Does using Google+ INSTANT UPLOAD feature cause high battery drain?
My phone used to be able to go into DEEP SLEEP mode but ever since I turned on G+ Instant Upload feature, my phone looks like this:
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NOTE: The phone is NOT actually uploading anything at the time of the screen shot. G+ Instant Upload uses tons of battery just doing nothing! The battery was 100% and the phone was in sleep mode the whole time.
Is this happening to anyone else? I'm on Kang milestone 1. How do we let Google know that their G+ app sucks?
I don't see this myself.
I'm on 4.0.2 and using the latest Google+ app.
I can see that Google+ has the potential to cause problems if it were trying to upload photos on a poor connection.. that could certainly explain similar the behaviour you saw.
ditto. I used Google + upload feature once. Until I realized it uploaded a ton of crap to Google I really didn't want online. I specifically opted to not upload automatically. I didn't even notice it until I bought my son a nook tablet for Christmas. Hacked it of course, and in the Gallery was a ton of photos from Google plus. Glad I found them when I did.
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The choice is there for all to choose.
Personally I use Android and Google+ mainly for this feature. I think it suits my needs well to have every photo I take uploaded to Picasa (now Google+) in a private album ready for sharing when I need to.
But.. if it's not for you, disable instant upload.
xyzulu said:
The choice is there for all to choose.
Personally I use Android and Google+ mainly for this feature. I think it suits my needs well to have every photo I take uploaded to Picasa (now Google+) in a private album ready for sharing when I need to.
But.. if it's not for you, disable instant upload.
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I like the feature. It's nice having automatic cloud backup of your phone gallery. But, it's not nice when the phone screen is off, it's not loading anything and yet drains the battery like no other.
After using CPU spy, I also noticed that it's not going into DEEP SLEEP anymore.
I turned of INSTANT UPLOAD for now to see if it can DEEP SLEEP again.
I haven't had any problems on 4.0.2 with current Google+ I only allow my photos to be uploaded via wifi.
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Actually it's the messager+ feature of google plus that ran away with the battery on mine even though I never used it. It was constantly using the battery running something called the friend locator service in maps. I think it was latitude. I killed it and disabled latitude (which I never enabled) and my battery skyrocketed.
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Don't have this problem and I use that feature a lot. Maybe try reinstalling it. Or have it set to not upload on battery.
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jsntrenkler said:
I haven't had any problems on 4.0.2 with current Google+ I only allow my photos to be uploaded via wifi.
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That's what I'm going to try next. My phone was DEEP SLEEPING just fine before this.
BTW, I think this is an ICS issue. My friend's Evo 3D DEEP SLEEPS just fine with INSTANT UPLOAD enabled all the time.
BTW, there is no indicator as to when instant upload is uploading pictures, so you wouldn't actually know when it is.
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BTW, there is no indicator as to when instant upload is uploading pictures, so you wouldn't actually know when it is.
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Are you sure? Cuz on mine, it actually said, "uploading 212/398"
But when it was done, it had no message and I hadn't taken any new images or video.
I set it to upload on charger only, so it upload nightly on my nightstand. No problem what so ever.
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Don't have this problem and I use that feature a lot. Maybe try reinstalling it. Or have it set to not upload on battery.
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Same here. I use it all the time and never have an issue with battery drain. I do have upload on wifi only turned on too.
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Are you sure you're using the latest version (2.3.1.242969)?
For some reason the latest G+ update doesn't show up in the "Apps that need updating" list.
You have to manually search it in the market and then you'll see that there is an update.
I had the same issue as OP where Google+ was taking approx 66% of battery even when the phone was idle, and I had not been actively using Google+ previously. I assumed that perhaps instant upload was uploading the rest of the pics that I manually placed in the DCIM folder, but never bothered verifying.
In settings->Appls, I noticed that I could disable Google+ which is what i did, since then battery life is awesome! (you may need to un-install a Google+ update before getting the 'disable' option)
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Are you sure? Cuz on mine, it actually said, "uploading 212/398"
But when it was done, it had no message and I hadn't taken any new images or video.
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Did you manually force it to upload your library? Because normally when it uploads by itself there's no notification.
