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CrashCat posted:Emailed the programmer of the battery saver app I was using and he said not only does switching mobile data require root but also switching Lollipop's own battery saver. So for 'updating' my phone I now have to go in and mash their battery saver manually every time I unplug. Gee thanks. You can set it to manually come on at 15% battery.
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Aren't most battery saver apps a complete waste of time or actually make stuff worse?
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Nov 23, 2014 15:57
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Skarsnik posted:Aren't most battery saver apps a complete waste of time or actually make stuff worse? To think of it another way, if they worked why aren't they part of the OS by default?
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Nov 23, 2014 16:10
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Can I change sensitivity settings for notifications on an app-by-app basis? I thought I remember reading how in this thread (or the other) but I can't seem to find it now
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Nov 23, 2014 16:42
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myron cope posted:Can I change sensitivity settings for notifications on an app-by-app basis? I thought I remember reading how in this thread (or the other) but I can't seem to find it now Can you be more specific? Are you talking about the lollipop "sensitivity" status of a notification? Or just the order they pop up under your notification bar? If it's the latter, there's really not a way you can do it - I mean there probably is, but it most likely involves rooting your phone and all that stuff. Very rarely do individual apps give you an option to set their priority. Which is a shame, because I'd love to be able to set Play music to always be at the top with full controls, for example, instead of getting squeezed down when an email comes in.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:44
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myron cope posted:Can I change sensitivity settings for notifications on an app-by-app basis? I thought I remember reading how in this thread (or the other) but I can't seem to find it now Settings - Sound and notifications - App Notifications
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Nov 23, 2014 17:53
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Can you be more specific? Are you talking about the lollipop "sensitivity" status of a notification? I'm talking about this one. Every notification I get says "contents hidden". Some screenshots I've seen show a slider for sensitive in the app notification page, mine just shows block or priority (priority being where you get notified even in priority mode), there's no sensitivity choice in any app I've looked at
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Nov 23, 2014 18:05
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LastInLine posted:They are. All they do is disable stuff that should be on causing apps to malfunction in new and unexpected ways, sometimes causing them to run amok defeating the purpose. Yeah the only good battery saving app I've used is the built-in one (on my HTC One M8), and even that one isn't that great. Also largely unnecessary because as long as I remember to plug my phone in at least every other day it never gets anywhere near dying.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:16
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myron cope posted:I'm talking about this one. Every notification I get says "contents hidden". Some screenshots I've seen show a slider for sensitive in the app notification page, mine just shows block or priority (priority being where you get notified even in priority mode), there's no sensitivity choice in any app I've looked at That's uhh...pretty weird? What device are you using, and is it an official update (or did you flash some weirdo hacked rom)? Just to be clear, you're talking about the settings>sound and notifications>app notifications area right? Make sure you also look at the "when device is locked" settings as well (also in sound & notifications area).
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Nov 23, 2014 18:25
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:That's uhh...pretty weird? What device are you using, and is it an official update (or did you flash some weirdo hacked rom)? Just to be clear, you're talking about the settings>sound and notifications>app notifications area right? Make sure you also look at the "when device is locked" settings as well (also in sound & notifications area). Nexus 6. Yes, settings >sound and notifications>app notifications. The when this device is locked setting is "hide sensitive notification content". It's just treating everything as sensitive. Even acar telling me my oil change is overdue
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Nov 23, 2014 18:49
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myron cope posted:Nexus 6. Yes, settings >sound and notifications>app notifications. The when this device is locked setting is "hide sensitive notification content". It's just treating everything as sensitive. Even acar telling me my oil change is overdue Switch the locked setting to "show all notification content" and it'll probably work how you want. You can then go into individual apps and set it to restrict. With the settings I just described, I have pretty much every app but email and messaging display it's contents on the lock screen.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:52
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Switch the locked setting to "show all notification content" and it'll probably work how you want. You can then go into individual apps and set it to restrict. With the settings I just described, I have pretty much every app but email and messaging display it's contents on the lock screen. Hooray, that was it. That's...not so intuitive. Thanks though!
