Samsung Galaxy battery usage

[amirage]

Hi all,

I had installed Aquamail yesterday and have had the app running since. Today, Samsung's built Smart Manager says that Aquamail is the culprit for abnormal battery drain. I have 3 email accounts (2 push enabled {for only inbox and sent folders} gmail accounts and 1 outlook account which is pull interval of 6 hours)

Can someone please explain why Aquamail is at a high usage level? Battery stats show that it's accounting for 4% of the total up-time.

Any suggestions will be really helpful

Amit

[amirage]

Possible that Samsung is getting jealous that I'm using an app that's much better than the crap that comes preinstalled on the phone. 

[mikeone]

I recommend this blog post:
http://www.sammobile.com/2015/06/05/android-5-0-lollipops-battery-issues-are-mostly-googles-fault-not-samsung/

[amirage]

Just an update the battery usage has reached 7% for aqua. The phone has been on for about 12 hrs and with aquamail accounting for 7% of the battery drain...I'm not sure if this is something I need to be worried about or should I just wait it out and assume the app will settle down sooner if not later...

Btw, thanks for the link...I'm not so hopeful on Android M. I think we are seeing a turn of tables here where iOS is becoming more battery efficient with every new update while Android seems to be walking the other way...

[amirage]

Okie dokie...

[amirage]

Ok..I think it's time to get worried...Aquamail now accounts for 10% of the battery drain! How's it for everybody else?

[julio66]

I have Aquamail installed on Galaxy S6 and have absolutely the same HUGE problem....19% battery use of Aquamail...and draining faster than ever....

[amirage]

Yup..S6E here too...is this a Samsung epidemic or Aquamail issue? Can someone using Aquamail on other phones please comment?

[amirage]

Ok...I think I have found out the reason...https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558

Stupid Android 5.1.1...Here's a trend I see...Google releases a "great" update...it breaks more than it fixes..then it releases another update to amend the issues and guess what it's utter garbage...by then the next iteration of Android is out with a whole slew of new bugs...

It's like this:

New version...bugs...update..even more bugs...another update...phone rendered useless...New version...bigger bugs...update...larger bugs...New Version....

Come on Google...We are not asking you to release an update or a new version of Android every 3 months...For once you could take a leaf out of iOS' book...

Mark my words...Android M is going to be a disaster for every OEM except for the Nexus devices...

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Yes, that's the bug report. There is a comment or two -- and a sample app -- by someone called "kmansoft@g..." near the top.

Mark my words...Android M is going to be a disaster for every OEM except for the Nexus devices...

Android 5.0 is disaster enough already.

And the Nexus devices are not immune from this issue either.

[Fcasoli]

I have 5.0.1 in my Note 4, no problems with Aquamail, in general the battery drains a little more than KitKat, but acceptable with this high capacity device.


Galaxy Note 4 + Gear 2

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Yes, not every phone with 5.0 or above has this issue.

But when it's there, it's really really bad.

[amirage]

I think the problems can be squarely placed on the 5.1.1...Frankly, I prefer Kitkat anyday to Lollipop (pun intended)...It seems every new flavour of Android is step backwards while every new iteration of iOS is just better than the last...

D-oh...this had to happen just when I dumped my iPhone for S6E...

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Not 5.1.1 -- this started in 5.0.

And according to the discussion at that bug report, not fixed in the current "M preview" (Android 6.0, in development).

The irony is -- 4.4, 5.0, and then 6.0 have all this new stuff to make battery use more efficient, with 6.0 actually going too far (severely limiting apps running in the background) -- and then we have this and other bugs which negate the effort and actually make battery use much, much worse.

[amirage]

Yup...classic double edged sword