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I'm studying it to see how it works, can someone help me?
Why don't you just link to the official thread? http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=38703
I can tell you it's working!
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Works like this:
When screen is off the app checks every 30 sec to see if there is any new incoming email, sms/mms, calls. If it's returned as true the lights of your touch buttons light up. It lights up every 10 sec for 3 hours. If the phone is not wakened withing that time, it stops.
The first time you have to press "start" to start the process. If you tick the "start service on boot", it's not necessarily to press start.
Test it with the "test" key.
You can also set the default value of the brightness of the buttons with this app
Think that's about what is important from that post.
Very nice, thanks for the hint.
I was watching the fact that is fulfilled by Log messages, is it normal?
Perfect Thnx a lot for the link.
Missed this feature since my change from Desire
Novek said:
Why don't you just link to the official thread? http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=38703
I can tell you it's working!
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Works like this:
When screen is off the app checks every 30 sec to see if there is any new incoming email, sms/mms, calls. If it's returned as true the lights of your touch buttons light up. It lights up every 10 sec for 3 hours. If the phone is not wakened withing that time, it stops.
The first time you have to press "start" to start the process. If you tick the "start service on boot", it's not necessarily to press start.
Test it with the "test" key.
You can also set the default value of the brightness of the buttons with this app
Think that's about what is important from that post.
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checks every 30 sec? is it possible a battery drain issue or let the phone never sleep?
that was my thoughts too... Will check it out for a day and see.
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Wow, looks&works nice.. What about battery life impact?
I'm afraid it will drain terribly the battery... if someone can help me understand where is the code that controls the leds, I can try to set it up so that it's activated by notifications, instead of checking for them... we might need Paul's help here!!!
OK that's very nice and handy indeed, but i also wanna know about the battery drainage, on the otherhand using the app (or hidding menu) to reduce the output power of the leds you can conserve lot's of energy tho .
Yeah I'm not sure that's the way it's supposed to be done. While I am grateful for the dev of this app, I think the goal is to have these LEDS tied in to the Android Notification system itself, because any other way will be a drain on the battery.
Tegra2 is awesome because it takes up so little power in idle. If we have an app checking every 30s, the SoC is no longer idle, per say. If we increase the timer to let it idle, it's no longer a real notification system. Hence, this is probably not the way to go.
No I'm not sure where this is handled in Android though. If i'm not mistaken, a setting activated or not on the ROM, to tell the OS wether the phone has or not a LED for notifications. If so, we just need to rerout those acceses to the button LEDs. Then again, wtf do I know lol.
If anyone wants to point me in the right direction I'd love to look into that more closely (I dev C++, Java so should be able to work something out) Pm me.
There could be some push notification that goes to the notification bar, that may be used to also trig this software?
I guess it doesn‘t wake up the machine but runs as a background process.
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I've used it for a day now, fr6, 1200mhz overclock. After a lot of texting, and intense music playing I still have 30% battery. At the bottomline, I haven't noticed any impact on the battery life.
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I'm having a go at writing my own version that can do both brightness settings and notifications. So far I've caught up to Paul's app feature-wise, and will tackle notifications in a bit (hopefully in a more battery friendly way).
If I'm first done then I might put it on the market, but otherwise it's a great learning exercise for me!
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My fix is a 80$ liveview but I'm sure that's a little out of context.. still wish this phone came with an led notification. :/
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thank you for the app,but there some problems with the app.the phone will reboot when you got some calls and messages.
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tiwiz said:
I'm afraid it will drain terribly the battery... if someone can help me understand where is the code that controls the leds, I can try to set it up so that it's activated by notifications, instead of checking for them... we might need Paul's help here!!!
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Code:
echo 20 > /sys/devices/platform/star_touch_led/wled
20 is the brightness value i think.
I've used mine for 7 hours now, 50% left.
I've used wimp for music, wifi hotspot and xda/web. That's prof it's good enough for me...
Nice app! Just what I was looking for!
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I have tried searching the forums but have found nothing yet, so I was hoping someone could help me. I am currently using Enomther's rom, but this has happened on every rom I've tried (Desire, Cyan, etc.). My problem is the Nexus One is running 100% of the time. In comparison, the screen was on for 5.2% of the time. And I have definitely noticed the battery. Even if in standby, it loses 10-20% battery an hour. By the time I make it home from school, I have about 20% battery left, with almost no usage whatsoever. I've checked to see if it's any apps that won't close, but my highest used app was only a few minutes according to spare parts. Cpu usuage is barely visible as well in spare parts.
