I noticed a few of you started getting much worse battery life. I started to see it too. I am on the stock ROM but rooted, but root doesn't matter.
The stock email app, Mail, has wakelocked my phone 311 times since I pulled it off the charger less than 3 hours ago. I dug further into the culprit and found that it was my Yahoo email address specifically.
So if any of you run Yahoo through that email app, try deleting the account and see if that helps. I'll monitor it to make sure that was it... but nothing should wakelock your phone 300 times in 3 hours.
Even if you don't have a Yahoo account, I'm sure there are other email addresses that do it too.
If you still feel like it's something else, download this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector&hl=en
in an effort to have my email all together, I pay 20 bucks a year for yahoo mail plus and gmail now pulls my email over so I only have to look at one. It also allows me to respond to yahoo mail emails through gmail, but using my yahoo address.
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I have my Yahoo email setup on my EnergyROM and every once in a while(no certain time) it will start downloading all email in my Yahoo account.
It is set to just download the last 5 days but for some reason it will randomly decide to download all 2000+emails in my Yahoo account. At that point it makes my phone so slow it is nearly unusable and I have to delete the Yahoo email account from the phone which takes about an hour for it to process.
Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions to keep phone from doing this?
***This actually happenened a few time on my old Tmobile Dash also. So that kinda tells me it is a Windows mobile issue??
this happens to me, also...im using the stock rom and it doesnt slow down my phone...it is quite annoying, however....
the best solution I came up w/ is...try clearing out your yahoo inbox on your desk/laptop...since i did that i havent had that problem...
i dont think its a microsoft problem, as i have my mail2web, live.com, & gmail forwarded to the tp2 w/o issues...
I like to keep me email in my Yahoo in case I need to go back to something so emptying reall isn't too good of an option. And win the phone tries to download 5 years of emails from the Yahoo server it cripples the phone. ha!
Any other ideas?
dapopa9 said:
I like to keep me email in my Yahoo in case I need to go back to something so emptying reall isn't too good of an option. And win the phone tries to download 5 years of emails from the Yahoo server it cripples the phone. ha!
Any other ideas?
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Do you have your yahoo email set up to use POP3 or IMAP? If I have Hotmail set to use POP, it will download all of my messages. Try following the directions here on how to properly set up your yahoo account, and see if that works.
So I am wondering, is it a huge battery drain to use the direct push email function? I just flash a few days ago, and while I have only been thru about 4 cycles on my battery, when I set up my email I am using the exchange sync for email too from google.
Anyone know what is better on the battery? no email push and set up for checking for new email every 30 min or just have the direct push going?
Thanks,
jeff
In the typical scenario, Push is WAY better for your battery juice, especially since you probably do not get mail all the time. For example, if you set the POP retrieval for every 30minutes, then you're going use juice every 30 minutes whether you have mail or not, because just popping your mail account is going to use juice. With push, you only use juice when there is mail.
On the other hand, if you get hundreds of messages a day, everyday, all day, then popping might be better since you could retrieve them in batches.
FWIW, I have 13 e-mail accounts. When I set my XV6800 to POP the maximum number of Outlook Mobile accounts, which is 6 (and that limit sucks, BTW) every 15 minutes, the battery didn't even make it to the end of the work day. When I went to a Push setup, even for ALL 13 accounts, that low battery problem went away.
Hope this helps.
xv-6800 said:
In the typical scenario, Push is WAY better for your battery juice, especially since you probably do not get mail all the time. For example, if you set the POP retrieval for every 30minutes, then you're going use juice every 30 minutes whether you have mail or not, because just popping your mail account is going to use juice. With push, you only use juice when there is mail.
On the other hand, if you get hundreds of messages a day, everyday, all day, then popping might be better since you could retrieve them in batches.
FWIW, I have 13 e-mail accounts. When I set my XV6800 to POP the maximum number of Outlook Mobile accounts, which is 6 (and that limit sucks, BTW) every 15 minutes, the battery didn't even make it to the end of the work day. When I went to a Push setup, even for ALL 13 accounts, that low battery problem went away.
Hope this helps.
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And how did you do that with 13 accounts?
lol. you can only have one email account configured to exchange at any one time!
AMoosa said:
lol. you can only have one email account configured to exchange at any one time!
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I have 5 different e-mail addresses going to one google account (setup to exchange on my phone), so 13 isn't impossible.
Means i don't miss e-mails coz i forgot to check them.
AMoosa said:
lol. you can only have one email account configured to exchange at any one time!
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Use google as your push account and then use the POP retrieval service in google to aggregate your other accounts.
My god Google will rule the world one day! I heard they have a feature coming soon called "Google Charging" that will be AWESOME! lol j/k
xv-6800 said:
In the typical scenario, Push is WAY better for your battery juice, especially since you probably do not get mail all the time. For example, if you set the POP retrieval for every 30minutes, then you're going use juice every 30 minutes whether you have mail or not, because just popping your mail account is going to use juice. With push, you only use juice when there is mail.
