Is there any way to set how often data syncs?
I keep background data on generally speaking - but turn off auto-sync. I only want it to sync with the calendar once a day - and want it to check emails once every hour etc.
I can't find anywhere to set the time interval between auto syncs though - and can't find a suitable app for this either?
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just want to be sure-
background data and auto sync only effect the things i chose right under it? facebook, weather, etc?
if so, does that really even use that much battery? if im having weather synced to update every 3 hours and facebook every 2?
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to set gmail to only sync at certain intervals. For instance sync every hour, 2hours, 3hours, etc...
I want to have it sync but would prefer to save battery by having it on a set schedule instead.of constant sync or manual sync. Fir now I just do it manually but would prefer to have a set interval.
is their an app I can get to set this? Maybe even another email app I can have my gmail sync thru instead of the gmail app that would have this option? Thanks for any help
checkout settings/battery & data manager/data saver or data delivery. looks like you can set email and corporate sync.
or you could try settings/accounts/long press your gmail account/open account/ and uncheck sync gmail. and just manually recheck when you want it to sync
couldn't really find an app that does what your looking for, google uses push so you pretty much get the notification asap. if i'm sitting at my workstation with gmail open i tend to get the notification on my phone faster than my browser. you might have to just leave sync off and turn it back on when you want to be notified of new emails
Yeah what I have setup right now((running eclipse 8.1 that has aosp account/sync settings ))
I unchecked autosync and turned off background data.
then when I want to check I just open gmail and press menu>refresh.
I really ONLY read my emails through the gmail app. I don't use the browser version much at all.
I was just hoping someone new of a way I could get it to automatically sync but just every hour or something. O well. Guess ill stick to this method until google integrates that option into gmail app. I sent them feedback asking for the option so here's to hoping im not alone. Thanks.
im sure your not alone, though you might go unheard just because the point of having gmail at the convenience of you phone is to get you your emails no matter where you are. but i'd send google some feedback regardless, even if they don't add that type of feature quickly, google does want to please its audience.
Perhaps I am missing something obvious but is there a way to specify the interval in which Active-sync updates? I am pretty sure this is a push service but it would be great to be able to have Active-sync only update once every X hours.
i dont think you can do this, outside of turning off your data and turning it back on periodically for the phone to re-sync/update.
nyydynasty said:
i dont think you can do this, outside of turning off your data and turning it back on periodically for the phone to re-sync/update.
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Thank you for the reply. I wish we could set an interval. I am having some wake locks issues with Event Log Manager (Google Services). Turning off Active-sync solved the issue but now I am not getting calendar updates, etc. Perhaps I can use Tasker to set a schedule when I turn on and off Active-sync?
The exchange activesync let you chose sync schedules. But the GMail sync doesn't. I wish there is such option not for sync every x hours (which does not necessary save battery) but to turn off sync at night.
foxbat121 said:
The exchange activesync let you chose sync schedules. But the GMail sync doesn't. I wish there is such option not for sync every x hours (which does not necessary save battery) but to turn off sync at night.
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I am curious why you think having Activesync work on schedule wouldnt necessarily save battery? In my case, Active-sync is causing quite a bit of wake lock which drains the battery. I imagine putting this task on a schedule instead of having an "always on" connection should save battery, unless of course the app needed to schedule this consumes more battery or if the very act of starting up Active-sync consumes more battery....oh man this isnt as clear cut to me as I originally thought!
In terms of you want to do, you could use a profile scheduler program to turn off Active-sync at night. I use and app called "Profile Scheduler".
push sync actually works pretty efficiently. More so than polling for emails every so often. I have 4 accounts (one GMail, one corp. exchange and 2 hotmail accounts) all use push sync for emails, contacts and calendars. It uses no more than 2% battery per hour.
Unless you stretch out the schedule to once or twice a day, you won't see much battery improvements.
All I wanted is silent the phone automatically during my sleep at night And so far Gmail is the only one that won't let me do it
foxbat121 said:
push sync actually works pretty efficiently. More so than polling for emails every so often. I have 4 accounts (one GMail, one corp. exchange and 2 hotmail accounts) all use push sync for emails, contacts and calendars. It uses no more than 2% battery per hour.