List of Apps:
Advanced Task Killer
AK Notepad
Any Cut
Astrid
ASTRO
aTrackDog
Barcode Scanner
Battery Graph
Beautiful Widgets
Call Meter NG
Classic Simon
Mathpad
Contacts Clean-up
Dictionary.com
eBuddy
Engadget
FMyLife Official
FotMob 4.6
Funny Jokes
Google Sky Map
Google Translate
GPS Status
jkAppSwitch
Maps
Meebo IM
Metamorph
MountUSB
Movies
MyBackup Pro
Opera Mini 5 Beta
Paypal
Picsay
Pkt Auctions eBay
Places Directory
Quick System Info
Quick Uninstaller
Replica Island
Robo Defense
Rom Manager
Screebl Lite
SetCpu
Shazam
ShopSavvy
SMS Backup & Restore
Solitaire
Speed Test
Timeriffic
Titanium Backup
TTS Serivce Extended
Tube Downloader
Urban Dictionary
Urbanspood
WikiMobile
Wireless Tether For Root Users
World War
XDA
Zedge
Looks like an application is holding the wake lock. Instant Messengers are good candidates for draining the battery. In my experience, Meebo loses connection frequently, and eBuddy has a mode to keep the connection, but it drains the battery very fast (AFAIR it has a mode that's easier on the battery by checking for messages every 15 minutes, but that's not all that instant anymore).
Good job you have AnyCut installed.
Use it to place a shortcut to the 'Testing' app (or dial *#*#4636#*#*), and use that to look at your battery history.
This will be able to confirim if your N1 is indeed staying awake, and if you use the 'partial wake usage' drop down box, it will tell you what's keeping it that way.
For partial wake usage, the only thing that pops out Android System which has a full bar. Nothing else is above a sliver.
Since you have titanium backup, why not make a backup, completely wipe your phone, and see if the problem persists? Then, add components at a time and see when the problem reappears. ie ROM -> a few apps -> a few apps -> etc. This will narrow down your search and hopefully pinpoint the problem.
You also might wanna look at logcat (e.g. via aLogCat), sometimes there are a lot of messages of runaway applications.
Here's my logcat
pastebin.com/2fj74zPn
No spare parts?
Downlaod it and try setting the end button behavious to go to sleep.
Seems like an obvious thing, but its worth a shot if you haven't already tried it.
izmar said:
No spare parts?
Downlaod it and try setting the end button behavious to go to sleep.
Seems like an obvious thing, but its worth a shot if you haven't already tried it.
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Yep, of course I have spare parts. I set that, but what exactly is the end button?
Edit* I've uninstalled every app on my phone, and yet the problem still persists. Running 100% of the time. What the heck is wrong with my phone?
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Yep, of course I have spare parts. I set that, but what exactly is the end button?
Edit* I've uninstalled every app on my phone, and yet the problem still persists. Running 100% of the time. What the heck is wrong with my phone?
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I think your best bet us to just wipe everything, and reinstall the rom. That should get things going smoothly.
do you have trackball succession mod? that may be the reason.
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SiNJiN76 said:
do you have trackball succession mod? that may be the reason.
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No, but I did have trackball wake enabled. Would that matter? Also, I've installed Cyan and the problem seems to be gone, although battery still isn't great :/
I would figure that trackball wake will keep waking your phone when you accidentally hit the trackball when the phone is in your pocket or bags?
panzival said:
No, but I did have trackball wake enabled. Would that matter? Also, I've installed Cyan and the problem seems to be gone, although battery still isn't great :/
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One thing to check that I've run in to twice (unfortunately) is constant "syncing" of email. I only noticed it because the email app constantly showed the syncing circle (not in the notification bar, in the app). Clearning the storage/settings for email cleared it up, but it took a few days to find out what was causing it to never sleep.
Grooby97 said:
I would figure that trackball wake will keep waking your phone when you accidentally hit the trackball when the phone is in your pocket or bags?
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Yes but my phones running 100% of the time and my screens running 1/20 of that time. Surely my screen on time would increase as well? As well I'm sitting in class half the day and know for sure that I'm not hitting the trackball.