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Nov 23, 2014 19:06
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I've been using the Gmail app for my school's non-Gmail email ok for a couple weeks now. However, I have a couple of folders set up on the school server that Gmail sees as labels. When an email comes in that goes to one of those folders/labels, I don't get a notification. I've gone through the settings and I can't find anything about this; am I missing something, or is Google?
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Nov 23, 2014 19:07
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myron cope posted:Hooray, that was it. That's...not so intuitive. Thanks though! Are you new to Android? You'll be saying "that's not so intuitive" a lot! 
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Nov 23, 2014 19:08
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hooah posted:I've been using the Gmail app for my school's non-Gmail email ok for a couple weeks now. However, I have a couple of folders set up on the school server that Gmail sees as labels. When an email comes in that goes to one of those folders/labels, I don't get a notification. I've gone through the settings and I can't find anything about this; am I missing something, or is Google? You'll need to set a notification for each label in the GMail app. Go to Settings > Manage Labels and click on each label you want to change notifications for.
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Nov 23, 2014 20:16
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effika posted:You'll need to set a notification for each label in the GMail app. Go to Settings > Manage Labels and click on each label you want to change notifications for. I don't have that option in either the general settings or the settings for the account.
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hooah posted:I don't have that option in either the general settings or the settings for the account.
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Nov 23, 2014 20:50
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LastInLine posted:They are. All they do is disable stuff that should be on causing apps to malfunction in new and unexpected ways, sometimes causing them to run amok defeating the purpose.
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Nov 23, 2014 21:04
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CrashCat posted:This isn't some lovely task killer app, it just cycles the data off for 15 minutes or so when you're not using it, turns it on, watches to let the network traffic finish, then shuts it off again. It hasn't been any more harmful to apps than going in and out of coverage and it really had been working on my battery life. Apps tend to get crazy with the amount of times they phone home, and not all of them are polite enough to let you choose. I got at least another half a battery worth out of it. And now it's broken and I have to wipe my phone to root it. Turning battery saver on at 15% is useless to me, that's like putting the brakes on halfway when you're sailing off the cliff face.
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Nov 23, 2014 21:06
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LastInLine posted:It's under settings for the account, third up from the bottom between Days of GMail to sync and Download attachments. Not for me. Here's a screenshot of all the settings I have under Gmail -> settings -> [school email]: 
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Nov 23, 2014 21:15
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CrashCat posted:This isn't some lovely task killer app, it just cycles the data off for 15 minutes or so when you're not using it, turns it on, watches to let the network traffic finish, then shuts it off again. It hasn't been any more harmful to apps than going in and out of coverage and it really had been working on my battery life. Apps tend to get crazy with the amount of times they phone home, and not all of them are polite enough to let you choose. I got at least another half a battery worth out of it. And now it's broken and I have to wipe my phone to root it. Turning battery saver on at 15% is useless to me, that's like putting the brakes on halfway when you're sailing off the cliff face. You should probably uninstall apps that continuously want to communicate when you don't want them to?
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hooah posted:Not for me. Here's a screenshot of all the settings I have under Gmail -> settings -> [school email]: Try looking under your GMail account, not the school account's settings.
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Nov 23, 2014 21:30
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effika posted:Try looking under your GMail account, not the school account's settings. The particular labels for my school folders don't show up there. At least that makes sense, though!
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Nov 23, 2014 21:49
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hooah posted:The particular labels for my school folders don't show up there. At least that makes sense, though!
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Nintendo Kid posted:You should probably uninstall apps that continuously want to communicate when you don't want them to? Also I get that it sounds stupid to turn off communication on a communication device, but I just don't get any communication that needs to be addressed immediately. If I was constantly getting IMs or tweets or some poo poo I would just suck it up and throw my phone on a charger every couple hours or shut it off. CrashCat fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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Nov 23, 2014 23:29
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CrashCat posted:Fair enough, do you have anything I could use to figure out which ones they are? Your system menu should have a data usage section, which will tell you how much each application has used over cell data in a certain time period. If you deliberately avoid doing anything over cell data for like a day but leave it on for applications to try to contact things, they should turn up if you set the filter to the past day.
