[Q] Any way to make multiple sync profiles? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello guys
Is there any way to make multiple sync profiles for google services?
I noticed that my sync takes quite a bit of my battery and Data, so whenever I live my home or office and off the Wifi,
I will turn the sync off. I would however, like to have at least gmail sync up and running, as I have to attend to my work stuff.
Right now, I do it manually and it's getting really boring when I do it few times a day. Settings, google, uncheck and check the
sync apps one by one.
Would be great if there was easier way to do it. Automate it someone how, so as soon as the wifi is off, the sync adjust itself.
Any ideas if there is something I can do ?
Thanks for taking the time to read,
best regards
Seba

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SebaKL said:
Hello guys
Is there any way to make multiple sync profiles for google services?
I noticed that my sync takes quite a bit of my battery and Data, so whenever I live my home or office and off the Wifi,
I will turn the sync off. I would however, like to have at least gmail sync up and running, as I have to attend to my work stuff.
Right now, I do it manually and it's getting really boring when I do it few times a day. Settings, google, uncheck and check the
sync apps one by one.
Would be great if there was easier way to do it. Automate it someone how, so as soon as the wifi is off, the sync adjust itself.
Any ideas if there is something I can do ?
Thanks for taking the time to read,
best regards
Seba
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Off the top of my head, I don't think there is a way. It might be possible with an app or rom but wouldn't really know what to look for. try searching for sync apps etc.
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Glebun said:
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You could have just answered the question and then pointed out it was in the wrong sectiuon, rather than being a twat....

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[Q] Wi-Fi networks screen pop-up

