Hi all,
I have 4.0.4 stock gnex.
My wifi settings are this:
Settings->Wifi->(Menu Button)->Advanced. It's listed as "Keep WiFi on during sleep"
When the phone go to sleep the wifi seems to stop, I am downloading an app
from the market, when the phone go to sleep, the download sleep.
Not to doubt you on this but does it also say "Always" beneath the "Keep Wifi on during sleep"? If so, perhaps you have an app that overrides that and disables it.
I have no app that can do it.
Hi, I just tested and had no problems downloading a 50 meg game with screen off.
From honeycomb on google changed how wifi was handled when screen is off. This gives similar problems with older applications but should not be a problem for apps made by Google like Play and Music.
You still did not answer the previous posters question. You reference the advanced wifi setting but not what it is set to.
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atkhobby said:
Hi, I just tested and had no problems downloading a 50 meg game with screen off.
From honeycomb on google changed how wifi was handled when screen is off. This gives similar problems with older applications but should not be a problem for apps made by Google like Play and Music.
You still did not answer the previous posters question. You reference the advanced wifi setting but not what it is set to.
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It's obviously set to always
People have had issues with the setting you choose in that menu not sticking. Try toggling it back and forth and doing some reboots. I don't have the issue on 4.0.4.
From what I understand, when the screen turns off wifi goes into a low power state, draining less battery when on standby. So it greatly reduces the speed (sometime pauses) of all connections to save juice.
KiNG OMaR said:
From what I understand, when the screen turns off wifi goes into a low power state, draining less battery when on standby. So it greatly reduces the speed (sometime pauses) of all connections to save juice.
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I understand if it slowed down, but it shouldn't ever pause though.
This low power state is what I referred to in my previous post. An app must now explicitly request that high power wifi mode is retained when screen is off. All apps from google should be doing this already.
Unprofessional app developers that have not been reading up on the latest changes in android api (like Audible!!! shame on you) will have major slowdowns downloading over wifi when the screen is off.
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I have the exact same problem as posted here And I may have found the solution at this other link here.
What seems to be working for me is the change the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to "Never (increases data usage)". That totally does not make any sense to me. If you 'never" keep wifi on during sleep it should *not* increase data usage. Anyway, I have noticed two things:
1) If I set it to "Never," the files continue to transfer when the screen goes to sleep
2) Wifi transfer rate seems to be *much* faster on my home network. I'm using ES File Explorer, so it could be app related.
Just discovered that according to Google, "Never (increases data usage)" means that it will not stay connected to WiFi while asleep which will increase your 3G/4G data usage. Never the less, it seems my Wifi is better when set to "never"
I wrote an article about wifi usage on my blog here: http://zapek.com/?p=262
You shouldn't worry about PS-Poll mode. It's fine for downloads usually as they don't require a fast interactive response.
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KiNG OMaR said:
From what I understand, when the screen turns off wifi goes into a low power state, draining less battery when on standby. So it greatly reduces the speed (sometime pauses) of all connections to save juice.
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this could be a possible reason, in my office wifi is not really powerful,
a low power state can disconnect the wifi.
I'm checking better the problem, it seems that the wifi goes into some sort of
energy saving mode when the screen is off that drop my wifi speed.
Is there a way to solve this problem?
it seems that I'm not the only one with this problem-
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/DJTwAutjsIQ
so no solution to this problem yet ?
sblantipodi said:
it seems that I'm not the only one with this problem-
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/DJTwAutjsIQ
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This is not the same problem that you have. The thread you link to is about general download problem with screen off. Your problem was about downloading from the market while screen is off.
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atkhobby said:
This is not the same problem that you have. The thread you link to is about general download problem with screen off. Your problem was about downloading from the market while screen is off.
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In your original post your wrote that you had problems downloading from the market with the screen off.
The android market is a google app and should not have the problem discussed in the thread you linked to.
The problems in the thread relates to applications that have not yet been updated to support power saving features in resent android versions.