Unless you stretch out the schedule to once or twice a day, you won't see much battery improvements.
All I wanted is silent the phone automatically during my sleep at night And so far Gmail is the only one that won't let me do it
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I'm guessing they get tons of email or something. If you really get so much email that both push and pull styles are killing battery then perhaps you should turn any form of sync off. It's not the phone's fault though, that's just how the cookie crumbles!
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smallmachine.autosync2
(I don't know whether I got you wrong or right!)
Hi guys,
I am synchronizing my work email on my S3. However since I have a data cap, i just got a warning i've almost exceeded my limit. Looking at the stats, the email exchange services have used 282 MB of data for less than a month.
So, can anyone tell me what settings I need to set. On my old phone (custom rom) i did not have to worry about those things, but I guess the stock Samsung email app needs config.
I am sync-ing only 3 days
push
Auto download attachments - OFF
Size to retrieve emails - 100 kb (my guess is this is the problem, but what is the right value??)
Period to sync calendar - 3 months
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maybe the data is just an initial thing if its your first month - i have exact settings on my work exchange and nowhere near as much usage. exchange is PUSH however - so whatever arrives in your inbox arrives on your phone...
You could look at Sync Schedule to reduce out of hours data, or just turn off sync if your data plan is limited.
weird question - you sync 3 days but do you often search back more than that in your history? increasing your sync period could actually use less data. Mine is set to two weeks... obv watch your useage tho, don't want mad crazy charges. That or use more wifi!
IMHO - if youre worried I'd get more data allowance.
n99flake said:
maybe the data is just an initial thing if its your first month - i have exact settings on my work exchange and nowhere near as much usage. exchange is PUSH however - so whatever arrives in your inbox arrives on your phone...
You could look at Sync Schedule to reduce out of hours data, or just turn off sync if your data plan is limited.
weird question - you sync 3 days but do you often search back more than that in your history? increasing your sync period could actually use less data. Mine is set to two weeks... obv watch your useage tho, don't want mad crazy charges. That or use more wifi!
IMHO - if youre worried I'd get more data allowance.
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I have been doing sync with the same plan for over a year with my old phone using a custom rom -- never had such issues. It seems like on my new S3 and the stock Samsung app that is messing things up. For example the setting "Size to retrieve emails" is not in the ICS roms that I have used, and i guess the default values were better than the Samsung app.
This is why I wonder what is the right setting.
Any other inputs? I tried searching but could not find a recommended "Size to retrieve emails"..
I noticed that recently some new Google account sync options have appeared in Android. Take a look at the attached screenshot.
I now see the following listed as sync options:
- Cloud Print
- Game Data
- Game Data
- Google Play services
- Location Reporting and Location History
- Push subscriptions
- YouTube
These all have parenthesis in front of them unlike the regular sync options. I know most of these services were already active before they showed up here. But now I'm just curious why they are here and if this has happened to anyone else. Is there anything else I need to know about this? And also what is "Push subscriptions"?
Same here, don't know what's these doing, I just simply disable all of them, as I don't think I had any thing need to sync with these * options.
What is really annoying is that "push subscriptions" cannot be turned off manually. It starts up now and then.
wondertx said:
What is really annoying is that "push subscriptions" cannot be turned off manually. It starts up now and then.
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I agree it's damn irritating. For me it seems to start up again every time I reboot and since I flash CM nightlies I reboot my phone almost everyday.
You mean they are restored only after reboot. That's far better than me. Cus no reboot is needed
push subscriptions / gmail sync
i have turned off sync push subscriptions but found that gmail then stopped with pushing emails (only manual refresh worked - autocync on, mobile data on, no restrictions). setting back on sync of push subscriptions recovers gmail push sync and now all emails are syncing immediately...
hqs anyone figured out what "sync push subscriptions" is? I turn mine off, then they automatically turn back on, and I dont even reboot?
Same problem here... some sync options automatically turn on, if any sync option is enabled. Any solution to this?