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[Q] How to use Juice Defender with Epic

Can someone please explain how to configure ALL of the Juice Defender Ultimate options on the Epic?
I paid for the Ultimate version of Juice Defender and only some Icons are lit up. Icons such as "Night" still appear to be gray.
Given the big battery issues with Epic, this tools seem like a great workaround.

You may have tried this but since you have purchased it why not try removing it from the device and then reinstalling from the market. This should ensure that you are installing the version you paid for.

You actually have to run "Ultimate Juice" before you run Juice Defender. IT will pop up and say this is just a license, run Juice Defender or something like that.

@goddimus, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling already.
@kcarpenter, where would I run "Ultimate Juice" from 1st because it does not appear in my APPS screens?
The good news is that the default auto config certainly seems to be helping a lot with battery life. Need to test for longer, but 24hrs without charge and very moderate use.

i downloaded juicedefender and let it run in easy mode or w/e its called and didnt even get seven hours of battery life so i uninstalled it.

I'm really pleased with the results so far, I only want to know how to get control over the customizations it advertises. There is no response from the developer Latedroid.
When you think about it, it makes complete sense for the phone to not eat up battery when its not necessary. Its a stellar concept and checking around you can find some sort of similar apps.

Here is what I sent to Latedroid support:
Can I PLEASE get some help on how to customize Ultimate Juice Defender? Auto mode seems to work pretty good, but if I can squeeze more out of the battery based on personal profile, it will be even better. My fone is a Samsung EPIC (Galaxy S) The "WiFi" and "Schedule" icons and their settings for example seem grayed out and say "Do nothing" in the summary area. Only 4 of 9 features seem to be enabled in some way. I paid for Ultimate.
All I am asking for is an explanation of how to use the app. All of the documentation I find talks about what the app can do but nothing about how to configure each feature. What would be ultimately great is a new version of JD that actually has a much more usable and intuitive configuration UI.... or dare I say, more "normal" looking config UI.

I had to uninstall this app cause it was messing with my cpu clocks..
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ultimate juice definetely rocks. on the stock rom.
after flashing baked 1.0 and installing UJ again, i lost 25% in 15 mins. uninstalled UJ, and i'm getting 12 hrs of heavy usage.
go figure....

I have been using juice defender with the UJ add on since I have had the phone with the suggested settings the first time you run the app. The only things I have edited are under the app setting I completely stopped google talk from sending or receiving data at any time. Also noticed that I use less batt when connected to a wifi network so I have locale handling turning my gps on and off when in known hotspots. Attached a screen shot of how JD is saving my batt.
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Mine put an ultimate juice icon in my app tray.ran it once and it went away.
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cognitivel0gic, thanks for the feedback, but do you find that only some of the 11 options are configurable in your JD?
What I need, and reason I started this thread is to get some help understanding how to configure all JD options. In my JD view, things like WiFi, Timeout, Night do not allow making any adjustments.
Yes I purchased the Ultimate addon from the Market.

wow X2.36
the most i got was 1.76, how is that measured? are you getting x.8 more life than me or thats compared to your previous settings? is it relative?

@mmediaman
in response to your last post yes all of the options in juice defender allow me to edit them some of them like the standby option require a double click to edit
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@OP....this may be an obvious question but on your JD settings screen does it say Enabled or Disabled?
If it is disabled that is the only way that I know that you won't be able to adjust your settings....If it is disabled, just click on that Disabled button to enable...
Hope this helps

I have a couple of questions about Juice Defender if someone could be so kind...
1) Is there really just no way to run Google Talk with this application?
2) I use the Google News & Weather app which refreshes every hour, last time i used JD, it prevented this from happening. Any workaround?

JD is Enabled (blue button with green ON light).
@cognitivel0gic, what Standby option are you talking about? I don't see anything that says Standby on my version. Are there different versions out there? From the Help button, mine says "Evolution 1.8.8 beta". I'm using JD on Samsung Epic (Galaxy S)
And what about that activity log I see in the help screen? Does that keep growing forever??? Is there ANY documentataion for this App?

