What exactly does the background data control? I turned it off & I tried loading a page on an app then closing to home screen and I can see from the status bar it does finish loading.
It controls things like checking mail, updating weather apps, facebook etc..
Basically it stops apps from updating without you clicking and telling them too..
Psychosis5150 said:
It controls things like checking mail, updating weather apps, facebook etc..
Basically it stops apps from updating without you clicking and telling them too..
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Although it would make sense, I don't think this is true. Certain Apps still update when background data is turned off. I still receive e-mails and facebook notifications and weather updates, etc. So I am not sure the answer to the OP's question.
Psychosis5150 said:
It controls things like checking mail, updating weather apps, facebook etc..
Basically it stops apps from updating without you clicking and telling them too..
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This.
Sent from my Captivate.
It doesn't completely stop syncing of things in the background; more like things like instant notifications when something is synced.
when on, it is always updating and checking to the cloud to make sure everything is up to date. When off syncing between accounts might take longer or done at intervals.
Anyone should correct me if I'm wrong though.
Rooted/ROM Captivate
Rooted Atrix
So my problem seems quiet simple to solve but i can assure you i have tried everything to make my phone work normal again.
Here is everything i have done with my phone so far:
• Rooted
• Flashed Ressurection OS
• Installed costum bootanimation
So long story short, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Alpha) had (since i bought it) a battery problem. At first i thougt it was because of my phone having an Amoled screen that it would consume a lot of energy. I didn't really pay much attention to it but by the time goes, it became worse.
My phone would go from 100% to 40-30% in 15 minutes and shut down instantly with a black screen. At that moment i started realising something wasn't right. So i did some research on how to fix it but i wasn't really finding answers on my questions.
About a week after that i found something saying i could fix it by rooting my phone. Obviously, i did, and i even rooted a costum rom because, why not
next thing i did was install a costum bootanimation and i was really happy with the results.
Finally i installed this app wich apparently removed the batterystats.bin file and would reset the battery's information. I followed all the instructions carefully and did what was recomended
(charge to 100%... etc..), but that is when everything went wrong.
As the instructions said, i had to reboot.
when i did that, the phone didn't turn on automomatically. So i waited a little longer, nothing happens. So i decided to turn it on. And everything seemed working fine. untill the phone shuts down.
Then it would show the charging logo for a fraction of a second and would boot up. as soon as the booting finished it would turn off and do everything all over again with no end. The most annoying part is that the phone doesn't charge because its losing it while booting.
I really need my phone back.
I hope someone can help me out with this
rooterwithaproblem said:
So my problem seems quiet simple to solve but i can assure you i have tried everything to make my phone work normal again.
Here is everything i have done with my phone so far:
• Rooted
• Flashed Ressurection OS
• Installed costum bootanimation
So long story short, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Alpha) had (since i bought it) a battery problem. At first i thougt it was because of my phone having an Amoled screen that it would consume a lot of energy. I didn't really pay much attention to it but by the time goes, it became worse.
My phone would go from 100% to 40-30% in 15 minutes and shut down instantly with a black screen. At that moment i started realising something wasn't right. So i did some research on how to fix it but i wasn't really finding answers on my questions.
About a week after that i found something saying i could fix it by rooting my phone. Obviously, i did, and i even rooted a costum rom because, why not
next thing i did was install a costum bootanimation and i was really happy with the results.
Finally i installed this app wich apparently removed the batterystats.bin file and would reset the battery's information. I followed all the instructions carefully and did what was recomended
(charge to 100%... etc..), but that is when everything went wrong.
As the instructions said, i had to reboot.
when i did that, the phone didn't turn on automomatically. So i waited a little longer, nothing happens. So i decided to turn it on. And everything seemed working fine. untill the phone shuts down.
Then it would show the charging logo for a fraction of a second and would boot up. as soon as the booting finished it would turn off and do everything all over again with no end. The most annoying part is that the phone doesn't charge because its losing it while booting.
I really need my phone back.
I hope someone can help me out with this
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When you installed the new boot animation, I'm assuming that you successfully rebooted the device at least once to test the boot animation before this issue started?
If you have a removable battery, try removing the battery and waiting 30 minutes then re-insert the battery and try booting it.
You may have to charge the battery with some kind of external charger to do the following suggestions. Try to fix this without having to wipe or reflash the device, save those options as last resort.
You can try booting to recovery and flashing the stock boot animation or use adb push to place a copy of the stock boot animation back to its location. Wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache then reboot.
