Hey guys. I can't remember if this was brought up before and a search was inconclusive.
I recently got emoze up and running on my phone and I noticed that my battery is draining at almost 66% it's normal drain rate. It won't even last a day at this rate.
Any idea what might be going on? should I disable email notification?
Thanks.
Well, I really like emoze I just wish I had better battery life. I don't think that mail2web would work for the corporate solution I need.
Maybe emoze supoprt will have more information but there must be similar problems with other push email clients.
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Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue. I set up my Wizard for Direct Push with the Exchange SP2 server at work. No prob though I did get duplicates. Anyway, yesterday, it worked great, received e-mails even before the computer at my desk, but by the end of an 8 hour work day, my battery life was down to 43%. Is this supposed to happen?
Today I tried disabling the push and after the same 8 hours I have 97% battery. Anyone know what to do about this?
Thanks for the help.
Not fully understanding how the push email system works (I don't have the need for it, nor the pocket to fund it's use on Australian tariff plans), but doesn't it just stay connected to the server through GPRS, sending a 'heartbeat' every couple of minutes to keep the connection alive?
I think it is something like that. If that is the case obviously it is going to effect your battery life as you are using your phone as normal, plus fulltime gprs use and then the backlight/processor when reading/replying to the emails.
Hi guys and gals,
I ve been using pushmail for a week or so now and have noticed from the first day of using it that my battery drains so much faster when im using pushmail on my HP 6828.
My HP6828 used to last at least two days but now with pushmail enabled it lasts just till the evening of each day...
Is this a known bug? are there any fixes for this issue?
Thanks in advance for any help
NR
I thing, If in settigs you have "check the mail every 5 minutes", you will have drain battery every evening.
The reason I am asking is I am trying to track down a battery drain issue. The only thing I think can be causing it is the fact that I have my phone set to check 4 different email accounts every 5 mins.
I have a 3000mAh battery and I am able to kill it in 8hrs. I seem to remember someone talking about an app that could tell what apps or services were causing the most battery drain?
I am thinking about doing a test where I turn off automatic email checking and seeing if the battery lasts any longer. I use the phone for business as well as private use so I need to keep track of things when someone needs to get a hold of me. So I use email a great deal.
Ya.. that seems pretty fast.
I would also recommend checking the radio version that you have. Some people say that some radio versions kill the battery faster than others.
Check that out.
I have push mail set for one account (MS DirectPush with an Exchange server) with a 4/5 minute update interval, and I get acceptable battery life... It's not fantastic, but what do you expect for a PDA smartphone As soon as I fire up pRSSreader to check four RSS feeds (even if I set the interval to 3 hours!) my battery life REALLY suffers, and I'm in a 3G area - close to a mast, stationery - all day every day. The Palringo client REALLY kills the battery, we're talking about 3/4 hours to get to 10%.
SPB GPRS Monitor is useful for seeing if there's any data throughput going on, and the BatteryStatus Today plugin is also useful for seeing current battery drain in either mW or mA, so you can kinda figure out what's going on with your phone at the time (that and acbTaskManager to see if there's any processes maxing the device's CPU out, which has caused me battery drain in the past). I've got a HERM with v1.05.05.00 radio, for the record.
I've been having the same issue with my Vario II...
The battery life was relatively good when I didn't have my web'n'walk connection enabled. But now I have DirectPush enabled to check emails on an Exchange server set for 'as items arrive' aswell as another three POP email accounts.
The GPRS is almost always on and on full charge will only last me about 8-9 hours from 100% charge. If I'm out for a continous stretch for more than that time- I'm in trouble (as I was yesterday!)
I'm guessing this is normal behaviour then? Not too good if it is (!)
Well I went from 4 accounts every 5min down to 1 account every 5min and my battery life doubled. So yep constant email checking does kill the battery. Oh well, I have my important account set to check every 5min (may change it to 20mins) and my other accounts set to once a day, which I usually just check manually when I have a few min.
There seems to be many other threads on this issue and some say, even with multiple accounts setup, battery life is in the region of 20hrs. Changing to a different [radio] ROM seems like one of the solutions.
Sorry guys...I know I'm kinda late joining this discussion, but I thought I'd put in my two cents...
Checking your EMail in the fashion you described in your first post definitely drains your battery. I was in the same situation you're in: about 4 different accounts, set to update around 30 minutes or so...my phone was beeping "low battery" before the afternoon was over (and that was after being charged the previous night!)
Not only that, but I'm convinced that the "always-on" state that the radio was in from all that EMail-checking is what caused the radio to "burn out." I had to get a new 8525 after that happened.
Good luck with your situation. I'm looking for a solution myself.
When I have Windows Live Push ("as items arrive," "always") enabled on my HD2 my battery life tanks. In about 8 hours it drops 20% or more while in standby without doing anything else. That's about 40 hours of standby battery life.
When I have it set to manual my battery drops 2% in 8 hours. That's around 400 hours of standby battery, which makes a lot more sense.
