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there is a setting under settings / wireless and networks / mobile networks that says "enable always on mobile data"
Switching this to off about doubled my battery life and everything still seemed to work okay as far as data goes. All my apps worked including things that check or update periodically in the background - so I'm not sure what this feature does.
The only downside is that the phone would crash periodically in areas with poor reception. It would go back to the sprint boot animation and come up after a minute and the uptime would not be reset.
Imconvinced part of the battery life problem is due ton inefficient use of data, but I'm wondering what can be done about it without sacrificing stability. Ahylne else have a similar experience or willing to try it out or have more information?
Trying this out, seeing what it effects it has on my normally used apps. So far (first 20 minutes of doing it) everything seems to run fine. I would guess this causes the phone to "hibernate" the 3g radio whilst locked.
I started doing this on Hero and continue to do it on the Evo. The biggest issue is that if you are using pandora (or similar app), it causes problems when the phone goes to sleep.
The setting stops your 3g connection when the screen goes to sleep. This prevents the phone from updating email, twitter or whatever else you use. As soon as you turn the screen on, it turns on 3g, downloads your email etc.
I check my phone often enough (for the time or whatever) that I don't mind not getting my email immediately (it downloads when I turn the screen on).
This has saves a ton of battery life. The only time I enable always on mobile network is to listen to pandora. I have done this since day 1 and have had no issues.
I tried this last week and it made a massive difference in battery life. I turned it back on though because I do like my phone to download things while it is idle. I also don't want to get used to the improved battery life just to have to switch it back later.
i dont know if any of you have heard of juice defender what it does the same thing pretty much. with a few exceptions. whereby you can set the program up to allow your phone to take data even if your screen is off at a certain duration of time, then it will go back to sleep.
thats a really simple explanation of what the app does. if anyone of you does decide to use the app let me know i can share my settings more specifically. I have increases my battery life by 87% and i have have 0 problems.
I have this option unchecked and not only has my battery life improved, but I don't notice any performance or stability issues.
Also, my data continues to download in the background as normal (regardless of whether the screen is on or off). I have Facebook and Twitter set to download data every so often and it continues to do so. Even Google Voice will notify me of messages even if the screen is off.
I think what this option does is, when checked, makes the radio work hard to find and keep a data connection (especially in low signal areas). I notice that with the option unchecked, my data connection drops a bit more often than with it on. I don't mind that though seeing that the data connection simply reconnects automatically and almost instantly.
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Would you all mind doing an experiment for me? Turn this option off (so data is not constantly on) and turn your screen on and put it in your microwave so it loses signal*.
Watch it and see if it crashes. I suspect something about this setting being off is causing the phone to crash when it loses its cell connection momentarily.
*Don't turn on your microwave.
Okay so after more research I'm pretty sure the main instigator of poor battery life is the data connection constantly going wild. According to SystemPanel my phone hangs out doing nothing downloading at 100-200Kbps for large amounts of time. Not sure what it's downloading.
To find out what apps were causing this I used Spare Parts and saw this:
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So a process with the PID of "0" is what is using most of the data connection, followed by UID 10011 which is contact/calendar/mail sync. I can click through to 10011 and get details, but if I try to click on PID "0" I get a force close.
There is also another preference under Accounts & Sync for "background data" and "auto-sync." I'm not sure what the difference is between this background data setting and the one in wireless & networks that says "enable always-on mobile data." Anyone have any thoughts on that?
Also interesting is what was happening when I had always on data disabled:
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You can see where my phone was crashing but look at my battery life before and after the crash. It looks like it has dipped significantly. Also, the crashes only lasted a minute while the phone rebooted, not nearly as long as what was recorded here - so it's possible something was going on with the battery life before the phone crashed.
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i dont know if any of you have heard of juice defender what it does the same thing pretty much. with a few exceptions. whereby you can set the program up to allow your phone to take data even if your screen is off at a certain duration of time, then it will go back to sleep.
thats a really simple explanation of what the app does. if anyone of you does decide to use the app let me know i can share my settings more specifically. I have increases my battery life by 87% and i have have 0 problems.
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Could you please post you settings that you use with Juice Defender. Also, please post any suggestions about Juice Defender and Ultimate Juice.
