Same issue here...after deleting the account from the native email app, battery life seems normal again. Need a fix for this!
Additionally, for whatever reason every time I've rebooted the phone, the chrome app does load until I first delete it from the task manager screen. After that it seems to work great.
I was in the same boat as most of you. I always charged my Brigadier over night and it usually had 40-50 % charge when I plugged it in. The day after my 5.1.1 upgrade I had to recharge by lunch time. It was clearly the email app eating up the battery. I've spent over a week searching this board plus numerous others. Lots of Android users are complaining about this. I have 4 e-mail accounts on my phone. Two gmail accounts and two pop3 Roadrunner accounts. I didn't realize until yesterday that you can add multiple accounts to the Gmail app on the phone, including pop3 or IMAP. I deleted the 4 accounts from the native app I had always used and added them all to the Gmail app. I also cleared the data and cache from the native app. Right now, my phone has been off the charger for 3 hours and I'm sitting at 98% charge. I think I may have resolved my battery drain problem.
Great suggestion gburke837. I added my pop email to the Gmail app and deleted the native app. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Only gripe was there didn't seem to be a way to copy the messages out of my sent folder for the native app, Googling that issue shows there is apparently no way to do that, it's a long standing feature request.
I'm betting you will be happy, other than the sent mail issue. Can't help there. Right now it has been 12 hours since I took my phone off charge and I have 77% power left. I've probably made a half dozen calls and listened to Pandora for 2-3 hours. I don't have anything to complain about now. I've had wifi and bluetooth running all day and I had turned them off before trying to save power. I may even be better off than before the upgrade.
I wanted to thank you for coming up with a work around. The gmail fixed the battery usage andmy phone is working normally again
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