Does anybody else have this issue, my facebook app works intermittently. One hour it works our refreshes while another hour out won't do anything when I refresh or it will give me an error saying it can't refresh. This happens whether our not I have auto update interval set to on or off.
It seems to happen only from thee news or notifications menus
Mine is doing that also. I dont get half my notifications anymore, luckily i get an email. Still a pain in the ass tho.
Perhaps a facebook issue?
I've tried a lot to trigger an update of information and i'm not getting anything unless I go into the app and refresh.... the widget hasn't updated since this morning
This had between occurring since the weeks after the froyo update for me. I searched high and low and can't find any info in regards to this issue.
Is the facebook app developed by facebook?
The official app is made by Facebook, and it does indeed suck with froyo. After finally figuring out it would update and sync inconsistently, I uninstalled it. And that's where my problems really started. It turned out even though I no longer had fb installed (even the one for sense) somehow it would still try and sync for hours at a time, draining the battery, and preventing my email and whatnot from syncing themselves. I noticed this because I noticed that my syncing icon would take forever to go away, and when I opened up running apps there would always be a fb process listed there. Had to go back to a nand backup from before I installed it. Haven't installed it since and never noticed that process reappear, or had any other issues with syncing. I have a bookmark shortcut to the touch version of the fb website, and I just use that now.
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This may have been addressed, but a search didn't reveal anything exactly like this. Please bear in mind that I'm an Android newbie!
I bought the Incredible 2 last Thursday. No rooting, nothing weird, still mostly stock. This morning it's running very slow, screen transitions jerky, etc. and even text based email takes minutes to open. I messed around in settings, and notice that Mail (com.htc.android.mail) is using 48% of my battery, more than twice what the screen is using! I force close, and the phone speeds right up, lag is gone, screen transitions smooth but, minutes later, Mail comes back on line and the phone goes to crap.
I've used more that 1/2 my battery in two hours. I notice that the uptime is 1 hr 58 minutes, and the awake time is 1 hr 44 minutes, so I assume that the mail app is also preventing the phone from sleeping.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated!!
This may sound obvious, but did you try resetting your phone? Turn fastboot off (settings > applications > click fastboot so it is unchecked) then kill mail, and before it has a chance to restart hold the power button, then shut down. The restart option might work, but for things like this I prefer a good old fashioned power down, power up. Anyways, power your phone back on by pushing the power button for two seconds or so. Then see how it goes. This is an error that I have not heard about, but a reset is a universal problem solver. If it doesn't work, tell us what kind of email accounts you have set up (pop, imap, exchange) and how many, and also the settings for checking the mail.
Hopefully the restart will fix it though.
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Thanks! My limited Android knowledge told me to try a restart, but I actually didn't know how on the Incredible 2!!
Anyway, the problem went away for a couple hours, then came back!
I use a POP server for my work email, and gmail for personal. I really don't understand this, as nothing has changed since yesterday, but the phone has slowed to a crawl!
Try a third party email app. I don't know of any offhand as I only use gmail on my phone. My gmail account checks my imap account on another host so it's all together, and I can distinguish which account is which on the emails through gmail tags.
Umm I think this will require a factory reset, because you can't uninstall stock mail nor freeze it without root
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You can temp root, and freeze the stock mail app if that is the way you decide to go. Instructions found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068544. But that sounds more like something faulty with the software, because like I said, I have never heard of that happening before. I would take it back to Verizon, complain incessantly, and point out that you could have fixed it yourself if the phone had an unlocked bootloader
Do you have them set to check mail constantly, push, or are they on a delay? Can you use imap for work instead of pop? I have four accounts set up on mine, including an exchange, and three imap accounts. The fact that it just started happening leads me to believe something broke in the system, though. A factory reset and re-flash may indeed fix the problem. Also, do you have good 3g coverage most of the day? Check your time without signal under battery status in settings. Click on cell standby and it should give it to you. Or are you using wifi most of the day?
Sorry for the rambling questions, just writing stuff out as I think of it. Trying to narrow down what the problem could be.
