I have a question.. what the heck is causing my phone to never sleep? Like the up time and the awake time are always the same.. I'm thinking that is what is draining my battery.. plus WiFi never stays on.. constantly turning itself off. Any help would be much appreciated
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Settings > display > screen timeout
Go into display setting and change sleep time. And for wifi go in to wifi settings hit the menu button and select advance and you will see wifi policy and choose the one thats best suits you.
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Done both of those and still have the issue. The screen shuts off its just that something is always keeping it working and not letting it take a break hense ny terrible battery life
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It has to be an app that you downloaded.
andybones said:
It has to be an app that you downloaded.
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thats the only thing i could think of.. going threw them all to find out
Get betterbatterystats . It will tell you what is keeping it awake
Go to settings, power and turn off fast boot =)
Your phone just "hibernates" unless that's unchecked.
Also another HUGE tip to save battery is to uncheck "enable always-on mobile data" under settings, wireless and networks, mobile networks. You will have to "manually" update Widgets (big deal) but there is no reason for your phone to keep weather, Facebook etc... Up to real time while its in your pocket. HTC sent these phones with the settings like this for a "better" user experience, but IMO its not necessary.
Hope this helps man.
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dopediculous said:
Go to settings, power and turn off fast boot =)
Your phone just "hibernates" unless that's unchecked.
Also another HUGE tip to save battery is to uncheck "enable always-on mobile data" under settings, wireless and networks, mobile networks. You will have to "manually" update Widgets (big deal) but there is no reason for your phone to keep weather, Facebook etc... Up to real time while its in your pocket. HTC sent these phones with the settings like this for a "better" user experience, but IMO its not necessary.
Hope this helps man.
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all this + turning wifi off after 15 min of phone screen off is the one other thing that I always to that helps me get great battery life.
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HTC EVO 3D BATTERY SAVERS GUIDE BY LEO72793
I have many tips on saving the battery from death during the day.
1. When charging the device, after you unplug it, wait about 2 minutes and plug it back in until the green light returns. This adds the discharged amount back to the battery from the trickle charge kernel.
2. Go into settings> wireless and networks> mobile networks> roaming> set to sprint only
3. Go to settings> wireless and networks > mobile networks> > disable mobile data always on.
4. Use the HTC settings Widgets in personalize to ad the 4g, 3g, Bluetooth, mobile network, profile, GPS, and airplane mode to toggle them on and off most of them off unless needed.
5. Go into settings> display> brightness> and set it to a comfortable viewing brightness level.
6. Disable live wallpapers.
7. Use darker wallpapers to conserve on the light emitted from the screen.
8. Go into settings> accounts and sync> and turn off auto sync.
9. In the email client aka mail NOT gmail if you use it instead of gmail, hit menu> settings> send and receive and set all to manual and peak to the same time such as 12am to 12am.
10. Use wifi at home instead of 3g. it saves battery and does not search for the signal consistanly.
WILL UPDATE WITH OTHER TIPS SENT TO ME. HOPE IT HELPS ALL!!!!
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Nice, thanks for the tips
Awesome!! Thank you!
Bang!! The sound of my Shooter
No problem. They increased my battery life while tethering VIA bt and music to about 2 days.
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Not to be a stick in the mud... but isn't this already covered here..?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141221
More than likely. This is just my thread for noobs like me. Also I will be putting more into this thread such as my own tutorials and reviews for people who want to know the development of some roms and which ones do what they need. Is that ok with you??( pls say yes xD)
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leo72793 said:
8. Go into settings> accounts and sync> and turn off auto sync.
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Doesn't this setting turn off any accounts from syncing automatically if they are setup? (I.E. Gmail, Facebook, News, Stocks, etc., etc.)
Maybe say that as a disclaimer for this one, I'm sure that most people here actually use gmail and other apps that autosync.
Also, and I'm not trying to start the fire here, this isn't exactly Development Material. Your intentions are honorable and commendable, but misplaced. This should be in General or maybe Q&A with a title similar to <Battery Life Tips> or something of that nature.
This isn't exactly tips on anything, it's battery life tips. When that changes, you can change the title to something else.
But either way, thanks for the tips.
Cheers.
