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Hello,
I'm a s740 proud new owner. I've been playing with this gadget for the past few days and I must say I'm very satisfied. Apart from some problems (battery, small call buttons) the phone is really great. However I have some questions that I'd like to know.
1) Are there any power management tweaks you use. Apart from the options in the phone do you do anything else in order to save battery?
2) How customizable is the home screen? What can I change from it? For example the Internet Explorer bar or adding other menus.
3) Is there any way to have "shortcuts" for apps ? Example "new sms" or for any other app. Going through the programs menu is tiresome.
4) Is there any option to restart the phone? No reset, just restart, without having to turn it off and on again manually.
5) Do you use the in-built calendar or did you add other apps for dates etc.
6) Can I "lock" the data connection? I usually use Wi-Fi or Internet throught the USB. Some programs (e.g. Messenger or browser) turn on the data connection without me knowing. Is there any way I can avoid this?
7) Do you use voice tags for apps and contacts? Is it satisfactory?
And last (but very important for me):
8) Which app do you use for mp3 and audio? The Audio Manager, WMP or any other app? Which do you think is the best. The wired headset has only "volume up and down" function? Not anything else? Are there other headsets that are compatible and if so can you control the audio apps without having to use the phone?
I know it's much, but any answer(s) would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot
Corduroy-21 said:
Hello,
I'm a s740 proud new owner. I've been playing with this gadget for the past few days and I must say I'm very satisfied. Apart from some problems (battery, small call buttons) the phone is really great. However I have some questions that I'd like to know.
1) Are there any power management tweaks you use. Apart from the options in the phone do you do anything else in order to save battery?
2) How customizable is the home screen? What can I change from it? For example the Internet Explorer bar or adding other menus.
3) Is there any way to have "shortcuts" for apps ? Example "new sms" or for any other app. Going through the programs menu is tiresome.
4) Is there any option to restart the phone? No reset, just restart, without having to turn it off and on again manually.
5) Do you use the in-built calendar or did you add other apps for dates etc.
6) Can I "lock" the data connection? I usually use Wi-Fi or Internet throught the USB. Some programs (e.g. Messenger or browser) turn on the data connection without me knowing. Is there any way I can avoid this?
7) Do you use voice tags for apps and contacts? Is it satisfactory?
And last (but very important for me):
8) Which app do you use for mp3 and audio? The Audio Manager, WMP or any other app? Which do you think is the best. The wired headset has only "volume up and down" function? Not anything else? Are there other headsets that are compatible and if so can you control the audio apps without having to use the phone?
I know it's much, but any answer(s) would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot
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1) Try turning off 3G/HSDPA (unless you need it)
2) Search for CHomeConfigurator
3) Yes there are. You can even put them on the home screen (again, CHomeConfigurator is the easiest method)
4) There is, but I forgot how to do that.
5) I use the inbuilt one because it can switch the phone to silent automatically during meetings
6) Yes you can. Try searching Modaco NoData
7) Nope, don't use it. I find the automatic search for contacts efficient enough (e.g. you want to call dad, just punch in 3-2-3 and it should be right there. Even works if you are looking for the phone number, etc.)
8) I use PocketPlayer together with an AD2P bluetooth headset (Jabra BT3030). Works quite well; skip, back, play, pause, pick up call and vol up/down work with this.
Hope that helps,
.-ombre-.
ombre33 said:
1) Try turning off 3G/HSDPA (unless you need it)
2) Search for CHomeConfigurator
3) Yes there are. You can even put them on the home screen (again, CHomeConfigurator is the easiest method)
4) There is, but I forgot how to do that.
5) I use the inbuilt one because it can switch the phone to silent automatically during meetings
6) Yes you can. Try searching Modaco NoData
7) Nope, don't use it. I find the automatic search for contacts efficient enough (e.g. you want to call dad, just punch in 3-2-3 and it should be right there. Even works if you are looking for the phone number, etc.)
8) I use PocketPlayer together with an AD2P bluetooth headset (Jabra BT3030). Works quite well; skip, back, play, pause, pick up call and vol up/down work with this.
Hope that helps,
.-ombre-.
