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Inexplicable awake time issues? I may have an answer...

Since updating my phone to an official-based ROM, I've been having inexplicable awake time issues. However I never have any issues while using any release (nightly or RC1/2) of Cyanogenmod. Once my phone began to stop sleeping, the only way to fix it was to do a factory reset. Spare parts shows no partial wake issue at all, just that the android system was running 100% of the time.
I work in tech support, so I have extensive experience with troubleshooting issues such as the one that I was having. However, a week later with at least one factory reset a day, I still had no clue. I had even been keeping a journal of the things that I had been doing with my phone to find something to blame the problem on. The only thing that I found was that after a factory reset that the phone would work fine until the awake time got to between 1:30:00 and 1:45:00. Once it got there, the phone would stop sleeping.
Finally after doing some serious thinking, it became quite apparent that the only thing that really was consistent across every test was the google account that I had used when setting the phone up.
Now for a little background info: I was one of those guys that flashed Cyanogen's first nightly build along with the google apps that had been pulled from the N1. Upon signing into my google account after flashing that first nightnly, I received an email from google saying something about activating a N1 on my google account. This of course wasn't technically true, but google sure thought I had since I used the N1's g-apps. Unfortunately I deleted the email, so I don't know what all it said. However, when I go to my google account dashboard via a web browser on my computer, way down at the bottom there's an "other products" section. Under that section, I have an option for Google Nexus One. It isn't currently manageable via the dashboard, but Google definitely thinks that I've got a Nexus One and there's no way that I can find to remove those settings (if you know of a way to do it, I'm all ears).
So, yesterday the problem cropped up again right at about 1:40:00 of total awake time. When I did the reset, I decided to set up another google account just to see what would happen. With my phone signed into my new google account (which doesn't show a Nexus One in the dashboard) I'm not experiencing the non-sleeping issue.
So...... my conclusion is something like this: My guess is that Google thinks that my phone is an N1, and it probably has the N1 checking in with it at given intervals if it's associated with a gmail account. Since Cyanogenmod is based of AOSP, then that check-in (or whatever it is) runs just fine. However, when I go back to a ROM based on HTC's official release for the Evo, that check-in can't (or won't) happen. My guess is that this check-in mush be scheduled by Google at the time that the phone is attached to a Google account. Because of that, when the scheduled time comes, the process (either left out by HTC or HTC did something to keep it from running properly) causes the phone to fail to sleep since it's trying to run this background process.
Without knowing what the process is, how to stop it from running, or how to change the schedule that it runs on the only option that I can come up with is to use another google account (one that you haven't had a Cyanogen'ed Evo connected to) and see what happens. Since changing the account yesterday afternoon I'm up to almost three hours of total awake time and the non-sleeping issue still hasn't reared is head.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give everyone enough background info so they wouldn't automatically say, "You've installed something from the market that is keeping your phone awake, dummy..."

so did this actually fix your problem? or no?
my phone hasn't been sleeping lately, and it's really starting to bug me. I can't figure out what on earth is keeping it awake!!!
any more info you found out or do find out, please post here! Thanks!

That TLR crap doesn't fly with me. Never apologize for a long post. Some of us really appreciate it when the OP puts time and effort into the information being posted. Thanks man, now I know what to look for if it happens to me.

cannot log in to FB for SNS

yesterday i got the little F icon in my task bar telling me i lost connection to facebook. since then i have not been able to log in to the sync account. i can use the FB app no problem. anyone else?
edit: wtf after trying 10 times i post this and was able to log in right away. the power of whining on the internet
edit 2: still havign sync issues with fb. pain in the ass

I had the same issues. Must be on Facebook's end.

Some months ago FB's app would absolutely not give me notifications when I opened the app, no matter what I did. The error was all on their end of things. Push notifications have never worked anyway, and since auto-updating is a battery drain I just decided to turn it all off. I still marvel at how they can have such a poor official Android app, and how any improvements to it are so small and infrequent. Yet their mobile website is not nearly as bad, and now it's of course much more possible to use the full site on a decent mobile browser.

I've had the same problem for a long time too.
On another note, does anyone know why the Nexus S gets fb comment notifications and the Epic doesn't?

Yeah me too. I was reading that fb sync is gone in gb. Is that true?
"The greatest respect you can earn is self respect" Louie Simmons

Just noticed this today, but same thing... sync problem since 6/3. Contacts are still sync'ing (through SNS, not the app... I don't have the app installed), it's the calendar sync that is not working.

