Hi everyone, when checking my detailed battery usage, my phone showed that the Wi-fi had been on all the time, even though its turned off in the settings? Anyone else have this issue? Or does anyone know how to fix it?
Settings > Location > 3 dots on top > Disable WiFi/Bluetooth Scanning
850T5m said:
Settings > Location > 3 dots on top > Disable WiFi/Bluetooth Scanning
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Allready checked that, its been off since i got the phone, so its not that
Zulliz said:
Allready checked that, its been off since i got the phone, so its not that
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Not questioning your knowledge but I saw that everytime I used maps it gave me a location settings pop-up and if you pick yes it switches on WiFi and Bluetooth scanning for location. Check if that's the case.
Else it could be a hardware issue.
I had this also on my Nexus... And wondered how to turn wlan off...
Go to Wifi -> 3 dots on corner -> Advanced Wifi
Check for a setting named "Keep Wifi on during Sleep" and it will have 3 options (set to "Always" by default).
Choose "Never" and it may pop-up a warning of increased data usage.
Check battery life after 3-4 hours (with Wifi toggle OFF) to see if the graph shows anything in that Wi-Fi row for those 3 - 4 hours (i bet it wont )
Simple!!
Same for me, i have done this fix but wifi is shown on in the battery menu. Hotspot is off... I don't Know...
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If you have viber go to general settings > WiFi sleep policy and check use device's settings.
Ive also discovered that my Oneplus 3t seems to switch on and off the WiFi when I'm using it. Have switched off the scanning too. Any ideas why?
If you use High Accuracy location settings it will turn on your GPS and your WiFi. Google's device manager will use high accuracy settings and you will get GPS and WiFi on almost all the time.
Try setting you location to device only, which means GPS only. This will stop it from using WiFi for location reporting
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am i going mad or did i imagine that my desire used to autoconnect to a remembered wifi network like the iphone ?
i'm pretty sure that my phone did this for a while before i upgraded to froyo.
Yes, mine works like this.
Just enable wifi and set it up auto sleep for 15 mins. When it is in a remembered network - it auto connects as per normal.
Yes, mine works like this.
Just enable wifi and set it up auto sleep for 15 mins. When it is in a remembered network - it auto connects as per normal.
Tander_ZA said:
Yes, mine works like this.
Just enable wifi and set it up auto sleep for 15 mins. When it is in a remembered network - it auto connects as per normal.
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thanks, will give this a try. i assume that the connection stays up when connected and only drops after 15 minutes when it can't find a remembered network ?
try Y5
it enables wifi even automatically when you are close to known networks and disables it when you leave the area
snudel said:
try Y5
it enables wifi even automatically when you are close to known networks and disables it when you leave the area
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How often does it scan for networks? Doesn't that affect battery life?
To OP: My connects to my remembered home network automatically. On both 2.1 and 2.2.
ferus said:
How often does it scan for networks? Doesn't that affect battery life?
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It doesn't scan for networks at all. Essentially it uses cell location (note, not GPS) to determine if you are likely to be in range of a stored WiFi network, and switches off/on accordingly.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
It doesn't scan for networks at all. Essentially it uses cell location (note, not GPS) to determine if you are likely to be in range of a stored WiFi network, and switches off/on accordingly.
Regards,
Dave
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I don't want to hijack this thread but I have 2 questions:
1. Can my network location be determined without having data connection enabled?
2. Is the network location accurate enough to use this application? On Google maps I can see accuracy at about 800 meters.
EDIT: Thanks Dave
ferus said:
I don't want to hijack this thread but I have 2 questions:
1. Can my network location be determined without having data connection enabled?
2. Is the network location accurate enough to use this application? On Google maps I can see accuracy at about 800 meters.
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(1) Yes.
(2) Pretty much. Sure, if I leave my house and walk up the road, I'm still connected to the same cell, and so it won't switch off my WiFi. However, if I get in my car and drive elsewhere, it will switch my WiFi off. This fine for my purposes - the only way it could be more accurate would be to use GPS, but then you'd have to keep GPS switched on all the time and thus help to drain the battery further.
Regards,
Dave
Tander_ZA said:
Yes, mine works like this.