So your problem is not the same.
I did write this in my previous posts from may 25. but maybe it was unclear.
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atkhobby said:
In your original post your wrote that you had problems downloading from the market with the screen off.
The android market is a google app and should not have the problem discussed in the thread you linked to.
The problems in the thread relates to applications that have not yet been updated to support power saving features in resent android versions.
So your problem is not the same.
I did write this in my previous posts from may 25. but maybe it was unclear.
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the problem is present in all apps, google one and non google one so you don't understood the problem
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the problem is present in all apps, google one and non google one so you don't understood the problem
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Hey its no problem. It's only that this is the first time you state that you have problems with all apps.
I still don't understand why you have problems downloading apps though. I have tested and do not have this problem BUT I do have the problems with most other 3rd party apps.
Anyway there is a fix that probably will help you. Download "WIFI High performance' widget from the market. Add the widget and enable it. Good luck.
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Is juicedefender works on nexus?
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attacker said:
Is juicedefender works on nexus?
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Yes, and also a lot better than it did on my HTC Sensation!
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Yes, and also a lot better than it did on my HTC Sensation!
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Do you feel it really increases battery time?
I am currently trying out Juice Defender free on the standard preset for my unmodded Galaxy Nexus. Unfortunately I am not thinking that I am going to continue with it.
So far it has crashed my phone to reboot (first time that has happened) and when not using my 4g it turns it off but it takes forever for it to come back on once I want to use the phone and it gets pretty frustrating having a useless phone for about 5-8 minutes everytime I pick it up.
I hope you have better luck than I am having.
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I am currently trying out Juice Defender free on the standard preset for my unmodded Galaxy Nexus. Unfortunately I am not thinking that I am going to continue with it.
So far it has crashed my phone to reboot (first time that has happened) and when not using my 4g it turns it off but it takes forever for it to come back on once I want to use the phone and it gets pretty frustrating having a useless phone for about 5-8 minutes everytime I pick it up.
I hope you have better luck than I am having.
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Strange. It's never done any of that on mine. I'm on HSPDA+ though.
As for whether if makes a difference I'd definitely have to say a big yes. But it all depends on how you use your phone.
Ultimate working nicely here. Syncs every 15 min like it should. Screen is eating 60-70% so it makes only a small difference.
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I bought ultimate, and found it to be a bit of a hog. I then turned off all the extra stuff and went back to the basic setting - the same as the free version, and noticed very little difference.
I think it might help you if you're one of those people who accidentally leaves radios on, or don't have high signal most places you go. For me a UV kernel made the only real difference.
It works well but not saving as much battery as it did on Gingerbread. Default Android idle-time battery management seems to have got much better.
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As for whether if makes a difference I'd definitely have to say a big yes. But it all depends on how you use your phone.
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This. I see a nice increase in battery life while I'm not using it, but if I have it on a lot (which I usually do) the battery gets drained pretty quickly.
I keep my phone on CDMA mode most of the time, unless I need to download something or want to watch a movie, then I switch to CDMA/LTE. I'm still not sure how much it helps though, as I've only had the phone for a little over a week.
For me, JD Ultimate works wonders. Especially when I'm at work and not playing with the phone too often and having only 2 signal bars, JD enables radio every 30 mins to allow apps to sync. It also manages my brightness automatically, which results in screen usually taking less than 50% of battery.
In general it helps me a lot, like it did on SGS2. My night schedule uses airplane mode and I only loose 2-3% over night.
I would have to remember about too many things if not using JD, so for me well worth it.
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For me, JD Ultimate works wonders. Especially when I'm at work and not playing with the phone too often and having only 2 signal bars, JD enables radio every 30 mins to allow apps to sync. It also manages my brightness automatically, which results in screen usually taking less than 50% of battery.
In general it helps me a lot, like it did on SGS2. My night schedule uses airplane mode and I only loose 2-3% over night.
I would have to remember about too many things if not using JD, so for me well worth it.
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I thought brightness worked only in the beta version. Does it work in the release now?