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One thing to check that I've run in to twice (unfortunately) is constant "syncing" of email. I only noticed it because the email app constantly showed the syncing circle (not in the notification bar, in the app). Clearning the storage/settings for email cleared it up, but it took a few days to find out what was causing it to never sleep.
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Thanks, I'm going to look into this. Would this correspond to UID 10014 or Media having extremely high network usage as well? I just noticed these two things constantly have full network usage bars but don't know exactly what either are. How would I clear the settings/storage? I'm using a Desire Rom now if it matters.
I've been using Martin Börjesson's LED Notifications app for a while and you can now find it on the market!
"LG O2X Touch LED Notifications"
By Martin Börjesson
I found it's light on battery. And you can simply disable the notification part if you just want to recall the setting of touch LED brightness after reboot. It's free
I can't make it work with cyanogen nighlty :/
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I can't make it work with cyanogen nighlty :/
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hmm..I can.
do i need to set any monitor app if i want it notice the miss call? if so, which?
Can't make it work with DocSlim
I tested all settings, i changed parameters in Accessibility, nothing happens...
Have you tried a reboot (though mine worked fine without on cm. Weird..)
Very nice, works on the G2x as well, with cm7
it works on su660 (korean version of o2X) too. thanks for good information.
Yep !
I've been using it since version 0.2 and it works really good. I just installed last version from market.
To emprize : no you don't need any app monitor for missed call. It's one of the 3 basics (Gmail, SMS/MMS, Missed call). Look into "notification" if "Missed call" is checked (should be by default).
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Yep !
I've been using it since version 0.2 and it works really good. I just installed last version from market.
To emprize : no you don't need any app monitor for missed call. It's one of the 3 basics (Gmail, SMS/MMS, Missed call). Look into "notification" if "Missed call" is checked (should be by default).
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thx mate! how come i cant see the "missed call", lol
What about battery drain?
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What about battery drain?
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I haven't noticed any as of yet but the way the program is set-up, it could be a battery guzzler. This app loops check for notifications as opposed to being built into the framework
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I haven't noticed any as of yet but the way the program is set-up, it could be a battery guzzler. This app loops check for notifications as opposed to being built into the framework
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Thanks for the reply. I think I'll just try it myself!
If anyone of you notices a serious battery drain I'd appreciate a post
anybody know what's the accelerometer tolerance for? i don't quite get it.
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problems is that as soon as you have a notification, your phone will not go to sleep. And then will drain battery until you check your phone
Yea that's what I mean but you didn't notice a serious drain because of that?
Just to be sure, the screen remains off and the buttons glow it is simply that the phone doesn't go into "sleep" mode (what somehow makes sense)?!
Did some testing
And my sleeping phone (no notification) consume 2-3% an hour
With the notification glowing (meaning no sleep) for an hour, I loose 10%
The phone does sleep, the app has zero wakelock according to spare parts.
well, the leds are still blinking, from what I know (I still may be wrong there's no LG routine for the blinking. It does mean it's done by the "LG O2X Touch LED Notifications" so no sleep...
well this is what I'm guessing, since we do not have the source code
Just cos an app does something doesn't mean it has to keep the phone awake to do it
anyone know if galaxy note has notfication light..i keep missing messages and missed calls
The Note doesn't have a notification light. For me it's the worst thing about the phone.
There is a mod (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389394&highlight=+mod+) that lights up the menu and back buttons when you have a notification. I've not tried it though...
Nope, there's none out of the box, which is a pity, you'll need something like
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389394
If you want to go withut mod, this one also nice
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.led.notify&feature=search_result
Audio + visual reminder, supports almost applications you need to have notifications.
My Best app for this in 3 Android phones so far is NoLed
thank u all..noled is a cool app. thanks
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My Best app for this in 3 Android phones so far is NoLed
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I got high battery drain with NoLED. And you should know that not only the shown pixels are on, the whole Display is. And with "black" the red and green AMOLED-Pixels are on as well. In summary an AMOLED-display itself supports a single lit pixel but the Android framework does'nt. So display notifications are useless in this form...
I m fully agree for battery n full screen notification. But here two more nice function help to reduce problem. Sleep time - i just do noled off for my sleep time, so no more notification reminder, as well disturbance
Another is audio reminder, if phone is in pocket even it remind you with audio. So chances to remain screen on/miss event is minimal.
