So my wife and I both have Sprint's latest EVO 4G, and like many other people, we are experiencing battery issues.
I set my phone to use my WiFi network at home, and on my router administration, I can see every HTTP request that is made. What I am seeing is that there are continuous requests for Facebook profile photos, and it requests the same file repeatedly anywhere between 10 to 60 times in a row.
I'm sure this is what's draining the battery very quickly. I even have our phones to sync anywhere between every 2 hours to every 8 hours, but it's still doing it.
I read around and saw that some people are removing the Friendstream widget, so I gave that a try, but that didn't seem to help.
Next step, I turned off Sync Contacts for Facebook for HTC Sense, and sure enough, the requests have stopped.
I will have to test this out a little bit longer to confirm that this is indeed the cause, but so far, I think that's a big culprit to our short battery lives.
Can anyone confirm that they have experienced the same?
I've put up a screen-shot as well:
http://www.makotosan.com/files/Facebook-HTTP-requests.png
I noticed that my EVO was doing something similar when logcatting (and I don't use the Sense Launcher or widgets). Will definitely do a battery test w/ contact sync on/off to see how it effects things when I get a chance. I average about 6%/hr battery drain currently...
Just realized that I forgot to update the subject line. I originally thought it was Friendstream while writing this post, but have determined that it's not.
I started a seperate thread about how the 'People" widget was really causing battery drains on my Evo. ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6898378 ) I used it for my quick contacts, but I always noticed that it would update the pictures from facebook/have status messages updated..
So I betcha it's the people widget..
-mark
I read your post on this and decided to give it a try and remove the people widget, but that didn't stop the continuous HTTP connection that the phone had open.
I was able to finally narrow it down to the Facebook contacts sync.
My wife was driving around town for just a couple of hours the other day and her phone had died after a fresh charge within that time.
The other day, she went to the doctor's and was playing on the phone for about an hour to pass the time. Along with her normal use of the phone, it made it to 38% by the end of the day. This is after I had turned of the Facebook contacts sync.
I think the developers of the Facebook book need to investigate this issue.
I set facebook to only update once a day, and disabled the live feed sync. I like the contact sync; it's useful for new numbers, birthdays and caller id pictures.
yes, i have the same problem too, had to disable it kuz i would have to kill the "people" process too
I have over 300 of my phone's contacts synced to facebook.. and my battery would drop half way in a matter of an hour..
ive posted about this numerous times in the data usage thread, being that this had costed me about 13 gigs (being all the links to facebook)
It happened to me too. It was causing reboots and killed my battery from a full charge to 10% in less than 4 hours while just sitting there. It also made my awake time and up time exactly the same. I identified this problem by looking at my processes in os monitor. The people process was at 30% cpu constantly. It was actually making my device hot to the touch.
You don't need to remove the people widget, just turn off auto facebook contacts syncing like the op said. Now I just manually update my contacts every once in a while.
I tried this and have definately noticed an increase in battery life. To me the contact syncing is pretty much useless except for the the contact pictures so this isn't much of a trade off. Would definately rather have the extra battery life. I don't have 300+ contacts syncing with facebook so it's not as huge as some, but it *is* a noticeable difference.
Yes! This is all but confirmed in a few threads on androidforums and now here. It seems to be some kind of glitch in the contact syncing. Basically turn off the automatic syncing and maybe do a manual sync once in a while to pull new contact photos, etc.
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Hi All,
I have been experiencing poor battery life with my N1 - until I stumbled across the issue.
Now I am trying to figure out how to fix the issue.
Basically; I have 3 email accounts setup (1 push to corporate exchange and 2 pop3 accounts).
What I have noticed is that randomly the email accounts will fail to receive emails and when going into the email app the loading circle (or whatever it is called) just spins and spins indefintely. This obviously results in usage of the phone (i.e. not sleeping) and the phone heats up and battery goes down v.quickly.
Now, I know I have sufficient network coverage as I am able to surf and use other network required programs - so it does not appear to be due to not being able to get a data connection.
Has anyone come across this issue before?
yeah I have this issue too... its pretty annoying.
Ok thats comforting...sort of. Atleast it is not specific to me then. Sounds like a bug?