Using a themed version and it is not having problems. Steal one from a rom/theme if you're rooted.

The Root said:
Using a themed version and it is not having problems. Steal one from a rom/theme if you're rooted.
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Themed version of what? Huh?

necro bump cause im having the same issue. Ideas?

Spam notifications?

Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus yesterday, and am using it on T-Mobile USA. It's working like a champ, except that I've noticed a few weird notifications. They are not texts - they are notifications, as if they are coming from some app.
My G-Nex (is that too crass?) downloaded a bunch of my apps automatically, so it could well be coming from one of those. A couple of the notifications I noticed almost immediately after installing Google Voice. I don't recall what they said, but they took me to a web page which looked like a Google page, but there was something not quite right about it.
Then, this morning I got a notification to "back up my contacts" - and it took me to a pretty shoddy graphic telling me to install something to back up my contacts.
I realise I'm not providing much details - but has anyone seen anything that sounds like this on their new Galaxy Nexus? I expect its coming from one of the apps it pulled down, but I don't know....

Most likely just some stupid app that auto-downloaded. I'd be interested to know which it is if you narrow it down.

Nope,
The only notifications i get are ones that you would expect - SMS,Email etc
EDIT: As it has been with all my android phones

ccampbell1 said:
Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus yesterday, and am using it on T-Mobile USA. It's working like a champ, except that I've noticed a few weird notifications. They are not texts - they are notifications, as if they are coming from some app.
My G-Nex (is that too crass?) downloaded a bunch of my apps automatically, so it could well be coming from one of those. A couple of the notifications I noticed almost immediately after installing Google Voice. I don't recall what they said, but they took me to a web page which looked like a Google page, but there was something not quite right about it.
Then, this morning I got a notification to "back up my contacts" - and it took me to a pretty shoddy graphic telling me to install something to back up my contacts.
I realise I'm not providing much details - but has anyone seen anything that sounds like this on their new Galaxy Nexus? I expect its coming from one of the apps it pulled down, but I don't know....
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You might want to try a factory reset? It does seem quite odd...

ccampbell1 said:
Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus yesterday, and am using it on T-Mobile USA. It's working like a champ, except that I've noticed a few weird notifications. They are not texts - they are notifications, as if they are coming from some app.
My G-Nex (is that too crass?) downloaded a bunch of my apps automatically, so it could well be coming from one of those. A couple of the notifications I noticed almost immediately after installing Google Voice. I don't recall what they said, but they took me to a web page which looked like a Google page, but there was something not quite right about it.
Then, this morning I got a notification to "back up my contacts" - and it took me to a pretty shoddy graphic telling me to install something to back up my contacts.
I realise I'm not providing much details - but has anyone seen anything that sounds like this on their new Galaxy Nexus? I expect its coming from one of the apps it pulled down, but I don't know....
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I remembered reading about this kind of app-vertising (that is definitely too crass :]) in the notification bar. Take a look at this article from Androinica: How to disable ads in the Android notifications menu.
The situation sounds a lot like what you've described and it's troubling to see it crop up in the wild, as it were.
Note that I haven't had to use this myself, so hopefully the linked apps operate as advertised and can narrow down what has been installed on your phone that's opening up Airpush BS.
If that doesn't fix it, then your phone is definitely cursed and you should get rid of it immediately. I'll PM you my address so you can send it to me instead

sosquidtaste said:
I remembered reading about this kind of app-vertising (that is definitely too crass :]) in the notification bar. Take a look at this article from Androinica: How to disable ads in the Android notifications menu.
The situation sounds a lot like what you've described and it's troubling to see it crop up in the wild, as it were.
Note that I haven't had to use this myself, so hopefully the linked apps operate as advertised and can narrow down what has been installed on your phone that's opening up Airpush BS.
If that doesn't fix it, then your phone is definitely cursed and you should get rid of it immediately. I'll PM you my address so you can send it to me instead
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Found it! Thank you for the link to "Airpush Detector." That, and a related app it pointed me to, "Addons Detector" both came up with "My Settings" by JQ Soft as using Airpush. I have used this very handy My Settings app for a long time on several Android devices, but I checked it's Android Market page and sure enough the latest update to "My Settings" last week, added Airpush ads. Boatload of people complaining and - deservedly - 1-starring it now. I will be uninstalling it promptly!
Thanks for the help, I'd never have tracked this down otherwise! Relieved my Galaxy Nexus is not infected with some spyware or virus (although you could argue that's exactly what this airpush crap is)!! Anyway, I'll uninstall "My Settings" and hope the problem goes away!