Is this normal? Does anyone else experience this using this feature? I am seriously curious as to why MS Live push e-mail keeps up an ACTIVE data connection that is not defeatable, and why it insists on wrecking battery life. If this is a consistent phenomenon, then push e-mail in this way is absolutely useless.
I have seen people with MS Exchange-based push (not Live) email get fine battery life, so this bothers me.
friend'scatdied said:
When I have Windows Live Push ("as items arrive," "always") enabled on my HD2 my battery life tanks. In about 8 hours it drops 20% or more while in standby without doing anything else. That's about 40 hours of standby battery life.
When I have it set to manual my battery drops 2% in 8 hours. That's around 400 hours of standby battery, which makes a lot more sense.
Is this normal? Does anyone else experience this using this feature? I am seriously curious as to why MS Live push e-mail keeps up an ACTIVE data connection that is not defeatable, and why it insists on wrecking battery life. If this is a consistent phenomenon, then push e-mail in this way is absolutely useless.
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It's perfectly normal mate. For push to work your phone needs to keep an open connection to the live server, which means some kind of heartbeat or keepalive message being sent every now and then (anywhere between every 30 seconds to every 10 minutes - it varies from software to software). This is therefore constantly using your battery. I was amazed at how much my battery life increased by changing the live synch settings from "as items arrive" to "every 15 minutes".
Look at turning down how regularly you update things like the weather and facebook too, and you'll see just how good the battery life on this thing really is!
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It's perfectly normal mate. For push to work your phone needs to keep an open connection to the live server, which means some kind of heartbeat or keepalive message being sent every now and then (anywhere between every 30 seconds to every 10 minutes - it varies from software to software). This is therefore constantly using your battery. I was amazed at how much my battery life increased by changing the live synch settings from "as items arrive" to "every 15 minutes".
Look at turning down how regularly you update things like the weather and facebook too, and you'll see just how good the battery life on this thing really is!
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I know, but one of the reasons I got my HD2 was because I'm a MSN junkie. I have read that people have got "2 days" battery life with MS Exchange push and that makes me feel kind of bothered. My Motorola Milestone with Gmail push didn't see anywhere near this kind of battery drain.
johncmolyneux said:
It's perfectly normal mate. For push to work your phone needs to keep an open connection to the live server, which means some kind of heartbeat or keepalive message being sent every now and then (anywhere between every 30 seconds to every 10 minutes - it varies from software to software). This is therefore constantly using your battery. I was amazed at how much my battery life increased by changing the live synch settings from "as items arrive" to "every 15 minutes".
Look at turning down how regularly you update things like the weather and facebook too, and you'll see just how good the battery life on this thing really is!
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i have MS Exchange push e-mail using 3G/HSDPA and I have experienced extra battery life when compared to POP3 email synchronization !
It seems to me that push e-mail is more energy efficient.
Last night @ 23h00: 100% battery. This morning 9h30: 95% battery...
Well my phone went from 1 day of average use to 2-3 days of average use, just by turning off push email, so we're getting different results from the same thing.
I don't know if this issue could was present before the 2 most recent updates, but I have been experiencing it at least as long as they've been out. After some interval, usually > 8 hours after the phone has been booted, I notice that the back of the phone starts to get warm. When I turn it on, I notice that there's a data connection, and it seems to be constantly sending and receiving data.
After removing every non-stock app, a factory reset and replacing phone, I've come to the conclusion that the SyncManager service for email is doing SOMETHING that's causing the connection to continue running. This condition QUICKLY drains the battery, and causes the phone to overheat and stop charging while connected to the charger. The only way to stop this is to stop the service or reboot the phone. The service restarts when the email application is opened, but the problem happens again after so many hours.
I have 6 email accounts setup. Two are ActiveSync accounts (one Hotmail ActiveSync and the other is an Exchange 2007 server), and the other 4 are IMAP accounts. I've tried with both manual and interval syncing, and the problem still happens.
I'm a big fan of consolidation, so I'd prefer not to use multiple mail apps to check my mail and like the combined view of the stock client. But... this is a problem. Has anyone else experienced this? Or maybe if you're experiencing overheating while charging or rapid battery drain while supposedly idle consider this may be the reason.
Interesting that no one else has this issue.
Well, after some days of decent battery life and no problems with this, I plugged my phone in to charge last night and woke this morning to a too hot to touch phone, which I promptly checked and there was the open 3G data connection and pulled the battery (which was also very hot). The only variable over the past few days is that I left wifi active on the phone until last night.
I've the the same problem. i used exchange also. apparenty there have been some problems with android 1.6 and on with appointments recurring for more than a year. ended up moving my exchange calender to gmail and everything was all good. took me a few weeks to figure it out
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I don't have an overheating issue, although I do have a big issue with the unconsolidated messaging solutions.
I didn't have a problem before the two updates either. the di7 and di8. this was the only remedy I have found. I know it sounds weird that appointments the recur for more than a year would be the culprit. I would give it a shot because it worked for me. just back everything up. I backed up my exchange calender to google calender and wiped out my exchange calender. give it a shot nothing to lose
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I'll give that a shot. I don't THINK I have any recurring appts in my calendars, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some stray birthday's in there.