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Killing services

This is a pretty general question, but I couldn't find much on google about this. According to the task killers on the market, an app won't be able to stop a service like exchange or maps automatically (it can only kill the UI app). However, the exchange and map services have lots of alarms associated which increase my battery drain by at least a full %/hour. If I kill the services manually every time I use one of these apps then everything is fine. Does anyone have insight into whether an app or script called from tasker can accomplish this automatically?
FYI: I'm using the CM9 unofficial ROM.

You do not need to kill tasks. The system automatically purges non system apps. Just leave them be and always exit an app using the back button

"App killers" aren't recommended past Froyo and can even harm performance.
Under ICS, you can "Disable" many apps using the Manage apps off the main-screen menu. Titanium Backup can also "freeze" apps.
Many of the Google services get pretty "greedy" depending on your settings. That would be a good place to start for "core" services like those.
If that doesn't work, there is the sledgehammer approach of removing the apk from /system/app -- If you do that, watch your logcat to provide some confidence that you haven't disabled something that you need for another app to work.

th3controller said:
You do not need to kill tasks. The system automatically purges non system apps. Just leave them be and always exit an app using the back button
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Le sigh.. didn't even read my post. Also I'm pretty sure the back button thing is a myth.
jeffsf said:
"App killers" aren't recommended past Froyo and can even harm performance.
Under ICS, you can "Disable" many apps using the Manage apps off the main-screen menu. Titanium Backup can also "freeze" apps.
Many of the Google services get pretty "greedy" depending on your settings. That would be a good place to start for "core" services like those.
If that doesn't work, there is the sledgehammer approach of removing the apk from /system/app -- If you do that, watch your logcat to provide some confidence that you haven't disabled something that you need for another app to work.
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Anyway I'm not trying to kill the "apps" themselves. They can sit paused in memory. I want to end their back-end services without uninstalling the app. The exchange service, like I said, will drain the battery with its unnecessary alarms even if I disable sync and turn the sync frequency to "never" and uncheck all the boxes when deciding what to sync. Google screwed up majorly with exchange, but when I kill the service manually using the method you describe then everything is fine and I can still boot up the app like normal to check my email manually. I just want to automate killing the service.

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Le sigh.. didn't even read my post. Also I'm pretty sure the back button thing is a myth.
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Unrelated to your OP but related to your post - on CM9 based ROM's - if you go into Settings > Developer Options - scroll to the bottom and select kill app back button. It works well.

lexman098 said:
Le sigh.. didn't even read my post. Also I'm pretty sure the back button thing is a myth.
Anyway I'm not trying to kill the "apps" themselves. They can sit paused in memory. I want to end their back-end services without uninstalling the app. The exchange service, like I said, will drain the battery with its unnecessary alarms even if I disable sync and turn the sync frequency to "never" and uncheck all the boxes when deciding what to sync. Google screwed up majorly with exchange, but when I kill the service manually using the method you describe then everything is fine and I can still boot up the app like normal to check my email manually. I just want to automate killing the service.
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I am also interested in a solution to this. I was hoping to find a widget that displays services, daemons or whatever you wanna call them, in plain text on my home screen, similar to rainmeter for windows. Then you just tap it to manage them. There has to be something similar around.
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A blue drop appears on my screen

Can anyone help me with a problem?A blue drop appears on my screen.Does anyone know what comes from and how can it be disabled?I attach a screenshot with this problem.Thank you!
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Looks like something to do with the weather, you have a storm/rain forecast on the other widget
Check different weather apps / widgets
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Yes, it's removable. It's a blue GPS raindrop/teardrop trying to locate your current location for an app (lication).
Do the following:
1. Go to home screen and TAP bottom right (APPS), and proceed to SETTINGS.
2. TAP SETTINGS.
3. OPEN CONNECTIONS and TAP BLUETOOTH [2nd option] OFF (Just momentarily)
4. TAP LOCATION [9th option] OFF (Just momentarily) while still in Connections via SETTINGS.
5. In Settings go into NOTIFICATIONS to TURN OFF ALL APPS Getting Notifications (Just temporarily)
6. Last go into Settings, DEVICE MANAGEMENT and FIX ALL that is needed or where you see a number. Once your device is at 90% or higher, BEST @ 100%, THE GPS RAINDROP/TEARDROP IS GONE.
Problem Solved.
Now you can proceed to turn on whatever you want on, such as:
Bluetooth On,
Location On, and
ALL APPS Notifications ON (Pushable).
: )
From: Mytandroidblogger
https://forums.androidcentral.com/s...blue-tear-drop-my-s7-screen-wont-go-away.html
Also
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS7/comments/6bfx2v/mysterious_blue_raindrop_in_bottom_left_corner/

I searched for but I can not find any setting to disable that drop.Is it possible to be from something else?

