I was trying to figure out if you wanted to take full advantage of google now what would be the standard operating procedures to do that?
Here is an Example. Make sure that all your calendar events have an address in the location so that google can alert you when you should leave your current location so you can arrive on time based on traffic conditions.
Are there other things that you do so that Google Now can reach its full potential in helping you?
Please assume you have allowed Google now to sync/access email, browsing history, contacts, google+, instant Upload, calendar and browser
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Hello,
I am sure there are numerous applications for GPS tracking and remote controlling/wiping all the data and settings pattern/numeric access codes for your mobiles.
Problem is that executing these safety measures are somehow dependent on certain other factors and can have successful or unsuccessful consequences.
I am thinking of anything more basic and hassle free way of ensuring that even in worst condition I can have certain peace of mind that my critical gmail account data would not be accessed for unauthorized use. For example when it was unlocked for use and meanwhile it was lost or snatched how can I be sure that my google account information specifically gmail/maps are safe. I know I can change the password by reaching to a nearby PC, but that is not always a possibility.
I have got my Samsung Galaxy S2 for more than a month and just figuring out a safe way before putting it in active use.
An idea which I am thinking of is to have another Gmail account specifically for use with Android Phone, and import/export the actual "Contacts" only to this new email account. Since contacts are the most frequently used item, they would be in sync with the new email account, any delta changes would have to be replicated to your original gmail account as well.
I dont use Picasa, so it is of no importance to me to sync the pictures with picasa account.
For access to my actual gmail and other emails (like work email) I can use an add on email android applications like K9-Mail to configure the gmail as IMAP. To get access to this email program I can install any application which can password protect the access to applications and can reactivate the password after any time of inactivity. I dont know whether in such case would I get popup in the notification bar for new emails or not.
The only two most used applications now left are
- Maps and Latitude
- Google Plus
Now both of them need to be used with my actual gmail account, since all contacts and connection are related to my actual identity on google.
So i need to know that is it possible to use one gmail (fake/secondary) account on android phone just for syncing contacts and use another actual (primary/original) account for logging in the official google maps and google plus applications. I know even in this case the password needs to be changed in case of a mishap, however I can be a bit satisfied that all critical data in the email storage is safe.
I just need your opinions and suggestion on the mentioned procedure, or is there any other good and recommended practice for getting multiple accounts configured on Android Phone and selectively use the google accounts for different applications.
Thanks for your inputs.
Hmm...seems like everyone is so sure of the safety of their handset, no one even gives a s*** to think about the worst-case scenario of losing a device.
Cheers...hope everyone retains the droid for life..
Hi,
Like all of us, I have multiple applications which fetch data from emails, rss feeds, twitter, facebook, etc. For exemple, my Tweetcaster fetch data each 60 minutes, Feedly each 60 minutes, K9 each 60 minutes for all accounts, etc. Is there a way to make applications to sync/fetch all at the same time ?
I was watching a Google I/O session on YouTube, which was very interesting. The bottom line is, to save battery, you should sync everything at the same time, so one big cookie instead of multiple small cookies through the day. Therefore, I am looking for a way to force my applications to sync all together at the same time.
I agree that the amount of battery save would be minimal, but I still would like to know if this is possible.
Thank you,
Neo.
there is an app i think called "sanbox", that allows you to do that, just hunt for it in the playstore.
[Q]How can you have push email with the Samsung stock / native email app? Not pull at certain time intervals.
Important:
1.In my test push email was much more battery & data friendly that pull (at every 30min for exmaple). If there was only a few emails per day coming in, there was very little awake time from the Email app.
2.I know the Android native Gmail app does push very well, but I don't like it as much, and it doesn't support Yahoo. (get it google doesn't support yahoo )
3. The Samsung native email app has features that I like: it's dark (black), it has a widget, it integrates very well with the rest of the i9300. So don't send me to use other email apps please. We will discuss this separately.
When I had the S2 i9100 it used to be quite simple (although in some isolated cases the push option was missing). For email accounts such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail there wasn't any problem to set it up to push email instead of pull.
Back at that time, Samsung was working with a service they called Social Hub . They integrated every thing inside it: instant messaging (gtalk, yahoo, msn), tweeter, facebook, etc. It was working pretty well.
A member on XDA considers Samsung is spying on us with this service - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2007571
The idea with push was Samsung servers were constantly checking if you had email and only wake up your phone when you really received new email.
Let's say I don't care about Samsung knowing my password right now and I want push email back.
Now with the S3 i9300 and JB, they dropped that project. I saw no trace of Social Hub on the S3.
The bad thins is there is no more push option, only poll at predefined intervals.
There are users who advice on using Exchange to push gmail - thanks to Google because they offer this function for free. I tested it, it works, but it is not battery and data friendly. It keeps the phone awake 5min/8h only for the gmail account, when Samsung Email on S2 used to wake it up for less than a minute per 8h. And it uses much more date, about 10 times as much. I saw other complaints on this forum about Android-Exchange large data consumption.
Other disadvantages are that lack of support for Yahoo (I understand you need to pay to have Exchange support for Yahoo).