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1) I find 3G is fine for stand-by but uses more battery for talking, so it depends how you use your phone. However, its best to select the right bands for your country/region. this is in settings->phone->band select. Also make sure the key-lock is on. Settings -> key lock
2) yeah, chrome. Not full control as no HardSPL unfortunately
3) ..
4) you can try a free app that can reset, look on freewareppc for something like this:
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/schedulereset.shtml
5) have a look at handango. agenda one and pocket informant are good examples:
http://www.handango.com/catalog/Pro...&merch=L1_Bestsellers_Organization & Wellness
6) not sure if this still works:
http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/246171/new-free-utility-nodata/
7) nope
8) loads. free ones:
http://www.freewareppc.com/multimedia/mplayer_by_ajeetv.shtml
http://www.freewareppc.com/multimedia/gsplayer.shtml
or pay:
http://www.handango.com/catalog/Sof...eId=2056&platformId=110&categoryId=7638&nop=1
have fun
Thanks guys, you are really great.
Chrome seems a bit difficult for me, but I see there is a lot of feedback for it in this forum, so I'll give it a try.
Modaco NoData works fine until now. Although I had to disable "GPRS" "Internet" and "MMS" because if I let MMS enabled then Skyfire would open a data connection. That means I won't be receiving any MMS at all?
I'll check the players. Are there any "wired" headsets that also have buttons for "play, next, etc"?
Is there a compatibility issue with bluetooth stereo headsets or I can buy anything I want? (Although bluetooth consumes a lot of battery and I think I'd prefer a wired set).
Thanks again for your feedback
Corduroy-21 said:
Thanks guys, you are really great.
Chrome seems a bit difficult for me, but I see there is a lot of feedback for it in this forum, so I'll give it a try.
Modaco NoData works fine until now. Although I had to disable "GPRS" "Internet" and "MMS" because if I let MMS enabled then Skyfire would open a data connection. That means I won't be receiving any MMS at all?
I'll check the players. Are there any "wired" headsets that also have buttons for "play, next, etc"?
Is there a compatibility issue with bluetooth stereo headsets or I can buy anything I want? (Although bluetooth consumes a lot of battery and I think I'd prefer a wired set).
Thanks again for your feedback
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MMS uses normal data, so is effected by anything that effects data
Wired play, next and volume (you can use your own headphones)
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=172192
"Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for stereo wireless headsets"
That's what I'm talking about, thanks a lot
Any experience with CHome Configurator? I've added a panel but I the icons appear only when in Landscape mode.
Corduroy-21 said:
That's what I'm talking about, thanks a lot
Any experience with CHome Configurator? I've added a panel but I the icons appear only when in Landscape mode.
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nah
i like the std menu
its a question of remembering the numbers on wm sp
for example, lock keyboard is top button->2
just as fast as, say, nokia, left smart->*
my 2 cents
colonel said:
for example, lock keyboard is top button->2
just as fast as, say, nokia, left smart->*
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Numbers are great - nevertheless, it this case hold End Call button is much faster and convenient, IMHO...
Yeah, I use the hold end key too.
The power key is way to up and I'm lazy.
Standard menu is good, however I needed shortcuts to some applications and I made them (for example MP3 player, FM Radio, Resco etc) in a new panel. But there are some problems with the icons. I saw other s740 users complaining about that in the CHome topics and I was curious if someone has made it work.
Corduroy-21 said:
Yeah, I use the hold end key too.
The power key is way to up and I'm lazy.
Standard menu is good, however I needed shortcuts to some applications and I made them (for example MP3 player, FM Radio, Resco etc) in a new panel. But there are some problems with the icons. I saw other s740 users complaining about that in the CHome topics and I was curious if someone has made it work.
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Well, one possibility is to extract the icon from the corresponding exe (use xn resource editor for example). Me for one, I just use the speed dial function. e.g. press and hold 5 on home screen brings up resco explorer. yes, you'd have to remember a couple of numbers, but i find it faster than flicking through a dozen links in a panel to find the prog i need.
I mostly use the speed dials for contacts.
However I found a solution for the problem (not a full solution) with CHome. To whoever might be interested:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3945973&postcount=28
Solution for the Icon Panels and semi-solution for pictures.
I have a couple of other questions.
First of all in the "Call History" I only see the numbers or the contacts of my phone calls. However there is neither the time, nor the date, something I find annoying. Is there a solution ?
