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Face unlock data usage?

Recently I started to check my data usage via ics's feature in the settings menu. What I came across surprised me big time.
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Is Google stealing my face?
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baolongn said:
Is Google stealing my face?
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nah, don't worry about it. it's must likely the dev of your rom who's stealing your face
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kyouko said:
nah, don't worry about it. it's must likely the dev of your rom who's stealing your face
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Rofl
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That's strange indeed.

I wonder if they are doing some algorithm computation which is tied to their database and have to send data back and forth. Kind of like voice recognition. Try putting the phone in airplane mode and then use face unlock. I wonder if it will default to the preset pattern.

obsanity said:
I wonder if they are doing some algorithm computation which is tied to their database and have to send data back and forth. Kind of like voice recognition. Try putting the phone in airplane mode and then use face unlock. I wonder if it will default to the preset pattern.
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This is what I was thinking too.
I went to the security settings and found out my phone doesn't have face recognition (AOKP ms4) I could have sworn I've tried it out before haha.
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ok, at first i was joking obviously
But after downloading a zip to flash Face Unlock for my phone..it's kinda got me wondering lol
For one, I took a screenshot of the first page when setting it up. Last point says all the info is saved on your phone. (see below)
2nd, I've been using it for a few hours now and i have no face unlock data usage as of yet. I'll check it again tomorrow afternoon.
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Is there an update. Zip with face recognition for stock rom ? You guys know ?
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Hello,
Where can i find a zip with facelock or the apk because it's not included in my rom (cm9).
thx in advance !

bruno_le_bio said:
Hello,
Where can i find a zip with facelock or the apk because it's not included in my rom (cm9).
thx in advance !
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Check this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405790
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Thanks a lot. I've find it with your link.
But seems that our NS has difficulies to use this app...

Two days later, and i have no data usage for Face Unlock. I still think it's the rom dev
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Devs of xda:

I guess cyanogen is saving my face in their databases.. sky net anyone?
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everyone get out your foil hats!!
honestly, this is a joke i think. the screenie in the op looks so horribly photoshopped! where in the hell did that giant yellow pie graph come from? i don't remember ever seeing that lol

You click on an app under data usage and it will show you the percentage used by that app.
Btw I don't see how you can think its photo shopped when it's 100% legitimate.
hp420 said:
everyone get out your foil hats!!
honestly, this is a joke i think. the screenie in the op looks so horribly photoshopped! where in the hell did that giant yellow pie graph come from? i don't remember ever seeing that lol
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Does anyone actually use ChatOn?

Why do Samsung continue to bundle this app? I've never heard of anyone using it, and I know lots of people with Samsung handsets, the servers and everything must be a drain on samsung's funds, why do they bloat out our phones with this?

No, useless.

dodgebizkit said:
Why do Samsung continue to bundle this app? I've never heard of anyone using it, and I know lots of people with Samsung handsets, the servers and everything must be a drain on samsung's funds, why do they bloat out our phones with this?
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nope

I agree that it's pretty useless and hardly anyone uses it. In fact, I don't know of one person who does, but it's pretty obvious that Samsung is developing its own ecosystem, perhaps as a backup or fail safe for the day if/when they part ways with Google's own ecosystem. They have counterparts for nearly every Google service, although right now, most of them suck.

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Why do Samsung continue to bundle this app? I've never heard of anyone using it, and I know lots of people with Samsung handsets, the servers and everything must be a drain on samsung's funds, why do they bloat out our phones with this?
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No
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I have WhatsApp and Hangout, why the heck should I use ChatOn? They should just throw it out of the phone.

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My whatsapp got blocked, I have tried to move to chaton as an alternate, barely used it for 2 mins. Sucks big time.

Considered bloat
Never kept long enough
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Sometimes WhatsApp servers... Fail... The Last saturday, for example the service had interrupted for a couple hours.
Hangouts was the solution for this time

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I have WhatsApp and Hangout, why the heck should I use ChatOn? They should just throw it out of the phone.
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+1

Dont know anyone using it... lol
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I use viber and it's great!
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i hear it's used so much, that even the NSA didnt bother tapping :laugh:

I wonder same thing if people rly use this app

ChatONs biggest advantage is probably that it isn't WhatsApp. :'D

I do use it as in Qatar many people use it.
I mainly use the LivePartner feature inside it though to keep myself updated.

