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Skype on Galaxy Nexus signs Off automatically

Hello to everyone,
using always skype on my GN from the beginning, my skype signs off when my screen goes off, I dont know when exactly, but my contacts on skype says that I'm always on and off from skype...
any ideas why? Im still testing if this is on wi-fi, 3G or both....but sometimes when I open skype, on the first screen, instead of the cloud with the arrow (saying that you're online) appears the cloud empty (like if you're invisile or offline)..
I dont know.. my settings on skype are never to go offline.,...
any help, please
thanks

HcMAX said:
Hello to everyone,
using always skype on my GN from the beginning, my skype signs off when my screen goes off, I dont know when exactly, but my contacts on skype says that I'm always on and off from skype...
any ideas why? Im still testing if this is on wi-fi, 3G or both....but sometimes when I open skype, on the first screen, instead of the cloud with the arrow (saying that you're online) appears the cloud empty (like if you're invisile or offline)..
I dont know.. my settings on skype are never to go offline.,...
any help, please
thanks
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I have been using Skype since day 1 and use it constantly. I have never seen that behavior. COuple things I would try:
Go to Settings -> Apps -> Skype -> Clear data (also clear cache)
Remove Skype and reinstall.
If still does not work, I would repeat the above, boot into recovery, wipe Dalvik (and perhaps cache as well) and the reinstall.
Usually, that steps above seem to always get rid of weird behavior for any misbehaving apps.

Thanks
Done that and not good.
Still the same...
I don't know, probably its that thing when screen goes off...after a while the data connection goes off...affects also gtalk and Gmail notifications...
Its strange ....
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hi,
have you tried settings, wifi, the three little dots on the lower right, advanced, keep wifi on during sleep, ALWAYS ?
on ICS stock it worked fine, skype and everything else too stays logged in, push-messages get through. AOKP currently is still giving me the same problems you describe, though.

Yes I've tried that with Wi-Fi....also happens when I'm on 3G
Is there any option to able or disable data connection when screen goes off?
Check this
http://community.skype.com/t5/Android/Skype-for-Android-signs-out-itself-after-some-time/td-p/1198
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Are you using the AOPK rom?
If you are then disable the power saving feature.

Nope
I'm using bigxie build 9 rom...
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Possible fix for grey (gray) signal bars

I have an LTE Verizon Gnex - and have rooted and installed the 4.0.4 rom.
Since then I have been plagued with gray signal bars - both WiFi and data and have not seen any fix.
What is the symptoms of grey bars - well in my case all apps (Google) worked - but i was not getting push gmail etc - just new emails when i synced etc.
I noticed that although my Google accounts all said synced - my Google Currents App - when i synced it manually never finished and the icons were white squares and not images.
So i don't know if the following was a 'currents' issue - but it could be any Google app is not syncing fully so check them all.
steps to return blue bars - I don't know which step actually worked - but this is everything I did
wipe currents data
uninstall currents
clear data in Google Services Framework
uninstall updates to google market
clear cache & data for Google Market
reboot - now i had blue bars at this point and gmail pushes worked again
update apps
install currents
set up sync
all good
this worked for me - so please report back - hope this helps someone
EDIT - just tried this on my Transformer Prime with Virtuous Rom - and got blue bars back as well !!!!!

I had Google services background disabled and had greyed out bars. Once I enabled background data i had the blue bars again. Hope that helps.

Not sure if what you're experiencing is a bug/other problem, but just to prevent more confusing posts about what the color of the signal bars means... There's a lot of misinformation about this on the net.
Blue (or Green on Honeycomb) - Active connection to Google servers, Idle.
Gray - No Internet Access, OR, no connection to Google yet.
This is explained in the Android Users Manual PDF. I can dig up the exact quote if you really need it.