Rad-- I'm happy you got it all sorted out. Shame it showed up in the first place, but all's well that ends well!
P.S. Your phone may still be cursed. Mail it to me anytime

Facebook keeping tabs on calls and sms via FB app? (Creepy!)

For a while now I've been weirded out with some of Facebook's friend suggestions that pop up on the right (desktop), because it's putting customers of mine up there that I have never corresponded with via FB or email, basically only by phone or text. And the timing was always crazy because I would work at their house or talk to them on the phone and the next day they would come up as a suggestion. Well last night I spoke with an old colleague of mine on the phone that I haven't spoken to in about a year and today I go to my profile and sure enough, he's at the very top of my friends list. I have come to the conclusion that the FB app on our phones MUST be keeping tabs of who we are talking to and making the suggestions based on that information, and god knows what else they are doing with that info. How else can this be explained? It is the only explanation that I can think of. Checking the permissions of the app, it DOES have the ability to check pretty much everything we do on our phones.
Has anybody else noticed anything like this going on?

I'm only surprised that you're surprised. I assumed this was true without even using the app.

I guess I'm not surprised but I didn't think they dug that deep into our privacy. Nowhere is it disclosed that they use that information for anything, and when I google it I find people posting about similar findings as me but never anything official from Facebook.

Permissions Denied can block most of those! It still bugs me that GPS can't be blocked without crashing the app, though (even if you've turned off posting with location).
PDroid seems to be a good option for those with Cyanogen, but it's not available for my E4GT. Anybody have a moment to put together a PDroid patch for Calkulin's ROM?

Thank you for that, pinandstutter! I use AdBlock, NoScript and Peerblock on my PC for these exact reasons. I didn't know something like this was available for my phone.

Quite frankly FB is a sack of scuzzbags.

[Q] Google Voice Notification Not Going Away

Howdy,
Before I upgraded to CyanogenMod 9.0, I would get a Google Voice message notification for a text message. I'd go into the web version of Google Voice, answer the text and then after a bit, the notification would go away on my phone.
Now switched to CM9 and the notification doesn't go away unless I answer the text on my phone or clear it out on the phone.
I've tried GummyNex and CM9 and they both do it.
Has anyone else seen this? I've done the thing where I've uninstalled GV, did the *73, deleted all the Verizon VMs and the reinstalled GV but it still does it.

Don't think its related to your ROM as I'm having the exact same issue on stock 4.0.4 and have always been on stock. Seems to have started a couple weeks ago....
Been pulling my hair out trying to figure out what's going on and was about to start a thread myself asking if anyone else had the issue. Thought I was just crazy at first, but I know for a fact this is not how the app acted before. I've tried changing all kinds of things for my browser use of voice.google.com, deleted/re-installed the app, and nothing works.
I'll be texting using just the browser for a bit and look at my phone and I'll have a notification for "25 Google Voice Messages" or whatever. They never clear. I notice that when opening the GV app to the thread I'm texting in, it hasn't synced in the background, and takes a few seconds for the messages I had sent to show up in the thread. It seems as though Google Voice isn't getting background sync anymore.

Aww man So it was just highly coincidental that it happened around the same time I switched over to a different rom.
It's surprisingly frustrating for such a little thing. I just use it so much that it forces me to check the phone and clear it manually to make sure I don't *actually* have a new message when I'm using both my phone and the web app.
Argh.
Yeah - nothing I've found has fixed the issue.

Seijin said:
Aww man So it was just highly coincidental that it happened around the same time I switched over to a different rom.
It's surprisingly frustrating for such a little thing. I just use it so much that it forces me to check the phone and clear it manually to make sure I don't *actually* have a new message when I'm using both my phone and the web app.
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Yes I think it's actually a coincidence as I said I've been on stock and it all of a sudden stopped working as it was. This is just really weird because there's been no update to the app or anything.
It's extra frustrating because Google Voice is my primary #, so I'm doing about 99.9% of my texting with it, and really enjoy being able to use voice.google.com. Dealing with clearing GV notifications every time I pick my phone up is very lame.