Sorry by standby I was referring to the timeout option.
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cognitivel0gic said:
I have been using juice defender with the UJ add on since I have had the phone with the suggested settings the first time you run the app. The only things I have edited are under the app setting I completely stopped google talk from sending or receiving data at any time. Also noticed that I use less batt when connected to a wifi network so I have locale handling turning my gps on and off when in known hotspots. Attached a screen shot of how JD is saving my batt.
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If you disabled data for googletalk, are you having problems with the market?

odub303 said:
If you disabled data for googletalk, are you having problems with the market?
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No problems with the market. I disable GTalk and GVoice.

Weird battery drain

Sp i came home after work and saw my note was at 14% battery,weirdest thing when i left to work it was about 80,no internet or nothing was enabled,btw this is 2nd time happening like this,any thoughts?
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Mine is I left it to charge over night, close those no use app.
When this morning wake up, saw the display using about most of the battery.
Any app to see what proofread is using the battery so much?
P/s: can't upload picture, keep asking me to login but I had already login.
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That is mostly caused by some app, had that too and deleted a few apps i installed last rebooted and it disapeard.
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Any idea wht program can use to show what app are in use?
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Try Badass Battery Monitor

Look for Samsung Push Service in your apps list and un-install it!
If you use Samsung Apps, this program is automatically installed and stays active, won't let your phone go to sleep!

My battery stats!
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aalokraj said:
My battery stats!
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High system and OS percentage.

Hi thanks the suggestion...after install it I noticed there is an app called phone radio auto sync to internet...how do I uninstall it as I can't find it in my app list....
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henklbr said:
Look for Samsung Push Service in your apps list and un-install it!
If you use Samsung Apps, this program is automatically installed and stays active, won't let your phone go to sleep!
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Hi henklbr,
Thanks for the tip, I uninstalled it alrd...is there any other app tht I can get rid of?
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lhooipg said:
Hi henklbr,
Thanks for the tip, I uninstalled it alrd...is there any other app tht I can get rid of?
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Instead of trying to uninstall apps, installing Magic Locker allows you to set power saving and this could be very helpful. In my case it doubled the battery life and I now have around 60% left in the evening.
Hope this helps.

agboa said:
Instead of trying to uninstall apps, installing Magic Locker allows you to set power saving and this could be very helpful. In my case it doubled the battery life and I now have around 60% left in the evening.
Hope this helps.
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I try to search for one but turn up mostly is for theme, which one I suppose to select?
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lhooipg said:
Any idea wht program can use to show what app are in use?
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There are a number of Apps you can install that will show running applications ~ SystemPanel is one such app.
It comes in two variant ~ Paid & Free.
The free version is okay for looking at what your apps are doing but it does not offer the same level of service that the paid version gives and in this case you do need the paid version.
Full version ($2.99) adds app manager (installer/uninstaller with multi-version APK archival), and long-term application resource monitor to solve app-related battery life problems.
However, for finding out what apps are using your battery you can do this with your phone's built-in settings.
Just navigate to Settings/Applications/Running Services and look at what apps are currently running.
If you don't need a particular app running simply tap on it and select 'Stop'.
Job done that is one app no longer running in the background.
Another option is to again go to Settings/Applications/Battery Usage.
Here you not only see the graph at the top but also a list of main running apps (note not all are shown).
Tap the graph at the top and it shows you various parameters i.e. when the screen was on and when the device was awake. Basically you need both to be the same. If the phone's screen was off but it remained awake you then have an app running constantly in the background.
So, press the back button and look at the list of apps showing. To terminate an app simply tap on it and this time select 'Force Close'.
Spend a little time now and again popping over to these two places (Running Services & Battery Usage) and you should be able to identify what app or apps are eating your battery.