I suppose Vanilla phone users kinda use it.
I signed on it for the hell of it, and found 3 people I knew that use it on their S3 or S4.
I promptly trashed the app once I rooted, though.
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I received a firmware update and today I decided to play on the settings and saw a "turn off" button in the chat on app settings - is this new? I pressed that SOB
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i use whatsapp as main chat app (bought 5 years subscription recently) but there is one thing that whatsapp doesn't support and it is gifs. so whenever i want to send a reaction gif to my bff i have to tell her to open chatOn on her s4 lol, besides gif support and full image quality (it doesn't try to make the files smaller, so images always reach their destination as you sent them, unlike whatsapp) chatOn has nothing good to offer and i use it only like 2-3 times a month
tho that still means it's at least a bit useful
haven't tried hangouts, don't know how image quality/gifs work (if they work at all)

[Q] video lags at muchmovies.org why ??

I just got the note 3 and it lags at my favorite site to stream movies. When I tried it with my mom iPhone it didnt. Is it just that website doesn't work for the note 3? Please help. Thanks

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I just got the note 3 and it lags at my favorite site to stream movies. When I tried it with my mom iPhone it didnt. Is it just that website doesn't work for the note 3? Please help. Thanks
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Come on people give me something why won't it stream the movie clear at muchmovies.org on my note 3 but it will on mu mom's iphone. I'm a noon to this so I don't know how to post or anything just give me some ideas please. Thanks

There are a few things I could have you try, if you were rooted. But since it seems you're not here are a couple of other things you can try.
Go to settings/storage. Click on cache data. Select ok to clear and restart your phone.
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Also long press home, select task manager. Go to RAM tab, and clear memory.
Also, are you on the latest update? What browser are you using?
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muchmovies.com movies lag streaming
Thank you for your advice I'm going to try that and yes my phone is updated with the latest software. What is strange is that it doesn't lag on YouTube it's just seems to be there. But it makes me mad because it's a great site to stream new movies and it works fine on my mom's iphone. I am using Google Chrome when I go to try it. Thanks keep up with ttrying to help the new guy.

I'm using the stock browser and it worked fine on the movie I tried. Great quality, quick loading.
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What the hell! I never knew about this site. So awesome and it's free? This is great!
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Thanks for all the help did a couple things and now it's working I'm glad I showed some people an awesome site but now I need help my flash isn't working of on flashlight app just got the note 3 what's up with that. Please help

truekidd005 said:
Thanks for all the help did a couple things and now it's working I'm glad I showed some people an awesome site but now I need help my flash isn't working of on flashlight app just got the note 3 what's up with that. Please help
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Flashlight app isn't lighting up the physical camera flash? See if it requires root access to do so, and consider rooting. Rooting = admin access on your phone basically, good to have if you don't care about warranty

lmike6453 said:
Flashlight app isn't lighting up the physical camera flash? See if it requires root access to do so, and consider rooting. Rooting = admin access on your phone basically, good to have if you don't care about warranty
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I'm sorry I'm new what's rooting I have no idea what your talking about?

truekidd005 said:
I'm sorry I'm new what's rooting I have no idea what your talking about?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+rooting
Haha i'm just messing, but yeah you gotta do lots of researching to learn

Check in your widgets for "assistive light". It does what you want without any 3rd party apps.
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LeftyGR said:
Check in your widgets for "assistive light". It does what you want without any 3rd party apps.
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I did that's not working either. ..

Restart your phone. Mine did that and all it needed was a reboot.
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I have the same issue, usually a reboot helps
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Back to muchmovies, has anyone tried the downloading feature? Any issues or do the movies play fine? Is it safe?
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anyone has this issue of Android system eating the battery ?
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Yes, I had. It could be anything. Use wakelock detector to trace it.

i got same thing
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Wakelock only works with root though to give proper results so idk
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It is common with all US variants... the eyxnos versions do not have this issue
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KAsp3rd said:
It is common with all US variants... the eyxnos versions do not have this issue
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I've disabled almost all advanced features such as smart stay and stuff that normally uses your front camera to identify that we are looking at the phone. I don't understand what else to disable. I even disabled edge features but still no response. I've factory reset it several times to no change
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tavito05 said:
Wakelock only works with root though to give proper results so idk
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No root

There are many threads discussing the battery life of the US variants, nothing has been found to correct the Android battery drain. Even disabling some system packages has caused worse battery drain.
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disable Facebook. It is contributes to that drain.

