This just started a couple of days ago and I honestly dont know why it started. I noticed that my battery started to drain A LOT. Discovered that the Gmail sync was in continuous sync for long stretches at a time. Like a half hour of syncing then off for two minutes then on again for 20-30 minutes then off again, this goes on till 3 hours later my battery is down to 51 percent. But this keeps going till the battery is dead. I have turned off many of the play store and google.play syncs to just keep the email on and it still does the same thing. Gmail is the second most battery user right below Screen. But screen gets turned off and the Gmail stays on even when the screen is off. I have to turn Gmail off manually and finally the "sync" circle on my notifications tab disappears. Any one has any ideas? Thanks.
EDIT: Fixed. Read on another forum to clear the cache in the Gmail app in settings. That is it and it worked. Aaaaargh! Im glad it worked but its so frustrating when it is soooooo simple.
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hey, last night i fully charged my TP2, i used a little bit
and when i went to bed it was at 92%..
when i wake up today the battery is on 30%...
and i cant really understand? what phone does that??
heres some info of the battery usage
Last full charge 10:32pm, Sunday Jul 26,2009
since last full charge:
standby time: 8hours 45 minutes
talk time: 0hours 0 minutes
Device Usge: 1 hour 0 minutes.
so can someone tell me if this is normal of the tp2 or somethings
wrong with mine ?
thanks in advance?
Had same problem with mine. Culprit in my case was Voice2Go software which is like MS Voice Command.
A few obvious candidates in the stock ROMs for this are
Push email
Other email accounts set up to auto refresh
Push Internet
Facebook checking for events every hour or so
Weather app set to auto refresh
Stocks app set to auto refresh
RSS feed set to auto update
Google maps updating your position online via Latitude
I'm sure there are a few others
Tom
thanks for the replies... but
no i dont have any of thoose turned on...
i dont think i have anything
that would use some connectivity or something..
Mine died overnight when I paused watching a tv episode using HTC Album and went back to the Home screen. I've had it happen a few times always when watching a video and pausing it or going back to the Home screen with the Home key. It seems like you need to stop the video and not just pause it otherwise it kills my battery. I now make sure I stop the video and then usually kill the process for good measure.
Mine never loses charge when in Standby.
Charged it last night. This morning still 100%.
also i have noticed that my USage time is A LOT
MORE than the standby time..
i think that the device even tho i dont use it
it keep being on ''device usage'' instead of being
on standby..
any thoughts ?
I am having battery issues, almost to the point that I want to take this beautiful phone back. I have adjusted every setting I know to adjust, including the CDMA fix (was already on cdma). I am getting about 6 hours max out of my phone with light usage (maybe 20 mins worth of calls, 10-15 emails, 10-20 text, 15 mins. or so of internet/facebook usage). One thing I notice a lot throughout the day is that my 3g upload and download arrows seem as though they are lit up more times than not. I am wondering if there is some hidden fix that maybe I am missing that would help with this. I checked sprint.com's data usage tool and see that I have downloaded 1.2gigs of info in 3 days (seems excessively high to me). I also notice today that my phone was pretty warm to the touch for a few hours straight. Back to being cool now.
any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Alan
Get a task killer, that is most likely caused by background application traffic.
You can also uninstall some apps that may "poll" the internet that you happen to not use.
Got Advanced Task Killer already set up to kill on screen close. Appears as though my damn calendar is literally sucking the life out of my battery and I have no idea how to turn it off. Went in to Applications and did a "touch to close" deal, but returns. This phone may be making a return back to sprint...nice toy, but actually need it to last more than a few hours at a time. Any way to delete calendar without rooting?
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Got Advanced Task Killer already set up to kill on screen close. Appears as though my damn calendar is literally sucking the life out of my battery and I have no idea how to turn it off. Went in to Applications and did a "touch to close" deal, but returns. This phone may be making a return back to sprint...nice toy, but actually need it to last more than a few hours at a time. Any way to delete calendar without rooting?