Just enable wifi and set it up auto sleep for 15 mins. When it is in a remembered network - it auto connects as per normal.
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howto set autosleep for 15 mins?
thx
setting --> wireless&networks --> wifi-settings --> (menu) advanced --> wifi sleep policy
pieterv10 said:
setting --> wireless&networks --> wifi-settings --> (menu) advanced --> wifi sleep policy
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for me, this select says
-When screen off
-never if charging
-never
i have selected "never" and i have no problems where connection was stablished, but
when connection is not established and screen if off and i enter into the area of any saved network, the phone autoconnects or not autoconnects and i not known the reason...
any ideas?
Does anyone know how to stop the WiFi from turning on automatically ? I have all of the options for the WiFi off and I'll turn the WiFi of but my WiFi will still turn on and say there is a hotspot available.
hanfordrob said:
Does anyone know how to stop the WiFi from turning on automatically ? I have all of the options for the WiFi off and I'll turn the WiFi of but my WiFi will still turn on and say there is a hotspot available.
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You mean the options under Advanced in Wi-Fi settings you have off right? If so I am not sure I have not noticed my Wi-Fi coming on without me hitting the toggle.
Yes all the settings in advanced are unchecked,I will turn off my WiFi and next thing ya know I'm getting a notification that there is a hotspot available and sure enough my WiFi is on again! Its starting to get annoying that I get the hotspot notification all the time
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Yes all the settings in advanced are unchecked,I will turn off my WiFi and next thing ya know I'm getting a notification that there is a hotspot available and sure enough my WiFi is on again! Its starting to get annoying that I get the hotspot notification all the time
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That is odd, one of the options under advanced is to make it so it does not try to connect to hot spots in general, also the other says to make it not scan while Wi-Fi is off. If both those are unchecked and it is still happening then there is some sort of issue I would guess. Hopefully someone else with the issue pops in here after a bit.
Me too
Yes, this is happening to my Note 4 as well. All settings in WiFi>Advanced are "off" and when I go walking through the neighborhood and turn on the phone I get a screen showing a list of wi-fi networks.
hanfordrob said:
Does anyone know how to stop the WiFi from turning on automatically ? I have all of the options for the WiFi off and I'll turn the WiFi of but my WiFi will still turn on and say there is a hotspot available.
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Im gonna guess everyone has saw this already but thought i would post it anyway. In the advanced menu in wifi,there is a section called Always Allow Scanning. Description says "Let google location service and other applications scan for wifi networks, even when wifi is off". Sounds as if that could be the issue but if everything is already unchecked in the advanced settings menu, then im at a loss as well. Im gonna test this on my Note 4 and see if i am getting the same issue you guys are getting.
Nope no issues here i don't get that i turned it off, and i would know this cause if i walk in Walmart i use to get that on the the Wifi Hotspot not no more since i've turned it off, use to tell me the same for kmart or the AT&T Store where i live no more since i've turned it off!
Try disabling AT&T Smart Wifi. Could be the cause, especially if its alerting you to "hotspots".
I have the T Mobile version and it does the same. The white menu pops up telling that there is Wi Fi available, listing hotspots.
On my previous Note 3, it did not present itself as a page over my screen even if I had Wi Fi turned on. I simply had notifications of available wi fi's turned off. But it seems with the Note 4 one has to turn off wi fi completely for this to not show up?
hanfordrob said:
Does anyone know how to stop the WiFi from turning on automatically ? I have all of the options for the WiFi off and I'll turn the WiFi of but my WiFi will still turn on and say there is a hotspot available.
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Check in Location Services... Specifically the google stuff. One of them allows the use of your WiFi & GPS data even if they are turned off... Meaning if you choose the high accuracy mode (instead of GPS only) the location services will periodically turn those things on to better pinpoint your location (and send that data back to google)
Anyone that has updated to lollipop have an issue where it shows your wifi is always on? I disabled the options to always have wifi scanning and set keep wifi on during sleep to never or only when plugged in, but it still shows wifi is always on in battery stats
kwazytazz said:
Anyone that has updated to lollipop have an issue where it shows your wifi is always on? I disabled the options to always have wifi scanning and set keep wifi on during sleep to never or only when plugged in, but it still shows wifi is always on in battery stats
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Do you have the connection optimizer running? If so it will always prefer and select wifi for data.