I don't believe I'm experiencing this, gv on GSM nexus, stock 4.0.4 rooted. Straight talk tmo mvno
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I don't currently have this with my yakju 4.0.4 OTA stock ROM, but I have seen it before on this phone and every other phone I've owned across stock & custom ROMs. Fairly confident it's a problem with the app itself

@crachel - are you on cdma or gsm?

crachel said:
Fairly confident it's a problem with the app itself
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What could it be though? I've done everything short of a factory reset. Nothing about the app itself or the settings I used changed and it started happening out of nowhere.

Seijin said:
@crachel - are you on cdma or gsm?
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GSM
martonikaj said:
What could it be though? I've done everything short of a factory reset. Nothing about the app itself or the settings I used changed and it started happening out of nowhere.
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I don't know.. I agree though that the problem just comes and goes, which is odd. Just a couple weeks ago they weren't clearing for me, but right now it's working fine. I remember thinking that's it's ridiculous this happens on stock firmware

crachel said:
I don't know.. I agree though that the problem just comes and goes, which is odd. Just a couple weeks ago they weren't clearing for me, but right now it's working fine. I remember thinking that's it's ridiculous this happens on stock firmware
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Even moreso ridiculous if this is a known issue and they haven't addressed it even with these several early 2012 updates to the GV app, which made it a lot better overall in UI and UX. I just don't see how it can come and go with no changes whatsoever to your settings.

Mine definitely does the same thing... I thought it used to clear them for me, but I wasn't sure, and figured I was just thinking of how Google Talk clears the messages.
Not a huge deal to me, but it would definitely be nice if they would fix this. Our best bet is to make a post on the help forums with a bunch of posts in it.

xur17 said:
Mine definitely does the same thing... I thought it used to clear them for me, but I wasn't sure, and figured I was just thinking of how Google Talk clears the messages.
Not a huge deal to me, but it would definitely be nice if they would fix this. Our best bet is to make a post on the help forums with a bunch of posts in it.
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If I get some time I'll put up a bug report on Google Groups/Google Code.
Edit: Nevermind! Someone's on it already from February: https://code.google.com/p/android/i...on&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
I'd appreciate if you're having this issue to star and comment there (as well as here).

martonikaj said:
If I get some time I'll put up a bug report on Google Groups/Google Code.
Edit: Nevermind! Someone's on it already from February: https://code.google.com/p/android/i...on&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
I'd appreciate if you're having this issue to star and comment there (as well as here).
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Thanks for the link!
If anyone has a chance, they should make a post in the Google Voice forums here (I'll try to do it later when I have a chance if no-one else gets to it): http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/voice/using-google-voice-on-a-mobile-device. I heard that Google Engineers do monitor / read these sometimes, so if we all post in a thread there is a chance it will get read / fixed.
I really wish there was a better way to get stuff like this fixed.

Bit late to the party. Just wanted to chime in that in my experience I don't think I've ever seen the GV notification clear itself after checking the web interface on my computer.
I've been using android for a year now and have gone through 3 phones and the asus transformer tablet. My current phone is running a CM9 based rom, but still it doesn't clear these notifications.
Man, I'd love it if it did.
Note: I think that if you use the GV widget, you will see that the notification on the widget DOES clear after checking the web interface (or at least it did in GB because I just tested this on my current phone and widget doesn't clear it either). I suppose this means that GV is pushing the "read" status of an sms to our phones. The notification on the notification bar, however, still persists despite this.
EDIT: Given my last test on my current phone, it looks like the widget doesn't clear the notification like it used to on GB. It looks like it is, in fact, a syncing issue.

LeoBloom. said:
Bit late to the party. Just wanted to chime in that in my experience I don't think I've ever seen the GV notification clear itself after checking the web interface on my computer.
I've been using android for a year now and have gone through 3 phones and the asus transformer tablet. My current phone is running a CM9 based rom, but still it doesn't clear these notifications.
Man, I'd love it if it did.
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I can confirm that it actually did used to clear when viewed on another device, and this is the intended action. It should work exactly like an IMAP e-mail account (say, the GMail app). If you view a message on the device or in a web browser, it is cleared as read on the other. Google Voice used to do the same, and stopped doing so randomly. It's completely a backend problem.

Really wish they would fix this. Still happening on JB. Very annoying for those of us who text from the web all day.

xdp said:
Really wish they would fix this. Still happening on JB. Very annoying for those of us who text from the web all day.
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Still a problem, go over to the google group link posted above and star the issue to (hopefully) increase it's priority and visibility:
https://code.google.com/p/android/i...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=25301