Hi all,
I have a very slow DSL connection at home (40 Kb /sec) so I have to preload anything that has to do with video or audio.
Youtube on PC or laptop is a PITA with such a slow connection, but it works by letting the browser pre-load.
Now on my Andoid mobile devices (mainly Nexus 7 with stock 4.2.2, but also galaxy S2 phone) thos doesn´t work at all.
First of all, the youtube app is NOT able to keep my screen alive, so when I try to preload a video the screen switches off after the system set time (30 sec in my case). UNFORTUNATELY when I turn the screen back on the preloading has stopped and I have to start ALL over again.
So my only chance is to tap the screen every 30 seconds so the sceen does not run off
It seems even thugn the app has the right to prevent standby mode it is not possible to keep that network connection alive an preload in the background - is that a system fault (because Android resets all network conenctions when screen is turned off) or is that App just poorly programmed?
Man, it sucks the big hairy meat ball...
F.
Kusie said:
Hi all,
I have a very slow DSL connection at home (40 Kb /sec) so I have to preload anything that has to do with video or audio.
Youtube on PC or laptop is a PITA with such a slow connection, but it works by letting the browser pre-load.
Now on my Andoid mobile devices (mainly Nexus 7 with stock 4.2.2, but also galaxy S2 phone) thos doesn´t work at all.
First of all, the youtube app is NOT able to keep my screen alive, so when I try to preload a video the screen switches off after the system set time (30 sec in my case). UNFORTUNATELY when I turn the screen back on the preloading has stopped and I have to start ALL over again.
So my only chance is to tap the screen every 30 seconds so the sceen does not run off
It seems even thugn the app has the right to prevent standby mode it is not possible to keep that network connection alive an preload in the background - is that a system fault (because Android resets all network conenctions when screen is turned off) or is that App just poorly programmed?
Man, it sucks the big hairy meat ball...
F.
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I think it may be a little of both; Android and YouTube's fault. The YouTube app should be able to keep screen alive. It also goes to sleep on my phone (Motorola Defy XT). The app is full of bugs and whatnot. Also, when the phone sleeps, because the app allows it, Android resets connections so you lose your pre-loaded data. I think YouTube should work on app compatibility more. You could also try the YouTube website in your browser instead of app. You can also change how long it takes for your device to sleep. :fingers-crossed:
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I would like my gtablet to remain able to establish ssh connections
after the display turns off.
It appears even if I set the wifi preference to never go to sleep, once
the display turns off I cannot either ping or ssh into my gtablet?
So, I wonder if there is a way to do this.
(By the way, I assume that the wifi has power saving implemented
so just sitting around will actually not use much battery.)
I've noticed that when the screen goes off, adb even loses the tablet until you turn the screen back on. But I am having the same issues with Wifi, and setting it to never sleep in addition to installing a keep alive app doesn't seem to do much good. When the screen goes off for a couple of minutes, all connections seem to be lost.
It would be nice if there was some sort of solution to this.
yes, I can't get wifi to stay on. Basically, I want the tablet to stay
on but the screen to blank.
This is more important now that I have rsync installed and could
do automated data transfers or backups at scheduled times.
I am running Vegan 5.1.1 and am wondering this too, is it a vegan problem or gtab? Is there a dev that can make a kernal to stop this?
I am on a TnT ROM using Clemsyn's kernel, and I get the same problem, so it might be a device issue.
I'm trying out an app called Wifi Fixer -- free from the Marketplace (though I'll get the .99 cent donate version if this works). I left the tab display off and untouched for about 10 minutes just now, and wifi was still connected when I turned it back on. I'll let it sit for about 1/2 hour and see if it still works. If so, we might have a winner
In TNT (Lite), try Settings -- wireless -- Wi-Fi Settings -- Advanced Settings -- Wi-Fi Sleep Policy
wifi sleep policy is set so -- supposedly -- wifi never sleeps, but that did
not work for me (wifi was shut down when tablet goes to sleep - I wonder
what controls that - I would want display and system to have separate
sleep control ...)
But I found an app in market, wifi keepalive that seems to be working.
My tablet just turned off the display and I can still ssh, ping and rsync
successfully.
Maybe that is the solution.
I wonder how much power this will draw?
(I have a nokia n810 "mini-tablet" and even with wifi on (power saving
mode enabled) battery consumption is pretty minimal if wifi is not
actually in use. Does android use power saving mode in wifi?)
Well, I already had it set to never sleep. The Wifi Fixer seems to work though -- I let it sit for about 1/2 hour, and when I flipped it back on, the wifi was still connected.
Edit: Nevermind, that didn't work either. Sucks, I love this tablet, but if it's a dead fish when the screen is off for a few minutes, it's lost a good deal of usefulness to me.
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But I found an app in market, wifi keepalive that seems to be working.
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That was the one I was using initially, but while it wouldn't drop the wifi connection upon turning off the screen, it would eventually drop it -- when I woke the tab back up, I'd have the wifi lost icon for a few seconds.
it would eventually drop it
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yep, it looks like that happened here too ... maybe some other
app is resetting this; it lost my connection after a radiotime
app was playing for about half an hour with screen off
I hear that ubuntu might run on this - it would be great to
have a **real** operating system to fiddle with
I'm not quite sure if it's the right term for the title but are there any ways of keeping a window in a browser (i'm using opera mobile not mini) 'active' when I'm streaming videos?
