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Would it be possible to develop a cab file that would allow you to automatically update the Diamond's weather each time it was connected to a PC? This would be really useful...
AFAIK it's already enabled by default under weather settings page
"Automatically update weather info"
I have the same problem. It updates automatically, but only when it is selected, not when it synchronises.
Very frustrating, cos every time I scroll to the weather app, it freezes for up to 30s whilst it updates. It also adds cost, since it updates over the phone comms if it's not connected.
Could definitely use a tweak here - if only I could find how to do that....
andreapappy said:
AFAIK it's already enabled by default under weather settings page
"Automatically update weather info"
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Yeah this is true but I have deselected this because of network charges. I just would like it to recognise the fact that it is docked and have the facitily to "update weather when connected". This would be real useful..
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Yeah this is true but I have deselected this because of network charges. I just would like it to recognise the fact that it is docked and have the facitily to "update weather when connected". This would be real useful..
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Did you ever figure out how to do this? I don't have an internet plan and don't want to be charged. I sync my phone everynight to my pc so this would defintely be better for me as well.
I agree, a tweak that automatically updates the weather tab ONLY when connected through active sync would be great. This means you have regular updates but no extra charges.
Does this require some advanced scripts or something similar?
Guys,
I have had no feedback yet on this one. And I have no idea as to how it could be done. But the guys out there do I am sure. It would be so useful to have the weather sync over an active sync to PC connection; that way the weather would always be up to date without incurring any GPRS charges (for those of us who do not have 3G data plans!!)
This is sad, I am just writing so that the post will be on the front page. and maybe someone with the required skills will read it and help us out.
Another thing that could be updated when connected via Active Sync ist QuickGPS.
Maybe we should post this in the mortscript thread?
To be honest I don't know what I am talking about.
But I think a lot of people would find a tweak like this quite handy!
"download weather data when connected to a pc
Yes, I agree. Already on the HTC we have the ability to auto download QuickGPS data when connwcted to the PC. If we can do this then surely we should be able to "DOWNLOAD WEATHER DATA WHEN CONNECTED TO A PC". So, i think this could be a very useful add on for our phones...please
I can remember a discussion about this topic. Someone already managed to find the database entries responsible for the weather, but there was no success changing them.
I would also like to see some success, but I think this requires some advanced techniques.
Regards,
Zuzler
imagining when you wake up late in the morning, you pda has automatically updated the weather and receive all the mails when you rush out your house with a sandwich bitten in your month, is that will be great?
hi, i am wondering ,it there a app can:
turn on wifi at a set time, then receive all the email accounts, update the Touch flo 3d Weather and stocks
and even open the browser for the favorite website (news sport)
then turn off the wifi
haha , lazyness~~~
mortscript can
WiFi Locations
About close to what you might be looking for but this app is supposed to be location based
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448783
tricsio said:
About close to what you might be looking for but this app is supposed to be location based
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448783
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thanks any way. but what i want is in a specific time, not a location , i don't want my cell to turn on the wifi when i play with my laptop to drain my battery at home.
i have ur same problem is there any program to turn on the wifi on every 1 hour for 5 min and sync emails and other stuffs right after that???
it would be great if it was able to wake up the device at time interval and:
* turn on wi-fi
* check if there is any free or previously authorized network available
* ability to play an alarm
* update the updatable (or facilities to run/create scripts)
* quit wi-fi
HTC is working on something like push internet..
but lacking of the choice of initiating wifi.
smog said:
it would be great if it was able to wake up the device at time interval and:
* turn on wi-fi
* check if there is any free or previously authorized network available
* ability to play an alarm
* update the updatable (or facilities to run/create scripts)
* quit wi-fi
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Check PocketZenphone. It used to do a lot with profile settings. I gave up on it a while ago. Still going strong, last time I checked.
I'm searching for the same application.
Personally i just have a good data plan.
This kind of thing is done for me all day long...
You looked at SKScheMa?
I tried it before I had a decent data plan. Turned WiFi on at 7:00 am, then ran Egress Update at 7:01 and turned off WiFi at 7:02. That way I had all the latest road/traffic news ready for when I set off for work!
you can still have this very special functionally with mortscript for free.
the language is very easy and intuitive. give it a try.
try g-profile. I'm using it for some of the tasks that have mentioned.
