I been fixing by disabling sync, rebooting the device and re-enabling it, but I do not think I should have to do this all the time. Does the app need to be running in the background for it to work? Thanks
Are you killing it with a task killer?
I am going to settings then the account and sync. I was looking in the settings and under developer there appears to be a limit to the amount of background processes. Currently it's set to default. Could I just have too many processes open?
What ROM are you on?
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I am checking task manager and it displays nothing running. When I go into settings>applications>running services, there is a long list, things that don't seem necessary like Lookout (which I already disabled), Calender shows twice, gps navigator which is stuck on restarting. Is it safe to disable all of these?
Just the other day I started to notice that none of my background tasks are running. Twitter, facebook, the app market and other built in things function normally, but none of my live tiles related to installed apps are updating at all. They're clearly 'on' in background tasks, I've even tried toggling them. I think toggling the 'battery status' app might let it update the battery for a few 10 minute intervals, but it always stops before reaching battery saver mode.
What's going on? Any fix besides hard resetting?
HTC Titan, ATT
7.10.7720.68
I have disabled background activity on my pixel 2 running 8.1 for some apps, namely facebook and despite that it always shows that its working for some time "while in background". Should it still be working like this or is it a bug in reporting?
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I have disabled background activity on my pixel 2 running 8.1 for some apps, namely facebook and despite that it always shows that its working for some time "while in background". Should it still be working like this or is it a bug in reporting?
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facebook will just about always be running in the background, this is normal. If you want it to not run, you can use a tool like greenify if you are rooted and hibernate the app when you're not using it. Keep in mind that doing so will interfere with things like facebook notifications.
Restricting background activity prevents some things from running in the background -- if an app is using GCM, it will still have some background activity no matter what.
Is there any way to manage sleeping apps so that when app is still on recent apps list, it will be a "never sleeping" app so it never goes to sleep. Is this possible with tasker or some other way?
What I'm trying to achieve here is:
I have some app listed as deep sleeping app, since I might not need it for a week and have no reason for it to ever run in background to waste any battery or spam notifications.
Then I might use the app to look for something --> switch to like browser to check something from there and when I switch back to previous application it's been killed and loads itself open from start which is slower and might lose some unsaved progress in the app.
I would really like to have it so app that isn't removed from recent apps list doesn't get killed and put back to sleep. Then when I do remove it from recents, it could be handled the default way to make it go sleep.
Can tasker handle these kind of situations like checking the recent apps --> if app X is on the list set it to never sleeping apps --> if app is removed from the recent apps set it to deep sleeping apps. Or some other similar way to control the sleeping/never sleeping apps.
Thanks
Hello,
All is in the topic, I've got an app that starts automatically when my phone is powered on.
It is Aircall, an app I use for passing and receiving calls at work.
I would like this app not to start automatically each time I power on the phone.
Is there a setting for disabling some apps to autostart ? Or an app you can advise ?
Thanks for your help.
Check the app's preferences to see if there are options.
In the Android settings, go to Apps > See All > (your app. eg Air Call) > App battery usage and set it to 'restricted.' This will greatly restrict an app's ability to do many things in the background.
Other than that, you'd have to root your device to get any more control over the app using something like Servicely (Google Play Store), My Android Tools (apkmirror.com), Permission Manager X (fdroid), AppOppsX (fdroid), or Blocker (fdroid) to control the app's broadcast receivers. Apps can choose to respond to various phone states such as when a boot is completed, when network connectivity changes, power is connected/disconnected, etc. It can take some aggressive action to fully prevent an app from always running.
If you're just annoyed by a notification icon in your notification area you can always disable that app's notification so it doesn't appear.
I have tried all of these things to control apps but if apps use a lot of various broadcast receivers they will find ways to keep running. You may find stopping it to have unintended consequences. It being a work app, I'd consider simply disabling the app's notificaiton if it has a persistent notifcation or something. The next step would be to restrict the app as in 2. The most aggressive thing is to root and tinker with its broadcast receivers.
Hello jawz101,
Thank you very much for this very complete answer.
All your precise instructions are very interesting.
I'll have a look at all these solutions.
Thanks again.
I am not sure about straight forward solution. But I would like to use Greenify app. Add apps to it once and run it once everytime you restart your phone.