Beards said:
There are a number of Apps you can install that will show running applications ~ SystemPanel is one such app.
It comes in two variant ~ Paid & Free.
The free version is okay for looking at what your apps are doing but it does not offer the same level of service that the paid version gives and in this case you do need the paid version.
Full version ($2.99) adds app manager (installer/uninstaller with multi-version APK archival), and long-term application resource monitor to solve app-related battery life problems.
However, for finding out what apps are using your battery you can do this with your phone's built-in settings.
Just navigate to Settings/Applications/Running Services and look at what apps are currently running.
If you don't need a particular app running simply tap on it and select 'Stop'.
Job done that is one app no longer running in the background.
Another option is to again go to Settings/Applications/Battery Usage.
Here you not only see the graph at the top but also a list of main running apps (note not all are shown).
Tap the graph at the top and it shows you various parameters i.e. when the screen was on and when the device was awake. Basically you need both to be the same. If the phone's screen was off but it remained awake you then have an app running constantly in the background.
So, press the back button and look at the list of apps showing. To terminate an app simply tap on it and this time select 'Force Close'.
Spend a little time now and again popping over to these two places (Running Services & Battery Usage) and you should be able to identify what app or apps are eating your battery.
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Very well put...... +1

thanks...will try that first and see how's thing goes

MIUI
lhooipg said:
I try to search for one but turn up mostly is for theme, which one I suppose to select?
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In my case I chose MIUI but I think any theme should work as well. After installation it asked if I wanted to activate the battery saving mode which I accepted to check its performance as I was having battery drain as well and needed a solution.
I was happily surprised the next day. I hope all these issues are fixed by Samsung in ICS.

Best Battery Status with Chracks Rom.
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Does anyone know what is this phone radio app is? I try to find it at the app and want to uninstall cannot find...
How do I get rid of it?
Thank you.

lhooipg said:
Does anyone know what is this phone radio app is? I try to find it at the app and want to uninstall cannot find...
How do I get rid of it?
Thank you.
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Errrrrr...
That's your phone!

Battery saving tips

Hi guys,
Firstly I am no expert, however I would like share my experiences and knowledge of battery saving tips. This is probably best suited to novices like myself and some tips maybe obvious to some, but hey if they are, try the next one!
Press the thanks button if this is useful.
Tip 1 :
Turn off wifi, GPS, Bluetooth - when not using it.
Tip 2 :
If you know that you're going to be in a bad reception area (has 0 bar) for awhile, turn ON airplane mode. If you let the radio keep on searching for a signal, then it's going to drain the battery. For example, I would do this when travelling on the tube in london.
Tip 3 :
Turn off google's location service, unless you need latitude. - Settings - Location Services - Turn off all 4 boxes.
Tip 4 :
Dim screen brightness, I like to use a widget called brightness level, mainly keep brightness on 25%. Screen brightness is a big culprit for battery drain.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...XJ2ZWZpc2gud2lkZ2V0cy5icmlnaHRuZXNzbGV2ZWwiXQ..
Tip 5 :
Disable apps you dont use, e.g. email and exchange servces. You can disable apps, by going into manage apps within settings. If rooted you can freeze apps, by using titanium backup.
Tip 6 :
Turn off backround data sync within apps. Apps such as Google currents, pulse etc, regulary download data in background, turn this off and manually download when you actually use the app.
Tip 7 :
If your a facebook user, uninstall the official facebook app as this is a big battery drainer, I prefer to use :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rcm0uZmJtIl0.
Tip 8 :
Use a black or dark wallpaper and theme apps/widgets dark where possible. Thanks to b-eock here are some dark wallpapers : LINK
Theres probably some more tips I've forgotten to add, but these are the main ones I follow.

Handy checklist, thanks.
At the risk of stating the obvious, there is another even more radical power saving measure possible:
If you are in a situation where you really only need to use the phone as a simple phone, then TURN OFF BOTH MOBILE DATA AND WI-FI COMPLETELY!
I know, people will say "but what's the point of having a smartphone", but as an example, at work my only use of the phone is to be contacted in emergency. It's so easy to toggle data, I often just switch it off.
You will find that with the latest firmware and data off, the battery life is truly amazing.

