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[Q]Battery Drain - GTALK

Hi there
I get a lot of wake-up call from GTALK (my phone does not always stay in deep sleep when it should).
When I analyze it with BetterBatteryStats I see there are a lot of wake-up alarms from following stuff:
com.google.android.gsf
com.google.android.Intent.action.GTALK_RECONNECT
com.google.android.Intent.action.GTALK_HEARTBEAT
I'm not using GTALK at all and I'm not signed into the service either... really strange... can someone explain how I can disable this or remove if from my system?
Im running stock-kernel with acronioum 5.0
Greez
NeoCream

go to Gtalk setting and disable autostart/ auto sign in. it will help
Best,
---------- Post added at 09:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 AM ----------
some gtalk service is for Market, so be careful if you try disable some of them, market will not work.

NeoCream said:
Hi there
I get a lot of wake-up call from GTALK (my phone does not always stay in deep sleep when it should).
When I analyze it with BetterBatteryStats I see there are a lot of wake-up alarms from following stuff:
com.google.android.gsf
com.google.android.Intent.action.GTALK_RECONNECT
com.google.android.Intent.action.GTALK_HEARTBEAT
I'm not using GTALK at all and I'm not signed into the service either... really strange... can someone explain how I can disable this or remove if from my system?
Im running stock-kernel with acronioum 5.0
Greez
NeoCream
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Today I found those alarms with betterbatterystats, so I went to Autorun Manager and under Google Services Framework (com.google.android.gsf) disabled a couple of entries that mentioned the gtalk service, hopefully that will decrease the wakeups (Market still works ), I'll keep you informed

First of all, let me make clear that "wakeups" do not necessarily mean battery drain.
My battery lasts for over a day with heavy usage and Google Framework wakes up my phone 300+ times. "Wakeups" simply mean how many times the intent got the phone out of Deep Sleep. Battery drain depends on how long did it kept it awake and how heavy to the processor the task performed was.
Freezing/killing/etc any parts of GSF is not the smartest thing to do.
You can log out from Gtalk after you have diselected "Auto Login" from the app Settings.
Gtalk will still have some activity as it is tied to the Google Apps bundle of joy (that's why the OP sees those odd wakeups even though he is not using it)
however, you should not face any significant drain.
I have connected 100 MSN contacts and more than 300 Facebook contacts to my Gmail account via Jabber, so more or less Gtalk is always on and it manages messages from a 500+ contact database. It's been like that since my first Android phone (legendary HTC Tattoo), then on my X10 and now on my Arc S and I have never faced battery drain. Heck, even I doubted it for a moment and disabled Auto Login, and there was no difference in battery at all.
Just my 2 cents.

I have same problem.In better battery stats see that G_TALK, many times wake my phone, but I dont have application G+.How then this drain my battery.What I do, that I solve this problem. Always wake lock- g_talk.

NeoCream said:
Im running stock-kernel with acronioum 5.0
Greez
NeoCream
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disable service

lsv-1 said:
Today I found those alarms with betterbatterystats, so I went to Autorun Manager and under Google Services Framework (com.google.android.gsf) disabled a couple of entries that mentioned the gtalk service, hopefully that will decrease the wakeups (Market still works ), I'll keep you informed
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so, did it work? any problems or positive effects?

Facebook contact sync, battery hog?

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.

RTContent said:
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.

WiredPirate said:
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

blowtorch said:
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

spamlucal said:
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.

spamlucal said:
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.
2 min later:
Seems like its RILJ who is responsible for the wakelocks, 6861 in 13h.. A new rom, radio and kernel might be in order

[Q] Help, Media/DownloadManager causing massive battery drain

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help me.
I just flashed a various of roms to try and fix this problem im having but all seem to cause the same problem (roms from CM9 to Charmeleon 5.0) all stock kernels
Media appears to be using the internet constantly over my 3G.
And when I use betterbatterystats it shows as DownloadManger partial wakelock and it ticks up every second including the number of wake locks.
Thanks heaps
All help is welcome

First thing to try would be to disable all auto-syncing on all accounts, reboot the phone, and see if it stops. Then turn each one on in turn, and see when it re-starts.
As it's clearly not ROM/kernel related, it must be something you are inadvertently setting up each time.
The only Google sync settings I have checked are Calendar, Contacts, Gmail and Google +. All others I do manually. I found having things like Instant Upload and Picasa Web Albums caused to much background activity.

Found it was due to a bug in greader, dev has just released a beta that fixes it
Thanks for you support
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Battery Drain issue - Exchange service eating up battery

Hi All,
I have had this beautiful device Ascend P6 for more than a couple of months now. Used ROMs B107, B111, B118CN, B122 and currently on B125. I must say that this is a very good device and give me close to 12-14 hours of battery life with not so high usage.
I have configured 2 company emails using activesync on Exchange and have kept the refresh interval at 1 hour with 3 days of sync for both the emails. What bothers me is that when I check the battery usage the Exchange services takes up more than 50% of battery every time. If this can be reduced, I am sure that the battery would rock.
I have attached 4 screenshots with the battery usage config, details on exchange service and my sync settings on both the emails.
Can somebody let me know if anything can be done to make this better, or should I just stay with it.

The amount of transfered data is not really high but depending on the amount of contacts and calender entries it can take a long time to get it synchronized.
If you don't synch contacts and calendar every hour you will encounter more efficient battery drain.

