Google sync eating battery

[Raptor]

I've been getting a full days use with 60%-80% charge remaining on my Evo for the last 10 days or so until yesterday. I was at dinner and when I pulled my phone out of the case it was very warm. I played with it for a few minutes then put it away. About an hour later I checked it again and it was still very warm and the charge level had dropped to about 60% (it should have been about 80% or more). A while later I checked it again and it was still very warm and now the battery was at 40%. I finally get home about 40 minutes later and when I checked the phone was still warm and the charge level was now orange and about 20%.

It was at this time I noticed that the circular "sync" icon at the top of the display was on solid and when I thought back I think it had been on solid before but hadn't paid much attention to it. So, I look through the menu's and it looks like google "sync contacts" is hung up with a message that says "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." If I disable sync for google contacts the phone doesn't get warm and the sync icon on the phone only pops on and off as needed, but if I re-enable sync for the contacts the sync icon locks on solid and the message about "Sync is experiencing problems ..." keeps popping up. I suspect that this issue is causing constant pinging and that's eating the battery and heating the phone up.

Anyone have an idea how to fix this? I've powered the phone on and off several times already with no help...


Brian

 

[Rowebote]

I was having this same issue when I first got the phone. At that time I reset the phone and it fixed the issue. Coincidentally the same thing started happening yesterday and persisted through this morning. I tried a couple of power cycles and that didn't help. I tried a couple battery pulls (I came from a BB) as well and that didn't do anything. Then I went into the account sync options and actually disabled all the google acount sync. After a minute or so I enabled them again and the problem seems to have gone away for now. So maybe try disabling the sync briefly and see if that helps.

'bote

 

[Raptor]

I was having this same issue when I first got the phone. At that time I reset the phone and it fixed the issue. Coincidentally the same thing started happening yesterday and persisted through this morning. I tried a couple of power cycles and that didn't help. I tried a couple battery pulls (I came from a BB) as well and that didn't do anything. Then I went into the account sync options and actually disabled all the google acount sync. After a minute or so I enabled them again and the problem seems to have gone away for now. So maybe try disabling the sync briefly and see if that helps.

'bote

I did all of what you did except I didn't wait a minute or so after disabling sync. I'll try a few more things including putting in my original uSD card. I got a 16GB uSD card (Sandisk) last Saturday and have been having the problem since Tuesday so it is possible something maybe wrong with the uSD card.


Brian

 

[anon28322]

Well For me it was the Facebook syncing to the People App. What I did was just go to settings -> Sync -> Facebook for HTC and removed it from my phone.

My battery life has been phenomenal (36hours) since then. I'm assuming that a malfunction has happened recently to that service since other folks have also had similar problems. I think this could be one of the fixes that HTC is releasing on the June 28th update. It was stated that they are fixing the Facebook Syncing to increase battery life.

I posted this in another thread.