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I have Instant Upload via cell data and wifi turned on and never have any issues with phone not deep sleeping. GSM version here.
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i've always had instant upload on and i take alot of pictures and google+ only uses a minimal amount of battery around 2% on my phone
BruceCLin said:
I set it to upload on charger only, so it upload nightly on my nightstand. No problem what so ever.
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Me too!
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Does using Google+ INSTANT UPLOAD feature cause high battery drain?
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I had the same issue once. Found that G+ was trying to upload several large videos along with my pictures. I had set it to upload only via wifi... The videos were really big and never uploaded but the battery drained just like the OP. I had to move the videos from my camera folder to another one. Once the videos got out of the camera folder, the battery drain stopped and haven't had any other problems since.
I wish Google would give an option to upload videos. I love the instant upload feature...but hate it does not let you opt out of uploading videos.
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When I share photo's on Google Plus, they only share as very small images. I don't think it used to happen on my SGSII and it isn't happening on my brothers Nexus S using the same network and all.
There are no settings within the app that I can see. Am I alone in this, or is it a Galaxy Nexus issue?
Anyone know why it would be doing this?
I have also noticed this.
It only seems to upload 320x240 pictures to Google+ if you upload manually. If instant upload is enabled, it uploads full size pictures. But this is of no use to those of us who do not want to upload every picture to Google+ via Instant Upload
I don't think that's it. I've had instant upload on for most of the week and it's posted them as small images. I've then turned them off today and just shared from my phone and they're still small.
Just now I've sync'd all images from my phone, when sharing one of them from my laptop, it posted a full size image.
Confusing...
I have to say - that's not consistent with my experience.
I have found that when using instant upload, my pictures are full size. But when not using instant upload, all pictures are 320x240. like this
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For me over the past few days, it hasn't helped either way. For a week I've been on instant and that's when people have pointed out to me my pics are small I've swapped to not instant... same issue.
Well, it is a most annoying bug. I had noticed though, that even on the Nexus S it would only upload small images when on manual upload. My Nexus S would upload 640x480 pictures though, strangely.
picture taken and uploaded from Nexus S
Smaller images here too. Manual upload.
Must be a Nexus bug
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Make sure your Google+ is updated. Recent update introduced high resolution pictures I believe.
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Make sure your Google+ is updated. Recent update introduced high resolution pictures I believe.
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Yeh I was going to say this, make sure it's updated.
I just got a brand new Galaxy Nexus GSM from the Play Store and all my images are being uploaded to Google+ as 320x240. I called 1-855-83-NEXUS (63987) and the support rep suggested to transfer them to my computer and then upload to Google+ from there. He didn't even suggest to turn on instant upload and do it that way which is far easier anyways.
Anyways, point being that this is stock ICS (4.0.4) with latest G+ app and this is happening by default. Is anyone else who purchased this from the Play Store having this issue?
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I just got a brand new Galaxy Nexus GSM from the Play Store and all my images are being uploaded to Google+ as 320x240. I called 1-855-83-NEXUS (63987) and the support rep suggested to transfer them to my computer and then upload to Google+ from there. He didn't even suggest to turn on instant upload and do it that way which is far easier anyways.
Anyways, point being that this is stock ICS (4.0.4) with latest G+ app and this is happening by default. Is anyone else who purchased this from the Play Store having this issue?
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Working now, it actually took the images I previously uploaded (320x240) as well and made them original resolution. I just tested a fresh upload and it was there within seconds and original resolution too. Not sure what happened but I am glad it is working.
I had this problem as well with the most updated Google+ and current Android Version 4.0.4.
Previously I had Google+ restored with Titanium Backup and it was registered as a system app.
The solution was to forcefully remove the Google+ app via Titanium Backup and install it fresh from the market.
Same thing on EVO
AndyCr15 said:
When I share photo's on Google Plus, they only share as very small images. I don't think it used to happen on my SGSII and it isn't happening on my brothers Nexus S using the same network and all.
There are no settings within the app that I can see. Am I alone in this, or is it a Galaxy Nexus issue?
Anyone know why it would be doing this?
