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[Q] Can't turn on Background Tasks apps

I have a Samsung Focus with Mango installed. On a recent trip, in an effort to conserve battery, I turned off most of the background tasks (settings > applications > background tasks).
To try to turn them back on, I went back to that location and checked the box "Turn background tasks back on for this app the next time I open it". I then went to the app, opened it, but was not asked to turn background task on.
Does anyone know how to properly re-activate background tasks for particular apps?

Try pin the apps and also open the apps and see if there is a second push option. If so turn that on. If that doesn work, uninstall andre install.
I had the same issue with the BBC app as well as groupon. Once I reinstalled one I pinned and refreshed.

The app should itself have a setting to enable or disable the background agent; manually re-enabling it should work.
By the way, for future reference you can easily disable background agents temporarily by putting the phone in Battery Saver mode. This also disables automatic email syncing (another huge battery user) though you can still manually sync.

Restrict background data? Which background apps are restricted on earth?

On Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Settings - Connections - Data usage, Menu button, there is a checkbox, "Restrict background data".
I wonder what background apps will be disabled to use mobile data if we click the checkbox of "Restrict background data". In other words, which apps or processes are using background data?

James_Watson said:
On Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Settings - Connections - Data usage, Menu button, there is a checkbox, "Restrict background data".
I wonder what background apps will be disabled to use mobile data if we click the checkbox of "Restrict background data". In other words, which apps or processes are using background data?
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Every messenger, google apps, facebook, evrything that gets data from the internet while the app isn't running in foreground.

If you select that for Media, you can't download anything from Google Play over mobile data. Which I found out the hard way.
Basically what it does is prevent apps from using the Internet in the background over mobile data (3G/4G). This includes widgets, newsapps, messaging apps and facebook.
They'll work actively, but not in the background.
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Notification about apps that used battery in background

I'm keep getting notification about Nod32 using battery in background even after setting off this notification in the app's setting. What should I do? Its quite annoying that this notification cannot be deleted.
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You go to the Apps settings, click on show system processes and click on Android System. Then go to notifications in that menu and find apps using battery or whatever it's called. There you can disable it.

Did you try clicking on the notification?
I have the same notification for weather app using battery which I can't delete by swiping left or right, but when I click on it, it disappears.

When I click on it the settings comes up which you see if you go to settings>apps>nod32. There is the option about battery usage but I already disabled the notification about battery usage.

Is there any way to mass background restrict app battery usage?

My Pixel 2 has been experiencing severe standby battery drain (last night it went from 95-30 while I slept), and I'm pretty sure it's one of my apps' faults since it doesn't happen when I reboot the phone in Safe Mode. So now I'm trying to restrict most of my apps from using battery in the background, but it's a huge pain going through 50+ app battery usage pages to toggle their "Background Restriction" property. There's a page to disable app battery restrictions in Settings > Battery > Adaptive Battery > Restricted Apps, but there's no way to add apps to that list. Is there a mass app battery management settings page/developer option I'm missing, or maybe an app that provides this functionality?

Hey did you find any answer to this?

App and privacy issues

Hello all,
I've got a newspaper app installed and I did the following in terms of permissions:
- Application data usage - Disabled "Allow background data usage"
- Battery - Disabled "Allow background activity"
- Battery - Enabled "Optimise battery usage"
The still sends me news notifications. Not a lot but enough to concern me that despite my restricting its background activities, the app is still able to check for news and send me notifications. I know I can disable the app notifications but that just means that I won't see them. It doesn't mean that the app will not be able to run in the background and continue to access the internet despite my explicit restrictions.
Am I misunderstanding something here? Please advise.

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Hello all,
I've got a newspaper app installed and I did the following in terms of permissions:
- Application data usage - Disabled "Allow background data usage"
- Battery - Disabled "Allow background activity"
- Battery - Enabled "Optimise battery usage"
The still sends me news notifications. Not a lot but enough to concern me that despite my restricting its background activities, the app is still able to check for news and send me notifications. I know I can disable the app notifications but that just means that I won't see them. It doesn't mean that the app will not be able to run in the background and continue to access the internet despite my explicit restrictions.
Am I misunderstanding something here? Please advise.
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When did the app send you notifications? Just when you open it, or after you had cleared it from memory?

I open it to read the papers in the morning. Then I close the app and swipe it out from the recent apps menu