Hey guys,
Let me preface this by saying that I can't DEFINITIVELY confirm this as a fix but it seems to have worked for me and my wife. There could be other factors that I'm not thinking of though. But essentially, the idea is that you turn off T-Mo syncing when both background data AND auto-sync are on. I think this causes the phone to actually "register" the T-Mo getting turned off, rather than still operating underneath your OFF controls. Then you turn back off the sync settings.
- In Accounts and Sync, check ON Background data and Auto-sync, if they're not on.
- Go into T-Mobile and UNCHECK Sync Contacts
- Go back to and UNCHECK Auto-sync.
If you now look at the T-Mo settings, there will no longer be a check box OR a sync icon and while the icons themselves probably have nothing to do with it, it would appear that the phone is no longer even offering the OPTION to sync T-Mobile. Again, I can't say this is a definitive fix for the problem, but since doing this, I haven't seen the syncing icon. And since doing this to my wife's phone, hers has gone from syncing all the time to not at all. And needless to say, battery life has improved.
I'd love to see if it DOESN'T work for someone. Just so that we can rule this out if it's not really a solution.
Thanks guys.
I say this works has worked for me and greatly improved my battery.
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T-Mo just needs to get rid of this software when 2.2 is ready. There is absolutely zero reason for it to be there when google does this much better and it's built into the OS. They are killing their customers. My wife is furious about her contact issues.
This is actually the first time I've read about the syncing issue, though I have noticed it. Out of curiosity though, I'm assuming that by disabling the general Auto-Sync setting that things like Facebook, Twitter and Pure Messenger aren't going to update unless I do so manually, right?
sandpaperback said:
This is actually the first time I've read about the syncing issue, though I have noticed it. Out of curiosity though, I'm assuming that by disabling the general Auto-Sync setting that things like Facebook, Twitter and Pure Messenger aren't going to update unless I do so manually, right?
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If you turn off auto sync, everything needs to be manually updated. I noticed a HUGE jump in battery life from disabling auto-sync. I just turned it back on, but turned off auto-sync for everything except gmail and weather. I'll see where this leaves me.
I just got my new slide and I like it execpt the keyboard it weird compared to my old g1 & sense kinda bugs me. I had trouble w/ all the syncing killing my battery but after this I see a great increase in battery life.
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I have Background data still checked and Auto sync. But i disabled News Stock and Tmobile. And left Facebook Gmail and Weather. Well see where that leaves me with battery
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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.
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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
good day.
Hi guys, I have setup my corporate Exchange mailbox using the built in application.
However, it works VERY poorly (settings set to Push) - sometimes the widget (or alerts for that matter) wont display new mail for HOURS! Until I manually go into the Mail application, and a minute later suddenly I get all the emails, and 4 emails I've been trying to 'share' (Notes) have been all sent at once.
Any idea how to fix this? or what to use instead?
On my old Dell Streak, using the default program, I had instant alerts on emails! sometimes even before Outlook had a popup!
this is annoying to no end..
I'm not sure if you're organization sets device security, but mine required a passcode to be set on my device if I used my Exchange account. For whatever reason I was still able to use the pattern lock but I noticed the same delays that you did. On a whim I set it to a numeric lock and all of a sudden my mail decided to push properly.
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I'm not sure if you're organization sets device security, but mine required a passcode to be set on my device if I used my Exchange account. For whatever reason I was still able to use the pattern lock but I noticed the same delays that you did. On a whim I set it to a numeric lock and all of a sudden my mail decided to push properly.
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ok well, I tried this - 10 mins ago someone sent email (I see it on outlook already) - yet nothing on the Note (I switched to numeric lock hours ago), so must be something else... any ideas?
wifi is connected, and gmail is getting updates without issues.
I have this problem, too, and I've seen several others post about it as well. It's quite frustrating. Sometimes it works instantly and sometimes it'll go a couple hours without sending/receiving. Some people think it's a push bug and say changing to polling fixes it, but it didn't for me. I set it to 15 minutes and I still get the same problem with delays. It's really frustrating. I'm going to see if it's an app issue by installing another email client such as K9 or Touchdown.
Also, I wonder if it's a connectivity problem; I've been having weird issues; I work from home a lot so I'm here a lot in my wifi, and it seems sometimes my phone won't use the cellular network. I turn my phone off, it goes into deep sleep and turns wifi off, then I won't get any emails until something else wakes my phone, turning wifi back on. Like the email client can't or won't wake the phone when needed. I'm going to start a post about this tomorrow.