I mean, i tried to stream this 24-min video, so I waited until it completes buffering by turning the phone screen off, then doing other daily routines, leaving my phone on the table. When I turned it on again (after about 30mins of waiting), it only buffered 2mins/24mins of the video. My wifi sleep policy are always on 'never' so I guess it's not the problem. I also tried it on other videos/websites and also it's not a problem on my wifi router. Any solutions to this aside from upping the screen timeout to '30mins'?
If you've rooted your android, then try using Spare parts plus and blade buddy.. It has options to change the wi-fi sleep policy to 'never'..
Hope this helps..
Since I've had my note 2 for about 2 weeks now, when I'm connected to WIFI (b/g/n at both work and home) at random times when I start You Tube I will get a really long load time (Circle chasing itself) the video will play eventually then at random times it will stop and try to buffer. This happens in either landscape or portrait mode. When I turn off WIFI and use LTE I have no problems. I've stopped the You Tube application and relaunched it same problem. I've paused and it wont buffer. I've started and then stopped and launched it again. It normally takes a good 2-3 times of starting and stopping before I'm able to watch something off my feed. Then at any point after that the problem might pop up again.
I've used my old phone a My touch 4g and 2 IPhone 4s and neither of them have the problem.
I thought the problem might be something strange in the stock rom. So I rooted and installed CleanRom ACE 4.0.5. Problem still occurring. I tried WIFI Fix and checked the status of the the router/restarted etc.. WIFI settings are: Keep WIFI on during sleep: Always
Not sure if maybe I got a bad phone or what.. any one have any idea's?
Often when waking the device from screen off, I get wifi data lag. As in it takes about 10-20 seconds before any apps will load any downloaded data. During this time the wifi icon shows uploading and downloading. App elements that I believe are part of the app itself (frame elements, text, icons, etc) are all on screen, but no remote content (which is why I believe it's data lag, as the phone itself is loading apps and such just fine). After that, data downloads just as snappy as it should. I can turn the screen off and back on with no lag. Then if the phone sits idle for a while, it often happens again. Or sometimes does not. Same thing with rebooting. Lag is there sometimes, sometimes it is not. And I know it's not my wifi, because I already tested other devices that download data just fine while my phone is still waiting for data.
Anyone else have this issue?
Do you have queue background data turned on in power management settings? Or maybe you have turned off keep WiFi on during sleep in WiFi advanced settings.
jimmyhauser said:
Often when waking the device from screen off, I get wifi data lag. As in it takes about 10-20 seconds before any apps will load any downloaded data. During this time the wifi icon shows uploading and downloading. App elements that I believe are part of the app itself (frame elements, text, icons, etc) are all on screen, but no remote content (which is why I believe it's data lag, as the phone itself is loading apps and such just fine). After that, data downloads just as snappy as it should. I can turn the screen off and back on with no lag. Then if the phone sits idle for a while, it often happens again. Or sometimes does not. Same thing with rebooting. Lag is there sometimes, sometimes it is not. And I know it's not my wifi, because I already tested other devices that download data just fine while my phone is still waiting for data.
Anyone else have this issue?
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@rappa619 nailed it.
Sounds like wifi queue is enabled in your power settings.
I have queue disabled, wifi optimization disabled, and keep wifi on during sleep. None of that helped.
Not positive, but it may have been my internet (even though two laptops and three ipads in the house were not having this issue). Internet went out completely a few days ago, and since resetting it, the lag seems to be gone.
I decided to save a good amount of my battery by limiting the usage of wifi network connection only to the time I use my phone
so I downloaded and installed 3rd party app which allows me to control when it switches on/off and here's what I did.
connect to wifi when the screen is on
disconnect to wifi when the screen is off
it is this simple. and I expected it to function just as It should be
everything worked just fine.. or not.
I had to wait for like 5 seconds before it started to finish the wifi connection after I screened it on, which is not a good thing.
the purpose of setting all this is because I want to keep my wifi off when I dont actually use it like when surfing the web or watch streaming videos but at the same time I wanna sometimes turn the screen on and right back off only to momentarily turn the wifi on to get my notifications like emails or whatsapp messages which I will miss otherwise
so how can this be done? I want to press power button twice like double clicking mouse to get brief wifi connection so it performs the synchronization each time I do the job. if that turns the wifi off too fast so doesnt provide enough time for the wifi connection. then I can simply set the time wifi disconnected to 10 secs after I turn it off
so the main problem is how to make it turned on when the screen is on. almost simultaneously so I dont need to keep the screen on for a couple of seconds.
I eagerly need this function because I want to put my phone in the pocket and time to time double tap on the power button which Is very convenient to not miss all the notifications.
it doesnt matter when I seriously use the phone as I said ealrier, waiting for a few seconds doesn't hurt in that case.
thank you
p.s) I tested this to several phones and only 1 which I have doesnt let it. any solution?
apps, settings, rooting, custom roms, tasker, anything will do, except for buy new phone