Last week my phone started displaying the sync symbol in the status bar all the time. When it first happened, I recall seeing an error message saying something like there were problems with sync, try again later. I don't see an error message anymore, but the symbol is still there all the time. It makes the phone run hot and drains the battery quickly. As far as I can recall, I installed nothing new. I've removed a few applications and cleared the calendar data as suggested in another thread, to no effect. I can turn it off by turning off auto-sync all together, but that's not really a solution.

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Any suggestions? Sorry, no solutions.

This is a 'me too' post. My Droid started having this same behavior yesterday. The first thing I noticed was that the Google Voice sync wasn't going away in the running applications, so I turned off auto-sync, uninstalled that application, and rebooted my Droid. That seemed to fix the problem (this was earlier today) Now I've had the same thing start happening this evening. I went into the sync settings for my accounts (facebook, gmail, and a separate google apps email account), and saw the Calendar sync hanging, so I unchecked the box to shut it down. This didn't get rid of the icon or the pegged (up and down) 3g activity on the notification bar. If I leave Calendar syncing off, but enable auto sync, the sync-sticking still happens, though none of the accounts show any activity.

I've read that a factory reset has apparently helped some people, though I'd hope the solution isn't quite that extreme. For now, I have auto-sync back off.but that really defeats the purpose of having this phone. Hopefully someone can help shed some light on this issue.

I neglected to mention that I did try to clear the cache and remove data from synced applications. I just tied this again, and this time removed the battery as you suggested. After booting the phone, I connected it to my wifi network so it would have all the bandwidth it wanted to sync everything back up. There was a sync error on my Facebook contacts because I hadn't yet logged in to my account there. Everything else seemed ok, except Calendar took quite a long time before the syncing icon went away (5 minutes). Now, ten minutes later, and the sync icon is still showing, and I've no idea what it's working on.

Skydrive is constantly syncing showing processing changes. Ask Question. Up vote 8 down vote favorite. All documents and folders show the 'Green checkmark' icon indicating that they have been sync'd but the skydrive icon in the system tray still shows that it's 'processing changes'.

Apparently the solution you suggested doesn't work for this issue. Same issue here. My phone went dead at 5pm yesterday. It was fully charged when I unplugged it at 7:30am and I barely used it. 'Voice calls' and 'Android System' were the biggest battery uses which is really bizarre. Today I am already at 80% after 2 1/2 hrs of almost no use.

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Check this out. If you go to settings Accounts & sync Watch the bottom of the screen and the gmail account sync.

Something keeps flashing every 7-8 seconds at the bottom of the screen but its so quick I almost can't read it. I think it says 'Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly.' The gmail sync flashes red for a split second at the same time. I think this is the culprit. I turned off sync and pulled the battery. When turned back on and went to the sync screen the error message stayed on screen and showed 'sync error' and a red symbol.

I reactivated all the syncs and the sync symbol and flashing problem came back. I had this issue a bit ago and, through a search of the forums, found this. It worked for me (the instructions are copied from a post I made a few days ago). I was having issues with contacts, the procedure would be the same though.

Substitute Gmail for contacts! I no longer have the red sync symbol and all appears well. Hopefully this will help you guys too. Settings - applications - manage applications - menu - filter/all - contacts (and contact storage) clear data (click ok).

Power off and remove your battery for a few minutes then put it back and boot up. I tried just doing a power off/on but it did not work until I pulled the battery. I too just did a factory reset. Mostly painless as all apps were reinstalled.wouldn't have been a big deal at all if I could have remembered my pop settings! Also, since I customized all my icon shortcuts and notification sounds/ringers I had to reset all of those. Also seems to not have saved my Wifi password and bluetooth pairings.neither is a big deal to me. Perhaps someone who is still stuck can report on this?

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I'd like to know what your values are for the storage of the following before and after clearing them. Mine are in parentheses, all after the reset: Calendar (8KB) Calendar storage (196KB) Contacts (4KB) Contacts storage (1.95MB) gmail storage (176KB) gmail (40KB) I wonder if the Droid gets to a point where there is a lot of excess data being stored that causes sync to bog down? Here are the discussions at other forums so all the info is available. I began experiencing this problem yesterday.

Like others, I have not added any apps in the last few days, but have updated a few each day. I noticed the sync symbol stayed on yesterday, the phone got warm and the battery drained completely before I could get home to recharge it. It was recharged all night and initially showed 100%. I unplugged the charger and within a few minutes it showed 5% and the phone died again. I tried all the battery removal tips, and kept recharging it. Even plugged in the the battery showed either 100% or 5%. I was about to head back to the Verizon store for a battery replacement when I found this thread.