The confusion sets in when you receive an email with a Gmail account, and have grey bars.
What then, is a reasonable explanation (honest question)? I have seen it reported more than once.

adrynalyne said:
The confusion sets in when you receive an email with a Gmail account, and have grey bars.
What then, is a reasonable explanation (honest question)? I have seen it reported more than once.
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grey bars - can get gmails arrive when you force a sync
blue bars - as a mail arrives at gmail - it pushes a notification real time to your device
that to me was the difference

The reports I saw were not people forcing syncs...

Well for me it worked for the time being. Clearing android framework and market + a reboot. Many thanks to OP.
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Robi-K said:
Well for me it worked for the time being. Clearing android framework and market + a reboot. Many thanks to OP.
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yup - I didn't really intend a discussion as everyone's problem maybe different - more a "this is what worked for me" - glad it did for you too.
I've seen loads of people complaining about this - and no fixes - so here's one that might work for you.

I usually toggle airplane mode and reboot.
1. Turn on Airplane Mode.
2. Reboot
3. Turn off Airplane Mode
4. !??!?!?!?!
5. PROFIT!?!?!
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yup - but this did not work for me

I've been having this issue since I updated to the 4.04 radios. Loading the 4.02 radios back does not fix it. Google services does eventually connect, but it takes 5-10 minutes.
When I switch to wifi or 3g, the bars blue out immediately.
The problem only exists on 4g.
I've tried all the tips on this page, nothing helps. Any further suggestions?

Thanks
Clearing the framework and market worked for me as well. Many thanks!

+2
is definitly the best solution
greetz benji

stephen44 said:
I have an LTE Verizon Gnex - and have rooted and installed the 4.0.4 rom.
Since then I have been plagued with gray signal bars - both WiFi and data and have not seen any fix.
What is the symptoms of grey bars - well in my case all apps (Google) worked - but i was not getting push gmail etc - just new emails when i synced etc.
I noticed that although my Google accounts all said synced - my Google Currents App - when i synced it manually never finished and the icons were white squares and not images.
So i don't know if the following was a 'currents' issue - but it could be any Google app is not syncing fully so check them all.
steps to return blue bars - I don't know which step actually worked - but this is everything I did
wipe currents data
uninstall currents
clear data in Google Services Framework
uninstall updates to google market
clear cache & data for Google Market
reboot - now i had blue bars at this point and gmail pushes worked again
update apps
install currents
set up sync
all good
this worked for me - so please report back - hope this helps someone
EDIT - just tried this on my Transformer Prime with Virtuous Rom - and got blue bars back as well !!!!!
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Thanks, this worked for me and this was the only Google search result I found that had this information. I did not have Currents installed, so I skiped those steps; so the magic bullet to get the blue bars back may be one (or all) of the other steps.

Grey bars means you aren't connected to google servers.
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joshnichols189 said:
Grey bars means you aren't connected to google servers.
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we know this - but getting connected to the google servers is the issue and helps resolve this.

awsome!!!
thanks alot! this worked great for me!
you saved my phone from being repeatedly thrown aggressively on variant objects which lay around my house!

gerberman said:
thanks alot! this worked great for me!
you saved my phone from being repeatedly thrown aggressively on variant objects which lay around my house!
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yw

Thank you!!!
I've been running around for almost a week now with greyed out signals and just blamed my from build. Fix worked for me. Now I can be bugged by groupons without having to sync manually!

Please ignore this post.

[Q] Browser reading

Hey XDA.
A couple of guys i know have a problem with their browser reading the text out loud in the adress bar, where the URL are.
The problem came after updating to 4.04, they haven't installed any new apps, neither did they use a dock.
Anyone else having this problem? Or a fix?
//reffer2

Sounds like you may have the "TalkBack" option turned on.
You can find this under: Settings > Accessibility (phone settings, not in your browser)
It is at the very top.

