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I posted this in NilsP's Business GingerSense thread, but don't think it's a ROM issue, more of a Google Talk issue. Running the 2.0 version of that ROM.
The issue is where Google Talk shows all your contacts as Offline after a period of say five to ten minutes, maybe shorter than that. I'll be messaging someone, and after a few minutes when they haven't responded, I'll wake my phone and open GT. All the contacts are Offline. A simple sign out/sign in fixes that, and the usual contacts show Online or Away.I've noticed this all week, so I'm thinking it's a GT issue, but I've never had it happen before.
Don't want to have to sign out/in every time I want to use it. Cleared GT cache, fix permissions, multiple wipes of data/system/cache/boot/dalvik/user data before each ROM install, and haven't had this before now.
Thoughts?
EDIT: After playing, it happens when switching from 3G to WiFi and vice versa, so maybe it is a ROM thing...?
i'm having the same issue. noticed after my gingerbread OTA update from verizon.
Droid 2.
It seems to happen a few minutes after logging on.
I also have that issue with Gtalk. After some time all contacts appear to be offline, but only when I'm on data connection and not on wifi.
There is still no solution for this?
Cheers!
carapauzinho said:
I also have that issue with Gtalk. After some time all contacts appear to be offline, but only when I'm on data connection and not on wifi.
There is still no solution for this?
Cheers!
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Me too. Anyone was able to do something?
Well I've since moved on, and haven't noticed it on other ROMs. Right now I just tested toggling Wifi on and off, and the contacts would appear offline, then come online once 3g or wifi connected.
I'm thinking in my case, it was that version of the ROM I was running at the time.
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Just a thought, check any task killers / managers and make sure talk is unchecked. I had the same problem a long time ago and ATK was the culprit. Haven't had the issue since and I have used almost every Rom possible at one point or another
Sent from my Incredible Stock+v2.6 Ginger Tiny
dragon droid said:
Just a thought, check any task killers / managers and make sure talk is unchecked. I had the same problem a long time ago and ATK was the culprit. Haven't had the issue since and I have used almost every Rom possible at one point or another
Sent from my Incredible Stock+v2.6 Ginger Tiny
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True. Right after I rooted over a year ago, I had an issue with the alarm clock not going off intermittantly, and coincidentally I was using ATK at the time. After reading that ATK could be the issue, uninstalling it fixed the issue. Since then, I don't actively kill tasks, but I do have System Panel installed just in case.
I'm running Stock+ v2.6, and since moving on from v2.0 of NilsP's ROM where I had the initial issue, I haven't noticed/had the problem.
RMarkwald said:
True. Right after I rooted over a year ago, I had an issue with the alarm clock not going off intermittantly, and coincidentally I was using ATK at the time. After reading that ATK could be the issue, uninstalling it fixed the issue. Since then, I don't actively kill tasks, but I do have System Panel installed just in case.
I'm running Stock+ v2.6, and since moving on from v2.0 of NilsP's ROM where I had the initial issue, I haven't noticed/had the problem.
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Hi,
Me and the other user are I9000 users. No task killers. We're trying to figure out if its a stock / custom ROM issue (since we're both using the same ROM), or some app forcing GTalk to sign out, or even a network problem (we both use the same mobile operator).
Thank you both for your input.
If you're on a stock ROM (you're both rooted right?), back up your ROM and flash another just to see if it happens in something different.
RMarkwald said:
If you're on a stock ROM (you're both rooted right?), back up your ROM and flash another just to see if it happens in something different.
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Yes, we are.
The thing is that it seems to me that it happened only after XXVJR (meaning it happened to me in XXJVS and XXJVT, and now we're already at XWJVU, all these being Samsungs "leaks"), and I have a friend with XXJVS that works just fine.
I even tried flashing a stock ROM, to see if it happens again. Testing that one now.
Thanks for your advice.
Same problem here.
Although I have not tried it with stock non rooted phone...
I'm having the same problem on a stock rooted Motorola Photon. Very annoying to have to sign out and back in to see who's online. Hopefully someone comes to the rescue with a solution.
Hi,
The only thing I could find is that the problem is, indeed, NOT in the custom ROM's. It's google's problem.
The only way I could get by was with an alternative IM. And, for me, the better is Trillian (taking battery, performance, etc. in consideration.)
I updated my software which included an updated gtalk with video..so far so good.
crs77 said:
I updated my software which included an updated gtalk with video..so far so good.
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Mine got better with one of those. But it ended up all the same.
DarkSorcerer said:
Me and the other user are I9000 users. No task killers. We're trying to figure out if its a stock / custom ROM issue (since we're both using the same ROM), or some app forcing GTalk to sign out, or even a network problem (we both use the same mobile operator).
