Every time I unlock my device I notice in my status bar that something is syncing (the little sync icon appears)
What the hell si constantly syncing, ive checked all my apps and have them set to 1 or two hours, some are set at 4 or more (as I dont use them all the time)
So what the hell could be syncing? Not a big deal if it doesnt kill my battery, but it must be...
I have facebook, twitter, google news and weather, and beautiful widget weather set to auto refresh. Also have my contacts and gmail syncing.
Is there an app that shows DETAILED battery usage? The stock battery usage thing sucks, doesnt help at all.
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Hi,
i've been using my Desire HD for a few weeks now and i noticed the awefull cpu/battery usage for the calendar app. i read some usefull posts here telling to clear its cache and it really helped, but , as im monitoring the phone using system pannel i noticed that com.htc.bgp is still using about 30% of cpu over a week period (which happens during the sync periods where i set them once an hour).and apparently sometimes the sync lasts for quite some time (10-15mins) draining the battery and cpu (noticed this by sync icon and checking with sync settings that some items r syncing continuously for very long time,like htcsense for ex. )
just need to double check with the experts here to verify if this is normal , cos the battery use from calendar app is not less than 6% of battery in 10 hours,which is more than any other lightweight app i have.this is concerning me cos this phone is my 1st android device and i LOVE IT working the way its intended to,not thru disabling syncs or whatsoever.
sorry for the long post , thx in advance for the replies .
i have same problem as you.
Do you use the calendar? If you don't use it consider unchecking the tick box under "Accounts & Sync", & removing the app with Titanium Backup.
I don't use it as I have a small paper diary, a low tech solution you could call it.
Never mind...sorry...you had read my sticky..
I just got an arc S~
My facebook is draining 15% of battery. I have not enabled facebook integration, sync is set to never and notification is off.
I do not want to uninstall this app.
Can you help with my situation?
Disable the GPS, I have this app for my captivate and it kept running the GPS, and the stay awake time was horrible, maybe some sort of task killer world work for you, I'm personally using mobo task killer
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Try the setting under here.
Setting, Sony Ericsson, Facebook inside Xperia.
Turning this off help?
Facebook inside Xperia and GPS are all off. GPS is actuall not draining much battery. Just wondering why Facebook is running when I set everything to off. I did killed it, but it get run again automatically in the backgroud I guess. It is still running now.
Check facebook messenger, think that's included in the arc s apps. It tends not to close.
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Try this.
Use facebook app. Open setting once page load. Set it to never refresh?
Is this one draining your battery?
Yes. Facebook app is set to never refresh and notification is off.
There is no facebook messenger app on my phone.
I figured this out that I need to log out from the facebook app. Otherwise it keeps draining battery.
i finally found the answer or trick on this...
first log out from your facebook and login selecting the dont-sync selection
after that you will be back to a normal facebook app only with no xperia integration
before facebook was eating 33mb of ram now that ive done this its ony 13-17mb.
hope this will help you..
I'm noticing that my GS3 is almost ALWAYS downloading something according to the data activity icon in the header. The down signal is just about ALWAYS on. I've removed the home screen crap that was on with the exception of the default clock/weather widget, which is set to refresh once an hour. All the t-mobile widgets, flipboard widgets, s-voice widgets... I trashed them off the various home screens.
My email app is set for push....?
I'm little confused and wondering if this constant downloading is what is eating my battery. You can almost HEAR the sucking sound of the battery drain :crying:
This is bad. And I need some help. Is there a way to see what is accessing the data ?
It's been hours and my wifi or mobile data is continuous up/down on.
Battery down to 50% after just a few hours.
Something is doing "something" in the background, and I don't know what.
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Using Network Manager, I've isolated it to K9 MAIL... was draining the battery LIKE CRAZY. Had to go to settings and set sync to never - now I'm not being alerted to emails.
Hi
Some have good battery life, others say it drains away by itself in a matter of hours. I've been experiencing a several percent battery drain an hour when the phone is just idle so did some digging.
Exchange Active Sync on push
Exchange Active Sync on push can go from being very efficient, i.e more so than frequent polling, to being a big battery drain.
