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...dont know what have happend. I dont get the alternative to turn of the alarm, i have to restart it to get it to stop. Is there a quickfix to this bug or an app that works better or something?
Go to Start-Settings-System- Clocks and Alarms-Alarms
Make sure none of the three are ticked.
well i am useing it as my alarmclock in the morning. So thats not the problem. The problem starts when the alarm goes off. I used to get a turn of alarm/snooze buttons on the screen to turn off or not, but that doesnt show.. and when i open de settings for the alarm and unklick in the checkbox it still dont turn it off.... wierd.
i belive i have a similiar problem.. the "pop-up box" asking you to wether to turn of or snooz your alarm has dissapered and won't come out again. yet you can (if accurate enough even though you just woke up) tap the small bell-icon in top of screen bringing up a larger screen with those present icons, click the bell icon again (less accuracy this time) that action will bring up this pop-up box and you get to choose, turn of or snooz. GL
I belive that
Start/System/Clocks and Alarms/Alarms
and from here navigate to the second tab.
Chose the event Reminder and check the event called 'Show alarm on screen'
I do have a danish ROM - I do hope and believe tha I'm on track with the naming of the menus/events.
I have trouble with it too - it seems that it now and then gets unchecked perhaps on a soft reset - I haven't figured out yet - but It's noticed when my alarm goes of in the morning, if I can or can not stop it easily.
As described, clicking on top i taskbar on the Bell is the way to hit the alarm if no popup is available.
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I was looking over the Sprint forums to see if everyone else was having issues with their battery not lasting a day. It seems like there is a huge problem with the dialer keeping your phone on. I'm posting the first post here to spread the word, maybe we can get a fix with everyone in the know.
(Full thread HERE)
My friend and I both purchased Heros and we are both seeing pretty poor battery life. Using a couple of different things we believe we have figured out where the problem lies, but we are unsure how to fix it!
Here's what we know:
Menu < Settings < About Phone < Status < Awake Time
Both of ours have an awake time of 100%. According to other Android users, the lower this number is the better your battery life. So basically this is saying that even when the phone is off, it's not asleep. It is fully awake 100% of the time. Up time should not be the same as awake time.
Using an app called Spare Parts (Spare Parts) you can dig a little deeper.
Spare Parts < Battery History < Partial Wake Usage < Since Last Unplugged.
My phone is showing that the dialer has a wake lock for 16h. This appears to mean that the phone can't sleep because the dialer has locked it.
You can also check under "Other Usage." I have "Running", "Screen on", and "Phone on." Running says:
Time spent without sleeping: 16 hours (100%).
PowerManager | Android Developers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Android Developers
PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK
Wake lock that ensures that the CPU is running. The screen might not be on.
*If you hold a partial wakelock, the CPU will continue to run, irrespective of any timers and even after the user presses the power button. In all other wakelocks, the CPU will run, but the user can still put the device to sleep using the power button.
So now the problem is how do we fix it?
UPDATE ON PROGRESS:
I have made some progress! I downloaded a program from the market that was simply called Task Manager. I previously had checked out TasKiller and TaskControl but neither saw the dialer. I opened Task Manager and clicked on "Phone" and got "This task is not exported. don't switch or stop it." Well I stopped it anyways. Instantly after hitting my power button I began to see a time difference between Up Time and Awake Time (5 minute time difference now).
I was also able to call my phone and text it! After doing so "Phone" showed back up in Task Manager however it is still sleeping properly. I'm not sure what else this is effecting yet or if resetting the phone causes it to mess up again.
UPDATE 2:
So I had to get some sleep last night.
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I will be doing lots of testing throughout the day. My phone slept about 7 hours through the night. I only had a 1% drop in battery life during the night! And I did receive a text this morning. The only thing I know for sure so far is that sending a text causes it to stop sleeping again. I will keep this thread updated as I run some tests today.
UPDATE 3:
So we have determined exactly when it happens. We tried all of the following:
receiving e-mail
checking e-mail
browsing the web
loading google maps and locking location
receiving text
reading text
making a phone call
receiving a phone call
Every single one allows the unit to go back to sleep without any issues. There are two things that prevent it from sleeping every time:
send a text
Turning the phone on with no activity
So sending a text is obvious. Every single time we sent a text, the phone would stop sleeping. Receiving a text is fine. What i mean by turning the phone on with no activity is if I turn the phone on and just let it boot up and disable the screen on it's own and never send or receive a text, it will stay awake even though the screen is off. The phone ends up turning the screen off before it actually boots 100%. Once I turn the phone back on and actually look at my home screen (after it's done booting) and then turn it off again, it will sleep properly.
