Is there any way to make the battery last longer without rooting the phone? And also is there any way to turn on the mobile hotspot without dropping $30 a month for the extra service from sprint?
Is there any way to make the battery last longer without rooting the phone?
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Many, many, many ways. Number one, obviously don't use the phone as much. Use wifi when possible. Turn off wifi and/or 3g when not needed. Turn down display brightness. Turn down display time-out. Don't use the camera. Don't use the gps. Don't use Navigation. Turn off or turn down accounts you don't need syncing often.
And also is there any way to turn on the mobile hotspot without dropping $30 a month for the extra service from sprint?
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You would need to root. And don't even think about asking how to do it.
sitlet said:
Many, many, many ways. Number one, obviously don't use the phone as much. Use wifi when possible. Turn off wifi and/or 3g when not needed. Turn down display brightness. Turn down display time-out. Don't use the camera. Don't use the gps. Don't use Navigation. Turn off or turn down accounts you don't need syncing often.
You would need to root. And don't even think about asking how to do it.
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Well geez, you could've put that a LITTLE nicer To answer ur ? Superman rooting is a wonderful thing if you have the sense to think about what you do before you do it. Rooting isn't difficult but I'm not even sure if they've figured out root for the recent OTA update sprint pushed out or not. I've been rooted since day 3 of ownership and never looked back. A simple 3 minute scan of the forums will essentially give you that answer, right now I'm busy messing with Synergy, sorry. There's plenty of things you can do to conserve battery but rooting on top of what my man above said is clutch bro, you'll be a happy lad
Well thanks guys. I appreciate the help. And yes I am a noob but I'm aware that I can't root yet so I wasn't asking. But since I can't root I need to do other tricks to save on battery life. That's why I was asking. But anyways, thanks again for your help.
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Is there an app that will auto turn off 4g and turn it back on when I lose connection? I know the areas that I have 4g and turn it off when going out of those areas. However, there's a couple dead spots in town that kick me off when I'm driving around and it never reconnects by itself. I've tried editing the wimax settings, but none of them reconnect for me.
Thanks!
I bought, but never used, the profiles app. I don't know if it can be configured to do what you want. I think it might be able to do things based on the time of day or location. I'm sure someone that uses that app could tell you if rules could be made up with it to do what you're looking for.
That's a good idea. I have Tasker, but didn't think about that. I will look into that in the mean time. thanks
ok I think tasker is a little too advanced for me to figure out how to do that. I just use i for basic things so far hehe.
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I bought, but never used, the profiles app. I don't know if it can be configured to do what you want. I think it might be able to do things based on the time of day or location. I'm sure someone that uses that app could tell you if rules could be made up with it to do what you're looking for.
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I got a samsung galaxy nexus with a yakjuxw build?? is the 4.2.2 update ever coming??? i keep on pressing check updates but says that my
system is up to date.. Should i root my phone???? or is there an OTA update coming?
I would just root it and install either takju image or a custom ROM if I were you, seeing Samsung's track record at keeping the yakjuxw build updated, I don't think it's coming anytime soon.
All guides to unlock, root and install all are in the sticky, read it all through and you should be fine. Good luck.
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I would just root it and install either takju image or a custom ROM if I were you, seeing Samsung's track record at keeping the yakjuxw build updated, I don't think it's coming anytime soon.
All guides to unlock, root and install all are in the sticky, read it all through and you should be fine. Good luck.
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Hi thanks! im new to this. Ive never rooted any phone in my life. so this would be the first, is there one specific thread that i should look at?
Efrant has a very good guide covering all of the basics stuff.
It's quite a lengthy read, but it covers most of the important subject you'll need to know, so it's highly recommended, about flashing your device to takju, use this guide, it'll walk you trough all of the manual steps needed to unlock and optionally root your device.
Keep it mind there's a faster and easier method, I.e. mskip's toolkit. But it's generally believed that you better do things manually, step by step first, before using something automated like a toolkit. Because then you'll at least know how the commands works, and if anything goes wrong, you can fix it manually yourself, instead of resorting to a toolkit without knowing how do they work, and why did you fail.