Second, I will buy another stereo headset for listening to music. I noticed that when I have bluetooth turned on the battery lasts less. Would a bluetooth stereo headset be very power consuming? Has anyone used one? Should I buy a regular headset like the one from colonel's link above?
And also, are the HTC headsets good or should I check out other brands too?
In Call History, select a contact and click the centre navigational button to bring up a list of calls for that contact.
Regarding the locking of S740 keypad via invoking the power button and pressing 2, the quicklist process is actually running as a result. Not much of a problem, but you may wanna reduce the no. of processes running on the phone.
Thanks, not the best thing but surely something of a solution.
I discovered a problem the past few days. The clock has changed time twice. Any idea ?
It changed both time zone and time (showing a random,wrong time even for the new time zone). Has anyone experienced something like that ?
Corduroy-21 said:
...The clock has changed time twice. Any idea ?
It changed both time zone and time (showing a random,wrong time even for the new time zone). Has anyone experienced something like that ?
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I've experienced this once, but with a Nokia.
My phone clock was set on automatic and it changed several times during a few days. I expect the cause was the phonecompany.
AVE...
I'm using stereo headset from Samsung, and I have Bluetooth active all the time. Didn't made a big difference for me. But whatever I tried I still wasn't able to make Pocket Player compatible with control buttons on my headset...
CHome Configurator didn't worked well for me. In fact it didn't worked at all...
For now I'm playing around with voice commands...These are great for launching apps...
BTW, I had to disable HDSPA, since it turned on to transfer data without asking me for permission, and my operator has a lot bigger fees for HDSPA, than for GPRS...
Any idea about the MMS receiving size? Although there is an option for changing the MMS size for the ones you send (from 100k to 300k), I didnt find anything for incoming MMS. I already have some MMS which I cannot use because it tells me that the exceed the receiving size I have set. Any idea about that?
Is there any way that when I use Windows Live Messenger the stupid thing doesnt transfer all my MSN contacts to my contacts? I don't need that. The sync options in Windows Live are greyed out and I can't change them
Edit: I found the solution for Messenger here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513643
However in the process I lost all my Messenger contacts from my PC, which I saved by the trick mentioned in the topic above
MMS: It's simple - limits are set by operator. Check settings as declared by definitions of your tariff/custom settings.
Will do, although as I said I changed my limit to 300k for sending while it seems I cannot accept larger than 100k files.
I'll check it out and see.
These are logically two diferent variables. What want to send is your choice per case. What your phone will receive directly, you have to pay for amount of data. And you have no other control as the limit. Therefore default settings for reception are rather conservative.
Something else, is there any way to change the "low battery" notification? It is on 20% and I would like to lower that because I think 20% is way too high.
Hi all,
I would find a way to enable bluetooth automatically when a call is being received: in that way, when in my car, I can avoid to keep BT enabled "all the time" just waiting for a possible call of few minutes..... thus saving battery ;-)
Is there any application suited for that?
I was thinking to a workaround but it seems pretty tricky and I still miss a thing.
We could use G-Profile and configure a profile, with BT enabled, which starts automatically on these conditions satisfied:
a.. during a call
b.. when a “specific program/process” is running
Item (b) is needed in order to let the profile be enabled only when actually in car and not when I’m at home or so
Of course, I have to start that “specific program/process” when entering car and shutting it down when exiting.
What I miss is a program to be used for that purpose. I would use a “fake” program which simply does nothing (!!), let’s say a simple toggle-program:
- Click on program icon: starts the program
- Click again on program icon: stop the program
Is there such a “useless” program ? Could some of you write it (if interested in that) ? I’m not so able to write it
Thanks in advance for your support.
I also use G-Profile. I have created a profile that kills the incalllock when mycarprofile is running. incalllock locks the virtual keys on my HD so that I can only take the call with the slide to answer. mycarprofile automatically answers the incoming call and turns on the speaker phone. I use G-Profile to kill incalllock whenever I turn on mycarprofile and runs incalllock again when i trun off mycarprofile.
What you have to do with G-Profile is to create a profile that monitors if a program is running and also add the condition "during a call" to switch to that profile and turns on bluetooth
brusko1972, G-Profile is not free.