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I thought brightness worked only in the beta version. Does it work in the release now?
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It does, i never used beta and JD controls my brightness. Remember there is a bug related to manual apk install where you cant tap install. I still use JD for brightness, just disable it in quick menu when manually installing apps then reenabling right away.
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It does, i never used beta and JD controls my brightness. Remember there is a bug related to manual apk install where you cant tap install. I still use JD for brightness, just disable it in quick menu when manually installing apps then reenabling right away.
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Thank you for your answer.
When JD is managining brightness, if the phone is asleep, when waking it up with the power button the screen comes full brightness and then settles to a lower level, which is quite annoying. Do you see this happening too?
pedmond said:
Thank you for your answer.
When JD is managining brightness, if the phone is asleep, when waking it up with the power button the screen comes full brightness and then settles to a lower level, which is quite annoying. Do you see this happening too?
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no, for me it wakes up with the brightness that was in use before going to sleep.
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why use juicedefender and similar app when, in the gnex pure android, there is no bloatware up in background? >_>
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no, for me it wakes up with the brightness that was in use before going to sleep.
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That is totally weird, cause mine seems to wake up high and only then lower the brightness. I wonder if it's ROM related, although I'm on stock kernel 4.0.3.
pedmond said:
That is totally weird, cause mine seems to wake up high and only then lower the brightness. I wonder if it's ROM related, although I'm on stock kernel 4.0.3.
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Make sure system brightness is set to Auto. And I use Filter Mode in JD. Sensor is set to Normal.
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Abufinzio said:
why use juicedefender and similar app when, in the gnex pure android, there is no bloatware up in background? >_>
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Beacuse, believe it or not, it provides functions that some people find useful. Same goes for LightFlow, if you like the white-only color led notification of pure android, then you don't need this app either. If you prefer more colors/choices, then you do.
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Make sure system brightness is set to Auto. And I use Filter Mode in JD. Sensor is set to Normal.
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You got me there. What filter mode? Can't find that setting. I must be blind...
I can't get rid of that flicker and for some reason it bothers me....
pedmond said:
You got me there. What filter mode? Can't find that setting. I must be blind...
I can't get rid of that flicker and for some reason it bothers me....
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I have no flicker. Filter Mode is unusually placed in Help section I have it enabled.
I purchased JD Ultimate yesterday so I can't really comment on how well it is improving my battery life. I will say that I am having issues going back to LTE when the screen is unlocked (Using the network mode setting). The phone keeps going to WCDMA instead of LTE. However, I noticed that since I have been using JD Beta 3.8.8, version 3.8.9 has come out and has addressed a few of my issues. The configure apps now works without crashing JD. I still don't know if the LTE is functioning incorrectly as I haven't had time away from my computer (I have no Wi-Fi at my hotel and must tether).
Is anyone else experiencing issues with the phone going to WCDMA mode after the phone wakes up? Also, what version of JD are you using?
SOLVED: See this follow-up post; it's one of those 7 things!
Hi! After updating to LK3 (the stock 4.1.1 JB update), my Wi-Fi stays on even after I put the phone to sleep (contrary to the setting "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep: never (increases data usage)." See attached pics.
I have disabled thus far:
1) Google Now
2) Location Services "Use wireless networks" and "Location and Google search"
3) Location reporting: now set to "Location manually selected on the map"
4) Latitude location sharing
5) Location history
6) Automatic check-ins
7) Check-in notifications
Basically, everything I could find related to location. But, alas, that battery screenshot is after I changed all of those! Wi-Fi isn't on constantly, but it stays on way longer than just when I have the screen on.
What are my options here? How should I diagnose this sucker? I ran BetterBatteryStats, but they said it looked fine with my log (some apps, through the ambiguous "Alarms" partial wakelock, were the largest cause, but only accounted for 3.6% of the time).