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disable Facebook. It is contributes to that drain.
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That was the first thing I disabled along with Facebook messenger and background data for chrome to prevent it from pushing notifications
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So nobody is getting good battery life with the US version? Mine seems to get outstanding battery life.
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ShrekOpher said:
disable Facebook. It is contributes to that drain.
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Yelp facebook drains my battery. I log out now, seems to help

Richieboy67 said:
So nobody is getting good battery life with the US version? Mine seems to get outstanding battery life.
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There seems to be a lot of variability out of the box. Mine has always had mediocre battery performance, even with no additional apps installed. I should have exchanged it when j had the chance, but I thought an update might fix it. Disabling this and that can make small improvements, but nothing I do has ever made it outstanding. There are some with great battery performance but I personally believe that with the exception of a few horrible apps (like facebook) there's only so much a user can do to influence battery for US devices. Either you have a good one, or you don't.

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There seems to be a lot of variability out of the box. Mine has always had mediocre battery performance, even with no additional apps installed. I should have exchanged it when j had the chance, but I thought an update might fix it. Disabling this and that can make small improvements, but nothing I do has ever made it outstanding. There are some with great battery performance but I personally believe that with the exception of a few horrible apps (like facebook) there's only so much a user can do to influence battery for US devices. Either you have a good one, or you don't.
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Yeah I totally agree. I have friends who have outstanding battery performance and no matter how much i try, I still get very inconclusive results. I'm big into development and nothing has solved the issue with the limited resources that we have without root
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Gear fit 2 and v20 set up???

A lot of us came from the Note7 and have the gear fit 2, has anyone set it up on the v20 and if so could you post a tutorial here? Or better yet make a how to thread in the news and guides section. My problem here is I only have one hand atm because of a recent surgery and in not sure I want to open this box if its a pain in the butt. This way I can sell the watch easier if I'm not so moved to set it up! lol thanks in advanced.

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A lot of us came from the Note7 and have the gear fit 2, has anyone set it up on the v20 and if so could you post a tutorial here? Or better yet make a how to thread in the news and guides section. My problem here is I only have one hand atm because of a recent surgery and in not sure I want to open this box if its a pain in the butt. This way I can sell the watch easier if I'm not so moved to set it up! lol thanks in advanced.
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You download Samsung gear app. When you open it it will have you download 2 other plugins. You will have to download SHealth if you want too. I already set up my Gear S2 classic.
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Will the Lg fit app work with it or is the s health app best? I appreciate your help!

No the LG app will not work with SHealth. You need to download the Samsung one in order to use those features.
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Awesome to hear the app can be downloaded on the LG. I was asking myself the same question as the OP before I seen this thread.
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Awesome to hear the app can be downloaded on the LG. I was asking myself the same question as the OP before I seen this thread.
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Is there any place where all the different health apps are compared? We got SHealth, LG Fit, Google Fit... never mind dedicated apps like Runkeeper vs Runtastic (I don't know the difference between those either, except that I have used Runkeeper and not Runtastic).
I don't mind manually entering stuff. I don't really trust the calorie estimates on my Gear Fit 2, and I only use it to track steps, something I don't necessarily need aggregated. If I did need it aggregated, of course, I could probably be bothered to enter it manually if one app was markedly better.
I feel like all I'm seeing right now are just "22 best fitness apps" and they don't really care about apples-to-apples comparisons, even.

I don't use them so I wouldnt know. I just installed it to ensure it works lol
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Tidbits said:
I don't use them so I wouldnt know. I just installed it to ensure it works lol
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I get my cast off tomorrow and it'll be replaced by manageable brace so I'll set it up and check it out! You helped me decide to keep it. Thanks for helping out!

No problem. A lot of people were wondering. I have the Gear S2 classic, but I assume all Gear S2 would support the same thing since they are all the same OS and stuff.

We have Gear Fit 2's and got our V20's last night and in no time at all got them setup with no issues.

Tidbits said:
You download Samsung gear app. When you open it it will have you download 2 other plugins. You will have to download SHealth if you want too. I already set up my Gear S2 classic.
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Is that a theme from smartworld or whatever? I was trying to find one that would be darker than the bright white status bar that is there now

TriBeard said:
Is that a theme from smartworld or whatever? I was trying to find one that would be darker than the bright white status bar that is there now
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Go into the theme settings. That one is preinstalled
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