Solarenemy68 said:
Do you have the connection optimizer running? If so it will always prefer and select wifi for data.
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Connection optimizer is disabled
kwazytazz said:
Anyone that has updated to lollipop have an issue where it shows your wifi is always on? I disabled the options to always have wifi scanning and set keep wifi on during sleep to never or only when plugged in, but it still shows wifi is always on in battery stats
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Restart your phone. I had the exact same problem, it was a ghost icon
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Restart your phone. I had the exact same problem, it was a ghost icon
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Sorry, should've been more clear. It is not the icon on the top that's always on. When you go to battery stats, it shows that its always running
Do you have Wi-Fi calling enabled?
Also noticed that now there is a switch for each Wi-Fi network you connect to. You can turn off the ones not wanted.
If not, must be a bad download, flash or corrupt user data. Try a factory reset.
Go into advanced settings in WiFi and untick 'Always allow scanning'.
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Anyone that has updated to lollipop have an issue where it shows your wifi is always on? I disabled the options to always have wifi scanning and set keep wifi on during sleep to never or only when plugged in, but it still shows wifi is always on in battery stats
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I think this is a viber issue.
Open viber and go to "Setting>General>Wi-fi sleep policy"
Select "use devices setting"
mojtaba_esp said:
I think this is a viber issue.
Open viber and go to "Setting>General>Wi-fi sleep policy"
Select "use devices setting"
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Don't have viber. Found my problem. It was syncing to Google fit in my account.. never used it but it was checked for syncing under my Google account. Unchecked syncing for it and my wifi stopped showing as turned on even when off
mojtaba_esp : your suggestion helped me to resolve wifi issue for my SGS4VE with lollipop. Hope this to be helpfull for someone else too. Thak you!
I have a question. I have "keep WIFI on during sleep" option set to "Never".
When I wake up my phone from sleep after 30 minutes or more of not using it, the wifi does not reactivate itself (it's off, no icon in statusbar), but when I go to settings, it says that Wifi is enabled. Just like in the picture below...
I want to know if this is normal or what? Happens to me on both stock and custom rom.
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I fixed this by putting my Wi-Fi frequency band from 2.4 GHz to "Automatic" in advanced wifi settings. Htc and google really need to fix their ****!
I also disabled ipv6 in my router settings, not sure if that helped
Sadly for you, it works as expected for me. I let my phone sit for about 40 mins hoping I wouldn't get a text. Picked it up and the Wi-Fi turned on and connected right away.
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mosincredible said:
Sadly for you, it works as expected for me. I let my phone sit for about 40 mins hoping I wouldn't get a text. Picked it up and the Wi-Fi turned on and connected right away.
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This is just plain weird for me. Not a real problem, but strange, maybe has something to do with my wifi connection (router).
Thanks for the reply!
Just confirmed that one other guy that just got the phone has the same issue.
I fixed this by putting my Wi-Fi frequency band from 2.4 GHz to "Automatic" in advanced wifi settings. HTC and google really need to fix their ****!
I also disabled ipv6 in my router settings, not sure if that helped
CroCop18 said:
I fixed this by putting my Wi-Fi frequency band from 2.4 GHz to "Automatic" in advanced wifi settings. HTC and google really need to fix their ****!
I also disabled ipv6 in my router settings, not sure if that helped
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I have had the WiFi Frequency Band set to Automatic since I got the HTC 10. I came looking for this topic because of what mine does. When I wake up the screen, there is often a message on the screen "wifi has disconnected", and it will show connected to mobile data in the notification bar. It usually will reconnect to WiFi within a few seconds. But it is annoying, so I am looking for a fix, if there is one. I turned on the setting to keep it on WiFi during sleep a couple days ago, but it didn't change this behavior.