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I am having this issue too. I have had it since the beginning, when I had the preinstalled stock rom, I had it with all the other stock roms I flashed, I had it with all the versions of Talk I tried (those which supported video calls), I had it with all the other customs roms I tried (Simplicity, CyanogenMod, MIUI). I never used any task killer. For these reasons I am strongly convinced this is a Google Talk related bug.
Some more details about the problem:
after a few minutes after having logged in, contacts are shown offline on Android while they appear online on the desktop client;
despite their offline status I still receive messages from them and as soon as I answer only that contact appears online while the others keep being shown offline;
signing out and back in fixes the problem temporarily, but it happens again after a few minutes.
What surprises me is how come very few people seem noticing it or being annoyed by it? How come a huge bug like this has been out for so long and Google hasn't fixed it yet? All the posts I have seen reporting this problem on Google Talk Help Forum have been ignored.
Exact same problem with my I9100, Gtalk with video. Very annoying.
I have the SGS i777 (Samsung Galaxy S2 on AT&T), and just recently (since late February) started experiencing the same issue. When on WiFi, it doesn't appear to be an issue, only when not on WiFi, particularly if I have just recently turned off WiFi.
Other "friends" show me as "Away", so I am connected.
This is bone stock 2.3.6 Samsung official ROM (never rooted UCKK6).
I tried crawling a bit through the logs (aLogCat output), filtering for "[Tt]alk", but I can't make enough heads or tails about where the failure might be (not being an actual developer), other than lots of messages get created. I'll see if I can't figure something more useful out about it.
A hard reset with no apps installed has the same problem. Though I've noticed that the problem appears to get "worse" as the phone "ages" - namely, hard reset fixes the problem, but it slowly (over days) gets worse and worse.
Update: I have not noticed this issue at all since getting the official Samsung/AT&T ICS build (IML74K.CLE5).
Google Talk failing for toooo loooong
Hi there,
I'm a cyanogen 7.1 (stable) android user, and I just want to join myself to every other person who's affected by this issue.
I'll leave here some links to other places discussion exactly the same issue:
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=gtalk%20offline&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=24242
You may check this thread: groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/chat/6m0YqHoiIDg
Until now, I wasn't also able to find any clue to what the cause may be.
Starting to suspect that's something on Google's side, not android/rom itself.
Maybe something to do with our google accounts' settings?
Are there any news about this issue? I'm having the same problem.
Guys i have a very strange problem and i was wondering if anyone experienced the same. I don't receive automatic emails from gmail (pushmail) when i'm on 3G unless i manually refresh from inside the application itself (Gmail v4.0.5)
If i connect to WiFi, then pushmail is working perfectly.
I'm on 1.28 since yesterday and unfortunately i have no idea if it was working before on 1.26, because as soon as i bought my one x i got the OTA update and installed it.
Anyone experienced this? Any ideas?
I found that to get everything working smoothly post 1.28 upgrade I needed to disable fastboot and reboot. After that lots of odd problems (like Widgets not refreshing) went away - it's worth a shot.
That's the first thing i tried actually...Unfortunately it didn't help
Anyone else using Skype and seeing this?
I have a unlocked, none carrier branded Samsung Galaxy Nexus running 4.1.1. Recently when returning to the Skype app home screen from either a message chat, voice or video call my screen started looking like the attachment. There is a ghosting affect going on but it doesn't happen all the time. I also have a few issues where the program just stops working and needs to be restarted and I’m forced to reenter my password. After the restart the app does run normally for a while until I try to chat or make a call. This issue did not happen when I first got the phone running 4.0.4 but has started only a few days ago. It did not start right away when I updated my phone to the 4.1.1 about a week ago. I haven’t installed any programs since this started either, only a few updates for maps, locations services, etc.
I know that this must be an issue with this phone and android build as I do not have this problem on any of my other Android devices running various versions of Android.
No I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app yet but will if the problem persists.
I have a takju galaxy nexus on T-Mobile. I have never had any issues ever since i added tethering onto my data plan.
Yesterday I applied the 4.2 update to my stock galaxy nexus via adb side load. Ever since then, wifi tethering to my laptop had been very slow and inconsistent while tethering to my Nexus 7 has worked properly.
Has anyone noticed any similar issues?
Also, I can slide to delete/archive in gmail, but pinch to zoom hasn't worked so far.
Anyone have any ideas?
Tarzanman said:
I have a takju galaxy nexus on T-Mobile. I have never had any issues ever since i added tethering onto my data plan.
Yesterday I applied the 4.2 update to my stock galaxy nexus via adb side load. Ever since then, wifi tethering to my laptop had been very slow and inconsistent while tethering to my Nexus 7 has worked properly.
Has anyone noticed any similar issues?
Also, I can slide to delete/archive in gmail, but pinch to zoom hasn't worked so far.
Anyone have any ideas?