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This isn't unique to the Nexus, I think it's an issue with Google+. It has been happening on my Evo 4G with MIUI ICS. I just flashed back to MIUI GB and am getting the same results with the latest G+.
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I had this problem as well with the most updated Google+ and current Android Version 4.0.4.
Previously I had Google+ restored with Titanium Backup and it was registered as a system app.
The solution was to forcefully remove the Google+ app via Titanium Backup and install it fresh from the market.
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Thanks it now works
Had the same problem, on my SGS2 - only very small pictures on G+ when uploaded directly from the phone. Stock ICS and latest G+ app.
I resolved it by going to going to the market - un-installing all the G+ app updates and then immediately updating to the latest version again.
Just thought I'd add this info, since you can do this without even having root on the device.
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I had this problem as well with the most updated Google+ and current Android Version 4.0.4.
Previously I had Google+ restored with Titanium Backup and it was registered as a system app.
The solution was to forcefully remove the Google+ app via Titanium Backup and install it fresh from the market.
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That did the trick for me too, thanks.
thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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sorry mate can't see ya pic
switch to manual updates.
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thanks to this data usage feature on ics it warned that i was close to 10gb. i had no idea. its the pure news widget. thankfully i have unlimited data. but anyone have any idea how this is happening? i only have 3 news sources.
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Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...
That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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That is ridiculous, how often was it updating
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for a few days every few hours even though i had it set to 30 minutes it didnt work right. now its been updating every half hour and still the same crazy data. i mean its only a few lines of text for each article. i only have 10 newest showing. it doesnt make any sense. something has to be going on in the background that i dont know of.
hory chit
the battery life was probably terrible if it used this much :/
That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.
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i havent yet. i have a a little thumbnail image next to the text. this is just strange.
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holy crrrrap....9GB
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This must be a bug, the app developers wouldn't want everyone with their app using this much data from their servers every week!
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Google should log the average amount of data an app can use and write it on the market...
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Good idea.
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That's crazy! Have you mailed the developers? It must be images or something, text couldn't add up to that. Maybe leave it connected to your wifi and run wireshark or something (if you've got an adapter that will run promiscuous mode properly) - maybe you can see what it's doing...
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Images? Forget about images, this has to be downloading high quality videos to get to 9GB.
I have some serious security concerns about what this app is doing. You should try to sniff the data and see how much its sending versus receiving. I'd be curious to know what IP addresses it is communicating with. Did you install it directly from the market?
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Just read the comments on the market for this app. One other person reported it using 833 megs in 10 hours. That was back in July.
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It over 9000! (MB)
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I used to use pure messenger and calendar widgets without any surprises. That is insane though really...
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Maybe it is a bug in ICS's data use report? Try to contact your carrier to check if you have really used 9GB in the last month.
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You should contact the developer, he is very responsive and provide good support.
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Hi,
I am the dev of this app.
1. when you have such trouble, please contact me by email (hopefully somebody did).
2. check if it load images and images sizes. It doesn't load 'thumbnails' from the websites, but full images if thumbnails are not available ... so, if the website use big images of 2Mb ... it can goes quickly.
3. disable widget cache if it was enable
4. here is my widget with 3h refresh period and 8 feeds :
http://pureapps.planethoster.org/images/presentation/pne_data.png
5. if you use the internal viewer, all browsing you does in the viewer is counted ... video streaming, downloads...
@deekjx : For comments about 'security concerns', dump the UDP/TCP trafic if you want, there is nothing hidden. But, please, be careful before publishing such comments. Now, if the app doesn't come from the market, you can be right... few users reported Pure calendar hacked bersions containing viruses because they got it from a 'forum'.
Please, email me logcats just after a manual refresh to check what is wrong.
Same for me too
Switched to manual update worked fine. contacted dev through market
Anyone else notice higher battery usage from Google Maps with UCLH1 based stock ROM as compared to UCLG1 stock?
I've disabled all the Location Services and still seeing it as the highest battery usage. If restore back to UCLG1, battery usage looks "normal" again.
Would be interested to see what others are seeing....
There's got to be something wrong with the latest maps. I have a user at work on an HTC Rezound that had serious reboots because of it. It's a known issue amongst Rezound and Sensation users and the latest Google Maps.
