what are the differences between the white and the green signal/data symbols(G,E,3G,H) ???
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When they are green it means that you have straight access to the internet and all of Google's services. If it's white, it means that something is inhibiting you from accessing full internet services. For example, you know how in hospitals, airports etc. you have to agree to their terms and conditions by going through the browser. Until you do that, you may be connected to their wifi, but they restrict your internet access.It's a neat little feature Google added in Gingerbread.
Try it out. If you're connected through wifi and your icons are green, turn Wifi off. You should notice that your cell signal will turn from green to white until 3g/4g turns on and connects, or you connect back to wifi. It's because you don't have internet access
thanks!
but i can load new posts with the xda app without having green icons ?-(
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Yeah I've noticed this recently as well. At this point it just means that you aren't connected to Google services, but may have access to the internet. I've noticed it happen to me recently also. I originally thought that it had to do with 2.3.4 since that was the only change I made to my phone (and I notice you're running it too) but some people are reporting this on 2.3.3 also.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065646
Seems to be a wifi only issue though. I'm always green on 3g
Try to keep track of whether you're getting push notifications(gmail, google talk, etc) or and if you're grey then.
When the icons are green it means you're connected to google services.
When it is white, you are not connected to any of google's services, however, if you put the phone into aeroplane mode, then back to normal, then it should log you back in and your icons will be green again
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For short periods of time (15 minutes) the icons in the notification bar (WIFI, 3G, cell radio) will be gray rather than green. Anyone know why this change happens?
Given that this is an explicit question, this should be in the new Q&A Section, rather than General, but here's the answer to your question:
Notification bar icons (Wi-Fi, network coverage bars, etc.): Turn green when you have an uninhibited connection to Google, white when you don't. Hint: if you're in a hotel or airport using Wi-Fi, the bars won't turn green until you launch the browser and get past the captive portal.
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so you dont have to click on the link ill give you the tl:dr version
they are green when they are actively connected to google services
ie gmail and gtalk and others like that
slowz3r said:
so you dont have to click on the link ill give you the tl:dr version
they are green when they are actively connected to google services
ie gmail and gtalk and others like that
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I don't mean to sound rude, but if you had bothered to fully read my post, you would have seen that I already quoted the relevant part of the dev blog in my post.
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I don't mean to sound rude, but if you had bothered to fully read my post, you would have seen that I already quoted the relevant part of the dev blog in my post.
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honestly i hadent noticed, just thought it was a quote to OP's post..
my bad....its okay carry on with your full frontal rudeness
Its actually backround data... if you turn background data off.. they will stay gray but internet and phone will still work but services will not stay connected.
leyvatron said:
Its actually backround data... if you turn background data off.. they will stay gray but internet and phone will still work but services will not stay connected.
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That's what I used to think, but it's still kind of vague/unclear.
Only once for me, but others have reported it as well, there are occasions where you might have 5 bars on the cell signal, and a 3G icon or WiFi full strength, but they are grey, and you can't make a call or surf the web.
I even posted a video on youtube to point out to people that grey didn't mean no data at all, but apparently it sometimes does.
I was curious about this myself. Remembering that android is open source I looked at the code. In the StatusBarPolicy class there is a check for the ConnectivityManager.EXTRA_INET_CONDITION extra. This holds a value "that provides information about our connection to the internet at large. 0 indicates no connection, 100 indicates a great connection." If this extra is above 50 you get the green icons, if its below 50 you get the grey.
I haven't find out how the score gets set but I'm guessing that it's based on whether you have an IP address, can resolve DNS names etc.
Oddly I can't browse to this code online but it is in the source I downloaded to my machine.
I have another post here,can you confirm that this is what happening to you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904006
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I was curious about this myself. Remembering that android is open source I looked at the code. In the StatusBarPolicy class there is a check for the ConnectivityManager.EXTRA_INET_CONDITION extra. This holds a value "that provides information about our connection to the internet at large. 0 indicates no connection, 100 indicates a great connection." If this extra is above 50 you get the green icons, if its below 50 you get the grey.
I haven't find out how the score gets set but I'm guessing that it's based on whether you have an IP address, can resolve DNS names etc.
