Constantly "Finding Location" - Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I finally moved back to Android and opted to go w/ the Note 4. While the hardware itself is brilliant, TW is still awful.
My actual problem is this: Every time I power on the screen, it begins "Finding Location" and the notification icon pops up in the tray and the notification bar. This literally happens EVERY time I power the screen back up. It doesn't seem to be affecting battery life, as I'm only using about 25% over a 12hr period (rather impressive, IMO)...but it certainly is annoying. Is this just a by-product of TW?
While I know I can turn off location, I do use a few things that make it optimal to have it on (nav, weather, etc.).
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Having had the Note 10.1 for about 2 years, I really thought I could live with TW. I barely scrape things where I see it on the Note 10.1. However, I'm finding myself rather disappointed with just how ugly it is and how much crap they have messed around with in the Settings world. I'd honestly think HTC had Android prettier back in the original Evo days (Sense > TW...IMO). I'm really on the fence about keeping this handset, and may very well go back to my Lumia 928 for now until handsets with Lollipop drop. I actually like Windows Phone (what is wrong with me!?!) and would have gladly stayed there if they had the apps I want/need (Nest and Sonos).
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It is my understanding that the reason for that is the S Health app. Do you still have it enabled?

ssj4gogeta2003 said:
It is my understanding that the reason for that is the S Health app. Do you still have it enabled?
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Interesting. I'm not using it, but I never disabled it either. Let me give that a go!

I disabled S Health and put the location back to High, and now it never seems to lock in, even after a restart. This makes no sense, as Maps appears to be able to lock in on my exact location quite quickly.
ETA: OH SNAP. I'm such a dolt. Turns out it was a widget looking to pull GPS data for weather EVERY time the screen wakes. I feel like a true idiot.

Ah, I apologize for steering you in the wrong direction. I will make a note of it.

basilray said:
I disabled S Health and put the location back to High, and now it never seems to lock in, even after a restart. This makes no sense, as Maps appears to be able to lock in on my exact location quite quickly.
ETA: OH SNAP. I'm such a dolt. Turns out it was a widget looking to pull GPS data for weather EVERY time the screen wakes. I feel like a true idiot.
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Not an idiot at all, and thanks for letting us know. This is the best way to share info and we all learn!
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GPS stays ON after Root

Hello All,
Just got my Incredible Rooted after some initial troubles. I removed CityID, Footprints, and Peep during the adb shell.
Now my GPS is constantly on when the phone is on. The Icon is always there in the notification bar.
Anybody have any idea why this is? or how to stop it? Its killin my battery. THANKS!
Got it!
Beautiful Widgets was causing the GPS usage. Went away the second I uninstalled it. I am reinstalling now and I doubt it will come back.
Sorry for wasting a thread. Hope this helps any other users.
Mine was doing that too. I dropped the Beautiful Live Wallpaper I was using and rebooted the phone, then the GPS stopped coming on and it seems to be fine now. I still have Beautiful Widgets installed, and never uninstalled it either.
mine seems to stay on. no widgets or anything.
hadisious said:
Hello All,
Just got my Incredible Rooted after some initial troubles. I removed CityID, Footprints, and Peep during the adb shell.
Now my GPS is constantly on when the phone is on. The Icon is always there in the notification bar.
Anybody have any idea why this is? or how to stop it? Its killin my battery. THANKS!
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Tell me if you still have the Google navigation icon.
I don't know if this would work, since I still have not rooted myself (just got back from LA and am setting up a proper dev environment for some real programming first... hopefully =p). But there are several widgets (one in sense, one in base Android I believe) that allow you to switch GPS/wifi/3G data/etc with a click of a button. The android-base widget is called "Power Control" and the HTC buttons can be selected by going to Widgets => Settings, then dragging and dropping which ones you want to use.
I hope the solution can be this easy (although it seems to rarely be, heh).

Smartwatches: Think Tank (Attn: SONY SMARTWATCH, WIMM, PEBBLE, METAWATCH,MOTO

Having extensive experience with both phone watches and BT-enabled watches, I want to make an important remark to firmware/software developers for these devices, more so after having recently acquired a SONY Smartwatch.