Hmmm it could be done with a bit of playing about with a profile application such as G Profile, ( http://www.ageye.de/ ) then simply set up a time triggered profile that'll turn on your wi-fi and open the programs you want to up date, then swithes to the normall profile (which has the wi-fi turned off) after half hour or so (possibly once your alarm has gone off. You may have to set the programs you want to be updated to update on connect for it to work but basiclly this should get your device to do what you want, it's just a matter of going through your settings
sorry, but forget the profile solution. it wont work. how do you want to tell g profile or another application that it should click on "update now" or "Send/Receive"? there is no way. all you can do is to launch ONE programm. thats all. you cannot define any behavior.
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sorry, but forget the profile solution. it wont work. how do you want to tell g profile or another application that it should click on "update now" or "Send/Receive"? there is no way. all you can do is to launch ONE programm. thats all. you cannot define any behavior.
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Thanks. G-Profile was something I looked at but couldn't get it to work
Anyone got a Mortscript example that could be modified?
True, but if you set the application to update it's slef whenever it's open on update when connected it will
Abram said:
Check PocketZenphone. It used to do a lot with profile settings. I gave up on it a while ago. Still going strong, last time I checked.
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I have happily been using PocketZenPhone for many years, with a variety of HTC devices. However, I can't seem to get it to work properly with my Blackstone. Is there anybody out there who is sucessfully using PZP on their Blackstone?
Abram - did you give up on it for a reason? Did you find another program to use instead?
sounds genius ,
to download all the traffic and mails and weather before i wake up !
man , i need some scheduler like that !
if someone is doing this app , it will be amazing !
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if someone know on important dll , like the DB dll location/name , etc....
please PM me
any help guys?
i'm surprised this tablet does not automatically set the date, time, or time zone from the internet. there is no option under date & time settings. is there anything that i missed?
thanks
krizz07 said:
i'm surprised this tablet does not automatically set the date, time, or time zone from the internet. there is no option under date & time settings. is there anything that i missed?
thanks
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N5100 has the option in Settings/Date and time - Automatically sync date and time, don't know about N5110 - maybe having no 3G it needs third party NTP client? It would be somewhat logical - smartphones sync time with mobile operator, no 3G no operator for N5110
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this sucks, looks like an android limitation. there are clock syncing apps around but it requires root. too bad.
krizz07 said:
this sucks, looks like an android limitation. there are clock syncing apps around but it requires root. too bad.
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Not a WiFi issue (as a previouos post suggested) and possibly not even an Android issue. My old WiFI-only HTC Flyer updates to local time just fine by reading the location from the WiFi network. And unless this is some HTC Sense specific feature, it should be inherent in Android.
I noticed this too on my last business trip to a different time zone. Its disappointed. Really, Android is mature enough that we should be past the point of obvious missing features like this. Either Google or Samsung dropped the ball here. Its not a big deal, of course, just an annoying and silly feature to be missing.
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Not a WiFi issue (as a previouos post suggested) and possibly not even an Android issue. My old WiFI-only HTC Flyer updates to local time just fine by reading the location from the WiFi network. And unless this is some HTC Sense specific feature, it should be inherent in Android.
I noticed this too on my last business trip to a different time zone. Its disappointed. Really, Android is mature enough that we should be past the point of obvious missing features like this. Either Google or Samsung dropped the ball here. Its not a big deal, of course, just an annoying and silly feature to be missing.
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somewhere on the web I've seen official reply from Google to one of the devs, regarding why time sync is not possible without root: "security reasons", so good or bad, it is their conscious choice
it's true that it's not a very big deal since you can set the time manually.
but just to share my story why this caught my attention:
my GF bought an ipad mini and i made her return it and get a note 8.0 instead since it has great productivity apps pre-installed and the usefulness of the s-pen is great with work related functions. So after the first boot up, the first thing she noticed is that the date and time did not sync automatically considering it's already connected to the web and there is no option to sync it. this is not a good first impression because the ipad synced the time ok. this is just a step back and somewhat embarassing for me considering how much i preach to her how good android is.
the good news is she is starting to like the tablet and it seems like she got over it now lol. i just wished google will make it so that their own OS can natively set the time from the internet. if they think that third party apps are security risks, then why not do it within the system itself?
When I first set mine up, it did get date and time automagically.
Over the weekend, it crashed in an odd way and when I got it to talk to me again, it had
- chosen not to display the network it was connected to, despite being connected and on the intertubes
- decided it was December of 2012
I manually set the time to 'pretty close,' then found an ntp client.
Not sure at all what was going on there. I think there's an ntp client baked in but that it can be gorked under some circumstances.
Since rooting this device is easy peasy and gives you access to things like Titanium as well as ntp clients that can synch, my vote is "install framaroot and root away"
But my vote for any device I own is "root away"
I am surprised that after months and fifteen pages of Galaxy Tab S discussion no one has asked this question yet. On a 16GB wifi-only T800 model running the stock 4.4.2 Kit Kat OS, where is the option for the automatic network time synchronization?