Oddly I can't browse to this code online but it is in the source I downloaded to my machine.
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Good find, this answers everyone's question about why this happens.
But it makes no sense to me why or how they decided on <50 and greater than 50 unless that isn't a true 0-100 scale. Interesting. Where exactly is the code located?
OK I found the code on github:
StatusBarPolicy.java
ConnectivityManager.java
Images directory - (its the stat_sys_wifi_signal_*_fully.png ones that are green and the stat_sys_wifi_signal_*.png ones that are grey)
The 0-100 scale seems to be a percentage at least from what the comments say. I think choosing 50 as the threshold is a bit arbitrary and I still haven't figured out exactly what causes it to be above or below that threshold
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OK I found the code on github:
StatusBarPolicy.java
ConnectivityManager.java
Images directory - (its the stat_sys_wifi_signal_*_fully.png ones that are green and the stat_sys_wifi_signal_*.png ones that are grey)
The 0-100 scale seems to be a percentage at least from what the comments say. I think choosing 50 as the threshold is a bit arbitrary and I still haven't figured out exactly what causes it to be above or below that threshold
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If It's based on a percentage scale then its highly likely signal strength plays a big role in the scale number. And if so, again why would they chose 50? Seems like it would bounce in and out frequently, which seems to be what many people are seeing.
I'll check out the code later just for fun.
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If It's based on a percentage scale then its highly likely signal strength plays a big role in the scale number. And if so, again why would they chose 50? Seems like it would bounce in and out frequently, which seems to be what many people are seeing.
I'll check out the code later just for fun.
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Well, re: signal strength, I've seen grey bars despite 5 bars of cell signal and max bars on the WiFi...
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OK I found the code on github:
StatusBarPolicy.java
ConnectivityManager.java
Images directory - (its the stat_sys_wifi_signal_*_fully.png ones that are green and the stat_sys_wifi_signal_*.png ones that are grey)
The 0-100 scale seems to be a percentage at least from what the comments say. I think choosing 50 as the threshold is a bit arbitrary and I still haven't figured out exactly what causes it to be above or below that threshold
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I see it in the code. Damn I really wish I had a nexus s to test. I have a build environment setup to compile the source ROM for my nexus one, but obviously not for The nexus s.
Someone should test out changing that threshold number and/bits of the other code and see how it performs.
Wondering if there's status update on this issue yet? Does anyone have the problem using an official ROM, or is the problem limited to modified ROMs? It's not just an issue with the Nexus S as it's doing it on my Incredible too.
I've been using CM7 since nightly 7 I think it was. I first started having the problem yesterday. I cleared caches, etc, no help. I reinstalled CM7 #24 and it started working again. Today I was installing a new kernel and after rebooting, I'm back to the authentication errors and grey status icons.
Turning airplane mode on/off doesn't help. Rebooting doesn't help.
Looking in the Dev Tools -> GTalk Service Monitor, connection error is auth expired.
Just upgraded the CM7 build to #25 and the icons are now green. Going to keep an eye on it to see if there's anything I notice that causes a change in status. So far all my apps are restored with no issues. I did not restore data backed up with Titanium Backup this time - just ADW settings only.
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Wondering if there's status update on this issue yet? Does anyone have the problem using an official ROM, or is the problem limited to modified ROMs? It's not just an issue with the Nexus S as it's doing it on my Incredible too.
I've been using CM7 since nightly 7 I think it was. I first started having the problem yesterday. I cleared caches, etc, no help. I reinstalled CM7 #24 and it started working again. Today I was installing a new kernel and after rebooting, I'm back to the authentication errors and grey status icons.
Turning airplane mode on/off doesn't help. Rebooting doesn't help.
Looking in the Dev Tools -> GTalk Service Monitor, connection error is auth expired.
Just upgraded the CM7 build to #25 and the icons are now green. Going to keep an eye on it to see if there's anything I notice that causes a change in status. So far all my apps are restored with no issues. I did not restore data backed up with Titanium Backup this time - just ADW settings only.
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It was introduced with Gingerbread. My Nexus S is stock rooted.
