Loving this still, but there are a few things that are bugging me (even after updating to MM)...
1. Location found - why does that stay in notifications after shutting down maps and GPS.
2. Screen goes black after ending a call while using Google maps navigation.
3. Welcome to Smart Notice - after what 2-3 months with the phone.
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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.
Randomly when I turn on the screen I see the GPS icon in the notification tray for half a second. Then it just goes away, and it is impossible to tell which app is using it. It does not happen all the time, but usually when I am outside or moving. It used to happen on my old Droid Charge too, but I thought that was just some incompatibility error with new apps on GB. Is this a part of Google location services?
Are you using the Samsung weather widget? I'm pretty sure that uses GPS when it updates
Google now will also use GPS to track your daily habits just turn off GPS when you don't need it
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Anyone else having problems with Maps and battery usage? All location services turned off, haven't even opened maps, and it is at the top of my baytery usage, saying GPS is constantly running in background when all location setting are off. Uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. I've been getting fantastic battery life but still not sure why this is happening. Suggestions?
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gramenz said:
Anyone else having problems with Maps and battery usage? All location services turned off, haven't even opened maps, and it is at the top of my baytery usage, saying GPS is constantly running in background when all location setting are off. Uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. I've been getting fantastic battery life but still not sure why this is happening. Suggestions?
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Try using app ops and set maps Keep Awake to off. Worth a try. You'd have to enable it again when you do actually use maps most likely though
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To help improve your battery life check out my guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54342046
or just use greenify-
gramenz said:
Anyone else having problems with Maps and battery usage? All location services turned off, haven't even opened maps, and it is at the top of my baytery usage, saying GPS is constantly running in background when all location setting are off. Uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. I've been getting fantastic battery life but still not sure why this is happening. Suggestions?
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Did you ever get this figured out? I am having a similar issue with Map My Ride. I back out of the app, even force stop it, and switch location to battery saving, but map my ride will still show at the top of the list even the next day and it says the GPS has been on for several hours.
Any one using the app in the subject on a Z2? I ask because I do but since getting the Z2 (had a Galaxy S3) the app has stopped tracking distance. I thought at first it was because I hit the home button and send the app to the background so I can use the camera whilst out walking but even if I leave it running and turn off my screen it will track maybe 1 walk out of 10.
I know the app was updated lately so it might be that too hence asking if anyone else uses this combination.
Yep use it loads, recently ran every day for 30 days, endomondo kept the signal / distance for every run.
Much better than my old SGS2
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Has anybody else notice that the okay Google hot word detection does not work on the lock screen, does not work with the screen off and does not work from any screen..
I've tried several times resetting the settings in google settings /voice
Even the "always on" toggle itself gets stuck and won't turn on or off without turning off and on the main toggle..
Just verified this problem after playing a heavy game for while. OK Google bacically wont work anywhere at all, sometimes intermittently working only on home screem, but rarely,
Coincidentally I check ram usage In developer options while it won't work, its been in critical for the last few hours of use time.
My nexus 5 demonstrates no such issues, works all the time. Maybe its oom killer killing off the google search or play launcher apk, whatever apk that is tied into. Just guessing at this point
Yeah I'm having exactly the same issue. If you go into app Google settings under /voice the toggle are glitchy and stuck they won't move. I have to change the main toggle off and on, in order to reset the bottom two toggles.
Until I do this every time "okay Google" from the lock screen or screen off never works.
More people should check this on their nexus 9
I have the same problem. I'm considering resetting the device and upgrading to 5.0.1.
I'm on 5.0.1 issue exists
Why do you guys want it any way? It's a battery hog
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I had the same problem. I restarted the Nexus and now Google Now Hot Word Detection ist working like a charm. When the screen is off, at lockscreen, from any screen, in apps,...
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Why do you guys want it any way? It's a battery hog
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It's a very convenient way to do things without touching device. It's supposed to work.
Even on the nexus 6 it's periodic but on the nexus 9 most of the time it's not working unless I do a fresh restart
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It's a very convenient way to do things without touching device. It's supposed to work.
Even on the nexus 6 it's periodic but on the nexus 9 most of the time it's not working unless I do a fresh restart
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It's one of the reasons I bought the device. I use commandr and tasker to do things like WOL my PC, and I wanted a device that would always be listening so I can have those actions always at hand. The fact this is broken months after the device was released is disappointing, to say the least.