Im running the latest version of QIK for the EVO. In doing some reading I have read that leaving QIK running drains the battery faster then having it not run. HOWEVER when I click SIGN OFF, I get a message "Signing off will remove your QIK data from this phone" .. what does that mean?? when I sign back in, will it put my linked contacts back??
Is this program actually a battery drainer??
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I'm not sure about the sign off issue, but I tried installing the very newest version of Qik, and it drained my battery like no other app. Not even close either. And I knew it was the app because I changed nothing other than installing the app, and I was losing closer to 15-20% an hour.
are you sure? I havent seen anyone else report this...
I seem to be having some very poor battery life myself. The only thing I can think of is that recently (days) ago, I installed the Qik app to try it since a friend of mine just purchased on Evo. I've just uninstalled it to test this theory.
I'm glad to see it wasn't just me. I fail to see why qik needs to have a background task when it isn't running - it has no reason to notify me about anything. I uninstalled it and my phone is back to making it through the day.
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to have Fring (another video chat app) installed on my phone and that was a battery drainer. I'm guessing these video chat apps have to stay open and 'listen' for a potential incoming call or video chat session.
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I wouldn't be surprised. I used to have Fring (another video chat app) installed on my phone and that was a battery drainer. I'm guessing these video chat apps have to stay open and 'listen' for a potential incoming call or video chat session.
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Sounds about right. Can't receive a phone call if the phone isn't on, right?
Anyways...
The reason it's a battery drainer is because not only does it have your screen on constantly, but it's also using the front facing/rear facing camera, recording video, up streaming the recorded video, and down streaming video. That's when you're using it. When you're not, it runs in the background for potential video calls, like stated above. It's using your data almost constantly; sending and receiving small packets that tell it "No requests yet!"
As for the data loss, what it's saying is that when you sign out, you're signing out. Your User ID and Password is no longer saved, and from what it says, you're videos and general user data will be erased from the phone. However, all of the videos you've taken are saved on their website, and is accessible from their app once you sign back in. If you choose to sign back in, the app will read your contacts like it did before.
I have Qik installed, and my battery is unaffected. I just sign out when I close it that way it won't run in the background. If all else fails, you can always just manually end the process using .Free Advanced TaskManager. It's available in the market place, and is a huge help. I love it. Look for the Icon with a blue phone inside a blue gear. There are several apps with similar names, and it may not show up as the first one.
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What options do I have for Skype on my desire? I want to do the obvious calls but SMS would be good too.
There is a 'skype beta lite' app that you can google and although it is clean I could'nt get it to take my number in the UK.
I've found the skype in the 'Fring' app to do it the best so far.
Nimbuzz should have it as well, I think. And the tests which I read (androidpit dot de - German only) said that Fring is clearly inferior to Nimbuzz.
another nimbuzz vote here
Will try nimbuzz as fring is useless for me, it diesn't let you add contacts on the fly and I can't even make calls because the speaker shuts off!
Let me know how you get on with Nimbuzz. I tried Fring and the call quality was poor, with a audio delay on top of it.
Installed and tried Nimbuzz. Sound quality is better than on Fring.
BTW: anybody knows if and how you can delete a fring account?
Traffic?
Does anyone have an idea about the amount of bandwidth/traffic skype uses? Like for one minute? I'm on a 200MB per month plan...
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Installed and tried Nimbuzz. Sound quality is better than on Fring.
BTW: anybody knows if and how you can delete a fring account?
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I don't think you can even change your password on fring!
Can you send SMS with Nimbuzz or even add new Skype contacts?
yes u can add contacts for any IM account; skype, msn, etc
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yes u can add contacts for any IM account; skype, msn, etc
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GREAT! Sounds so much better then fring!
Nimbuzz seems to give my Desire problems ... keeps going slow, random reboot, never happened before, uninstalled and all is fine ... also it never seemed to work anyway!
strange. work fine here even prior to the latest update.
Nimbuzz working perfectly for all things and Skype now. For some reason though it finds it quite hard to connect sometimes, especially on a low connection where Fring seems to work either way.
Quite annoying on Nimbuzz where if Skype (or any of the accounts) does not connect first time there is no option to retry just delete the account.
Did you try Fring?
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Nimbuzz seems to give my Desire problems ... keeps going slow, random reboot, never happened before, uninstalled and all is fine ... also it never seemed to work anyway!
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I noticed that too. also noticed my battery was draining alot quicker than usual - even after exiting the application.
And sometimes even when the app isnt running, I get an error message saying it's crashed and needs to be closed. This happens mainly when ever i turn wifi on/off.
anyone know an app that does group chat on skype?
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I noticed that too. also noticed my battery was draining alot quicker than usual - even after exiting the application.