I'll try what you said.Thank you.

ALIGATOR26 said:
I searched for but I can not find any setting to disable that drop.Is it possible to be from something else?
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Best to just Google search for possible fixes, that's all I did
Seems like no-one knows exactly what causes it

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Best to just Google search for possible fixes, that's all I did
Seems like no-one knows exactly what causes it
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I searched google for a few days in a row, but I did not find anything about it

Maybe it's more related with a bug in the system UI, because to me it doesn't look like a blue drop, but more like those "handles" to select text, don't you think?
If you remove your Clock/Weather widget, does the drop still appear? It could be a bug with your widget.
Also, if you try to click that "blue drop", what happens?
It seems like you've used an alternative launcher, an alternative clock/weather widget, alternative icons etc... So to investigate this, I would start looking in the apps I installed that have something to do with the customization of the home screen.
I hope this helps ; )

Blue tear drop
I got this in the middle of the home screen. Tapping it moved it to the top left. I rebooted into safe mode then from settings-apps-advanced-apps that can appear on top, disabled ones I thought had no need to do this. Skyp and samsung pay are two I don't use and disabled this permission (amongst others). Upon rebooting, the drop is gone. I should maybe pin this down to find the exact app but can't be bothered. Also this is disabling the drop but possibly not whatever it was representing.
Hope this helps.

It is a bug from messenger. Idk why, but if you're using the chat heads, you're typing something, and then minimize the chat, this blue drop can appear. I guess it's a bug from s7 Nougat, because since I updated to Oreo this bug has never happened to me again. But if you're on Nougat yet, you can do these steps to remove the drop:
1: In the recent apps tab, messenger must be there. If it is not, then open messenger, and go to home screen again.
2: Grab the messenger chat heads, and slide it into the bottom of the screen to remove it.
3: Now go to the recent apps tab, and remove messenger.
This should close messenger, and the blue drop should be gone.
I guess you can also go into settings, apps, messenger, and force stop, then the blue drop will be gone as well(but doing the steps above is easier), and then you just open messenger again, and whenever this drop appears, you just close messenger again.

Forse stop Facebook messenger and open it again
Its a bug ?

No Notification LED for Outlook Emails (OOS 5.1.8)

Using Outlook for Android official Microsoft app, not getting any notification LED lights when I have new emails or reminders. I get the screen off messages coming through on the display, but those only show up for like 5 seconds at a time. With Gmail and other apps, I get those and the notification LED to light up. My settings for LED notifications are normal, and Outlook should be showing, but it isn't working.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? I'd rather not get some 3rd party LED manager app for one application issue, but I am willing to try.
Saw one other thread on this, but I don't want to factory reset right now. Too much important emails and stuff going on at work to risk the pain of setup again. I also seem to have an issue with notification volume being really loud for Outlook.

SOCOM-HERO said:
Using Outlook for Android official Microsoft app, not getting any notification LED lights when I have new emails or reminders. I get the screen off messages coming through on the display, but those only show up for like 5 seconds at a time. With Gmail and other apps, I get those and the notification LED to light up. My settings for LED notifications are normal, and Outlook should be showing, but it isn't working.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? I'd rather not get some 3rd party LED manager app for one application issue, but I am willing to try.
Saw one other thread on this, but I don't want to factory reset right now. Too much important emails and stuff going on at work to risk the pain of setup again. I also seem to have an issue with notification volume being really loud for Outlook.
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Did you ever get an answer? I had to switch over to the Outlook app for work and was having issues as well.
Found some very important things:
LED notifications were disabled in Outlook notification preferences
You need to click on "Event Reminders" and "Mail" (not toggle buttons) in order to see LED notification option to enable (have no idea why it's disabled by default)
You ALSO need to make sure notification sounds are set inside Outlook (I think this issue is Android related)
I set the notification preferences for reminders and emails to be the SYSTEM DEFAULT and after these changes above, LED notifications work for my reminders and emails
Let me know if you want some screenshots! (I'm on OnePlus 5T w/crDroid)

LinuxNewb said:
Did you ever get an answer? I had to switch over to the Outlook app for work and was having issues as well.
Found some very important things:
LED notifications were disabled in Outlook notification preferences
You need to click on "Event Reminders" and "Mail" (not toggle buttons) in order to see LED notification option to enable (have no idea why it's disabled by default)
You ALSO need to make sure notification sounds are set inside Outlook (I think this issue is Android related)
I set the notification preferences for reminders and emails to be the SYSTEM DEFAULT and after these changes above, LED notifications work for my reminders and emails
Let me know if you want some screenshots! (I'm on OnePlus 5T w/crDroid)
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I don't see any options for LED notifications anywhere. My sound is called "light" it isn't the light itself [emoji6]
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I don't see any options for LED notifications anywhere. My sound is called "light" it isn't the light itself [emoji6]
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Here's what my Outlook 2.2.197 settings look like. I went to Settings - Notifications. Clicking the New Mail Sound took me to extra settings where both vibrate and light were toggled off.

