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	Benson	2008-09-29 , 16:34
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Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar

Well, it defeats the logic of autoupdate notification. It should happen instantaneously, I dont see any logic why it should take 24 hrs to notify an update.

Well, instantaneously would be pretty bad, as it would require either Nokia (and every other repository maintainer) having always available contact info to push data, or continuous polling from the device side; while 24h seems a bit excessive (I changed mine to 2h, IIRC), some interval is necessary, especially for people whose internet access is via limited-data mobile plans.

You can always poll manually at any time, so it's not a big issue, anyway (IMHO).

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	Texrat	2008-09-29 , 16:34
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Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar

Well, it defeats the logic of autoupdate notification. It should happen instantaneously, I dont see any logic why it should take 24 hrs to notify an update.

I was told the logic, and it actually made sense, but I forget the rationale offhand. Maybe someone else remembers.

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	bluesubaru	2008-09-29 , 16:34
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Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar

Well, it defeats the logic of autoupdate notification. It should happen instantaneously, I dont see any logic why it should take 24 hrs to notify an update.

If the system checks once a day for an update imagine the following: If it checked at 9:00AM and the update was released at 10AM, you will not be notified till 23 hours later when it checks again. Simple. The device isn't going to check constantly for something that happens maybe 10 times a year.

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svrkprabhakar	2008-09-29 , 16:37
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Well guys, you are right that it cant continuously poll and you are also right that it can't be 24 hrs. But it should happen for sure at least once immediately after the tablet connects to internet (as many number of times it connects to internet in a day)!

	sachin007	2008-09-29 , 16:41
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Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar

Well guys, you are right that it cant continuously poll and you are also right that it can't be 24 hrs. But it should happen for sure at least once immediately after the tablet connects to internet (as many number of times it connects to internet in a day)!

That will make the tablet more unresponsive at startup. imagine checking email, rss feeds, media and on top of it updates all the time, even when it is rarely required.

I definitely would not want that.

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	Benson	2008-09-29 , 16:45
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I think it does check upon coming online, as long as it's been 24h, or whatever you set, since the last check; Texrat indicated otherwise, and I could be wrong; mine is almost always connected, so I don't really know.

If it doesn't, then it definitely should. (Provided the timeout has elapsed -- if you're auto-reconnecting in an area of flaky data coverage, you could wind up updating every 5 minutes, which does eat bandwidth to no purpose.) It'd be nice, also, to provide UI for the timeout setting; right now it's done with a manual gconf edit, analogous to a registry tweak in Windows.

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svrkprabhakar	2008-09-29 , 16:46
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You may be right. But one amazing feature I think is RSS feeds get updated even if my RSS feed reader is not kept launched, only thing I need to do is keep my internet tablet switched on and connected to internet. but the same happen with gpodder or other rss parsers.

	Texrat	2008-09-29 , 16:47
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IMO 8 hours is probably a better low-side number for polling... but if I changed mine it would probably be to 12.

EDIT: it's my understanding that the device has to be online 24 hours before it can automatically see the SSU alert... but I could be wrong. However, that seemed to be borne out with the latest one I'm testing (not 36-5) because I had to finally force the issue manually since the tablet had been offline.

Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar

You may be right. But one amazing feature I think is RSS feeds get updated even if my RSS feed reader is not kept launched, only thing I need to do is keep my internet tablet switched on and connected to internet. but the same happen with gpodder or other rss parsers.

You can't really compare SSU with RSS.

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