I flashed oICSv43 and restored a backup with titanium. For some reason all my data icons are greyed out. I have google set to sync, so I'm not sure whats wrong. Also, I tried to reset it with airplane mode, but with no success. Any ideas?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that is experiencing this issue. I'm on ICS and I'm having issues that are described by the the OP, albeit I do get internet connection even though the 3G indicator is grey. I've toggled the airplane mode on and off and that has seemed to temporarly fix it until I use WI-fi and turn it off when I'm not using it. Though toggling airplane mode may sometimes be more or less several tries.
Well the title says it. I have had my Nexus S for over a week now and I have yet to have consistent Gmail notifications being pushed to my phone. They are always delayed...sometimes by 2 minutes, sometimes by 20 minutes and sometimes by over an hour. All of this while being in a 3G zone and having my APN settings in order.
Has anyone else been experiencing these issues? I never had these issues with my Nexus One (Tmobile) which I had since it was available for shipping in Canada.
Something to note, when I'm on WIFI. I instantly get all my push notifications within 5 seconds.
So obviously my phone is turning its 3G radio off for some unknown period , how do I change this so it never turns off 3G band?
I went into *#*#info#*#*...but before I mess around with the settings there, I'll get some advice from you guys.
I'm guessing this is software related and not hardware?
factory format reset?
It works fine on mine, no problem
i did not do anything special
just plug in my the normal Wind Mobile APN
and everything else is just dandy
the only bug i found is with the notifications / alerts
because i check the email from at least 5 different sources
if the email gets moved to archive (All Mail)
then the SNS will not notify me that a new email has arrived, even though it is there
when i was using the SGS, it still alerted me even when another mail application already downloaded the mail and archived it
The mail that I want instantly pushed to my phone is all in my Inbox which is set to already set to sync.
I don't know why this is happening to my phone...let me show you something from Google's blog:
"Notification bar icons (Wi-Fi, network coverage bars, etc.): Turn green when you have an uninhibited connection to Google, white when you don't. Hint: if you're in a hotel or airport using Wi-Fi, the bars won't turn green until you launch the browser and get past the captive portal."
I want to know how stay in this captive portal...is there a file I can substitute that's found on the /system/ folders or something....maybe a sync file or whatever that can determine that this phone constantly syncs instead of having the 3g radio going off whenever it feels like.
there is a existing discussion about this here
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=56f54d35a6a0da29&hl=en
if we are able to google's attention, they might fix it.
mean time, you are not alone.
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Hi -
I just got this white Skyrocket phone with 200MB data plan.
I heard that when connected to 4G, the phone uses data allowance from the data package, whereas if connected to WIFI (like at home), the data usage doesn't come off my AT&T data allowance.
So I want to disconnect from 4G and connect to my WIFI when I am at home.
At the store, the just told me to make sure that WIFI is showing as on on the top bar (or when you swipe that bar down). They said if WIFI is showing on, it means that the phone is using WIFI connection.
However, I see that at the same time when WIFI is showing on, the "4G" icon is also showing on and looking active! So- they are both looking active! That's why I wonder which connection is my Skyrocket actually using?
It looks like the data I use on WIFI also comes out of my data plan because the data packet is on.
So I had an idea, went to settings-wireless-mobile networks and unchecked "Use Data Packet".
When the above was unchecked, 4G icon disappeared and I could see only WIFI icon on the top bar, which would be good - however, the problem is that now I cannot connect to internet. (I turned the phone on and off- no change)
Does it mean that there is no way on Skyrocket to bypass AT&T data allowance and whether I use 4G or my own WIFI, there is no free internet access on this phone?
Or is there something else I can do to make sure I am connected just to my WIFI and data is free?
I would appreciate your help.
Thank you
It just shows both icon to double check get speedtest and do one. You can see in results if you get wifi or 4g LTE.
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(sorry I posted it in the wrong place so now re-posting it here)
Hi -
I just got this white Skyrocket phone with 200MB data plan.
I heard that when connected to 4G, the phone uses data allowance from the data package, whereas if connected to WIFI (like at home), the data usage doesn't come off my AT&T data allowance.
So I want to disconnect from 4G and connect to my WIFI when I am at home.
At the store, the just told me to make sure that WIFI is showing as on on the top bar (or when you swipe that bar down). They said if WIFI is showing on, it means that the phone is using WIFI connection.