Any free apps out there for this kind of function?
You can probably try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=386451
still not working
ai6908 said:
You can probably try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=386451
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Dear ai6908, I appreciated your help: it really seems what I need but it's not working....
I have configured the CSDEVCTRL in order to:
- start when ringing or dialing a call
- turn on BT at call start
- turn off BT at call end
I have started the service.
When the call is being received the screen is locked by CSDEVCTRL but BT is not enabled at all.
Maybe I miss someting or it does not support windows mobile 6.5 (I have an HTC HD mini).
Any feedback are welcome !
You can try BTProfiler which I downloaded from xda developers a while back but unable find the thread now.
Not working on HTC hd2 wm 6.5
I downloaded this with high expectations that it would automatically turn my bluetooth off and on. I, too, am frustrated when I forget to turn bt off upon leaving my car. I set the program to run in the background, but the profiler does not work. I've tried all the conditions for turning bluetooth on or off automatically. Too bad, I was really hoping this would work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I just have a bluetooth icon placed in the programs on the main page. I tap it and it's on when I am in the car. I tap it again and it's off.
Simple, quick and very efficient to use.
Hi all,
And... fisrt of all, happy new year !
In reply to this thread, I've downloaded BTtoggle (which enables and disables BT just by tapping on the screen) and I was just thinking this morning that someone could have maybe written a program (a mortscript ?) which could be quicker than running this program when needed.
I've tested to put BT off and run the progam (BTtoggle) when the phone is ringing then switch on the BT earphone and... call is missed !
I was thinking in a program that could "see" that a BT "thing" (ear, dongle...) (I don't know how to name it) is running, running BTtoggle (which switches ON BT) and when this "thing" is switched off, running BTtoggle once again (which switches OFF BT).
The problem is like brontolo999, I know which are the questions to ask but unable to write the program that could be able to do that !
Thks in advance.
Hello
Im looking for someone who can (help to) make me a kind of "macro" or who is experienced with "Tasker" and/or "RepetiTouch" or similar.
Intention:
In case the "macro" is started:
Incoming calls, SMS or Email from selected contacts shall start:
1. Bluetooth connection ON
2. start a simple app (to control a wireless-bluetooth-socket) with virtual ON/OFF button
and this is my problem:
3. to "push" the "virtual" ON-button (= bluetooth socket is getting on)
Sorry for my bad English (German would be better)
Thank you very much, Martin
I have decided to give the Nougat for A3 2016 (A310F) another (and another) chance before returning to Marshmallow but I've had some issues - please let me know do you experience similar problems (Nougat only!).
I've upgraded to Nougat by flashing via Odin DBT code package and went from XEO Marshmallow which did not have any of the described problems.
Was running: Android 7.0, Baseband: A310FXXU3CQE7, Build: NRD90M.A310FXXU3CQE6, Kernel: 3.10.61-11350514
To confirm the below I've reflashed back to 6.0 and flashed 7.0 again (same XEO for 6.0 and same DBT for 7.0) also did factory reset and also added wipe data/cache to the test procedure which helped in couple of cases.
Issues I found with 7.0 so far:
By design:
1. Too small UI elements:
Very small single-line notification slider containing the buttons like enable/disable wi-fi, etc. Previously on Marshmallow and Lollipop it was big enough to handle it without problems. Now (thanks to DreamUX?) it is too small (it is much better on my wife's A510F after Nougat upgrade as the buttons can be way easier pressed without accidentally pressing the button to the left or to the right). This one is quite annoying but probably just because the DreamUX (or whatever it is called) has been designed with "bigger phones" in mind...
2. Flawed Power Saving:
There is absolutely no setting in the OS to set the list of apps that I want to run only in foreground and when entering background should be put to sleep (there is such setting in Marshmallow and I used it to have control over the battery life). This causes the battery life on Nougat to be quite disappointing.
FIX: Flash TWRP (see the TWRP thread for details), did wipe of everything possible. Flash back official 7.0. Currently with normal usage - taken from charger at 06:00 currently 15:40 - battery level decreased from 100% to 88% (previously 8-9 hours on battery after full charge only) I susspect that this may be connected with the software I had installed in the past and some leftovers. So installing 7.0 in cleanest possible way did the trick here.
