Push Notifications Fixer corrects the delay of receiving notifications on Android

Many users of devices running Android operating system are faced with the fact that the notification from applications such as Hangouts, Gmail, Pushbullet, Facebook, WhatsApp and others, come with some delay. In this article you will learn about a simple way to get rid of this trouble.

The problem of the appearance of a pause in the arrival of notifications on Android due to the fact that most of the applications used in the work Google Cloud Messaging service system (or GCM Push for short), which checks with a certain periodicity updates. By default, this occurs every 15 minutes for the Wi-Fi and 28 minutes for a mobile connection. In some cases, these settings are not optimal, as the Internet provider or router can simply close all idle connections after 5 or 10 minutes and you no longer get notifications until the next check.

Push Notifications Fixer app solves this problem by changing the GCM Push the verification period to the value set by the user. The program is distributed free of charge, to install on any Android since version 2.2, but requires for its work superuser.

After installing and running the program, you have to first and foremost provide her with root privileges. Then make a tap on the item Mobile heartbeat interval and set the desired value of the test interval. The developer recommends to select "6 minutes". Next, perform the same operation, see Wi-Fi heartbeat interval.

To save the settings, you need to click in the main window click on Apply settings, then reload the gadget. As a result, your device will be more likely to check the server for notifications, and you will receive them with little or no delay. As says the author of the program, the application itself does not affect the battery consumption, but set the value of at least 2 minutes is not recommended.

If you want to return to the original setting, then this should click on the link Restore default heartbeats. Do not forget to do this is if you decide to delete the program Push Notifications Fixer.