I am looking under Settings > General > Date and Time
There is no option for automatic or network time sync. There is only a possibility to set time manually. I could post a screenshot if you wish.
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I am surprised that after months and fifteen pages of Galaxy Tab S discussion no one has asked this question yet. On a 16GB wifi-only T800 model running the stock 4.4.2 Kit Kat OS, where is the option for the automatic network time synchronization?
I am looking under Settings > General > Date and Time
There is no option for automatic or network time sync. There is only a possibility to set time manually. I could post a screenshot if you wish.
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Ya I noticed this too on my sm-t700 I just set the time and forgot about it :laugh:
Well afaik network time sync refers to synchronising the time with a local network cell tower. If you only have wifi you cant possibly sync with the network.
However i do agree that it could easily be achieved via an internet ntp server, but that would be a different option to select and seeing as you can do this by simply installing an app, i guess the choice is left to the user.
Just got my 8.4 wifi yesterday. Opened it up, booted up, and once I connected to my home wifi the time & date auto set. I didn't have to do anything.
ingenious247, perhaps the 8.4 model comes without this issue.
ashyx,
I am personally think that the lack of option for NTP time setting should be treated like a bug. A lot of network protocols and applications rely on time being set accurately. I think nearly every network connected OS for the last 20 years had an NTP client (don't know about Win 95, but NT4 should have certainly had it). Installing a third party app does not correct this issue because you still need to root the device to make this work. I will try to break through Samsung technical support in order to report this as a bug.
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Please post questions in the correct section.
After having a few quick searches, it seems like Android does now use NTP for time synchronization, and so this is not a Samsung specific issue. Supposedly the models with GPS receivers can query the NTP servers, but I don't know if they use that information for setting time or something else. Oh well. I guess I might root my device to install a third party app for NTP support.
Unlike many modern versions of Android, I can find no three-tiered setting for GPS accuracy. I'm looking to set it to "Device Only" but it's either off or on, with a few additional location options but nothing more for GPS.
I'm using lineage 17, the second to last update, on a Samsung Tab 4 and I just want to restrict the device to the system GPS app GPS I've set (but it keeps drifting).
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Unlike many modern versions of Android, I can find no three-tiered setting for GPS accuracy. I'm looking to set it to "Device Only" but it's either off or on, with a few additional location options but nothing more for GPS.
I'm using lineage 17, the second to last update, on a Samsung Tab 4 and I just want to restrict the device to the system GPS app GPS I've set (but it keeps drifting).
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I don't see any android 10 distro with the old settings (high precision/ device only/energy saving)
GApps installed?
kurtn said:
I don't see any android 10 distro with the old settings (high precision/ device only/energy saving)
GApps installed?
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Yes, Gapps installed and working well (version for Android 10, nano),but I'm not sure google settings would change what would be in the device system settings. I guess I'm just looking for some way to force that missing setting without having to resort to tin foil around the device.
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Yes, Gapps installed and working well (version for Android 10, nano),but I'm not sure google settings would change what would be in the device system settings. I guess I'm just looking for some way to force that missing setting without having to reset to tin foil around the device.
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No matter what settings you change, Google knows your location.
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No matter what settings you change, Google knows your location.
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I'm not tin-foil-hat-concerned with Google knowing my location; I'm referring to the systemized GPS app I installed to be able to determine the location I set. Which it can currently, and can usually continue to do when I can set the device to take GPS from "device only". In this case it shows me on the map "rubberbanding" between my actual location and the location I've set about 100 feet away. This is because the OS is allowing the device to try and locate its own location.
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I'm not tin-foil-hat-concerned with Google knowing my location; I'm referring to the systemized GPS app I installed to be able to determine the location I set. Which it can currently, and can usually continue to do when I can set the device to take GPS from "device only". In this case it shows me on the map "rubberbanding" between my actual location and the location I've set about 100 feet away. This is because the OS is allowing the device to try and locate its own location.
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Oh, location spoofing
https://f-droid.org/app/com.wesaphzt.privatelocation
GPS drains battery
With previous (before 17) it was possible to set the location service to be switched on, but only use cell data.
When I use the gps device it drains my battery much faster.
Therefore: How can I leave the location service on, but DO NOT USE the gps device in LOS 17 ????
Thanks in advance
Chris
Chris56 said:
How can I leave the location service on, but DO NOT USE the gps device in LOS 17 ????
