Thread: auto sync without leaving wifi on all the time - plus weird dbus sync issue
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nokiac is offline nokiac
2012-02-10 , 05:39
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#17
Originally Posted by jukkar View Post
You are in powersave mode if your connections are terminated after 30 secs, which is the default timeout if there is no data being transferred.
Well, I am sure I was not in powersave mode, and the 30 secs was just an example, it disconnected even before 30 secs many times. From observation it looked like it disocnnected when there was nothing to be done on the network.

You are mixing concepts here. Background connections have nothing to do with connection disconnection. Your email application is keeping connections up because there is data being transferred so powersave idle timer is not triggered.
Well, thats the idea, I dont really agree with the current way of handling connections, hence I say the whole background connections thing is BS. Nokia classifies email and facebook sync as background connections, and my suggestion says treat all apps/connections as same and disconnect when you have nothing to transfer.

It Is possible to configure the system to disconnect inactive connections or if application quits. No one has just not yet created an app that does this kind of system configuration. Note that the default system ui could get confused by this as it is made to support only the always online use case.
Yea, I would love such an app. To summarize my proposal, based on the current paradigm , I just want email/FB sync to work when I have set background connections off .. i.e treat email as the web browser example I quoted earlier, connect when a sync for mail is due, sync mail and disconnect, why needlessly keep connection alive all for 3G!