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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.

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.

2 Problems, please help

I am having problem regarding my screen wake up. It wakes up from time to time automatically. I installed Wakelock Detector to track the app and found out Window manager has woken up the screen. How to disable it?
Another problem I have is callendar sync.
From time to time after restart my calendar sync disappears, I have no callendar at all and there is no ability to sync it in settings -> accounts -> google -> callendar simply becouse, IT DISSAPPEARS!!! After restar everything comes back to normal for few hours or to next restart....
HELP!!!

I have figured out what wakes phone... It was battery manager which draineg my battery... sic...
About the second problem, I can add that deleting google account and re-adding it also gives me back option to sync calendar for few hours...

Do not use unnecessary apps, unless it requires for purpose. Stock apps are enough according to me. These all are just fashionable, no real purpose. Some rungs in background and keeps ram and drains battery.
About the calendar/splaner app: again look for any aftermarket apps if anything causing this. remove if any apps for sync automated etc. From account uncheck google calendar sync or turn off Sync from notification then Go to apps > all apps and find the splanner and clear all data including cache memory. (If you have only google calendar, contact birthdays data then no probs, but all manual events will be gone.) After clearing restart the phone and again check calendar from account or enable sync. Let it sync or do a manual google sync and then check. check once and again restart the phone and then check again.
If this solve then fine otherwise do a factory reset or do a hard reset by holding power+home+vol button. Its clearly a app related issue.

soumen.sam said:
Do not use unnecessary apps, unless it requires for purpose. Stock apps are enough according to me. These all are just fashionable, no real purpose. Some rungs in background and keeps ram and drains battery.
About the calendar/splaner app: again look for any aftermarket apps if anything causing this. remove if any apps for sync automated etc. From account uncheck google calendar sync or turn off Sync from notification then Go to apps > all apps and find the splanner and clear all data including cache memory. (If you have only google calendar, contact birthdays data then no probs, but all manual events will be gone.) After clearing restart the phone and again check calendar from account or enable sync. Let it sync or do a manual google sync and then check. check once and again restart the phone and then check again.
If this solve then fine otherwise do a factory reset or do a hard reset by holding power+home+vol button. Its clearly a app related issue.
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Hmmmmm, I wiped phone, installed everything from begining... AND!!! Nothing.... It's the same.
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[Q] Disabled *checkin, *gtalk previously, re-enabled *checkin services, no syncing?

I disabled them as an effort to minimize wakelocks (similar to what is listed in this post)
It's definitely helped with getting better battery life but I prefer to have my email sync and LinkedIn sync back. They're all enabled but just don't sync unless I manually do it.
Can anyone advise? Screen caps of current enabled/disabled Google Services Framework attached
Edit: I've tried turning Sync off and turning back on, logging out and logging back in to the account, turning sync off and back on via the menu in Data Usage screen

bo8 said:
I disabled them as an effort to minimize wakelocks (similar to what is listed in this post)
It's definitely helped with getting better battery life but I prefer to have my email sync and LinkedIn sync back. They're all enabled but just don't sync unless I manually do it.
Can anyone advise? Screen caps of current enabled/disabled Google Services Framework attached
Edit: I've tried turning Sync off and turning back on, logging out and logging back in to the account, turning sync off and back on via the menu in Data Usage screen
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Sorry, those screenshots are slightly incorrect. I did in fact re-enable the *checkin receivers and have rebooted the phone but still no "real time" syncing happening with my Gmail app.

Finally revisited this as my phone is still unable to sync notifications in "real time" at all.
I'm finding that checking all the "checkin" services/receivers under Google Services Framework via ROM Toolbox does not actually keep them checked (confirmed via refresh).
Any idea what is going on and how I can fix it?
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Help please!! Chrome sync won't stay on, sets off by itself {screenshots}

Thank you for taking your time to look at my thread.
My problem is with chrome sync.
I'm using CM11 M12 clean install and I've had this problem way before that.
I use Llama to turn auto sync on and off periodically. I noticed that chrome sync is always off when I take a look at the list, even after checking the box while sync is on, it turns off when sync is off. I've attempted many solutions and it still sets itself off.
This only happens to chrome.... the other apps (app data, calendar, contacts etc...) that I've chosen to sync or not when auto sync toggles, stay as they are.

Anyone?

same issue
same thing here, samsung galaxy s5, stock rom 4.4.2, the sync option of the crome keeps switching off for no apparent reason, it is driving me nuts