It'll takes more time with more trial and error than a toolkit, but hey, at least you'll learn something.
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Hi thanks! im new to this. Ive never rooted any phone in my life. so this would be the first, is there one specific thread that i should look at?
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Just Google wugfresh toolkit, you can't brick a gnex anyway even though some people in this forum think u can with a toolkit but I have never seen any proof of such a thing happening.
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As ^ mentioned use a toolkit If your new to it. I was on yakjuxw like u ,and I used the wugfresh toolkit to flash to Takju and Im on 4.2.2. Be advised Im facing wifi issues when the phone sleeps, This is a common issue with many users and has got nothing to do with flashin from yakukxw to Takju
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As ^ mentioned use a toolkit If your new to it. I was on yakjuxw like u ,and I used the wugfresh toolkit to flash to Takju and Im on 4.2.2. Be advised Im facing wifi issues when the phone sleeps, This is a common issue with many users and has got nothing to do with flashin from yakukxw to Takju
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Not to sidetrack the thread or anything, but what's the WiFi issues you've been having? Mine constantly turning itself on while sleeping despite setting the 'Keep WiFi while sleeping' to never, wonder if both are related?
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Not to sidetrack the thread or anything, but what's the WiFi issues you've been having? Mine constantly turning itself on while sleeping despite setting the 'Keep WiFi while sleeping' to never, wonder if both are related?
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I've got the same bloody issue buddy. It's got me frustrated as hell! Love everything else about 4.2.2
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I've got the same bloody issue buddy. It's got me frustrated as hell! Love everything else about 4.2.2
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Glad I'm not the only one, I thought it's an rogue app on my part or something. It's ridiculously annoying, I have bad wifi signal in my room, so I set it to turn off after sleep, but the damn bug keep restarting it and I lose like 2-3% per hour. Ridiculous.
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Glad I'm not the only one, I thought it's an rogue app on my part or something. It's ridiculously annoying, I have bad wifi signal in my room, so I set it to turn off after sleep, but the damn bug keep restarting it and I lose like 2-3% per hour. Ridiculous.
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Oh wait I think i may have mis read / understood ur issue. I think I'm having the opposite of ur issue, my wifi goes to sleep randomly when the screen is locked. i want my wifi never to sleep. I use what's app messenger andmy nnotifications pop up only after i unlock the phone.
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Oh wait I think i may have mis read / understood ur issue. I think I'm having the opposite of ur issue, my wifi goes to sleep randomly when the screen is locked. i want my wifi never to sleep. I use what's app messenger andmy nnotifications pop up only after i unlock the phone.
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Damn, if only we can switch our issues lol. Mine randomly wakes up and creating wakelocks, it stays up just fine, maybe it's your router? I remember having issues with WEP and b/g, switched to WPA2 and n and it disappeared. And shouldn't the phone automatically switch to mobile data once wifi signal is lost?
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Damn, if only we can switch our issues lol. Mine randomly wakes up and creating wakelocks, it stays up just fine, maybe it's your router? I remember having issues with WEP and b/g, switched to WPA2 and n and it disappeared. And shouldn't the phone automatically switch to mobile data once wifi signal is lost?
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I really wish we could switch issues.. , when im home I usually turn data off, but the problem is that the wifi doesn't drop(a few times it does) , it active jus that the bars are not blue, they're grey, indicating limited connection, ive tried all possible settings on my router, reset it but no luck. Damn you Google! I had this on 4.2.1 too. Were you facing the same issue on 4.2.1?
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I really wish we could switch issues.. , when im home I usually turn data off, but the problem is that the wifi doesn't drop(a few times it does) , it active jus that the bars are not blue, they're grey, indicating limited connection, ive tried all possible settings on my router, reset it but no luck. Damn you Google! I had this on 4.2.1 too. Were you facing the same issue on 4.2.1?
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Not that I know of, but it started happening in the last few weeks, so it could be a kernel problem or something, since I haben't switch kernel in around three weeks, so it could be that. I just flash another one, hoping it'll fix it.