What do you do about it?
i have a similar issue...my pop mail...just wont receive email...it looks, and stops...but no email...its not draining my batt btw
Slightly different in that mine looks and looks and looks and just keeps doing so - until it has drained by battery as best it can. Most of the time I have realised as the phone gets hot due to not sleeping. So I can kill it off.
Quite annoying however. As email is fundamental program with these types of phones.
Is there somewhere on Googles site where we I can inform them of this issue?
Not sure if it's just me or not but has anyone noticed a cell standby issue too? My phone gets up to around 20% while I sleep which is weird because in my room I have four bars... so is it my device or does anyone else havt the same issue?
I did notice this myself. I would go to sleep with 95% and wake up with 70%.
So went to Settings/Accounts and Services/ and turned off Background Data.
Went to sleep last night with 97% and woke up this mornin' (nah na na nuh) with 94%. The gmail app seems to hammer the data. And I have found no scheduling within that app. Stock app has scheduling gonna try that and report back.
btw: with background data off and you go to the market it wants it on so I'll turn it on and back off after.
good day.
My cell standby floats around 11% at all times.
I find this to be acceptable.
My battery life has been satisfactory.
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As long as this means my gmail/text/gtalk works automatically, I figure I may as well leave this off.
I don't use any syncing apps like Facebook, our anything like that.
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I should have thought of this before. Turning off now, we'll see what happens. Also does anyone else notice flaky 3g connection mine is weird, a lot of the time my 3g bar just says 3g with a d under it instead of arrows and my signal fluxuates quite frequently verdict for you guys?
Ah, screw this.
Market doesn't work without it turned on and neither does the Yahoo Mail app.
That wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't bothered by Yahoo with a notification tray icon telling me to turn it on.
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egg_head said:
Ah, screw this.
Market doesn't work without it turned on and neither does the Yahoo Mail app.
That wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't bothered by Yahoo with a notification tray icon telling me to turn it on.
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Use Gmail?
I use both and can't justify getting rid of my Yahoo just yet.
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DigitalDementia said:
I should have thought of this before. Turning off now, we'll see what happens. Also does anyone else notice flaky 3g connection mine is weird, a lot of the time my 3g bar just says 3g with a d under it instead of arrows and my signal fluxuates quite frequently verdict for you guys?
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The d under the 3g bar is like a 3g "idle" icon if u will. But i have had a lot of issues with service and 3g. I rarely get above 2 bars and if i do its only for a short while. I lose 3g more often than i would like and get the dreaded 1x though it usually switches right back. I absolutely love this phone but the constantly having weak signal is killing my experience. Am i the only one struggling for service?
Nope, same here. Just left the Verizon store for the second time for this issue & connection errors with the Samsung email app. Their fix for this? "No one's having these problems that we know of. Let's try another PRL list."
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garywojdan81 said:
Nope, same here. Just left the Verizon store for the second time for this issue & connection errors with the Samsung email app. Their fix for this? "No one's having these problems that we know of. Let's try another PRL list."
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I've encountered problems with the stock e-mail app on several Android phones.
There's seemly no answer to why it works and then doesn't work.
You'll find numerous threads suggesting you use K9, or some other 3rd party e-mail application for many POP3 e-mail addresses.
My main e-mail is a GMail, so that's a convenience for me.
I also use a Yahoo and before the Yahoo Mail app from the Market, I would also have trouble with the Android e-mail application from time to time.
According to the battery monitor, Cell standby is using a lot of my battery. Seems like this started happening more once I flashed the voodoo kernel and overclocked to 1.2 GHz, and put the "kickstand" case on my phone. I'm going to run fora few more days and see if it's consistently bad, and if so, I'll try taking the case off first to see if it gets better.
For instance this morning it says Cell standby has used 33% of my battery, it's been on for 11 hours, and I haven't charged in about 6 hours. I've dropped to 62% battery capacity, with the screen mostly off and not using the phone in those 6 hours. It says my time without a signal is 23%, I've seen it as high as 40%... I don't get very good signal in my apartment, but this seems wayyyy worse than it should be. I did a *228 update yesterday but that doesn't seem to have helped.
thanks, was wondering why battery drop 20% even when i set to airplane mode before bed.
chopper the dog said:
I did notice this myself. I would go to sleep with 95% and wake up with 70%.
