So you're holding a wake lock that keeps the network and CPU on at all
times? Which would prevent the device from sleeping? Yeah, that's a
pretty sure-fire way of draining the battery.

On 15 Juli, 15:41, Namrata <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Do you really need to have a socket open at all times?
>
> yes, my application is based on push technique for which I always need
> to keep it open
>
> >only keep the socket open while the user is actually using the application.
>
> yup I am doing it. Actually the fuctionality of app includes
> minimization of app and still listening to server push.
>
> On Jul 15, 6:24 pm, Miguel Morales <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Do you really need to have a socket open at all times?  Why not
> > periodically check the server using an Alarm, or only keep the socket
> > open while the user is actually using the application.  Also, any loop
> > will drain your battery, you might try sleeping at the end of it.
>
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Namrata <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Thanks Mark..
>
> > > On Jul 15, 5:06 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Namrata <[email protected]> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > any answer?..This is blocking issue for me as it drains batter in
> > >> > couple of hours.
>
> > >> You may wish to watch the C2DM presentation from Google I|O 2010, as
> > >> they provide a few hints on how they try to minimize battery usage.
>
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