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http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html
Trillian for Android beta. It's really nice so far, been using it for a few days.
Most important thing to me is push notifications. While it doesn't indicate that it has push notifications, it most certainly does. In the settings make sure you check Push Email notifications and battery saving mode (this is how I have it configured). Don't worry, if you have Froyo you won't get any e-mails, it'll just push. I've tested it from another AIM app. On the home screen with the screen off I get IM's instantly every time I've tried it, with no e-mails. This is the first developer app I've personally seem that uses push.
It doesn't seem to poll or use the battery any. I've run it every day with AIM and Facebook chat and my spare parts doesn't show it using the battery and neither does my standard battery info section.
Seems pretty awesome so far. I haven't shut it off yet. Hopefully everyone else's experience is the same.
I've used trillian on my desktop for years, and I've had the beta on my since I got it back in August. The only gripe I have is that if you leave MSN running on your computer, and you sign in on Trillian from your phone, it wipes your display picture and your display theme.
** edit - n/m it loaded fine since I have Cognition/Rooted etc.
Looks awesome - have to see how the battery life is on the phone with it loaded.
brandonb81 said:
http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html
Trillian for Android beta. It's really nice so far, been using it for a few days.
Most important thing to me is push notifications. While it doesn't indicate that it has push notifications, it most certainly does. In the settings make sure you check Push Email notifications and battery saving mode (this is how I have it configured). Don't worry, if you have Froyo you won't get any e-mails, it'll just push. I've tested it from another AIM app. On the home screen with the screen off I get IM's instantly every time I've tried it, with no e-mails. This is the first developer app I've personally seem that uses push.
It doesn't seem to poll or use the battery any. I've run it every day with AIM and Facebook chat and my spare parts doesn't show it using the battery and neither does my standard battery info section.
Seems pretty awesome so far. I haven't shut it off yet. Hopefully everyone else's experience is the same.
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Would you mind clarifying?
If I am using Froyo. Is push email not currently functional or you do not use the option? I would like to use this for email purposes.
Shovelhead84 said:
Would you mind clarifying?
If I am using Froyo. Is push email not currently functional or you do not use the option? I would like to use this for email purposes.
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I believe if you choose push email and have froyo you will just get push notifications when you get a message, you won't actually get an email.
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is this using C2DM to push in 2.2 like Beejive is?
andy2na said:
is this using C2DM to push in 2.2 like Beejive is?
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Yes, it appears to be using C2DM. I wasn't aware Beejive was using it though, but that's good. More developers need to get on board. Ideally the IM app should NEVER poll or communicate to the server in any way. Run it in the background but just so it opens quicker. Use Push to receive messages.
man thats the one thing I miss about my iphone was real push notifications.
Is Beejive any good compared to this? I currently use Meebo, but would love to try another messenger that supports push in 2.2
i'm using trillian, with legend 2.2. is it c2dm really works? because it's still appear in the running app. which mean still running in the background (also app still appear in the notification bar). i was thinking, if c2dm works well, this app shoud be not appear in the running app, right? should i must kill this app, to make c2dm works? (beside app not appear in the notification bar). please help me
b00bs said:
i'm using trillian, with legend 2.2. is it c2dm really works? because it's still appear in the running app. which mean still running in the background (also app still appear in the notification bar). i was thinking, if c2dm works well, this app shoud be not appear in the running app, right? should i must kill this app, to make c2dm works? (beside app not appear in the notification bar). please help me
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No. It works. The icon in the notification bar is to remind you it's running and for easy access to the app. Don't mess with anything.
I wasted money on buying this app, just figured out, it was this draining my battery. about 6% an hour vs 1% with it off.
BriEE said:
I wasted money on buying this app, just figured out, it was this draining my battery. about 6% an hour vs 1% with it off.
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It's going to drain your battery having something polling for new messages if you aren't on Android 2.2 and have push enabled.
I was on 2.2 and now on 2.3, still drains regardless, push or not whatever...