3. Slow battery charge:
Battery is charging quite slow (location off + wifi off + 3g on + phone not being used (periodically reviewing only the status of charging). Full charge from 30-40% to 100% in c/a 4 hours. Tested wipe data/cache - did not help.
All the time:
1. Crashing Samsung Keyboard (if other used):
When used any other keyboard (tested on Swype and Hacker's Keyboard) from Google Play - everything works fine until I click (be it by accident or intentionally) the emoticon icon (near the send button) while either writing a text message or using any other app where this button is available. The result is Samsung Keyboard (?!) crashing (which is odd as another keyboard is being used at the moment) - after the crash no keyboard is available until selected from the settings General Management\Language and input\Default Keyboard
FIX: Do the wipe of data and cache.
2. VPN not working:
VPN does not work (any attempt to establish PPTP connection fails with the built-in software). Tested wipe data/cache - did not help.
Fixed itself after some time... Now it's working. Either magic or this cannot be tested straight after setting up the OS...
3. Battery drain / decreased life on battery:
Nougat is consuming far more battery than Marshmallow (20% of battery taken in one hour while driving to work (one hour) browsing the web and listening to music compared to 6-8% with Marshmallow). Tests made after wipe of data/cache.
FIX: Flash TWRP (see the TWRP thread for details), did wipe of everything possible. Flash back official 7.0. Currently with normal usage - taken from charger at 06:00 currently 15:40 - battery level decreased from 100% to 88% (previously 8-9 hours on battery after full charge only) I susspect that this may be connected with the software I had installed in the past and some leftovers. So installing 7.0 in cleanest possible way did the trick here.
Often:
1. Stuck "Call" button in UI:
Inability to click "Call" button from the contacts if often calling several contacts (UI seems to lock for 5-15 seconds). To reproduce: Go to the phone app - select contacts, then tap on any contact name (not a picture) - four buttones called "call, message, video call and details" will slide - try tapping "call". Repeat calling several contacts - the UI hangs for couple of seconds making clicking "Call" impossible (home button however works)
WORKAROUND: Swipe finger on the contact to the right of the contact or recently dialled number to start dialling (this always works and does not trigge this bug).
Quite often:
1. Mysterious "installations":
Every couple of hours a notification pops-up that something is downloaded but there it is too quick to notice what was being downloaded, where, etc. It happens regardless if restored to factory defaults (seems to appear also on my wifes A510F after Nougat upgrade). It was not related to apps like messenger or instagram being updated by themselves as this feature was disabled in the settings.
FIX: Do the wipe of data and cache. It seems that the "mysterious downloads" was unsuccessfull attempt to update Android Instant Apps ( https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html )
Rare:
1. Blackout:
The screen turns black. After the restart phone boots up but once started again it defaults to lowest brightness level and need to be adjusted.
FIX: Do the wipe of data and cache.
wolfensg said:
I have decided to give the Nougat for A3 2016 a chance before returning to Marshmallow but I have some issues - please let me know do you experience similar problems (Nougat only!).
I've upgraded to Nougat by flashing via Odin DBT code package and went from XEO Marshmallow which did not have any of the described problems.
Currently running: Android 7.0, Baseband: A310FXXU3CQE7, Build: NRD90M.A310FXXU3CQE6, Kernel: 3.10.61-11350514
Issues so far:
By design:
1. Very small single-line notification slider containing the buttons like enable/disable wi-fi, etc. Previously on Marshmallow and Lollipop it was big enough to handle it without problems. Now (thanks to DreamUX?) it is too small (it is much better on my wife's A510F after Nougat upgrade as the buttons can be way easier pressed without accidentally pressing the button to the left or to the right). This one is quite annoying but probably just because the DreamUX (or whatever it is called) has been designed with "bigger phones" in mind...
2. There is absolutely no setting in the OS to set the list of apps that I want to run only in foreground and when entering background should be put to sleep (there is such setting in Marshmallow and I used it to have control over the battery life). This causes the battery life on Nougat to be quite disappointing.