Thanks, John.........
mastermayhm069 said:
i dont know if any of you have heard of juice defender what it does the same thing pretty much. with a few exceptions. whereby you can set the program up to allow your phone to take data even if your screen is off at a certain duration of time, then it will go back to sleep.
thats a really simple explanation of what the app does. if anyone of you does decide to use the app let me know i can share my settings more specifically. I have increases my battery life by 87% and i have have 0 problems.
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I swore Juice Defender only works with GSM and not CDMA.
It even say this when you go to download the app. Although I did just google it an apparently people have it going on the Motorola Droid rooted.
Who with Android experience wants to prove this?
OMGWTF_BBQ said:
I swore Juice Defender only works with GSM and not CDMA.
It even say this when you go to download the app. Although I did just google it an apparently people have it going on the Motorola Droid rooted.
Who with Android experience wants to prove this?
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+1 I thought this was the case too. i unchecked the data option. It's been a full day and no reboots
I'm running Juice Defender today and my battery life seems even worse. I'm talking 20-25% drop per hour.
SOMETHING is wrong here.
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I have this option unchecked and not only has my battery life improved, but I don't notice any performance or stability issues.
Also, my data continues to download in the background as normal (regardless of whether the screen is on or off). I have Facebook and Twitter set to download data every so often and it continues to do so. Even Google Voice will notify me of messages even if the screen is off.
I think what this option does is, when checked, makes the radio work hard to find and keep a data connection (especially in low signal areas). I notice that with the option unchecked, my data connection drops a bit more often than with it on. I don't mind that though seeing that the data connection simply reconnects automatically and almost instantly.
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The option is not meant to enable/disable applications from using the data connection when the screen is off, so applications should be able to continue updating.
What the option is meant to do is to determine whether your phone should maintain data connectivity all the time, even when there are no apps using data. Unchecking the option means that when an app needs data, it must first connect, then make its request. This makes it take a little longer (or maybe a lot longer for 4G which seems to take longer to initialize a connection).
So I was streaming music from MOG and all was working well until my screen went off (idle). Music started to pause/buffer and kept doing so every 10 seconds. When I turn the screen back on and stare at it, it won't do it at all and I can see it load full on the seek bar. Only happens when screen goes off and phone goes idle. I'm guessing its something with the CPU throttling maybe? Is there any way I can fix this? I'm connected on WiFi 5G and I have "keep WiFi on during sleep - Always".
This seems to be a pretty common issue (I have it myself, when connecting via WiFi with adb I need to keep my display on) and I've seen two issues on file here and here. I've yet to see a fix for it yet though
Aww crap. Well that sucks. Does it happen on custom roms/kernels?
reyes.jr said:
Aww crap. Well that sucks. Does it happen on custom roms/kernels?
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I'm running CM9 nightly with leankernel now. Although it's happened since I've gotten the phone, and I've ran probably half a dozen different ROMs and 3 different kernels, including stock. I vaguely remember reading some posts where people either said there was a fix or they were working on it, though I'm honestly not real sure.
K thanks for the info bro.
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So I was streaming music from MOG and all was working well until my screen went off (idle). Music started to pause/buffer and kept doing so every 10 seconds. When I turn the screen back on and stare at it, it won't do it at all and I can see it load full on the seek bar. Only happens when screen goes off and phone goes idle. I'm guessing its something with the CPU throttling maybe? Is there any way I can fix this? I'm connected on WiFi 5G and I have "keep WiFi on during sleep - Always".
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I am also facing the same issue. Yesterday, I was downloading ARHD 3.0 directly on phone through wi-fi. Surprisingly the progress was 1% completion per minute in screen-off mode. But the moment, I would turn on the screen, the rate became 3-4 times faster. i.e. 3-4% completion per minute.
Deviating from topic, I have seen similar behaviour quite some time back in iPad1.
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I am also facing the same issue. Yesterday, I was downloading ARHD 3.0 directly on phone through wi-fi. Surprisingly the progress was 1% completion per minute in screen-off mode. But the moment, I would turn on the screen, the rate became 3-4 times faster. i.e. 3-4% completion per minute.
Deviating from topic, I have seen similar behaviour quite some time back in iPad1.
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Well glad to know I'm not in the same boat. Have any of u tried android 4.0.4?
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Well glad to know I'm not in the same boat. Have any of u tried android 4.0.4?