It is simple: NOTIFICATIONS NEED TO BE PUSHED ALL THE WAY. ALL GOODS NEED TO BE DELIVERED.
In the Sony Smartwatch, a vibration accompanied by a Gmail logo is useless. Having me awake the watch, click on ‘Events’, click again on the message and only then being able to see the email message defeats the purpose of immediateness. Probably easier for me to reach out to the phone and see what the notification is about.
The right way to go is simple: everything the phone has in terms of message info needs to be pushed to the watch notification:
“Email from John Doe
To [email protected]
Subject: Dinner on Tue
->And the entire body”
Same with SMS, IM notifications, or anything. Having only the SMS or Gmail or Whatsapp logos and have to hunt down for the message in the watch is absurd.
The way the MBW-150 worked offered way more info at a glance; Sony is moving backward with this minimalistic notification approach. More is needed.
Secondly: let me disable BT on the watch (say when batt is low or overnight) without forcing me to shut down the device -> no time telling anymore.
Third: watch brightness needs to be adjustable from the watch itself (let me manage battery life myself, I’m a grown up).
Fourth: an audio beep won’t kill anyone. When I’m driving, for instance, I cannot feel the phone vibration. A CASIO-style ‘beep-beep’ cannot hurt. While I understand this may involve additional hardware and pose operational complexities, this is a nice-to-have feature.
First two remarks are KEY, and I’d appreciate not only Sony but everybody involved in such development to think a bit smart before pouring a fortune into development.
Anyone has anything else worth highlighting?
Thanks
Sure dude. But first things first... I would scream that let these things display the clock at all times. Failure to do so defeats the whole watch disguise!
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Which app are you using to get Gmail notifications?
jairmoreno said:
Which app are you using to get Gmail notifications?
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I am messing with Customnotifier, GMail notifier (not 2), and RSS (which works best but drains the battery on the phone if set to frequent checks).
In any event, on the watch I only get an icon on the screen, no further info.
Rgds
Well they are moving in the right direction. With the updated firmware, that was released today, you are able to do a couple more things. You now have an option of leaving new watch faces on at all times. Also with notifications, you can now single tap the new notification icon and it will take you straight to the notification!
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Well they are moving in the right direction. With the updated firmware, that was released today, you are able to do a couple more things. You now have an option of leaving new watch faces on at all times. Also with notifications, you can now single tap the new notification icon and it will take you straight to the notification!
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Yes indeed. Touchscreen seems a tad more responsive now also, more polished.
Still, notifications need to appear spontaneously -no need to tap- and bightness should be adjustable -too much backlight for me; always staying indoors.
But it's a good step fwd and the app in the phone is more efficient.
Hi, I'm Considering buying this watch simply cos I'm a geek I guess, but, if it is possible for sony to update the firmware/create new apps, and others also to create new apps etc, isn't it almost inevitable that more detailed notifications will be developed eventually? Or am I wrong, is it up to just sony to develope new apps etc, meaning we'll have to wait for just them to decide, taking ages etc? (Unlinke the wimm one for example)..
It does look great, but I agree, notifications really MUST include details, and if this is a future possibility, then I'll get one. (Mainly due to the wimm one not being on sale over here yet! Arrghh!)
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Hi, I'm Considering buying this watch simply cos I'm a geek I guess, but, if it is possible for sony to update the firmware/create new apps, and others also to create new apps etc, isn't it almost inevitable that more detailed notifications will be developed eventually? Or am I wrong, is it up to just sony to develope new apps etc, meaning we'll have to wait for just them to decide, taking ages etc? (Unlinke the wimm one for example)..
It does look great, but I agree, notifications really MUST include details, and if this is a future possibility, then I'll get one. (Mainly due to the wimm one not being on sale over here yet! Arrghh!)
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The notifications seem detailed to me I mean you see the icon if you want to read the message tap the icon once. I like the screen always on update but I won't use it often since I rather have the battery last through the week.
I've checked back ever so often and there new apps popping up so I think development will only improve. Its honestly one of my favorite phone accessories I would recommend trying it out.
general forceps said:
Yes indeed. Touchscreen seems a tad more responsive now also, more polished.