I'm pretty sure this is a post-update problem, as before, whenever I unlocked my phone, I got the little notification, "Connected to #SSIDName#" and the Wi-Fi icon would obviously, then, be off for the first few seconds (and when I opened my browser too quickly, I'd get a "Page cannot be displayed" error).
Thanks in advance, I'll take any ideas/thoughts/help/sympathy/antipathy you can offer,
Same problem here. Before the update, it was doubletwist air sync forcing wifi on at all times. That's disabled now, so I have not clue. Hopefully somebody figures it out. Mine isn't even intermittent, it's always on, and I have the same setting as you.
So, I left my phone alone for the night and these programs used Wi-Fi while the screen was off:
Do you have any of the same apps? I'm going to uninstall Google+, Facebook, and GroupMe today and run this again tomorrow. But, looking at pure download amount, it's something on the OS....
If you're interested in doing the same, the app is My Data Manager ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/...e&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=my+data+manager).
Basically, install the app, but do not open it. When you're ready for bed (or any extended period of not using it), open it, and then minimize it (runs in the background). Hit your sleep button immediately (we don't want to capture anything of the phone when the screen is on). Then, when you wake up/need to use it, wake it up, immediately disable Wi-Fi (again, no artifacts from when the phone was awake), take a look at My Data Apps (2nd page), Wi-Fi.
I'll let you know how my second attempt goes.
The only one I have is Facebook, but yeah it definitely looks like the os.
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Well! Maybe I should have given it a little while longer, as it seems to be quite a bit better!
It still stays on longer than the screen, but now at least it shuts off once in a while, haha. It was either uninstalling Facebook, gMail, or GroupMe OR disabling one of those earlier settings...it's still not totally fixed, though. I found the Network Counter app which seems to be a little more specific, so we'll see how it goes tonight,
~Ibrahim~
Hmm this is what mine looks like from today. Wifi didn't go off until I did it manually.
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Have you disabled the location stuff? Those are what really helped me. I'm off to run the overnight test, with the new app!
i am having the same issues. my wifi since the jelly bean update has been always on.... the wifi bar in battery settings is solid and has never been off.... so frustrating.
Try "Green Power" app.
I use it to disable both wifi and data 20secs after screen off.
There is a Whitelist and a minimum threshold trigger too.
It works PERFECT in ICS.
At bedtime, I get .5% hr battery drain or better.
themadproducer said:
Try "Green Power" app.
I use it to disable both wifi and data 20secs after screen off.
There is a Whitelist and a minimum threshold trigger too.
It works PERFECT in ICS.
At bedtime, I get no less than .5% hr battery drain.
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Awesome, thanks for the info! Exactly, I don't mind Google Now using the Wi-Fi, but then that opens the door for everything to use the Wi-Fi which will kill the battery when I get back to work.
Network Manager didn't work for some reason, so I tried Data Detective, but the stupid app consumed 90% of the Wi-Fi last night!
The only thing I've heard against battery savers is that they force apps to not use the data, and then they keep asking (creating overhead). I wouldn't have believed it out right except it came from the developer of BetterBatteryStats. But your battery loss isn't bad at all (overnight I average 0.4%/hour with the screen off).
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(overnight I average 0.4%/hour with the screen off).
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I slightly edited my statement. I get .5% hr or better.
Curious...if you average .4%...
- what rom?
- and what is your lowest cpu freq?
- and is that with data and wifi off?
themadproducer said:
I slightly edited my statement. I get .5% hr or better.
Curious...if you average .4%...
- what rom?
- and what is your lowest cpu freq?
- and is that with data and wifi off?
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Haha, right, I thought that's what you meant!
I'm on stock AT&T. Everything is stock; CPU Spy tells me 384Mhz. WiFi on, data off.
Why don't you guys disable it in settings? Open Wi-Fi in settings. Click menu button. Click advanced. Turn off Wi-Fi during sleep. Ta-da!
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Why don't you guys disable it in settings? Open Wi-Fi in settings. Click menu button. Click advanced. Turn off Wi-Fi during sleep. Ta-da!