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Nov 23, 2014 23:41
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CrashCat posted:Also I get that it sounds stupid to turn off communication on a communication device, but I just don't get any communication that needs to be addressed immediately. Skarsnik posted:Aren't most battery saver apps a complete waste of time or actually make stuff worse?
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Nov 24, 2014 00:37
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LastInLine posted:I understand that but the question was If an app wants to get online for some reason, two things happen. 1) the app wakes up the CPU to start doing whatever 2) the CPU engages the radio to pull down data If you break #2 the app still wakes up the cpu because until then the app doesn't know #2 will fail. So if you kill the connection you only make CPU awake time worse as the app tries over and over to get online. You save the power of engaging the modem but consume a lot more juice with the CPU. Bottom line is to stop using poorly behaving apps. Using a battery saver usually hides a problem by making a new and often worse one.
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And the thing is that this is built into Lollipop, the app just has to make use of it. Of course, if the lovely app was abusing the connection before what are the chances it will use the delayed updating API going forward?SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Bottom line is to stop using poorly behaving apps. Using a battery saver usually hides a problem by making a new and often worse one.
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LastInLine posted:I'm confused then. Either you have GMail importing the mail and applying a label or you're just using the GMail app grabbing the mail and keeping it separate. It sounds like you're trying to do both which is not going to work. I want to do the second, and I set up the account separately (No forwarding). I didn't create the labels, Gmail did when I set up the account.
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hooah posted:I want to do the second, and I set up the account separately (No forwarding). I didn't create the labels, Gmail did when I set up the account.
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Tunga posted:Basically you can't do this. The Gmail app will only notify for new messages that arrive in the Inbox for third-party accounts. Old AOSP Email worked the same way. Well, that's good to know, at least. I guess it's back to BlueMail for that account.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Your system menu should have a data usage section, which will tell you how much each application has used over cell data in a certain time period. If you deliberately avoid doing anything over cell data for like a day but leave it on for applications to try to contact things, they should turn up if you set the filter to the past day. Even better, Lollipop took out the slider to view usage for a specified date range instead of the billing period, so I can't even do that. 
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Nov 24, 2014 03:42
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Is there any way to get chrome to translate a page on demand? I disabled automatic translation because it was actively making things worse for me, but in some cases I need to translate a page into a different language and I didn't find a way to do that so far.
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Anyone have any recommendations for a live wallpaper that does: -night/day -live weather -seasonal changes Closest I've found is one called Forest Live Wallpaper but it's lacking a few things and the dev outright states that he's lazy and won't update it often. I used to use Beautiful Widgets live wallpaper but it really hasn't aged well on larger screens.
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drat, I used to use the beautiful widgets live wallpaper all the time. I think it was like 3 years in a row - I finally gave up on it because it had all sorts of problems with "newer" (back then, at least) versions of android. Sucks to see they haven't really done much with it since 
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I gave it up for the same reason as Require More Fire back when I got the Nexus 5, it just wasn't beautiful anymore. I loved that wallpaper. RMF, if you do find a high res, non-data stealing, good looking wallpaper with day/night, live weather, and seasons please do report back.
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Nov 24, 2014 19:33
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It looks like SoundCloud and Google play music are exempt from counting against your data caps on T-Mobile now. http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/24/7275539/t-mobile-adds-google-play-music-xbox-music-soundcloud-music-freedom
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LastInLine posted:I gave it up for the same reason as Require More Fire back when I got the Nexus 5, it just wasn't beautiful anymore. I loved that wallpaper. RMF, if you do find a high res, non-data stealing, good looking wallpaper with day/night, live weather, and seasons please do report back. I'd probably still use it if they would just do something about the resolution. Seeing the same pattern of stars repeated in neat rows on my screen is bad for my nerd OCD. So far the best I've found is the aforementioned Forest Live Wallpaper but it's in need of some refinement and the dev is not exactly setting the world on fire with updates.
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Nitrousoxide posted:It looks like SoundCloud and Google play music are exempt from counting against your data caps on T-Mobile now. The full list is available on the T-Mo website.
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