Anyone know how to get rid of the "Select a Wi-Fi network if you would prefer to run the app over Wi-Fi" screen?
I have to press "Do not use Wi-Fi every time and it's pretty annoying.
The only way I know how to get rid of it right now is to completely disable Wi-Fi.
johnnysyeah said:
Anyone know how to get rid of the "Select a Wi-Fi network if you would prefer to run the app over Wi-Fi" screen?
I have to press "Do not use Wi-Fi every time and it's pretty annoying.
The only way I know how to get rid of it right now is to completely disable Wi-Fi.
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Then disable wifi. Not sure why you'd have it going in the background eating power if you're not actually using it for something.
loonatik78 said:
Then disable wifi. Not sure why you'd have it going in the background eating power if you're not actually using it for something.
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Thanks. But I was asking if there was a way to get rid of that dialog.
I know I could disable Wi-Fi, I even mentioned it in my first post.
But driving to the local Subway by my work place for my lunch break, I don't want to have to disable it and re-enable it for an hour.
If there is no way to do it, then a "No, there isn't a way" would've sufficed.
johnnysyeah said:
Thanks. But I was asking if there was a way to get rid of that dialog.
I know I could disable Wi-Fi, I even mentioned it in my first post.
But driving to the local Subway by my work place for my lunch break, I don't want to have to disable it and re-enable it for an hour.
If there is no way to do it, then a "No, there isn't a way" would've sufficed.
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I'm going to assume you're either on uberBAMF or a Gingeritis ROM. I believe Chingy and TeamBAMF have attempted to address that issue, but to what success I'm not sure. Might check out themikmik.com threads for an answer or tool to fix it. That's the best I can tell ya. I never use public wifi because it's always slower than LTE.
loonatik78 said:
I'm going to assume you're either on uberBAMF or a Gingeritis ROM. I believe Chingy and TeamBAMF have attempted to address that issue, but to what success I'm not sure. Might check out themikmik.com threads for an answer or tool to fix it. That's the best I can tell ya. I never use public wifi because it's always slower than LTE.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
I tend to use Wi-Fi at my work place to help from burning my battery too quick.
I'm not even on the phone while at work anyway, so sitting idly there with wifi on is a bit better than sitting idly with 4G.
Although I will be installing in a juice defender type app to do some battery testings later.
Hopefully it will help.
johnnysyeah said:
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I tend to use Wi-Fi at my work place to help from burning my battery too quick.
I'm not even on the phone while at work anyway, so sitting idly there with wifi on is a bit better than sitting idly with 4G.
Although I will be installing in a juice defender type app to do some battery testings later.
Hopefully it will help.
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I'm not a big fan of task and feature killers. I consistently see a projection of over 40 hours standby on LTE with mine using none of that stuff. Additionally, they tend to hurt performance. I'd be more prone to just dropping a wifi widget someplace. Just my thoughts...
loonatik78 said:
I'm not a big fan of task and feature killers. I consistently see a projection of over 40 hours standby on LTE with mine using none of that stuff. Additionally, they tend to hurt performance. I'd be more prone to just dropping a wifi widget someplace. Just my thoughts...
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Yeah, I'm just doing some testings to see if it helps any.
Logically, I would think it does help, since while my screen is off, the data is disabled.
But who knows, there might be something within the app itself that's draining the battery life even more.
Thanks for your feedbacks!
johnnysyeah said:
Yeah, I'm just doing some testings to see if it helps any.
Logically, I would think it does help, since while my screen is off, the data is disabled.
But who knows, there might be something within the app itself that's draining the battery life even more.
Thanks for your feedbacks!
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Just from experience, some chat clients are simply abusive when it comes to data use. Yahoo was one of them for me. I also try to very rigidly control when certain things sync or update. Seldom used email accounts update once, maybe twice, a day. Weather only every 6 hours instead of EVERY time the widget is viewed which is the default setting. A lot of the sync setting are WAY more frequent than I think they need to be... the information just doesn't change that much. And it's largely stuff you'll never notice it not doing. Also, I underclock my bottem end CPU speeds and undervolt them to the limit. My phone spends the VAST majority of it's time at or below 245MHz, sipping .8volts or less.
I use IM+ Pro and FriendCaster for Facebook.
I do not let FriendCaster ever do any syncing, however, since I don't even check that thing too much and when I do, I can manually sync it myself.
Other than those two, I use Gmail which is on autosync and Moxier Mail for my corporate email which is on direct push mode.
Since we're on the subject, would you know if direct push burns battery unnecessarily also?
I'm not certain how push works, but do not want to put it on auto polling every 3 hours or something.
johnnysyeah said:
I use IM+ Pro and FriendCaster for Facebook.
I do not let FriendCaster ever do any syncing, however, since I don't even check that thing too much and when I do, I can manually sync it myself.
Other than those two, I use Gmail which is on autosync and Moxier Mail for my corporate email which is on direct push mode.
Since we're on the subject, would you know if direct push burns battery unnecessarily also?
I'm not certain how push works, but do not want to put it on auto polling every 3 hours or something.
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Real push email service shouldn't need polling at all. The entire idea behind push email service, as basically invented by RIM, is that a remote server serves as a proxy user to your account and allows you remote access through that service. As a result, nothing is sent to your device until the remote service has something to send. I'm not familiar with your email app or setup through the corporate account, but if it's actually real push email, it's the best possible setup to preserve battery life. Real push email service is one of the few sports BlackBerry can still say they own the game. Everything else is just pretending REAL hard, but the harder it pretends, the harder it tends to be on your battery too.
loonatik78 said:
Real push email service shouldn't need polling at all. The entire idea behind push email service, as basically invented by RIM, is that a remote server serves as a proxy user to your account and allows you remote access through that service. As a result, nothing is sent to your device until the remote service has something to send. I'm not familiar with your email app or setup through the corporate account, but if it's actually real push email, it's the best possible setup to preserve battery life. Real push email service is one of the few sports BlackBerry can still say they own the game. Everything else is just pretending REAL hard, but the harder it pretends, the harder it tends to be on your battery too.
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I guess I did right by setting my Moxier Mail to direct push only then, instead of polling during weekends and such.
Thanks!