Still, notifications need to appear spontaneously -no need to tap- and bightness should be adjustable -too much backlight for me; always staying indoors.
But it's a good step fwd and the app in the phone is more efficient.
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I agree I can't wait til they update to allow adjustment of of the backlight. The notifications I find using the MMS notifier over Sony's I get no delay in the notifications. The Gmail notifier app I use for Gmail sends me the notice without delay also.
Have you looked at the Metawatch at all? That ended up being my choice. Waiting for delivery.
RedRamage said:
Have you looked at the Metawatch at all? That ended up being my choice. Waiting for delivery.
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Good choice RedRamage. I have the analog Metawatch and expect the new iOS digital version any day. Latest phone console release and functions here
OP - fullly agree with the "at a glance" concept. Metawatch provided this for me and I have the Sony, WIMM, original Liveview and MotoACTV also.
Only very recently I was able to stop using MetaWatch and switch to the Sony only for this. See my blog @ augmentedtraffic.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/finally-true-real-time-at-a-glance-notifications-on-sony-smart-watch (you need to cut & paste into a browser since I have < 10 posts).
I use Tasker/K-9 combined with my app to get "at a glance' on a SonyWatch!
I am still testing battery life, but it seems OK. I haven't put the app on the market as yet as it is very customized to my use cases and it may be a bit too much for others to use. The only thing I am currently missing from the MetaWatch is the next upcoming appointment. I have everything else I was using (notifications at a glance, phone battery life, location, weather). I even added my last Withings scale weigh-in
Ok, I've got both of the 1st Gen MetaWatch models (The bt2 Analog and Digital ones), and maintain a popular fork of the Android MW software (see link in my sig), so I'll try and answer your points in relation to that watch.
1) Yes, MW will display your notifications as soon as the phone does - gmail is a little tricky as google keeps changing/modifying/revoking permissions with the official gmail app, so the information available to the watch manager app can be a little sketchy. If you use k-9 mail, you'll see the sender and subject. It doesn't display body text yet, but that is doable. Gmail would also be fixable by just making the app go to the gmail server directly and pull the message text when the new mail notification comes in.
The fork I maintain has an "Other notifications" Option, that lets you selectively display any android notification, although the OS limits how much information we can actually pull. If anyone has requests for additional notification support, then I'm happy to try adding it, assuming the developer of the app has provided intents or an api to access that information.
Currently notifications will stay on screen for a few seconds, then disappear (except for the SMS notifications, which, on the digital watch can be set to stay on screen until dismissed, as you can see the full body, and scroll) - On the digital watch you can configure a button to redisplay the last notification again if you missed it, and there's an on watch menu of all the previous notifications which is only a few button presses away.
2) Yes, all the MW models have a menu option (on the watch) that let you disable BT without turning off the watch, so you can still tell the time
3) Yes, the Analog MW model has menu options to configure the OLED brightness. There's nothing to configure on the Digital model, as it has an always on LCD screen (though there's an option in my fork of the app to automatically turn on its light when a notification comes in)
4) The MWs don't have a speaker, but they do have a powerful vibrator inside - it's pretty hard to miss it when it does vibrate, and the app lets you configure different vibration patterns for different notifications, so you can know what sort of message it was without even looking.
Let me know if you've got any other questions!
MW has some very good stuff, I'm quite familiar with it.
Pity -both for MW and SW- is the poor pixel density. I believe MOTO has a much better display.
B/W displays appear sub-optimal to me and definitely not the direction the market wants to move toward.
Also, beyond the immediate 'at-a-glance' notification, can you read within the watch the full email or notification in MW? This is also a key element.
One more topic I missed on SW is that once connection is lost we need not only vibration but some on-screen display, like a warning sign or something. This feature prevented me from leaving behind a SGSII in a bar when I was using my ancient MBW-150. Vibration won't typically suffice.
I survive 2.5 full days with heavy notification traffic with my SW. How long you stay unplugged with MW under heavy traffic?
Thanks for the good discussion.
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Also, beyond the immediate 'at-a-glance' notification, can you read within the watch the full email or notification in MW? This is also a key element.
