Anyone know how much battery life is lost through syncing with HTC Sense (you need to have it on push if you want to be able to track your phone's location through the HTC Sense webpage) in addition to syncing with Exchange? In other words, does having 2 syncing services make much difference to the battery life over having only 1?
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Hello,
Before I consider switching from my TP2 to the HD2 I do have two simple questions about this device:
- With an exchange account, in the Sense UI, when you add an appointment do you have real categories or hardcoded one like in the TP2 (business, seasonal, ...)? Hardcoding such a thing is so stupid/lame
- How long does the phone last with exchange mail push and moderate use? 1 day, 2 day, more?
I was not able to find those info anywhere.
Thank you!
cant answer the first as i dont use it
you will be lucky to push a day from the battery
I easily get two days from my battery with moderate use.
In moderate use I get two days, too. Never run out of battery during a day, when close to full charge in the morning, even under heavy use.
new appointment on sense calender gives personal, seasonal, business etcetera, while new appointment through the wm calender app shows all your sync ed categories to choose from.
samsamuel said:
new appointment on sense calender gives personal, seasonal, business etcetera, while new appointment through the wm calender app shows all your sync ed categories to choose from.
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Haaa this is SO stupid! I wonder why no one else cryed about it!
I just discovered this with the TP2 so called update. Breaking this feature is so meaning-less.
I don't think that I am going to spend any more money on HTC's devices if they break business feature for useless features.... If I wanted a toy I would have bought an iphone!
@TomH01: When you said two days, was it with push always on?
No that's without push as I don't use it.
Thank you everyone for all those info, as the situation is quite as bad as with my TP2 I'll stick to it
Hi
New to htc hd2, 2 quick questions, what is push email? and secondly i get my htc hd2 2mrw; i;ve signed up with hotmail and gmail accounts to my HTC HD2, how quick will my htc hd2 locate a new email sent to my phone?
Thanks, Sorry if it sounds silly; i've been with nokia since day one; and this is my first smartphone.
Thanks in advance
Ali
push email is where as soon as the email comes thru to ur email client it will appear on ur hd2 its a big battery drain where if u set it to check every hour or 2 it saves alot of battery compared to push hope that helps
Thanks so much for clearing it up
Sorry, can't help but to throw this in:
When you use SchedHandler to take care of the "push mail", then it will not be a big battery drain at all. The opposite is true. In fact, it will probably be lighter for your battery than when you configure to check the email manually once every 2 hrs or whatever. And emails will arrive within seconds
So far I am ok. But the phone does have some issues that are offset by some features.
My HD2 was rommed with the Energy Rom
Manila 2.5.20161332.0
Radio 2.12.50
Protocol 15.40.50.07U
Battery sucks period..my tweaks = using 2G, screen brightness to half, still sucks
Opera browser sucks looks Blackberry like..My Mytouch browsed the web so much better
Google maps looks like crap? Again the Mytouch looked way better and had the my location feature
Market App is ok but apps like Shazam are trial based and then you have to pay for music tags? On Andriod free music tags
Tried to add a pop3 email account was able to receive email but not send them out as they would get stuck in the outbox
The good points
Twidriod is replaced with Touchtwit which is good
Calander and Contacts sync with my Outlook
I use my phone for business so Calander and Office is a great future
I can use the phone as a modem to get internet on my laptop (HUGE PLUS)
Way better Camera and Video then the Mytouch
Transformers 1 and 2 on the phone ( had some video playback lag?)
Over all I am happy with this phone...Hoping in the future that Andriod will be able to go on or maybe I will go windows since I use it everyday on my laptop
ok give Midomi a try on the open market better than shazam, which also gives you a better market place,
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/omarket/
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-midomi.html
Battery life get used to it most of us get a day maybe a little bit more,
get the new google maps, put it in satellite mode looks normal to me,
email make sure your account is setup to send and receive through a phone, and you have set it up correctly on the phone, hotmail is a ***** to setup if thats what you trying
Yes, the meaning of the expression "battery sucks" is really vague.
With light to moderate use, realistically two calendar days.
Heavy usage will last one and a half calendar days.
Wishing or demanding anything more than that, might as well turning off your phone most of the time while not in use, you can last 3 to 5 days with that *method*
(A calendar day is based on 10 work hour of the phone).
So, I just bought the Epic.. Coming from HTC Pro 2... Syncing with my contacts from my Exchange 2007 server and Outlook 2007.
So, I have loaded up most of my contacts with photos using Outlook.. The issue is, they degrade the image to 72x72.. Looks horrible.. At one time or another, I used Photo Contacts Pro for Windows Mobile, and it made the image quality 300x300 which was much better,
So, now on the Epic, I want to start replacing some of the contact pictures I have.. What is the best way of going around that? If I use Oulook (which is the fastest method), it will degrade the picture to a blury/jaggy mess... If I use the contact settings on the Epic, I see I can load them from my Picassa... But what resolution/dpi will that be at?
Is there a better method?
Bonus question: Is there a way to backup all the links I make with my contacts (ie: linking each to Facebook), so when I put a new custom ROM on, I woun't lose all that work?
Thanks in advance for any help!
I would say the problem is def the limitations of outlook. I have noticed this happen to me before when syncing my contacts from outlook to any device I used iphone the biggest problem. Now using android I have google manage all my contacts because its effortless. Just type in your email and they are there. I will note though that you can set the images of your contacts from gmail contact page but they still do not seem to be quite as high quality as when I set them via the phone. But once they are set threw the phone the quality will remain high on the next device I sync them to.
Hi there,
I am currently on Dorminax's 3.1.2 NAND ROM and loving it, but there is one problem that seems to plague me. I use microsoft exchange for my University emails, and every ROM I have used seems to have the same problem.
The roms are usually very snappy and have quite good battery life. But literally as soon as I enable my microsoft exchange email account, they become sluggish and the battery drain is very excessive.
I have sync set to every 15mins, (Which is the same for my gmail and hotmail, which do not cause battery drain).
I just wanted to know if this is a common problem, or if there is something I can do to stop/help this?
Thanks in advance!
I am using a sense ROM and don't have any problems of sluggish performance although battery life i can't be too proud. Why not try setting to sync to maybe every hour. You could also try setting to sync email to 3 days as opposed to the whole server. Try also limiting the email size to small like 5kb and when you want to read a specific email then the phone will download. Hope this helps.
For battery i use Juice Defender free on google's play shop. I set everything to bare minimum. I read email only when i want to. Battery could last up to 30h.
I didnt think about reducing the email size, thats a good one! Thank you!
I had similar problem, my fix is outlined here:
http://avpaul.blogspot.ca/2012/03/exchange-battery-consumption-on-android.html
With email i never use push mail. It's drain a lot
when I want to read an e-mail, I turn on the data and sync manually (I have 5 account ). one Exchange, three imap and one smtp
PS : When i leave the data on. Automatique sync is every 1 hours