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Yeah, I'm on Liquid 1.25 (4.0.4 based ROM) and it still does it. If I run a speed test and turn the screen off, let it finish and check it; it will never go much over 5 Mbit/s. When I run the test with the screen on, I will get 10-20 Mbit/s. This was of course testing on my home WiFi network.
This is pretty annoying because I download anime torrents every week and it's enough of a battery killer already just to download the thing, but now I have to leave the screen on in order for it to even finish in a reasonable amount of time. I've also tried setting the minimum clock speed to 1200 MHz in SetCPU just to see if it was a CPU throttling/bottleneck issue when the screen turns off. But it made no difference . This can't be a hard fix for Google/Devs.
At least with popcorn and franco kernels you can do
echo 1 > /sys/module/bcmdhd/parameters/wifi_pm
to put wifi on high performance mode with screen off. They say this can enable high throughput.
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Well glad to know I'm not in the same boat. Have any of u tried android 4.0.4?
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Yes, I am using ARHD 3.0 which is based on 4.0.4
There seem to be definite improvements and it was worth the effort to update.
As far as I know, wifi goes into a low power state with screen off to conserve power/battery life.
My command put it in normal power mode, but kernel must support it
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As far as I know, wifi goes into a low power state with screen off to conserve power/battery life.
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oooo, so only on WiFi does this occur? On 4g it doesn't?
This also happen to me.. Happened in 4.0.1 4.0.2 4.0.4 so far I managed to bypass the issue with wifi keep alive its a free app from play store.. You could try and comment if that works for you
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Threre is no need for any custom kernel module. Im on Stock ICS 4.04 and found an easy workaround. Actually this issue is not an android bug, but an issue of streaming apps that aren't proberly coded for honeycomb and ICS.
Leaving my OP in place, but I have rewritten the description with much more detail and pics here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25401417#post25401417
I suggest skipping to there.
I am looking for general tips here. E.g., not asking you to diagnose my specific problem so much as give me ideas of what else to check or try.
Lately I have had unexplained (to me) battery drain. Yesterday I lost about 25 percent in an hour while the phone idled. It is not a constant thing, though. I can go an hour and loose 1 percent then loose massive amounts in the next hour.
Now, i have searched, but I have not found anything that applies to me.
I have:
Tried a different radio
Tried a different kernel
Reflashed my rom
Phone is entering deep sleep according to cpu spy
There are no unusual or excessive wake locks according to better battery stats
No apps are using a lot of battery.
I am in a low signal area at work, but putting the phone in airplane mode and dissabling background syn does not stop the drain.
Ideas?
might be your phone is loosing signal? i would check the battery stats in the settings menu to see if you have a poor mobile signal.
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might be your phone is loosing signal? i would check the battery stats in the settings menu to see if you have a poor mobile signal.
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I am in a low signal area at work, but putting the phone in airplane mode and dissabling background syn does not stop the drain.
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So I don't think I can blame it on that.
Do you have any exchange sync on your phone?
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can you give us screen shots of battery stats?
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Do you have any exchange sync on your phone?
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I do, and on reflection it is a possible culprit since I added it recently.
Didn't occur to me since it was producing no wakelocks and the battery stats did not showing as using much battery.
I shall turn it off for a bit and see if that helps. (unless there is some other way to test if it is the problem first.) I am off to the search button!
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This is from yesterday when i set it down unused for about 90 minutes. The amount of wakes seems liek a lot, but it is similar to what i see when i have far far less drain, so I don't think that is the problem. I didn't get the app list screen, but out should screen as the only major drain with about 2 minutes.
I know it is shows poor signal strength, so immediately after that shot I put it in airplane mode, turned of sync, and rebooted. The battery continued to drain and graph had the exact same slope under those conditions. (Forget to get a pic though.)
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System panel paid version with monitoring enabled is the best for tracking apps using CPU.
OK, still working on this.
To recap:
When the screen is off, and no apps are running I sometimes get inexplicable battery drain. This is occurring under conditions when I should be experiencing little or no drain at all. I say this becuase:
The screen is of and no bakground apps are running
the phone is NOT awake and IS entering deep sleep (as confirmed by cpuspy)
there are no unusual kernel or partial wake locks
there are no apps listed as using unexpected ammounts of battery
This is not a universal problem. The phone *often* behaves as expected. I can leave the phone off for an hour and see a 1% or 2% drain, and I am happy with that. However, sometimes, randomly, it goes nuts on my.