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Not that I know of, but it started happening in the last few weeks, so it could be a kernel problem or something, since I haben't switch kernel in around three weeks, so it could be that. I just flash another one, hoping it'll fix it.
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Well, all the best to us both in getting out issues fixed :good:
4.2.1 Update
I've got a Galaxy Nexus with the yakjuxw build. My phone got the 4.2.1 update just this morning! Fire away on the Check Now buttons guys.
EDIT: Previously it was 4.1.1.
Benn running MOAR v2.2 for a few days and love it. But I've noticed something when wifi is turned on. If I'm on the wifi settings screen, I can see it scanning about every 5-6 seconds for new wifi signals, even though I'm signed into my home router with a good signal.
Network notification is turned off. I'm running the stock kernel.
Couldn't find anything in the moar thread about this.
Wondering if it's just me or if others also have this happening but just haven't noticed? Because you wouldn't know unless you're on the wifi settings screen with wifi turned on.
Can anyone verify this?
Any ideas on how to make it stop constantly scanning?
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Benn running MOAR v2.2 for a few days and love it. But I've noticed something when wifi is turned on. If I'm on the wifi settings screen, I can see it scanning about every 5-6 seconds for new wifi signals, even though I'm signed into my home router with a good signal.
Network notification is turned off. I'm running the stock kernel.
Couldn't find anything in the moar thread about this.
Wondering if it's just me or if others also have this happening but just haven't noticed? Because you wouldn't know unless you're on the wifi settings screen with wifi turned on.
Can anyone verify this?
Any ideas on how to make it stop constantly scanning?
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Well, this has nothing to do with your rom or kernel...thats just how the wifi is implemented. And you cant turn it off, unless you want to use wifi at all that is, this is to make sure you still have wifi access and to update the wifi networks that show up listed
You can make the scan interval longer by setting the "wifi_supplicant_scan_interval" (or something along those lines) to a higher value in your build.prop (located at /system/build.prop)
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Well, this has nothing to do with your rom or kernel...thats just how the wifi is implemented. And you cant turn it off, unless you want to use wifi at all that is, this is to make sure you still have wifi access and to update the wifi networks that show up listed
You can make the scan interval longer by setting the "wifi_supplicant_scan_interval" (or something along those lines) to a higher value in your build.prop (located at /system/build.prop)
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Thanks for the reply.
I also eventually found the answer by searching (of course), and the moment I found it, I had a horrible thought. OMG did I get a furry little animal killed?
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Thanks for the reply.
I also eventually found the answer by searching (of course), and the moment I found it, I had a horrible thought. OMG did I get a furry little animal killed?
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Lol what?
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Lol what?
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I've been doing tons of reading here and I've seen some devs saying, "every time someone asks a question that could have been answered by searching, a cute furry animal dies." lol
Reminded me of an old National Lampoon cover with a picture of a dog with a gun to it's head. Next to the picture it said "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog!" One of the best covers of any magazine EVER. I cant post pics yet but google that phrase and you can see it.
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I've been doing tons of reading here and I've seen some devs saying, "every time someone asks a question that could have been answered by searching, a cute furry animal dies." lol
Reminded me of an old National Lampoon cover with a picture of a dog with a gun to it's head. Next to the picture it said "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog!" One of the best covers of any magazine EVER. I cant post pics yet but google that phrase and you can see it.
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Hahaha
We have given our young daughters Galaxy S ll’s. Our cell provider is kajeet.com which has decent parental controls on phone usage including Internet access via the cell connection. But kajeet doesn’t affect the wifi connection. Hence, Internet access is available.
We would like to shut down the wifi and have the phones used only for texting and talk. The girls have other forms of (monitored) Internet access.
Does anyone have a solution for shutting down the wifi connection?
I have done quite a bit of research on the web for an answer and haven’t come up with anything that is largely within our control.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Jona
First up, what model phone are we talking about (sticker on the phone chassis under the battery) ? Reason I ask is, I noticed Kajeet uses Sprint, which means there's a good chance you're in the wrong forum. As the I9100 wasn't sold in great numbers in the US, various carriers have their own variants, which have their own forums here.