Turning off mobile data what will do?I guess you should explain, right?afaik unchecking this box, you will not lose your data, but when the phone its inactive it will be disabled right? And re activate data when its active again the phone, having this option checked your data will never be disabled....i'm wondering what happen with apps like whatsapp? When you don't even wake up your phone, you will not receive the Messages
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Don't drop your evo 3d in water. It causes faster battery drain and some of the buttons may not work.
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7. Use darker wallpapers to conserve on the light emitted from the screen.
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This isn't true for LCD screens. LCDs use roughtly the same power to display black vs white. If you are talking about an AMOLED screen, it would be correct.
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HTC EVO 3D BATTERY SAVERS GUIDE BY LEO72793
I have many tips on saving the battery from death during the day.
1. When charging the device, after you unplug it, wait about 2 minutes and plug it back in until the green light returns. This adds the discharged amount back to the battery from the trickle charge kernel.
2. Go into settings> wireless and networks> mobile networks> roaming> set to sprint only
3. Go to settings> wireless and networks > mobile networks> > disable mobile data always on.
4. Use the HTC settings Widgets in personalize to ad the 4g, 3g, Bluetooth, mobile network, profile, GPS, and airplane mode to toggle them on and off most of them off unless needed.
5. Go into settings> display> brightness> and set it to a comfortable viewing brightness level.
6. Disable live wallpapers.
7. Use darker wallpapers to conserve on the light emitted from the screen.
8. Go into settings> accounts and sync> and turn off auto sync.
9. In the email client aka mail NOT gmail if you use it instead of gmail, hit menu> settings> send and receive and set all to manual and peak to the same time such as 12am to 12am.
10. Use wifi at home instead of 3g. it saves battery and does not search for the signal consistanly.
WILL UPDATE WITH OTHER TIPS SENT TO ME. HOPE IT HELPS ALL!!!!
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Issues with these tips (should disclaimer OP):
Most of these tips are for battery savings only and will disrupt regular data. For a user like me, that uses exchange email and have programs that need always on data, this would cause me issues.
Individual issues:
1. Not really sure this works.
2. If you are in a spotty area and you lose Sprint data service, this would stop your phone from roaming which would cause you to lose data service until you are back into Sprints service area. Roaming does drain your battery as your phone is constantly looking to get back on Sprint's network but for people like me, this is not an option
3. Disabling this setting disables push email.
4. Good tip
5. This setting only saves battery if you set it to a very low level. This could be frustrating to people that use there phone alot indoors and outdoors. As such, if you set it low indoors you will not be able to see the screen outdoors so you will have to change the setting to something higher. Better off letting the phone decide.
6. Good tip Live wallpapers are a cpu hog and can be battery hogs.
7. Does not matter. LCD uses a backlight that shines through a screen of colors. The brightness of the backlight is what causes battery drain. If you had your backlight (brightness) at 100% and you had a pure black background, it would use more power than if you had a pure white background and had your brightness set at 25%.
8. Once again, this would cause issues with people using their email client for emails such as myself that uses their phone for work. I want to get my emails when they are pushed. Push technology does not constantly use data, it keeps a TCP connection open with the servers and when an email comes in, it sends a small data packet to your phone to tell it to check for email as there is an email message waiting.
9. See 8
10. +10000 If you can use wifi, use it. It is a battery saver.
This is not a post bashing your list, I just wanted to make sure that people knew of the consequences of doing these tweaks.
Great info
listening dl-_-lb to MP3s on my Shooter 3D
The tip #1 works great for me because sometimes I have picked it up AFTER charging it and it reads 95-97% and it charges immediately after charging replugged. hope someone tries to confirm it does help some.
Great topic. Thanks for the tips
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3 does not disable push email.
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spectralblue said:
3 does not disable push email.
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Yes it does. This has been tested over and over again. Why don't you try it yourself. I have tested multiple times with my hero, evo, and now evo 3d.
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Yes it does. This has been tested over and over again. Why don't you try it yourself. I have tested multiple times with my hero, evo, and now evo 3d.
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Mine is off and my push mail works fine.
As a general comment tho, most of the orig tips are well known and sadly turn your "always connected smart phone" into a pretty dumb phone.
Evo3d's battery life when not actually "USING" it is pretty darn great, esp compared to the Evo or Evo Shift. Most folks are within 12 hours of a charger of some kind, and since it's a generic type charger, you can keep several at home, some at work, one in your car, and probably most of your friends have one around.