And sometimes even when the app isnt running, I get an error message saying it's crashed and needs to be closed. This happens mainly when ever i turn wifi on/off.
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I don't use wi-fi but had generally the same issues. It brought my phone in some cases to a halt!
Is there any "Skype" app or other app that can be used to use Skype account for calling non-skype landlines / mobile phones ?
Paid calls using Skype credits ... via Android.
I tried Nimbuzz, but it cant ... yes, Nimbuzz is not Skype client, this is obvious.
My only hope is "NimbuzzOut":
http://www.nimbuzz.com/en/nimbuzzout
But then again, there is no Android client still
Yes, Fring on Android can use Skypeout, so skype credits or any other SIP like voicebuster.
Haven't personally checked it but a friend tried it already and it works
Hello,
I haven't been using my phone today, this is just with very light browsing and leaving it idle.
NetCounter reports 700MB+ data usage already for "Today". How can this be? In the past 7 days it says I've used 5GB. What is stealing all this bandwidth?
I haven't installed many applications, can you guys think of anything that comes on the phone by default that would use this much data?
Something appears to be constantly syncing. Do you have Exchange installed? If so try removing it and adding it back.
I just captured a tcpdump of the network traffic and will load it up in wireshark to see if I can identify anything out of the ordinary.
Alright,
It's the facebook client. It's busy syncing all my friend's pictures and recent uploads :-/
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Alright,
It's the facebook client. It's busy syncing all my friend's pictures and recent uploads :-/
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wow, that's a lot of updating. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say your battery life sucked lol
Glad you got it figured out, and that I don't have facebook set up.
When I had the Razr before the Nexus, the Google Talk kept constantly updated in real time. With the Nexus, conversations would stop updating as soon as I exit the Google Talk screen, and they would only update again when someone responds to me, not even when I message them.
I've looked under google talk settings, no dice
I've looked under the nexus settings, can't find anything
Can someone help me out here?
I'm also new to phones, but I use Gtalk more than any other app, was wondering if we can make a widget for it?
I did in fact find a homebrew widget for Google Talk, but it didn't refresh in real time either and I didn't find it very useful otherwise.
Nowadays I just keep my screen on and open on Google Talk, but that sucks up batteries and I'd just rather learn how to get Google Talk to stay connected
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When I had the Razr before the Nexus, the Google Talk kept constantly updated in real time. With the Nexus, conversations would stop updating as soon as I exit the Google Talk screen, and they would only update again when someone responds to me, not even when I message them.
I've looked under google talk settings, no dice
I've looked under the nexus settings, can't find anything
Can someone help me out here?
I'm also new to phones, but I use Gtalk more than any other app, was wondering if we can make a widget for it?
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Google Talk is my main means of communication it seems so I have played with it a lot. Here are my observations.
1. To keep it "up" all the time in the Talk App hit the menu button (three dots now) >settings>uncheck automatic away status. Also make sure your phone has automatic syncing turned on for your gmail account: Setting>Accounts and Sync>ON (for your chat gmail address anyway). Additionally make sure your mobile data is turned on if you are ever off wifi: Settings>More>Mobile networks>Data Enabled (checked to turn on)
2. You can have up to 6 devices linked to your talk account at once, after that they just stop working.
3. When you receive a IM it appears on both your phone and your gmail account. If you start typing on the gmail account (or G+) it hijacks the whole session and you phone no longer gets the notifications, but the conversation still shows up on the chat window on the phone. When you are done with the IM session make sure you close the window on gmail (or G+) and send one last message from your phone or tablet to take the session back over, if you don't your phone will not receive future chat notifications. You can also just log out of your gmail/G+ session and it will automatically return everything to your phone/tablet but who ever does that?
4. To figure out how it all worked and tinker with it I use both of my gmail accounts and chat back and forth with them. You can do it from separate browsers or just open an incognito window in Chrome and log into your other gmail account. I would recommend this so you can see all of this stuff in practice.
Good Luck, hope this helps.
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Google Talk is my main means of communication it seems so I have played with it a lot. Here are my observations.
1. To keep it "up" all the time in the Talk App hit the menu button (three dots now) >settings>uncheck automatic away status. Also make sure your phone has automatic syncing turned on for your gmail account: Setting>Accounts and Sync>ON (for your chat gmail address anyway). Additionally make sure your mobile data is turned on if you are ever off wifi: Settings>More>Mobile networks>Data Enabled (checked to turn on)
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First of all, thank you for the detailed response, it's the most I've received so far and I thank you for your effort. On that note, I've played with all 3 of these settings before and they've been right for a few weeks now.
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2. You can have up to 6 devices linked to your talk account at once, after that they just stop working.
