Hi!
I just got my SK4G the other week, and migrated over from a Motorola Milestone. I was using the brilliant 'Tasker' App on my Milestone, and when it came to getting the SK4G, I backed up my tasks and profiles, and am using the same SD card with the Sidekick.
My problem is that while all of the profiles I had set up are working fine, I am unable to create new ones because of the app continuously force closing. Whenever I try to set up a task, as soon as I get to the dialog to choose what actions to run, I get a short vibration, a pause, and then three quick vibrations followed by a force close. The rest of the app functions fine, and the tasks I'd already set up work perfectly.
I have tried:
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app,
Removing my backed up preferences and creating tasks on default settings,
Using a task killer to free up RAM,
Rebooting,
Waiting a few days and trying again,
although nothing is working. I am still unable to use the app, as this unexplainable force closes prevent me from doing anything.
I know what you're thinking, "Go ask the Tasker forums!" but I just thought I would try here, seeing as it's a fairly popular app and the phone is only new I think I would have better chance finding someone who also uses the app on SK4G and might be able to enlighten me or tell me they have the same problem.
So, anyone got any ideas? Anyone using Tasker without problems on SK4G?
When you tried to install it on your SK4g, did you download it from the Market or did you just install the APK from your old phone?
I downloaded it from the market again, although its not impossible that there could have been some app files left behind on the sd card. Do you know what they would look like?
Thanks for helping!
Also, I'm just headed to bed, so don't expect another reply immediately
I've got Tasker working just fine here, that might just be some part of having the old files on your phone. Can you pull off everything that you copied over and try to redownload it from Market to see if that works without an FC?
I'm cleaning out my SD card now, getting rid of any extra Tasker files, and going to try that, although I can't actually uninstall the app. I do it via the market and it still shows up and I can still open it... This is with the SD card mounted and unavailable...
why can't you uninstall it? you should be able to just click uninstall in the applications list? it isn't a system app so there shouldn't be a problem there. also, why is your sdcard mounted but unavailable? that's just confusing. maybe that's why it can't uninstall? if it's installed to your sdcard, maybe it can't get to the application to uninstall it?
Sorry, by 'mounted' I meant to say that I was using the usb mass storage so the SD card was unavailable.
I ended up working out that I had given Tasker some kind of permissions in security settings, and had to disable that to uninstall.
Went through with uninstall, formatted my SD card and tried from scratch with Tasker again. No luck. Have now restored my profiles so I can keep using them until I sort it out.
huh. that's weird. and you reinstalled from market, not from an apk?
Yep! nothing makes sense!
Have you been able to completely uninstall it from your phone through settings?
I did completely uninstall, yes. I then re-downloaded from the market and I'm getting the same thing.
and what exactly are you doing in tasker when it force closes?
I get FC whenever I try to click the + button to add an action to a task.
I also asked the Tasker forums/google groups thing, and they told me to install a beta version, and I have and it fixed everything
So if anyone else has been having these problems just grab the latest beta of Tasker from here:
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/beta.html
The reson it fc is cuz u r stopping processes which are need to run for the device to work.......Well I will be honest with you,if ur talking about a task killer....ITS POINT LESS....unless u are a dev and plane to us ur phone for deving....because no matter how much ur stop things well they will just start runing againg and well the appes are waste of space if u want to spot app, go to mune,then apps, manage apps and stop the ones u don't want....
No, Tasker is something completely different - it lets you automate lots of Android things
Hey guys,
I'm trying to stop my phone from using background data automatically before I turn on data (It costs alot per kb here).. I was wondering if you could offer me a hand. Note that I use Cyanogenmod (I'm not sure which version, I purchased it with this) I've installed TrafficInfo to monitor what's using data, and I've narrowed it down to just 2 apps left..
Calendar Sync Adaptor/Google Services Framework/Contacts Sync Adaptor
This is still using data frequently (2.8kb download/39kb upload since I booted 10mins ago) even though turned sync off. I've tried turning auto sync on and then unticking each option, and also I have tried turning auto sync just off.. neither seem to do the trick.
Maps [brut]
This one only uses 300bytes download/1.2kb upload when I turn the device on but I'd like to see it go anyway. I've installed a start up manager and removed maps from start up and it's still doing this.
So, any help with these 2 problems would be appreciated! Also I don't want to turn background data off because I still want to be able to use the market if I choose to
Cheers
Hi
Try this..... DroidWall - Android [email protected] the Android Market
I'm sure this has been posted already, but I wanted to centralize this information after having seen and helped a few people with battery screen shots that indicate high Media Server and Google Maps battery drain/CPU usage.
Google Maps and Media Server should not be your two highest battery drain apps Unless you are using Google maps all day long. Even then, Screen should be eating more battery than Google Maps.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps. Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
Media Server scans your SD card and phone for new media files. I found that I needed to reformat my SD Card and then copy my big library of pictures back to it to fix the high amount of battery drain and cpu usage from this app. Before the reformat, Media Server was my higest drain application and the Gallery would slug around. After the reformat, Media Server doesnt even show up on my battery information and gallery flies as it should.