Agree mobile data does eat a lot of battery to and if your phone is just sitting there idle or you are in desperate need then turning it off could be an option.
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It's a small point, but on AMOLED screens, it takes less power to produce black than anything else. If you're desperate to squeeze every ounce of battery out of your device, theme your apps darker, if you can.
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thanks. have updated original post.
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Ebty32 said:
Great Post
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Cheers. Nice to be helpful for a change.

Tip 1 :
Turn off wifi, GPS, Bluetooth - when not using it.
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I always leave those toggled on.
Tip 2 :
When connected to wifi, turn off mobile data
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I always leave it toggled on.
Tip 3 :
Turn off google's location service, unless you need latitude. - Settings - Location Services - Turn off all 4 boxes.
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All check boxes checked and I also turned on Location History in Latitude.
Tip 4 :
Dim screen brightness, I like to use a widget called brightness level, mainly keep brightness on 25%. Screen brightness is a big culprit for battery drain.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...XJ2ZWZpc2gud2lkZ2V0cy5icmlnaHRuZXNzbGV2ZWwiXQ..
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Brightness always set to Auto. I never dim it.
Tip 5 :
Disable apps you dont use, e.g. email and exchange servces. You can disable apps, by going into manage apps within settings. If rooted you can freeze apps, by using titanium backup.
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I don't disable or freeze any apps.
Tip 6 :
Turn off backround data sync within apps. Apps such as Google currents, pulse etc, regulary download data in background, turn this off and manually download when you actually use the app.
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Everything is set to sync and working in the background. nothing is done manually on my phone. gReader is set to sync every hour pulling images and snippets. BeWeather is set to sync every 6 hours. Built in lockscreen weather is set to sync every 3 hours. I have some other stuff with push notifications too.
Tip 7 :
If your a facebook user, uninstall the official facebook app as this is a big battery drainer, I prefer to use :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rcm0uZmJtIl0.
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I use the official facebook app.
Tip 8 :
Use a black or dark wallpaper and theme apps/widgets dark where possible.
Theres probably some more tips I've forgotten to add, but these are the main ones I follow.
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Lockscreen is lightish blue, and homescreen is live wallpaper.
So it seems, I go against all this tip LMAO. Battery still last a whole day for me.
I hate turning things off and putting phone in airplane mode and all these tips to save battery. The S3 has a capable enough battery. Just use your smartphone to the fullest.

I'm pleased for you, if one day you wanted to get even more battery life, at least you know what to do! How much on screen time do you get? Screenshots?

Using juice defender is easier and a more consequent method of achieving better battery life.
I used to do everything manually but it felt stupid because I kept repeating myself. Leaving the house: turn off this and that. Arrive at work turn on something else again.
Why have a computer and perform the tedious and repetisios task ourselves?

daz_2000 said:
I'm pleased for you, if one day you wanted to get even more battery life, at least you know what to do! How much on screen time do you get? Screenshots?
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Not saying I get the most optimum battery life, but it gets me through a day. I get around 2 hour screen time and 19+ hours. I just like to keep every on for convenience.
I will post a screen shot when I deplete my battery.
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whatever works for you and your happy with is the main thing. personally I'm not happy unless I get minimum 3.5 hours screen on time.
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sargasso said:
Using juice defender is easier and a more consequent method of achieving better battery life.
I used to do everything manually but it felt stupid because I kept repeating myself. Leaving the house: turn off this and that. Arrive at work turn on something else again.
Why have a computer and perform the tedious and repetisios task ourselves?
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Again whatever works for you. Personally I prefer the manual approach. Think I found juice defender made things worse for me.
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Good idea. Just a couple of points.
GPS uses no battery unless an application specifically is using GPS to locate you. In other words, it only uses power if its flashing away in the status bar.
No need to turn mobile data off when on wifi. The connection is not using power unless an MMS wants to come in.