Steps taken to this point. 1) Turned off background sync - this stops the constant sync and the battery drain.

2) Cleared all application cache - has no effect - as soon as background sync re-enabled it comes on and stays on. 3) Turning off BT and/or WIFI has no effect These are the application storage numbers now (before factory reset) Calendar (8KB) - Calendar Storage (4.33MB) - Contacts (8KB) - Contacts Storage (3.88MB) Gmail (40KB) - Gmail Storage (60KB) As soon as the battery is fully recharged, I will unplug it, re-enable background sync, wait a few minutes and then see what has the highest battery usage. This may not tell us anything but it's worth knowing. I will re-post after that. FYI - Only Google GMail, Contacts and Calendar are using sync (no other apps that I know of.). OK - Fully charged battery - re-enabled background sync - sync symbol came back in less than one min.

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After 10 min on battery the usage report shows - Display - 65% Android system - 20% Wi-Fi - 8% Calendar - 4% Cell standby - 3% For comparison the battery usage after 10 min with background sync disabled is - Display - 83% Android system - 3% Wi-Fi - 10% The Weather Channel - 2% Cell standby - 3% It looks like something is going on with Calendar sync and it is forcing the 'system' to use a lot of battery power. For the next step I will delete the Calendar data and see what happens. I have now tried several combinations of deleting data and/or storage for my Google Gmail, Calendar and Contacts. In all cases, re-enabling background data transfer resulted in a the sync problem. Finally I left background data sync ON, but turned Auto-sync OFF. That also seemed to stop the problem. I also tried deleting data, powering down the phone, removing the battery and re-enabling background data sync after the power up.

Same results. I did notice that the Calendar storage dropped from 4.33MB to 724KB, Contacts dropped from 8K to 4K and Gmail storage dropped from 60KB to 50KB. The other storage values remain unchanged. I also watched the sync progress (touched the gmail account under manage accounts) - There are three items listed in sequence Contacts Calendar Gmail It always processed gmail first, then contacts and finally calendar, and always got 'stuck' on the calendar one. The others briefly showed sync activity which ended after a few seconds.

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This only happens when I enable background sync and auto sync then watch the system do it's thing. I can manually sync any one of them with no problems. Very strange!

For now, I plan to leave background data sync turned on with auto-sync off. I will just have to refresh email manually and keep watching this thread to see if anyone can find the specific problem and solution. I have the exact same problem. Tried everything short of a hard reset to no avail. I don't know if anyone tried this, but the following steps produced the same problem too, even though it shouldn't: 1) Turn on both 'Background data' and 'Auto-sync' in 'Settings' - 'Accounts & sync'. 2) Tap on Google account.

3) Uncheck everything. 4) Tap the 'Menu' soft-key. If the option shown is 'Cancel sync,' tap that. Otherwise, leave that alone. 4) Go back to the sync settings and uncheck 'Auto-sync' 5) Tap on Google account again. 6) Tap the 'Menu' soft-key.

The option 'Sync now' should be showing. 7) Note how the sync icon shows up in the notification bar and stays on indefinitely even though nothing was selected to be synced from step 3. 8) Tap the 'Menu' soft key and 'Cancel sync'.

9) Now individually tap the different sync options (i.e. Tap 'Sync Contacts,' read the error message, then tap 'Sync Calendar,' etc.). The error message indicates you can't even manually sync those items without them checked when 'Auto-sync' was enabled.

This brings up the question of 'what is the phone doing when the 'Sync now' option was pressed if nothing was selected to be synced from step 3 and when it won't even allow you to manually sync without changing the setup? So, to conclude, even when all items for the Google account were unchecked (for auto-sync on OR off), the phone still gets stuck in the syncing mode. In the meantime, I'm keeping auto-sync off, which is like having its knee caps blown off for me.

Found a solution to the 'processing change' issue I had the continuous processing changes issue on my Windows 7 Ultimate X64 computer with OneDrive and OneDrive for Business and I found a solution that worked for me. I discovered that turning off UAC would correct the problem, but I wanted to leave UAC enabled, so I went to Programs, righted clicked on the OneDrive and left clicked on Properties. Then opened compatibility and selected Server 2008 SP2 and clicked apply and OneDrive started syncing without any issues. You cannot run OneDrive for Business in compatibility mode, but to my surprise, after changing OneDrive to compatibility mode, the issues were corrected in OneDrive for Business.

If you are not aware of the difference OneDrive is the personal cloud storage linked and outlook.com account and OneDrive for Business is cloud storage linked to an Office365 account.