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Can't kill Peep or Stocks on Hero?

I use Advanced Task Manager to 'turn off' Peep and Stocks, but they keep coming back, and I know they kill the battery. I've tried to remove them from my phone - I hate Twitter and am too poor to play the markets - but it isn't allowed, it seems. Any suggestions?
Thank you, in advance.

Peep set to manual update and not a scheduled one will not do anything to your battery. Same goes for Stocks.
Just make sure you open each app and set Manual updates.
I did this ages ago with v1 of the firmware. My battery usage decreased and my slow downs went away.
Don't worry about it.

IF you've rooted your Hero, you can remove peep, stocks and other 'un-removable' apps by following Paul's posting on Modaco.com:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/292018/21-09-2-3-the-modaco-custom-rom-is-here-core-core-chinese-enhanced/
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joemax said:
Peep set to manual update and not a scheduled one will not do anything to your battery. Same goes for Stocks.
Just make sure you open each app and set Manual updates.
I did this ages ago with v1 of the firmware. My battery usage decreased and my slow downs went away.
Don't worry about it.
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Thank you! I have done this with Stocks (the default seems to be to auto update every hour, for some reason) but Peep doesn't seem editable unless you log into it, and I don't have a Twitter account. Might it check for updates if I have never logged on, and is there a way of setting it for manual updates without an account?
Thanks again for your reply.

Well, even though I am using Advanced Task Manager to close down both Peep and Stocks, they keep coming back! They're like Zombie Apps!!
Any idea as to how to make them properly go away? I'm getting fed up with opening ATM every few hours to shut 'em down...
Also, 'Auto Update' keep unchecking itself in Google Data Sync. Is this usual?
Many thanks

if you don't use them, just remove them from your phone.
Read my post above...

bunt83 said:
if you don't use them, just remove them from your phone.
Read my post above...
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I'm afraid I haven't rooted the phone...

TBH, as long as Stocks is set to never update and you are not logged into Twitter via the Social Networks section of Settings, why worry ?

joemax said:
TBH, as long as Stocks is set to never update and you are not logged into Twitter via the Social Networks section of Settings, why worry ?
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Because peep with default settings is far from idle. I've not managed to get the battery to last longer than 6-8 hours with the phone idle and wifi&gps off. Once peep is fed with account credentials you can turn refresh and notifications off, but that's impossible without an account. The clear message to HTC is to either fix peep so that it remains fully idle when it doesn't have the information it needs to do its job, or isolate it as a separate package that can be removed separately without rooting the phone.

My battery will last more than a day and O am not a light user...
Why not sign up for a Twitter account, log in to Peep, kill the auto update (set to manual), log out of Peep (in Settings) and then ignore your Twitter account.
Its free.
See if that helps before the pain of rooting and removing apps.
Worth a try.

joemax said:
Why not sign up for a Twitter account, log in to Peep, kill the auto update (set to manual), log out of Peep (in Settings) and then ignore your Twitter account.
Its free.
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I hope HTC's developers not not share your attitude.
It's not about the cost. It's about the failure to meet one of the most basic requirements in programming. An application which hasn't been configured for use should not use any system resources other than possibly storage.
Why on earth should someone with no interest whatsoever in twitter have to sign up for an account just to be able to turn the damn thing off?

Woah... I am just trying to help out here and suggest ways of sorting your 'issues'

I used my girlfriend's twitter address to log on and then turned automatic updates off, before logging out. And... still it returns!

It will return point is is that it won't use resources.

Just don't worry about it. Seriously, all this fretting over background processes and task killers, no need to.

Kinda hard not to worry about it when it's using 9mb of precious RAM. :/
Even after turning manual updates on, still can't kill it.

why is it functionless

i cant believe thatit doesn't auto update an add a little notice anywhere is it just me or is this £495 phone not pulling its weight, starting to think about selling this and getting an iPhone or going back to my 8900 have I set everything up correctly? why use is it if it doesn't notify you of anything
sigh......

It might just be me but that seems to be quite a vague statement...what doesn't it update that's upsetting you? I found this:
http://www.montecristoff.com/hd2tweak.htm
earlier today and its got a nice feature which will automatically update any apps that you've installed...how cool is that? (I do hate calling progs "apps"...its so apple dont you think?)