Boot to custom recovery and select the "wipe" option, then select the "advanced wipe" option, then select system, data, cache and dalvik/ART cache partitions, then wipe those partitions. Then go back to home screen in recovery, then reflash your ROM and Gapps the way you did the first time. This will wipe all of your data but might fix the issue.
Finally, you can boot to download mode and flash the stock firmware for your model number via Odin.
On a side note, the amount of battery drain you were experiencing brings one question to mind.
Did you have Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, KiK or any other social media/texting apps installed? If so, that explains the excessive battery usage, especially Facebook and Facebook Messenger. A workaround to the drain caused by these two apps is to uninstall them both and use your mobile browser to view Facebook and your Facebook messages instead. This gets rid of the constant drain of these two apps and also frees up internal storage.
Here is how to set this up to use your browser instead.
Go to Facebook in your browser, get logged in, if you have the option to remember your login information, do it. Then, tap the menu button in your browser, if you have the option to "add to homescreen", select it, if you don't have that option, select the option to create a bookmark instead, then go to your widget settings and add that bookmark to your homescreen as a widget, this allows you to tap it to open Facebook whenever you want just like the app.
Then, in Facebook settings, go to your notifications settings, set it to give you all of your notifications via text or via your Gmail account, if you choose to use Gmail, this will send your notifications to your Gmail app on your device. You will also have to go to your Gmail app then open its settings and set it to give you a notification when an email comes in, this will allow you to still recieve your Facebook and messenger notifications the same as you would if you had the apps. Facebook will end your notifications to Gmail and Gmail will give you a notification in your device's status bar, the two work together.
This setup will allow you to view Facebook the same as the app would without using nearly as much battery as the Facebook app uses.
To view and reply to your Facebook messages, when you are viewing Facebook in your browser, tap the menu button in browser. Then select the "desktop site" option, when it re-loads the page, select the messenger icon at the top of your Facebook page, then you can read and reply to your messages the same as you would in Facebook Messenger but without using nearly as much battery as Facebook Messenger. If you want to make it more convenient than that, you might even be able to find a way to create an another bookmark just for the messages page like you did for the Facebook page and then set this bookmark to automatically load with the "desktop site", this will eliminate the need to select "desktop site" every time you want to check your messages.
If you do it right, you will have two bookmarks on homescreen, one to replace the Facebook app and one to replace Facebook Messenger, all of the same functionality with two less apps installed and two less apps draining battery. You'll have to play with a while to get used to it and set up the way you need it but I suggest you try something like this instead of those apps.
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Droidriven said:
When you installed the new boot animation, I'm assuming that you successfully rebooted the device at least once to test the boot animation before this issue started?
If you have a removable battery, try removing the battery and waiting 30 minutes then re-insert the battery and try booting it.
You may have to charge the battery with some kind of external charger to do the following suggestions. Try to fix this without having to wipe or reflash the device, save those options as last resort.
You can try booting to recovery and flashing the stock boot animation or use adb push to place a copy of the stock boot animation back to its location. Wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache then reboot.
Boot to custom recovery and select the "wipe" option, then select the "advanced wipe" option, then select system, data, cache and dalvik/ART cache partitions, then wipe those partitions. Then go back to home screen in recovery, then reflash your ROM and Gapps the way you did the first time. This will wipe all of your data but might fix the issue.
Finally, you can boot to download mode and flash the stock firmware for your model number via Odin.
On a side note, the amount of battery drain you were experiencing brings one question to mind.
Did you have Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, KiK or any other social media/texting apps installed? If so, that explains the excessive battery usage, especially Facebook and Facebook Messenger. A workaround to the drain caused by these two apps is to uninstall them both and use your mobile browser to view Facebook and your Facebook messages instead. This gets rid of the constant drain of these two apps and also frees up internal storage.
Here is how to set this up to use your browser instead.
Go to Facebook in your browser, get logged in, if you have the option to remember your login information, do it. Then, tap the menu button in your browser, if you have the option to "add to homescreen", select it, if you don't have that option, select the option to create a bookmark instead, then go to your widget settings and add that bookmark to your homescreen as a widget, this allows you to tap it to open Facebook whenever you want just like the app.
Then, in Facebook settings, go to your notifications settings, set it to give you all of your notifications via text or via your Gmail account, if you choose to use Gmail, this will send your notifications to your Gmail app on your device. You will also have to go to your Gmail app then open its settings and set it to give you a notification when an email comes in, this will allow you to still recieve your Facebook and messenger notifications the same as you would if you had the apps. Facebook will end your notifications to Gmail and Gmail will give you a notification in your device's status bar, the two work together.