3. When you receive a IM it appears on both your phone and your gmail account. If you start typing on the gmail account (or G+) it hijacks the whole session and you phone no longer gets the notifications, but the conversation still shows up on the chat window on the phone. When you are done with the IM session make sure you close the window on gmail (or G+) and send one last message from your phone or tablet to take the session back over, if you don't your phone will not receive future chat notifications. You can also just log out of your gmail/G+ session and it will automatically return everything to your phone/tablet but who ever does that?
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I have my computer and this phone linked to the talk account, that's it.
And here's where it differs from your experiences I think, with my RAZR, the phone DID in fact keep up to date with whatever conversation happened on my computer. Weird thing with the Nexus is, it just ... completely stops working, and doesn't update when I have a conversation online, that's the weirdest part, because when I use the Phone gchat again, a flood of updates stream in, and that takes a lot of time... and it doesn't even get it all.
Funny story, I had a fight with my gf and she tried to use a piece of gchat conversation on my phone as defense... and she couldn't find it
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I have my computer and this phone linked to the talk account, that's it.
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I'm doing almost the exact same setup with my SGSII. I go back and forth between Talk on the phone, the Talk app on my PC, and super rarely on the Xoom.
For me, when I'm using the phone, the PC app does NOT get updated. It only stores what I do with it. The phone app however gets EVERYTHING. If I'm talking on the PC, when I pick the phone up and check the conversation, its perfectly up to date.
I'm posting here, because I've got the GN ordered, and of course will be using Talk on it alot.
On another note, have you tried an aftermarket app for IM's? Maybe it will work better? After looking around, and reading some reviews I grabbed IMO chat off the market, but I haven't tried it yet....
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I thought i should share what i just discovered. I disabled the syncing of facebook contacts, and my battery usage seems to have dropped significantly.
I have deactivated the autosync and notifications in the facebook app ages ago. The only change now was that in "Accounts and sync".
The first ~8h of my battery history is during the night (see attached screenshots)
Probably because Facebook sync doesn't work with ICS. I would be asking to snyc and continually failing.
I would recommend using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...axsync&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
It also syncs at a much higher resolution.
Just from that picture, it looks like your phone was holding wakelocks like crazy until you made your change. Was that the only change you made? Do you have better batter stats installed?
I'm on AOKP b31 with facebook sync enabled and I definitely don't see that kind of behavior. As of right now my facebook sync has held a wakelock for 70 seconds for the past 12 hours (push notifications working via the blackberry trick, notification updates set to never). Are you on a different ROM that might have a different method of enabling fb contact sync? I know AOKP's trick was turned down by a number of other devs but I forget what the exact reason was, might have been that it opens a potential security hole.
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I would recommend using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...axsync&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
It also syncs at a much higher resolution.
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I always +1 Haxsync, its a great app! However, afaik it does not sync contact phone numbers, only contact pictures.
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I always +1 Haxsync, its a great app! However, afaik it does not sync contact phone numbers, only contact pictures.
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haxsync syncs my phone numbers ...
you shouldn't use contacts sync that have been hacked into roms because it makes your contacts unsecured that's why google and other roms like CM9 and Buggless Beast won't implement this feature ... fb needs to update its apis to allow secure native contact syncing
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haxsync syncs my phone numbers ...
you shouldn't use contacts sync that have been hacked into roms because it makes your contacts unsecured that's why google and other roms like CM9 and Buggless Beast won't implement this feature ... fb needs to update its apis to allow secure native contact syncing
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So haxsync will add the phone # of your FB friends that you don't have on your phone?
For me it just syncs the profile pic and their latest status. It doesn't seem to pull any more data like their phone numbers that they posted on their profile.
Haxsync doesn't sync fb phone numbers for me either. I remember reading somewhere that phone numbers weren't available to any 3rd party apps via facebook. .... and I just removed my facebook sync account and all the numbers I only had via facebook disappeared with it.
I use both haxsync and facebook contact sync because some of my friends have 3rd party app access turned off in their facebook settings, which blocks haxsync from syncing their picture. Can't blame 'em, but it's annoying that the official fb app works this way and the only reason haxsync(which does just about everything better) can't is because it's 3rd party.
that looks like
1) you seem to be losing signal very often (red parts in the signal graph) so apparently you are affected by the signal bug in 4.0.4 and that potentially affects battery life
2) all signal is lost from a certain point midway through (as if airplane mode was enabled) so the battery use went down
so, facebook sync is probably unrelated to what you're seeing
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that looks like
1) you seem to be losing signal very often (red parts in the signal graph) so apparently you are affected by the signal bug in 4.0.4 and that potentially affects battery life
2) all signal is lost from a certain point midway through (as if airplane mode was enabled) so the battery use went down
so, facebook sync is probably unrelated to what you're seeing
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Hah, funny what things get your attention and which things slip by. I can't believe I looked at that picture and didn't process that aspect of it.