However, I see that at the same time when WIFI is showing on, the "4G" icon is also showing on and looking active! So- they are both looking active! That's why I wonder which connection is my Skyrocket actually using?
It looks like the data I use on WIFI also comes out of my data plan because the data packet is on.
So I had an idea, went to settings-wireless-mobile networks and unchecked "Use Data Packet".
When the above was unchecked, 4G icon disappeared and I could see only WIFI icon on the top bar, which would be good - however, the problem is that now I cannot connect to internet. (I turned the phone on and off- no change)
Does it mean that there is no way on Skyrocket to bypass AT&T data allowance and whether I use 4G or my own WIFI, there is no free internet access on this phone?
Or is there something else I can do to make sure I am connected just to my WIFI and data is free?
I would appreciate your help.
Thank you
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They both should not show up at once unless something that needs access to att data like voicemail is checking for messages. Sounds more like either you are not connecting to your wireless router correctly or the wifi antenna is messed up on your phone.
Well sometimes for me it shows both icons in status bar. All i do is turn off wifi and turn back and the 4G LTE icon disappears.
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They both should not show up at once unless something that needs access to att data like voicemail is checking for messages. Sounds more like either you are not connecting to your wireless router correctly or the wifi antenna is messed up on your phone.
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appdroid said:
Well sometimes for me it shows both icons in status bar. All i do is turn off wifi and turn back and the 4G LTE icon disappears.
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Yea same for me but that means something is not allowing the phone to connect to wifi hence having to turn the wifi radio off n on.
Normally it shouldn't do that. Plus if op restarted the phone entirely and still no connection something is just not establishing the connection correctly
Well not exactly because i did speed test and i got my connection as wireless connection so for me it was fine with both icon.
draztikrhymez said:
Yea same for me but that means something is not allowing the phone to connect to wifi hence having to turn the wifi radio off n on.
Normally it shouldn't do that. Plus if op restarted the phone entirely and still no connection something is just not establishing the connection correctly
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Some functions require the data connection (mms, some syncing etc) and will trigger your data connection even when on wifi
If truly concerned use tasker or juice defender to disable cell data while wifi is on. Or manually turn it off
Or as someone else mentioned...you wifi is not maintaining connection
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Not sure if this will help but there are many apps in the market to help with connection issues. I have two widgets that tells me which one im using and how strong they are just do a search for mobile traffic or cell /wifi. Hope that helps.
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I think a lot of people are ignoring the op said no data is working at all when trying wifi.
Yes both icons will show sometimes because like mentioned mms, voicemail, etc requires it.
If the phone has no data period even after reboots then wifi is not connecting
Download "My data manager" from the market. It will show you your data useage, both wifi and data. Use that and check to see if you really are using your wifi or if its still using data.
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Thank you for all your replies, each one taught me something about this new phone and I downloaded a few of the apps that you mentioned.
So all day I was being very careful about the internet, tracking my 4G/WiFi usage all day and then in the evening my kid pressed on a game icon and some kind of car game downloaded =adding over 70MB to my data transfer right away!! (and my monthly budget is 200MB)
It took a couple of seconds - he actually just pressed on the icon and then pressed home when he saw a car because he decided he doesn't want to play it. But it downloaded anyway! I am so mad!
I think it is unethical and very sneaky of AT&T to place all those unnecessary apps on the phone - especially if they turn out to be so costly.
So the only way to delete all those stupid apps is to root the phone? I am not a programmer and I am so afraid that I am going to mess it up
Don't need to root in order to uninstall apps just go to setting>application>manage application>Downloaded apps> and uninstall them. This is all the bloatware that you don't need so go through carefully and uninstall what you don't need. It will help you increase battery life.
justcalled said:
Thank you for all your replies, each one taught me something about this new phone and I downloaded a few of the apps that you mentioned.
So all day I was being very careful about the internet, tracking my 4G/WiFi usage all day and then in the evening my kid pressed on a game icon and some kind of car game downloaded =adding over 70MB to my data transfer right away!! (and my monthly budget is 200MB)
It took a couple of seconds - he actually just pressed on the icon and then pressed home when he saw a car because he decided he doesn't want to play it. But it downloaded anyway! I am so mad!
