How about this revolutionary idea: don't connect if you've got nothing to send. That way, the first power event sends the logs, and the next several hundred do

How about this revolutionary idea: don't connect if you've got nothing to send. That way, the first power event sends the logs, and the next several hundred do nothing! Timeouts work great too. Don't send a log if you've just sent one in the last hour. Yeah, the android is acting weird here, but the problem is defiantly the application logic.