Any way to remove Goole Talk?

[twilk]

If you unchecked auto sign in and and signed out its not actually running. It just shows up because its being used to control your gmail email downloads. Anytime you get email pushed there is a tool doing it. It just so happens that tool is connected to Gtalk. So no there isnt any extra battery being used and its really not on. It just shows up because its working with your email. So yes email is eating battery and no Gtalk is not.

Somethings in this phone can not be removed because they are to integrated with other apps. Hope all that makes sense? By the way I am just theorising here, its a good one though lol. I have great battery life I use Gmail and dont use Gtalk. Running services and ATK have to many people paranoid lol. ATK is not something I would use I never wanted it but I got it with a rom and used it once. I dont feel that there is a need for this. If you have your phone properly set up nothing should be running that inst supposed to so there for your phone should be optimized. If you open something and are done with it sign out if possible. Well we dont need to get into all that its all been discussed already. I have had 2 evos now and had no battery issue yet so I am just concerned with what all you guys are so worried about. It does die quicker then my TP2 but it seems like the newer the smart phone the quicker the battery drain lol.

I use my phone for about 20-50 text, 10 emails, few random searches, maybe 30 minuts of browsing, about 3 hours of playing with settings probably longer, still messing with customizing the phone, about 10 2 minute calles and about 5 15 minut or longer calls. Id say that summes up my week use. On the weekend you can double that probably and add in listening to pandora for a few hours. Not sure if that is light or moderate use but I never have a dead phone. I have my gmail synced every 5 minuts. Yeah I know I am not getting many emails. But I want them now and at the end of the day I still have about 1/3 battery level. On the weekend I cut it close sometimes. Also I am using this phone on 15 hours days on average. I always charge before I go to bed and pull it off shortly after I wake up.

[fivestargentleman]

Originally Posted by twilk

If you unchecked auto sign in and and signed out its not actually running. It just shows up because its being used to control your gmail email downloads. Anytime you get email pushed there is a tool doing it. It just so happens that tool is connected to Gtalk. So no there isnt any extra battery being used and its really not on. It just shows up because its working with your email. So yes email is eating battery and no Gtalk is not.

Yes I have done both things, thanks for explaining it to me...

[parousia15]

Originally Posted by fivestargentleman

^^ This is why I want to remove it, since it's always signed in it wastes battery...

I used to think that too, but it doesn't. There is the gtalk app, which one signs into and can chat, then there is gtalk which runs in the services. Yes, it is active when gtalk is active, but it also is active through the market (it notifies you when updates for apps are available) and it works for the gmail app (push mail).

Since the OTA update, it runs in services constantly. However, it does not drain the battery. Last night, my phone had been up for 1 day and 10 hours and was at 9%. That is with heavy use. When my phone "sleeps" my battery doesn't drain a single percentage. I'd argue that something else is draining the battery.

To get rid of it would disable some good features such as pushmail and and update notifications.

[MrDSL]

Originally Posted by parousia15

I used to think that too, but it doesn't. There is the gtalk app, which one signs into and can chat, then there is gtalk which runs in the services. Yes, it is active when gtalk is active, but it also is active through the market (it notifies you when updates for apps are available) and it works for the gmail app (push mail).

Since the OTA update, it runs in services constantly. However, it does not drain the battery. Last night, my phone had been up for 1 day and 10 hours and was at 9%. That is with heavy use. When my phone "sleeps" my battery doesn't drain a single percentage. I'd argue that something else is draining the battery.

To get rid of it would disable some good features such as pushmail and and update notifications.

When your phone sleeps it doesn't drain a single % of power? Thats a pretty magical phone you have there sir.

[D\/8]

Not sure if anyone is familiar with Startup Auditor... You can use this to deactivate programs from running at startup or running at all... I don't use either Gmail or GTalk and have used this and seem to work great...

I have both options checked (Deactivate at 1. Startup 2. All the time)

If I try to launch GTalk manually it immediately closes out...

Check out more info here:
http://www.androlib.com/android.appl...itor-qDxn.aspx

Mixed reviews on the site but seems to be working for me on my EVO...

Hope this helps...!

[aman1127]

If you are rooted, use the over clock widget in the market. You can underclock the phone to 256mhz while the screen is off. It also adjusts the clock frequency automatically depending on processor load. It's pretty sweet.

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[fuzzy26]

Originally Posted by Donatom3

Then what are you doing on Android?

IDK. Better than WM & Iphone....

[aman1127]

there is an app called root explorer that you can download and remove anything you want. Go to system/apps then long press the app you want to remove.

[KJThaDon]

Go to settings > Applications > Running Services
and stop the gtalk service. Saved me a lot of battery