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I have this problem, too, and I've seen several others post about it as well. It's quite frustrating. Sometimes it works instantly and sometimes it'll go a couple hours without sending/receiving. Some people think it's a push bug and say changing to polling fixes it, but it didn't for me. I set it to 15 minutes and I still get the same problem with delays. It's really frustrating. I'm going to see if it's an app issue by installing another email client such as K9 or Touchdown.
Also, I wonder if it's a connectivity problem; I've been having weird issues; I work from home a lot so I'm here a lot in my wifi, and it seems sometimes my phone won't use the cellular network. I turn my phone off, it goes into deep sleep and turns wifi off, then I won't get any emails until something else wakes my phone, turning wifi back on. Like the email client can't or won't wake the phone when needed. I'm going to start a post about this tomorrow.
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My wifi also disconnects sometimes if the phone is idle I don't know why.
That happens at home, it does not switch to 3G as I don't have any 3G plan atm at all (and its disabled in settings anyway).
However the mail push issue is prevalent even when I use the phone and its active - mails still don't arrive! even if I click refresh on the widget itself, no new mails until I launch the Mail application!
Ok well, this has gotten worse.
My limit is when I show up for a meeting only to find out 15 mins ago a postpone email was sent.
I've mailed Samsung support, hopefully will get an answer to resolve the issue - will update when I hear something back.
Anyone else experiences the same problem? please post here...
Also anyone who solved it
I had the same issue as well,So i deleted my Exchange account started all over again from scratch,on the set up i chose all the options I needed,now it works as it should,so what I have noticed:
1-After the setup is complete,if you go to the Account Settings and start to fiddle with the settings that seems to upset the push funtion ,except changing the notification sound didnt do any harm.
2-When I assign my custom Notification tone it also seems to upset the Push funtionality(but I am not 100% sure of this one yet.)
Alright. My phone is having a huge problem syncing. First I noticed it with Gmail. I can tell how instant I am getting emails because I am sitting here at work on my PC. I can send an email from where ever (in this case my outlook work address), send it...see the email pop up on my screen in the Gmail internet tab. Here is the thing. It takes anywhere from 1-20 mins for the email to finally get to my phone. It is SO random. Sometimes if I pick my phone up and turn the screen on, it pushes through alittle faster. I have tried everything (I think) the last two days. Obviously all my settings are correct. AutoSync, the Sync settings in the gmail itself.
To see if it was just gmail, I put my work email on the phone to see how that works. It's EXACTLY the same. Sporadic syncing. I then tried cloudmagic email app which people rave about. Same thing.
What gives? I've about had it with this phone. I even tried a factory reset this morning. Still have the issue. I'm thinking of taking the phone back honestly. Could this be a hardware thing to do with connection? I've tried all of this with strong wifi on, and with perfect 4G signal. Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks
Nobody here has ANY idea what could be going on with my phone? I thought I fixed it and had it narrowed down to the WiFi st work but I just tried it again and it took 6 minutes for it to show up on my phone. If the phone is awake, it seems to be faster. Does this sound like it could be a hardware issue? Should I take this phone back? I already did a factory reset ect. Someone please help!!
Hello everyone, I am on sprint and have the option for enabling RCS data messaging on my phone. it works great but will not allow my phone to sleep. It is keeping it awake nearly 50% of my screen off time and I was wondering if I am the only one experiencing this. Tried factory reset to stock just to make sure it wasnt a rom issue and it is present whenever the RCS messaging is enabled. Lets use this as a place to talk about this issue and find a work around/fix.
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Hello everyone, I am on sprint and have the option for enabling RCS data messaging on my phone. it works great but will not allow my phone to sleep. It is keeping it awake nearly 50% of my screen off time and I was wondering if I am the only one experiencing this. Tried factory reset to stock just to make sure it wasnt a rom issue and it is present whenever the RCS messaging is enabled. Lets use this as a place to talk about this issue and find a work around/fix.
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I'm not on Sprint, nor do I have RCS but maybe here is one reason. The "Ignore Battery Optimization" that you have to set in order to use it so that it can run in the background all the time.
Yeah that was something I thought about as well but it seems unreasonable that it would just keep my phone awake so much even when it should be in deep sleep. I guess I must be in a small minority of use with sprint and a brand new Google service on top of it.