BriEE said:
I was on 2.2 and now on 2.3, still drains regardless, push or not whatever...
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That's like saying I breath air whether I'm awake or sleeping.
This is the most useful application I tested so far. Try it. It's called Tasker and it is an advanced scheduler by which you can schedule virtually anything.
I used it to schedule phone,gps,wifi, etc. to switch off at night and switch on again in the morning. Also, you can use GPS locations to manage things like volume, services on/off, etc. The best thing with this app is that it is event driven so you can configure actions based on several conditions. However, it is hard to understand how to configure but once you get the idea, it's straight forward.
Try it and share your opinions. 7 days trial
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
Mine's Whatsapp for sure
Alfredos said:
Mine's Whatsapp for sure
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I fully agree
Angry birds :d
Me too.... been their user from iphone and beta tester for android till now..
Muur said:
I fully agree
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Sounds very good. I was looking for something that can turn on/off my wifi depending on location. And this can do a lot more. I'm downloading to try.
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If you're going to use tasker to do things based on location, I recommend using cell towers rather than gps, it should save you a bit of battery power.
Florida.
Anyone knows of similar app like Tasker but it's free? Am looking for one that can change profile based on calendar event (e.g. meeting/appointment)
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Sounds very good. I was looking for something that can turn on/off my wifi depending on location. And this can do a lot more. I'm downloading to try.
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You could use Y5 Battery Saver found in the market place
It turns your wifi on/off if you are in the vicinty of any wifi networks that you have saved on your phone
I find it very useful
Does anyone know how to make the lower buttons, back, menu, search, and home buttons not light up when I receive a message our missed call while using the NoLED app?
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I don't believe there is that option within the NoLED app. The BLN has to be built into the Kernel I believe.... I'm sure there will soon enough be a supporting Kernel for this as there is much support for the Galaxy series phones and this sort of thing. As I am not a dev I have no idea how easy/hard it would be but I cant wait
The op was trying to turn the lights off not on. As far as I know it just needs to be updated for gingerbread/ns so that the bottom lights don't turn on. You can follow the original app thread here. It looks like the dev won't be working on it til after the holidays.
Why not to use the flash led as in the desire?
Leos1488 said:
Why not to use the flash led as in the desire?
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As in the camera flash? Well if your phone is laying on it, that probably doesn't work too well
Plus that LED is bright. Not sure what it's power requirements are compared to using NoLED.
Could someone just blink the menu buttons as a notifier?
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rodneygoff said:
Could someone just blink the menu buttons as a notifier?
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That's what Back Light Notification (BLN) is and it needs a supporting kernel to be ported over.
Didn't want to start a whole new thread just to ask a question, but for whatever reason, NoLED doesn't work for me. I'm on Android 2.3.1 running stock (not LP or AWD). I've read the FAQ and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I call myself and miss it and I've emailed myself (different accounts) to test it, but I don't get anything on my black screen.
SOS?
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Didn't want to start a whole new thread just to ask a question, but for whatever reason, NoLED doesn't work for me. I'm on Android 2.3.1 running stock (not LP or AWD). I've read the FAQ and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I call myself and miss it and I've emailed myself (different accounts) to test it, but I don't get anything on my black screen.
SOS?
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did you use the widget to turn it on or restart the phone? personally i don't like it, i had my phone fully charged and had about 4 notifications bouncing around, not sure if thats a lot but it drained my battery to 16% in about 3 hours.
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Didn't want to start a whole new thread just to ask a question, but for whatever reason, NoLED doesn't work for me. I'm on Android 2.3.1 running stock (not LP or AWD). I've read the FAQ and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I call myself and miss it and I've emailed myself (different accounts) to test it, but I don't get anything on my black screen.
SOS?
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Did you go into NoLed settings and under "Toggle Settings" checked off the notifications you want?
bcl0328 said:
did you use the widget to turn it on or restart the phone? personally i don't like it, i had my phone fully charged and had about 4 notifications bouncing around, not sure if thats a lot but it drained my battery to 16% in about 3 hours.