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As I said, the current software doesn't support that, but it's something I'm planning on adding.
SMS messages currently support this - you can page through a long message, then dismiss it when you're done, so I just need to add the code to pull out (and strip html from) the body text - I know for certain that it's easily possible using k-9 mail, gmail will probably need work to talk to google's mail server directly to get the message text.
general forceps said:
One more topic I missed on SW is that once connection is lost we need not only vibration but some on-screen display, like a warning sign or something. This feature prevented me from leaving behind a SGSII in a bar when I was using my ancient MBW-150. Vibration won't typically suffice.
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Yes, it'll display a "No watch connection" icon in the top right of the time display, which is pretty hard to miss!
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I survive 2.5 full days with heavy notification traffic with my SW. How long you stay unplugged with MW under heavy traffic?
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I tend to get 2 or 3 days, depending on what I'm doing - 3 days for medium traffic, 2 for heavy traffic (usually when I'm developing features, so pushing lots of data to the watch)
3 days = Taken off the charger on Monday morning, needs to go back on the charger Wednesday evening before I go to bed.
I could probably get much longer battery life if I manually turned bt off each night, and back in the morning, but I like having my watch vibrate in the morning when the alarm goes off! Perhaps adding a "bt sleep" mode to the firmware would be a good addition.
How long does your battery last on the Sony Smartwatch if you keep the small digital clock on at all times?
I've had my watch a little over a week and haven't been able to make it through the day yet even with minimal notifications. The battery life has been very disappointing.
@benjymous:
I forgot to note that I shut it down when I go to sleep. In the morning I turn it on with no pairing issues, so we'd be looking at 18h/day actual uptime, for a total of say 45h per charge. Not stellar by any means.
@tjrhine:
It didn't even cross my mind to have the screen on full-time. It is obvious you won't make it tremendously far (I think the bat has a capacity below 130). No way. I push the button to get the time, I can live with this.
I also need to report that the glass is far from scratchproof. That's something that really pisses people off. Next HW release should DEFINITELY include at least Gorilla Glass and certainly a bigger battery. The thickness of the plastic clip and the strap can be each reduced by about half a millimeter that combined gives you 1mm that they should invest in a bigger capacity batt.
And obviously, a standard usb port.
Please keep ideas coming folks, thanks.
And this is how the notification queue should look like:
http://www.slashphone.com/media/data/767/inPulse_SmartWatch-2.jpg
I'm having exact same problem - Battery lasts barely 8-10 hrs. Do we need replacement watches?
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And this is how the notification queue should look like:
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Looks like chinese product

smart stay

The smart stay has been a hit or miss for me. Can anyone make the screen stay with mere movement alone? This would be helpful when reading in low light situations. I am not interested in shaking but utilizing theaccelerometer, if we can keep the screen bright, then camera limitations could be avoided.
Thank you in advance.
You can look up smart stay ex lite and paid version in play market to see if the dev would look into that. Or it might already have it. XDA reviewed it before on the main page.
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thank you very much for the response I shall contact the developer and get some more information thank you once again.
I use screebl.
It is orientation based, rather than using the camera to detect eyes. Smart stay didn't last long with me.
Screebl basically keeps the phone on when in a non-horizontal or non-vertical orientation... So like smart stay, you can set your timeout to 15 seconds, and not play the keep alive game. It also has a mode to detect non-movement so that if you leave it in an "active" orientation, but there is no movement at all, it will timeout and shut off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgFuUu0oxg
Smart stay seemed to work well for the first few days but is now more miss than hit. For now I have just used tasker to increase the screen timeout on certain apps that I'm more likely to reach a timeout before I touch the screen. Of course, if you don't already have tasker, it is kind of pricey to buy just for that purpose.
I'm going to try screeble.. tho smart stay seemed to work, i like this idea better?
if you go in the camera app and look at your self using the front camera, you have to keep it at a somewhat far distance in order to get a full head shot of yourself.
If smart stay is enabled and you keep it at the same distance as when using the camera app it actually works. But with that said it to far away from the eyes and makes it far to read.