So went to Settings/Accounts and Services/ and turned off Background Data.
Went to sleep last night with 97% and woke up this mornin' (nah na na nuh) with 94%. The gmail app seems to hammer the data. And I have found no scheduling within that app. Stock app has scheduling gonna try that and report back.
btw: with background data off and you go to the market it wants it on so I'll turn it on and back off after.
good day.
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shagaholik said:
thanks, was wondering why battery drop 20% even when i set to airplane mode before bed.
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Disregard what I said. That statement was made before a root. I significantly improved battery by rooting, purchasing titanium pro and freezing all things verizon and countless other apps that came on the phone.
Things I have frozen.
3G Mobile hotspot
411 search
analog clock 1,2,3,and 4
All live wallpapers
Backup Assistant
Bing
Blockbuster
Buddies now
Calender clock
car cradle
city ID
daily briefing
desk cradle
digital clock 1and2
dual clock 1and2
Email 2.1 (I only use gmail)
Feeds and updates
InnoPath
Kindle
memo 1.0
MobileIM
My verizon mobile
Skype
SNSAccount
Swype (I use touch pal)
Sync service
vcast music, tones, videos
voicemail 1.0.20
vvmservice
vz navigator
vzw sms filter
weather clock
Have not needed the car charger since. Goes whole day and more.
good day.
My cell standby stays high at my home as time without a signal is between 45% to 65%. My battery life is horrible because of this. I am unrooted...
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i actually have TB Pro freezing majority of the stuff on your list. even installed SuperPower by Chainfire (thread #807989 since i can't post links) to help w/ conserving power. even in airplane mode still lose 20-25% by the time i wake up.
chopper the dog said:
Disregard what I said. That statement was made before a root. I significantly improved battery by rooting, purchasing titanium pro and freezing all things verizon and countless other apps that came on the phone.
Things I have frozen.
3G Mobile hotspot
411 search
analog clock 1,2,3,and 4
All live wallpapers
Backup Assistant
Bing
Blockbuster
Buddies now
Calender clock
car cradle
city ID
daily briefing
desk cradle
digital clock 1and2
dual clock 1and2
Email 2.1 (I only use gmail)
Feeds and updates
InnoPath
Kindle
memo 1.0
MobileIM
My verizon mobile
Skype
SNSAccount
Swype (I use touch pal)
Sync service
vcast music, tones, videos
voicemail 1.0.20
vvmservice
vz navigator
vzw sms filter
weather clock
Have not needed the car charger since. Goes whole day and more.
good day.
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shagaholik said:
i actually have TB Pro freezing majority of the stuff on your list. even installed SuperPower by Chainfire (thread #807989 since i can't post links) to help w/ conserving power. even in airplane mode still lose 20-25% by the time i wake up.
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Sounds like a background process is hogging. See this post. Hope it helps find your problem.
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After two days of use I must say that the Sync/update feature is very bad and I think it is one of the main reason for the battery to die quickly.
My phone is always try to sync something, and it is very laggy when in this state. The worst is facebook for HTC that takes 30 min every time to sync only the contacts. And this happen everytime.
Then even gmail sync is painful with my calendar always getting stuck. On my Nexus one those thing were ultra fast, I could not remeber seeing the update circle in the notification area for more than 3 second. Now my phone is constantly in this mode and uses a lot of resources for doing so.
And Yes, I turned all the update time to the maxium possible, like once per day, but it still doing its fu****ng things.
I HATE IT. I disable Facebook sync for contacts, any back fire for doing so?
Anyway I REALLY WANT TO USE THE STOCK ANDROID OVER NASTY SENSE... Is it possible, can I have vannilla back?
Hey, i want to know if anyone else can confirm this.
I noticed the past 2 days my battery was draining really quick (i usually have great battery life). Using Spare Parts i noticed the phone wouldn't sleep.
I was wondering what was causing this, and then i realized both yesterday at some point and today i received a message through Facebook chat.