Grant H said:
I'm sure this has been posted already, but I wanted to centralize this information after having seen and helped a few people with battery screen shots that indicate high Media Server and Google Maps battery drain/CPU usage.
Google Maps and Media Server should not be your two highest battery drain apps Unless you are using Google maps all day long. Even then, Screen should be eating more battery than Google Maps.
Go into Settings, Application Manager, All, then find Google Maps and Clear Cache / Clear Data. Exit all that and select the Google Maps app icon. I bet it says "updating to latest version" and all your problems are fixed with Google Maps. Google Maps does not show up in my battery information (it is hardly using any battery), even though my GPS is turned on all day and set to update location automatically. Google Maps does not even show up on my Battery status page unless I use the Navigation.
Media Server scans your SD card and phone for new media files. I found that I needed to reformat my SD Card and then copy my big library of pictures back to it to fix the high amount of battery drain and cpu usage from this app. Before the reformat, Media Server was my higest drain application and the Gallery would slug around. After the reformat, Media Server doesnt even show up on my battery information and gallery flies as it should.
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Google now uses maps to know your location and give you relevant content. If you disable it after enabling google now, you will be affecting the usefulness of google now. That being said, I have google now off anyway.
Giving up
I've been struggling with runaway Media Storage for the last few days and am giving up!
Two different SD cards (32gb and 64gb). About 10gb of Music and Pictures copied to music and pictures folders. Fresh formats using exFAT and FAT32. No matter what I do, it gets hung up for hour after hour after hour and runs the battery down with less than 2 hours of screen time.
My last experiment confirmed that it's an S4 bug:
Took the 2 cards, formatted them FAT32, copied over my media. Stuck one in the S4, the other in my old Moto Defy running cm10. After boot, the Defy was done indexing (Media Storage dropped off task status list in System Tuner) within 15 minutes. The S4 was still spinning after 3 hours.
So I powered off the devices, and switched the cards between the two. Booted them up, and the same thing happened. The Defy was done within 15 minutes while the S4 was still bogging after several hours.
Keep in mind that the Defy is merely a single core overclocked to 1.2ghz. Everything else is painfully slow on it, but it still manages to spank the S4 in indexing my media. And as a result, the battery also outlasts.
Arg! Was really hoping this S4 was going to work out for me, but it looks like it won't be of any use until the custom roms start rolling out...
I've essentially been unable to get rid of the mediaserver wakelock, well, since jellybean has been released. It is persisant whether there is a memory card or not. Even if I delete every picture and music file on the phone it persists. It seems it cannot be stopped!
Also, I have been able to rid the maps wakelocks by disabling google now, but I'll give your method a shot.
Just got a Nexus 5 phone, now I'm trying to download all 50 of my apps simultaneously over my wifi connection. After my phone downloaded about five apps I got a 920 error. I tried clearing data/cache for the Google Play Store app. That didn't work. Next I tried clearing the Google Framework data/cache. After that the Play Store was unable to connect to the internet via wifi or cellular 4G LTE so I did a factory reset on my phone. Now I can't download any of my apps at all. I'm still getting a 920 error. Is there a bug in the Play Store app that prevents large batches of app downloads? How do I fix this? Help please!
It appears that if you download enough apps at the same time to make the Play Store app crash (it doesn't take much) then Google will temporarily block you from downloading any apps from the app store, apparently because downloading large amounts of apps in a short time is suspicious activity. The first time I started getting the 920 error, the Play Store started working for me after about 20 minutes. I tried to download my apps again. After a few app downloads I started getting the 920 error again. Very frustrating. Has anyone else experienced this pattern? Does anyone have a solution to this? I'm sure I'm not the only Android user that has accumulated a massive collection of apps over time. Especially considering I've been using Android since the beginning of time (former Nexus One user).
Hi, I have One plus 3 with android 8.0.0
I went on holiday (10 hour zone difference)and deactivated all app connections (settings-data use-menu-data use control) except whatsapp and chrome and facebook, which only connected to the wifi in hotel.
I came back and activated all connections of apps (wifi and 4g).
All apps seem to work fine except for maps that finds the street I´m looking for, but just keeps on calculating best route.
Gmail opens emails, but doesn´t download or open the pdf or any file attached and google play store opens my apps ans similar ones on screen, but can´t seem to download any new ones to install and doesn´t search for any app I type in the search bar.
I´ve deleted all cache in recovery mode, and also tried changing the time to manual and to automatic rebooting in between (I read this somewhere), but it´s still the same.
I´ve also reset all app settings in app menu.
No idea what to do next.
Also, not sure if the trip had anything to do with this issue
Hopefully somebody can help me as I don´t really want to reset my phone.
Thanks