My opinion is that everyone needs to worry less about the battery and more about enjoying your smart phone the way it was meant to be used.
For people who don't want to leave the data on because of email, if you setup your Gmail with forwarding and use your Sprint phone number text messaging email as the forwarding address, you get a text message when you get an email and then you can download the entire message manually at that time if you need to. It works instantaneously.
Your Sprint text email address is [email protected]. Replace the x's with your 10 digit phone number.
I use Google talk too much to allow any data disruption in an attempt to save battery.
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I have a profile that will turn off wifi after one minute if
display off context is true (Wif-Off).
I also have another profile that turns on the wifi if the following
contexts are met (Wifi-On):
1. Location is near home
2. Day is Fri, Sat, Sun
3. Time is 7am - 11:30pm
I created a task (Wifi Turn On).
When I first run the Wifi-On profile I see it as active my
notification bar and wifi is turned on. Once my phone screen is turned off I
assume the Wifi-Off profile becomes active and turns off wifi.
However, when I turn on the phone again, wifi does not turn back on?
Why? Does it not turn back on because the context has not changed
thereby not causing the profile to go through the Wifi Turn On task? I tried adding a display on context to the Wifi-On profile hoping it would make the profile run the Wifi Turn On task but adding this context prevents the profile from ever becoming active for whatever reason.
Is there I can make these two profiles co-exist? I would like to keep wifi turned off whenever not is use to save battery.
Did you add an exit task to the Wifi Off profile? So that when the screen comes on, wifi is enabled...
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Did you add an exit task to the Wifi Off profile? So that when the screen comes on, wifi is enabled...
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Thank you for the reply. The problem with adding an exit task to Wifi Off profile is that I dont want wifi to turn on all the time, which is why I created the Wifi On profile. I only want wifi on during certain times and days and while I near my home. For example, I dont want wifi to turn on while I am at work.
How about Keeping your wifi on profile, and setting your wifi sleep policy under advanced wifi settings, to turn off when screen is off. Then just set up an exit task to turn wifi off when your "on" criteria is not met.
Honestly though I think it saves battery to just keep wifi on, even when screen turns off, so your phone is not constantly checking for cell signal.
Using the "cell near" context won't use much extra battery I don't think? I use it for my location based profiles.
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Using the "cell near" context won't use much extra battery I don't think? I use it for my location based profiles.
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Yes you are right about that. However I am referring to when he is actually connected to wifi, I've read it actually saves battery to just let it stay connected rather than turn off and on again depending on screen state.
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Lagar said:
Yes you are right about that. However I am referring to when he is actually connected to wifi, I've read it actually saves battery to just let it stay connected rather than turn off and on again depending on screen state.
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Ahhh I see
Lagar said:
Yes you are right about that. However I am referring to when he is actually connected to wifi, I've read it actually saves battery to just let it stay connected rather than turn off and on again depending on screen state.
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Hmmm...gotta test to see if this is true.
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Hmmm...gotta test to see if this is true.
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http://m.androidcentral.com/android-101-save-battery-keeping-wifi-alive
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http://m.androidcentral.com/android-101-save-battery-keeping-wifi-alive
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Nice article..however I think in my case it makes more sense to turn off wifi when the screen turns off. Even at home, my phone spends much more time off than it does on. I also have my phone to not sync emails, data, etc only on demand. So I think for me, it save battery to turn off wifi when the screen turns off. However, that is still good information.
In that case the wifi sleep policy should work for what you want.
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Lagar said:
In that case the wifi sleep policy should work for what you want.
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So whats the difference between turning off wifi and having wifi go to sleep?
EDIT: forget it...did a little google search...so wifi sleep and off are the same thing.
I don't want to be too critical but many Smart Actions I found here or other Razr forums tend to be very restrictive on your use.
Com'on, you bought an expensive fancy phone which uses the fastest 4G LTE network, you paid some premium on those joy. It is never a Verizon LTE Razr if you turn 4G off.