Wel on some hand I can agree .. But did you know you can tusrm notifications on and off, quite easy actually.
In sence env go to SETTINGS > Display Notifications sounds.
And there you should find it.
And sorry for the name of the menu. I got the dutch version over here.
And please explain more about the auto update. What exactly is it that you want to "autoupdate"
regards

Martyn Day said:
i cant believe thatit doesn't auto update an add a little notice anywhere is it just me or is this £495 phone not pulling its weight, starting to think about selling this and getting an iPhone or going back to my 8900 have I set everything up correctly? why use is it if it doesn't notify you of anything
sigh......
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why update automatically and update everything,,, instead of what you want to update

Martyn,
Can you come back with a more concise statement of what your problems are please? If its what I think it is there are tons of threads on here about that AND solutions which you can easily search for.
However let's start at the beginning and get our heads round what your problems are.
Cheers
WB

i just want things like facebook and twitter to update automaticly without me having to get an email first...
on my bb 8900 i would have an icon at the top stating facebook 1,2,3 etc
this phone seems to only notify me of sms,email? no app like facebook or twitter interaction at all??? and my facebook is ment to update every 2 hours, (cant seem to change this )

Your signature bemoans the price the HD2 cost you - but you dislike it because it's default settings limit data connection use, persumably to cut costs?
To your issue, I don't know what facebook app was running on your blackberry but if it's that important to you why not add an rss feed with your facebook updates or open a gmail account that's mailed whenever something happens on facebook and setting it as an exchange "push mail" account?
And that's before the obvious suggestion of googling for an appropriate application O_O
I hope I'm not too reproachful. My point is that Windows Mobile is more like a desktop os than it is like whatever blackberry uses or osX mobile. Solving your "issues" shouldn't take more than half an hour's browsing in the HD2 Themes and Applications forum.

you don't have the twitter tab? and the intergrated facebook? not that its working in all aspects but still I like it..! The standalone facebook application works. The phone also notifies me for twitter and facebook messages..

go to settings in htc sense then choose the data option (says set up sync schdules or similar under the heading) then click on facebook or twitter and set up sync settings to automatic.
they will both now update at the intervals you set.
twitter is available in sense via it's tab and facebook inegrates itself with your contacts in the people tab in sense by pairing your contacts on your device with the contacts of matching names from your facebook. names have to be the same to auto integrate otherwise you have to manually select which contacts to add to which facebook friend.
hope this helps a bit

All the above, plus make sure you don't use any form of 'Auto-disconnect' program to turn your data connection off, or all 'pushed' updates like FB and Twitter will fail till the next time a polled update occurs.

bel_z_bub said:
you don't have the twitter tab? and the intergrated facebook? not that its working in all aspects but still I like it..! The standalone facebook application works. The phone also notifies me for twitter and facebook messages..
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how does it notify you as.mine doesn't !

Johnston411 said:
go to settings in htc sense then choose the data option (says set up sync schdules or similar under the heading) then click on facebook or twitter and set up sync settings to automatic.
they will both now update at the intervals you set.
twitter is available in sense via it's tab and facebook inegrates itself with your contacts in the people tab in sense by pairing your contacts on your device with the contacts of matching names from your facebook. names have to be the same to auto integrate otherwise you have to manually select which contacts to add to which facebook friend.
hope this helps a bit
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I got Twitter setup for every 30 min but Facebook is at 2 hours an I'm unable to change?
NeilM said:
All the above, plus make sure you don't use any form of 'Auto-disconnect' program to turn your data connection off, or all 'pushed' updates like FB and Twitter will fail till the next time a polled update occurs.
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I got bsb installed

Martyn Day said:
I got bsb installed
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I don't use that- have you got any settings for data disconnect active? If so, it might be worth disabling any auto-disconnect

As far as I know Twitter and FB do not notify you of anything?!
Only emails, SMS, Missed Calls, etc... get a notification.

Karlos G said:
As far as I know Twitter and FB do not notify you of anything?!
Only emails, SMS, Missed Calls, etc... get a notification.
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Twitter has notifications. Facebook does not, unless you install the facebook instant messenger application from this site.

where is that app?

Martyn Day said:
how does it notify you as.mine doesn't !
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I was about to ask the exact same thing about Facebook, because mine doesnt either, and I have been playing with this phone for long enough to not have missed it!

RSS Issues after update

Anyone have problems with RSS feeds not being updated via ticker...only getting email updates...no facebook or RSS...
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I was getting email updates but not facebook and twitter updates.

ruoppster said:
Anyone have problems with RSS feeds not being updated via ticker...only getting email updates...no facebook or RSS...
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The fix for me was from "Weudel" at androidforums:
"From your home screen hit menu> settings> accounts & sync hit add account and add your Facebook account there. That should do it."
Maybe this can help you.

the only thing I noticed was that it completely deletes your settings when you first do the update. Once I set it back up I haven't had any issues.

Thanks...got facebook working again but still nothing from the built-in RSS feeds...espn, fox, npr, cnn, health...selected and unselected between restarts and still nothing...have a quite time setup as 11 pm to 6 am where I don't get any feed updates
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Checked under RSS after clicking the button on the ticker...shows no RSS feeds and nothing to refresh...click settings but shows selected built in feeds are selected...anyone else having issues with the ticker and RSS after the verizon update?
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same issue after the update. just test messages going to ticker. no rss or sms going to ticker

Having the same issue here. Its hit or miss for twitter and Facebook. Get nothing, then get a burst of tweets and Facebook comments. As for RSS, nothing.
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did a system reset. rss feeds back, but lost data and installed apps. oh well.

