Hey everyone! I'm searching for a good IM that keeps on running in the background over Wifi and gives a sound when a new message comes in.
Beejive looks really cool, but I have a big problem: My device is set to turn off the backlight after 30 sec. So far no problem. At first I had it turn into standby after 1 min. But by doing that the Wifi connections breaks and after I turn the phone back on it connects again. So I turned this option off. Every programm keeps on running with the backlight off after 30 sec., but if Beejive is opened it still gets the phone into standby after 1 min. I haven't found an option in the configs of Beejive that can turn that off.
Anyone has a solution for that?
Another problem is that Beejive doesn't show messages that were sent to me when I was off. Not good at all.
Thanks!!!
Weird
Beejive sends me messages I received weeks ago (last time I used it) and got disconnected because of it going to sleep. (Even if I have logged into the account severl times between now and then via my PC.
I don't think there is anything the progrm itself can do to keep the phone awake but you can change asetting in advanced config to allow wifi in standby.
I am wondering if there is any way to schedule the hours when the phone checks my email...
Bloomin thing is goin off at all hours and keepin me up!
I dont need to know I have an email at 4am! Seems a silly feature not 2 have!
I think you can set Locale to turn your notification sounds off at certain times, but I've never tried it myself since I never have notification sounds on anyway.
Locale works great. I set up mine to switch all notifications off (apart from alarm for obvious reason) betwen 10pm and 7am on weekdays, but only if phone is charging.
I use Locale to switch my phone to silent/no vibrate at night (after 10 PM).
Hi, sorry if this has been asked, but I'm a follower of the entire Nexus One forum, and could not find it.
It drive me nuts I cannot find how to set synchronization for the Gmail account. I want to have it check for mail every 15 or 30 minutes, and not continuously as how it looks is happening now. I think this is one of the reasons my battery drains so fast in standby.
Is this possible? ( I almost swear I saw it once, maybe at initial setup of the Nexus), or it's just my ex WinMo thinking?
Regards,
Alin.
As far as I know Gmail is push, no?
I need the answer too, but it seems that it is pushed mail.. it draws the battery quickly.
I leave my sync on and don't seem to have any significant battery life problems... I mostly leave my phone in 2g mode though, activating 3g/wifi when I actually want to do something.
I charge once a day when I am sleeping usually, but it seems fine to me.
Someone please correct me if Im wrong.
Im under the impression that Push email allows Gmail to stay completely idle until a wireless msg is sent and activates the updating process.
Thuse greatly reducing battery since it only has to check when told to instead of periodically.
Unless of course your constantly getting emails in which case it may be ALWAYS being told to check.
Guys, how long does the N1 need have to last. I life in an area where I can charge the N1 every night while I'm sleeping. It is set to Autosync with GMail and I use it quite a lot, maybe around 40-60 min. Internet and a few minutes phone and a few SMS and (at least now to get used to my new toy) a lot of playing around and about 30 min MP3 a day. It's empty when I go to bed but who cares? I got power beside my bed and do charge it while I sleep. That's how it should be, or? If I'm away and maybe don't have a power grid (where the heck is this today, in the middle of a dessert or rainforrest?!) and need more than a day than I would switch off the Internet and syncing and put down to display brightness.
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Guys, how long does the N1 need have to last. I life in an area where I can charge the N1 every night while I'm sleeping. It is set to Autosync with GMail and I use it quite a lot, maybe around 40-60 min. Internet and a few minutes phone and a few SMS and (at least now to get used to my new toy) a lot of playing around and about 30 min MP3 a day. It's empty when I go to bed but who cares? I got power beside my bed and do charge it while I sleep. That's how it should be, or? If I'm away and maybe don't have a power grid (where the heck is this today, in the middle of a dessert or rainforrest?!) and need more than a day than I would switch off the Internet and syncing and put down to display brightness.
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The topic has less to do with how long the battery has to last and more about how do you change the GMail app to poll for new mail rather than relying on push. Mail sent to GMail account is by no means urgent and I for one don't want to drain my battery for a feature that I do not need.
For those that are skeptical that push technology drains the battery - the following is a quote from GMail's blog regarding the GMail app for WinMo (sorry I can't post the link due to user restriction): "Once you're set up, new messages are normally pushed to your phone within seconds. While this type of speed is pretty awesome, push connections tend to use more power than fetching at intervals, so don't be surprised if your battery life isn't quite what it used to be."
Anyways, I haven't found a way to change the GMail application to a poll model rather than push so as an alternative I've setup K9-Mail against my GMail account and have it poll on a regular interval and disabled the GMail application altogether.
So you want your Gmail account to update at a predifined interval (like every hour?)?