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There's a setting in gmail that enables the pinch to zoom. I remember reading it somewhere - it's not obvious. I think it's called auto-fit or something. Sorry, I don't have it installed so I don't know what the setting is called for sure.
Tethering broken in 4.2
Same here. WiFi Tethering doesn't work. WiFi Tethering for Root users doesn't work either.
Working on mine.
Yakju now flashed to Takju. Nexus 7 and my notebook (T420) can perfectly use the connection from my GN.
I installed the USB drivers on the same WinXP laptop that I was having problems with and tried the USB tethering option.
USB tethering worked perfectly on the laptop, which points to a problem with the wireless radio on the phone or the laptop.
To try to stay on the safe side, I did a factory reset on the Galaxy Nexus (which still left me at 4.2) and tried again. Still the same issues with the laptop, and fine on the tablet......until just a minute ago...
....I *just* started having some connectivity issues with the Nexus 7 (slow, doesn't connect sometimes). I pulled the phone out of wireless mode and hooked it back up to the laptop and USB tethering works perfectly.
I am starting to wonder if the wifi hotspot feature has been messed up somehow by the 4.2 update.
Laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 2007-FVG
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Restarted Android wifi hotspot. Nexus 7 connectivity via wifi seems fine, but some sites won't load. www.xda-developers loads fine, but forum.xda-developers.com gives me an HTTP Error 500
Just installed the GNEX OTA my phone has been bugging me about for the past 48 hrs. Wanted the new camera app and Gmail zoom, so I finally took the plunge. Wifi Tether is now broken (note: mine was working fine on 4.1.2, contrary to some other things I've read about that OTA breaking it).
Tether starts "with errors". Log shows failures at the "Configuring AP" and "Starting AP" stages. All other launch stages succeed. Program says it is running but no signal is broadcast that my other devices can detect.
Hopefully my 4.1.2 backup will get me back to operational. The 4.2 changes are nice, but not worth losing tether for.
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Just installed the GNEX OTA my phone has been bugging me about for the past 48 hrs. Wanted the new camera app and Gmail zoom, so I finally took the plunge. Wifi Tether is now broken (note: mine was working fine on 4.1.2, contrary to some other things I've read about that OTA breaking it).
Tether starts "with errors". Log shows failures at the "Configuring AP" and "Starting AP" stages. All other launch stages succeed. Program says it is running but no signal is broadcast that my other devices can detect.
Hopefully my 4.1.2 backup will get me back to operational. The 4.2 changes are nice, but not worth losing tether for.
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Craig Gomez found a fix for this .. it was a problem in Framework. Check MMuzzy's 4.2 thread under VZW Development
Thanks for the tip.
Question: this is a ZIP with folders:
LocationServicesAndTetheringFix.zip\META-INF\com\google\android
- update-binary
- updater-script
LocationServicesAndTetheringFix.zip\system\framework
- framework-res.apk
Not sure what to do with this. How do I apply the fix?
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I tried to use Clockwork to apply the .zip. It aborted the install.
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Vote for this on the known issues page: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=1661&sort=-id
I just got my takju nexus upgraded to 4.2, tested tethering and it still works fine. (To tablet)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
^same. Ota last night, never had an issue tethering my laptop, and s2 this morning. Working fine here.
adbFreedom said:
Craig Gomez found a fix for this .. it was a problem in Framework. Check MMuzzy's 4.2 thread under VZW Development
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Shouldn't be the issue, because only Verizon and Sprint provision the tethering app. Its been like this since ICS.
ajd6c8 said:
Wifi Tether is now broken (note: mine was working fine on 4.1.2, contrary to some other things I've read about that OTA breaking it).
Tether starts "with errors". Log shows failures at the "Configuring AP" and "Starting AP" stages. All other launch stages succeed. Program says it is running but no signal is broadcast that my other devices can detect.
Hopefully my 4.1.2 backup will get me back to operational. The 4.2 changes are nice, but not worth losing tether for.
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This exact thing with the WiFi Tether app happens for me as well. Also, the native Android USB tether and Wifi tether don't work. Native Wifi tether gives me a "network authentication key mismatch" error on my Windows computer if my hotspot is configured for WPA2, and if it's open with no encryption, I get an unknown network error (something about Windows detecting no configuration issues, but being unable to connect to any outside websites). USB tether is also broken--it worked once, but it took ages to initialize, and since then I can't get it to work whatsoever. I never had this problem in 4.1.2 or any previous Android version, and it only started once I upgraded to 4.2.
Considering downgrading to get tethering functionality back, 4.2 is an absolutely lackluster upgrade, and with all of its bugs my phone is quite unstable and less-useful...
There is workaround:
I set security to WPA PSK
and password: qwertyasd (whatever doesn't matter i guess)
And in windows i have changed adapter settings:
IP v4: Auto
(if not working try to set foolowing:
ip 192.168.43.x x-> number from 2 to 254 if it's not working after connecting again change to diffrent number
mask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.43.1)
DNS:
primary: 8.8.8.8
secondary: 4.4.4.4
And it's working....