This graph from a few weeks ago shows what I mean. Look in the green box. The phone is sleeping, and the screen is off. The graph starts as a flatline, then, all of a sudden, it begins to drop precipitously.
Here is a graph that shows the battery dropping at the same rate whether the phone is awake or sleeping:
I have gone the following to try and narrow the problem down:
Done a completely fresh install of my Rom including a system wipe.
Tried two kernels (the aokp default and several relases of Franco's
Tried a different radio
Activated and installed a new sim card
I have come to suspect that the problem is network related. When the problem starts, sometimes going into airplane mode and back and/or toggling 2g only temporarily fixes the problem.
I suspect that something is happening with my connection to T-Mobile that keeps the network running and draining power. This is pure speculation, but it is all I can think of.
I installed juice defender (which I had not been previously running) and noticed the that, sometimes, it didn't turn of data when it should have. I also noticed the following two things happen:
I do not believe it is a rom problem, since if so, someone else would be reporting this. It might be an app problem, but if so the app is draining battery without a wake lock and while the phone is in deep sleep.
It is not exchange (as was suggested in this thread) since it continues when I ev my exchange account.
I have no idea what else to do or try.
Since it happens at random and takes a while to identify, uninstalling one app at a time to test for that could easily take months to narrow down a misbehaving app.
I know it is not a hardware issue since last month I got this:
That was with AOKP and Franco (earlier versions obviously)
I have google searched till my fingers bleed.
I am a long way form being an expert, and I suspect I may have overlooked something obvious.
Please, any thoughts??
Damn you definitely have a major issue and I don't know what it could be. But when my phone sleeps itstays dead flat with no awake bars, and drops 1% every 3 hours.
1. Calibrate battery
2. If you really wanna find the problem, install the rom with no mods or apps and run it and see if it still happens. Then add back each mod/app one at a time
derekwilkinson said:
1. Calibrate battery
2. If you really wanna find the problem, install the rom with no mods or apps and run it and see if it still happens. Then add back each mod/app one at a time
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While I appreciate your effort, this is remarkable unhelpful for the following reasons:
1. "calibrating" the battery is a myth and doesn't actually do something. Even if it did, it would not explain the symptoms I have described. I have been around xda long enough to know it is the knee-jerk reaction to any battery question, but it is not relevant here.
2. Since the problem occurs at random, and sometimes takes hours to show up, (For instance, last night I charged to full and tried to catch it happening. For 4 hours nothing happened, it behaved perfectly. Then I went to bed and it immediately started to fall and was dead by morning) and since I have over 100 apps, your suggestion could easily take *over a year* to follow. Believe me, I have thought about it, but I started this thread hoping for ideas that would allow me to avoid it.
Here is that chart for last night.
I had about 1 hour and 30 minutes screen on time with 65% left when I went to bed. When I woke up, phone was dead.
RogerPodacter said:
Damn you definitely have a major issue and I don't know what it could be. But when my phone sleeps itstays dead flat with no awake bars, and drops 1% every 3 hours.
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Mine often does that. But sometimes it doesn't. It is the fact that it happens seemingly at random that makes it so annoying and hard to track down.
I would replace the battery
One thing you haven't rulled out is that the battery itself is bad.
Have a friend you could swap with for a day, or at least long enough to see if the problem follows? If your battery drops on their phone that is also a good indication.
arw01 said:
One thing you haven't rulled out is that the battery itself is bad.
Have a friend you could swap with for a day, or at least long enough to see if the problem follows? If your battery drops on their phone that is also a good indication.
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The thought has occurred to me, but unfortunately, no, I don't have a friend I can swap with. And really, since I have had the phone less than 3 months, the battery *shouldn't* be bad, but yeah, defective products happen.
If I cannot find any other cause I will likely order a new battery and see if that fixes it.
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While I appreciate your effort, this is remarkable unhelpful for the following reasons:
1. "calibrating" the battery is a myth and doesn't actually do something. Even if it did, it would not explain the symptoms I have described. I have been around xda long enough to know it is the knee-jerk reaction to any battery question, but it is not relevant here.