I have to keep it almost half my arm distance away in order to make smart stay work, which is someone of a let down in bad light such as a bus etc.
The other thing i have noticed if you keep the sgs at eye level the camera may not see you face/eyes and may just be seeing your forehaed and thus does not work.
I personally use screebl. I have had the pro version for a couple years and would never consider not having it. The default setup works great for me.
Also there is the application "screen on" that will keep the screen on when an application is opened or device plugged in.
I have taster, but i do not like how it will allow the screen to dim. I have not found a way around that.
Thank you very much for this very useful tip. I tried it just now. It worked very well.I have deactivated smart stay application. thank you once again.
Smart Stay seemed to be stuck on my phone yesterday... I didnt know what the eye icon was on my phone so looked on here to see it was teh smartstay feature, but for some reason mine would stay on the top toobar and wouldnt go away... I couldnt get it to turn off so finally had to reboot my phone to deactivate it.. my battery was discharging at an outrageous rate....from full charge to low battery warning in three hours...dont know if thats what caused it or not, but today I took my phone off the charger at 7 am and its 215 now and I still show 75% battery left??

Pixel Stand Not Working - No Slideshow or Shifting Ambient Screen

The Pixel Stand is not working as designed. When I place it on the stand and set it up to do photo frame/slideshow, nothing happens. It just sits on an ambient screen and doesn't even move around that ambient screen to avoid screen burn-in.
I spent a good amount of time on a remote session with Google with doing various cache/data cleans and removing updates and things like that and nothing is resolving it.
I also had a problem completing setup with my Google Home Hub and I am wondering if perhaps this is a Google Assistant issue. The Google Home app kept prompting me to complete the step to Enable VoiceMatch and it would just go into a perpetual PLEASE WAIT. I had to grab another non-pixel 3 phone to complete that setup in the Google Home app.
It charges but does nothing else as it should.
Anyone else encounter this?
I just received my Pixel Stand as well. During setup I set it to turn on the Always On Display when on the stand. However, like you, I'm noticing that it just sits there with the same screen, just dimmed. I'm afraid of premature screen burn in because of this.
So, I tried turning 'Always On Display' while on the Pixel Stand off but that option is nowhere in settings. Under Settings > Display > Ambient Display, it's turned off but still stays on when on the stand. So it has to be a second setting somewhere else. I just can't find it and I've dug through everything. Until I can figure this out I'm hesitant to even use the Pixel Stand.
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I just received my Pixel Stand as well. During setup I set it to turn on the Always On Display when on the stand. However, like you, I'm noticing that it just sits there with the same screen, just dimmed. I'm afraid of premature screen burn in because of this.
So, I tried turning 'Always On Display' while on the Pixel Stand off but that option is nowhere in settings. Under Settings > Display > Ambient Display, it's turned off but still stays on when on the stand. So it has to be a second setting somewhere else. I just can't find it and I've dug through everything. Until I can figure this out I'm hesitant to even use the Pixel Stand.
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This for sure isn't the fix but I did a factory reset and this time when I set up the stand, I got a new prompt that I didn't see the first time...it was about Google Assistant...completed the setup and bam, it works. Even the ambient display dims better. So, as I kind of suspected, it was a Google Assistant issue.
for the record, you can find the settings at: settings > connected devices > previously connected devices > then tap the cog next to 'pixel stand'
Yikes. I really don't want to factory reset. My setup screens all worked perfectly fine. It's just that during the setup, when it asked me to enable Always On Display while the phone is on the stand, I said 'Yes'. Now I can't turn it off. If I have to factory reset to fix that I'm going to be quite annoyed.
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Yikes. I really don't want to factory reset. My setup screens all worked perfectly fine. It's just that during the setup, when it asked me to enable Always On Display while the phone is on the stand, I said 'Yes'. Now I can't turn it off. If I have to factory reset to fix that I'm going to be quite annoyed.
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see my above reply, then simply forget the stand, and re-add it again with the settings you desire.
uicnren said:
see my above reply, then simply forget the stand, and re-add it again with the settings you desire.
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I'm not sure how I missed your comment but that did the trick. Thanks!
