Hi,
I have been rather aggressively restricting internet access for apps with a firewall.
Now I have the problem that I get notifications from Amazon (eg about my order having been shipped) that keep re-appearing over and over.
My theory is I have taken away the internet access of the app that informs Amazon that I have seen the notification, and so Amazon keeps resending it.
Could that be the reason and what app would I have to allow back on the internet to get rid of these notifications?
Many thanks.
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Does anyone have good success using these types of programs on the TF700 or their phones in general? If so which are you using? I read people reviewing the apps saying they work fantastic but then some post how to get around them or simply uninstalling it will remove the lock. Or they make the device run slower.
A coworker was asking if it's possible to have multiple email accounts in either the google email app or the default stock email client. The answer is yes but it doesn't give the option to password protect or require the account password to access the emails. She has a business one that she would like kept protected in case anyone gets her tablet. As it is anyone who gets your device and gets past a regular screen lock almost has complete access to your google account. The only way to do it is add the account to the device, then go back into settings and remove the account. Thats a bit of a pain for something that should be available as a security feature.
So with these app lock programs the owner could require a password to open a protected application (gmail or email client). It's a matter of how effective the programs are vs how much battery drain or performance hit it causes.
The ASUS "App Locker" app puts a pin password on apps, including system apps such as system settings. Comes with your TF700. I think (but not sure if I remember correctly) setting up my departments TF300's so that users could not access the system settings using App Locker.
Thanks for the info. She has a Levno 7'' tablet thing. I'm constantly telling her how to do this or that on it. Our Tf700 is way more power than she will ever need. I will have to see if her's comes with something like a native app lock.
I'll be checking out the asus lock on mine. Might as well set it up in the event it's ever stolen. I don't use the screen lock. It got annoying to constantly enter a pin/password when I turned my screen on.
Thanks for the reply.
While trying to figure out why I wasn't getting my push notifications I noticed that there are a lot of people having this same problem. It doesn't seem to affect just one brand or model of phone. Nor does it seem to be a specific carrier or firmware version. I finally figured out the problem and decided to post this here rather than in the forum for my device. My particular device is a Verizon GS4, rooted, stock firmware, version MK2.
Originally, I had thought it was only Facebook and eBay that I wasn't getting notifications from. It turned out I wasn't getting any of them except text messages and email.
If you are having the same problem, this is why. The problem is that one of your apps is blocking the notifications. For me, it was Yahoo instant messenger. After a whole day searching and trying every solution I could find, I finally just started uninstalling apps that get push notifications. Once I uninstalled YIM I knew instantly that I had found the cause because I got about 20 push notifications, they were all the ones which I hadn't received. It really wasn't until then that I realized just how many apps I wasn't getting notifications from.
The app that's causing you to not receive your notifications may or may not be YIM. It more than likely will be an app which you downloaded and installed, as opposed to one preinstalled on the phone.
My suggestion would be to go through your apps and uninstall, one at a time, any apps you've installed which receive push notifications. More than likely, you will instantly get some notifications when you find the one causing the problem. Once you find the faulty app, you should be able to reinstall it without a problem. If you reinstall it and the problem returns, you will at least know where to begin looking for a solution.
If your problem is only with a specific app, then you may need to check your settings for that particular app. With, for example, the Facebook app, if you uncheck the messages box in settings, you will only get push notifications during certain times. So that may be your problem if its just Facebook. Or similar if its a different app.
I hope this actually helps someone. Any questions, I'm subscribed and I will respond right away.
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Hey guys I've disabled most of the stock apps I don't need but when I disable email (I use inbox) I periodically get an email app force close message maybe a few times a day.
Anyone know a way around this??
i also disabled the email app and exchange service, have the same issue. there is obviously another app that is trying to open/use the email app causing the force close.
Might as well just leave it be. The only (untested) way for the notifications not to show up is having root and freezing the app.
OK I thought as much.
Is anyone having problems using apps like Amazon, Wells Fargo, Citibank etc.
Both my amazon and wells fargo are both saying having trouble connecting to the internet and my citibank is saying SSL error upon opening the app. I believe this has all started occurring after the recent security patch update.
Is anyone else having these issues with other or similar apps. I've reinstalled apps and checked to see if the data usage is blocked but nothing has worked. I'm on the verizon networks if that helps with anything
My advice: Block all patch updates completely. They usually try to remove root and change various things on my phone that I wanted that way.
For now that's to late.
If you have multiple devices, you'll get the same notifications on all of them, if your setup is the same.
For example, if you receive an email, the notification will come through on all devices. Now if you act on the notification on one device, such as opening the email or deleting it, the notification disappears on the other devices, if they are online at that time.
Here is the problem:
If your other device (s) is offline, you'll still receive these notifications the moment that device turns online, even though you may have already acted on that notification on another device earlier.
The notifications sync only on devices that are online at the time you act on them. But if any device is offline, it will recieve these notifications later when it turns online. This becomes a headache if you connect a device (you don't use often) online after a few days. Because a very large number of old notifications (that have already been acted on) begin to bombard you each time.
Is there a way to force the notification sync in a way that a notification that has already been acted on in one device, stops showing up on other devices that come online later?
Look for an app that runs in the cloud. I believe that in that case, the notification will appear only once, because opening the interface to the application from the cloud does not launch another instance of the program.
ze7zez said:
Look for an app that runs in the cloud. I believe that in that case, the notification will appear only once, because opening the interface to the application from the cloud does not launch another instance of the program.
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I'm not sure if you understood the problem mentioned in the OP correctly.
What can I do for apps like Gmail, Outlook, Calendar, YouTube, News apps, etc.
For now, I have simply turned OFF notifications on my other devices for most apps so I don't get bombarded with old notifications in each device.
I'm not sure if this is something that Google Play Services can fix, because that is the common service running on all Android phones.