It's unclear whether or not these settings will impact the clock speed of the Tegra 3 hardware or simply adjust some of the system settings such as screen timeout and
background app updates:
Background app updates, cell tower pings and other hidden activity accounts for almost half the battery drain on Android phones.
Not exact matches
The 2018 models have a new black
background in the gauge cluster, the iDrive infotainment system has been
updated with the latest software and
apps, and the automatic transmission receives an
updated electronic shifter.
(Users of the new
app will be prompted to download an
updated version of the comic in the
background that contains this extra page - layout metadata.)
Features of Kindle Cloud Reader include: - An immersive view of your entire Kindle library, with instant access to all of your books - Start reading over 950,000 Kindle books instantly within your browser - An embedded Kindle Store optimized for your web browser makes it seamless to discover new books and start reading them instantly - New Kindle Store for iPad is built from the ground up for iPad's touch interface - Your current book is automatically made available for offline use, and you can choose to save a book for reading offline at any time - Receive automatic software
updates without the need to download new software - Select any book to start reading, customize the page layout to your desired font size, text color,
background color, and more - View all of the notes, highlights, and bookmarks that you've made on other Kindle
apps or on Kindle - Sync your last page read across your Kindle and free Kindle
apps so you can always pick up where you left off
You will no longer be prompted to install iCloud anymore or other Apple branded
apps because
updates are pushed from Microsoft and they have a policy about
background processes.
Features of Kindle Cloud Reader include: — An immersive view of your entire Kindle library, with instant access to all of your books — Start reading over 950,000 Kindle books instantly within your browser — An embedded Kindle Store optimized for your web browser makes it seamless to discover new books and start reading them instantly — New Kindle Store for iPad is built from the ground up for iPad's touch interface — Your current book is automatically made available for offline use, and you can choose to save a book for reading offline at any time — Receive automatic software
updates without the need to download new software — Select any book to start reading, customize the page layout to your desired font size, text color,
background color, and more — View all of the notes, highlights, and bookmarks that you've made on other Kindle
apps or on Kindle — Sync your last page read across your Kindle and free Kindle
apps so you can always pick up where you left off
The Nougat
update also allows users to put
apps to sleep to save battery life that would normally be used up in the
background.
Amazon has
updated its Kindle
app with a refreshed design, dark
background themes and an ever - present search bar.
With the last
update, Verizon added several
apps (Amazon MP3, Skype, VCast, etc.) that can not be delete or even stopped from running in the
background.
There are other upgrades, including data
updates while the
app runs in the
background, required confirmation when reducing or reversing a position, funding and other bug fixes.
The Xbox team is publishing a music
app that plays off USB / HD for
background music, those words were from Xbox's Mike Ybarra who has been apart the latest Xbox One
update which introduced,
background music, Cortana, UWP
apps, and more.
Battery life isn't going to be the only thing that you will get more of with this
update though, as data saver will cut down on unnecessary data used up by
background apps.
A feature called «
background app refresh» allows
apps to check for
updates — for example, new emails in an email
app — in the
background.
Or, your carrier or manufacturer may have added additional bloatware
apps in an
update, which run in the
background and slow things down.
We could disable
background location reporting in Google Maps (Google Maps
app — > Settings — > Location settings — > Location reporting — > Do not
update your location), set Pocket to synchronize articles less frequently (or even use manual syncing), set Twitter to check for new tweets less frequently, and disable the Google +
app's sync feature.
Be sure to disable
app updates and reduce the amount of data your phone uses in the
background.
After unboxing the headset and controller, I launched the pre-installed Daydream
app which ran me through a few
updates to some VR services and other
background software, and helped me effortlessly pair the Daydream controller and then gave it a wireless software
update to the latest version.
Since iOS 7, Apple has allowed
apps to automatically
update and download content in the
background.
New limits on implicit broadcasts (sending «signals» for other
apps or activities to act upon),
background services (activities of an
app that continue to run when it's not on the screen) and location
updates (checking to see where you are using Android's location services) are automatic.
- Fixed notification element pressed color - Use Crop feature for image
background settings (Your device must have a Crop
App, most of Samsung FWs should have one)-
Update Italian translation (Thanks to Mattiadj)- Few other bug fixes
In our testing, the Mega didn't feel as snappy as the S4, but it didn't feel slow or get choppy, either, even when swiping through the OS or running
apps while others were downloading and
updating in the
background.
Be careful what
apps are
updating in the
background though (just tell your phone to do this while on Wi - Fi only).