So my bottom line is :
1.I want to be able to surf web/watch youtube/check email on 4G or wifi network when I want to (as opposed to wait for 5 seconds because it was off when screen was off)
And
2. I want to have reasonable battery life.
After some testing, Smart Actions that work on my Razr is
1. At Home: when it detect my wifi, it will switch there.
2. In call: When there is incoming call, turn off Data Connection and Screen turn to 0% brightness. (This is CDMA network, so you can't surf and use data at the same time anyway. Or do you really do a lot of such things? If so, please ignore this)
This #2 will help if you have constant phone conversation of about 30 mins daily. You won't want to burn unnecessary juicy while you are only talking.
3. At work where no wifi is available (for security reasons), I turn it off. I sit in office most of the time of the day, so you won't want wifi keep scanning and eating juice. I used TImeFrame to identify this, not geo location because wifi will need to be turned off.
4. In the night, using the night saver sample, I turned off cell data and background sync.
5. Low battery saver: surprisingly, in this action I only turned it to 0% screen brightness. Why? Just imagine you are using it as GPS or some important task on the road, you dont want to lose the GPS/Data if the battery dropped below a threshhold?
6. Most helpful action:
No Action At Work.
If you are working in office most of the time, your cellphone is quietly sitting on your desk mainly. So if you specify
1. at work
2. movement detection found nothing moving
then disable background sync. it will save the juice and when you turn on the screen to check email, the 4G is always there.
The whole idea , is not to disable data connection whenever you turn off screen. Many times you will have background downloads and sometimes when you turn on the screen, the phone takes some time to restore the data connection. which makes you staring at your phone can wait for a while. quite unfortunate if you have an Iphone user sitting beside you immediately pull the data out, right? =)
Personal settings, hopefully it helps you. It will easily give you 12 hours of usage. and for my charge now: 10 hours later it is at 80%, of course it has 6 hours of night standby.
Let's discuss more TESTED smart actions here? =)
note: if your phone is in your pocket a lot during a working day, don't use motion detection and you know why...
You can use voice and data simultaneously when on 4g. Just fyi.
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Yup, it's definitely useful too.
Example: talking to friend on phone about hanging out, go to home screen open Google maps to check when the next bus comes, while still talking to friend
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"Movement Detection"
Is there such an option? Been looking for it, can't find it.
opensourcefan said:
"Movement Detection"
Is there such an option? Been looking for it, can't find it.
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It's motion
+ you need to update to get it
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Copy that, update req Glad moto is updating though, it could be a uber powerful app.
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Copy that, update req Glad moto is updating though, it could be a uber powerful app.
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Think if they make it more granular it will be great
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thank you for the tips.
This has been like this for the past several roms I've ran. Basically when the screen is off, I do not receive text messages. When I turn the screen on, I get all of my notifications basically instantly. Is there a setting I'm missing here that shuts off connection when the screen is off? Right now I'm on venusaur rom.
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This has been like this for the past several roms I've ran. Basically when the screen is off, I do not receive text messages. When I turn the screen on, I get all of my notifications basically instantly. Is there a setting I'm missing here that shuts off connection when the screen is off? Right now I'm on venusaur rom.
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This happened to me once when I somehow had sync over 3G disabled, AND have the setting to disable wifi when the screen sleeps enabled
Check account & sync in settings, and check the advanced wifi menu in settings as well.
I always leave wifi off because I have an unlimited plan. So I do have it so wifi shuts off when the screen is turned off and to never auto turn on. Not sure if that has anything to do with not receiving texts.
In accounts and sync I do not see any sort of option to sync over 3G. Overall its enabled though.
NickTheMajin said:
I always leave wifi off because I have an unlimited plan. So I do have it so wifi shuts off when the screen is turned off and to never auto turn on. Not sure if that has anything to do with not receiving texts.
In accounts and sync I do not see any sort of option to sync over 3G. Overall its enabled though.
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Well, have you flashed any radios or anything like that on this phone?
I have not flashed any radios at all.
NickTheMajin said:
I always leave wifi off because I have an unlimited plan. So I do have it so wifi shuts off when the screen is turned off and to never auto turn on. Not sure if that has anything to do with not receiving texts.
In accounts and sync I do not see any sort of option to sync over 3G. Overall its enabled though.
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SMS has nothing to do with wifi or data. So it shouldn't affect the normal texts coming in.
MMS that is a different story.
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SMS has nothing to do with wifi or data. So it shouldn't affect the normal texts coming in.
MMS that is a different story.