Back up stuff

Ok not sure if this is the right place to post this. My wife finally figured how to back up her phone but she needs to back up her google calendar. Any idea or point me in the right direction? Also this is her second phone. It reboots by itself now and before the update. Plug it in to charge overnight and it shuts off. Its never been rooted because she needs it for work.
blueis300 said:
Ok not sure if this is the right place to post this. My wife finally figured how to back up her phone but she needs to back up her google calendar. Any idea or point me in the right direction? Also this is her second phone. It reboots by itself now and before the update. Plug it in to charge overnight and it shuts off. Its never been rooted because she needs it for work.
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I would say take it back to Verizon. If her phone is constantly rebooting and reboots in the wall charger, seems like something is wrong there. As far as backing up the Google calendar...doesnt that back up to google automatically?
Yeah we are getting another phone but cant back up caledar like contacts. Also everything on the computer wasnt being sent to her phone.
blueis300 said:
Yeah we are getting another phone but cant back up caledar like contacts. Also everything on the computer wasnt being sent to her phone.
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Yes u can sync calendar to google. I believe it is under privacy in settings menu. Something about backup to google needs to be checked. I don't use calendar much. Have it frozen now but did u try pressing menu button while calendar is open to see what options u have?
ashclepdia said:
Yes u can sync calendar to google. I believe it is under privacy in settings menu. Something about backup to google needs to be checked. I don't use calendar much. Have it frozen now but did u try pressing menu button while calendar is open to see what options u have?
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In accounts, click youthful account and make sure the colander is.checked to sync.
Not sure if it backwards syncs tho
Also didn't mean to quote you ash
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Oops, I mean select your gmail account, not youthful
johnmagoo said:
In accounts, click youthful account and make sure the colander is.checked to sync.
Not sure if it backwards syncs tho
Also didn't mean to quote you ash
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Oops, I mean select your gmail account, not youthful
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Ha ha...I believe u also mean calander.lol...u gotta be typing on phone for that post cuz I am now and I almost just wrote colander too....hahaha..sry its late this made me snicker to myself....I hate when I edit and miss something
ashclepdia said:
Ha ha...I believe u also mean calander.lol...u gotta be typing on phone for that post cuz I am now and I almost just wrote colander too....hahaha..sry its late this made me snicker to myself....I hate when I edit and miss something
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Ahahaha no I totally meant colander! Yeah i'm using the Swype beta, doesn't seem to be as accurate as the one that comes stock on the x2