I'll post more as we figure out more.
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Very interesting... I'm subscribing to this thread.
So after sending a txt can you simply kill dialer again to put it back to sleep?
Very interesting... I'm subscribing to this thread.
So after sending a txt can you simply kill dialer again to put it back to sleep?
I'd imagine that it would work that way, but what a PITA
Anyone with a GSM version able to confirm that this doesn't happen on your device?
I'm at a 24% awake time with my CDMA Hero, and my uptime is 5:23:30
Not sure what I'm doing differently, but I am using Advanced Task Killer to auto-end all apps I don't explicitly exclude every 30 minutes. Maybe you've got a runaway process?
Ok so I'm using Handcent SMS now to try and avoid this problem but I feel like it's not doing anything considering I still get notifications from the regular messenging application. I set Handcent as the default SMS/MMS app but I still get two notifications in the notification panel: one from handcent one from Messenger.
Also... I'm going to miss the messenging widget.. handcent doesn't have one. Just a shortcut.
Same problem here I have an awake time of 100% what a bummer. I knew there must be a problem because when I got to work today my battery was at full charge, we cant use our phones at work and I felt like following the rules today lol so I didnt take my phone out not once. I showed it to my friend but I didnt turn it on because it got busy. Anyways i get off work only six hours later, short shift, and remember this is with 0% use and my battery was almost dead.
install chompsms or handsent..
this is what to do
go to spare parts,general, end buton behavious, select "go to sleep"
now every time you press the end call button, the phone should hopefully go to sleep
try it out and say if it makes a difference
immya said:
this is what to do
go to spare parts,general, end buton behavious, select "go to sleep"
now every time you press the end call button, the phone should hopefully go to sleep
try it out and say if it makes a difference
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Spare Parts didn't help, still showing as continuous uptime with "go to sleep" enabled. I can confirm through spare parts that the Dialer is the culprit (Battery history-->Change CPU Usage to Partial Wake Usage)
This is a huge bug, can't believe that they didn't catch this before launch.
subscribed too, this explains why my battery goes away so fast.
I'm gonna subscribe to this. We chances are we're gonna have to fix this one on our own much sooner than Sprint or HTC will release an official fix.
I just noticed this today, a reset fixed it but hopefully they will get a real fix out for it soon.
Good thing I don't send many text messages.
poor_red_neck said:
Ok so I'm using Handcent SMS now to try and avoid this problem but I feel like it's not doing anything considering I still get notifications from the regular messenging application. I set Handcent as the default SMS/MMS app but I still get two notifications in the notification panel: one from handcent one from Messenger.
Also... I'm going to miss the messenging widget.. handcent doesn't have one. Just a shortcut.
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You can turn off the notification from the Hero's Messaging app, There should be an option in the app settings. Also, you can still use the Widget to read messages, but make sure you don't use it for sending them. It seems that sending the message is what causes the glitch.
Also, it appears that HTC is aware of the issue and is working on a fix: http://htcsource.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=770&Itemid=50
I did the workaround to handcent and I can say that I will not revert back to the stock messenger once a true fix is discovered. Handcent really is a better messenger application from the customizations available through to the delivery. The biggest aspect is finally being able to send picture mail without the error of the file being over 1mb. Handcent also tells me that the file is too big to send, but it asks me if I would like it to resize the picture to the correct size to send...yes! Not only that, but it completely plays well with the HTC messenger widget so you can keep that on a screen for easy access if you want to.
Another thing that I noticed was when I tried to send a contact to another device as a V-card file, it was sent through the default messenger but it did NOT cause an issue with the dialer??? I'm not sure how that happened, but it is great to know that using the default messenger for built in processes will not trigger the dialer issue.
In short, Handcent is the ****. Even after the workaround was discovered I was going to wait out a fix for the default app...don't waste your time like I did.
ps--I didn't go through the trouble of a hard/factory reset. I simply installed handcent after a restart and disabled the HTC messenger. No problems what so ever after 6 hours of testing and I also have had Advanced Task Kiler installed since day one. Just be sure to set handcent as the default app whenever there is a screen that asks you for it.
Awake time 38%
Sorry for the question but how do you set handcent as the default messaging app? I've been using it for a day now and haven't found anyway to make it default. I'm still getting 2 notifications and also still have the battery glitch... Any help would be greatly appretiated.
lgrulz said:
how do you set handcent as the default messaging app? I've been using it for a day now and haven't found anyway to make it default. I'm still getting 2 notifications and also still have the battery glitch... Any help would be greatly appretiated.