This is simple: Open up the Email App (NOT Gmail), and enter your full gmail account ([email protected]) and password. It will set up your Gmail account in the Email app. In this app press Menu > Account Settings, and set the email check frequency to your liking. You can also set other options like delete emails from the server when you delete them on the Email App.
In this way you will use the Email app to check emails, meaning you can turn auto-sync off and save battery.
You could also sync your email account once. Then turn off sync. And manually sync your email anytime you want to check for new mail. Since it's not "urgent" as you said.
Or do as melterx pointed out.
Thanks guys for all solutions provided. I'll test them out and see what's happening
Answering to the guy who mentioned about how long should battery last, well, I'm simply not used to charge my phone daily. I had Touch HD before the N1, and with same usage (phone calls, gmail sync, internet) I had almost 3 days with a full charge.
Well, I'm still blaming the "new phone" factor for my battery draining problem, and I mean by this that I'm simply using it too much compared to a normal, "already used to it", usage.
But again, there are other topics for battery usage, so let's keep this only for email sync options
turn off auto-sync. when you want it to fire up, fire it up, then shut it down again. i went all day today, and ran less than half the battery off, because it wasn't polling over and over and over...
I'm not sure how much push drains the battery. One of my Gmail accounts is a work account. I have it and my personal email on push. Went for 10 hours, got about 40-45 emails with several calls and numerous text messages and still went down to 57%. I do have my phone on 3G most of the day(gotta love Atlanta).
Hi all,
I just bought myself a Samsung Galaxy S but i have two problems:
1. I charged the device overnight, I normally leave my phones on charge overnight but when i woke up i noticed that the device screen was on. I did some research and apparently before froyo there was an option to keep seen on while charging. This option isnt present anymore so I am assuming its on by default. Is there anyway of turining this option off?
Im worred about burning out my screen.
2. I have synced my device with google calendar but when i load the default client and edit an event i get the following: "Google calendar cannot sync with Samsung Kies. Use my calendar to sync with Kies"
Does that mean that I cannot use the default calendar application to edit events? Am i missing some sort of setting?
Thanks
-c
guys i have fixed problem no1.
I installed extended controls and noticed there was a "screen awake" toggle. Clicking this does indeed disable screen awake while charging
I am giving the phone a full charge. I read somewhere that once the phone gets to 100% it will light up the screen to notify, so want to ensure that after getting this notification the screen will turn off again.
With this toggle off and the device charging I tried google maps, the screen turned off. However while charging and using google navigation the screen stayed on.
I have therefore created an almost transparent toggle widget which i intend to leave "off".
Still researching number 2. Hopefully my findings helps somebody out.
I have now done some testing with No2.
I loaded up the Calendar application and received the sync error. Pressed ok on that and then edited an event. I loaded google calendar on my laptop and the changes were made
I tried creating and editing events on both laptop and device and changes were synced ok.
So I am confused, what exactly does the sync error mean if syncing is actually working?
I bought my Zenfone 3 Zoom about 10 days ago and from the day I bought it, facebook app notifications have been behaving erratically.
First I wasn't getting any push notifications at all for a couple of days, so I went into notifications and basically reset all notification settings so that I would receive all notifications. No dice. After a couple of days suddenly I started receiving notifications late at night, around 1am.
I thought it was fixed, but then after 8am I noticed notifications had stopped again. That night, again, around 1am they started pushing again and continued through the night until 8am, then nothing the rest of the day. Then nothing for the next couple of days.
Now they push every night between 1am and 8am, but nothing the rest of the day. I haven't set any time schedule for notifications anywhere and I can't figure out how to fix it.
I have tried the app with a different facebook account and everything worked normally for the other account, went back to my account and this weird schedule again.
Any ideas?
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I bought my Zenfone 3 Zoom about 10 days ago and from the day I bought it, facebook app notifications have been behaving erratically.
First I wasn't getting any push notifications at all for a couple of days, so I went into notifications and basically reset all notification settings so that I would receive all notifications. No dice. After a couple of days suddenly I started receiving notifications late at night, around 1am.
I thought it was fixed, but then after 8am I noticed notifications had stopped again. That night, again, around 1am they started pushing again and continued through the night until 8am, then nothing the rest of the day. Then nothing for the next couple of days.
Now they push every night between 1am and 8am, but nothing the rest of the day. I haven't set any time schedule for notifications anywhere and I can't figure out how to fix it.
I have tried the app with a different facebook account and everything worked normally for the other account, went back to my account and this weird schedule again.
Any ideas?
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It's that stupid auto-start manager app on the phone that's messing with you're notifications. First go into settings, then click power management and click auto-start manager, next under the downloaded tab of apps, find facebook and make it allowed on auto-start up, restart the phone and hood as new.