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see my above reply, then simply forget the stand, and re-add it again with the settings you desire.
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Cant wait to try this when I get home. My google photos only show about 50% of the time. I was trying to show my wife the "awesome" pixel stand and it didnt work lol hope this fixes my isssue.
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Cant wait to try this when I get home. My google photos only show about 50% of the time. I was trying to show my wife the "awesome" pixel stand and it didnt work lol hope this fixes my isssue.
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My photos only showed up once = and then never again and I couldn't figure out how to get them to show again. Will try Forgetting in Connected Devices as recommended above - shouldn't have to jump thru hoops to make an 80 dollar charging stand do it's tricks
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My photos only showed up once = and then never again and I couldn't figure out how to get them to show again. Will try Forgetting in Connected Devices as recommended above - shouldn't have to jump thru hoops to make an 80 dollar charging stand do it's tricks
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I found that forgetting and adding back didn't resolve this...a full factory reset was my only fix...something wonky going on with their software. Hope it gets updated soon.
garak0410 said:
I found that forgetting and adding back didn't resolve this...a full factory reset was my only fix...something wonky going on with their software. Hope it gets updated soon.
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Me too - watching my photos while the phone is charging is not worth a reset to me - but it might be enough to make me want to return the damn charger - 80 bucks and this is what we get? Damn!
Geekser said:
My photos only showed up once = and then never again and I couldn't figure out how to get them to show again. Will try Forgetting in Connected Devices as recommended above - shouldn't have to jump thru hoops to make an 80 dollar charging stand do it's tricks
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Me too - watching my photos while the phone is charging is not worth a reset to me - but it might be enough to make me want to return the damn charger - 80 bucks and this is what we get? Damn!
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I've thought a lot about the stands...beyond the slide show, I really don't want "always on" all the time...and there is no way to turn it off unless room is dark. So it truly may not be an $80 value, though most OEM wireless chargers are pricey. I just prefer the OEM accessories. I'd still be on a Note 9 if the camera wasn't such a letdown.
Not very happy with my $80 wireless charging stand so far, so hoping that future software updates will fix: 1) Photo frame only working in a lit room, 2) Time not moving around screen (like clock screensaver) and notifications not appearing unless I double tap to view regular lock screen. Fingers crossed...
ogarlen said:
Not very happy with my $80 wireless charging stand so far, so hoping that future software updates will fix: 1) Photo frame only working in a lit room, 2) Time not moving around screen (like clock screensaver) and notifications not appearing unless I double tap to view regular lock screen. Fingers crossed...
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Agreed...the only notifications that appear over the slideshow or ambient screen is text messages. Nothing else pops up.
Guess I'm trying to understand the concern with screen burn-in though. The dim stand mode is not much different than the typical always on display screen, so how could it make the phone more susceptible to burn-in?
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Guess I'm trying to understand the concern with screen burn-in though. The dim stand mode is not much different than the typical always on display screen, so how could it make the phone more susceptible to burn-in?
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strange, the pixel stand puts the clock and notifications in one place and doesnt move them around.
is there a way to make the clock move around the screen?
shouldnt the clock be moving instead of always in the middle?
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garak0410 said:
I found that forgetting and adding back didn't resolve this...a full factory reset was my only fix...something wonky going on with their software. Hope it gets updated soon.
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did the clock start moving around afterwards?
i cant get the clock to move around teh screen even after a fact reset.
The only workaround I've found for now is to turn on the standard clock screensaver from settings, which is a moving dim clock, however it cancels the extra functionality of the stand app.
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The only workaround I've found for now is to turn on the standard clock screensaver from settings, which is a moving dim clock, however it cancels the extra functionality of the stand app.
