Google apps & syncing?

[MRW1215]

I'm trying to figure out the culprit of some battery drain I've been noticing on my Galaxy Nexus for the last 2-3 weeks, and one of the things I had done in that period of time was enable syncing for a number of Google apps (via Settings, under Accounts). I've heard allowing apps to sync on their own, in general, drains the battery a lot quicker.

Anyway, what I'm curious about is, is there any way to set how often the Google apps sync? Aside from GMail, I really only need the rest to sync once a day, if even that. But I've gone into the settings of each app and can't find a sync/ "refresh" interval setting, or anything like that. Am I missing something?

 

[gtbarry]

No, I do not know how to change the settings so that only gmail syncs more often than once a day. But here is what I do:

I downloaded:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hb.settings

This provides me an easy interface to swipe down to reveal my notifications screen and then have basically a power widget at the top. one of the options I have chosen to have on the widget is sync and I turn it on and off when I feel it necessary.

Another way you can do what I described above easily is this widget (the old way I used to do this):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.francesandmarky.android.syncsettings

Not what you are looking for, but as far as manual workarounds go, this isn't that bad.