From what I am reading here, this sounds like it is common to the HTC 10 regardless of that setting. I am therefore thinking perhaps the "wifi has disconnected" message is actually left over and still on the display from when I turned the display off? But what I don't understand is that I get notifications such as incoming email and hangouts messages while the display is still sleeping. Unless those are coming via the mobile data connection. Perhaps I should try turning off mobile data and leaving wifi on to test if it still does that, but obviously leaving the mobile radio connection off is not desireable, even if that did help. Does the HTC 10 silently always switch to a mobile connection and turn off wifi whenever the screen is off, meaning that keep wifi on setting is flawed?
Zoandroid said:
I have had the WiFi Frequency Band set to Automatic since I got the HTC 10. I came looking for this topic because of what mine does. When I wake up the screen, there is often a message on the screen "wifi has disconnected", and it will show connected to mobile data in the notification bar. It usually will reconnect to WiFi within a few seconds. But it is annoying, so I am looking for a fix, if there is one. I turned on the setting to keep it on WiFi during sleep a couple days ago, but it didn't change this behavior.
From what I am reading here, this sounds like it is common to the HTC 10 regardless of that setting. I am therefore thinking perhaps the "wifi has disconnected" message is actually left over and still on the display from when I turned the display off? But what I don't understand is that I get notifications such as incoming email and hangouts messages while the display is still sleeping. Unless those are coming via the mobile data connection. Perhaps I should try turning off mobile data and leaving wifi on to test if it still does that, but obviously leaving the mobile radio connection off is not desireable, even if that did help. Does the HTC 10 silently always switch to a mobile connection and turn off wifi whenever the screen is off, meaning that keep wifi on setting is flawed?
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No. You probably have "Auto-switch to mobile network" enabled in advanced wifi settings.
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No. You probably have "Auto-switch to mobile network" enabled in advanced wifi settings.
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Thank you for replying. The only 3 boxes I have checked in WiFi > Advanced are as follows:
WiFi Notification
Show Wi-Fi pop-up
Hotspot sign-in
All the other check boxes are blank.
So I have similar problem. When I leave the house it switches to mobile network just fine. When I come back home it doesn't auto connect until I turn on the screen. My advanced wifi settings are below with basically nothing checked.
I agree this is a serious problem and for me I have no mobile network at home and depend on wifi and hangouts for voice calls.
Just curious what firmware is everyone on? Mine is 1.91.617.1.
This thread discusses it quite a bit, mentioning different settings changes to try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/wifi-issues-htc-10-weak-signal-fail-t3368165
I tried some of these changes, and things seemed better today for awhile, until I found out my phone actually wasn't getting the internet over the solid WiFi connection to my network. :/ I had to undo all the changes so I could get back online with it.
CroCop18 said:
I fixed this by putting my Wi-Fi frequency band from 2.4 GHz to "Automatic" in advanced wifi settings. HTC and google really need to fix their ****!
I also disabled ipv6 in my router settings, not sure if that helped
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Interesting. Mine was already on Automatic. I never touched it.
There will be many times when my data icon will be persistent even on wifi.
I'm pretty sure it's not actually downloading anything because I don't see the download and upload arrows lighting up.
At times, the issue will go away, but in others it reappears. I've made sure to disable "Keep Mobile data turned on" in the developer options.
Has anyone else been experiencing this? I'm on T-Mobile.
Settings > WiFi > 3 dots top right menu > advanced > switch to mobile data (Turn off)
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Settings > WiFi > 3 dots top right menu > advanced > switch to mobile data (Turn off)
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Thank you. I forgot to mention that when I usually leave data and wifi on, wifi automatically overrides it. I still leave my data on because of this fact. Right now, it seems to be working (as in the phone is only showing wifi with both data and wifi enabled).
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Thank you. I forgot to mention that when I usually leave data and wifi on, wifi automatically overrides it. I still leave my data on because of this fact. Right now, it seems to be working (as in the phone is only showing wifi with both data and wifi enabled).
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WiFi will override it as long as you do not have that setting enabled, if you do the phone will switch between data and wifi randomly when it thinks data will give a better connection
You do not need that setting enabled to leave data on, I do not have it enabled and my phone will switch to data once I leave wifi, that setting just gives the phone a dumb brain that barely works and forces it to switch back and forth regardless, it has never worked properly since the S5 series
You can safely disable that setting and still have data come back on automatically once you leave wifi