As anybody who spends a great deal of
time at a computer will be able to vouch, the timing of GTalk, Facebook, and
other notifications received on a desktop, and the time it takes for that same
notification to be pushed to a mobile device, are rarely in sync, with a delay
of around three or four seconds occurring in extreme cases. However, a fix for
this issue has been developed by a member of the XDA-Developers forum,
and although it doesn’t guarantee that notifications will arrive at the same
time as they do on your desktop, it does make the retrieval of notifications
much more streamlined.
Named Push Notifications Fixer, it is the
brainchild XDA Senior Member Qlimax, and will help prevent that occurrence
whereby your notification gets somewhat stuck in the cloud. The problem is
actually caused by a connection timeout between your device and Google ‘s
servers, and when this does occur, you do not receive notifications while
Android works to reestablish the connection.
While Google has already considered
this with an implementation known as the heartbeat interval to try and prevent
this issue in GTalk, the system, which periodically monitors the connection and
fixes it, if it is down, is not really set at regular enough intervals in order
to be deemed effective. In fact, the heartbeat interval only works its magic
every 15 minutes over Wi-Fi, and every 28 minutes on 3G.
Push Notification Fixer , however, will
basically allow you to set this interval to whatever you like. So if, for
example, you were to set it for every minute, your connection would almost
instantly be shocked back into life should it be timed out.
The regular connection checks, you
may have thought, would likely have an adverse effect on your battery life, but
the app, which requires root, runs at boot. This not only stops the interval
from being adjusted, but means it is not constantly running, and will not be a
drain on your precious battery life.
If you want a more streamlined
notifications system, check the link provided below!
(Source: Push Notifications Fixer for Android
on Play Store) [RedmondPie]
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