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so everytime we dock we'd have to start it manually?
abit counter intuitive, seems like this was rushed without much of it thought through
I dont know if anyone else is really REALLY let down by the amount of continual problems with regard to the Pixel 3?? I mean wow, there are all kinds of problems again with this phone??? I have had the og Pixel, Pixel 2, and the Pixel 3 and each phone has had more than its share of problems. I have noticed that the "Pixel" excitement has calmed down a lot too probably because of these problems. I had a Galaxy S9 before this Pixel 3 and NEVER had any issues with it at all. I mean this is "Google" shouldn't we expect more?? Or has everyone just come to expect problems and the usual answers of "fix incoming", "thats not a bug its a feature", and my favorite "were looking into this" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beginning to miss my op6 right about now haha
just forget the pixel stand and don't go through the set up and it keeps the display off while charging.
other than that this phone is great,I do notice it's a littleslower than my op6 sometimes (opening apps sometimes instant sometimes not, maybe an EAS feature) but I think that's because my op6 had a kernel installed from the get go.

Question Bug or Rogue App?

For the past...3 days...my new Google Pixel 6 Pro has decided that 7 am is a good wake up time for me (the cats don't mind, they get fed earlier). It's not an alarm though, there's nothing to disable on the screen, and talking to the assistant to "disable alarm" does nothing. It starts at 7 sharp and crescendos until it ends at 7:02 exactly.
I looked through threads, and couldn't find anything similar, so am wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this?
I know I had something similar, and there have definitely been similar reports previously in this section, although it's not Pixel 6-specific, and might not even be Pixel-specific at all. Check the "Bedtime" tab at the bottom right of the Clock app. Although in that case, it did show up as a separate alarm as well when I had it enabled.
Thanks for the thougth - that wasn't even enabled yet on my phone. Go figure, yesterday (my birthday as it were), I woke up on my own at 3 am and it never went off. This morning though? Back to the shenanagins. At this point I'm about ready to throw my hands in the air and just SET my normal alarm to 7!
As much of a pain it can be, I think if I were in your shoes for much longer, I would consider a factory reset. Either that or we could trade phones - my wake up time is 7 AM most mornings. j/k
Rask40 said:
For the past...3 days...my new Google Pixel 6 Pro has decided that 7 am is a good wake up time for me (the cats don't mind, they get fed earlier). It's not an alarm though, there's nothing to disable on the screen, and talking to the assistant to "disable alarm" does nothing. It starts at 7 sharp and crescendos until it ends at 7:02 exactly.
I looked through threads, and couldn't find anything similar, so am wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this?
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Do you use Tasker? If so, I think the "Use Reliable Alarms" setting needs to be disabled, although this may relate to another clock/alarm issue and not the one you're having. Can try it anyway.
Lughnasadh said:
Do you use Tasker? If so, I think the "Use Reliable Alarms" setting needs to be disabled, although this may relate to another clock/alarm issue and not the one you're having. Can try it anyway.
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Sadly, not any more. I had previously removed Join (by I think the same author) because it meant going through adb and even then it didn't always work properly.
So, set my "normal" alarm to 7 am tomorrow. We'll see if that overrides the annoying alarm with my normal alarm. If so, I guess I just...deal with getting up at 7 am? Yay? My writing partner will appreciate that if it means I get more writing done...
When I flashed a13 beta 4.1 , I rebooted the device after root and this clicking sound came out of my p6pro, with no way to stop it. It got louder as it went too, scared me a bit
It was the alarm that must've been backed up to my Gmail or something. All I could do was flash the firmware again.
Rask40 said:
So, set my "normal" alarm to 7 am tomorrow. We'll see if that overrides the annoying alarm with my normal alarm. If so, I guess I just...deal with getting up at 7 am? Yay? My writing partner will appreciate that if it means I get more writing done...
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Does the one that you don't intentionally have use a different alarm sound, or anything else different about it (what the icon and/or alarm screen when it's going off)?
Yeah, finish Game of Thrones, will ya?
roirraW edor ehT said:
Does the one that you don't intentionally have use a different alarm sound, or anything else different about it (what the icon and/or alarm screen when it's going off)?
Yeah, finish Game of Thrones, will ya?
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Yeah, it's got a beep that steadily increases in volume and frequency. BOTH went off at 7 am this morning, with me disabling MY alarm in relatively short order (have to solve a math problem) but the rogue one going until 7:02.
Haha, I wish I was that successful. I'd be happy to just break even on a book at this point!
Rask40 said:
Yeah, it's got a beep that steadily increases in volume and frequency. BOTH went off at 7 am this morning, with me disabling MY alarm in relatively short order (have to solve a math problem) but the rogue one going until 7:02.