Sorry for bad english.
Regards from Poland
I did a lot more testing with other devices and the wifi tethering phone seems to be working properly. False alarm.
I guess maybe my laptop might be about to break....
4.2 seems awful so far. I can't seem to save images from e-mails anymore (the "save" option is always greyed out), the gallery crashes when I click in a certain spot on the screen (button with three circles?), tethering is completely broken, waking the phone up is now buggy, slow, and generally problematic (lockscreen disabled, not sure if it's the same with the lock screen), trying to "paste" text into a text input box in Chrome is now impossible because a long press now causes some kind of infuriating auto-zoom which promptly clears the "paste" button from the screen, text is randomly deleted and the text input cursor jumps wildly when pressing the backspace key... this is about the most annoying sequence of bugs I can imagine.
Android 4.2 added zero useful features apart from Swype, which I could have gotten from the market anyway. Kind of absurd to push this unpolished nonsense OTA.
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4.2 seems awful so far. I can't seem to save images from e-mails anymore (the "save" option is always greyed out), the gallery crashes when I click in a certain spot on the screen (button with three circles?), tethering is completely broken, waking the phone up is now buggy, slow, and generally problematic (lockscreen disabled, not sure if it's the same with the lock screen), trying to "paste" text into a text input box in Chrome is now impossible because a long press now causes some kind of infuriating auto-zoom which promptly clears the "paste" button from the screen, text is randomly deleted and the text input cursor jumps wildly when pressing the backspace key... this is about the most annoying sequence of bugs I can imagine.
Android 4.2 added zero useful features apart from Swype, which I could have gotten from the market anyway. Kind of absurd to push this unpolished nonsense OTA.
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Anony, something is wrong with your phone or the OTA went wrong. I just tested all the issues you are referencing above on my 4.2 GNex and cannot reproduce any of it. The save is not greyed out on pictures (only tested .PNG), the three circles in gallery open up picture editing options, (thank you for pointing this put, I didn't notice it before), tethering works fine, and I have not experienced any issues with waking up the phone.
With that said, I have experienced force closes and unexplained battery drain, but I am fairly sure they are caused by Ingress and not related to 4.2, although I cannot be 100% sure.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I've been keeping an eye on the google wireless tether website and they have an experimental apk out but it still doesn't work for me on 4.2..at least they r aware of it and are working on it..u can check it here
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
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This exact thing with the WiFi Tether app happens for me as well. Also, the native Android USB tether and Wifi tether don't work. Native Wifi tether gives me a "network authentication key mismatch" error on my Windows computer if my hotspot is configured for WPA2, and if it's open with no encryption, I get an unknown network error (something about Windows detecting no configuration issues, but being unable to connect to any outside websites). USB tether is also broken--it worked once, but it took ages to initialize, and since then I can't get it to work whatsoever. I never had this problem in 4.1.2 or any previous Android version, and it only started once I upgraded to 4.2.
Considering downgrading to get tethering functionality back, 4.2 is an absolutely lackluster upgrade, and with all of its bugs my phone is quite unstable and less-useful...
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I'm also in the same situation when it comes to tethering not working on Jellybean 4.2. When I go back to 4.1 everything is working just fine. I'm curious to know why this only affects a small group of people who have flashed a 4.2 roms.
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I'm also in the same situation when it comes to tethering not working on Jellybean 4.2. When I go back to 4.1 everything is working just fine. I'm curious to know why this only affects a small group of people who have flashed a 4.2 roms.
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Unlocked GNex - since update to 4.2, wifi tether does NOT work IF configured for WPA-2.
It DOES work if configure to WPA.
Have not yet applied 4.2.1 update.
How many of you installed 4.2 via OTA and how many of you installed it via ADB or with a 3rd party ROM?
I did not wait for the OTA. I used adb, but the file I used was supposed to be the official takju 4.2. I even received the 4.21 upgrade a few weeks later.
So I'm currently using stock Google Play Experience Lollipop 5.1 (build H10), and I've been having this issue for ages now, including previous builds.
When my device's screen is off for long enough, the wifi connection is dropped. Because of this, apps like Pushbullet can't send SMS, and voice search on my smartwatch fails with the error "offline."
I've tried everything I can think of (short of reverting to Sense/Factory) including a full wipe and clean install via RUU, just to make sure drivers etc. are up to date, but no luck.
I'm starting to wonder if it's an app I have installed, but don't know how to start investigating that other than uninstalling my >100 apps one by one!
Any help will be much appreciated, this issue is a real nuisance.
Thanks
This happens to me as well... Used to happen on sense but it was minimizing by changing it specifically to 2.5ghz instead if auto... On GPE that doesn't work ..