Thanks, again.
I'm using the mail settings that the school requires, so can't change them. Currently set only to update when the app is opened.
I generally get good cellular reception at work, and I have wifi as well. I've been trying it with or without wifi today, with no changes. I'll try a reset and see if that helps.
I just mentioned trying another app because I don't see these problems and I do not have the stock mail app configured in any way.
RobWoodall said:
Thanks, again.
I'm using the mail settings that the school requires, so can't change them. Currently set only to update when the app is opened.
I generally get good cellular reception at work, and I have wifi as well. I've been trying it with or without wifi today, with no changes. I'll try a reset and see if that helps.
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Factory reset should probably fix it
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RobWoodall said:
This may have been addressed, but a search didn't reveal anything exactly like this. Please bear in mind that I'm an Android newbie!
I bought the Incredible 2 last Thursday. No rooting, nothing weird, still mostly stock. This morning it's running very slow, screen transitions jerky, etc. and even text based email takes minutes to open. I messed around in settings, and notice that Mail (com.htc.android.mail) is using 48% of my battery, more than twice what the screen is using! I force close, and the phone speeds right up, lag is gone, screen transitions smooth but, minutes later, Mail comes back on line and the phone goes to crap.
I've used more that 1/2 my battery in two hours. I notice that the uptime is 1 hr 58 minutes, and the awake time is 1 hr 44 minutes, so I assume that the mail app is also preventing the phone from sleeping.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated!!
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I've had the Inc 1 and now the two. I've always turned off the (auto sync) this would require yyou to open your mail and manually refresh or of you use the sync all widget it works that was as well. Seems to save a ton of battery only drawback being you have to manually check it. Ie. No mail notifications. Just a thought maybe you want to give it a shot.
Thanks, everyone. Using a combination of all your advise, the problem is resolved. I factory reset the phone, then installed only my gmail account. This worked fine all of yesterday, so I finally got off my butt and learned how to use gmail to read and send my work email last night. That seems to be working well. I'm still getting email notifications, but gmail is only using 3% of my battery, as opposed to the 48% that Android mail was using.
Still don't know what caused the trouble, but I'm very pleased with the solution.
Thanks again!!
Email battery problem also on Nexus S
I have also the problem that the standard email is consuming the biggest part of the battery - mostly over 50%. I use an exchange account and a pop email, but both not synchronized automatically (manual sync interval), and I do not use them so often - max. one sync a day...
Anyone an idea how to improve this?
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HTC mail has always been a battery drainer for me. I just use the Gmail app.
AgalychnisCallidryas said:
HTC mail has always been a battery drainer for me. I just use the Gmail app.
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Or k9 mail....just set the settings to update manually...
Gmail is the only non battery hog.
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K-9 Mail
I had also the problem (as mentioned above) with the standard android email programm and a so related short battery life. Since I deleted all email configurations there and installed K-9 mail client instead, battery life improved a lot. Before I could use my phone about 2 days, now it lasts for around 5-6 days...
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.
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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....
Hello
The last few days my email application has been acting up.
Seems like it is on constant sync and using battery like a madman.
I have used it on push on my exchange-mail for nearly two months now without a problem. But a few days ago i started seeing the sync icon in my taskbar all the time.
I have tried adjusting the syncing times to much lower intervals but still uses battery like a madman.
Any good suggestions how to solve this?
(Cant post image due to low postcount, but it has a 40% hog of the battery)
I remember this happening every now and then when I used the HTC Mail app. I'm assuming that's the one you mean? It has a few quirks.
What I found stopped it was force-stopping the app, clearing cache and rebooting. If that doesn't work clear data too, but you'll have to set your e-mail account back up.
I have the same problem when I'm on Wi-Fi in the office. I thinks it can't connect to the mail server due to the firewall and just keeps on trying to connect. Albeit not the ideal workaround, switching off Wi-Fi and using 3G/H for a couple of seconds usually works.
this happened on mine a few weeks back, i cleared the cache and data then restarted the phone input my email address back in and all was fine
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.