LinuxNewb said:
Here's what my Outlook 2.2.197 settings look like. I went to Settings - Notifications. Clicking the New Mail Sound took me to extra settings where both vibrate and light were toggled off.
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Hmm. I don't see those advanced options in my version 2.2.200. I'll probably root this phone eventually and wipe it clean and start over with either the stock rom + custom kernel or a custom rom/kernel. Maybe that will fix it.

Surely you should try a 3rd party app before wiping and starting over - get lightflow it works great and will get your LED working as you want for any app youd like.

Assistant only completes certain tasks

Since yesterday I have a seemingly unresolvable issue with the Assistant on my Pixel 3. Running Android 10 and been using swedish as the main language for a while (the issue is the same with english btw).
Stuff like setting timers, alarms, making calls, sending texts and playing music have worked fine for a long time.
Right before things went wrong I got an error message about no Google account being associated to the Assistant. I reverted it to my Google account and figured everything was fine.
Then later the Assistant started failing, and in particular to do these tasks:
- set timers
- set alarms
- make calls
- send texts.
When I try these I'm only met with the three grey pulsating dots, and no audio response or text confirmation.
Stuff that it still does, though, are:
- play music via Spotify, Google Play Music
- tell me the weather
The strange thing though is that if I set Assistant to be used without an account, it works! Also if I create a brand new test Google account, it manages those basic tasks that have stopped working on my regular Google account.
So, on Android 10, security update april 5th.
I've been trying to resolve this for 24hrs now, and frustration is growing. I've:
- tried to clear cache/data for the Google app
- inactivated it, rebooted, activated, updated
- tried the beta Google app
- tried various old versions from apkmirror -- from march, earlier in april (at a time when my Assistant was working)
- rebooted in Safe mode -- here it uses the old Assistant interface! and it actually works, but it's the clunky old one!
- checked permissions for the Google app/Clock/Telephone app/Messages -- everything seems to be enabled?
- gone through my settings for my Google account: web and app activity, location history and so on is Enabled. Personlig ads also on.
Another weird thing is that sometimes it actually seems to set a timer, but no confirmation and no notification visible. Also nothing is shown in the Clock app. But a timer beeps after five minutes -- only sometimes! Weird.
Now when I was experimenting with this I tried to set a timer, then opened the Clock app and of course, no timer was running. I then got one of those blue notification fields at the bottom, saying I can use the Assistant to set timers, alarms etc. I touched it and got an Assistant popup saying "It's not possible to reach Google right now" (translated)... Hmmm!
As you can tell, this is very weird. I would appreciate any pointers and suggestions! Thanks in advance
So this is what a typical response looks like:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PaMGfYxAUSqAoMpZ6
And in Your Activity, it says I set a timer and got a response, but that is is simply untrue!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VGmrP1G4KU9HE66C8
(I switched to english temporarily to try to illustrate).
So, for every one of those attempts absolutely no resonse except for the pulsating dots was shown in Assistant! :/

So strange.
I zeroed my phone completely again, and set it up with my regular Google account but WITHOUT copying apps and settings. Assistant STILL WON'T DO BASIC TASKS LIKE TIMERS.
I zeroed it again and instead made a brand new Google account: Assistant immediately performs those basic tasks.
I really need some help here, please.

peppot said:
So strange.
I zeroed my phone completely again, and set it up with my regular Google account but WITHOUT copying apps and settings. Assistant STILL WON'T DO BASIC TASKS LIKE TIMERS.
I zeroed it again and instead made a brand new Google account: Assistant immediately performs those basic tasks.
I really need some help here, please.
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Sounds to me like there are some settings/options that you need to check by going to your Google account settings by going to the Google website via browser. If changing things locally within your device/Google settings isn't changing functionality in your account activity/usage but a new account is functioning, it has to be some kind of non local Google settings that need to be changed/erased/reset.
Or maybe you are having issues with sync functionality and not your Google related stuff.
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Sounds to me like there are some settings/options that you need to check by going to your Google account settings by going to the Google website via browser. If changing things locally within your device/Google settings isn't changing functionality in your account activity/usage but a new account is functioning, it has to be some kind of non local Google settings that need to be changed/erased/reset.
Or maybe you are having issues with sync functionality and not your Google related stuff.
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Yeah, I would think so too. But I've gone over _everything_ I can find at google.com/account ... turning off and on, rebooting the phone inbetween etc. Revoking rights for apps that might interfere... nothing
What do you mean by "sync functionality" though?
Thanks for the response!