Google Finance not working

I have the Google Finance app on my Defy+. In the last few days I noticed that the ticker had stopped updating. Tapping on the widget gets me an incomplete share price page and the title line says "Loading" continuously - it never finishes loading
I tried uninstalling Google Finance and re-installing it from Play. The result of that was that I couldn't add a share to the ticker list at all
Fortunately I had a Ti backup of the app so I restored that, with its data, and I now have the share back in the ticker - but it's still not updating. I've tried adding a different share to the ticker and it just sits there with the sync icon in the notification area, achieving nothing.
It's as if Google Finance can't talk to Google any more. All my other network apps, including eg Google Maps, work fine.
Anyone got any ideas?
I have the same problem, but my prob only started midday today
I also have the same problem. No idea what to do.
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Its like Finance has been dying a slow death. I haven't been able to get my widget to auto update at all for months on multiple phones. Now this. I really wish there was another compact widget that would simply give me the current dow. Time to move on. Anyone have any suggestions?
The app called "stocks" uses your google finance portfolios and seems to work still (indicating a server-side problem for google). I don't like it as much as Finance, but at least it works. Doesn't come with a widget, though
Thanks but I really need a home screen widget
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I think it says something that we are the only three people across the world making noise after Finance goes non-functional for about 3 days now.
I thought it was surprising that no one complained when the widget quit auto updating months ago. Here it goes completely dead and hardly a word.
If anyone is interested, I tried most of the widgets and this one is the only one that seemed to work and auto updated in as little as 1 min increments per the settings.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inox.inostock&hl=en
I have the same problem
For the past few days It didn't update any stock quotes. I deleted data and uninstalled then reinstalled and now it doesn't even update my portfolio from Google Finance server and can't add new stocks or do nothing. It is completely non-functional now.
I'm also having the exact same problem on HTC Evo 3D.
- App wasn't syncing
- Deleted data and lost my portfolio
- Reinstalled and still not working
- Sync icon stays in the left hand corner but it does not update
The portfolio is still available on the full/mobile websites.
Same problem here with my motor RAZR Maxx. Widget stopped updating so I uninstalled and reinstalled. Now I can't get it to sync with my saved stocks.
Hmmm... yesterday I needed to rebuild my Galaxy S2 phone (had tried a different OS and had problems restoring the original). I had deleted google finance 2 days ago.
Today I reinstalled Finance, just to see.... and it's working fine! Got my portfolio reloaded and replicates prices nice & fast!
Soooo either Google Finance just started working again for everyone, or the solution to the problems reported here is some sort of delete..wipe..reinstall cycle
Good luck ladies & gents.
davisan1 said:
Soooo either Google Finance just started working again for everyone, or the solution to the problems reported here is some sort of delete..wipe..reinstall cycle
Good luck ladies & gents.
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Apparently no reinstall needed. Wonder if by some miracle auto update started working also. We'll see when the market opens.
I sent an email to the support email address in the app and now it's working. Maybe they do read those emails.
Yup, working for me again now. Must have been a Google problem. (I did e-mail them about it twice but didn't hear anything back.)
Now all I have to do is find the RBS stock mnemonic which gives me the real current price of RBS ordinary shares. I know they're not great but 7.45p sure ain't right...
Google's Problem
I second ejstubb's assessment. I initially uninstalled / reinstalled with no resolution. As of last night, it seems to be working fine, so i can only assume it was a problem on Google's end.
Does anyone except me care about the fact that the stock monitor widget has quit auto updating months ago? I guess no one uses it?
NCguy said:
Does anyone except me care about the fact that the stock monitor widget has quit auto updating months ago? I guess no one uses it?
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I just checked the settings and mine was set to 4 hours. Maybe that is why I thought it wasn't auto updating. I just set it to 30 minutes.
Notyours said:
I just checked the settings and mine was set to 4 hours. Maybe that is why I thought it wasn't auto updating. I just set it to 30 minutes.
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I'd be very surprised if it updates. Please let us know.
NCguy said:
I'd be very surprised if it updates. Please let us know.
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Yes it did. I wish it would update in shorter increments, but this is better than before.
Notyours said:
Yes it did. I wish it would update in shorter increments, but this is better than before.
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What is your phone and rom?

Not able to set up notification ringtone for twitter

Hello I am new here.
I was able to set up custom notifications for all the apps as soon as the msg comes(eg facebook etc)
However, when doing the same for twitter, it does not let me do it. I go into settings and the notification and selecting ringtone section is greyed out. Therefore, I am not able to get push notifications for twitter. I have to go manually into twitter and see if there have been any new messages or tweets directed to me.
I will really appreciate if someone will help me with this.
Thanks...!
Not much use to ya but i've just started having this problem on my SGS3.. no twitter notifications (was working fine last week) now i get nothing and the options are grayed out! :/ if i find a solution i'll get back to you!
moosey
Perhaps try a new Twitter app. I really like Uber Social myself. It has a fantastic widget. Not sure if it supports custom tones. Try different things and let us know.
Reclaim said:
Perhaps try a new Twitter app. I really like Uber Social myself. It has a fantastic widget. Not sure if it supports custom tones. Try different things and let us know.
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Agreed ......this sounds like an app problem ....
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saadikhan said:
Hello I am new here.
I was able to set up custom notifications for all the apps as soon as the msg comes(eg facebook etc)
However, when doing the same for twitter, it does not let me do it. I go into settings and the notification and selecting ringtone section is greyed out. Therefore, I am not able to get push notifications for twitter. I have to go manually into twitter and see if there have been any new messages or tweets directed to me.
I will really appreciate if someone will help me with this.
Thanks...!
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A bit more information is needed ....
What rom ?
Are you using TW social hub features ? Or stand alone twitter ?
If stand alone application ....then pm the app developer directly for bug report.....IMHO
Either way ....a different app may help you ....
Good luck ....g
Sussed it out. The twitter app doesnt do notifcations unless you have android sync enabled. Once i enabled this (on my phone its the "Sync" button in the notifcation area) the options are ungrayed and i can get notifications again
Greenmoose got it !!
thank you....g
greenmoose7708 said:
Sussed it out. The twitter app doesnt do notifcations unless you have android sync enabled. Once i enabled this (on my phone its the "Sync" button in the notifcation area) the options are ungrayed and i can get notifications again
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Thank you so much for that !