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Do you also have a sync symbol always lit up? My EVO had some problems with syncing and wouldn't allow me to go into the Accounts and Sync settings. My fault - I had removed some .apks that it turns out I needed so my phone was constantly trying to poll it and giving me 100% Running time. Download Spare Parts and look at your battery history and see if you're getting Running to be high, or look at your Up Time versus Awake Time.
If they're high, go into Accounts and Sync in your settings and look at the options there. You may just need to turn off Auto-Sync to fix your battery issue so that it stops constantly polling your calendar.
I'd like your opinion on this. Today I had my phone mostly at silent and the display was off most of the time, I was attending a workshop and pretty much did nothing with the phone. Before starting, it had 100% battery but when I came back it had dropped to 63%.
Not only that, it also used 3MB of B/W today over the cellular network(Using netcounter for this). For the B/W I got 1 e-mail account set to sync contacts and e-mail as the items arrive(Push mail) in HTC Mail. Now until a few minutes ago it was also syncing News, stocks and weather under HTC's default settings.
I have VillainRom with 17_2 baseband, the phone is pretty much new and the battery is calibrated.
Note : I'm mostly talking about a period of 8 hours.
OK I flashed LeeDroid ROM and 30_2 radio. I also tried to re-calibrate the battery, but it seems it was calibrated since after removing the phone from charger, shutting it down and plugging it back in it immediately went green.
Now I got one gmail account which has nothing to sync, one exchange activesync account set to sync as mail arrives(push) as well as contacts, one HTC Facebook account set to sync every 2 hours, weather to sync every 3 hours and that too only of my location(I removed other cities). I also got Nimbuzz running and Wi-Fi sleep policy is set to "never", brightness is automatic. Hopefully this'll keep my battery happy.
Lets see how it goes, I plugged it out 1 hour ago(It was at 100%), now it is at 92% although I believe the 90-100% span is kind of delicate and runs out quickly. Not to mention that I also browsed for a few minutes.
Totally agree on the randomness of the battery even when charged. Some days I have a wifi surf whilst having my morning poo for 5 mins and I'm down to low 90's/high 80's. Today I'm still on 99%. My poo lengths don't change much so something flaky is going on.
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Totally agree on the randomness of the battery even when charged. Some days I have a wifi surf whilst having my morning poo for 5 mins and I'm down to low 90's/high 80's. Today I'm still on 99%. My poo lengths don't change much so something flaky is going on.
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Heh, I know what you mean.
Its been a bit more than 4 hours and I've had a few calls, browsed the web a bit and read 5 mails and send/received 4 texts. Nimbuzz has been on constantly along with the Wi-Fi and I'm having 82% battery. Seems OK considering the usage.
My Note 4 is using quite a bit of battery life. Gmail seems to be the problem. I am only getting 6-8 hours a day of battery. I turned down sync to 1 day for Gmail, and 1 hour for my other email accounts. What else do I need to do?
I'm using stock email app with Samsung push services for gmail sync and exchange to sync another account and get 10 to 11 hours screen on time. The screenshot looks a lot mine before I turned gmail off.
The screen on time should improve after a week or more of cycling the battery from full to less than 5%. Seems I started at 6 and went to 8 or 9 but also turned some unneeded stuff off. Rooting did not seem to make a difference.
Hello all,
My battery is getting crushed by Email sync, 22% this morning, CPU wake time 2hrs on 5hrs battery time. I set it to push two accounts. I've got to have it for work.
I guess the T-Mobile Edge has had this problem. Anyone here that can offer a solution?
I had the same problem on a Note 3. When I unchecked the contacts sync option the problem dissappeared.
I use exchange for work and sync is set to 1 hour. I dont seem to have a problem. I havent charged my phone all day and still around 50% battery left (13 hours or so).
The problem is when you set it to Auto(push).
I set it to sync every 2hrs and my battery is waaayyyy better now. I don't like that I have to manually check emails for work though, I can't let messages sit for two hours with no reply during the day. I read after I posted that Samsung is allegedly aware of the issue and is hopefully fixing it.