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Do you try to spoof your location? And why? What location providers do you have? GApps?
I guess your reply refers to my question.
Maybe I was not clear.
With former LOS versions I was able to explicitly choose whether to use the (battery draining) gps receiver for my location or not.
I have several other sources of location information (gsm cell based and wifi based) usually with less accuracy. But I may prefer theses under certain circumstances because of less power consumption. I Don't use google but microg.
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Do you try to spoof your location? And why? What location providers do you have? GApps?
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No. I am not trying to spoof anything. I have an automation program called Tasker on my S4. When I was on stock Samsung ROM (5.0.1), I was able to use the "location mode" in Tasker to switch between high accuracy and battery save. If Tasker detected I was running Google Maps, it switched on high accuracy. If not, it switched over to battery save. From what I can tell, high accuracy used GPS + network and battery save used network only.
Now, I'm on LOS 17.1 and battery save would turn on GPS too. It seems the only way to not use GPS is to turn off location mode altogether. This makes me wonder what the differences are between Device Only and Battery Save modes. Since I cannot tell, I am assuming both modes are provided for backward compatibility to Tasker users but the underlining Android 10 doesn't differentiate them.
I am suspecting with Android 10, there are only 3 modes.
* GPS + network
* GPS
* OFF
Thus, if one needs the location service, GPS must be used.
I raised this question elsewhere. Some people actually told me that GPS doesn't consume much power if it's just turned on but not being used, e.g. by Google Maps. I have no way to verify if they are right.
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No. I am not trying to spoof anything. I have an automation program called Tasker on my S4. When I was on stock Samsung ROM (5.0.1), I was able to use the "location mode" in Tasker to switch between high accuracy and battery save. If Tasker detected I was running Google Maps, it switched on high accuracy. If not, it switched over to battery save. From what I can tell, high accuracy used GPS + network and battery save used network only.
Now, I'm on LOS 17.1 and battery save would turn on GPS too. It seems the only way to not use GPS is to turn off location mode altogether. This makes me wonder what the differences are between Device Only and Battery Save modes. Since I cannot tell, I am assuming both modes are provided for backward compatibility to Tasker users but the underlining Android 10 doesn't differentiate them.
I am suspecting with Android 10, there are only 3 modes.
* GPS + network
* GPS
* OFF
Thus, if one needs the location service, GPS must be used.
I raised this question elsewhere. Some people actually told me that GPS doesn't consume much power if it's just turned on but not being used, e.g. by Google Maps. I have no way to verify if they are right.
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Network location is not part of lineageOS. You can add it with GApps or microG. Have you?
Enabling location does not power the satellite receivers continuously. It really needs battery. The job of your tasker script is done by android 10 automatically. If you suspected apps to drain battery with GPS, disable their location permission!
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Network location is not part of lineageOS. You can add it with GApps or microG. Have you?
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I'm using Gapps, the nano package. Do you know which one comes with network location? I can't tell because this comparison chart doesn't show it for any packages, https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Package-Comparison
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If you suspected apps to drain battery with GPS, disable their location permission!
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The reason I preferred to keep it on battery save instead of off completely in the old days was that if I ever lost my phone, I wanted to be able to track it. Now with Android 10's mandatory GPS for location service, if I want to disable abusive apps from requesting unnecessary location service, which app should I avoid disabling? Which app is giving out my phone's location if I am tracking it remotely?
Thank you
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I'm using Gapps, the nano package. Do you know which one comes with network location? I can't tell because this comparison chart doesn't show it for any packages, https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Package-Comparison
The reason I preferred to keep it on battery save instead of off completely in the old days was that if I ever lost my phone, I wanted to be able to track it. Now with Android 10's mandatory GPS for location service, if I want to disable abusive apps from requesting unnecessary location service, which app should I avoid disabling? Which app is giving out my phone's location if I am tracking it remotely? Thank you
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I think the answer to both questions is Google play services. com.google.android.gms It's the mightiest app on your phone. I avoid installing it.
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I think the answer to both questions is Google play services. com.android.google.gms It's the mightiest app on your phone. I avoid installing it.
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I still see one drawback with very selectively granting apps location service. For example, I do want to grant Chrome location service to facilitate better search. If I'm indoor, wouldn't GPS without a clear view of the sky trying very hard to get a fix and thus burn more power than necessary? With that said, can High Accuracy (GPS + network) actually be more power efficient under Android 10 than Battery Save (GPS only)? This is assuming Chrome would give up on GPS when it can't get a fix and be happy with just network while Battery Save would keep trying to get a fix with GPS. Again, this is just my assumption.