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Yeah my battery also feels like it's draining quickly put I never thought our was because if this, since they say it's good for these types of screens, but note I'm thinking it may be this app. What other alternatives exist to get some sort if notifications for the nexus s?
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Yeah my battery also feels like it's draining quickly put I never thought our was because if this, since they say it's good for these types of screens, but note I'm thinking it may be this app. What other alternatives exist to get some sort if notifications for the nexus s?
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I honestly doubt its the app. Blacks on SAMOLED consume nearly 0 power.
Check your apps power consumption under Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use.
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unremarked said:
I honestly doubt its the app. Blacks on SAMOLED consume nearly 0 power.
Check your apps power consumption under Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use.
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My phone says 53% display. It can't ber because I haven't even used my phone the whole day, yet I know I had some notifications with noled.
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Display will always be the highest under almost every circumstance, regardless if you had the app or not.
If anything is higher than display, I'd be super concerned.
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I use noled on my Nexus S and it works fine for all notifications except twitter for some reason,no noticeable drain on battery with this app!
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did you use the widget to turn it on or restart the phone?
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Did you go into NoLed settings and under "Toggle Settings" checked off the notifications you want?
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Yes to both. I have the widget set to "on," restarted my phone, and before, made sure all the settings were correct.
Still, nothing shows up after sending myself emails and giving myself calls (didnt' pick up, of course).
Doesn't seem to work; I'm running 2.3.1 with stock launcher.
Just read the FAQ. It's the "No Lock" app that's preventing NoLED from functioning. That's a shame because sometimes when I'm at home, I dislike having to swipe or enter my pattern key to unlock the phone.
NoLED works fine now. Thanks y'all.
NoLED keeps force-closing on me! So annoying. Anything else similar that works entirely on NS?
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NoLED keeps force-closing on me! So annoying. Anything else similar that works entirely on NS?
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It's forced closed on me a few times as well.
I'm finding I don't really need NoLED. I prefer having No Lock capabilities. Oh well.
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It's forced closed on me a few times as well.
I'm finding I don't really need NoLED. I prefer having No Lock capabilities. Oh well.
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No lock capabilities?
Edit : ignore that, just read up the page!
So I've been testing stuff out and I notice that when I have 3g turned off I get like twice the battery life. Is there an app anyone knows of that keeps 3g off unless specifically using data without having to manually use a 3g/2g toggle?
Nexus S - cm7
tasker would do it, its not free but its really worth the money
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Would tasker do it without root on stock?
Every app I tried since 2.3.x... none seem to be able to disable your mobile data connection.
Thanks.
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Looking for a app similar to the one in cm7 that can toggle 2g on and off. Haven't found anything like it yet
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I've notice there's an option for "Use only 2G networks". Was wondering if it's possible to make, or if there already excist a widget/switch to quickly switch it on and off.
i use this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/wigetsoid/com.jim
lets you make anything you can think of and you can save your profiles
charlieb620 said:
i use this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/wigetsoid/com.jim
lets you make anything you can think of and you can save your profiles
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Widgetsoid is awesome, but it still only throws you into "Network settings" menu, not toggling the "Use only 2G networks" button.
Is it even possible tho? On my older phones (Desire, Desire Z) I remember it was impossible to do a button to instantly toggle between 2G and 3G.
Control Bar?
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Widgetsoid is awesome, but it still only throws you into "Network settings" menu, not toggling the "Use only 2G networks" button.
Is it even possible tho? On my older phones (Desire, Desire Z) I remember it was impossible to do a button to instantly toggle between 2G and 3G.
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That's our best bet for now. On the g2 you could toggle.
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Try xda superpower. Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but it is useful. You can set it to disable data when the screen is off, set exemptions for specific apps, and a whole bunch of other options. Its free so you might want to give it a try.
sinatosk said:
Would tasker do it without root on stock?