OK, so I went back and disabled all the data & privacy settings in Assistant, and now it can set a timer. But beyond that it's quite useless as it can't get access to make calls or do texts etc. So I gradually enabled setting by setting, and I've concluded that the "Web & App Activity" toggle breaks my Assistant somehow. It doesn't matter if I check or uncheck the "Include Chrome history..." or "Include voice and audio recordings" boxes, if the main toggle is on my Assistant hits some kind of wall with timers, texts and calls. Beyond this I can't understand what I can do to influence this?!

I'm having that hang issue when setting an alarm with Google Assistant on my account.
Using a different account works though. I'm not sure what setting in my account is causing this error.
Using Voice Search to set alarms is fine.
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General Work profile notifications are not working

Other than the Wear Os app the Galaxy wearables app does not see work profile apps and will not push their notifications. Let's see if that gets fixed at some point.

if you have a samsung phone and use the secure folder as work profile, you can choose if you want the apps to be notified or not
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ollip79 said:
Other than the Wear Os app the Galaxy wearables app does not see work profile apps and will not push their notifications. Let's see if that gets fixed at some point.
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Seeing the same thing. None of my work app notifications from employer show on the watch

I think this is another "only works on Samsung" thing.
I had this problem on my oneplus phone. Switched to a Samsung and it was working fine. (that was the experience I had on previous generation wear os and Tizen watches at least)

Yeah, it'd be nice if there was some sort of workaround for this. Even just as simple as bridging notifications without allowing actions on the Watch would be more useful than the current lack of anything.
It's also sort of odd, looking at the notification settings in the Wearable app shows that it does see that there was a notification coming from that app (gmail, calendar, etc.) even if it was a work profile notification, but won't allow the work profile apps to be synced on anything other than a samsung phone.

diabloazul126 said:
Yeah, it'd be nice if there was some sort of workaround for this. Even just as simple as bridging notifications without allowing actions on the Watch would be more useful than the current lack of anything.
It's also sort of odd, looking at the notification settings in the Wearable app shows that it does see that there was a notification coming from that app (gmail, calendar, etc.) even if it was a work profile notification, but won't allow the work profile apps to be synced on anything other than a samsung phone.
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Yes I observers the same, I tried to bridge the notification by some apps but not working, You got any luck with Bridging? Also DUO Mobile app was working awesome with Andriod OS 2, But it isn't working here... Looks like Tizen thing is preventing it.

I've got a Galaxy Watch 4 Classic connected to a Not 20 Ultra. When I check in the Galaxy Wearables app, and go into Settings > Notifications and then hit "More" under "Most recent on phone or watch" I get a list of all personal and work profile apps sending notifications.
All Work profile apps and Duo Mobile had been se to "Off" by default. I've turned them on. We'll see how it goes...
{ETA: Success! Duo (via personal) and Slack (via Work) are sending notifications to the watch! I can't act on Duo except via the Phone, though, so not sure how useful that part actually is.}

mariussilverwolf said:
I've got a Galaxy Watch 4 Classic connected to a Not 20 Ultra. When I check in the Galaxy Wearables app, and go into Settings > Notifications and then hit "More" under "Most recent on phone or watch" I get a list of all personal and work profile apps sending notifications.
All Work profile apps and Duo Mobile had been se to "Off" by default. I've turned them on. We'll see how it goes...
{ETA: Success! Duo (via personal) and Slack (via Work) are sending notifications to the watch! I can't act on Duo except via the Phone, though, so not sure how useful that part actually is.}
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Yeah, it seems like work profile works when paired to a samsung device, but not anything else, which is unfortunate.

Hey guys, I was facing the same issue of work-profile notifications not being visible on my galaxy watch 4, so I created an app to solve it. Please give it a try: WorkNotifier.
It's completely local, secure, and open-source. The link to code can be found on the play-store listing itself.
If you face any issues with it, please let me know. I would love to help you out.

Brijgopal Bharadwaj said:
Hey guys, I was facing the same issue of work-profile notifications not being visible on my galaxy watch 4, so I created an app to solve it. Please give it a try: WorkNotifier.
It's completely local, secure, and open-source. The link to code can be found on the play-store listing itself.
If you face any issues with it, please let me know. I would love to help you out.
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Your app was very helpful.
Great work, Many Thanks!!!