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How to configure daytime sync only?

Hi got my new phone, but how to tell android that it will only sync my mails during daytime?
In Symbian and WinMobile this was part of the mail/exchange client maybe i am simply too blind to see it.

I would like to know too but my problem is getting the bloody thing to sync. I set it to fetch every 30 mins but it is not fetching at all.....

Mine syncs with imap, gmail and exchange pretty easy. Just opened the email app that was preinstalled and added the accounts. But it does it 24 hours every 60 minutes...

Assuming it's an exchange account:
(From Home)
Menu > Settings > Accounts and sync > your exchange account > Account settings > Sync schedule
This is on my Galaxy w/ the latest software, not sure if the other Galaxy's throughout the world have different options.

There doesnt seem to be an option to do this with gmail though, which sucks.

I think the OP wants to disable updating during the night and is not asking how to set the update frequency.
I use an App on my Hero (not got an SGS yet) called Timeriffic which allows you to mute etc by setting schedule - it can be used to control another App called APNdroid I believe that will do what you want to do.
I only use Timeriffic to mute and I set it for different times on different nights, so my phone stays active later at the weekend (when I go out) and it also unmutes later at the weekend (when I get a lie in if my son doesn't make too much noise).
Vince

If the OP wants to go beyond Exchange and stop Gmail and others at night, there's an app called 'Setting Profiles' in the market for $3 which will let one create a night-time profile which disables the automatic data sync for all accounts, it's not account specific but sounds like it'd do the trick with timed profiles.
It also does ringtone/sounds, brightness, GPS, wallpaper, volume and other settings and can trigger off of time of day, calendar, location, call, battery level, headset, bt, wifi etc.

I use the power control widget, and just turn off sync'ing when I go to bed.

jonsoini said:
Assuming it's an exchange account:
(From Home)
Menu > Settings > Accounts and sync > your exchange account > Account settings > Sync schedule
This is on my Galaxy w/ the latest software, not sure if the other Galaxy's throughout the world have different options.
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There i expected it to be, but isn't. I got software version F3 in the end on my Galaxy S.
But it should really be an global option to say data sync is on off.

Anyone else have problems with lag and constant syncing?

My MT4G is constantly getting more and more laggy. It seems like it lags when the phone is syncing... and it wants to sync all the time. The syncing icon appears in the notifications bar for at least 20 minutes out of every hour. I have tried a master reset and I restart, yes restart, my phone at least once per day to combat the lag... it flies for the first few hours and then the lag sets in... almost as bad as my old G1...

What exactly are you syncing?

It is also possible to change sync intervals on many applications, as well as turn syncing off entirely.
Individually:
Settings > Accounts & Sync> [Select Account] > Uncheck Sync options.
All:
Settings > Accounts & Sync > Uncheck Auto-sync.

I noticed this right after I signed into the "Peep" application...it would not stop syncing..i've tweeted a total of 3 times, and i'm not following anyone, so i have no idea what it was trying to sync..i just ended up unsyncing it in the settings.

Solved my Gingerbread Exchange battery drain issue (workaround)

Since Froyo, my Galaxy S suffers from battery drain if an exchange emailaccount is setup (irrespective of the update interval set). The only ROM & kernel which didn't do this was XWJPA with the Speedmod kernels.
Battery drain was easy to spot: SystemPanel would show that the CPU load while the phone was asleep was a steady 10-20%. Once the exchange account was removed, behaviour was back to normal immediately (idle CPU floating between 1% and 3%).
Since i like JVH very much, i have come up with a workaround in Gingerbread JVH: in Settings, Accounts and Synchronization, i untick 'Auto-sync' . This stops the idle CPU load.
Next, i have set up a task with Tasker, the task enables auto-sync every 4 hours, waits 5 minutes, and disables auto-sync again. This way, stuff is still synced every now and then without the battery drain.
Hope this helps someone.

Pls post your task settings for us to import. Thks

This does not solve the "suspend" bug.
Just tried it but after playing some game for testing this solution the suspend bug came back.

maartenlaeven said:
This does not solve the "suspend" bug.
Just tried it but after playing some game for testing this solution the suspend bug came back.
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well you could try removing software update app.

Already deleted the software update app. Doesn't seem to help.
Any other (new) sugestions?
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I have also seen this with my phone - but more importantly I have seen it on the server side as we have a number of Android phones, and we end up with a lot of processes running on the server.
I discovered by looking in the server logs that the email application is polling the Calendar on a constant basis. It is not just pinging the folder as it should do - it is also doing a sync every 5 minutes or so as far as I can tell.
My workaround is to uncheck the option for Calendar sync.
Other items Email, Contacts and Tasks all sync just fine as they are supposed to do.
Then every once in a while I check the Calendar sync option - perform a Sync Now to bring the calendar up to date - then uncheck the option again.
I do hope thy sort out this issue soon - as otherwise they have done a great job with enhancing the email application as far as ActiveSync integration goes.

