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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.

[Q] Cant stop sync

Like many others I have very poor battery life with my handset and if I forget to charge overnight it's empty in the morning.
To try and get as much out as possible I am disableing everything I can in terms of wifi, bluetooth and sync.
Now this is where I'm confused. The phone is linked to my Exchange server for contacts and email with push updates enabled. However even when I disable sync and background data I'm still having email pushed to the device.
This is definately not helping on the battery life front but short of doing a full reset and setup is there anywhere else I should be looking to turn this off when not needed?

harwooda said:
Like many others I have very poor battery life with my handset and if I forget to charge overnight it's empty in the morning.
To try and get as much out as possible I am disableing everything I can in terms of wifi, bluetooth and sync.
Now this is where I'm confused. The phone is linked to my Exchange server for contacts and email with push updates enabled. However even when I disable sync and background data I'm still having email pushed to the device.
This is definately not helping on the battery life front but short of doing a full reset and setup is there anywhere else I should be looking to turn this off when not needed?
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you can't, what you can do is to change it to sync once every hr.
Go to Settings > Accounts and sync > Tab on your exchange account > Account Settings > Email check frequency, change it to "Every Hour"
and Amount to synchronize to "1 day", it won't delete email you have downloaded to SGS, it just don't try to sync older day data. --> This will help your battery life

Thats just daft.
Why have the options to disable sync if it's then compleatly ignored. Is this the same for the google account as well? I only have this on the phone for market access but will manually disable all sync on this account if it will help battery life.

harwooda said:
Thats just daft.
Why have the options to disable sync if it's then compleatly ignored. Is this the same for the google account as well? I only have this on the phone for market access but will manually disable all sync on this account if it will help battery life.
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Google Mail sync will be manual
even with 1 hr + 1 day setting, I get significant battery life improvement.

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.

Google Services draining battery

Hello, in the last couple of days googleservices drain my battery more than screen. In the battery usage stats ,googleservices is everytime around 25-30%.
I disabled location settings (in the phone settings and in the google settings). im not using google now, nor any other google apps (books,games,music). nothing. What could be the reasons and is there any way what app or process causes so much "googleservices" activity?

Same issues here as well. 4.3 is very heavy on google services. had this issue on 4.3 note 2 as well but never had it on 4.1

sohebq said:
Same issues here as well. 4.3 is very heavy on google services. had this issue on 4.3 note 2 as well but never had it on 4.1
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Don't synch Gmail.
Use samsung email client and you'll see a BIG difference in terms of battery life

EliaAlberti said:
Don't synch Gmail.
Use samsung email client and you'll see a BIG difference in terms of battery life
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u mean, not to use gmail application and use integrated client for google emails instead or u mean disabling sync emails within google account sync options?

ixinho said:
Hello, in the last couple of days googleservices drain my battery more than screen. In the battery usage stats ,googleservices is everytime around 25-30%.
I disabled location settings (in the phone settings and in the google settings). im not using google now, nor any other google apps (books,games,music). nothing. What could be the reasons and is there any way what app or process causes so much "googleservices" activity?
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Try this delete your Google account and sign back in worked for me

ixinho said:
u mean, not to use gmail application and use integrated client for google emails instead or u mean disabling sync emails within google account sync options?
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Yes I actually mean both
Don't use Gmail and use integrated email client AND go to accounts > google > untick Sync Gmail.
Let me know how it goes! Ciao

EliaAlberti said:
Yes I actually mean both
Don't use Gmail and use integrated email client AND go to accounts > google > untick Sync Gmail.
Let me know how it goes! Ciao
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Ok i disabled gmail sync so my gmail app doesnt work anymore, but i have a problem with adding gmail acc to my native email client. As far as i know it should work automatically when i enter username and pass and click next (i added my yahoo acc like that) but it says authentication failed.
I checked in my gmail settings, imap is enabled , so is there anything else i need to enter manually?

ixinho said:
Ok i disabled gmail sync so my gmail app doesnt work anymore, but i have a problem with adding gmail acc to my native email client. As far as i know it should work automatically when i enter username and pass and click next (i added my yahoo acc like that) but it says authentication failed.
I checked in my gmail settings, imap is enabled , so is there anything else i need to enter manually?
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Do you use a two-steps log in for Gmail?
If so enter the Gmail app password. I do have 2 steps verification system and rather then entering my Gmail password I use the password I've got for my app account.
I'm sorry I can't be more precise but I reckon that is why you're not able to log in.
Ciao

