I have an xperia play and recently replaced the sd card with a 32 GB card. I copied everything from my old card to my laptop, put the new card in the phone, attached it via usb and then copied everything to the new card. I also moved some apps that I previously had on the phone to the card, although I now can't remember which, but basically every app that'd let me move it to the card, I did. Immediately I started seeing massive battery drain. I used to get 16 hours of battery life with my normal usage. Suddenly I get 3. I googled a ton and found some other references to this but in most cases the suggestions were either low signal is a battery drain or something was corrupt on the card. I reformatted the card (fat32) and then copied the contents back. Same problem. I have found that if I switch to wifi only and don't use 3G I can stretch the battery to 6 hours, but still nowhere near what I used to get. I haven't changed my usage habits or changed any settings. I do have autosync turned on, but I have always had that; besides gaming, that's why I use my phone. I need instant access to my work email no matter where I am. During the 3-6 hours of battery life I now get, 90% of that time, I am doing nothing with my phone. It receives my email, and I might look at them when they come in, do a quick google search here or there or maybe 10 minutes of phone calls. That's all. No gaming during the times in question.
When I look at the settings for what's using the battery it's split evenly between cell standby and phone idle. (40% each) with android system and display both coming in around 10%. I know signal might be an issue, but I've been in the exact same locations I was (work+home) before switching the card/moving the apps. So I don't know why suddenly signal would drain the battery 4x faster in the same place.
So now I'm wondering if maybe one of the apps I moved to the card is having issues because of it and thus draining the battery. Does anyone know if there are certain apps that can be moved to the card but shouldn't be? Or any other ideas?
When I look at the settings for what's using the battery it's split evenly between cell standby and phone idle. (40% each) with android system and display both coming in around 10%. I know signal might be an issue, but I've been in the exact same locations I was (work+home) before switching the card/moving the apps. So I don't know why suddenly signal would drain the battery 4x faster in the same place.
So now I'm wondering if maybe one of the apps I moved to the card is having issues because of it and thus draining the battery. Does anyone know if there are certain apps that can be moved to the card but shouldn't be? Or any other ideas?