I've been using Greenify to hibernate the Facebook Messenger app and stop it wakelocking. So far I have noticed improved battery life, however I'm (obviously) missing out on notifications. It's very difficult to make the tradeoff either way.
Would it be possible to put something like Greenify on a schedule, so that every 30 minutes or so it would unhibernate the Messenger app so notifications could be received, and then hibernate it again after a minute or so? Maybe this is possible with something like Tasker?
Basically after one of the latest FB Messenger updates, it's being woke up for some reason. Unrooted, Moto X 2014 retail running 5.1 and running current 2.7.1 release - I can't pinpoint the reason of the wakeup since the device isn't rooted but apparently it said "Wifi was scanned" other then GCM probably.
For further info, FB Messenger version is 42.0.0.17.137. Had a couple updates since it started but still happening.
rogeriorp said:
Basically after one of the latest FB Messenger updates, it's being woke up for some reason. Unrooted, Moto X 2014 retail running 5.1 and running current 2.7.1 release - I can't pinpoint the reason of the wakeup since the device isn't rooted but apparently it said "Wifi was scanned" other then GCM probably.
For further info, FB Messenger version is 42.0.0.17.137. Had a couple updates since it started but still happening.
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If you can manage to run this shell command with USB debugging enabled and connected, you will get wake-up monitor on non-root device:
Code:
pm grant com.oasisfeng.greenify android.permission.READ_LOGS
oasisfeng said:
If you can manage to run this shell command with USB debugging enabled and connected, you will get wake-up monitor on non-root device:
Code:
pm grant com.oasisfeng.greenify android.permission.READ_LOGS
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Yeah thanks, I know the culprit - it is facebook messenger. I don't even have the main facebook app installed to wakelock it, one of the updates broke greenify on no-root mode.
rogeriorp said:
Yeah thanks, I know the culprit - it is facebook messenger. I don't even have the main facebook app installed to wakelock it, one of the updates broke greenify on no-root mode.
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Do you mean auto-hibernation in non-root mode is not working on your device? I made some tweak and bugfixes for non-root auto-hibernation in 2.8 beta 1, could you give it a try?
oasisfeng said:
Do you mean auto-hibernation in non-root mode is not working on your device? I made some tweak and bugfixes for non-root auto-hibernation in 2.8 beta 1, could you give it a try?
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Will do tomorrow and report back in this post.
What is happening is, I set a gesture shortcut on my launcher to manually hibernate apps with all due accessibility access greenify requires in non-root mode, whenever im turning off the display. I dont do auto-hibernation since everything used to be fine, until facebook messenger started misbehaving; no other apps other than that one will wake up the device.
rogeriorp said:
Will do tomorrow and report back in this post.
What is happening is, I set a gesture shortcut on my launcher to manually hibernate apps with all due accessibility access greenify requires in non-root mode, whenever im turning off the display. I dont do auto-hibernation since everything used to be fine, until facebook messenger started misbehaving; no other apps other than that one will wake up the device.
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Looks like auto-hibernation is working, but Facebook Messenger got woken somehow. Please identify the waker of Facebook Messenger with wake-up tracker, mentioned above. Thus I could give useful suggestion on that.
oasisfeng said:
Looks like auto-hibernation is working, but Facebook Messenger got woken somehow. Please identify the waker of Facebook Messenger with wake-up tracker, mentioned above. Thus I could give useful suggestion on that.
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I thought I was the only one who is suffering from
Facebook app and Facebook messenger refusing to
Stay in hibernation! Am rooted, xposed framework
Version 73 up and running, boost mode working but
These two annoying apps by facebook were working
Well some months back but after some updates to
These apps, they keep waking themselves up from
Greenify hibernation.....
I started observing there behaviour and I discovered:
1) if you open any other user app that connects to the
Internet, Facebook and messenger come out of hibernation
2) if you hibernate without data connection, once you
Connect to the Internet facebook comes out of hibernation
3) if you open what's app, twitter, Instagram or any other
Social networking app, Facebook comes out of hibernation.
It's really, really, annoying.....
Am using the non donation app and wonder if the
Paid version of Greenify can stop this.......
Bolumstar said:
I thought I was the only one who is suffering from
Facebook app and Facebook messenger refusing to
Stay in hibernation! Am rooted, xposed framework
Version 73 up and running, boost mode working but
These two annoying apps by facebook were working
Well some months back but after some updates to
These apps, they keep waking themselves up from
Greenify hibernation.....
I started observing there behaviour and I discovered:
1) if you open any other user app that connects to the
Internet, Facebook and messenger come out of hibernation
2) if you hibernate without data connection, once you
Connect to the Internet facebook comes out of hibernation
3) if you open what's app, twitter, Instagram or any other
Social networking app, Facebook comes out of hibernation.
It's really, really, annoying.....
Am using the non donation app and wonder if the
Paid version of Greenify can stop this.......
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Can you see any small text below the awake apps, like "Facebook is woken by XXX ... ago". You may need to enable the "Wakeup Tracker" option in experimental features first (not required on some devices).
oasisfeng said:
Can you see any small text below the awake apps, like "Facebook is woken by XXX ... ago". You may need to enable the "Wakeup Tracker" option in experimental features first (not required on some devices).