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Yeah, that's an alternative...but if I have a setting that's supposed to turn it off when it goes to sleep, I'd like it to do that.
stbtigerr said:
Yeah, that's an alternative...but if I have a setting that's supposed to turn it off when it goes to sleep, I'd like it to do that.
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That's right, well said....hence the opening post!
I have the same issue, wi-fi is always on unless I turn it off.
I'm happy. It's one of those location settings in the first post that caused the locks! Let me know if it works for you guys,
Hello everybody,
the LG Optimus G Pro just arrived in Germany a few days ago and I was a lucky one who received his device 2 days ago. Before the LG Optimus Pro I have used a Samsung Galaxy Note II a couple of month.
Yesterday, first time I noticed something which really bothers me. I have noticed an increasing battery drain when I have activated the WiFi, over the night.
Normaly the device used to have 10% over 10 hours over the night, but with activated Wifi there are over 20-30%. I don't know why it so massively drains the battery, but this is something, which I did not had with my Samsung Galaxy Note II.
Does anybody noticed the same problem? Anybody who already fixed it?
Yes I know, I can deactivate the WiFi while the device is in Standby Mode, but this is not what I want.
Thanks for you help and feedback advanced.
BR
Root
Install BetterBatteryStatus
Wait overnight and see kernell wakelocks, copy the tops on google
Also, may deactivate syncing
Go into your Wi-Fi settings, hit your menu button and then go into advanced settings. Check for if you are set to avoid poor Wi-Fi connections and also if your Wi-Fi is set to always on. I set mine to always on only while charging and that seems to do a lot better on my battery life.
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First I want to thank you for your feedback..
Kriggs said:
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- I wanted to avoid to root my device. Do you know another program which I can use to check the wakelocks, which works without root?
draiko913 said:
Go into your Wi-Fi settings, hit your menu button and then go into advanced settings. Check for if you are set to avoid poor Wi-Fi connections and also if your Wi-Fi is set to always on. I set mine to always on only while charging and that seems to do a lot better on my battery life.
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- Thanks for that tips. I will try and keep an eye on that. But I hope they are going to fix that.
Are u sure its the WiFi?
I also had this problem and for some reason i found out that by freezing quickset SDK and generally all the apps that belong to the quick remote,saves a lot of battery but REALLY A LOT
Also check the advanced settings on your wifi menu... see if something is going wrong.
Lastly check your battery health, and install battery callibration - believe it or not it fixed my battery showing wrong percentages by almost 6%.:laugh:
Hi,
My phone is 'awake' always and the WiFi (in battery graph) shows as active even thoug WiFi is switched off.
http://imgur.com/ovnpKno
Any suggestions please
mtechie said:
Hi,
My phone is 'awake' always and the WiFi (in battery graph) shows as active even thoug WiFi is switched off.
http://imgur.com/ovnpKno
Any suggestions please
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Assuming you are on 5.0.1 Lollipop, did you factory reset after the update? Many people have experienced problems after the update but have seen factory resets correct problems.
While on the wifi settings page (the screen where you find the list of wifi networks available), touch the three dots in the upper right corner and select Advanced.
Uncheck (turn off) the option to "Always allow scanning"
You can also turn off the first option of Network notification to stop it from trying to find open networks in range.
hope this helps.
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Assuming you are on 5.0.1 Lollipop, did you factory reset after the update? Many people have experienced problems after the update but have seen factory resets correct problems.
While on the wifi settings page (the screen where you find the list of wifi networks available), touch the three dots in the upper right corner and select Advanced.
Uncheck (turn off) the option to "Always allow scanning"
You can also turn off the first option of Network notification to stop it from trying to find open networks in range.
hope this helps.