2. Since the problem occurs at random, and sometimes takes hours to show up, (For instance, last night I charged to full and tried to catch it happening. For 4 hours nothing happened, it behaved perfectly. Then I went to bed and it immediately started to fall and was dead by morning) and since I have over 100 apps, your suggestion could easily take *over a year* to follow. Believe me, I have thought about it, but I started this thread hoping for ideas that would allow me to avoid it.
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1. yes battery calibration does make a difference.
2. ok, so an app can't run a process at random? especially when you have "over 100 apps"? Run the rom stock and see if it still happens, or even run the stock rom/kernel. if you don't want to try this then why are you asking for suggestions? christ
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1. yes battery calibration does make a difference.
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You are incorrect. But, in any case, I DID calibrate the battery just to cover bases in the case that I was wrong.
2. ok, so an app can't run a process at random? especially when you have "over 100 apps"?
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We'll of course it can. That is kinda my point. If I go one app at a time waiting for it to "run a process at random" I am talking literally MONTHS of testing. I would have to wait many hours, if not days after installing or uninstalling an app to be sure whether or not it made a difference, then move on the the next. This is simply not an option. I started this thread in hopes that a realistic and doable solution might exist that I was unaware of.
Run the rom stock and see if it still happens, or even run the stock rom/kernel. if you don't want to try this then why are you asking for suggestions? christ
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I am asking because there may be a solution that I am unaware of that doesn't require me to put my entire life on hold for months. It is possible that there is no such solution, but I asked in case there was one.
Sorry to have put you out so much.
You mentioned you recently installed exchange sync. Did turning off sync remedy this or have you not tried disabling all sync features?
One other thing to check is the background data usage of your apps. You'd find this under 'data usage' and make sure you enable the wifi tab so you can see data usage on wifi.
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You mentioned you recently installed exchange sync. Did turning off sync remedy this or have you not tried disabling all sync features?
when i did a complete quote and re flash i did not setup the exchange account, but the issue continued.
One other thing to check is the background data usage of your apps. You'd find this under 'data usage' and make sure you enable the wifi tab so you can see data usage on wifi.
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I'll check that out. Thanks.
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My battery also drains at a rate similar to yours however I'm on the CDMA version. Hopefully you can figure out what's going on with yours.
Recently upgraded and re-rooted and seemly after an update to G3 tweak box keeping the wifi on destroys my battery and heats the device off.
Better battery stats states that the sensors.qcom have been going forever.
Work around for now is to use the device without the wifi on. Thankfully I have unlimited data, but this is kinda annoying.
Any help would be much appreciated.
In my case, once I turn on Wi-Fi, not only the top back part of the device starts heating up, also the phone becomes laggy and buggy. For instance, clicking Quiet mode icon doesn't actually turn it on/off. Additionally, my text messages stop sending/receiving for some time (up to hours!). What I've noticed is that my LTE icon with arrows lighting up appears for a few seconds, then goes away, then reappears, and the cycle continues. I can confirm that my WiFi internet works though, since if I disable mobile data, I am still able to access the internet.
Playing with advanced WiFi options, and removing all saved networks did not help. Having WiFi on, but not connected to any network, is fine and doesn't cause any of the above.
I kept the WiFi off during the weekend (good 2-3 days), and everything was cool and smooth! But I can't just not use WiFi; it's not efficient and I used ~1.5GB of data.
A friend of mine said their colleague experienced the same. He did a factory reset and everything is good. I have not yet had the time to try that myself.
ryceone said:
Recently upgraded and re-rooted and seemly after an update to G3 tweak box keeping the wifi on destroys my battery and heats the device off.
Better battery stats states that the sensors.qcom have been going forever.
Work around for now is to use the device without the wifi on. Thankfully I have unlimited data, but this is kinda annoying.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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In my case, once I turn on Wi-Fi, not only the top back part of the device starts heating up, also the phone becomes laggy and buggy. For instance, clicking Quiet mode icon doesn't actually turn it on/off. Additionally, my text messages stop sending/receiving for some time (up to hours!). What I've noticed is that my LTE icon with arrows lighting up appears for a few seconds, then goes away, then reappears, and the cycle continues. I can confirm that my WiFi internet works though, since if I disable mobile data, I am still able to access the internet.
Playing with advanced WiFi options, and removing all saved networks did not help. Having WiFi on, but not connected to any network, is fine and doesn't cause any of the above.
