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Exchange & Battery Life

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CommDir911

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My Epic 4g Touch is my first Android phone. I was stunned at how terrible the battery life is. I've had iPhones, BB's so I'm familiar with some issues. Given the snow storm in the northeast I was able to sit and play with the phone for longer periods. I then noticed that when in email, there was a little bar on the bottom that kept coming up "refreshing" over and over again. I then installed watchdog lite and it started popping alerts for the email account. This is an exchange account that I had set to "push".

I changed it to manual refresh and WOW - has my battery life increased! I'm even inclined to start adding more widgets etc as I had deleted them to save battery life.

Has anyone else seen this issue?
 
I blame Exchange push as the reason why my battery isn't as great as other people's, but I need it work so I'll live with it.

However, I also have Watchdog lite, and it's never alerted me to a problem with the email program.
 
I issued a Galaxy Note to a user recently and they experienced the same issue. With Exchange on push it just constantly kept popping the refreshing bar up in the mail app. His battery was dying within 3 hours each day.

Would be nice for them to have the push sync working but setting it to check every 5 or 15 minutes was a suitable workaround. Battery life is now as expected.

I have so few androids out there (we're mostly BB's [I know...please dont' judge LOL]) that I can't determine if it's just Gingerbread, Samsung or something else. I do have a number of Galaxy 10.1" tablets (4G) that do not experience this issue at all.

I would be interested to know if anyone using the stock Samsung mail app on gingerbread can enable actual Exchange Push (rather than checking by interval) and have it work in the expected fashion.
 
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