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Thats what I thought which is why I can't seem to think of what would be causing this. Sometimes it comes through four-five minutes late and other times it will not come through at all until I turn the screen on. This has only been happening relatively recently and I'm in a constant five bar area.
same
I have the same issue...but I am completely stock, unrooted.
(I am also in a great reception area, and this has started only in the past 2 weeks)
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I have the same issue...but I am completely stock, unrooted.
(I am also in a great reception area, and this has started only in the past 2 weeks)
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Yeah that sounds exactly like what's up with my phone. Past two weeks is a very good time frame for when this started happening.
I've been having this for a while regardless of rom :/
Are you in some kind of "power-save" mode?
No power save mode that I know of.
Best advice I can think of is to run a ruu again. Then clean install a Rom. That way you will be starting fresh.
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Are any of you running anything like Juice Defender? Maybe you can download Juice Defender to help you find the option to allow screen off operations.
Alternatively, you can try going to: Settings, Power, Power Mode, change to High Performance.
> using my Rezound/Vigor
No Juice Defender or anything here.
And I just noticed this. I went to send a text message and turned the screen off. I went to check twenty minutes later to see if there was a reply and the timer was still going. After a few seconds of the screen being on it said text sent. This is a huge issue.
Yo
Did you try Gorillas suggestion above?
My Zound sleeps too deeply for me unless
Power setting is High Performance mode.
Worth a try....
I don't know where that option is. He said it was under power settings, but there is no option to select modes from there.
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Nick,
Check Settings - Power - see 3rd item down from top "POWER MODE",
choose it and see Economy, Norbal, and High Performance.
Choose High Performance and your radios will behave better, at least
mine do.....
That option isn't there. When I click power it goes, battery status, battery level, battery use and fast boot.
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That option isn't there. When I click power it goes, battery status, battery level, battery use and fast boot.
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I don't have power mode. I remember see in it before though. Just not where....
now this may be a dumb question since i don't consider myself new to android, i've changed three android tablets so far, rooted my phone, installed and tweaked dozen of roms on it, so i know some relativelly average things about android, but this one puzzles me:
on both my tablet and phone i have facebook and gmail applications. they are basically the same .apks since i have a backup of them on a sd card and if i format one device, i often use restire the apps from the sd card.
and you know how you get an instant notification on your phone if you receive a fb message or an e-mail? that doesn't happen on my tablet. it seems that a couple of minutes after i turn off the display on my tablet, it drops the wifi connection (a power save thing i suppose).
is there any way to ensure a constant wifi connection on my tablet so that i receive email/fb notifications in real time and just not after i turn the display on?
this may be only an unchecked box in my network settings, but i really haven't noticed it
thanks for your help on advance
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Go to Settings > Wireless & network settings > Press Menu > Advanced, and change Wi-Fi sleep policy to Never (or Never when plugged in, to avoid drain your battery)
thank you! i'll try to keep it turned on constantly, and see what the battery drain will be
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noup... i gave up after a few days... the battery drain is too big... even when it's pluged in, the charging process takes a lot since i'm almost constantly using it, in such a case, it almost doesn't charge
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Have u tried using tasker?
U can use that app to like turn on Wi-Fi every half hour for a minute or so to check for notifications, and then turn off.
All automated
no, but that's an excellent idea! thank you for the suggestion! will install it and give it a try
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hey... i need help with tasker... i seem to have programmed it to connect to wifi every 30 minutes, to check facebook, gmail and tapatalk, and the profile is on, according to on/off switch in tasker itself. but when i check notification icon, it says "no active" profiles.
also, i would like to write you how my profile looks like, but i don't know how i realize that tasker is a powerful app, with a lot of options, but they seem so complicated when trying to adjust them. :/
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Hmm...first try installing tasker as a system app and see if that fixes it. Also check accessibility settings as it may be listed there.
If the above doesn't work then it may be a problem with your profile.
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Hmm...first try installing tasker as a system app and see if that fixes it. Also check accessibility settings as it may be listed there.
If the above doesn't work then it may be a problem with your profile.
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well the problem with your first solution is that my tablet isn't roited so i can't install tasker in system/app, the other is that it might be a problem with my profile, but i realy don't know how to set it up... i mean, i tried, and i think it's good, but it doesn't have to be good. that's why i needed help in the first place
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