Note 5 Battery life thread

[madiom]

I can only say that my battery life is really good

 

[MedicD]

In my quest to find my battery drain, I disabled the Gmail app and have been trying the stock app. My battery was okay-ish today, but I found the fact that the email app used so much battery today pretty interesting... I have 3 accounts, all hosted on Gmail, synching to the phone, with peak time doing it every 15 minutes and otherwise every 1 or 2 hours. Any input here? Could there be something in one of my accounts that is causing issues with email?

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Umm.. Gmail you don't set sync time though. I have 4 Gmail accounts that sync. Your email is high. You don't need the sync like that for push notifications, IIRC.

I'm guessing the sync time is causing it.

 

[MedicD]

I'll go back to Gmail app and see how that does. I was kinda figuring the constant push might be using more than only having it do it once in awhile, but we'll see today

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Well with Gmail, you can't tell it how often to sync though can you?

 

[Venom0642]

I am still at work hardly used phone since I'm very busy at work look at and awesome idle standby

 

[MedicD]

Well with Gmail, you can't tell it how often to sync though can you?

No, it's push email, which I assume is constant. I was thinking normal email, if I slowed it down, might fix it. Clearly it did not

 

[vm81]

No, it's push email, which I assume is constant. I was thinking normal email, if I slowed it down, might fix it. Clearly it did not

Gmail worked great for me for gmail. Once I used it also to check my hotmail account, it was draining battery. Took that off...its great again. I just wanted one app for all emails...so went to AquaMail. But for your information (my experience)...Gmail app was draining when syncing other email accounts other than Gmail.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

I've used the Gmail app since it came out. Never been a problem for me.

 

[spasell]

Gmail worked great for me for gmail. Once I used it also to check my hotmail account, it was draining battery. Took that off...its great again. I just wanted one app for all emails...so went to AquaMail. But for your information (my experience)...Gmail app was draining when syncing other email accounts other than Gmail.

I use Outlook app for my email. My company is Google Apps for business. I think the Gmail app does drain battery faster than others. It can't be measured and wish it could.

However I noticed that all day use Outlook app used 3% but my Google services and Android OS have seemed to drop combined over 6% than in the past.

I started tracking it last week and it's consistently lower. Now I will test again and remove Outlook and go back to Gmail to see if the two services increase and end up at top again.

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[Kelly Kearns]

I generally never have Gmail show up as more than 0.1 of my battery use in GSam and I never see it on my battery stats.

These are my settings.

 

[MedicD]

I generally never have Gmail show up as more than 0.1 of my battery use in GSam and I never see it on my battery stats.

These are my settings.

No, but I assume some of the use is hidden in system/os

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Yeah but it doesn't eat up my battery. It never shows up in my running processes either..

 

[vm81]

Yeah but it doesn't eat up my battery. It never shows up in my running processes either..

Do you have any other email besides gmail linked to it?

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Do you have any other email besides gmail linked to it?

I have 1 email and 4 gmail accounts.

 

[MedicD]

I already disabled Facebook and switched email back to gmail. I can barely make it a day with 3 hours screen time. Wish there was an easy way to see that it was low signal causing a drain... also wish Verizon would stop being a **** and allow WiFi calling, my voip system (8x8) works perfectly fine on my phone

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Oh if you have low signal, you don't even need to see. It is constantly trying to connect.

 

[MedicD]

Yeah... just wish I could KNOW because in these screenshots I posted, a lot of the time was in 4/5 bar signal

 

[Venom0642]

Just keeps getting better

 

[MedicD]

Just keeps getting better
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