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thanks for the useful tips. Although my battery lasts most of the day also and it seems sometimes more frivilous to be turning apps on and off rather than to keep them all on and have your phone last a little shorter....

illusion787 said:
thanks for the useful tips. Although my battery lasts most of the day also and it seems sometimes more frivilous to be turning apps on and off rather than to keep them all on and have your phone last a little shorter....
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I'm only suggesting to disable apps you don't use such as email and exchange. As I only use gmail. The other point I made is to turn off background data. Classic example is Google currents. I just sync when I go into the app and have background data off which is a setting within currents.
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rootSU said:
Good idea. Just a couple of points.
GPS uses no battery unless an application specifically is using GPS to locate you. In other words, it only uses power if its flashing away in the status bar.
No need to turn mobile data off when on wifi. The connection is not using power unless an MMS wants to come in.
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:good: Good to know.

When i reading long white pages with black text i often use negative colour widget. Saved battery and better for my eyes.
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patospatos said:
When i reading long white pages with black text i often use negative colour widget. Saved battery and better for my eyes.
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Tis a good tip. Actually, rooted users with the latest Siyah kernel can tap home 4 times and do this too.

ekjl said:
Not saying I get the most optimum battery life, but it gets me through a day. I get around 2 hour screen time and 19+ hours. I just like to keep every on for convenience.
I will post a screen shot when I deplete my battery.
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That's not good life at all. You just let it set there... 2 hours of screen time for a 19+ hour day... I can get over about 60 Hours with 5+ hours of screen time easily

daz_2000 said:
Hi guys,
Firstly I am no expert, however I would like share my experiences and knowledge of battery saving tips. This is probably best suited to novices like myself and some tips maybe obvious to some, but hey if they are, try the next one!
Press the thanks button if this is useful.
Tip 1 :
Turn off wifi, GPS, Bluetooth - when not using it.
Tip 2 :
When connected to wifi, turn off mobile data
Tip 3 :
Turn off google's location service, unless you need latitude. - Settings - Location Services - Turn off all 4 boxes.
Tip 4 :
Dim screen brightness, I like to use a widget called brightness level, mainly keep brightness on 25%. Screen brightness is a big culprit for battery drain.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...XJ2ZWZpc2gud2lkZ2V0cy5icmlnaHRuZXNzbGV2ZWwiXQ..
Tip 5 :
Disable apps you dont use, e.g. email and exchange servces. You can disable apps, by going into manage apps within settings. If rooted you can freeze apps, by using titanium backup.
Tip 6 :
Turn off backround data sync within apps. Apps such as Google currents, pulse etc, regulary download data in background, turn this off and manually download when you actually use the app.
Tip 7 :
If your a facebook user, uninstall the official facebook app as this is a big battery drainer, I prefer to use :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rcm0uZmJtIl0.
Tip 8 :
Use a black or dark wallpaper and theme apps/widgets dark where possible.
Theres probably some more tips I've forgotten to add, but these are the main ones I follow.
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Tip 9: buy a Nokia dumb phone as using the above you just will be able to the same thing with it.
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[Q] some noob questions

Hello,
i'm new to Android and the Nexus 4 is my first Android device. I'm really happy with it but i've got some questions which i'm sure are pretty easy to answer for most people here:
- I turned off the vibration (touch feedback) in the settings, but in some apps it's still there, for example when i type in a URL in chrome. how do i disable it?
- I came from an iPhone and i'm used to having an app for notes. Is there any good, simple app for android, where you can just write down some notes, similar to the iphone app?
- I've heard of a great app to use in case you lose your phone or someone steals it, so you can track it down from your pc, take photos etc, but i forgot its name. Does anyone know?
- Is it normal that the Nexus 4 camera sometimes keeps trying to focus on something? it happened to me sometimes that it focused, the image got sharp, then suddenly it loses the focus again, focuses again, loses it again, and so on, even though i was not moving the phone (holding it in my hand though).
Thanks for your help!

