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Wifi constantly scanning?

It seems like the wifi is constantly scanning even when connected to a network. Wouldn't this be big drain on the battery and is there any way to stop it?
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clamknuckle said:
It seems like the wifi is constantly scanning even when connected to a network. Wouldn't this be big drain on the battery and is there any way to stop it?
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It must be that it is only constantly scanning when on that settings page, because it isn't a big drain on battery.

I notice it is also scanning for wifi even though im completly connected, but im still getting great battery use out of it.
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I posted this same issue to the Sprint forum and a tech responded that he will add it to the bug list for the next MR as he could see it too. Not sure if is scanning when not on the settings page, but at any rate, it seems like it should stop scanning if it has a hold of a network.

How do you check for this? May be relevant in my case...
Note, i posted this in the battery life thread - suspecting a wifi issue of some sort:
geolemon said:
Yesterday was a bad one for me:
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I had to plug it in around 8:30 as you can see.
My wifi was on all day and connected, since I didn't leave the house.
I've changed the wifi sleep setting today, so we'll see if that makes a change.
The only other thing I changed yesterday was from the stock wind weather live wallpaper to a koi Pond live wallpaper, good reviews and no mention of battery issues that I saw).
I'm suspecting the wifi but interested to hear any "eureka" discoveries.
Other days, i'm at work fairly long hours and had wifi off most of the day at least, and thought my battery life has been good... Still 50% or 60% left at 8 or 9 pm.
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Note how the precipitous battery drop corresponds to when wifi was turned on in the morning.
I can't believe this would be simply coincidental.

I have that issue to, but great battery life. My biggest concern is horrible 3g speeds. My wifes evo does not have this issue.
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I noticed the same problem. I swear it also increases my Android OS usage. I get about 12 hours of battery life with 2 days of sample size.
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Here is what the Nexus is capable of with good signal

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110848975568461364018/posts/Dn2L8niketC
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Grims said:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110848975568461364018/posts/Dn2L8niketC
-Houston TX
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Houston here too good lte
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eallan said:
Houston here too good lte
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Funny how the WiFi radio can't even pull in that kind of data *no matter the connection)
My RAZR LTE never got over 24, so this is rather impressive. Although, my RAZR gets much better signal, which gives it a higher average performance over the Nexus.

My experience so far:
DFW (Arlington really) ...and it varies wildly from street to the next but this was
the best I could get in Arlington. Mostly it was 10-15 DL and 1 - 5 UL
Houston:
It's been great every where I go

wow...just WOW
Is anyone anywhere near you?
You'd have to literally be in an area alone to get that kind of speed!

The best so far in Houston was when I had the Rezound:
The GN only gets about 30-35 in the same location

WOW - 52 Meg on a phone... Remember 256k dial up. We have come along way

I miss T-Mobile so much....

Best for me
This is the best I've gotten so far. Also in Houston area.

Hm mines is only 9GB D/L here in New York.
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mklass said:
WOW - 52 Meg on a phone... Remember 256k dial up. We have come along way
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haha. Remember 28.8k

Here's mines. Reporting live from Philly!! I love my Nexus. Been a fan since the G1 and made my first purchase with Google Wallet at Mickey D's and worked like a charm. Ohhs and Ahhs were in order too!! Yeah! Thanks Google for the free lunch.
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How's that battery life though?

mklass said:
WOW - 52 Meg on a phone... Remember 256k dial up. We have come along way
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Hah! I remember using old 110 baud (that's 110bps kiddies) acoustic coupled modems back in the day. You yutes have no idea...
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dwallersv said:
Hah! I remember using old 110 baud (that's 110bps kiddies) acoustic coupled modems back in the day. You yutes have no idea...
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That does precede me... with 2400 baud... where a 1 meg file took... 1 HOUR to download.
Sorry, /offtopic.

NYC Rezound. Nexus arrives tomorrow, so I'll be testing and comparing.

hooray nashville?

My Nexus was blazing today in Louisville KY!
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milan03 said:
NYC Rezound. Nexus arrives tomorrow, so I'll be testing
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Amazing results!

rashad1 said:
How's that battery life though?
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I am at 30% after 12 hours with 1 hour screen on, 15 min talk and 1 hour of streaming xm on the stock battery. Lte was on all day. On my 3rd charge cycle. Still have the extended battery to run and see how it performs. And there is the option of a uv kernel, it can only get better!
Yes it eats more battery than the gsm, but I can make it all day and have signal in remote areas!

rashad1 said:
How's that battery life though?
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Its better than my bionic and razr. About 15 hours average...hardly anything lost on standby.
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iGO

Is there iGO for GALAXY S3 resolution ? What navigation app do you use?

try Sygic 11.2.6 work very good with S3

NDrive works well on the S3 as well

Co_pilot premium .
jje

Navigon
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weganet said:
try Sygic 11.2.6 work very good with S3
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+1 works perfect

Lol pretty much every gps app has been mentioned here. I wonder which is best
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tomtom

personally, i prefer iGo. Sygic is good but when roaming it is a pain as it keeps asking for a connection.