Haha, I wish I was that successful. I'd be happy to just break even on a book at this point!
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When you got your phone did you install your apps from a backup, maybe from another phone? Also, do you have an old calendar event that may be triggering this?
Yes, I installed from my old phone, a Motorola One 5G Ace. It didn't really do it as a backup, which I thought was odd, but paired the two phones somehow.
I have no events on my calendar at 7 am. Any of my calendars, actually. I just went through them all and checked. I don't think I have any truly oddball apps - though I did have to switch to one new app with the transition to this phone. Pure Calendar Widget was no longer available, so I went to the paid version of Business Calendar. That doesn't appear to have any alarms associated with it.
I'm really at a loss. And as much as it would annoy me, I'm debating the factory reset. But if I restore from a backup, wouldn't I just be restoring the same problem back into place?
Rask40 said:
Yes, I installed from my old phone, a Motorola One 5G Ace. It didn't really do it as a backup, which I thought was odd, but paired the two phones somehow.
I have no events on my calendar at 7 am. Any of my calendars, actually. I just went through them all and checked. I don't think I have any truly oddball apps - though I did have to switch to one new app with the transition to this phone. Pure Calendar Widget was no longer available, so I went to the paid version of Business Calendar. That doesn't appear to have any alarms associated with it.
I'm really at a loss. And as much as it would annoy me, I'm debating the factory reset. But if I restore from a backup, wouldn't I just be restoring the same problem back into place?
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If you installed/transferred from an old phone, I'm wondering if you have an app or setting or something that got transferred over that is causing this. Maybe a system app that doesn't show up in the user app list or something.
Yeah, I wouldn't restore from an old phone or backup. Seen people have problems when doing this. A clean flash, imo, is always best when setting up a new phone, including clean installing all your apps. At least it will eliminate any problems that may have been caused by restoring old app data, etc...
See, part of my issue is I don't want to lose voicemails etc. My Mom died 2 months ago, so I want to make sure I keep those messages as long as I can...
I guess I go back to removing apps that I don't use consistently until I find the one causing issues.
I'll find out in several hours for sure, but I think I have been completely missing the mark blaming my phone (and it goes to show my hearing perception is fading) ... I got a new atomic alarm clock at the end of last month. After the beeping alarm went off this morning and my head happened to be turned in a different direction, I went over to that alarm clock and the alarm was turned on. Sigh. I've turned it off, but I bet you that solves my issues.
Boy do I feel like a moron now...
Not much help but when it goes off go to settings and look on notifications and should show rouge app that way maybe also you could try do not disturb mode but alarms could over ride it
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I'll find out in several hours for sure, but I think I have been completely missing the mark blaming my phone (and it goes to show my hearing perception is fading) ... I got a new atomic alarm clock at the end of last month. After the beeping alarm went off this morning and my head happened to be turned in a different direction, I went over to that alarm clock and the alarm was turned on. Sigh. I've turned it off, but I bet you that solves my issues.
Boy do I feel like a moron now...
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Wow, glad you found the cause. That's all that matters.
A couple of years ago, for weeks I kept getting woken up by a noise which I was assuming was related to our cat (even though it was a new and regular noise). I finally found it was our spare refrigerator's icemaker accidentally got turned on, and I don't have that fridge hooked up to the water, so it kept trying to make ice out of air, and that fridge is on exactly the opposite side of the wall I sleep on. Not the same thing as your situation, but man, now the one or two times after that I heard that noise, I went straight to the spare fridge, and it was always that the icemaker accidentally got turned on, but it doesn't happen anymore, as we both now know to double-check that "arm" that turns it on after we're done in that fridge's freezer.
That alarm didn't go off this morning (shocker, right?) ... but I must have had a night terror that woke me up earlier, because I SWEAR I experienced my "normal alarm" (having to solve a math problem to turn off the alarm) and when I looked at the clock it was 6:43. I had adjusted my normal alarm back to 8:15. Needless to say I was up far before that point!
Great, so this stuff is driving me so nuts it's freaking me out in my sleep!

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