I think it is unethical and very sneaky of AT&T to place all those unnecessary apps on the phone - especially if they turn out to be so costly.
So the only way to delete all those stupid apps is to root the phone? I am not a programmer and I am so afraid that I am going to mess it up
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Yes, I noticed that I can remove what I have installed. However, I wanted to get rid of pre-installed apps and their icons. I have not found a way to remove those.
Yes root and Rom toolbox app will help you with that.
justcalled said:
Yes, I noticed that I can remove what I have installed. However, I wanted to get rid of pre-installed apps and their icons. I have not found a way to remove those.
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And if you call Att and tell them that it wasn't authorized they'll credit your account
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Your wifi is turned on but you aren't connected to your Hoke network...go to settings>wireless and networks>wifi settings>then pick whichever network is yours and put in a password if it requires one
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nthknd ,
I was hoping for that, but when I called AT&T, they didn't want to credit my account, just the opposite, they made me up my data plan to 2G. They said in the beginning people tend to use data more as they explore the new phone - in a few months, once I figure out my monthly usage, I can change my plan and go back to 200MB or whatever.
They also tried to fix my issues with internet (when only WiFi was showing -no 4G- the phone would not connect to internet). So they fixed it and now I have internet access when only WiFi is showing on the top bar.
On the other hand, now 4G completely disappeared! I haven't seen it all day..
Either AT&T is having technical difficulties or I got disconnected from 4G!
Sorry my advise didn't work but they should credit you since your phone malfunction,guess it depends on who you get guess it's a crap shoot.
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Well sometimes for me it shows both icons in status bar. All i do is turn off wifi and turn back and the 4G LTE icon disappears.
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They can't make you!
justcalled said:
nthknd ,
I was hoping for that, but when I called AT&T, they didn't want to credit my account, just the opposite, they made me up my data plan to 2G. They said in the beginning people tend to use data more as they explore the new phone - in a few months, once I figure out my monthly usage, I can change my plan and go back to 200MB or whatever.
They also tried to fix my issues with internet (when only WiFi was showing -no 4G- the phone would not connect to internet). So they fixed it and now I have internet access when only WiFi is showing on the top bar.
On the other hand, now 4G completely disappeared! I haven't seen it all day..
Either AT&T is having technical difficulties or I got disconnected from 4G!
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They can't make you upgrade your data. The guy you talked to is just trying to rip you off so he gets commission for upgrading you to a "better" data plan. It's your account and you can pick what you want for it. If you want 200 MB then call and switch it back and say the last rep said you had to and made you do it.
My apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. I found a loosely related thread on google's support forum, but nothing here.
Bought a Nexus 5 and I've been trying out Straight Talk ATT and I've been noticing these problems, most likely all related:
I've been getting notification delays for push data services. Namely, my work email(exchange) and gmail. Sometimes the notification won't even come through. I'm up to a half hour on my last one, still waiting on it. SMS works just fine. Haven't tested MMS, particularly because I don't get many of those. The data connections does work though. I can manually load pages just fine, if a bit slow at first like the ping is astronomical. Almost makes me think it's establishing a connection each time.
When I check the color of the wifi or cellular connection icon, it's frequently orange. Most of the time it will quickly resolve itself to white in the few seconds it takes to check it. From what I understand, orange means it's having trouble talking to google services? This shouldn't affect exchange notifications.
I'm getting poorer connections quality than I expected. I live in Ithaca and while my home has poor Verizon connection(so I expected similar from ATT), I've barely found any place at work or the mall that can hold ANY LTE signal or a decent HSPA signal. HSPA speed tests give me under 0.5mbps up/down, while the only LTE test I've been able to run gave me 2.5/1 up/down.
The aforementioned thread on google's forums mentioned flashing 4.4.0's radio apk, has anyone else tried this?
Which APN setting affects the data part of the connection? Is it just the APN type?
Bump.
I'm starting to wonder if my problem is exacerbated by my current postpaid VZW phone getting data notifications much quicker. I'm suspecting that Straight Talk has a lower priority on ATT towers, thus why my data notifications take up to minutes sometimes. Anyone know of a way to confirm this?