I then went into the chat and went offline.
I then went back to Spare Parts and noticed my phone slept again like it's supposed to.
Can anyone else confirm that this also cause their phones to remain awake 100% of time?
Again, it only happened to me once i received a message, simply being logged into chat didn't seem to do anything.
You weren't alone in noticing this. When I first updated to Facebook 1.5.0 I too noticed that my battery life went straight to ****. Although I never never used the Chat part of the Fb client, I guess it was still always running. Before dumping the update and going back to 1.4.1, I had done the same thing you did: go to chat and select "go offline" and my battery life in the days since has been relatively back to normal.
Same problem here, i didnt know about the go offline thing till now lol. I just downloaded task panel for the sole purpose of killing facebook. looks like i wont need it after all. Thanks for the tip!
Facebook chat on my phone helped me get lucky last night so I'm willing to sacrifice the battery life at this point.
Answer to: "Why, after great battery life, did my battery life deteriorate?"
This isn't a question -- but I think it's the answer a question that I have had, and that I suspect others may have had as well. To formalize this, the question could be:
Why, after having had great battery life for 3 months, did my battery life drop down dramatically, and stay there?
I've had my G2 since Cyber Monday, and it's been a spectacular phone in general, and like so many others, I've experienced fantastic battery life - until a couple of weeks ago. Instead of 40 or 50 hours, and 5 or 6 hours of screen time, I watched my battery running down to 40% by midday, and when the battery was at 15% before bedtime, I only had gotten less than 3 hours of screen time.
I examined all the running processes, ran various utilities like better battery stats, experimented with the GPS, location services, etc -- although that shouldn't have been necessary, since I had no problem with any of those until the past couple of weeks. Google services were consuming most of the battery, and producing a lot of wake locks.
While digging through files and processes, trying to find a clue, I was reviewing my accounts, finding and removing duplicates, and I noticed that I was having sync issues, specifically seeing the message:
Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly
Lots of posts on the topic with various suggestions - and one in particular caught my eye. It seems that, although my phone appeared to be acting normally for the most part -- allowing me to send and receive email, add events to my calendar, etc. But I was still seeing that sync error message. Seemed a bit contradictory, but it seemed as if the gmail and calendar client had remained logged in, despite my having changed my account logon password awhile back. I don't know the innards of Android account management, but my impression is that sync services log on periodically -- and couldn't at that point. Guessing this was the cause of the error message (sync experiencing problems). I tried to "add an account" / "existing account", but couldn't add my Google account while it was already in place -- so I removed the account re-added it -- this time specifying the new password I had established earlier...and syncing started to work. It took some time to sync gmail, calendar, docs, etc -- but it all worked this time with no error.
In several hours since that time, with the phone idling, interrupted by just a few minutes of use, the battery level has only dropped 1%. Screen has consumed 42% of the battery, Android System and OS less than 15% each. Too early to be sure, but this already looks a LOT more like what I had been experiencing when battery life was great.
My guess: the Android sync service was unable to log in, and kept attempting to very frequently -- hence the wake locks, and excessing system activity that actually used more battery than any other process. Once the proper credentials were known again to the sync service, it started working normally -- and allowed deep sleep once again in between sync events. Again -- I don't know the innards, so there's some speculation here, but it seems reasonable - and the results are very promising so far.
Any of you seeing less than the stellar battery performance the G2 *should* be enjoying might want to take a look at Settings / Accounts -- and then take a look at your Google account -- display the list of accounts and then tap on the Google account itself to see Data & Synchronization. Depending on what you have installed, you'll see items like App Data, Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Drive, Gmail, etc. From here, you should be able to see if they're all syncing properly - or not. If you're seeing the message, like I did:
Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly
You might want to try working your way through the solution I describe above.
Thanks for this info mate! This should be made a sticky post.
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Yes thanks for this helpful info. Much oblige
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I checked my accounts and as OP said I had the can't sync message. I went into the Google Account and it turns out it was the 'internet' sync. So I've turned that off. Seems to have a good effect so far as I'm still on100% battery after using my phone for a bit.
Update on today's battery. 60% with 3 hours SoT. This little trick has really sorted my battery out!