No. It's turned off

Try checking the accesability settings with the atachment featires being down right now i cant sopw you my settings but pm me and ill send a screenshot.
On the googlenexus channel at youtube theres a series of instructions on accesibility. Seems that when you start the device the first time and draw a rectangle on the screen it will activate the accesibility features for blind people.
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Ps if you only have this in browser get chrome ^_^ since you are 4.0 you can get it
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Hey.
We figured out the app "light flow" was causing the troubles.
After uninstalling it, everthing worked flawless. We tried reinstalling it, and it still works.
So something must have went wrong, but it is working now

Jellybean: Voice search / typing hangs on initializing sometimes

does anyone else have this problem? I have the language pack enabled. I've tried it with and without personalized recognition. just doesn't seem to work. It happens when I'm online or offline randomly it seems.
If I'm using voice to text it will just show the microphone and just get to a picture of a microphone, never turns red, never says tap to talk.

same thing for me
phydo said:
does anyone else have this problem? I have the language pack enabled. I've tried it with and without personalized recognition. just doesn't seem to work. It happens when I'm online or offline randomly it seems.
If I'm using voice to text it will just show the microphone and just get to a picture of a microphone, never turns red, never says tap to talk.
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was running fine last night but now its no longer working.
i did install some files today that may have broken it? (or server issue?) but i cant remember which programs i installed or i dont know how to reverse it.
let me know if you get a fix. i'd rather not format and reinstall everything again.
I've got a nexus 7 16GB, stock ROM, unlocked rooted, (was all this yesterday while it was working)
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wahooza said:
was running fine last night but now its no longer working.
i did install some files today that may have broken it? (or server issue?) but i cant remember which programs i installed or i dont know how to reverse it.
let me know if you get a fix. i'd rather not format and reinstall everything again.
I've got a nexus 7 16GB, stock ROM, unlocked rooted, (was all this yesterday while it was working)
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not sure if this fixed it... uninstalled Tasker, rebooted and it started working again. (not sure if its the reboot, or tasker.... reinstalled tasker and its still working)...
.maybe the reboot

wahooza said:
was running fine last night but now its no longer working.
i did install some files today that may have broken it? (or server issue?) but i cant remember which programs i installed or i dont know how to reverse it.
let me know if you get a fix. i'd rather not format and reinstall everything again.
I've got a nexus 7 16GB, stock ROM, unlocked rooted, (was all this yesterday while it was working)
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not sure if this fixed it... uninstalled Tasker, rebooted and it started working again. (not sure if its the reboot, or tasker.... reinstalled tasker and its still working)...
.maybe the reboot
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Interesting.
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phydo said:
does anyone else have this problem? I have the language pack enabled. I've tried it with and without personalized recognition. just doesn't seem to work. It happens when I'm online or offline randomly it seems.
If I'm using voice to text it will just show the microphone and just get to a picture of a microphone, never turns red, never says tap to talk.
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I noticed the same problem and read somewhere that you can download the "offline speech recognition" language pack to see some improvement. That didn't work for me but so far what seems to be working is changing the setting for "Choose input languages" by deselecting "Automatic" and selecting "English (US)" only. Not sure if this will fix the problem in the long term but for now it seems a lot more spiffy.

ferrari355f1 said:
I noticed the same problem and read somewhere that you can download the "offline speech recognition" language pack to see some improvement. That didn't work for me but so far what seems to be working is changing the setting for "Choose input languages" by deselecting "Automatic" and selecting "English (US)" only. Not sure if this will fix the problem in the long term but for now it seems a lot more spiffy.
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Thanks for this. You know I've really meant to do some logcat work and see what it is but it seems to happen so randomly. My nexus seven doesn't do it. I'll let you know how it makes out in the long term
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I've been having this same issue, but it only seems to happen when my phone is docked with Bluetooth on. I thought it possibly might be something to do with the phone trying to enable the Hands Free Profile for the voice input, but that's just a wild guess at this point. It comes right up when the phone is undocked/bluetooth off.
I also found this related issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35737