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Some custom kernels are compatible with BLN app (free in the market).
Search "BLN" with google, it's the best notification app (for me)
UncleManuel said:
I got high battery drain with NoLED. And you should know that not only the shown pixels are on, the whole Display is. And with "black" the red and green AMOLED-Pixels are on as well. In summary an AMOLED-display itself supports a single lit pixel but the Android framework does'nt. So display notifications are useless in this form...
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Yes it drain the battery but some times not missing a call is more important
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I m fully agree for battery n full screen notification. But here two more nice function help to reduce problem. Sleep time - i just do noled off for my sleep time, so no more notification reminder, as well disturbance
Another is audio reminder, if phone is in pocket even it remind you with audio. So chances to remain screen on/miss event is minimal.
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iam using v 5.1.2, do you mean Sleep time: is time settings--> time and sleep , where you adjust NoLed off at sleeping time?
Never tried the audio reminder, how it sound? would it be like someone keep telling you (you got a missed call)?
Ah yeah I forgot: The high battery drain is partially caused by the fact that the CPU cannot be in deep sleep while the display is on. Another "feature" of the Android framework...
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Yes it drain the battery but some times not missing a call is more important
iam using v 5.1.2, do you mean Sleep time: is time settings--> time and sleep , where you adjust NoLed off at sleeping time?
Never tried the audio reminder, how it sound? would it be like someone keep telling you (you got a missed call)?
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Yes sleeping time means, noled remains disabled for given scheduled time.
For audio reminder you can set repeat time of it like how frequent it give reminder for missed event, n also selection of ring tone for audio reminder.
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As most of us know our beloved Note (1) doesn't have the "notifications LED" present in so many dumber and older phones.
After completely breaking the power button from just checking if there's any notification I've got a new phone and I'm on a quest for finding some alternative notification.
So, it seems that in order to actually GET that there's some notification you need to have talkback enabled and that's buggy (you get this spooky voice when doing certain tasks). FINE, I disabled (freeze) both samsung and google TTS (although I didn't really wanted, but OK). Then I get a hand icon in the notification area with "talkback activated". Ok, FINE. I'm using Flashlight Notifier (which flashes the camera LED) and it seems to be somehow working, except that it leaves the (camera) LED turned on continuously!!!
I seems that there's some other option to flash the soft buttons backlight but it needs some very old (I think GB) ROM and I'm not going there. For what is worth I'm on a stock new JB with speedmod kernel.
In short, any solution that "just works", getting extremely frustrated with all the stupid problems I run into? I need notification for gmail, hangouts, sms, missed calls, nothing fancy.
Whats wrong with vibrate and message/ring tone?
This is question. So should be in Q and A thread
a. vibrate/ring disturbs people around (especially when there are at least 10-20+ notifications coming every day)
b. you might step out briefly and you might not take the phone (all the time...) with you to WC and such. Yes, some applications allow for repeat rings (like the default SMS app) but that only makes (a.) worse
I think it is good to be able to just look at the phone and see that you don't want to turn the screen on as opposed to turning the screen on, see you don't need anything from there, turn it off.
If a mod wants to move the thread please and thank you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
d210 said:
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
d210 said:
Just want something to blink reliably ...
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Fork this, modify it any way you like, compile and bob's your uncle.
treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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did not get you. warlock (literal meaning?, some user?).
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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Typo error. Sorry.
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NoLED seems to be fine (I was thinking for a long time that on OLED it might be a good idea to have some "few pixel" notifications, although I understand there is still significant power consumption even with OLED and few pixels on).
The device still deep sleeps (at least without notification) but of course this is the type of thing liable to kill the battery overnight.
Still, it works great and for most notifications I need it doesn't even need talkback (that's a big plus because I don't have to freeze TTS). And it looks great! Will report later or tomorrow how things go, with my luck I'll run into some issues in no time.
wow
treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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I was looking something like this. (It has many options / choices).
Thanks.
baz77 said:
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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The battery drain was extra 2-3% while me and the phone were sleep from 10pm to 6am. Acceptable. Good. With setting - noled always on and battery % while charging on.
Thanks.
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lol, maybe they obtimized it, that is good news if true. The wakelock occurs when not charging btw.
Thank you everyone!
