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Calendar in cm7: no "visible, not sync" option?

As many of us know, the google calendar sync process can be huge headache that results in battery drain in the form of the ambiguous "Android OS." Interestingly, even if we choose to manually sync entries, there is no option within the calendar for "visible, not sync." Thus we are forced to keep sync running if we want to see calendar entries. Terrible design. I tried a few third party calendar apps but when you sync them, the stock calendar syncs as well and shows up as "synced, visible" once again. I would like to have my data visible and sync when I please. Seems like this should be easy to do. Perhaps this option hasn't been important for CM7 on other devices because those using phones rather than tablets have access to data transfers almost always, whereas we have to rely on WIFI to sync. How have others worked around this issue? Is there a way to submit a CM7 request for future builds?

In the meantime, you can try ShutUp Battery Saver to schedule syncing. Makes the automatic syncing alot more bearable.

Sincitybronze said:
As many of us know, the google calendar sync process can be huge headache that results in battery drain in the form of the ambiguous "Android OS." Interestingly, even if we choose to manually sync entries, there is no option within the calendar for "visible, not sync." Thus we are forced to keep sync running if we want to see calendar entries. Terrible design.
How have others worked around this issue?
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See my response to your request in the CM7 general thread. I use Calengoo and turn off autosync and use "Synker" to set up a manual calendar sync widget.

Thanks for the ideas, guys. I'm not really concerned about having auto-sync. I'm happy to sync manually. I did purchase calengoo and this seems to be a nice alternative to the stock calendar. It has a manual sync feature built into the primary menu. I set it up so that it pulls calendar info from the Google calendar directly rather than going through the Android interface (which I disabled). When I set up an appointment, the sync button is right there to manually integrate the data with the Google server. Works great and hopefully there will be no more headaches with the syncing and battery drain.
Also, the popup reminders in calengoo are really great to have. The reminder on a homescreen rather than the status bar is cool.

You are right. I didn't know what capabilities Calengoo even had. I too completely disabled my Android calendar and set Calengoo up for google calendar only. Turned off completely the google android calendar sync. The sync button on the menu makes it so I don't have to use "Synker" either. You can even set Calengoo to sync on a schedule you set manually if you want.
I even went so far add to "freeze" the google calendar and calendar storage apps with Titanium Backup so that they do not load or run. So far no issues for having done that.

leapinlar said:
I even went so far add to "freeze" the google calendar and calendar storage apps with Titanium Backup so that they do not load or run. So far no issues for having done that.
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I thought about doing that, too, but I finally stopped freezing apps as a last attempt to improve battery life because some unidentified frozen app was indirectly related to the failure of the device to suspend properly. With no frozen apps (I just hide them with launcherpro so I don't have to think about them!), wifi enabled and set to off with screen off, and the crappy stock calendar turned off, I'm at 23 hours on battery, with 3 1/2 hours display time, and 46% battery left. This is much more acceptable.

Background services to disable

Thinking we can create a thread that documents all the background services that can be safely disabled. I used a similar thread to disable a boat load of services on my Telus Mobility GS2, and the battery life increase was incredible. I used Titanium Backup Root.

Well I don't know about the background services, but I use LBE to disable unused apps and apps from auto starting.
I just disable unused stock apps like Browser, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Email, Talk, DRM, and autosyncing, which is toggle through the power widget.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

How to keep an app from "Dozing"?

I wish to keep my Gmail app from Dozing so under Battery Optimization I configured it to not be optimized. That doesn't work. After an hour or so (maybe less) I am not alerted to any incoming emails (and Gmail doesn't sync) until I wake up the phone. Gmail works fine except when Dozing. Totally stock unrooted Android 6.0 on Tmo. Phone and all apps work great. I wonder if I need to configure any of the other system apps to not Doze in order to allow Gmail to not Doze?
Any ideas?

sure, write an app that doze, or ask the developer of that app not to let it doze. other than that, keep waking your phone up.

Question CN version in US: minor problems

Google Play was installed out of the box. i downloaded all apps through there.
-google contacts not syncing.
-i get no push notifications like from the Ring app, youtube or ESPN. i did tap on allow when i first opened the apps.
-is there any way to get google news to appear when i swipe left on home screen?
google photos, maps, play store, stadia all seem right.
maybe there’s a solution. i read through older threads and didn’t find one.
any help appreciated.

I noticed that the preinstalled play store sometimes does not work properly. I had to reset device completely. Play services are part of the rom and available right after reset, I just had to download and install the play store itself.
Google Play Store 25.5.27-21 [0] [PR] 375135971 (nodpi)
43.43 MB (45,537,921 bytes)
As for notifications, you might wanna disable or delete the power save app from vivo and enable staying connected all time.