I kept the WiFi off during the weekend (good 2-3 days), and everything was cool and smooth! But I can't just not use WiFi; it's not efficient and I used ~1.5GB of data.
A friend of mine said their colleague experienced the same. He did a factory reset and everything is good. I have not yet had the time to try that myself.
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try dissabling location services
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try dissabling location services
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Are you referring to "Allow Wi-Fi scanning" under Advanced Wi-Fi settings or the Location Services in general?
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Are you referring to "Allow Wi-Fi scanning" under Advanced Wi-Fi settings or the Location Services in general?
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Both actually
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Both actually
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Tried, but issue still persists.
I am going to backup my data, and proceed with a hard (factory) reset. Hopefully it will be resolved, if not I have to look into getting a replacement (which would be a whole different issue to deal with).
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Tried, but issue still persists.
I am going to backup my data, and proceed with a hard (factory) reset. Hopefully it will be resolved, if not I have to look into getting a replacement (which would be a whole different issue to deal with).
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that won't help because this is probably just a rogue app a hard reset might fix this if not try an 10j firmware
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that won't help because this is probably just a rogue app a hard reset might fix this if not try an 10j firmware
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Hard reset seems to have fixed it for now! *knock on wood* And I've been paying careful attention to the apps, installing things in stages.
sinara said:
Hard reset seems to have fixed it for now! *knock on wood* And I've been paying careful attention to the apps, installing things in stages.
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smart, keep us posted
sinara said:
Hard reset seems to have fixed it for now! *knock on wood* And I've been paying careful attention to the apps, installing things in stages.
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What is your signal strength on Wifi? Mine does seem to heat up considerably on Less than optimal signal strengths.
Mine has been recently returned to stock and wiped, in advance of me RMAing it because I have the "cracks" developing at mic and infrared ports.
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What is your signal strength on Wifi? Mine does seem to heat up considerably on Less than optimal signal strengths.
Mine has been recently returned to stock and wiped, in advance of me RMAing it because I have the "cracks" developing at mic and infrared ports.
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Signal strength was almost full. It still heats up with a lot of use, which is understandable. Definitely not as excessively as before (when I wasn't doing anything and it was heating up).
I didn't play with any of the advanced Wi-Fi settings (did not change them from the default), except for removing the checkmark of notifications of open networks.
No signs of cracks on mine, and I am not using a case currently (it is being shipped to me).
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Just an update:
No issues with WiFi yet. Some heat during heavy use, but nothing like before (in terms of heat and lag).
LTE symbol sometimes appears even when on WiFi, but definitely not as much as it used to. I think it started doing that once I installed Rogers' VVM Plus app (seems like it needs to communicate with the server directly or something). No biggie, since I don't notice any of the problems I used to have.
Lastly, I'm quite pleased with the battery life now!!
Hello,
I have recently factory reset my OP3 due to a battery drainage issue. Google play services started using around 30% of my battery and consequently my SOT decreased by a lot.
After the factory reset, I freshly installed of all my old apps, and I downloaded my photos from the Gdrive.
Unfortunately, since then my WiFi is acting strange. Whenever I start the phone, the WiFi is performing normal, but after a while my phone goes into deep sleep and my WiFi disables itself (just like i configuered in settings). However, when I wake my phone, my WiFi won't turn on and when I go to the WiFi settings the phone becomes extremely laggy.
I have already wiped my cache again but I don't know what else to do.
Any help is appreciated!
Kind Regards,
Same strange problem here,I must reboot phone to connect wifi.
I trying with 3 kernel, it's not kernel problem.
It's such a strange problem. I don't understand why this problemwould occur after a complete factory reset...
I had the same issue a few years ago with my HTC One M7.
By the way, my OP3 is completely stock running Android 8.0
Same problem with my 5T on 5.1.1. Weird thing is I haven't made any changes, just updated a few apps but none of them should be causing wifi issues and settings (battery history) to lag after sleep.
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It's such a strange problem. I don't understand why this problemwould occur after a complete factory reset...
I had the same issue a few years ago with my HTC One M7.
By the way, my OP3 is completely stock running Android 8.0
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I have set wifi to always on and don't have this problem. May be the doze feature is affecting it in your case. Why don't you try the always on setting? For me it doesn't drain the battery also. So no harm in trying it.
And why settings not responding? I must touch home button in order to have working settings again.