All the time:
1. When used any other keyboard from Google Play - everything works fine until I click (be it by accident or intentionally) the emoticon icon (near the send button) while either writing a text message or using any other app where this button is available. The result is Samsung Keyboard (?!) crashing (which is odd as another keyboard is being used at the moment) - after the crash no keyboard is available until selected from the settings General Management\Language and input\Default Keyboard
Often:
1. Inability to click "Call" button from the contacts if often calling several contacts (UI seems to lock for 5-15 seconds). To reproduce: Go to the phone app - select contacts, then tap on any contact name (not a picture) - four buttones called "call, message, video call and details" will slide - try tapping "call". Repeat calling several contacts - the UI hangs for couple of seconds making clicking "Call" impossible (home button however works)
Quite often:
1. Mysterious "installations". Every couple of hours a notification pops-up that something is downloaded but there it is too quick to notice what was being downloaded, where, etc. It happens regardless if restored to factory defaults (seems to appear also on my wifes A510F after Nougat upgrade). It was not related to apps like messenger or instagram being updated by themselves as this feature was disabled in the settings.
Rare:
1. Blackout... The screen turns black. After the restart phone boots up but once started again it defaults to lowest brightness and need to be adjusted.
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I have, so far, experienced none of the things you have mentioned. Google keyboard works great, no random installations, call works perfectly fine.
VPN won't work
i have the exact same call problem as you have but i also have some random android.phone crashes WHILE ON THE SKYPE APP
WHAT IS HAPPENING
I've got no problems I wiped from fast rom. V2. To advance three. My phones fast. But always cold. So I know there's power wasted.... If I were you download eset file manager.. There's a file logger. I also use greenify.
I'm not saying that official Samsung release of Nougat for A3 2016 is a piece of crap but just could be better (or it lacks some testing).
It has some minor flaws either that you need to get used to or you need to find a workaround if too anoying.
In general Nougat was responsive and working quite well. The design of caller UI and the notification dropdown were particularly most irritating for me since I used them both lot of time - that's why I've decided to returned to Marshmallow.
I know that I could used Greenify, etc (I used it some time ago on my rooted Galaxy Ace2) but Marshmallow with all it's features had given me "out of the box" everything I needed for work. That is why Nougat was kind of disappointment as it required some tweaking. I've also spent some time with reseting to factory defaults or flashing 6.0 and upgrading again to 7.0 and flashing again... etc... but the issues still were there. I susspect (but cannot confirm this as I haven't made any research on it) it may be kind of "per device" issue. I had similar problems before with Galaxy Ace2 as the same model (i8160) had two different versions (without any visible differeces/different firmwares etc) which had two different LCD screen whereas devices with S6D27A1 LCD were working all the time fine and devices with the LCD WS2401 (mine was having this one ;] were the lower quality ones and had issues with some firmwares, etc). This could explain at least that some people do not have any issues after the upgrade and some do have.
Man_tzagk said:
i have the exact same call problem as you have but i also have some random android.phone crashes WHILE ON THE SKYPE APP
WHAT IS HAPPENING
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As for android-phone process crashing I would suggest making wipe of user data and cache partition / reset to factory defaults. This does not seem to be related with the firmware (I doubt that Samsung would release a firmware which is causing that type of issue.
charlander said:
VPN won't work
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Sadly I don't have Nougat now (I've returned to Marshmallow) and cannot confirm but on Marshmallow VPN works fine.
BTW: Does VPN not work at all, or does not work only with 3G or Wi-Fi?
charlander said:
VPN won't work
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I returned to Nougat just to play around with it once again (I hoped to get rid of the battery drain issues, etc).
I can also confirm that the VPN support is broken (connecting is not possible) at least with the built-in VPN tool.
A310M Nougat is now available. I flashed it with ODIN over a rooted MM with xposed installed, no wipes.
Everything is working just fine, wifi, bt, calls, keyboard (both gboard and samsung), data, sms, alarm clock, camera (front/back, stills with effects and video), new themes gallery. I'm having just a few hiccups in Chrome with heavy pages. I have no complaints whatsoever.
I kinda like the new layout and icons. Seems fluid. Battery seems fine too. In MM I get around 2 days, +6h SoT with lots of internet browsing, instagram, utorrent, youtube (when I feel lazy to use my desktop), calls (maybe a couple of hours/day), whatsapp all day long, acdisplay always on. I don't use 3g/4g that much because I hardly need it, wifi available in home, college and work.