LiverpoolFCfan said:
I have also seen this with my phone - but more importantly I have seen it on the server side as we have a number of Android phones, and we end up with a lot of processes running on the server.
I discovered by looking in the server logs that the email application is polling the Calendar on a constant basis. It is not just pinging the folder as it should do - it is also doing a sync every 5 minutes or so as far as I can tell.
My workaround is to uncheck the option for Calendar sync.
Other items Email, Contacts and Tasks all sync just fine as they are supposed to do.
Then every once in a while I check the Calendar sync option - perform a Sync Now to bring the calendar up to date - then uncheck the option again.
I do hope thy sort out this issue soon - as otherwise they have done a great job with enhancing the email application as far as ActiveSync integration goes.
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Exactly the same issue I am having.. Calandar is syncing like mad.... Im using Enhanced Email for my exchange email and thats bulling 46% of my battery.
Have removed the calandar sync and will update on results once i have a few hrs usage

Update: stopping exchange calendar sync has fixed my battery drain issues on jvh.
Sammy may have made changes to the sync app and stopped it from behaving properly. Guess its manual calendar sync until they fix
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update II:
Enhanced Email battery drain has gone from 40% to 4% since disabling calandar sync i now have more than 5hrs battery life

i m ready to disable all the calendar to get just few hours of battery

Krieg Noobie said:
Pls post your task settings for us to import. Thks
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Please note that this needs the program Tasker, available in the Market.
1. create a new Profile with the context Time, name the profile as you wish
2. set the From: field to 00:00, tick Repeat an set that to every x hours (i use 4 houres)
3. tap Done
4. Add a New Task, name the task as you wish
5. add an action, from the category Net, choose action Auto-sync, Set to On, tick Done
6. add an action, from the category Tasker, choose action Wait, Set to 5 minutes, tick Done
7. add an action, from the category Net, choose action Auto-sync, Set to Off, tick Done
8. Tick Done
9. Tick Apply
This way, its still possible to sync (even Agenda) without battery drain

LiverpoolFCfan said:
I have also seen this with my phone - but more importantly I have seen it on the server side as we have a number of Android phones, and we end up with a lot of processes running on the server.
I discovered by looking in the server logs that the email application is polling the Calendar on a constant basis. It is not just pinging the folder as it should do - it is also doing a sync every 5 minutes or so as far as I can tell.
My workaround is to uncheck the option for Calendar sync.
Other items Email, Contacts and Tasks all sync just fine as they are supposed to do.
Then every once in a while I check the Calendar sync option - perform a Sync Now to bring the calendar up to date - then uncheck the option again.
I do hope thy sort out this issue soon - as otherwise they have done a great job with enhancing the email application as far as ActiveSync integration goes.
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Thanks! This is consistent with something i have seen multiple times: if i opened up Settings, Accounts and Synchronization on the phone, and tapped the Exchange account, the grey spinning circle would always show next to the calendar entry, indicating it was in a sync loop or something.
I guess, this could very well be related to Android being sensitive to recurring appointments (and exceptions in recurring patterns) and appointments with large notes attached to them.
Could you point me to the logs on the Exchange server which lead you to this discovery. I'd like to dive in deeper.

SOLVED auto-sync for exchange auto-turning off

This is driving me nuts. I check the autosync option in exchange account settings and it works fine for mail and contacts. But for calendar it just turns off. When I'm in calendar/settings/syncronize calendar, I turn it on again, and next day it's off again.
It's annoying that I have to manually sync, since I use the calendar because of my forgetfullness .
Version android 3.2 stock, build P7500xwkl1.
All the mentioned apps, mail, calendar, are stock apps.
Any ideas? tnx in advance.

same issue for me....
any idea?

solved
Solved!
And it's not a bug, it's a feature
Turning on power saving features also has an option "turn sync off when not syncronizing"... Just uncheck it and it is done.

I have the same issue but I don't use power saving mode, the 2 checkboxes are unchecked so I assume that the auto sync should not be affected by the low battery power...
Is there another setting for that?

Ok, I finally solved it, I use Setting Profile as profile manager and I don't know why but one of my profiles had one of its settings to turn off the auto sync data....

No Gmail notifications after few minutes in idle.

Hi, I recently bought a new moto g5+ and after 1 week I think there is a problem with the Gmail notifications.
If my phone go to idle, after few minutes, it won't receive any gmail notifications.
Only if I wake it up, the mails arrive.
I run some tests and understood it's only after few minutes (4-5 maybe), before this, even in idle it works fine.
the notifications are not deleted if your read the mail en the PC (or outlook for my exchange account) - i thik it's supposed to automatically clean the notification in this case no ?
For whatsapp there is no problem.
I don't use greenify
same behavior if i install an app from the play store on my PC. It won't start to install if i don't wake up the phone
What I did today but it doesn't help:
- reboot
- uncheck and check everything in my GMAIL accounts sync
- reset everything in battery optimization
- the battery saver is off
Do you have any idea (beside a custom rom) ?
Thanks
my details are:
xt1687
android 7.0
build number npn25.137-83

I know you said you "reset" everything in Battery Optimization, but did you turn off Battery Optimization for Gmail?
Go to Settings - Battery - 3-dot menu - Battery Optimization and change the drop down to All Apps, then find Gmail and tap it and set it to Don't Optimize.
I actually see this a lot with various apps, especially if my phone is in my pocket for a while... When I pull it out and unlock, the notifications flood in from lots of apps.