Hi all =]
Does anyone know if whatsapp & talkbox drain battery fast?
My hotmail is always connected to the server and had push enabled.
Would it be possible that adding whatsapp & talkbox won't make too much different with the battery since hotmail is already connected the internet at all times?
Cheers.
I use whatsapp myself and I don't notice any batery drain at all so I'm sure whatssap is not going to be a problem
I use Whatsapp for quite sometime (since my X10 time) and I don't experience battery issue due to this app. Basically this app doesn't connect to internet all the time. This app uses push technology and hence only if you are in the application or you have some messages from your contacts, it will connect to internet.
I have confirmed the above with the developer of the application. So I feel it's pretty cool app.
But sorry about the next app you mentioned, as I've not heard of that before.
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As stated! Literally 78% of battery usage. I have only just started using email on my phone! Battery was amazing up until using email. I'm on rooted 2.3.3! Could anyone help.
The stock email app blows for exchange connectivity. It constantly hangs on me (the retrieval of email that is). I find when you have an area with a flaky connection (in and out of 3g), you get these issue. With it comes battery problems I've noticed.
I use touchdown for my primary exchange account to solve the lack of incoming email, but it too has battery issues if when it goes in and out of 3g coverage. It was fine until an update earlier in the year (on my old phone, then i noticed the battery issue, still notice on the arc now).
Are you using exchange or just regular email? If you notice your battery draining quick, its probably best to do a force close on it. You should be good to go for a few more hours until it happens again and the cycle repeats. The issue has been around wince 2.1 and I'm not sure why google doesn't get around to fixing it (I'm assuming the mail app at least uses a background service by google as I had the same issue on cyanogenmod since android 2.1). Its a well known issue.
I'm sure this doesn't help, its more of a "Me too".
I hope it gets better for you.
Yea its exchange mate! What a nightmare this is! Work email too so really need to find a work-around for this! I don't seem to have the issue of incoming email, it purely seems to be the battery usage! What a shame. thank you for the speedy reply.
you could try forwarding all your email to your gmail/ googlemail account and use that instead... doesn't solve the problem of replying though.. but you would at least get instant notications of incoming mail, without screwing your battery.
I also have this problem on my Arc - Accounts: Gmail & Exchange. With use of Green Power (Battery Saver which enables data traffic only 1 minute, then 10 minutes data traffic off) this drain-problem becomes WORSE. Before Update to 2.3.3 Green Power really saves some battery, after update 2.3.3 Green Power makes the drain more.
Best solution for me atm is: use only 2G, and don´t use Battery Savers like Green Power. I have to try playing around with exchange refresh settings (Push, once per hour...)
With this my battery drain ist about 2% per hour (no wifi, no gps, no calls... Only phone idle). Not perfect, but best i can get atm...
I use moxier mail for exchange mail. It's a pretty expensive app, but works flawless for me. Maybe there are some free exchange apps too try to search the market. Moxier mail doesn't even site up in my battery usage stats.
Thanks, I will give moxier mail a try.
Hard to justify since I bought touchdown already. I've since turned off push in touchdown and set to 15 minute intervals. Not ideal, its no longer draining my battery.
I've had this same problem for a while after updating to 2.3.3, I think the general solution is to NOT use push email and rather, set a interval (15 minutes or greater).
If you're in an area with scarce connectivity, the email application apparently continues to attempt to sync even with no signal so in that case, maybe a 3rd party email client will be better. Though apparently the popular K9 mail doesn't support active sync =/
Can anyone tell me how to set up email using Moxier? I cannot get it to connect to my exchange account at all, i have tried all possible combinations. My email address is [email protected]. Can you tell me what my domain would be? (previously using stock app i used @broadfieldprimary.herts.sch.uk - this worked fine) What my server would be (using stock app, I used db3prd0204.outlook.com - and this worked fine also. But trying to use Moxier - Paid - I cannot get any connection to this email!!! I'm sorry if this is a basic question, but If anyone could explain the set up I would need I would be eternally greatful!!
Although a lot of people here are claiming that they get great battery life off this phone, especially with custom ROMs and all kinds of tweaks (SetCPU, Juice Defender, etc), I find my experience to be the contrary. My battery drains 8% with screen off, and 25% with light usage, no matter what tweaks I use. No I'm not kidding. I even removed all my user apps (so no facebook syncing no nothing) and bought a new OEM battery and NOTHING HELPS. And I do hear from time to time that there are minority of people like me who have this problem.