I'll keep an eye on the battery stats. Gotta let it settle down a bit as I get used to Nougat. I'm really loving it so far.
So after couple of days spend testing, etc. it seems that for me all problems are more or less gone. Basically only two real problems are left:
1. The UI designed clearly for bigger phones and not quite comfortable, but some workarounds are possible.
2. Not working VPN (which is something I really use very very very rarily)
The solution to most problems is instead of insisting on upgrade from 6.01 (which seems to be severely flawed) to do the wipe of data and cache after the upgrade and configure everything from scratch.
However if this won't help (like in my scenario) - you can consider installing custom recovery (please note the warranty void and stuff) - TWRP and wipe evertyhing from there and... flash 7.0 again. To be honest - this last option fixed most issues for me and left me with pretty usable phone (again).
charlander said:
VPN won't work
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VPN started to work for me on 7.0
wolfensg said:
As for android-phone process crashing I would suggest making wipe of user data and cache partition / reset to factory defaults. This does not seem to be related with the firmware (I doubt that Samsung would release a firmware which is causing that type of issue.
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Hello all,
Unfortunately I observe a significant power drain which was not observed with android v. 5 or 6. On top of that I have some issues with "GPS signal lost" during map navigation. It's going even worst when battery saving functions are on
I tried different "tricks" suggested here, such as wiping cache but with no luck. I'm considering going back to android 6
I'm running nougat in one SM-A310M. To be honest, I'm not experiencing nothing bad. The battery is ok, system stability is ok, performance on and functionality is quite better.
Some things that I've to say:
1 system memory WON approximately 800 MB of free space
2 RAM usage is equal to marshmallow, but too much optimized (reopening apps)
3 the light sensor bugs is gone
4 mine antutu record before were around 27k. Now is ~37k. (I don't know the why, but 3D tests were listed how "unsupported" at the end of tests and now, in nougat, is ok. The RAM score is quite higher also on nougat
5 all the new functionality like notifications, recent apps button, video app can now create GIFs and the pop up blocker (goodbye SIM crazy popups) on home screen are quite useful.
Unfortunately, we don't have the multi window and night mode features, but I general, the update is positive. Nothing bad for while.
I'm attaching two images. The higher value come from nougat.
Hello ,
I have already read similar threads for this problem but still cannot fix my problem .
Only calls notifications works, it does not show me notifications from facebook , gmail, viber etc , I've already tried unpairing and pairing again with the phone, factory reset and uninstalling and reinstalling the amazfit watch app on the phone but nothing changed.
I checked the app blacklist and everything is enabled , this issue starts today , the previous weeks the watch works fine
Anyone can help me please?
restarted phone?
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restarted phone?
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Obviously I did restart my phone plenty of times
UPDATE:
After many restarts of my phone, 3-4 factory resets, and unistall - reinstall the amazfit app at least 2 times. It seems that the watch works fine again !
I dont know the problem is fixed (hopefully wont happen again) but just restarting your phone may fix the problem (may not work after the first restart, keep restarting your phone)
I also contacted amazfit to inform them , and they told me the same things
I am posting their answer:
If you can see them from the notification bar but can't see them through your watch, please check the following steps to troubleshoot your issue.
1) Check if you enabled the "silent mode" on the watch. If you enabled silent mode, you can't receive any notifications at all.
2) Enable the notification in the app
On the home screen of the Amazfit Watch app, select Notification Settings.
Tap the toggle switch to enable or disable push notification on your watch.
To enable or disable specific notifications, select App blacklist settings.
If you still can't receive the notification, please try the following:
Android
1: Go to settings --> manage apps' battery usage --> choose apps. From there, pick all the apps you want to receive push notifications and select "No restrictions."
2: Go to settings --> permissions --> autostart. From there, pick the apps you want to receive notifications, and toggle the switch to turn it on.
3: Lock the app in the "recent apps"/ "app overview" plane. Do so by first opening the apps, then press the "recent apps/overview button" . From there, find the app you want to receive notifications, pull down on it to "lock it", so it never gets cleared.
Hopefully this might help someone in the future
I think we need an update. Nothing of all them works for me.
I also have the same problem, watch only alerts me of the incoming call, no other notifications are pushed to amazfit pace...