[Q] Battery drain on Wifi Off/Sync On ?

Hi everyone,
Can't find a subject on this so here it is.
I was wondering, if I set wifi off but I keep the global sync option on in the 4.2.2 tiles, does the apps will try to sync even if wifi is off, and then drain a little bit off battery ?
Maybe I can do a "log" to see what is happening if nobody knows. That's not a really important thing, but I asked myself this, so I am gently looking for an answer
Thanks !
IlyesDaoudi said:
Hi everyone,
Can't find a subject on this so here it is.
I was wondering, if I set wifi off but I keep the global sync option on in the 4.2.2 tiles, does the apps will try to sync even if wifi is off, and then drain a little bit off battery ?
Maybe I can do a "log" to see what is happening if nobody knows. That's not a really important thing, but I asked myself this, so I am gently looking for an answer
Thanks !
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no for a direct answer
but the sync checks for the network connection(wifi&data) if it is available or not and hence there will be a lil battery drain
sangalaxy said:
no for a direct answer
but the sync checks for the network connection(wifi&data) if it is available or not and hence there will be a lil battery drain
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So if I understand well, it works like this :
"sync service" checks wifi
- If ON, send Sync request (or something like this) to the different apps listed in sync menu of the system settings ?
- If Off, it just stop there ?
And this brings another question to me:
Why could not we configure the sync intervals globally here, instead of in each app's UI ?
(I'm trying my best in english, sorry if there is some mistakes, please tell me)
IlyesDaoudi said:
So if I understand well, it works like this :
"sync service" (SS) checks wifi
- If ON, send Sync request (or smthn like this) to the different apps
- If Off, it just stop there ?
This brings another question:
Why could not we configure the sync intervals globally here, instead of in each app's UI ?
(I'm trying my best in english, sorry if there is some mistakes, please tell me)
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yeah you are right
and about the sync intervals you can use any app for setting that
search in google
sangalaxy said:
yeah you are right
and about the sync intervals you can use any app for setting that
search in google
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I'll search for it, thank you very much :good:
IlyesDaoudi said:
Hi everyone,
Can't find a subject on this so here it is.
I was wondering, if I set wifi off but I keep the global sync option on in the 4.2.2 tiles, does the apps will try to sync even if wifi is off, and then drain a little bit off battery ?
Maybe I can do a "log" to see what is happening if nobody knows. That's not a really important thing, but I asked myself this, so I am gently looking for an answer
Thanks !
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Hi!
You need to check logs first. For android, any application that registered with permission "NETWORK_STATE_CHANGED_ACTION" will do something on wifi off (and on wifi on also of course). It can be sync, some maintenance or any other work. So, check logs, there is a chance that you will find something usefull here. Another way is to check permissions of installed application.
Thanks.
So my final question is: (just to be sure, and to know how much)
If I take off Wi-Fi AND sync, my battery will last longer than Wi-Fi off sync on? How much?
Very very insignificant ?

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