This is the Exchange app vs. the Email app:
Right now I'm using the Email app for my yahoo and gmail account with the best settings I found for battery and data vs utility:
-pull email every 1h;
-size to retrieve emails: only headers (back on the S2, pull brought me also some content and the data consumption was not higher)
[Q]How can you have push email with the Samsung stock / native email app? Not pull at certain time intervals.
I found an answer on another topic:
" The native email client does not support IMAP idle. It only offers interval polling. If you're on Exchange, push does work but only with the active sync protocol."
I hope there is a way around it because I don't like Exchange on Android.
I found an interesting post which shows that IMAP IDLE, even if it provides Push email without third party servers, is battery hungry
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27219447&postcount=34.
In the past I have benn trying out AquaMail for my gmail account. Event though it is a very complex and well thought app, I had it to use Imap Idle Push and the battery and data consumption is still high compared to Seven/social hub.
It still consumes about 500KB per night even if there is no email coming into my gmail inbox. In a similar situation, social hub wouldn't have had consumed anything.
Hello and thanks for taking time to read my thread. I'm posting because under my Google account in system settings, I see many sync options which are redundant, exact duplicates, or completely vague. I'm hoping someone knows some more about any of these and why there are duplicates.
I've tried searching Google and XDA, but there just seems to be no info on this. Only thing I found was another thread from a year ago asking about some different options under Google account sync settings, but the thread never reached an answer.
The individual settings I have are below and I've noted the ones which I don't understand. Any help or tips in the right direction for getting clarity on this will be greatly appreciated!
App Data
[*]Calendar
Chrome — I assume this syncs recent/open tabs and history from Chrome running on my PCs, but...
ChromeSync — then how does this differ from "Chrome"?
Contacts
Credentials State — ????
Game Data
[*]Game Data — Why are there two of these? And does anyone know what data it actually syncs? Scores, achievements? Will Play Games still integrate the same way with the few games I play if I turn these off?
Gmail
[*]Google Fit data
Google Opinion Rewards —This was already off, but I still get notifications for new surveys. So what is this even for?
Google Play Music
Google Play services —
Google Play services —
Google Play services — Holy hell, why must there be three of these completely nondescriptive entries?? My best guess is that these are some catchalls that Google threw in because either A) they are lazy or B) they wanted to lump some things together so you couldn't disable certain things you might find intrusive or unnecessary without breaking something else you actually do want which is bundled into these entries.
Google+
Google+ Photos
Google+ Uploads — What uploads are there other than photos?
Keep
Location Reporting and Location history — How does this differ from the location history setting in the "Google Settings" app? I can turn either one off and the other stays on, so they seem to be independent settings.
Offline credentials sync — I can't seem to figure out what offline credentials are used for in Android or whether I actually utilize them. Is there any way to know?
People details — Another confusing one. I would assume this had to do with contacts if there wasn't a separate entry for that. Anyone have a clue what this is?
Push subscriptions — AFAIK, I don't have any subscriptions via my Google account, but I assume this will break some important notifications of some sort. Anyone know?
Reminders
Hate to bump my own thread, but maybe someone online at this time might know something.
Bump
I'm curious as well
It's probably because you guys have the 'Reveal Hidden Sync' feature in Greenify enabled like I have.
It's not a bad thing really, probably Google's way of syncing account data. Multiple Play Service sync for different data, Credential for payment methods stored in your account (nothing unsafe if you have 2F enabled), Push subscriptions because there are many apps that use GCM push etc. It's really nothing to worry about.
Anachronizer said:
It's probably because you guys have the 'Reveal Hidden Sync' feature in Greenify enabled like I have.
It's not a bad thing really, probably Google's way of syncing account data. Multiple Play Service sync for different data, Credential for payment methods stored in your account (nothing unsafe if you have 2F enabled), Push subscriptions because there are many apps that use GCM push etc. It's really nothing to worry about.
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Haha. Yeah, thanks. I had figured that out some time after posting this thread, but never updated here since it looked like no one else cared anyway
I suppose the differentiation between the duplicates is really only relevant in the code or the syncing process itself and not so relevant to the user. I do still have "People details" and the Opinion Rewards (which doesn't seem to affect the app receiving new surveys) when the Greenify option is turned off, so I still really wonder what those are for.
Last week I traveled a few days to Berlin and i had several documents for reservations with me.
Because I want some documents in addition to my printed copies, I send these documents usually to myself.
Now, while I spent a waiting period on GoogleMaps, I noticed in addition to the usual user ratings also my personal booking number (even my departure and arrival times) showed up on the site of the local airport (inside the GMaps app).
This number I have never entered somewhere, so Google Maps shouldn't know it.
The attached pdf file (airline reservation document) was shown by Google Maps at the bottom of this page, despite Gmail sync was turned off in android settings.
I use Android as a mobile operating system now for several years now.
Nearly all sync switches of Google services (including GMail Sync) are turned off in android settings.
For mail and calendar i use other apps, as in this case, Aqua Mail for email receipt.
My only question is:
How the hell it can be that Google proposals data contained within an attached PDFs?
Even with the Gmail sync turned on, android shouldn't read the contents of mail attachments.
For me this behavior is absolutely incomprehensible.