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I am used to using Handcent since I had my G1 but I think it has gotten even better during my time away. To set it as the default go to message app - settings and deselect notifications way at the bottom. Then click the message widget if you use it or a new text or whatever and select always use this option on the popup and select Handcent. Then REBOOT. Works perfect for me I now have an up time of 23 hours and an awake time of 19% and my battery is nearly full after decent use of browser and Navigation, with GPS, bluetooth, wifi, and lots of talking all day.
edit: also DO NOT open the message app and send a text or you will not see a fix, just throw away any shortcuts to the default app on your homescreen and forget that sucker ever existed
erasmogjr said:
I am used to using Handcent since I had my G1 but I think it has gotten even better during my time away. To set it as the default go to message app - settings and deselect notifications way at the bottom. Then click the message widget if you use it or a new text or whatever and select always use this option on the popup and select Handcent. Then REBOOT. Works perfect for me I now have an up time of 23 hours and an awake time of 19% and my battery is nearly full after decent use of browser and Navigation, with GPS, bluetooth, wifi, and lots of talking all day.
edit: also DO NOT open the message app and send a text or you will not see a fix, just throw away any shortcuts to the default app on your homescreen and forget that sucker ever existed
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I am trying to follow your instructions on setting this as default. I do my settings and my "Notifications" box is already unchecked.
I click on the message widget like you mention and it just brings up my message window. There is never a pop up like you mention so I am not able to set Handcent as default.
Any thoughts?
I don't know if this means anything and/or if this will help, but when I am going to install "Robo Defense FREE" from the market, it says this application has access to the following "System tools, prevent phone from sleeping."
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
I am trying to follow your instructions on setting this as default. I do my settings and my "Notifications" box is already unchecked.
I click on the message widget like you mention and it just brings up my message window. There is never a pop up like you mention so I am not able to set Handcent as default.
Any thoughts?
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Hit the "Clear Defaults" button in Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Messaging. with this cleared, you should now be prompted wih the choice of messaging apps. Select the one you want (assuming that it is NOT the native mesaging) and select as default.
Does anyone have the problem of being unable to install apps from sources other than the play store? For example, atm I'm trying to update 'Lucky Patcher' and the request for me to install the update which also shows the permissions the app is requesting but I can't actually press on the Install button. I can still press on the show all button and cancel button as well as the touchscreen keys at the bottom but just cant press on the Install button.
I was able to install unknown source apps before however, it just doesnt work now.
How do i fix this?
Is your unknown sources box still checked?
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Is your unknown sources box still checked?
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Yeah, double checked that. This has happened to me a few times now...
Edit: NVM! found the problem, was screen filter.
Just a heads up. No warez allowed on these forums...
glowsti047 said:
Yeah, double checked that. This has happened to me a few times now...
Edit: NVM! found the problem, was screen filter.
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Please explain how you did it. After a lot of searching on my own I found someone's advice to set the brightness to max and disable any screen dimming apps (which I have none installed, bought the device a month ago) and I still can't install apk files. Mind you the appropriate setting to allow unknown sources is set. The Install button just doesn't react exactly as you described. Everything else on the popup window is active (permissions and such). Please help!
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
I had this problem 2 months back. It turned out that the screen filter app that I was using was leading to this. I turned the app off and it worked
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I sat down and killed all the apps one by one. It turned out Battery Mix's battery bar (1px battery level indicator on the very top of the screen) was causing this behaviour. I will report this to the dev. So problem solved! :good:
Yeah, for my Nexus 4 the culprit was Juice Defender's brightness control. Disabled that and was able to install the apk I wanted to install. The developer does warn that this setting "might not work or cause problems".
Thank You All!!!!
Once again I was quickly able to solve my problem with a quick search on your forums!! Thank you all for giving such great advice. My problem with not being able to press the install button ended up being the "Twilight" App. Simple to temp disable/enable so not a big deal to me. I'm also going to let them know over at Twilight so hopefully a future update will solve this problem.
Thanks!!
juunai said:
I sat down and killed all the apps one by one. It turned out Battery Mix's battery bar (1px battery level indicator on the very top of the screen) was causing this behaviour. I will report this to the dev. So problem solved! :good:
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You are my hero of today; thanks mate!!
juunai said:
I sat down and killed all the apps one by one. It turned out Battery Mix's battery bar (1px battery level indicator on the very top of the screen) was causing this behaviour. I will report this to the dev. So problem solved! :good:
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thanks a lot ,that incapability of my phone had taken my peace of mind miles away from me,i even rooted my phone 2 get through this but stilll the problem was persisting,today u solved my problem in just few seconds....