I think it's Oxygen Os problem.
tnsmani said:
I have set wifi to always on and don't have this problem. May be the doze feature is affecting it in your case. Why don't you try the always on setting? For me it doesn't drain the battery also. So no harm in trying it.
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The problem does not occur if I set WiFi to always on. However, this uses way more battery in my case.
If i set WiFi to always on my sot decreases from 4-5 hours to 3-4 hours.
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I also can't find this issue anywhere else on the internet.
Dark-shot said:
The problem does not occur if I set WiFi to always on. However, this uses way more battery in my case.
If i set WiFi to always on my sot decreases from 4-5 hours to 3-4 hours.
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I also can't find this issue anywhere else on the internet.
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Can't find anything either. You have any of these apps installed? Substratum, Microsoft Remote Desktop, Twitch. Updated these apps two days ago which is when I noticed this problem, haven't change anything else really. Updated router firmware too (Virgin Media).
Dark-shot said:
The problem does not occur if I set WiFi to always on. However, this uses way more battery in my case.
If i set WiFi to always on my sot decreases from 4-5 hours to 3-4 hours.
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I also can't find this issue anywhere else on the internet.
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I can only think of factory resetting again and checking the behaviour of wifi before installing any other apps and downloading photos. Then you will know whether an app or the downloading is the cause and take action accordingly.
nrkf said:
Can't find anything either. You have any of these apps installed? Substratum, Microsoft Remote Desktop, Twitch. Updated these apps two days ago which is when I noticed this problem, haven't change anything else really. Updated router firmware too (Virgin Media).
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No, I haven't installed any of those apps. However, since the factory reset I started using the regular Chrome instead of Chrome Beta.
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I can only think of factory resetting again and checking the behaviour of wifi before installing any other apps and downloading photos. Then you will know whether an app or the downloading is the cause and take action accordingly.
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I could also test that with the phone in safe mode, right?
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No, I haven't installed any of those apps. However, since the factory reset I started using the regular Chrome instead of Chrome Beta.
I could also test that with the phone in safe mode, right?
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I think so, yes.
I just disabled all third party apps, and the problem still persists
I have set wifi always on,and flash HolyDragon kernel, problem it's gone.
I don't know if kernel, or settings always on wifi, resolve my wifi connection.
I've been having the same problem too as of yesterday. Did a factory wipe and reinstalled Oxygen 5.0.1 but still having the issue after i reinstalled apps. going to try a factory reset again and not install or update any apps to see if maybe a recent app update is causing this.
GXTracker said:
I've been having the same problem too as of yesterday. Did a factory wipe and reinstalled Oxygen 5.0.1 but still having the issue after i reinstalled apps. going to try a factory reset again and not install or update any apps to see if maybe a recent app update is causing this.
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Could you update us if you manage to fix the issue?
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Could you update us if you manage to fix the issue?
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IT didn't work for me. Right after flashing the OS back onto the phone and connecting to WiFi, i changed the WiFi setting for "Keep WiFi awake when asleep" to "only when plugged in" and after locking the screen and waking it back up a few minutes later it still wouldn't activate the WiFi; I had to manually go into the WiFi settings and turn WiFi back on.
On the bright side though, I did do some reading on the "Keep WiFi awake when asleep" setting and several sources said to leave it on "Always" since it actually drains more power turning on the WiFi radio when the phone wakes up. I've since changed that setting to Always and over the last two days I've noticed slightly less battery drain!
It happen to me too. Cant turn on wifi after waking up from deepsleep. Must reboot the phone. I had tried to clean everything , data, system,cache, everything and made a clean flash but it still happen ,only for 8.x android. I tried in Nougat and see no such problem. Im using oneplus 5t
Yea, I have same problem staring with oreo update. Can say, that I tried all kernels around, and some of them made wifi connecting faster or even reduced the number of crashes, but not completely. Sadly, I can't stay on those kernels, coz I have another problem, - iv got random reboots with most of them, only stock works... So every solution is inappropriate for me, and I reverted to nougat waiting for Android 8.1
Same problem here. I am on beta 35. Additionally I was on Franco kernel and had random reboots. Kernel back to stock no more reboots but still the wifi issue. I'll test the always on.
Hopefully it gets fixed in the next update. For now, I'm using the ''always on'' WiFi option.
Thank you all for the replies!