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There's got to be something wrong with the latest maps. I have a user at work on an HTC Rezound that had serious reboots because of it. It's a known issue amongst Rezound and Sensation users and the latest Google Maps.
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Possibly a combination of the latest updates along with ROM version; possibly phone... ???I don't have the problem on 2 HTC One X phones I have or when I revert back to UCLG1 based ROM, very strange.
Would be nice if others would chime in on whether they're seeing the same problem and under what conditions.
Yes it appears to be a combination of the new ICS release for the Rezound and the newest maps.
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Anyone else notice higher battery usage from Google Maps with UCLH1 based stock ROM as compared to UCLG1 stock?
I've disabled all the Location Services and still seeing it as the highest battery usage. If restore back to UCLG1, battery usage looks "normal" again.
Would be interested to see what others are seeing....
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Yes! Maps keeps a partial wake lock due to the network locator process. I'm not switching back so I need to find a way to fix it on H1
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You should be able to find an older version and install it.
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"Autostarts" from the market can disable maps. (still works normally if you click on it)
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Possibly a combination of the latest updates along with ROM version; possibly phone... ???I don't have the problem on 2 HTC One X phones I have or when I revert back to UCLG1 based ROM, very strange.
Would be nice if others would chime in on whether they're seeing the same problem and under what conditions.
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I'm on LG1 still and latest maps. I also notice high utilization for it.
Maps
I noticed earlier today that Maps was a big part of battery use. Went ahead and disabled GPS will hopefully notice something positive after next couple battery cycles.
This might not solve but seems to help -
Go to Maps, Settings, Location Settings, unchecked report my location from this device. Reboot.
It still runs in background and has wake lock but no where near as close to what it was doing before. I think this is just the way the new maps is so we may have to wait for the next release to hopefully fix it
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mobilehavoc said:
This might not solve but seems to help -
Go to Maps, Settings, Location Settings, unchecked report my location from this device. Reboot.
It still runs in background and has wake lock but no where near as close to what it was doing before. I think this is just the way the new maps is so we may have to wait for the next release to hopefully fix it
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Per my original post, I've already disabled all Location services, this does not resolve the problem when using the latest H1 ROM. I've now reverted back to G1 stock (using the same Google Maps) and no longer having the problem, so obviously a bug with the last leaked release; probably why it hasn't been officially released yet. Also, I didn't gain much updating to the H1 release and can't stand the display brightness option on the drop down.
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I'm on LG1 still and latest maps. I also notice high utilization for it.
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With H1 stock ROM I was upwards of 50%-60% utilization, now with stock G1 and the same Map version I'm only at 2%-5% (I do have Location Services enabled), so obviously an issue with the latest H1 release.
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With H1 stock ROM I was upwards of 50%-60% utilization, now with stock G1 and the same Map version I'm only at 2%-5% (I do have Location Services enabled), so obviously an issue with the latest H1 release.
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I was at 40% yesterday but after un checking the box and rebooting. This is today on H1. So obviously not an issue with H1 for me at least.
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I was at 40% yesterday but after un checking the box and rebooting. This is today on H1. So obviously not an issue with H1 for me at least.
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Correct, but my comment was in regards to having the Location features ENABLED... with G1 stock ROM, this feature enabled is utilizing very little battery as compared to the very high usage when on the H1 ROM.
EDIT: Looks like you need to run the Cell Standby patch..
I've attached a screen of my battery usage with Location services enabled with the G1 ROM, as you can see very low.
RiPpeR_dUdE said:
Correct, but my comment was in regards to having the Location features ENABLED... with G1 stock ROM, this feature enabled is utilizing very little battery as compared to the very high usage when on the H1 ROM.
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Dude all my location services are on, look. It's working fine
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Dude all my location services are on, look. It's working fine
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Not going to debate with you, you just stated in your previous post that you were at 40% until you unchecked it and rebooted.... maybe I mis-understood exactly what you meant.
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Not going to debate with you, you just stated in your previous post that you were at 40% until you unchecked it and rebooted.... maybe I mis-understood exactly what you meant.