Still the same
experto1 said:
The amount of transfered data is not really high but depending on the amount of contacts and calender entries it can take a long time to get it synchronized.
If you don't synch contacts and calendar every hour you will encounter more efficient battery drain.
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I did try this and it helped upto an extend so and my keep awake time for this service has reduced to half. Still the service is taking up almost 40% of battery and I think there should just be a better way of doing this.

clickabhee said:
I did try this and it helped upto an extend so and my keep awake time for this service has reduced to half. Still the service is taking up almost 40% of battery and I think there should just be a better way of doing this.
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Greenify.

Maybe you should try another app ?

I use touchdown for exchange email,versatile and customizable...much better than stock email
Sent from my HUAWEI P6-U06 using Tapatalk

clickabhee said:
Hi All,
I have had this beautiful device Ascend P6 for more than a couple of months now. Used ROMs B107, B111, B118CN, B122 and currently on B125. I must say that this is a very good device and give me close to 12-14 hours of battery life with not so high usage.
I have configured 2 company emails using activesync on Exchange and have kept the refresh interval at 1 hour with 3 days of sync for both the emails. What bothers me is that when I check the battery usage the Exchange services takes up more than 50% of battery every time. If this can be reduced, I am sure that the battery would rock.
I have attached 4 screenshots with the battery usage config, details on exchange service and my sync settings on both the emails.
Can somebody let me know if anything can be done to make this better, or should I just stay with it.
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I sync with my works exchange and have never had these issues (been on 3 different roms, currently on 122), I have it set to push, days to sync = all, sync email and calendar but not contacts. I only sync with one account though, maybe try removing one account and seeing if that helps, and then re-add and remove the other?
One issue I did have with the stock version was the lack of ability not to set a quiet time, ie weekends and at night, tried a few other apps but didn't like them as much. I just use the profiles at night to turn auto sync off, and at the weekend I just ignore the emails
I get about 2 days out my battery from full charge. I also have it syncing with hotmail, use bluetooth in the car for 2 hours a day, browsing the web etc. So i'd say i'm a mid level battery user.
The latest version of the email/exchange apps you get with the nexus 5 have been released, maybe try them? I installed them on my P6 fine, here they are here...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0dzc0jxylx9h77/com.google.android.exchange-6.0-893803.apk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zr55dvakxktkvtq/EmailGoogle.apk

twostroker said:
I use touchdown for exchange email,versatile and customizable...much better than stock email
Sent from my HUAWEI P6-U06 using Tapatalk
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Let me try that... That is a paid app if I am not wrong

Confused
markgranto said:
I sync with my works exchange and have never had these issues (been on 3 different roms, currently on 122), I have it set to push, days to sync = all, sync email and calendar but not contacts. I only sync with one account though, maybe try removing one account and seeing if that helps, and then re-add and remove the other?
One issue I did have with the stock version was the lack of ability not to set a quiet time, ie weekends and at night, tried a few other apps but didn't like them as much. I just use the profiles at night to turn auto sync off, and at the weekend I just ignore the emails
I get about 2 days out my battery from full charge. I also have it syncing with hotmail, use bluetooth in the car for 2 hours a day, browsing the web etc. So i'd say i'm a mid level battery user.
The latest version of the email/exchange apps you get with the nexus 5 have been released, maybe try them? I installed them on my P6 fine, here they are here...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0dzc0jxylx9h77/com.google.android.exchange-6.0-893803.apk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zr55dvakxktkvtq/EmailGoogle.apk
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Let me download them and install. Hopefully they will be better than the default mail app. Still not sure, if I should go with this or the Touchdown

clickabhee said:
Let me download them and install. Hopefully they will be better than the default mail app. Still not sure, if I should go with this or the Touchdown
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I found it used far much more battery and data than the default app. Loads of extra addons in it, but for me I just want to check emails, reply etc. Nothing fancy.

Similar issue with Moto G 1st Gen India
Hi,
I am using a moto g 1st generation. I have recently updated to lolipop. After upating to lolipop Microsoft Exchange Services eating 49% of my battery. My sync was off.

Not receiving notifications from FB Messenger

Hello,
I've have discovered recently, that I don't receive push notifications from FB messenger about new messages. So unless I open the app, I don't know about new messages from my friends or family. Does anyone have same issue? Could It be phone's problem?
Thanks for any advice.

filip.rel said:
Hello,
I've have discovered recently, that I don't receive push notifications from FB messenger about new messages. So unless I open the app, I don't know about new messages from my friends or family. Does anyone have same issue? Could It be phone's problem?
Thanks for any advice.
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are you running stock rom and/or stock recovery? or are you on battery saver mode all the time?
android might be putting fb messanger into a deep doze state, if on Android 9 go to your phones settings, then application and notification, then click on Facebook messanger, then advanced, select battery, battery optimization, change the option to display all apps, find Facebook messanger and select not optimized.
hopefully this helps, i haven't had this issue but others report poor ram management on tgeir devices.

This worked a treat for me on my xiaomi note 8 thank you.........
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are you running stock rom and/or stock recovery? Or are you on battery saver mode all the time?
Android might be putting fb messanger into a deep doze state, if on android 9 go to your phones settings, then application and notification, then click on facebook messanger, then advanced, select battery, battery optimization, change the option to display all apps, find facebook messanger and select not optimized.
Hopefully this helps, i haven't had this issue but others report poor ram management on tgeir devices.
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