But with heavy
background tasks running — for example,
app updates — a little performance jank can creep in.
As we are mostly all on 7.0 on TouchWiz / Samsung Experience, we use a new method of «Optimizing
apps» (you are able to see this when you
update your phone, it will show a notification with the Android Nougat icon, saying that it is upgrading in the
background), so this way of optimizing
apps also unloads target packages, ultimately disrupting the idmapping process at boot (due to target package not existing) and thus, a few people experience overlay unloads after a reboot.
Razer hasn't provided a change log or release notes for its 8.1
update quite yet, but we should expect all of the basic Oreo features we've come to love — including picture - in - picture, better restrictions on
apps running in the
background, notification dots by
app icons, and more.
Battery life continues to be a priority for Google in O. Android O puts additional automatic limits on what
apps can do in the
background in these three main areas: implicit broadcasts,
background services and location
updates.
Data saver is another new feature that the
update brings, restricting specific
apps from using data in the
background, helping you save data.
Google also said it's
updated its Hangouts and Messenger
apps so that they don't automatically process video messages in the
background «so that media is not automatically passed to mediaserver process.»
As with any Oreo
update, some of the new features include picture - in - picture, Google's Autofill API, more restrictions on what
apps can do in the
background, etc..
Project Volta, a series of new APIs for developers and inherent battery efficiencies built into Lollipop, allows
apps to
update in the
background only when necessary, preventing a single one from getting stuck in what Android enthusiasts call «Wakelock hell» cycles.
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Being based on the latest Android version 8.0, most key of Oreo features like picture - in - picture mode, improved
background app limiting and notification
updates are all there.
Google's Android P
update will strengthen smartphone security by blocking idle
background apps from accessing the smartphone camera and microphone.
9:55 a.m.: This article was
updated with
background information about Facebook's reaction to «abusive
apps,» with comments from professor Pai - Ling Yin and with information about Facebook's access to call and text logs.
As revealed in an
update to Assistant for iOS yesterday, the
background of the Google
app is now white instead of light gray.
Some of the features included in the
update are Quickcuts (launcher shortcuts), round icons, All
Apps drawer, new widgets, Google «Pill,» tinted dock
background, new folder styles from the Pixel Launcher, caret page indicator and much more.
Google doesn't, however, obfuscate the
background images of Hangouts, so the color theming options should continue to work even when the
app is
updated.
This section displays the latest
app update change - log, Google added a dark green text to the light green
background with a new symbol in the upper left corner.
This Android Marshmallow
update brings a pack of features to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, which includes various bug fixes, a new
app drawer design, better stability, greater control over
app permissions and improved battery life thanks to the OS» Doze mode that kills all
background processes when the device is sleeping and prevents
apps from waking up the device when its display has been off for a while.
This also includes the
updated the Detailed Battery Use page so you can now manage the per -
app background settings inline without going to a second page.
System · Optimization — Android 8.0
update (02 - 12) · Fix —
Apps changed Wi - Fi connection status without the user's permission (02 - 12) · Fix —
Apps stopped working in the
background (02 - 12) · Fix — WhatsApp force closed in Split screen (02 - 12) Phone · Fix — DTMF issues after pausing VoLTE video calls (02 - 12)
App Lock · New — Added the
App lock step before unlocking using a new fingerprint for the first time (02 - 12)
Android 8.0 puts additional automatic limits on what
apps can do in the
background in these three main areas: implicit broadcasts,
background services and location
updates.
There are the usual Oreo features being delivered with this
update such as notification channels, adaptive icons, notification snoozing,
background app restrictions, and more.
The latest Samsung Gear S2
update lets you install
apps and watch faces directly from the watch, add up to 10 photos as
backgrounds and much more.
Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10/8 will run daily and will combine all the
background maintenance activity, like
updating of Windows software,
apps, attending to Action Center messages, running
background maintenance tasks, etc, without negatively impacting performance and energy efficiency.
That's because
apps now auto -
update in the
background.
Microsoft «quieted down» some of the
background chatter
apps use to
update themselves on PCs with Connected Standby capabilities.
In an
update coming soon to Chrome OS, Android
apps will be allowed to run in the
background to allow for better multitasking.
Asus Zenfone 5Z was announced at MWC 2018 and the phone features a notch on the front similar to the Apple iPhone X. Android P
update also bring more privacy for users and will restrict
apps running in the
background from accessing microphone, camera or other sensor data, which can give away crucial information about the user.