More control over sync operations

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It would be very nice to be able to have more control over syncs, for example 
being able to manually start or stop them, especially with situations like 
dealing with poor network connections.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by broo...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 8:49

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IMHO ideally, the user would not have to deal with those issues.

Can you describe your use-cases a bit more clearly? Under which situations 
would you like the sync operation to stop? When would you like it to start?

Shutting down sync when Android detects "unconnected state" and re-starting it 
on re-gaining connectivity is already implemented. I admit this relies on the 
detection abilities of the Android system, and I don't know if they really work 
well on all Android versions.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 10:54

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In general I'd like the ability to override it simply because I wish to 
prioritize limited network access to other applications; for whatever reason I 
don't wish to spend any of the bandwidth/time I have on bitcoin at a given 
time. Right now the user has no control at all over Bitcoin network usage, and 
obviously a sync is the most intensive thing it does.

There do also seem to be bugs with at least Froyo though Gingerbread on the 
Nexus S seems a bit better, I'm not at all reliably seeing the sync stop when I 
loose access and if the sync stalls for some reason (with all versions I'm 
often seeing it grind to a halt, probably as a result of random network access 
issues) there's no way to kick it to recover except to disconnect from the 
network and reconnect. The stalls could probably be fixed with a timeout but 
unless the timeout is aggressive it'd be nice to be able to kick things if you 
have reason to believe that something happened.

Original comment by broo...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 11:16

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Oh, and on a related note (but really a separate issue) if we don't notice that 
the network has dropped then you need to do the disconnect/reconnect dance to 
resume peering - the application regularly reports that it has peers when there 
is in fact no viable network connection.

Original comment by broo...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2011 at 11:19

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I'd like to see where you can toggle the icons in the notification bar. I like 
how it shows when you get BTC, but I don't like seeing peers and download %. 

Also, if there were settings to have it so you can only sync on Wifi and not 
3G. And a setting to only sync manually. So I don't use a lot of bandwidth when 
I don't need to.

Original comment by jjj...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2011 at 2:39

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First-time sync is now much less traffic intensive (downloads only block 
headers rather than all transactions).

Also, there is now an option to autosync when your device is connected to 
power. Typically at these places it will be connected via WLAN as well. I 
recommend making use of this. Note that if I was adding an option to sync only 
on WLAN you basically would also only be able to pay when on WLAN.

At the current frequency of Bitcoin transactions, traffic should stay well 
below 100 MB per month. I understand that this still can be an issue.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 29 Feb 2012 at 3:07

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Issue 48 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 29 Feb 2012 at 3:10

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Issue 80 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2012 at 12:09

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"Note that if I was adding an option to sync only on WLAN you basically would 
also only be able to pay when on WLAN." I would in fact prefer that.

Original comment by pixiemot...@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2012 at 9:01

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I notice in http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/issues/detail?id=48 you say 
"Just a side note: If you close the app, it will not download anything. There 
is no downloading in the background. No need to uninstall." 

Could you then remove the icon from the notification bar? It is listed in a 
section named "Running" (not sure if that's the English translation), which 
very much looks like it is downloading. If Android is lying about it running, I 
believe users would feel safer about their bandwidth limits if they didn't see 
the icon there at all. 

Or perhaps just write what you wrote in 
http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/issues/detail?id=48#c2 on the About 
page.

Original comment by pixiemot...@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2012 at 9:04

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Its now possible to explicitly disconnect (see action overflow menu).

Also, you can automatically sync only on power.

I consider the origin issue to be fixed, for the additional ideas can you open 
individual tickets?

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2012 at 1:46

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