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I don't think I have that option in my two different phones
Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 and AndroidOne.
Again as I opened what's app which I had removed from
Hibernation earlier, hibernated every app, put on data
Connection, opened what's app in about 8 seconds
Facebook and messenger came out of hibernation by
Themselves.
Am using IvanMeler CM 12.1 latest version but the same
Has been happening in CMX, RR, Nameless rom etc
Mine pops like this, unrooted: it says wifi was scanned, sorry about the portuguese. Running the latest beta, like you said oasis.
http://i.imgur.com/ELiJrQ1.png.
@oasisfeng, see this sub thread also. http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/greenify/gcm-push-notification-behaviour-t3225994
He is also complaining of the same issue. From his explanation and also from the first image in post no.9 above, it seems that connection to the internet triggers the wakeup.
Just to clarify the issue.
I don't use Facebook or Messenger.
1. Rooted Nexus 6p with Xposed framework. I hibernated both facebook and Google apps. But whenever I turn on the Greenify to check the status, I always see Facebook and Google apps are shown to be not hibernating automatically. The reason is shown to be working. But I didn't open anything. Any ideas on how to deal with this?
2. I also see many apps are under woken temporarily group (most of them are google apps) even though I hibernated all of them. Is it because I used the shallow hibernation?
carrygo said:
1. Rooted Nexus 6p with Xposed framework. I hibernated both facebook and Google apps. But whenever I turn on the Greenify to check the status, I always see Facebook and Google apps are shown to be not hibernating automatically. The reason is shown to be working. But I didn't open anything. Any ideas on how to deal with this?
2. I also see many apps are under woken temporarily group (most of them are google apps) even though I hibernated all of them. Is it because I used the shallow hibernation?
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1. When an app is shown as working, tap and highlight it, then open the three dot menu at the top and tap 'put app into hibernation'. You will get a dialogue box with a warning and also an option to ignore its state. Check that and it will hibernate.
2. That is the expected behaviour when you opt for shallow hibernation.
I have an HTC 10 and some apps came pre-installed as system apps, like Facebook, Instagram and others... I have Greenify donation package and I also use the Xposed module.
I have enabled the option to greenify system apps and I'd tried to hibernate Facebook. It somewhat works, the app is hibernated successfully. But when I open it, it doesn't seem to wake up completely. I mean, sometimes the feed is not updated, I swipe to the notifications pane and pull-to-refresh but I get an error "Can't connect at the moment", I try to open an external link that someone posted but I also get the "Can't connect at the moment" error message.
At first I wasn't aware of what was causing this but I then remembered checking Greenify and I stopped auto-hibernating Facebook. Now, every time I open the app, everything is working. Which makes me think that the problem is within Greenify.
I don't know if the real cause is because Facebook is a system app on my phone or for some reason Greenify can0t properly handle hibernation on the Facebook app.
Can anyone advise?
after months of annoying targeted ads I finally got tired of facebook and uninstalled it from my phone
installed separate browser specific for facebook on every PC so it cant share date with anything
I also installed firefox on my phone to use for facebook alone. it worked great until I uninstalled messenger
that's when I really saw how desperate facebook wants my info. im assuming all the goodies were loaded into messenger since it needed pretty much every permission available
and facebook is now like a tweaker trying to get access back to my phone by forcing me to use messenger.
it blocked access to my messages from mobile page and from desktop page as well
always redirecting me to app store
even when I disable app store it simply left blank screen when I click on messages.
this is really disturbing to me how much it wants to spy on me.
so now im trying to figure out if theres a way to access my messages without having facebook app and messenger app
I tried using tinfoil facebook but its also blocked from accessing my messages.
how can I get my messages to work again?
fuzzysig said:
after months of annoying targeted ads I finally got tired of facebook and uninstalled it from my phone
installed separate browser specific for facebook on every PC so it cant share date with anything
I also installed firefox on my phone to use for facebook alone. it worked great until I uninstalled messenger
that's when I really saw how desperate facebook wants my info. im assuming all the goodies were loaded into messenger since it needed pretty much every permission available
and facebook is now like a tweaker trying to get access back to my phone by forcing me to use messenger.
it blocked access to my messages from mobile page and from desktop page as well
always redirecting me to app store
even when I disable app store it simply left blank screen when I click on messages.
this is really disturbing to me how much it wants to spy on me.
so now im trying to figure out if theres a way to access my messages without having facebook app and messenger app
I tried using tinfoil facebook but its also blocked from accessing my messages.
how can I get my messages to work again?
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This isn't Facebook spying on you or targeting you specifically. It's been the case for a while now that you can't access your messages from the mobile Facebook website without having Messenger.
It does the exact same thing to me if I try, it opens Messenger. It's for everyone. The change was made some time ago now.
Put Facebook/Messenger Lite on your phone and use that. Or any of the Facebook website wrapper apps like Swipe for Facebook or Metal.