Does anyone know where the quiet hours stuff is hidden on this phone? It's on stock 4.2.2, so how come I can't find it on this phone?
Also, how come third party keyboards don't work? I set it as default and it opens, but doesn't actually type anything...
Oh, and is there a way to get a battery percentage icon instead of the standard one?
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Oh, and is there a way to get a battery percentage icon instead of the standard one?
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Battery % is under "Settings", "My Device", "Display", "Display Battery Percentage". Would also like to know about quiet hours.
For Battery Percentage go to
Settings >> My Device >> Display >> Scroll to more settings,
Unsure about third party keyboards. Swiftkey and SlideIT worked fine for me. Currently using SlideiT
StuartTheFish said:
Does anyone know where the quiet hours stuff is hidden on this phone? It's on stock 4.2.2, so how come I can't find it on this phone?
Also, how come third party keyboards don't work? I set it as default and it opens, but doesn't actually type anything...
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Quiet hours is called blocking mode, broseph.
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Thanks guys, I've now got battery percentage on the notification bar and enabled quiet hours again. Why the hell is it called blocking mode, that's just stupid. Oh well, thanks again!
Now just to figure out why the keyboard can't actually type anything in the text boxes! Works in landscape mode, but not portrait...
In fact, are we sure blocking mode just silences the phone, or does it actually block any incoming calls, texts and emails like it's name would suggest?
StuartTheFish said:
Does anyone know where the quiet hours stuff is hidden on this phone? It's on stock 4.2.2, so how come I can't find it on this phone?
Also, how come third party keyboards don't work? I set it as default and it opens, but doesn't actually type anything...
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Settings, Blocking Mode for Quiet, can't help with keyboard?.
Right, blocking mode ISN'T quiet hours, it actually blocks all calls and notifications when activated.
So where is quiet hours, where it just goes on silent?
I've been trying Llama (a free alternative to Tasker) and its great for setting up things like a Quiet Time based on location, hours or whatever. I've got it set up to disable 3G, syncing (both to save battery life) and go quiet between midnight and 6:30am. I don't think its quite as good as Tasker but its free, so I'll persist for a little longer.
That reminds me, I got tasker years ago! Didn't think to use that for some reason. There is DEFINITELY a quiet hours function in stock 4.2.2 though, I doubt samsung would have removed it.
Got it doing it via tasker for now until I can find the proper way.
The keyboard works now, it needed an update from the play store to work on a high resolution screen. All sorted now, thanks guys!
This app from Play is very good in case Samsung removed it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.QuiteHypnotic.SilentTime&feature=related_apps&hl=en_GB
Hello all,
On my S8 I have enabled Do not disturb to come on as scheduled. This is set to start at 23:30. However every night it comes on at 22:30. I have tried changing the start time but it is always coming on at 22:30.
It turns off at the correct time.
Has anyone any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks !
I'm having a similar issue. It doesn't turn off when it should
I'm having the same issue too. Mine comes on at seemingly random times at night. I tried to correct it by setting a schedule that works better for me but it comes completely ignores the schedule and does its own thing...
I'm having the same thing with my S7 edge and suspect it could be something to do with stock Android settings from my previous phone (Moto X Play) that have synced / been restored when I transferred my Google account to my S7 edge.
My do not disturb settings on the Moto X Play (Stock android) were to activate at 10pm Sunday - Thursday and 11pm on Friday and Saturday. As Samsung's version of android doesn't allow different settings for different days of the week I have do not disturb set to activate at 10.30pm every day. I have found that my S7 edge is still following the rules I had for my Moto X Play and activating at 10pm on Sun-Thurs and 11pm Friday and Saturday. This also applies to the deactivate settings which are set to different times Sun-Thurs and Friday and Saturday.
Is there a way to access the stock android do not disturb settings on Samsung?
Fixed it
Fixed it,
What I had to do was get Nova Launcher.
Press and hold desktop select to add widget.
Add the Nova Launcher widget - Activities
In the menu that pops up scroll to settings.
In the sub-window scroll to: Automatic rules. The one which is .Settings$ZenModeAutomationSettingsActivitiy
Tap it. This will add a shortcut to the automatic rules.
Click this and you have access to different rules. twschedule is the one set by the Samsung settings.
I had a weeknight one which was affecting me.
This could also be used to set custom ones for different days I think.
Something weird is happening with the time calculations. I used to have my Gear2 Neo track my sleep to Samsung Health, but Samsung Health always reported that I went to sleep and got up 1 hour later than I actually did.
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Fixed it,
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Excellent! Thanks very much I would never have found this myself. I've changed the settings and fingers crossed it will actually do what I want it to tonight!