jb91 said:
Hello,
i'm new to Android and the Nexus 4 is my first Android device. I'm really happy with it but i've got some questions which i'm sure are pretty easy to answer for most people here:
- I turned off the vibration (touch feedback) in the settings, but in some apps it's still there, for example when i type in a URL in chrome. how do i disable it?
- I came from an iPhone and i'm used to having an app for notes. Is there any good, simple app for android, where you can just write down some notes, similar to the iphone app?
- I've heard of a great app to use in case you lose your phone or someone steals it, so you can track it down from your pc, take photos etc, but i forgot its name. Does anyone know?
- Is it normal that the Nexus 4 camera sometimes keeps trying to focus on something? it happened to me sometimes that it focused, the image got sharp, then suddenly it loses the focus again, focuses again, loses it again, and so on, even though i was not moving the phone (holding it in my hand though).
Thanks for your help!
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Ok, I Don't Have A N4, But I Can Help. For The Type Vibration, You Might Have To Go Into The Keyboard Settings And Look For It There. I Think It's Set Apart From The Other Feedback Option.
I Use ColorNote & EverNote. ColorNote, As The Name Implies, Has All These Color Options You Can Use, And Separate Your Notes By Color. (Red for thoughts, green for to-do stuff, and so on) I Like EverNote Because It Automatically Saves Your Notes Online.
I Think You're Referring To The Lookout Mobile Security App. I Have It On Both Of My Phones.
Once Again, Not A Nexus Owner, So I Can't Help With Your Camera Issue. Sorry. :/
All The Apps Suggested Are Free. (Lookout has Premium features that you have to pay for, I think by the month)
I Hope I've Helped.
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I have come from an iPhone too, although this is not my first Android. For the keyboard vibration, you have to turn it off on the keyboard's settings, as the guy above me said.
For the notes, I use this. It's a simple but great and useful application.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.demo.notepad3
I hope I have helped.
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Look at Google Tasks Organiser. It syncs your lists online. For theft protection, Cerberus is the best

Thanks guys.
Another thing i don't fully understand:
On the top left of the screen (on the bar), i see Skype, which makes sense, since Skype is open in the background, so i won't miss a call or message or whatever. But then why is there no symbol for What's app or facebook? Don't they work the same? Basically, there also needs to be some kind of background process open for these, right? But why are they not shown on the top left of the bar?

jb91 said:
Thanks guys.
Another thing i don't fully understand:
On the top left of the screen (on the bar), i see Skype, which makes sense, since Skype is open in the background, so i won't miss a call or message or whatever. But then why is there no symbol for What's app or facebook? Don't they work the same? Basically, there also needs to be some kind of background process open for these, right? But why are they not shown on the top left of the bar?
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That's the choice of the application's developer not to have the icon in the status bar. I find it better not to have any icon in the status bar as they take up space and look ugly.
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Thanks!
While we're at it, another question
How do you actually CLOSE an app? So it's not in the RAM anymore. I'd imagine that all those apps still running in the background use a lot of battery, right?

Just use the third soft button at the button of the screen then close the apps from there. As for background processes, you need not to worry about then. Android is good at handling background processes so they don't take a lot of battery.
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MSI Afterburner said:
Just use the third soft button at the button of the screen then close the apps from there. As for background processes, you need not to worry about then. Android is good at handling background processes so they don't take a lot of battery.
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Isn't this just a list of "recently opened" apps? Because if you swipe them off there, these apps are still shown as "Active" in the settings menu.