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Thanks for the response,
I am on 5.0.1, I did factory reset twice, Cleaned cache multiple times
"Always allow scanning" is already turned off
Network notification is also turned off (unchecked)
Funny thing is , I put the phone in Airplane mode (wifi off too) for a while and battery graph still shows WiFi on and phone awake
mtechie said:
Thanks for the response,
I am on 5.0.1, I did factory reset twice, Cleaned cache multiple times
"Always allow scanning" is already turned off
Network notification is also turned off (unchecked)
Funny thing is , I put the phone in Airplane mode (wifi off too) for a while and battery graph still shows WiFi on and phone awake
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The Wifi thing is a lollipop bug.
It'll always show as on even when it's off.
spexwood said:
The Wifi thing is a lollipop bug.
It'll always show as on even when it's off.
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That bug must not hit every lollipop phone because my wifi doesn't show as on all the time. When it's off, it's off.
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That bug must not hit every lollipop phone because my wifi doesn't show as on all the time. When it's off, it's off.
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Weird... mine does.
Are you running any special apps (like battery savers)? What Wifi settings are you using? Is Power Saving Mode on or off?
I'm curious now. But yeah, several Note 4 users on the non-ATT Note 4 thread are reporting this issue as well and so were many Nexus users.
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Weird... mine does.
Are you running any special apps (like battery savers)? What Wifi settings are you using? Is Power Saving Mode on or off?
I'm curious now. But yeah, several Note 4 users on the non-ATT Note 4 thread are reporting this issue as well and so were many Nexus users.
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No battery savers or apps designed to conserve battery; power saving modes off. All I did to wifi settings was turn off scanning and notification. I have a long list of apps that I disabled since I knew for sure I wasn't going to use them. I screenshot them below if you're interested.
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No battery savers or apps designed to conserve battery; power saving modes off. All I did to wifi settings was turn off scanning and notification. I have a long list of apps that I disabled since I knew for sure I wasn't going to use them. I screenshot them below if you're interested.
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Ok I was wrong. My phone doesn't show wifi always on. I kept wifi off all day and it showed correctly. BUT I think it did show as always awake on the previous Lollipop update. (I'm on COC4 now).
And btw, I have all the same apps turned off as you except Samsung Push Service because it seems to not sync S Note with my Samsung account (I have a Note tablet too) and Amazon because I use it.
Update
I did some further digging , based on the amount of battery used.
1. Cerberus App was using a lot of battery, so uninstalled and re-installed it... the Constant AWAKE problem is gone
waiting a few days to make sure that problem was really gone
2. Uninstalled "LLAMA" app and now WiFi does NOT show as always on
Having the exact same issue on my galaxy s6. Just turned on clash after picking up the phone and the resolution looks like as compared to my joke Moto X (2013). It's worst when zoomed way out and fine when zoomed way in. Maggie everywhere. What the **** supercell.
i am having crazy active (27%) and idle (5%) battery drain. using ex kernel manager i can see different wakelocks. i hsve been screwing around with them and haven't made any real progress. is the flash 2.05 still very battery efficient? id my problem isn't solved will ex kernel manager still work for this kernel to set wakelocks, governors, etc? do you recommend another kernel manager instead. i downloaded the wake locks detector app and every time i opened it it just said "failed to complete task at this time." it had SU rights. idk whst the problem was. im having a hard time finding whats all of a sudden doing this to my battery. i did flash some launcher mods. this started right after that. last night i reflashed the developers stock launcher and things looked great. now theyre back at being bad. would a factory reset in twrp allow me to save my data and maybe fix the issue? please help
What apps can I use without wake lock dector functioning. Could I have a virus stopping it from functioning?
Check your cpu consumption. Use exkernel manager or some other tool for the same.
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Here's what I'm seeing. Google photos looks to be the culprit. I need that app. What should I do? Uninstall updates and reinstall them? I cleaned the cache for the app but they still stayed at the same levels shown here. Cpu is usually running at 300MHz. It's not shown in the screen shot, but most the of the other cpu consumption is at 1.9GHz. it's like 9% or something. What do I do with google photos?