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I unchecked the box in maps that says report my location from my device. No clue what this does as it still runs in background and location services work. Location history still works. As this screenshot shows maps is still keeping my phone awake and using gps but for whatever reason it doesn't drain battery like yesterday. Can't explain it but just saying that the truth
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That setting is required in order for latitude to work correctly and follow you.
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That setting is required in order for latitude to work correctly and follow you.
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Right, so I turned that off but all other location services are on including location history. I don't use latitude so doesn't bother me to turn that off.
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I can find it in Play Store, it says installed, when I open it it just opens Talk.
Has anyone got it working yet? If so, how?
I downloaded it thru the web store and it pushes and works just fine
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i went to the webstore. but it says its intsalled on my nexus device already.
i cant seem to make talk turn into hangouts
Thanks mate
I had to manually remove Talk through Titanium Backup & instal from Play Store. It works now :good:
Now time to get used to it :cyclops:
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I can find it in Play Store, it says installed, when I open it it just opens Talk.
Has anyone got it working yet? If so, how?
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Same thing happens to me. Not only on my gnex(using CM10.1) but also on my note 10.1. I've tried to disable/reboot but nothing seems to work.
Same issue here. Can someone attach the .apk?
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Try using titanium backup, or root explorer to delete talk from system/app, reboot and then download and install. If that doesn't work here's the apkhttps://copy.com/Ue2Qj
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Apk worked. Thanks! I don't like deleting anything from system if I don't have to. Usually have update issues down the road if I do.
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Apk worked. Thanks! I don't like deleting anything from system if I don't have to. Usually have update issues down the road if I do.
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Glad I could help
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best way to install it is ! install titanium backup > uninstall the stock google talk and then go to play store and install the new one works awesome
my convo with @Misledz on hangout
Greetings people! Newbie here
Anyone having issues with video calls?
I followed the titanium backup method to install the app and now video calls go through both Hangouts AND Google+ app as well.
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Anyone having issues with video calls?
I followed the titanium backup method to install the app and now video calls go through both Hangouts AND Google+ app as well.
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@gizmo9002 It seems that the video calls can only go through on the WiFi and not over cellular right now... Try using it over WiFi to confirm.
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@gizmo9002 It seems that the video calls can only go through on the WiFi and not over cellular right now... Try using it over WiFi to confirm.
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@freezer2000 i was on WiFi
So there is no way to see which contacts are online using this right?
If you're on a computer, go to Google plus page and turn hangouts on, there is a green line under the picture of contacts who are online. My list of contacts that show are just frequently used ones though. I know this isn't the same but maybe it will show up in the app soon.
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If you're on a computer, go to Google plus page and turn hangouts on, there is a green line under the picture of contacts who are online. My list of contacts that show are just frequently used ones though. I know this isn't the same but maybe it will show up in the app soon.
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Strangely, no contacts show in my G+ hangouts sidebar either. Maybe it isnt implemented in my country or something. Because I removed the talk app from system and downloaded hangouts....
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Strangely, no contacts show in my G+ hangouts sidebar either. Maybe it isnt implemented in my country or something. Because I removed the talk app from system and downloaded hangouts....
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Mine comes and goes. If I log off hangouts and close g+ and wait a couple minutes usually the contacts show up after I go back into it.
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Mine comes and goes. If I log off hangouts and close g+ usually the contacts show up after I go back into it.
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Well its just been a day it rolled out. Hopefully all this will get ironed out eventually. Till then, i'm back to talk
I like it but i am stressing because I don't know when persons are online or not
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It doesn't show status messages, status, nor does it allow you to set either one. This is a terrible step back from Google Talk. Not to mention it forcibly lumps all of your Google+ contacts in with your GTalk contacts.
That doesn't help me. I don't talk to those people. I use GTalk to talk to a select few people who have limited SMS per month and one person who uses a tablet with mobile data and a dumbphone.
Google really dropped the ball with this pile of junk app. The new iteration of the Music app isn't any better. They've been cocking everything up since the horrid 4.2 lockscreen abomination.
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Just setting this up in my note to see if it does what it claims
I'm not a fan of battery saver apps at all so I'm skeptical right off the bat
but this is from xiam... and it's free... and it has some interesting stuff packed In there so what the heck
it takes 4 days of "learning mode" before it starts battery savings based on your usage
anybody made it thru the 4 days yet?
