Recent content by Kalty Vazquez

I have given up on Android phones. I love these thing but I cant take all the crap that happens to them. There is no reason that Google Account Manager should be downloading or uploading information every second of the day. My phone is officially always hot. Back to iPhone it is

After being frustrated I decided to do one last thing, remove my Google account and add it again. I then went one by one seeing the sync time and data required by all the Google sync-able information. Most thing App Data, Calendar, Books, Google+, Google+ Photos, People Details, Drive were...

Hello and thanks for the idea. I just checked now. All of my emails (4) were set to sync every 30 minutes during peak hours (8am to 5pm) and once every hour during non peak hours (I also had download attachments off and the max size was 50 kb). The strange thing is, is that the Google Account...

Another update after this weekend. If I turn off "Sync" in the notification area Google Account Manager will never start. At the same time I don't get emails or Facebook notifications, which is fine when going out during the weekend, but not during my 9 to 5 job. I also did a few test by going...

ideally I would like to backup as much as possible. But I would like the backup to happen when my phone is at home charging and on WiFi.

So a quick update. Once I turned off everything in the Google sync setting the manger just stopped consuming data. While this solves my problemm of the data and battery hog, now my phone wont back up my info. Any ideas? Even an app that times the sync would be amazing.

I have had my Note 3 for some time. I love the phone but in the last few weeks it is driving me crazy. My battery last less than 5 hours. The biggest problem is "Google Account Manager" it is constantly connecting and downloading. It is not just killing my battery but also my data, I have...