Because of the way EAS works on push, the phone is woken every 15 minutes to check and renew the link to the server. If the network or service provider has a low time-out on idle connections, say 5 minutes, the phone eventually works out it needs to wake and renew the link every 5 minutes. If the network time-out is very low say a minute, the phone is being woken 60 times an hour to renew the link. Because the wake cycle is very quick, it doesn't show in the battery chart as a blue line wake event, so this awakening is hidden, however all that waking up takes it toll on the battery, plus the radio has to go from low power states up to full to pass data and open a new link, so over the course of a day, EAS can be using a significant amount of power.
Also as this wake cycle is dynamic based on the network it is going to vary for everyone, and any configuration changes unknown to us on the network could suddenly see the phone battery life making a big improvement or getting worse and no two people will have the same experience of EAS on push.
If you find the phone is losing several percent an hour even when sat being unused, and you are using EAS on push, try disabling it or moving to a timed polled. If you just have to get your emails immediately, you may just have to take the hit.
HTC Weather Widgets
I think I have found an odd thing about HTC Weather Widgets, they are not all the same when we are asking them to show our current location. Some HTC weather widgets use HTC's own server to decide the current location based on the cell tower, other HTC weather widgets use Google Maps API to fetch the current location. When using Google Maps, it uses more CPU power, and means Google Maps is activated quite often by some weather widgets where it then starts using Wi-Fi and often GPS (it uses GPS to get a good location then sends that location back to Google's servers with a list of nearby Wi-Fi points to build its Wi-Fi location database). If you see Maps using several percent in the battery usage list along with some GPS seconds and you haven't actually used the Maps application, this is probably the reason.
The easiest way to tell which HTC Weather Widgets are using Google services and so draining more power is to go to Settings -> Location and disable Google location services. Now the widgets using the Google Maps API will show a message telling us to enable Google Location services, other HTC weather widgets carry on working showing the current location. I found the large full page weather widget, and the lock screen weather wallpaper carries on working showing the current location without needing Google Location, but the weather/clock widget, set by default on the home page, is using Google Location.
I've since set the weather clock to my fixed home location, keeping the lock screen weather and large weather widget on current location, and 12 hours in, even with Google location services enabled, Google Maps has yet to show up in the battery usage list at it's usual several percent, prior to this change, the Maps app, even though I've gone days without using it, has constantly shown in the battery usage list.
So since putting EAS onto manual, and setting the clock weather widget to a fixed location, my phone can sit happily for a couple of hours, still connected to the network for phone calls and texts and ready for me to pick up and use, but doesn't report losing any power. This means when I do want to use it, I have more power left for on-screen time.
There are probably many more innocent widgets or settings we can change that can cause a knock-on effect to battery life that we don't quite expect. It also means no two people, once they've played and customised the phone to their liking, will have the same experience with battery life.
I also suspect a big part of custom ROMs having better battery life is simply down to the often stripped away back to basics nature of them, by default HTC Sense is using a couple of percent an hour just on the clock/weather widget to show us our general current location. Over a day that adds up to a lot of power just to see on your phone what you can see looking out of the window.
Hope the above helps someone.
Regards
Phil
thx
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thx bro
thanks bro much appreciated
I have an issue with the hox (or at least this is the first phone i noticed this on)....
Phone is awake 100% all the time
Of course this has a direct impact on the battery life.
Noticed facebook is keeping it awake... How can i set the notifications to be checked once in a while - i don't need push notifications.....
Any ideea??
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turn off the notifications in the facebook app settings...
Well i don't want to turn off notification completly.... I want it to check for notifications every 30 min or an hour or so...
Isn't that possible somehow??
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It should use google cloud messaging for android (or whatever its called now)
Is it Facebook or Facebook for Sense causing the drain?
Anyway, something is wrong as its fine for me. Try removing and reinstalling Facebook.
You can also set the update interval on the FB app..
I have also installed better battery stats...
Seems to me it is the fb of sense....
I already disabeled the notifications in main fb app (they were set to 30 min before, but apparently smthing was still keeping my phone awake... )
I've attached some screenshots -
Battery usage from settings
Partial Wakelogs
Kernel Wakelogs
I know this is FB because before i logged in in the fb app i had a perfect battery life, almost 16 hrs with normal usage!
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I think it's your FB sync setting. Try turning off auto sync in your device options.
Found it mates!!!
I was searching in the wrong place.
It was not in the fb app settings:banghead::banghead:, but :
It was in the settings - accounts and sync - facebook - live feed !!!
Wtf would i want a FB live feed that is sucking my battery empty!!!!
Stupid HTC!!
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