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Here's what I'm seeing. Google photos looks to be the culprit. I need that app. What should I do? Uninstall updates and reinstall them? I cleaned the cache for the app but they still stayed at the same levels shown here. Cpu is usually running at 300MHz. It's not shown in the screen shot, but most the of the other cpu consumption is at 1.9GHz. it's like 9% or something. What do I do with google photos?
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Edit: i stopped a backup of some stuff on Google photos and the drain is still the same. It's not backup causing the issue. Something else with the app is doing this.
Have you tried clearing its data and cache so you get a fresh start, so to speak?
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Did last night and it didn't seem to help.
So better battery stats seems to be telling me that google photos is the problem. I use the app so this sucks. Otherwise I would have just uninstalled it. Can I use adb shell commands to disable its wake lock? If I do that, I'm guessing it will not upload pics and videos to Google drive UNLESS my screen is ON, right?
TK has this (
) YouTube video showing what I am asking. Keep in mind I actually AM rooted. I don't see any options in batter battery stats to disable wakelocks. It just detects them.
I would again ask To check cpu consumption
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Here is a pic of the cpu stats. Everything above it is very small or 0% cpu seems to be where it should
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Here is a pic of the cpu stats. Everything above it is very small or 0% cpu seems to be where it should
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Thanks, is it for small or bigcluster.
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Guess what!? It appears that the photos app was just trying to upload stuff to my Google drive. Since my internet is so horrible it took literally days. Once the uploads completed my battery drain returned to normal!!
Now I'm seeing this. What is going on. Seems like after every update or the littlest thing, or even out of the blue, battery drain occurs. I just flashed EX kernel 1.01,did some various updates in the playstore, and flashed some launcher mods.
I was seeing like 8% active drain and .5-.7% idle drain on EX 1.0 and only sharkie launcher mods. Now SOT sucks and so does my battery.
I had the same problem till I turned off instant tethering. Helped my battery life significantly for some reason. Doesn't really make sense.
(Settings -> Google -> Instant Tethering)
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I had the same problem till I turned off instant tethering. Helped my battery life significantly for some reason. Doesn't really make sense.
(Settings -> Google -> Instant Tethering)
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I didn't make any changes there before or after updating though. Here's what I have in my tethering settings.
I had this tethering acceleration on,but it was on when I was getting awesome battery life too.
And what about these kernel wake locks? Is there actually an app that blocks wake locks? Wake lock detector would never work for me for whatever reason. Better battery stats seems to identify wake locks but it doesnt give you any way to actually do anything about the wake locks.
By instant tethering, I didn't mean the tethering in the Network and Internet part. I attached a few images that might make it clearer. (Settings->Google->Instant Tethering). I think this helped cause I keep bluetooth on a lot.
If I recall correctly, powermanagerservice wakelock is the catch all for all the partial wakelocks, and power manager display is just however long the display has been on.
Wifi scanning and BT scanning were both back on(previously turned off) for me after the JAN update.
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By instant tethering, I didn't mean the tethering in the Network and Internet part. I attached a few images that might make it clearer. (Settings->Google->Instant Tethering). I think this helped cause I keep bluetooth on a lot.
If I recall correctly, powermanagerservice wakelock is the catch all for all the partial wakelocks, and power manager display is just however long the display has been on.
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Thanks for the reply. I found what u we're talking about with those pictures. Instant tethering under google was not on. I want wifi scanning on but I don't want the BT scanning on, and it didn't turn back on after the January update for me.
Without wifi scanning will wifi work with only the toggle button in the notification drop down menu? I thought they both had to be on
My battery is **** since 8.1, glad I found these options thanks to you guys.
I lose 20% battery life for 1 hr of SOT, super bad. I'll let you know if it improves.
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Thanks for the reply. I found what u we're talking about with those pictures. Instant tethering under google was not on. I want wifi scanning on but I don't want the BT scanning on, and it didn't turn back on after the January update for me.
Without wifi scanning will wifi work with only the toggle button in the notification drop down menu? I thought they both had to be on
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It always has for me and I have disabled this on every phone i've had that has this option. Its more location services.