 You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
I've had my Nexus 4 for about 3 weeks now. Great bit of kit but I'm having a sub-optimal experience with the battery life. According to the battery usage stats, the Outlook app is the major drain on the battery, even when set to manual sync within the app itself.
I use Outlook to get my Hotmail email pushed to the phone (though I can live without push and just manual sync - no big deal).
Any solutions? I only just set to manual sync so maybe I need to give it a day or two for the change to be reflected in the battery usage stats).
Is there an 'email' app on the Nexus 4 eg not the Gmail app? If so, IME, I find that using the standard apps rather than add ons (like the outlook app) tend to provide better performance from memory/cpu point of view which then should improve battery life.
I had mine set up with the hotmail app but that was a bit underwhelming. Currently using the default 'mail' app which seems to work fine with hotmail. That said I also have a shortcut the website so just use that and use the browser most of the time as it seems to be the best option.
Im astounded that people still use Hotmail, especially with a google developed android phone that works at it's best with a google mail account 😉
I get pretty good battery performance out of mine, but I make sure I dont have things like bluetooth or gps running uneccessarily.
Don't be astounded at such low-level ****wittery, Stoner. 😉
It's a legacy thing - I have a number of active email accounts but it just so happens that Hotmail has always been my "main" one. I'm too lazy to shift everything to my Gmail account.
I'll try the built-in mail app and uninstall Outlook. Amazed that a mail app would use so much resources.
PS - wifi, GPS, bluetooth all off unless I need them.
The fact that hotmail has been around for so long is the reason I still use it. It's a guaranteed contact point for people who haven't seen me for twenty years for when they want to give me some bad news or tell me they've been thinking about me at bed time.
Won't hotmail allow you to forward all emails? If so, you can get it to forward everything to a new gmail account and then use Gmail from there on.
It may not sound [i]a la mode[/i], but I LIKE Hotmail/Outlook.
Gmail is fine and I'm very pleased with my Gmail address (the title of a book by Laurent Fignon...), but I find the system a bit underwhelming and only use if for the Play store and the calendar (oh, and authentication for a Google AppInventor account).
On the subject of battery life, when I mentioned my battery concern to someone at work they said that they had contacted Google about it and Google simply sent them a new one which was much better
Doesn't sond like you have this problem, but worth checking. If you have something in the battery usage screen call media system (or something like that) which is quite near the top of the list (so using a lot of power) then worth googling it.
What ever media app you download they all rely on the underlying google media program within andriod. On some phones (my nexus included) the app keeps connecting to the play store constantly and drains the battery. I turned of this sync (again google will throw up lots of results for doing this) and the battery life is much improved.
I also found that genrally battery life has improved over the 3 months sincs I've had it.
Cheers
Andy
Leave the Wifi turned on for better battery life. The WiFi radio uses less power than the 3G radio when there is a WiFi network available.
I noticed a big improvement in battery life since Jelly Bean 4.2.2 was released.
Amazed that a mail app would use so much resources.
The main drain on mobile battery life is when apps don't let the CPU enter a sleep state, they don't having to be "doing" anything, just keeping the thing awake for whatever reason.
If you want to descend the rabbit hole of android battery drain debugging google for "android wakelocks"...
Are you using a task killer?
If so, don't use a task killer.
No task killer - previous android phone didn't like these and seemed to become unstable (though this was in the Gingerbread incarnation).
Since switching Outlook to sync manually, I've already noticed the %battery usage change. Main battery drain is now the screen at 26%(which is what I'd expect) and Outlook is now second in the list at 23% (down from an alarming 38% with auto-sync and push switched on by default).
I'd expect it down to single figures and eventually to diasppear off the list like all the other apps so that it's just display and OS processes that figure in the usage list.