NoLED is great for now, battery life is good, it catching all I want (maybe except hangouts) without enabling accessibility and is better than I dreamt.
Maybe, maybe a little concerned with display life now (it looks like there is still some kind of backlight, not only the small icons) but overall it looks good!
Maybe some option to blink the camera LED would still be good but you can't have everything.
So, I know the whole discussion around task-killers and Android - let's try and avoid that here.
I rediscovered this app last week, I had an old version but it updated from Playstore. I stopped using task killers a long time ago, but I'd forgotten that the approach Deep Sleep Battery Saver takes is slightly different: it makes sure that the phone is REALLY asleep when the screen is off.
Now people have said that it's wake locks clash with Android own.
I went ahead and tried it on the highest setting - slumber - and it's fantastic in both my P7 & P6, and also on my Lg2.
The only thing I have to remember is that when I'm downloading files that take longer than say, 2mins, I have to change my screen-on time to accommodate, otherwise it will stop the download as soon the screen goes off.
I found this is a small thing to remember given the battery savings.
I mean the difference is sooo large I can't tell you.
I put it down to this - we all have a variety of apps on our phones and we really don't know what keeps running in the background.
The Huawei Music app for example, is notorious, as is the Camera ago on the Lg2.
Deep Sleep Battery Saver shuts everything down, period. And it works. I'm absolutely stunned by how much later into the night I can use my phones with a single charge in the morning.
It's a little like GREENIFY but as I don't root my phones anymore, this was a great alternative.
Actually even better is that I don't have to go through my entire list of apps picking and choosing.
I just select SLUMBERER.
The results have been so fantastic on my P6 & P7, that I had to share.
The Lg2 is great with battery WHATEVER you through at it.
The P6 & P7 are gorgeous phones - with anemic batteries...it's always been the case.
With this app, I have discovered a while new sense of respect and use for my P6&P7.
Of course, once your actually using the phone, the drain is as fast as always, it's just that the savings you make in between are phenomenal.
Just saying.
DS Battery Saver can be found FREE on playstore.
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P.S. Oh! Just remember to turn off 'enable logging' in settings-general, leave the 'show persistent notifications' ticked in notifications& language, and turn off ALL the 'battery notifications' in notification& language.
Those are the things responsible for wake-locks.
To save battery it works quite well indeed and I thank you for that. The only tiny issue is that I don't receive the calls anymore, only a text that says that somebody tried to reach me. No ring, no move, just missing calls. I could also turn off my phone to save battery...
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To save battery it works quite well indeed and I thank you for that. The only tiny issue is that I don't receive the calls anymore, only a text that says that somebody tried to reach me. No ring, no move, just missing calls. I could also turn off my phone to save battery...
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I receive ALL my phone calls, ALL my texts, as they are, when they come in, as usual, asap, otherwise what's the point.
My email, Facebook, whatsapp etc comes in soon as I turn on my screen.
The App doesn't touch your ability to make OR receive calls EVER. Something else is going on with you.
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This app is extremely useless once you install an anti-theft program.
When you install this program, programs like Cerberus, Kaspersky Internet Security anti-theft function or Lookout won't work as they should when you lose your phone (and the screen is off).
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This app is extremely useless once you install an anti-theft program.
When you install this program, programs like Cerberus, Kaspersky Internet Security anti-theft function or Lookout won't work as they should when you lose your phone (and the screen is off).
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Yes.
If you're using an always on, anti-theft application, you're not really worried about conserving battery.
This app works if you need to get more life out of your charge.
Alot more.
That's how it works.
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Does it stop alarm clock from working?
I really hope it doesn't...
GawDroid said:
Does it stop alarm clock from working?
I really hope it doesn't...
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No it doesn't actually! The alarm clock over rides everything short of actually switching your phone off... And in some ANDROIDS even this isn't enough.
You'll be awoken, don't worry.
You'll also be amazed at the amount of battery life you suddenly have... I'm loving it! Just don't forget the p.s. end of post #1
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No it doesn't actually! The alarm clock over rides everything short of actually switching your phone off... And in some ANDROIDS even this isn't enough.
You'll be awoken, don't worry.
You'll also be amazed at the amount of battery life you suddenly have... I'm loving it! Just don't forget the p.s. end of post #1
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Thanks, I can confirm everything is working as intended.