Every app I tried since 2.3.x... none seem to be able to disable your mobile data connection.
Thanks.
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yes but you need apndroid aswell (for free on market)
pm me if u need help with setting it up before 2.3.3 it didnt work to automatically enable data. u had to toggle it on and off. but now it works like a charm and best thing (well not best thing on tasker but best for what u wanna use it for) u can disable data completely and still recieve mms.
and btw tasker can save u lot of battery if u set it up to ur usage
edit: forgot to tell u:
search tasker on the market and go on developpers site. there shoild be a 7 days tryal version
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stolen_pillow said:
Try xda superpower. Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but it is useful. You can set it to disable data when the screen is off, set exemptions for specific apps, and a whole bunch of other options. Its free so you might want to give it a try.
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loool i thought that was for sgs only
do the patches work on gb?
its really good aswell, but it couldnt really save me battery. but thats not the apps fault, its more that it didnt have the settings i needed.
but anyhow he said hes on stock unrooted. so he wont. be able to use superpower
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First of all im sorry if similar question already been asked before. I already used the search function,also google,but i cant find any guide thats easy to understand. Or maybe confusing just for me.
The thing is,ive been thinking is it possible to set in tasker,to only switch on data network every 15minutes? N then set 'when data on,refresh tweetcaster,friendcaster etc2'..Coz for me,data network hog batts,A LOT..but iff i set it off,i wont get any notifications? I guess maybe this will maximize the battery usage while still optimizing smartphones capabilities? Can anyone guide me how please? Thanks in advance.. Sorry for my english.
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williemeiser said:
First of all im sorry if similar question already been asked before. I already used the search function,also google,but i cant find any guide thats easy to understand. Or maybe confusing just for me.
The thing is,ive been thinking is it possible to set in tasker,to only switch on data network every 15minutes? N then set 'when data on,refresh tweetcaster,friendcaster etc2'..Coz for me,data network hog batts,A LOT..but iff i set it off,i wont get any notifications? I guess maybe this will maximize the battery usage while still optimizing smartphones capabilities? Can anyone guide me how please? Thanks in advance.. Sorry for my english.
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Btw I Read everything here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14995837&postcount=88
And I tried the simple task(the one with brightness set to highest when plugged in) n it didnt work at all? Is it bcoz tasker isnt compatible with my rom? Btw im using CM7 nightlies. =(
you can do this with juice defender me thinks
hey, i am also looking for this... did you ever find a solution? i have juicedefender, but i want to be able to disable it remotely when I need to, and i figure it would be easier to do everything through Tasker, than 2 apps.
anyways, did you ever find a simple guide to the battery saver thing? because, my question is, if I enable data for a 60 second window, how do i know that my Gmail, facebook, etc, is going to sync at that specific 60 second window?
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hey, i am also looking for this... did you ever find a solution? i have juicedefender, but i want to be able to disable it remotely when I need to, and i figure it would be easier to do everything through Tasker, than 2 apps.
anyways, did you ever find a simple guide to the battery saver thing? because, my question is, if I enable data for a 60 second window, how do i know that my Gmail, facebook, etc, is going to sync at that specific 60 second window?
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Juice defender does that you want.
You can configure the "time window" that the applications syncronized (for how long) and also has an option to wait for full sync even if the time limit has expired.
hey, thanks for the suggestion, but i already use juice defender.
the reason why i want to try and use tasker is this...
I want to do something like this...
i want to use juice defender to save on battery.
however, since juice defender turns off data, if i lose my phone, i
can't track it with Lookout.
I tried to set up an SMS trigger that automatically KILLed Juice
Defender.
It seems to not work. i can see the notification that it killed juice
defender, but on my notifications, juice defender is still working.
I want to set it up so that the SMS trigger KILLs Juice Defender, then
data will be re-enabled, then I can use mylookout to find my phone.
therefore, maybe since it can't seem to kill JD, i thought that using tasker might be easier...
THanks!