is still on even when it's off. My delays have been in the realm of a minute in most cases, but it's frustrating to hear new e-mails come in on my iPad and other phones and have this one get them last. It's such a great phone and this is such an important feature.
Quick update...If you go to your advanced wifi settings there is an option for Best Wifi Performance that is off by default. Since I enabled that, my push notifications seem to be coming in more quickly. I need to give it some more time to know for sure but so far so good!
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Yeah I'm having problems with my gmail account as well. When I check to see if its synced it shows a red circle and apparently the sync isn't working so it's not just about push email its the syncing to google account. Not sure what the problem is. Im thinking it has something to do with the WiFi connection. It might break and its causing interruption in the sync
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This is what I did. So far, it's working 100%.
Please know, this will only work if you DON'T use the Gmail app.
1. Factory wiped the phone. Once started up, do not add your Google account yet.
2. Go into Settings and Apps and disable all your bloatware while you're here and make sure you disable the Gmail app. When you get out of it, it'll reload Sense. After this, go ahead and reboot your phone to be safe.
3. Now go ahead and go to Settings and Accounts and add your Google account. With Gmail disabled, it will not sync your email. Your choice if you want to sync Contacts.
4. Next, setup your Gmail via Microsoft Exchange via server method. Email and Username is your full email address. Leave Domain blank. The server address is m.google.com
5. When finished, set it up Push Email and not Smart Sync. If you did not sync your Contacts via Google, you can do it here also. Same with Calendar and Tasks.
Done!
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With this method, I haven't had any issues...YET
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Quick update...If you go to your advanced wifi settings there is an option for Best Wifi Performance that is off by default. Since I enabled that, my push notifications seem to be coming in more quickly. I need to give it some more time to know for sure but so far so good!
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I think you might actually be onto something. So far, I have been getting e-mails pretty consistently after modifying this setting. It will be interesting to see how much it impacts battery life.
Anyone try K-9 Mail? I've been using that for a long time through several Android devices, push mail always works perfectly.
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Anyone try K-9 Mail? I've been using that for a long time through several Android devices, push mail always works perfectly.
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K-9 is not working for me, but Gmail is. haven't tried changing anything yet, just hopped on to see.
Really need some reliable push email. Might ditch K-9 and see if the native client works, but k-9 worked so great on the SGS2, I went to it straight away.
I'm also having push problems using the native gmail app. I posted in the other thread so won't repeat here but just wanted to check in in case somebody from HTC or att is reading these threads.
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