Of course it's asking for a connection, it has anything igo has plus some more features like Google Local Search who needs an Internet connection. You can use them or not, your choice.
If you think that missing features are a bonus you should buy a iPhone, the only platform where people are happy if their phones can't do things that other phones can do and are even grateful for it.
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Consider that myname70 may be living in a country where iGo's map providers are good and the others worthless. Which is the situation I am in, for example.
As for compatibility with SIII, as far as I know iGo does not use the whole screen on 1280x720 or 800 resolutions yet. I don't understand what the hell they are thinking honestly. Why would you not sell your software on the android market and support it properly? Why force people to pirate it, since that is currently the only way I can have it on my phone? It's sheer idiocy.

grtmoby said:
personally, i prefer iGo. Sygic is good but when roaming it is a pain as it keeps asking for a connection.
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Mine never does that, but I have disabled the setting "automatically connect", maybe that's the reason? I've used both iGo and Sygic and Sygic really does it a lot better for me.

+1 for CoPilot Live Premium.

babymatteo said:
+1 for CoPilot Live Premium.
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and another +1.
Have tried most, Keep coming back to the new Co-Pilot

subvertbeats said:
and another +1.
Have tried most, Keep coming back to the new Co-Pilot
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Any interest in me making a topic with a poll for best gps?
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coradux said:
Of course it's asking for a connection, it has anything igo has plus some more features like Google Local Search who needs an Internet connection. You can use them or not, your choice.
If you think that missing features are a bonus you should buy a iPhone, the only platform where people are happy if their phones can't do things that other phones can do and are even grateful for it.
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it's not even close to igo, hundreds of small streets Sygic can't see them, Igo has the best maps atm after google.

+1 for CoPilot Live Premium.

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iGO is the best IMHO too, but like the OP said (and another guy), 1280x720 is not currently supported, and honestly I don't know if it ever will be as it seems that the development has stopped... in the meantime I recommend Navigon.

I will try CoPilot now...
But from previous experiences for part where i live(Serbia), only iGo had maps that were usable. Will post how it works around here.

T-Mobile - horrible reception? (Time without a signal)

I've got the T-Mobile SGS3, and am getting horrible reception.. time without a signal hovers around 30% at home on this phone, where as both my Nexus One and Sensation had no problems whatsoever with signal. Going for WCDMA preferred instead of GSM auto (default out of the box setting) didn't help.. fwiw, I'm getting 3-4 bars of signal on the statusbar.
is anyone else having this issue, or is my phone just a lemon?
Thanks!

bump.. no one else is seeing bad reception?
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I think a lot of people are having this problem in one way or another, including myself.

http://www.tmonews.com/2012/07/t-mobile-suffering-data-outage-says-early-reports/
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Yes im having trouble!! No internet On htc amaze! Good to know not only me. weird that texting works but not internet. Oh well guess time to stay on wifi for nowm let me know if anyone gets any updates or when its getting back up.
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Like my signal is so bad right now.

I'm having problems in Las Vegas area thank god I'm home now, I just switch carriers for better service and this happens 0_o for 3 years in different carries I never had problems
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I got 4g back by the toggle data like 10 times lol, saw it in another thread
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Ha either way my 4g is back. Good thing for wifi for a couple hours
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cashyftw said:
Like my signal is so bad right now.
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Im on sprint, and my signal is piss poor also. Take forever to logon to pandora and forget about watching any videos, impossible. I'm thinking the modern needs an update. What's the sense in having this bad ass phone if we can't even listen to internet radio in peace. I'm going back to my SSG2, and getting my HBO back for lunch

I'm still getting 25-30% time without a signal, just sitting at home.. why is the signal strength for the SGS3 so bad?! Is it a Samsung issue? I've only had HTC android phones before this one.

Quick reviews from people who've had the phone for a few months now

I'm most likely going to be getting this phone sometime in the near future and wanted to ask if anyone noticed any niggles or other nonsense that sometimes happens with Samsung Android phones (i.e. roaming notification not caring about no longer displaying the message, GPS issues, etc.)
Just quick reviews, mostly I'm looking for the little things that bug people.
Thanks

Bloatware on Stock ROM. That the Cons.of this phone. Custom ROM and you will sell your TV and your computer. Never posted using the computer after GS3.
Thanks Clark for FreeGS3.
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csmasn said:
Bloatware on Stock ROM. That the Cons.of this phone. Custom ROM and you will sell your TV and your computer. Never posted using the computer after GS3.
Thanks Clark for FreeGS3.
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+1, had a number of smartphones in the past, this one clearly blows all of my expectations away. The only issue I've had is sporadically losing connectivity to my wifi and I'm not sure if it's something I've loaded or a bug from Samsung/Sprint. My kids have the Evo LTE and Iphone 4S and I wouldn't trade for the world.

The best phone yet IMO, yes the only con I have found is data connectivity every once and awhile. LG8 radio seems better than any other. Been running jellybomb rom, superfast. Fastest phone I've owned so far, and I've had um back to the HTC Hero.
message brought to u by my JellyBombed GalaxyS3

Best phone I've ever owned with regard to... everything. There's a reason it's the hottest-selling phone right now.

Chones!!! It's great except half bar on WiFi when I should clearly be full.
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Frostacious said:
Chones!!! It's great except half bar on WiFi when I should clearly be full.
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Try moving your router as far away from other electronics. As for the phone...I'm really loving it. With an extended battery( Hyperion 4200mah) in it, I'm getting almost two days off charger with 47% still left as I type this.
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Yeah...it'll add bulk to your baby but, I'm used to it now.
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Its the best choice, my only gripe is maybe that I wanted quad core to dual boot Ubuntu and do my best to ditch all use of laptop or desktop. ...but ..then again despite all the quads having nicer gpus even the a15 based s4krait kinda disappointed next generation I suppose
This is kinda a crappy year for the fact they are transitioning production processes I'm really hoping the next exynos generation skips a15 all together
But yeah long story short ...it beats everything we have in the US market
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best phone by far