If you factory reset your phone, the first app to download from the vivo appstore is Gboard, which will prompt you to download Google play. I logged in to my google account afterwards and have no issues syncing to all my contacts, calendars etc
For notifications not appearing, a lot of users experience problems with the vivo provided power management app (com.vivo.pem) cause it interferes with how your apps sends notifications or frequency of push notifications to save power. You may use adb to disable it or uninstall. Hope this workaround addresses your push notification issue

i fixed the contacts and calendar (also had no calendar entries) sync issues. i went to APKMirror.com through chrome and downloaded the latest Google Play Store. I had version 24... on my phone and the latest was 26... I installed it through chrome and it installed over the existing app. I uninstalled calendar and contacts and re-installed them. calendar worked immediately on opening. but contacts didn’t. i went back to APKMirror.com and downloaded and installed Google Contacts Sync. I now have my contacts.
to get the push notifications working I went to Settings -> Applications and Permissions -> Permission management -> Permission - Background pop-ups and none of my installed apps were toggled on. since enabling them, I have received a couple of notifications with the phone in my pocket. maybe the vivo power management app is still causing problems because im not getting most notifications.
can someone point me to learn about "adb". I've seen that in a few places here and i don’t know what it is. im a long long time android user since google's first t-mobile phone but ive never had a need to tweak.
thanks for the help so far. just need to get my notifications and im pretty much all set.

so my only goal today was to install adb on my mac and "learn" how to use it and hopefully disable com.vivo.pem
installed on mac, enabled developer mode on x60, have access to device...
using: adb shell pm disable com.vivo.pem I got an error message
using: adb shell pm disable-user com.vivo.pem i got a successful prompt
when charging my phone and having the apps opened in the background (ESPN, Ring, Fast Mail) I do get push notifications. also get them while using the phone with the apps open in background. but with phone sleeping and in my pocket i get nothing. any ideas?

my issues are basically resolved. hopefully this will help others. I read in another thread to enable "mobile data always on" in the developer settings. as long as i have the apps open in the background, i now get push notifications when the phone is sleeping and in my pocket.

Which carrier are you using in the states? And do you have volte or vowifi?

im using it with tmobile. i don’t know how to check for volte or vowifi. i don’t actually use for phone calls. maybe make 1 or 2 calls a year. lol

Hi
I have a problem with google message. I can't send photos over 300kb
And now with encrypted RCS I can't send photos at all to a person using google RCS message too.
Any clues

Question Apps are starting automatically without Autostart enabled

I am struggling at times with battery drain - nothing new for Android devices but I still cannot figure out how to prevent apps from autostarting. Many apps have Permissions Autostart OFF but still start sometimes and are running in the background. The only way I can even find out if they are running in the background is by looking at Settings, Apps, Manage Apps and check which ones have the blue dotted circle. Apps like Advanced Task Manager do not even show those apps running. Apps that frequently autostart despite my attempts to shut them up are: Amazon Shopping, [Google] Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Find device, Google One, Messages, Mi Account, Weather and Xiaomi Cloud - most of them I use rarely or never.
Does the phone need to be rooted or can I prevent apps from autostarting?
Is there a task manager which shows really all apps that are running?

Gollob said:
I am struggling at times with battery drain - nothing new for Android devices but I still cannot figure out how to prevent apps from autostarting. Many apps have Permissions Autostart OFF but still start sometimes and are running in the background. The only way I can even find out if they are running in the background is by looking at Settings, Apps, Manage Apps and check which ones have the blue dotted circle. Apps like Advanced Task Manager do not even show those apps running. Apps that frequently autostart despite my attempts to shut them up are: Amazon Shopping, [Google] Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Find device, Google One, Messages, Mi Account, Weather and Xiaomi Cloud - most of them I use rarely or never.
Does the phone need to be rooted or can I prevent apps from autostarting?
Is there a task manager which shows really all apps that are running?
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You'll have to root and use e.g. 3c toolbox to prevent apps from autostart

Every event like boot, change in network connection & many more send an intent which wakes up apps. Before rooting you can try these
1) Remove bloatware with adb platform tools
2) You can restrict background activities for some apps which shouldn't run all the time in background like games, OTT apps, social media (not including messenger apps) (settings > app > manage apps > any app you wish > battery saver)
3) Restrict internet connection to apps which can work offline. Also Restrict background data for apps which you've restricted to run in background (settings > app > manage apps > any app you wish > data usage)
4) Deny all unnecessary permissions to 3rd party apps (settings > permission)
5) keep miui optimization enabled