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I noticed that mediaserver seems to be taking up a large portion of my battery but I don't even know what this is. I don't plan or have the need to share media over the network (which is what the name leads me to believe it is for). Is there some way to disable this without losing general media playback as well?
Quick search shows that it can possibly have something to do with using media (music, youtube). And possibly picasa
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Chopes said:
So,
I noticed that mediaserver seems to be taking up a large portion of my battery but I don't even know what this is. I don't plan or have the need to share media over the network (which is what the name leads me to believe it is for). Is there some way to disable this without losing general media playback as well?
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server doesn't necessarily mean it's online data transfer!
notification, ringer and every thing relevant to media play (not just online but also offline - try the music player) is also what the media server does!
I don't think its possible to remove or disable it, but you can reduce the number of notification that includes some audio notification (for example you can silent facebook notifications - not disable! or you can disable conversation tone in viber or whatzapp (the wop tang and pops that played when you send a message))...
You could be playing music, which is what media server allows apps to do. Its anything related to media, looking at pictures and such. You can't nor should disable it.
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I love that the ability to create users and restrict access to various things. However, I can't seem to find a way to enable Google Location Services for a new restricted user. Is this even possible? If so, I'd appreciate guidance.
So, I've been through all the apps on play, and tried various hacks, tried tasker and some plugins, etc... the closest I've come is automating (recording) toggling the setting via tasker, but it breaks when exported as an app.
Also have created a widget in Nova Launcher that gets me there quicker, so then I can manually toggle the state, but would much rather just have a quick toggle...
Anyone?
I have uber cab application on my phone. I have restricted the background application working and disabled the mobile data access in background and this app is still sending notification on my phone. How is this possible? What are these settings for if they are not restricting the apps? It means app is still working in background.
Soul_Ripper said:
I have uber cab application on my phone. I have restricted the background application working and disabled the mobile data access in background and this app is still sending notification on my phone. How is this possible? What are these settings for if they are not restricting the apps? It means app is still working in background.
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Optimize doesn't mean it will stop bringing notifications in background or doesn't mean it wont work at all in background. The interval for checking the notifications maybe reduced.
Use greenify if you want to completely stop background activities.
If i have restricted the background data access, hows the app sending me notification without internet?
Whenever i do this to other apps like Instagram, i dont receive any notification from that app. Its just uber
Soul_Ripper said:
If i have restricted the background data access, hows the app sending me notification without internet?
Whenever i do this to other apps like Instagram, i dont receive any notification from that app. Its just uber
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The thing with Instagram is weird, background data access has nothing to do with notifications. Notifications are sent from the app server (in this case Uber's) to Google servers and Google in turn send them to you. If you want to stop receiving notifications you can disable them, but not as background data access, what you can do is long press the notification and then press "Turn off notifications" and then you can choose to turn off the channels that you don't want. That should do it.
I dont wanna sound rude but thats not what i asked. How can uber send the data to Google in the background if it doesn't have access to Internet?
Soul_Ripper said:
I dont wanna sound rude but thats not what i asked. How can uber send the data to Google in the background if it doesn't have access to Internet?
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The thing is, Uber doesn't send it from your phone to Google, it sends it from their server which is most likely on the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud or any other) directly to Google, so you can disable background data all you want, but that won't stop them from sending you notifications until you disable the notification itself.
When you said that you "have restricted the background application working and disabled the mobile data access in background" the only thing you did is stopping the app from doing any work when it is not open but only ON YOUR PHONE, the Uber server and services are still running and they will keep sending notifications to all their clients.
When you restrict an app what the system does is to permit activity for that app only when in use or at system wakeups (app standby)
But if you use that app frequently, then the system tags it at different levels (active, frequent, no frequent...). Regarding the tag, more or less often it will sync during programmed system intervals.
https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/appstandby
Uber could be using firebase clouding, wich is a server-client service to send notifications to clients (app installed).
If you do not want NOTHING then you will have to disable the app and only enable when you are going to use it.
Are there any viable thorough backup solutions that don't require root?
My fold is dying (sound has completely stopped working, large screen is just black, no warranty as the seller from facebook marketplace failed to provide a receipt) and I want to move absolutely everything over to my new phone of the same model.
Is there a way to backup and restore all of the following?
- settings and accounts, homescreen layout and widgets
- apps and app data (including apps installed directly through apk file or outside of play store)
- SMS
- entire contents of internalSD
I know I can do all of these tasks individually and manually, I was just wondering if there
was an app for android that can do all of the above in one go? Every backup solution I've attempted
always seem to leave me having to setup a few things manually afterwards.
I've tried Samsung Smart Switch but it seems to leave out quite a few apps and app data.
Cloud backup probably isn't feasible as I have over 400gb of data on the phone.
Can I somehow clone one phone to the other?