Nope, you close them from there. Although some may have a background process like Facebook so you can still receive notifications with the app closed. It takes up minimal battery.
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And you mean this screen, right?
Because if so, they're just background processes.
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Ok, i get it now. But is there a way to close all the apps in one go? Instead of swiping every app off by itself?

jb91 said:
Ok, i get it now. But is there a way to close all the apps in one go? Instead of swiping every app off by itself?
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At the same screen, you see these 3 line things in the top right corner? Tap that.
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jb91 said:
Ok, i get it now. But is there a way to close all the apps in one go? Instead of swiping every app off by itself?
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There is if you go custom, but not in stock. This is why I always close the apps after using them so I'm only swiping 1-2 at a time...
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MSI Afterburner said:
At the same screen, you see these 3 line things in the top right corner? Tap that.
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You're using CM, it's not in stock

EddyOS said:
There is if you go custom, but not in stock. This is why I always close the apps after using them so I'm only swiping 1-2 at a time...
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You're using CM, it's not in stock
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Damn, I'm so used to CyanogenMod, haha!
My bad then.
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A question again about that cerberus app:
I've downloaded it and made it so it doesn't appear in the installed apps. But how do i make it visible again? How do i even open it now?

I have a sprint note 2 thats flashed to boost mobile. The first time it was done it was fast 3g was good. I messed upand reset the phone so I had to reflash it b I t now its slow.the more u flash a phone does it get slower
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For this scenario Cerberus has a feature where you dial a unique code to access the hidden program but you've probably not noted it. If you haven't changed it, dial
23723787
Or to remove you could also go to Settings / Security / Device Administrator and uncheck it then Settings / Apps and uninstall the app.
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[TUT] Major Speed Up for your "OLD" Nexus S

Hello!
Something I've noticed while using my old Nexus S while im waiting for Nexus 5
Go in Developer settings > Background process limit (all the way down)
set it to "At most 2 processes".
It will speed up your phone more than you can think without affecting performance.
Report your findings.
Btw I am using THIS Android 4.4 ROM with stock kernel on Dalvik.
Have fun!
EDIT: You must re-set this everytime phone reboots

miHah said:
Hello!
Something I've noticed while using my old Nexus S while im waiting for Nexus 5
Go in Developer settings > Background process limit (all the way down)
set it to "At most 2 processes".
It will speed up your phone more than you can think without affecting performance.
Report your findings.
Btw I am using THIS Android 4.4 ROM with stock kernel on Dalvik.
Have fun!
EDIT: You must re-set this everytime phone reboots
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It re-loads cache whenever i open up an app i previously opened. Like in messaging app, all contact icons won't get preloaded.

doesn't seems to have any impact at all on my Nexus S.
Yeah I am waiting for my Nexus 5 also!

This setting can only help you if you use memory-intensive apps, with the cost that most apps will start slower than before and also the background processes started by the apps can be killed more easily which is not always a desirable thing. Reducing the number of concurrent processes from the default can lead to unwanted consequences. These preferences aren't in the developer options by mistake, I would not fiddle with them if I don't have a valid reason. And "try this stuff, maybe it sppeds up your phone, maybe not" is definitely not one.

Eh, as i use my nexus s as an mp3 player it definitely helps run a lot smoother

sum_guy188 said:
Eh, as i use my nexus s as an mp3 player it definitely helps run a lot smoother
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Try to put the phone in airplane mode, if you don't use cellular network or WiFi at all.

debaj said:
Try to put the phone in airplane mode, if you don't use cellular network or WiFi at all.
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WiFi can be used even on airplane mode.

ej8989 said:
WiFi can be used even on airplane mode.
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Yes you can, but it will cost you some CPU processing. I find my device more responsive in airplane mode where it does not need to handle the connections. If somebody does not use these functions it's worth a try before fiddling with some random setting from the bottom of the Development menu.
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unfortunate rrivure
debaj said:
Yes you can, but it will cost you some CPU processing. I find my device more responsive in airplane mode where it does not need to handle the connections. If somebody does not use these functions it's worth a try before fiddling with some random setting from the bottom of the Development menu.
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I've just tried this on my "old" Nexus S (my sister is using it now) and it doesn't seem to do anything different or faster...thanks anyway!