EliaAlberti said:
Do you use a two-steps log in for Gmail?
If so enter the Gmail app password. I do have 2 steps verification system and rather then entering my Gmail password I use the password I've got for my app account.
I'm sorry I can't be more precise but I reckon that is why you're not able to log in.
Ciao
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Hm, yes i activated 2 steps maybe few weeks ago, but im not quite sure which app password you mean. I have only one gmail password.
Oh, found it under google settings for 2 step verification. will try now.

ixinho said:
Hm, yes i activated 2 steps maybe few weeks ago, but im not quite sure which app password you mean. I have only one gmail password.
Oh, found it under google settings for 2 step verification. will try now.
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thanx , it worked : ) will see if it reduces battery drain and will post here.
can you just explain me what does sync under native email client mean? i have now 2 accounts in native email client and they both have only sync option under account settings. should that be disabled as well even though i disabled it under google account settings?

If I disable gmail sync, should I keep the contacts sync on with gmail? or use the samsung contacts sync?

Same issues google has big sync to drain battery. Mine was 334mb today just for auto backup image
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Terrible results.
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Google play services is draining too much battery. Is anyone else experiencing this? It's really not normal to have more battery drain from this instead of screen on. On my note 2 this never happened and from 7:00 am to 11:00 PM my phone was at 50% with 3 hours of screen on and about 300 apps. Now with GN3 with this rom stock kernel and fresh install with about only 20 apps I can hardly go until 10:00 PM with only 2 hours screen on.
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I am near to find solution. Hold on.
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From 700+ wakelocks, I have reduced it to 340 after playing with autostarts. Also its not appearing in battery stats.
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I actually had some results by going to Google settings and disabling some stuff from there including Google now etc. I will test tomorrow and if I see some good results I will explain in detail the settings I changed.
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Update google play services to fix it. Dont forget to thanks
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I had same thing, what I done just switched off location reporting and "use wireless networks " under location settings. Now it is all fine
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ALERTas said:
I had same thing, what I done just switched off location reporting and "use wireless networks " under location settings. Now it is all fine
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I hate having to turn that off because I want the Goggle Now services to work, and I've found on mine I keep all of that on and still get rid of the Google Services drain. The problem comes from the fact that even when you switch WiFi off, network location keeps it running all the time for location purposes. In 4.1 there was nothing you could do about it, but under 4.3 if you set the following:
Keep Wifi on during sleep > Never
Scanning always available > Unticked
This allows WiFi location to work when you're actually using Wifi, but not if it's only keeping Wifi on for location purposes. I have been running this for a while now, and the Google Services drain is pretty much gone, but full Google Now and Location Services are still available.
Just as a footnote - I'm not actually using the "Wifi during sleep" setting, I use DS Battery Saver Pro with a custom profile that just forces Wifi off when the screen is off, but the settings above should have the same effect.........

[Q] GMAIL problem

I have lately bought a Nexus 4. Everything is fine except for a very important issue i have encountered: that is the GMAIL app performance with both 3G and Wifi on. More specifically, most of the times my emails take too long to arrive and sometimes i do not even get a notification. Sometimes, i have to run the application and see that i have some new emails. I have also noticed that if i cut 3G or Wifi and put them again on (of course not simultaneously) the email that was supposed to have already arrived, arrives then. So, its like GMAIL app loses connection after sometime. My OS version is 4.4.2. Is there any bug or something to do about it. I handle my work emails through Gmail and it is vital for me to find a solution. Any suggestions?

With kikat google syncs a lot of things at once. I would recommend to disable some of the apps sync. Especially Google photos, Google +photos.
Settings> Accounts > Google > click on the gmail account > uncheck the one you don't really need to be auto syncing every minute. If you have more than one email sync to your phone; apply same process to those emails as well.
Now reboot and that should fix it.
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badboy47 said:
With kikat google syncs a lot of things at once. I would recommend to disable some of the apps sync. Especially Google photos, Google +photos.
Settings> Accounts > Google > click on the gmail account > uncheck the one you don't really need to be auto syncing every minute. If you have more than one email sync to your phone; apply same process to those emails as well.
Now reboot and that should fix it.
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I did what you suggested and now it seems to work fine. However, I also enabled the auto-backup property of the Photos app, as it is reported to cause otherwise a problem. Thank you for your help!