Wade-0 said:
I've been having this same issue, but it only seems to happen when my phone is docked with Bluetooth on. I thought it possibly might be something to do with the phone trying to enable the Hands Free Profile for the voice input, but that's just a wild guess at this point. It comes right up when the phone is undocked/bluetooth off.
I also found this related issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35737
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Interesting also. I do use Bluetooth for a car - cell link. It will happen whether or not Bluetooth is connected, I know that much. As for if it only happens when Bluetooth is *enabled*, I don't know.
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phydo said:
Interesting also. I do use Bluetooth for a car - cell link. It will happen whether or not Bluetooth is connected, I know that much. As for if it only happens when Bluetooth is *enabled*, I don't know.
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Star this issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35737

Solved!
Still no fix coming from Google, but at least one nice guy made a temp fix while they do it.
Look for "Voice Command" app on Google Play. Developer's name is IT-DEV-CROWD or code(dot)google(dot)com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42178#c37
It worked for me, after trying a lot of different configurations.

Broken apps on 4.2

Running 4.2 on my gsm gnex so far it has been pretty good but I have a few apps that no longer work properly listed below. What apps do you have that don't work properly.
MoBill - restoring backup fails and adfree not working- fixed developer updated the app
Slacker radio - cached stations will not play.
CWM recovery not seeing back ups.
If some make a list from this post I will paste it in this post so it is at the top.

MXPlayer gives a version unsupported error.
though this was the case during the last update too so i'd imagine they'd fix it soon

Firefox crashes upon start up on my sisters nexus 7. I assume its broken on galaxy nexus as well.
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ChompSMS does not work on my GNEX with 4.2

Llama Location profiles keeps crashing on me. And dropbox doesn't auto upload photos anymore.

i upgrade my nexus to jelly bean 4.2 this morning and now my amazon appstore app keep logging out after i sign in, anyone know how to fixed the problem? Thanks.

This is why you guys should wait a week or two for app devs to catch up.
However, its really annoying that Google would make it so that its possible for an X.1 update to break app usage altogether.

SuperUser (3.1.3 and 3.2RC3) both don't work. It seems to be something broken in the su binary related to multiuser settings. (check logcat)
SuperSU is fine.

starbucks fc
Yup...on 4.2 Starbucks app f/c's when you open it....haven't tested my coffee card yet

Deezer doesn't work.
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Bs player network smb video streaming is broke, but dice player recently added 4.2 support and using that exclusively
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Dolphin Browser Beta is not working. Exiting when trying to visit any website.
Also, I used EZ Phone Tools for Vibrate on Call Receive. It is now not working. Currently there is no single app for this purpose which works correctly with 4.2
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Sweet Home Picture backup and other similar applications can't connect to home network any more.

papago m9 FC once it is open...

wingswrath said:
Yup...on 4.2 Starbucks app f/c's when you open it....haven't tested my coffee card yet
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+1

Not Working Properly in 4.2:
Holo Launcher HD (unresponsive dock)
TunesRemote+ (iTunes remote - crashes randomly on 4.1.2-4.2)
Dragon Voice (Nuance voice control - won't link with other apps)
BeeJive IM Pro (IM Client - constant crash loop upon start)
Falcon Widget was just fixed by the developer. They added a pointless lockscreen widget, but at least they fixed the regular widget as well.

eman5oh said:
Running 4.2 on my gsm gnex so far it has been pretty good but I have a few apps that no longer work properly listed below. What apps do you have that don't work properly.
MoBill - restoring backup fails and adfree not working
Slacker radio - cached stations will not play.
CWM recovery not seeing back ups.
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Exchange Services process is draining my battery that I can't even charge it from a PC / laptop, only a wall charger can charge the phone while this service is running, and the battery drains within 2-3 hours ( 4 hours at night when nobody uses it )

cikasfm said:
Exchange Services process is draining my battery that I can't even charge it from a PC / laptop, only a wall charger can charge the phone while this service is running, and the battery drains within 2-3 hours ( 4 hours at night when nobody uses it )
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Exchange service is eating up my battery too. Not on as alarming scale as yours though.
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USAA app does not work.
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nickzkcin said:
MXPlayer gives a version unsupported error.
though this was the case during the last update too so i'd imagine they'd fix it soon
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Taking them some time to get the update for MXPlayer up. Been waiting all day now..
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