I just downloaded Skype and installed it successfully. However, I notice that Skype will automatically launch randomly with the icon on the left top bar. Do I need to configure something to stop this behavior? Thanks!
Use something like AutoStarts to stop Skype from auto-launching.
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Thanks for your advice. I cannot find it in Settings. Is AutoStarts a built-in app or downloaded app from Market?
So far no problems with Skype auto starting on my GSII. Is that happening to other people?
There's a modified APK of skype with video calling support for SGS2 which prevents the auto start
go find the thread
I may make a mistake - the icon on the left top bar should be the icon of synchronised with the web. It is rotating almost all the time. I am a bit scared of huge data download.
I'm using the modified one, and you kill it and it just restarts.
That is until BodenM mentioned Autostarts that is an awesome app. I have been looking for one that does exactly that for a while.
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I'm using modified version + autostarts and sometime skype keeps launching itself...how funny is this?
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I'm using the modified version too and it only opens and/or closes when I tell it to.
Hi everyone i know that this is an old problem but i cant find a solution. The only solution i found was to delete the Facebook app and then sign in but the xperia arc has Facebook integration and i don't have root so i can uninstall the Facebook app i don't know if somebody else has this problem and i would really appreciate your help
Works perfect here without deleting anything.
Strange
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Ok i fix it installed launcher pro 0.8.1.1 and i sign in then i just updated to 0.8.6
I don`t find exactly this problem in the threads so i started one. first of all excuse my eng!
The problem is that when i play Winamp or Apollo the app stops after 20 - 60 secs and minimise to notification drawer then if i go to the app i can start it from the beginning and the same shhhh again i try to disable screen sleep,clear caches of the players and galerry app and i don`t have any task killers or task managers rebooted the phone too same problem apears pls help!
hi guys, I always see Media > DownloadService in running apps.. why it is running all the time? and, being running all the time, is it supposed to drain my battery faster?
I have always lived with that, but if it drains my battery faster I would like to get rid of it..
EDIT: it seems to me it is related to GMAIL.. in fact, after a reinstall, download service process was not there until I started gmail for the first time.. now it is always there again..
can you guys using gmail confirm you have media download service always running?
and people who has not gmail installed can confirm they don't see that process always running? thanks!
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hi guys, just a question.. is that normal that I always see maps in running apps? I use maps once per month or even less, so why it should be running all the time? (maps > PrefetcherService)
and, being running all the time, is it supposed to drain my battery faster?
I have always lived with that, but if it drains my battery faster I would like to get rid of it..
the same happens also for "media" (media > DownlodService..... what is that? can I remove it?) and google play music (MusicPlaybackService)
it is really annoying for me to see them always running even when I am not using them....
any suggestion? thanks in advance!!
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It happens with me too. I used Greenify and it stopped appearing until the 4.1.6 play store update. Now maps opens automatically almost every 2 minutes. You might not get a significant change in battery life. You can remove google play music though. I don't know about the media download service, might be related to browser or google play music (I recommend not removing it).
thanks for the answer. I tried greenify too and it seems to correctly remove maps here.. (I too have play store 4.1.6, will update to 4.1.10 in a short time btw )
about play music.. I use it, so I can't remove it! btw I greenified it too, so it shouldn't bother anymore
so the only pending problems are media service and also play store (pendingnotification service) that is appearing sometimes in running apps.. unfortunately they are system apps so I can not greenify them
The pendingnotification service might have appeared because of the option to notify you of an update. And yes, the pro version has that feature of hibernating system apps (but its experimental) and god knows what might happen if you do.
of course I disabled the notification and auto update via WiFi options and rebooted but the service kept appearing in running apps sometimes..
as x the media running service, it seems I fixed it removing mediauploader.apk it has not appeared again so far after removing that package!
so all seems good now thanks all!
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EDIT: media downloadservice is back again so it was not related to mediauploader... what the hell can be that??
it seems to me it appeared after running gmail for the first time.. but I will have to confirm that after some more investigations..
after some more attempts, i found out the process: media > DownlodService is related to both gapps and Downloadprovider.apk
if I remove Downloadprovider.apk, that process doesn't appear anymore, but I get gapps FC's (and very probably will not be possible to download anymore things from the browser and/or play store)
so in conclusion it seems to me we have to live with that process running, and that is not possible to really get rid of it safely..
Yup, made that mistake of deleting Downloadservice.apk... Drove me nuts with FCs
so nobody could get rid of that process? you too have it always running?
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so nobody could get rid of that process? you too have it always running?
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:silly: Strangely, no, its not always running for me.
It seems to run when I download something in a browser and then disappears after 15 minutes or so
after a reinstall it seems to me it is related to gmail.. in fact download service process was not there until I started gmail for the first time.. now it is always there again..
can you guys using gmail confirm you have media download service always running?
and people who has not gmail installed can confirm they don't see that process always running? :fingers-crossed:
thanks
it seems to me after I installed latest maps 7.x the media > download process is not appearing anymore in running processes.. maybe it was related to sh*tty maps??? :fingers-crossed: :fingers-crossed:
I think the most of u recognise this problem, when you watch a video on facebook it stops after a couple seconds.
This worked for me:
Go to settings- apps - xperia with facebook and disable this app.
Now uninstall facebook and install it again.
Please let me know or this worked for you!
Sorry, only worked for a day.
Im sorry for opening new threat and spamming the forum.
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Seems to work for me. But need to give it a couple of days to be sure.
This only work for a few hours then the problem come back. You need to install older version of Facebook, version 5 in order to fix the issue.
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Is this a problem facebook's side or sony's??. It's annoying me as I normally watch a lot of vids on fb
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Is this a problem facebook's side or sony's??. It's annoying me as I normally watch a lot of vids on fb
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Both: Sony should make a phone that would run android apps like on other phones, you can blame sony for ****ing something up in their phone so it wont run one of the most populair app properly. But you can blame facebook aswell for having an app that wont work properly on a certain percentage of all android phones. And this bug is out for quite a while so both compagnies (facebook in special) have had the time to fix it if they wanted to..
I don't expect from Sony to put a team at one bug in a specific app searching for an fix, but I expect from facebook that they fix the bug and update their app. You can't tell me that facebook doesn't has a team for bugfixes.
Mine was finally fixed after the latest sony update. I still get the error message but only after the video has played in full. Happy days