But finally with the hint from someone in another thread (thanks to him big time), I can confirm the real cause of this crazy drain is your EXCHANGE EMAIL!!!
Whoever with ridiculous battery drain, turn off your exchange email or set the sync option to "manual". This will solve your problem! After I set it to "manual" my battery only loses 1~2% per hour while screen off. A HUGE improvement. This problem has been driving me nuts ever since I first got this phone but now it's resolved.
Haha I remember reading about your frustrations with your battery life in your posts. Very glad that you found the solution. Enjoy your kick-ass battery life now.
Umm... some of us like our Exchange Email sync and are willing to carry multiple batteries and swap them as needed when Touchdown drains the pack dry...
FYI, this is also an applicable fix on most other phones, iphone included. Exchange push chews up a lot of mAh's...
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Umm... some of us like our Exchange Email sync and are willing to carry multiple batteries and swap them as needed when Touchdown drains the pack dry...
FYI, this is also an applicable fix on most other phones, iphone included. Exchange push chews up a lot of mAh's...
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What is exchange mail and how do I disable it?
I had similar issues and it was frustrating the heck out of me. I needed Exchange because my version from Telus did not include direct Hotmail account support. And the battery life was draining so fast I could watch it drop.
The solution is to download seven.apk which does include direct hotmail support. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960269&page=14
Don't use the Market version of Official Hotmail created by Seven. It's a little bit buggy still and won't let you update or enter contact information.
i use K9 mail for Hotmail accounts
Microsoft opened up their POP and SMTP even for non premium users
Hello everyone
I thought i should share what i just discovered. I disabled the syncing of facebook contacts, and my battery usage seems to have dropped significantly.
I have deactivated the autosync and notifications in the facebook app ages ago. The only change now was that in "Accounts and sync".
The first ~8h of my battery history is during the night (see attached screenshots)
Probably because Facebook sync doesn't work with ICS. I would be asking to snyc and continually failing.
I would recommend using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...axsync&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
It also syncs at a much higher resolution.
Just from that picture, it looks like your phone was holding wakelocks like crazy until you made your change. Was that the only change you made? Do you have better batter stats installed?
I'm on AOKP b31 with facebook sync enabled and I definitely don't see that kind of behavior. As of right now my facebook sync has held a wakelock for 70 seconds for the past 12 hours (push notifications working via the blackberry trick, notification updates set to never). Are you on a different ROM that might have a different method of enabling fb contact sync? I know AOKP's trick was turned down by a number of other devs but I forget what the exact reason was, might have been that it opens a potential security hole.
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I would recommend using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...axsync&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
It also syncs at a much higher resolution.
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I always +1 Haxsync, its a great app! However, afaik it does not sync contact phone numbers, only contact pictures.
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I always +1 Haxsync, its a great app! However, afaik it does not sync contact phone numbers, only contact pictures.
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haxsync syncs my phone numbers ...
you shouldn't use contacts sync that have been hacked into roms because it makes your contacts unsecured that's why google and other roms like CM9 and Buggless Beast won't implement this feature ... fb needs to update its apis to allow secure native contact syncing
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haxsync syncs my phone numbers ...
you shouldn't use contacts sync that have been hacked into roms because it makes your contacts unsecured that's why google and other roms like CM9 and Buggless Beast won't implement this feature ... fb needs to update its apis to allow secure native contact syncing
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So haxsync will add the phone # of your FB friends that you don't have on your phone?
For me it just syncs the profile pic and their latest status. It doesn't seem to pull any more data like their phone numbers that they posted on their profile.
Haxsync doesn't sync fb phone numbers for me either. I remember reading somewhere that phone numbers weren't available to any 3rd party apps via facebook. .... and I just removed my facebook sync account and all the numbers I only had via facebook disappeared with it.
I use both haxsync and facebook contact sync because some of my friends have 3rd party app access turned off in their facebook settings, which blocks haxsync from syncing their picture. Can't blame 'em, but it's annoying that the official fb app works this way and the only reason haxsync(which does just about everything better) can't is because it's 3rd party.
that looks like
1) you seem to be losing signal very often (red parts in the signal graph) so apparently you are affected by the signal bug in 4.0.4 and that potentially affects battery life
2) all signal is lost from a certain point midway through (as if airplane mode was enabled) so the battery use went down
so, facebook sync is probably unrelated to what you're seeing
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that looks like
1) you seem to be losing signal very often (red parts in the signal graph) so apparently you are affected by the signal bug in 4.0.4 and that potentially affects battery life
2) all signal is lost from a certain point midway through (as if airplane mode was enabled) so the battery use went down
so, facebook sync is probably unrelated to what you're seeing
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Hah, funny what things get your attention and which things slip by. I can't believe I looked at that picture and didn't process that aspect of it.