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that looks like
1) you seem to be losing signal very often (red parts in the signal graph) so apparently you are affected by the signal bug in 4.0.4 and that potentially affects battery life
2) all signal is lost from a certain point midway through (as if airplane mode was enabled) so the battery use went down
so, facebook sync is probably unrelated to what you're seeing
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Yes, i thought it looked strange in the graph, but i had no problems using 3g, sending/receiving sms or calls during the whole day. I figured the graph just messed up or something.
The extremely frequent wakelocks are probably the reason to why i have to recharge my phone every 24-36h, but i thought it was the notorious bad battery of the galaxy nexus.
I've bought better battery stats now following JoeSyr's advice, hopefully i'll get to the bottom of what is causing my frequent wakelocks.
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Seems like its RILJ who is responsible for the wakelocks, 6861 in 13h.. A new rom, radio and kernel might be in order
Since day 1 there have been occasional problems with my Hangouts messaging (not SMS enabled)...sometimes it takes 7-10 minutes before a message comes through. Its weird because its not all the time...maybe every few days or so. My wife is even getting mad at me because she thinks I'm ignoring her. I flashed a new ROM hoping the problem would go away, but the problem continues whether stock or non. Only hangouts seems to be affected...everything else with the phone seems fine. I am about to start looking at 3rd party apps, but I prefer to stick with google since it integrates well into gmail and keeps chat history tied to google acct. Anyone else having this problem? It took me a while before I even noticed it was a problem tho...mostly thanks to the wife.
I don't use Hangouts, so I'm not sure of it's a common issue. That being said, have you tried the stock Messages app? It works flawlessly for me...
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Use hangouts a ton with both family and business both on my phone and in chrome browsers on desktops. No real lag except when I am using the browser and then move to the phone, but as soon as it sees me using the phone it is the same. Don't use it for SMS.
Forgot to mention this only started happening with my Gnote3. I have been using Hangouts exclusively for a long time and ALWAYS worked flawlessly with my other Androids. I've never seen a problem until I bought the Gnote3.
I tried using that but the lag was unbearable.
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Forgot to mention this only started happening with my Gnote3. I have been using Hangouts exclusively for a long time and ALWAYS worked flawlessly with my other Androids. I've never seen a problem until I bought the Gnote3.
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I am suffering from the same issues & I don't want to use a separate app for sms. I live having it all in one app. Also, I only have this problem on tw roms.
ianmck said:
Since day 1 there have been occasional problems with my Hangouts messaging (not SMS enabled)...sometimes it takes 7-10 minutes before a message comes through. Its weird because its not all the time...maybe every few days or so. My wife is even getting mad at me because she thinks I'm ignoring her. I flashed a new ROM hoping the problem would go away, but the problem continues whether stock or non. Only hangouts seems to be affected...everything else with the phone seems fine. I am about to start looking at 3rd party apps, but I prefer to stick with google since it integrates well into gmail and keeps chat history tied to google acct. Anyone else having this problem? It took me a while before I even noticed it was a problem tho...mostly thanks to the wife.
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Its just the app man. Nothing you can do, especially in busy rooms its terrible
Hangouts stopped working altogether for me. I had to switch back to Google Voice just to get texts.
Hangouts is goofy, sometimes it won't notify of new messages when they're received, sometimes it doesn't receive them at all and sometimes its delayed. I'll be talking to my girlfriend via hangouts on my PC via a wired connection and sometimes the message will come in on my phone at the same time, 30 seconds later a few minutes later, or not at all until I refresh the conversation.
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Hangouts is goofy, sometimes it won't notify of new messages when they're received, sometimes it doesn't receive them at all and sometimes its delayed. I'll be talking to my girlfriend via hangouts on my PC via a wired connection and sometimes the message will come in on my phone at the same time, 30 seconds later a few minutes later, or not at all until I refresh the conversation.
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If I am actively chatting with someone on my PC responses don't show actively on my phone unless I look for them. If I stop responding on the PC, the phone starts to announce new messages. It think this is a feature.
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If I am actively chatting with someone on my PC responses don't show actively on my phone unless I look for them. If I stop responding on the PC, the phone starts to announce new messages. It think this is a feature.
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I thought that too, but it seems to do it whenever it likes. Prime example: I've been chatting with my girlfriend on my phone and the screen is off, I have gmail open in Chrome but it's not the active tab. She sends me a message and both my phone and my pc notify me of a new message at the same time.