On the other hand, if you get hundreds of messages a day, everyday, all day, then popping might be better since you could retrieve them in batches.
FWIW, I have 13 e-mail accounts. When I set my XV6800 to POP the maximum number of Outlook Mobile accounts, which is 6 (and that limit sucks, BTW) every 15 minutes, the battery didn't even make it to the end of the work day. When I went to a Push setup, even for ALL 13 accounts, that low battery problem went away.
gHope this helps.
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so I thank you for your input, it makes sense what you are saying, I am one of the lucky ones ai only have a work email and only one personal email.
my battery is doing much better now after a week. I will stick with the push thill for a while.
thanks too all
jeff
Are you saying that you previously were popping at intervals, and now you're pushing instead, and you see better battery life?
Interesting how the Help on the phone AND on Google's site says the exact opposite! Those morons who wrote that are either complete idiots or they're trying to steer us away from Push for some reason.
karandras24 said:
I have 5 different e-mail addresses going to one google account (setup to exchange on my phone), so 13 isn't impossible.
Means i don't miss e-mails coz i forgot to check them.
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Goes to show how thinking outside the box works wonders, doesn't it?
One thing I do NOT like about using Google for this is that they have a statement that says that they do not guarantee any intervals on their end on POPPING, so it often takes over an hour to receive an e-mail. Verizon's Wireless Sync does the same job but pops every 15 minutes.
I wonder if it would be different if I had the 3rd party accounts automatically forward copies of messages to the gmail accounts. Does Google handle directly sent messages faster?
Edit: Yep, setup my other accounts to forward to my gmail account, instead of having the gmail account POP the other accounts, and now I get pushes within seconds! Yeee-haaaw!
guys, I got a really odd issue with my tilt 2 and yahoo email. I got the phone setup receiving emails from a couple of my email account, yahoo and gmail. For some reason, one of my yahoo email always download all of the mails after like a day or two of use despite the fact I set it to 1 day or 3 days. What is wrong with it?
Finally!! Someone who can relate to what I'm going through.
Any fixes for this? It had downloaded over 1400 emails in one Yahoo account and everything on the phone was lagging. There were some areas I couldn't get to: Home Screen. I ended up doing another hard reset and reloading the data from there. The only thing that sucks about that is that I lose the threaded SMS that I had.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ditto on the problem. I haven't figured out why it does this yet...
same issue has happened a few times to me. only solution I found was going to yahoo on my pc & archiving old emails so I keep only 100-200 emails in my inbox.
PUTALE said:
guys, I got a really odd issue with my tilt 2 and yahoo email. I got the phone setup receiving emails from a couple of my email account, yahoo and gmail. For some reason, one of my yahoo email always download all of the mails after like a day or two of use despite the fact I set it to 1 day or 3 days. What is wrong with it?
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This is a rare issue for me. It's happened to me less than 10 times (on my HD2 and my TP2).
The only thing I do when I see it trying to download 300+ (instead of the 5 days of mail I want), I press Menu > Send/Receive to force-stop the download. When I retry, it goes back to downloading the 5 days-worth of mail.
Something I noticed...I set my gmail to sync hourly but it does not do that at all. Both my hotmail accounts will sync hourly but whenever I go to my gmail app, the longest time before another sync was like 22 mins. I emailed myself something through gmail once and although my sync settings were still set at hourly, I got the email 10 minutes later. Idk what's going on with that. I just now put it on manually because I'm pretty sure its turning on my 3G more times than it should.
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...whenever I go to my gmail app
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gmail app?
Anyhow, I have my gmail sync every 15min and think it's pretty accurate...
I actually have several gmail accounts and they sync at various times with my main personal account syncing every 15min... And it all seems fine...
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gmail app?
Anyhow, I have my gmail sync every 15min and think it's pretty accurate...
I actually have several gmail accounts and they sync at various times with my main personal account syncing every 15min... And it all seems fine...
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He probably means the Gmail email app you get once you configure a Gmail account on your WP7.
slightly different problem with gmail sync
Hey everybody,
I'm wondering if anybody else is having the same problem as me at the moment ?
I've had the phone a few months now. I experienced a few issues with Hotmail and returned to using Gmail. It used to sync and push emails flawlessly, however it seems to have stopped working which is driving me mad.
When I wake up, i'm used to seeing new messages waiting for me (mainly XDA forum news). However, the push functionality has stopped working. I open my inbox, and see a message indicating email is up to date. However, no new messages are displayed. When pushing the sync button, the inbox is synced and the new messages are displayed, despite the settings set for "as items arrive". Highly annoying and not very productive to have to check for messages manually.
I played around with the settings trying various options, I even deleted the account and started over again (which was a pain re linking contacts etc, all to no avail.
Can anybody help me to restore my push email please ? I'm getting really cheesed off now.
Thanks
Garrickus.