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that looks like
1) you seem to be losing signal very often (red parts in the signal graph) so apparently you are affected by the signal bug in 4.0.4 and that potentially affects battery life
2) all signal is lost from a certain point midway through (as if airplane mode was enabled) so the battery use went down
so, facebook sync is probably unrelated to what you're seeing
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Yes, i thought it looked strange in the graph, but i had no problems using 3g, sending/receiving sms or calls during the whole day. I figured the graph just messed up or something.
The extremely frequent wakelocks are probably the reason to why i have to recharge my phone every 24-36h, but i thought it was the notorious bad battery of the galaxy nexus.
I've bought better battery stats now following JoeSyr's advice, hopefully i'll get to the bottom of what is causing my frequent wakelocks.
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Seems like its RILJ who is responsible for the wakelocks, 6861 in 13h.. A new rom, radio and kernel might be in order
Hello,
I fully charged my phone's battery yesterday (it reached 100%), then I turned off WiFi and my data plan (ie, 3G was off). Basically the phone could only receive normal voice calls and SMS.
I was going to sleep, so I put it on silent and left it. No one touched it, no calls were received and no SMS either. The phone was basically idle for about 8 hours.
I woke up late today because for some reason, the battery was completely drained during the night. The alarm didn't go off.
When I charged it, I went to the battery settings and saw that facebook used 65% of the battery. How can that be possible if no one touched my phone. there was no internet connection for it to use facebook in the first place !
What's going on here, something is very wrong. How can I stop facebook from draining my battery's phone? Why is it doing this in the first place?
The refresh rate is set to 'never' and notification settings are set to 'inactive'.
Did you restore Facebook app from titanium backup?
After I flash custom roms, I find that Facebook app misbehaving if I restored via titanium. Usually uninstalling the app and downloading from market sorts it out.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Facebook runs in the background by default. It may be that Facebook is constantly trying to get a connection that does not exist. Go into settings, personal, accounts & sync and make sure the Facebook sync is turned off.
@smokestorm
no, didn't restore anything. plus im using stock rom.
@patruns
I just checked, I have no facebook sync icon at all. I do have friendcaster icon with sync ON and now I changed it to sync OFF.
Facebook notifications kills battery.. I've removed the app.. but when I had it.. I would go into settings and disable all the notifications..
Facebook in general is a lost cause and this proves it more
I just checked, I have no facebook sync icon at all. I do have friendcaster icon with sync ON and now I changed it to sync OFF.
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I think that may be your answer....
I have 2 email accounts set up in the email app. When I switch to combined view, the sync icon starts spinning as if it is trying to sync the email accounts, but it never stops.
Viewing either of the 2 accounts individually works correctly. Tap the sync icon, it spins for a few seconds and then stops.
This is happening now on the Galaxy Note 2 and was also happening on my SG3. Both phones are running Samsung's 4.1.1
Since I have not found any posts about this problem here, I am guessing that maybe I have something set up incorrectly in the email app?
Anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this problem? tia
Am I the only one having this issue? Strange.
I Have the same problem...
7 Accounts and keeps spinning, but no problems with mail coming in.
Mail seems to come through just fine for me as well. It seems like the email app is draining the battery faster since it appears to continue looking for new mail.
I don't have any problems with draining.
I noticed this problem earlier, but didn't pay any attention because everything works fine.
If anyone knows how the solve it, or why this works this way, please leave a reply..
I'm going to leave email in combined view today to get a better feel for the perceived battery problem. Could be just my perception.
Combined inbox sure makes things easier to manage.
I have been tracking this for the last couple of weeks and it appears that the email sync is not what is draining the battery so quickly.
Can't figure this battery issue out. Sometimes I only get a day or so before having to recharge and other times I'll get close to three days between charges. I've tried different combinations of turning things (wi-fi, mobile data, gps, bluetooth, etc.) on and off but can't seem to find one particular thing causing the big differences in battery usage.