Always On Push Notifications android app
I am not sure if anyone is following this thread anymore, but I switched to StraightTalk about a month ago, and have been experiencing huge delays in my google voice notifications as well (among other things). I've tried several different apps to get this resolved, but none have worked for me... so I decided to write my own. It was published to the google play store this morning (Android 2.3+ currently). If anyone sees this, please try it out, and let me know what you think.
It's called "Always On Push Notifications". I can't post a link right now because this is my first post on these forums though.
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I am not sure if anyone is following this thread anymore, but I switched to StraightTalk about a month ago, and have been experiencing huge delays in my google voice notifications as well (among other things). I've tried several different apps to get this resolved, but none have worked for me... so I decided to write my own. It was published to the google play store this morning (Android 2.3+ currently). If anyone sees this, please try it out, and let me know what you think.
It's called "Always On Push Notifications". I can't post a link right now because this is my first post on these forums though.
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What fixed it? I find I have to archive my old messages/call logs for it to not lag.
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What fixed it? I find I have to archive my old messages/call logs for it to not lag.
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I am not sure what you mean, but I was noticing similar issues with my Nexus 5 on ST using ATT towers. While on LTE at the office, my connection was always great, but if I wasn't actively using my phone, my cell signal would go orange, and all of my notifications were significantly delayed. Furthermore, even trying to browse the internet with an orange signal would just idle and sometimes would not complete at all.
The app I wrote attempts to prevent this by simply keeping your connection active. It does this by manually sending out a heartbeat using the Google Cloud Messaging service approximately every interval that you define in the app. This helps keep your notifications flowing. On top of that, the application will also make a very small data request (~60 bytes), to help prevent the APN from timing out your connection.
I have found that those two things are enough to fix the issues I have had with StraightTalk.
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I am not sure what you mean, but I was noticing similar issues with my Nexus 5 on ST using ATT towers. While on LTE at the office, my connection was always great, but if I wasn't actively using my phone, my cell signal would go orange, and all of my notifications were significantly delayed. Furthermore, even trying to browse the internet with an orange signal would just idle and sometimes would not complete at all.
The app I wrote attempts to prevent this by simply keeping your connection active. It does this by manually sending out a heartbeat using the Google Cloud Messaging service approximately every interval that you define in the app. This helps keep your notifications flowing. On top of that, the application will also make a very small data request (~60 bytes), to help prevent the APN from timing out your connection.
I have found that those two things are enough to fix the issues I have had with StraightTalk.
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That answered it. It must be a StraightTalk thing. Weird.
New observation on this problem:
- GMail notifications not arriving
- When I check I see that the WiFi icon is orange
- Phone is still connected to the internet, I can browse, but icon remains orange and no notifications arrive
- Only when I disconnect/reconnect Wifi does it recover
I also discovered that the WiFi icon actually turns orange at the moment that Google tries to send me a notification. It can be fine for hours before that.
It turned out that this only happens when I have the cellular radio turned off, by turning on Airplane Mode and then turning WiFi back on. With the cellular radio on and connected to the network, even with Mobile Data turned off, everything is fine with WiFi.
I think it's an authentication bug with Google Services. Somewhere in the message notification sequence it tries to either authenticate your phone or perhaps locate it via the cellular network, and if it fails then the connection to Google Services is flagged as faulty. The failure could be caused by having the cellular radio off, or perhaps by being in a bad reception area.
So... Ive moved into a new condo and got a new router, high speed internet etc. Everything works great on ALL my devices, 2 other cells, 2 laptops etc etc.
The issue Im having is on my N5.. and N5 only. Apps like Twitter and Instagram will refresh normally once.... then when I back out of the app reopen and try to refresh again, neither will refresh unless I use the square button to "kill the app" from my rolodex and reopen the app.
I just get the swirling circle indicating it's trying to refresh.... but wont. All other apps work fine without issue, though FB will sometimes lag a few seconds, but update normally.
It is EXTREMELY frustrating and has been happening for well over a month now and it is only on this phone.
note: the wifi connection is perfect, the speeds are sky high, and the pings are beautiful.
I cant figure out what is causing this.
Do you use anything like Tasker? It may be an app that keeps track of your location? Or it could be WiFi?
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