I honestly doubt you can do it (I'm not aware of any way to block access outright), you can probably use one of the myriad security apps on Google Play to block WiFi access to individual apps (I.E all of them). But that might be different for different SGS2 variants (being an I9100 forum, I only know this for the I9100).
If you do have a different variant, we'll have the thread moved & maybe those who have the same phone might be able to tell you something different.
Months ago on cm10.1 i had managed to completely disable wifi by accident on numerous occasions by flashing old versions of dorimanx kernels that update the wifi drivers, then flash stock cm kernel again that uses old drivers, couldn't turn wifi on or off until I reflashed cm, so it is indeed possible. Not sure how you'd go about this. Maybe remove wifi drivers from rom if you are rooted? Sorry I'm not much help, just thought I'd share this.
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my opinion, disableing wifi from a young kid will not stop him to access internet from any other place instead it will make him search and found more just because he dont have easy access to information he want. soo this is not the right thing to do but start takling to him and understanding his
needs will do more good. But this is just my opinion it seems thees days there are too many ways to find out things and there is noone who can shut them all off. Cheers!!
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It does look like I belong on a different forum.
>>>there's a good chance you're in the wrong forum
You are correct. My phone is a SPH-0710. Can you please port me over to where I am supposed to be?
Thank you for your help. This has been a frustrating experience, and it is reassuring to have someone take it seriously. I appreciate your taking your time to head me in the right direction.
Jona
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>>>there's a good chance you're in the wrong forum
You are correct. My phone is a SPH-0710. Can you please port me over to where I am supposed to be?
Thank you for your help. This has been a frustrating experience, and it is reassuring to have someone take it seriously. I appreciate your taking your time to head me in the right direction.
Jona
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/epic-4g-touch
jonaona said:
We have given our young daughters Galaxy S ll’s. Our cell provider is kajeet.com which has decent parental controls on phone usage including Internet access via the cell connection. But kajeet doesn’t affect the wifi connection. Hence, Internet access is available.
We would like to shut down the wifi and have the phones used only for texting and talk. The girls have other forms of (monitored) Internet access.
Does anyone have a solution for shutting down the wifi connection?
I have done quite a bit of research on the web for an answer and haven’t come up with anything that is largely within our control.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Jona
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I'm a Moto Atrix 4G and HD user. I know from development on the 4G, we could disable the wifi by not installing certain packages or flashing a kernel without the required lib/module files. I'm in the middle of fixing a friend's S2/Epic 4G touch and I saw this thread. I would think that something similar would be available here, but i am just starting out with this process of helping my friend out so I'm not sure what files really affect the wifi. I'm sure you could root the device and delete the files that enable wifi access, but I'd have to do some digging for that before i advise any further.
I'm a long-time note 2 user and usually have no problem with settings. Out of
nowhere, my Note 2 started sounding a notification tone (first tone in the list)
and I haven't found a way to disable that notification. I think it's related to a secondary email
account... yahoo or Outlook perhaps. Tried the obvious options to turn notifications
off/on but nothing has worked. This thing is waking me up at all hours and disturbing
my lifestyle in general. The only way I've found to turn off the continuous sounding of the tone is to touch the top notification bar. Such a hassle. Any real suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
This is bull$4!* I agree
This is bad enough to make me want to switch to an iPhone.
This has got to get fixed.
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I'm a long-time note 2 user and usually have no problem with settings. Out of
nowhere, my Note 2 started sounding a notification tone (first tone in the list)
and I haven't found a way to disable that notification. I think it's related to a secondary email
account... yahoo or Outlook perhaps. Tried the obvious options to turn notifications
off/on but nothing has worked. This thing is waking me up at all hours and disturbing
my lifestyle in general. The only way I've found to turn off the continuous sounding of the tone is to touch the top notification bar. Such a hassle. Any real suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
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Go into the settings for the app that is giving you the notification and change it there.
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This is bad enough to make me want to switch to an iPhone.
This has got to get fixed.