I see people in the comments going from 10 hours to 18 hours battery life with moderate use but that doesn't make sense to me... This app looks like it's constructed to save battery when the phone is not in use and I don't really have that problem... i lay my phone down at night with 97% and I wake up in the morning with 96%.... how you gonna gimme 30% increase on 1% drain?
But I'm still curious anyway...
Thanks for giving it a test run for the rest of us. Looking forward to your results. I'm using Greenify now so a comparison would be cool.
Also if the guru works with system apps as well.
If something is too good to be true... It usually is?
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This is pretty awesome. Not going to lie
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Going to try it out also, I'm tired of my note dying when I'm at work.
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I'm assuming we should check this if we use the module Boot Manager? And obviously not greenify it? Sorry probably stupid questions but I'm unsure.
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It seemed to slow my phone down or made it laggy
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It seemed to slow my phone down or made it laggy
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Me as well, plus I suddenly had an ad video play out of the blue. Uninstalled and never had another one . Can't say it was for sure the app, but never had one before or after.
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So I've had it in my Note for 2 days now... not having any problems with lag or anything like that... still showing 1day 19hrs until the battery savings kick in based on learning mode... (funny reading the comments in the play store "had this running for 3 days and it doesn't help at all!!! Uninstalled!!!"... we'll duhhhh... it never made it out of learning mode ya goofballs)
But anyways... i noticed my battery actually draining a bit quicker during this learning phase ... whatever... I'm just being patient and following the instructions and we'll see in a couple days how this plays out.
I installed also and am awaiting to see how it goes. I will post findings later also..
b00mb00mchuck said:
So I've had it in my Note for 2 days now... not having any problems with lag or anything like that... still showing 1day 19hrs until the battery savings kick in based on learning mode... (funny reading the comments in the play store "had this running for 3 days and it doesn't help at all!!! Uninstalled!!!"... we'll duhhhh... it never made it out of learning mode ya goofballs)
But anyways... i noticed my battery actually draining a bit quicker during this learning phase ... whatever... I'm just being patient and following the instructions and we'll see in a couple days how this plays out.
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My lag didnt start till learning mode was over
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any updates for those that have passed the 4 day mark?
Okay I have passed the 4 day mark after installing this it does help a lil not much If you look in the apps form the aplication it only stops services on what you use the most so if yo inly open a few apps during the learning process its not going to do much but if you open every app you have constantly you will get a much better chance of the app stoping other services you may or may not need
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Didn't do anything for me at all... but there's probly a good reason why...
i run my Note bare bones as it is... Beans ROM heavily Debloated... no sync apps running... no facebook/no twitter/no magazine etc... no location services running unless i need them for something... only thing that starts and syncs data would be an email app and Gmail ... this snapdragon app basically tries to save you battery whenever you are not using the phone but i already have mine set up to do that all the time anyway so it didn't help at all... basically just another app running all the damn time.
I would think this app is for the casual user who doesn't take command of their device in the first place (or doesn't know how) or has a bazillion things always running and can't be bothered always trying to control them all. Nothing to see here for the power user who's always on their device or users like me who stripped it all down to beast mode.
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Didn't do anything for me at all... but there's probly a good reason why...
i run my Note bare bones as it is... Beans ROM heavily Debloated... no sync apps running... no facebook/no twitter/no magazine etc... no location services running unless i need them for something... only thing that starts and syncs data would be an email app and Gmail ... this snapdragon app basically tries to save you battery whenever you are not using the phone but i already have mine set up to do that all the time anyway so it didn't help at all... basically just another app running all the damn time.
I would think this app is for the casual user who doesn't take command of their device in the first place (or doesn't know how) or has a bazillion things always running and can't be bothered always trying to control them all. Nothing to see here for the power user who's always on their device or users like me who stripped it all down to beast mode.
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Same here for me. I just uninstalled it. I have rom toolbox and other things running also, so I am in the same category as you. It doesn't seem to do a whole ton for me and my device.
Guys thanks for the information. Looks like I will just stick to Greenify. Maybe I will recommend to my friends that don't root and know much about their phone.