Can't get custom feeds to work. Only pre-installed feeds come through...
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No Custom or Standard Feeds
Have removed feeds and added them back, but haven't reset the phone as I don't want to spend the countless hours setting everything back up. Anyone having any luck getting the feeds restored?

I only get gmail and facebook...don't use twitter and can't get any rss feeds to work at all.
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I can't even get the pre-loaded feeds to work.
I called verizon yesterday and talked to a friendly voice and she didn't even have a continuum to walk me through troubleshooting the problem.
By all accounts, it should be working.
Her final solution was to reset the phone to factory settings. Not what I'm really ready to do just yet.

ruoppster said:
I only get gmail and facebook...don't use twitter and can't get any rss feeds to work at all.
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You get Gmail in the ticker? How?
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Setup your gmail account in the email program...not just the gmail app...out should be on page one or two in applications...green and while logo...
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Email and Facebook comes in on Ticker but can't subscribe to RSS feeds or cancel RSS feeds and if I've subscribed to a feed PRE or USER added, I don't get anything.
Canceling or subscribing to feeds give error, "Server problem, try again".
Also, I don't get any Twitter notices.
Going to remove account (twitter) and reestablish account to see if I can get Twitter working again.
Totally stuck on the RSS feeds issue. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: Have reset phone and it worked for couple days, then nothing.

Is there any way to clear user added RSS feeds? I messed up typing in an Address, and now every time it tries to sync I get RSS error on that particular feed.

Tarheel487 said:
Is there any way to clear user added RSS feeds? I messed up typing in an Address, and now every time it tries to sync I get RSS error on that particular feed.
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Its all in the tickers settings, i made the same mistake too so i just deleted it

SNS Feeds Suddenly Not Working

My Facebook and Twitter SNS feeds have suddenly stopped working. When I go to Setting > Accounts & sync and click on my Facebook or Twitter account under 'Manage account' the SNS Service is unclicked. When I try to click them to reactivate it, it fails giving me an error saying, "Activation failed, tap to reactivate." I discovered this problem because I received a notification from both Facebook and Twitter in my Notification Pane at the top of the screen saying, "Facebook/Twitter registration error. Register manually."
These feeds were working wonderfully before last night. I was receiving updates via the ticker every half hour or so. Has this happened to anyone lately? It started for me last night sometime.
For troubleshooting purposes, I have done nothing to my phone lately. I have not installed apps or messed with any settings. All I have done is used my phone for normal things like making/receiving calls and sending/receiving text messages along with accessing my Facebook/Twitter via the app installed on my phone. My phone is completely stock and is not rooted. I updated to DL17 around 1 week ago. Again, the problem did not rear its head until last night.

Please refer to this thread for assistance:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931904

Weudel said:
Please refer to this thread for assistance:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931904
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I didn't place my post under that thread because I'm not having RSS feed issues. I'm having SNS feed issues.
As a follow up to my original post, today I did a factory reset on the phone and am still receiving the same errors for my SNS feeds as listed above. One observation I have made however is that while I'm trying to active my SNS feeds via Setting > Accounts & sync, I will receive Facebook/Twitter ticker updates. However, I do not receive updates via the ticker once the attempted activation of my SNS feeds has failed.
To me this sounds like a Samsung software bug. I called Verizon yesterday and they had no record of this problem reported elsewhere. They advised me to notify Samsung via their device forums.

The SNS feeds started magically working again after about a week. Here is a list of things I attempted to correct the problem:
1. Delete all my SNS accounts and recreate them.
2. Active and deactivate my SNS accounts countless times.
3. Turn off the ticker sleep function.
I'm not sure which one fixed the problem but my guess is the ticker sleep function. I saw at one point my ticker sleep function was continuing past the time I had set which was really odd. Keep in mind too that the problem did not correct itself immediately after any of my attempts. After doing all the listed above it just started working days later.
Maybe this will be of some use to someone experiencing the same problem.

[Q] Email apps keeps hanging/spinning - help

Anyone else having issues with the email app? Mine seems to just keep spinning when trying to download new emails so I have to keep killing it and relaunching it to get new emails. Sometimes even after I see the list of messages, if I click on one to read it just churns like its trying to d/l message. I have to kill and relaunch again. Irritating as you can imagine.
I'm on yahoo and believe I'm on the latest release. I'm not on any fancy from, just the stock + updates. Yes. I'm the original owner.
Just looking for guidance here. Seemed to be fine until the last few months. I thought it might have been the widget so I removed that and just check email from the app itself. No go. I really kinda miss the nice widget UI that tells me how messages in queue but will just take a consistently working email app I don't have to re-launch every time I want to check email.
Thanks in advance for any help.