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Well go to iphone and enjoy it. No one will ask you not to.
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Very not nice response, perhaps if you understood it would be different
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Go into the settings for the app that is giving you the notification and change it there.
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If only that were possible. With Android 4.3 the notification is for leaving and rejoining the 4Glte coverage area. For those of us that live on the edge of 4G lte coverage it makes for a long annoying night. I have emergency notifications that I DO need at night, but not the damn network change every 5 minutes.
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Well go to iphone and enjoy it. No one will ask you not to.
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Perhaps you could look up "hyperbole." Or not, you could just continue to send rude responses.
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I'm a long-time note 2 user and usually have no problem with settings. Out of
nowhere, my Note 2 started sounding a notification tone (first tone in the list)
and I haven't found a way to disable that notification. I think it's related to a secondary email
account... yahoo or Outlook perhaps. Tried the obvious options to turn notifications
off/on but nothing has worked. This thing is waking me up at all hours and disturbing
my lifestyle in general. The only way I've found to turn off the continuous sounding of the tone is to touch the top notification bar. Such a hassle. Any real suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
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um have u tried going removing the account then connect it again?
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If only that were possible. With Android 4.3 the notification is for leaving and rejoining the 4Glte coverage area. For those of us that live on the edge of 4G lte coverage it makes for a long annoying night. I have emergency notifications that I DO need at night, but not the damn network change every 5 minutes.
Perhaps you could look up "hyperbole." Or not, you could just continue to send rude responses.
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I don't think he was being rude. I think he is saying that if it makes you happy to move to an iPhone then go for it. It's your choice. No need to take it offensively ..good day to you.
UPDATE from SPRINT
I talked to Sprint. They have confirmed that many ppl are complaining about the constant "upbeep" and "downbeep" tones. I understand it is not just 4Glte/CDMS coverage change, but also Wifi and Bluetooth availability. They say Samsung is aware of the unpopularity of the issue and will have a patched version out very soon.
I have resorted to disabling 4Glte all the time and disabling WiFi and Bluetooth at night. this seems to be a reasonable short term work around.
Thanks for reading.
Sean
I've never had any notification tone for network/wifi mode changes. I'm not sure why the stock rooted MK4 ROM wouldn't have the same issue but it doesn't or this forum would be full of angry people. I assume you guys are on the stock unrooted MK4 Jellybean ROM? If so, I'm glad I told my wife not to allow the update on her Note 2. I'm currently on stock rooted MK4 ROM and have never had this type of notification. But I would hate it also.
With this all being said, time for you guys to visit the Note 2 Toolkit thread and get rooted! Just one more reason why people prefer to root their devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957155
Once rooted you will need to ask ROM devs for help in removing the network notifications. I'm sure there's an easy way to do this with Root Explorer file manager app but you must be rooted to gain access to the file system. This is my only advice because I'm pretty sure an update will not come soon enough for you guys. Updates come from Samsung then Sprint sits on it for testing etc, then Sprint pushes it OTA. You can root and fix the issue in a few minutes or wait and pray for an update.
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I talked to Sprint. They have confirmed that many ppl are complaining about the constant "upbeep" and "downbeep" tones. I understand it is not just 4Glte/CDMS coverage change, but also Wifi and Bluetooth availability. They say Samsung is aware of the unpopularity of the issue and will have a patched version out very soon.
I have resorted to disabling 4Glte all the time and disabling WiFi and Bluetooth at night. this seems to be a reasonable short term work around.
Thanks for reading.
Sean
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Thanks for all the input, everyone. And Sean, thanks for talking to Sprint about this matter...I'm sure that all the suggestions here will help others with the same kind of issue I've been experiencing. For me, it's a wait and see kind of thing in that whatever the change in settings I make, it could take an entire day or even more to verify success in shutting down this maddening interruption.
There have been days when, because of a setting I changed, my phone would not ring at all when a call was coming in even though the ringer volume setting was at 100 percent loudness.