Could it be possible that your phone had synced with G-mail 50 minutes before you sent yourself an email, and then you received it 10 minutes later, after the scheduled hour?
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go to email account settings and check if it is showing any errors. happened to me once. I re-entered my username passoword and the error went away. Perhaps this is due to Google getting very picky these days as many gmail accounts are getting hacked.
Why not just leave it in 'push' mode? Unless you have a lot of emails every hour, push email uses less data than polling. Gmail's exchange activesync isn't exactly rock solid. Back in WM 6.xx days, I have to reset my account every few weeks.
I am doing what I can to conserve battery. I just got my S3 last night. I installed K9 because that is what I used on my previous Droids. I checked my battery info this morning and K9 is like 19%. I have it checking every 10 mins for new mail. Any of you know if the native app is push and does it draw off the battery as much?
Thanks!
Why every ten minutes, particularly when you (apparently) have the option of push?
I've never seen K9, properly configured (I normally use push), take more than 2-3% of battery use, even in e-mail-intense scenarios.
cause the option is there that says frequency with a time limit. I have to select something. Push isn't there.
I suppose it's possible that your mail provider doesn't support push (who is your mail provider?), but the frequency check isn't where the push setting is supposed to be. Look under Advanced in account settings for push settings; if that's set up properly (you will be able to see a "Push" next to the last time a mail folder was checked if so), you can disable normal polling altogether.
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I suppose it's possible that your mail provider doesn't support push (who is your mail provider?), but the frequency check isn't where the push setting is supposed to be. Look under Advanced in account settings for push settings; if that's set up properly (you will be able to see a "Push" next to the last time a mail folder was checked if so), you can disable normal polling altogether.
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Hmmm, so I just switched it to never and sent myself a test email to see if it comes in. That would be great if it works that way.
whats wrong with Google Gmail apps? its works great and wonderfully.
I have used k9 fit about a year and a half, generally have it at 30 minute poll interval but usually manually check for new mail about every 10. I get between 50 and 200 emails a day and k9 is never even close to showing up in the top 10 of my battery stats. Occasionally it will bug out and drain (about one a month or so) but a test cures this.
I would try to uninstall and reinstall if you are having regular issues with it. I have nothing but good things to say about this client, far better than any other i have tried.
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EVOme said:
I am doing what I can to conserve battery. I just got my S3 last night. I installed K9 because that is what I used on my previous Droids. I checked my battery info this morning and K9 is like 19%. I have it checking every 10 mins for new mail. Any of you know if the native app is push and does it draw off the battery as much?
Thanks!
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I use K-9 with 2 imap accounts + gmail app and I can easily make 2 days on one charge.
I get the emails as soon as the server received them.
Are you using a pop account ?
xxlikquidxx said:
whats wrong with Google Gmail apps? its works great and wonderfully.
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How to you get it to work wonderfully with non-Gmail accounts? I have a non-Gmail IMAP account for work. As far as I can tell, the only way to use Gmail for this account is set up POP acesss to the account in Gmail. Using that approach, I get unacceptably long and and unpredictable delays in getting mail (typically a half hour to an hour). That doesn't work for me, which is unfornate because the stock emai app is utter crap.
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How to you get it to work wonderfully with non-Gmail accounts? I have a non-Gmail IMAP account for work. As far as I can tell, the only way to use Gmail for this account is set up POP acesss to the account in Gmail. Using that approach, I get unacceptably long and and unpredictable delays in getting mail (typically a half hour to an hour). That doesn't work for me, which is unfornate because the stock emai app is utter crap.
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Gmail app is only meant to receive mail from gmail. What people are talking about here only applies if you are using gmail. Afaik push is kind of supported on IMAP. Use the stock email app or k-9 to set it up that way.
Yes. I was trying to answer liquid's question about what us wrong with Gmail. The stock Samsung email does not support push (imap idle). I use Kaiten, which works pretty well.
GeorgeP said:
Yes. I was trying to answer liquid's question about what us wrong with Gmail. The stock Samsung email does not support push (imap idle). I use Kaiten, which works pretty well.
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Kaiten is on my list.. I definitely want to check it out, but just havent spent the $5 yet.
I'm on aokp jb. GPS on, Bluetooth always on. Always in 4g not lte. With Google including gmail etc to sync whenever gmail and calendar and that stuff does. Plus aokp lock screen weather and fancy widgets weather. I see a drain of about .75% an hour. The only time my battery drains is the moment I turn on the screen. I've noticed this with all android devices and too many people care about push and stuff. It doesn't make a difference IMO. Been on android since the g1 came out.
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I use k-9 with 2 POP accounts, one every 10 min and the other every 6 hours. After running the whole day it doesn't even show up in my battery list. The lowest one is media server at 1m 20s of CPU time and 2% of battery usage.
Low email volume today on those accounts so that's part of it, but I've never thought it was much of a drain. Once in a while I'll see it in the battery list, but I see the Gmail app in there more often.