This setup will allow you to view Facebook the same as the app would without using nearly as much battery as the Facebook app uses.
To view and reply to your Facebook messages, when you are viewing Facebook in your browser, tap the menu button in browser. Then select the "desktop site" option, when it re-loads the page, select the messenger icon at the top of your Facebook page, then you can read and reply to your messages the same as you would in Facebook Messenger but without using nearly as much battery as Facebook Messenger. If you want to make it more convenient than that, you might even be able to find a way to create an another bookmark just for the messages page like you did for the Facebook page and then set this bookmark to automatically load with the "desktop site", this will eliminate the need to select "desktop site" every time you want to check your messages.
If you do it right, you will have two bookmarks on homescreen, one to replace the Facebook app and one to replace Facebook Messenger, all of the same functionality with two less apps installed and two less apps draining battery. You'll have to play with a while to get used to it and set up the way you need it but I suggest you try something like this instead of those apps.
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Alright, so i have tried every single method and read very carefully what to do. Still the same problem, i didn't use facebook or facebook messenger.
Is there any way possible that:
removing the old "lpm" file in "/system/bin"
and creating another file with the same name, open it as text, and writing:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 40 (it will so nothing for 40 sec then reboot)
/system/bin/reboot
will work? (i want to be sure if this is not going to do anything bad)
Thank you foe your help i really apreciate it
I am having the same issue. Originally the phone would charge in a powered off state and just the green battery would show up briefly...when fully charged it would pop back up indicating so. Now, as soon as I plug in the wall charger or the USB to the computer, it reboots and powers on. All I have done is enable the on-board battery saver. I would prefer to charge it overnight in a powered off state so I don't get notifications...I could put it on silent, but it should charge while off. If I shut it down while charging, it immediately reboots.
New to OnePlus and loving the phone.
Just noticed today every now and then I get a Lockscreen notification from Android System but not been quick enough to see it properly yet. I think it's Google Play Services is using GPS. Play services states last entry was over 13 hours ago but a notification came up around 15 mins ago.
When I look in the Notification Tab in settings it's only usual culprits there. Google Play Store, Whatsapp etc but doesnt show anything from the system itself.
Not a biggie at all but curious where it's coming from and wether I can disable that. Tried to disable play store.
Thanks
BTW - Who would have thought that to use vibrate only would involve a slider (what I get for not reading the instructions!!!!!! )
Hello!
Some time ago, I used ADB to get rid of some Google apps that nobody uses (Play Movies, Play Music, Play Books and stuff), but while I was doing that I must've deleted something I wasn't supposed to because I don't get any notifications for some apps anymore (Discord, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat etc.)
I was able to track down the problem to Google Play Services. I noticed that whenever I "refresh" them (reinstall, disable, enable, etc.) any notifications that I didn't get in the past few hours just rush in at once.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks.
P.S. - notifications also don't work when the phone is off, and sometimes rush in when I unlock it
That's a very frustrating one, very common 'feature' for all the Xiaomi bloatware. I thought 6 years later, they will finally fix the sync.
So basically, when the phone goes to sleep or at least I do not touch it for more than 5 minutes, the Gmail notifications do not get delivered unless I unlock the device. Sometimes even if I unlock it, the said emails do not pop up unless I open the app or manually click my Google account to sync.
Things I've done so far:
Check any sort of notification setting for the app itself and make sure I get the proper notification type. Also the app settings are all right.
Check the battery saver nonsense and make sure the app isn't limited in any way.
Check battery saver and make sure it is not restricting background usage for the app
Reinstall Gmail app using XiaomiADBFastbootTools
Remove and re-add my Google account to the device
'Locked' the Gmail app to the memory
Things I cannot do on this crippled Android version, but work for regular apps, are:
Set 'autostart' setting for Gmail. The app seems to be preinstalled and I cannot manipulate this option for it.
Your help is appreciated!
maybe you could uninstall the Gmail using XiaomiADBFastbootTools and later you install Gmail again from Google Play.
I'm having the same problem. I have to go into the app and refresh and so on.
Strange, never had such problems (with all apps) after configuring the data saver mode for the app. Gmail is working without a problem here
The problem seems to have gone away for the last 3-4 days, but I was mostly on data connection. No clue how. There were no system updates.
From time to time it gets stuck when I am on Wi Fi at home. Either never comes or is delayed a lot.
Most notably when the phone goes to sleep (more than 10 minutes of not touching it or not receiving any other notifications that might wake it up.
Have you checked the notification settings within gmail? Stock configuration is that it will only inform with important emails and not all emails. Maybe this is also part of the problem?