The good news for me is that as of this morning, I had an uninterrupted night's sleep last night which, obviously, could mean that I've finally stumbled into a solution. But I am reserving the 'Mission Accomplished' party for when I am absolutely sure my settings are the way they should be. I hate big let-downs, especially when they follow great expectations and celebrations of euphoria.
BTW, the latest changes I made were done inside Facebook's notifications preferences. It seems the Facebook crew are on a mission to keep its members fully involved in troubleshooting the 'traps' they set for us. Kinda reminds me of Hunger Games.
Fingers crossed now...maybe I'll have another full-night's sleep, but I'm not getting my hopes up just yet.
Thanks again to all who pitched in their $000.02000. I'll update here any more results that might be helpful.
Dub
tx_dbs_tx said:
I've never had any notification tone for network/wifi mode changes. I'm not sure why the stock rooted MK4 ROM wouldn't have the same issue but it doesn't or this forum would be full of angry people. I assume you guys are on the stock unrooted MK4 Jellybean ROM? If so, I'm glad I told my wife not to allow the update on her Note 2. I'm currently on stock rooted MK4 ROM and have never had this type of notification. But I would hate it also.
With this all being said, time for you guys to visit the Note 2 Toolkit thread and get rooted! Just one more reason why people prefer to root their devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957155
Once rooted you will need to ask ROM devs for help in removing the network notifications. I'm sure there's an easy way to do this with Root Explorer file manager app but you must be rooted to gain access to the file system. This is my only advice because I'm pretty sure an update will not come soon enough for you guys. Updates come from Samsung then Sprint sits on it for testing etc, then Sprint pushes it OTA. You can root and fix the issue in a few minutes or wait and pray for an update.
Have to admit that rooting is very tempting...thing is, I live in a new area and have no 'guru' type friends here and I'd be concerned that I'd get myself in a corner and not be able to get out. I just don't know enough about rooting to trust myself with doing it to my only smartphone. For instance, does rooting wipe all data completely? I'd have to back up everything I want to keep? And how would I do that backup. Will the memory be re-formatted? How do I know which apps work and which ones don't work on a rooted phone?
Yeah, you guessed it...I'm an old guy...66...and fairly savvy with being a PC/smartphone user...but I haven't studied coding since the mid-eighties and don't remember what I learned about it then. Still, I'm intrigued with rooting my Note 2. Maybe someday.
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DrDubner, the Rooting Toolkit I linked to above is very simple and straight forward to use and it has very clear and easy to understand instructions within the user interface. Basically if you can read you can root your phone with ease. Also there is no need to backup anything on you phone or sd card (although it's always advisable just in case) because the root process does not change, delete, wipe, or alter anything other than enabling root permissions on your phone and flashing an insecure boot image & custom recovery in which you do not have to ever use and will not be visible upon normal day to day usage.
BUT with this being said, I would highly recommend that you do some more homework FIRST and find out exactly which app or system process/app that is triggering the notifications BEFORE rooting your phone. It may turn out to be something that can be fixed without rooting your phone and either way you go about this, you need to know the exact cause of the notifications before doing anything.
Hopefully you can get more specific info about your notifications and post them here for others to help you better. Like I said, I've never had the network notifications that you described... on any ROM stock or custom. Perhaps it's not network notifications and mabye it's a system app or user installed app that is triggering these notifications? Keep us posted so we can get to the bottom of this issue much faster than Samsung/Sprint patch update that may never come.
Yeah I've never heard of this problem. Stock 4.3 and my phone never beeps for coverage issues. Idk to me it sounds like there's an app set up to continue reminding you of an unread notification. Like the Messages app reminder feature. Plus he did say taping on the notification bar stops it so that means one of those notifications on the dropdown is the culprit and when you tap on the bar it resets your notification (no blinking or sounds). Maybe it's time for a factory reset.
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I agree. It does sond like a repeat notification. The notification pull down should give you a clear indication of which app is giving you the notification. Double check notification settings within each suspect app itself. If you can't find it that way then uninstall suspect apps one at a time until you find the culprit. Facebook and other social apps would be a good place to start. Also check Sprint visual voice mail and your messaging notification settings. You might be surprised at the simple cause of this.