Hi there,
I own a 5t since mid Jan. Did the Oreo OTA a couple weeks ago and everything was fine.
Now since yesterday I notice the wifi is suddenly on at times eventhough I turned it off!
When I see it on I turn it off again and an hour later or so it is on again!
The only change since a few days ago is software I installed through Google Play (unrooted system). I'll remove all this and see what happens as there doesn't seem to be a clear connection with anything in particular.
Should software be able to do this? Or Android even?
The system can turn WiFi on and off, yes it has permissions to do this. However it should only do so in response to a specific instruction or event.
Since you're not rooted then a non-system app won't be able to turn WiFi on or off unless you explicitly give it permission. The way I'd diagnose this is to use 'adb logcat' as soon as you notice it turn on again after manually turning it off. The log should tell you what app is doing it. If you don't know/have adb then you might be able to get a non-root logcat app from the Play Store (not sure).
Thanks!
From Android 4.1 all logcat programs need root. I'll simply remove everything I installed to see.
To come back to this and close this. I did the ota to 8.1 a couple weeks ago and going through the settings after I noticed some new location settings.
One describes exactly what I have seen. Is it a new setting or 8.0 also had it? If so it was enabled.
Anyhow 8.1 fixes it.
Enable developer option and use your PC to run logcat.
It does not require root.
Related
Hi,
I suddenly developed an issue a few weeks ago where the data connection will, apparently randomly, turn itself on. I haven't ever been lucky enough to catch it right when the data comes on, and when I check task manager I don't see any applications running to cause it. I am thinking I either inherited a virus at some point, or an application that is attempting to update itself or something. But I haven't installed anything for months so it could be any old program. I checked scheduled tasks but don't see anything there.
I have done 'the usual' of making sure weather, stocks, email are not causing it.
What I am wondering is if there is an application out there that will log my activity so I can see what services or applications ran that day.
Many thanks in advance for any help or ideas.
Check to see if AGPS is on -- I've noticed with some GPS apps (CoPilot Live, Google Maps) that if AGPS is on, turning on the GPS will initiate a data connection. If that's the issue, turning AGPS off should take care of it.
Thanks for the AGPS suggestion. I do use QuickGPS, but have it set to prompt, not to auto download (but it does start a data connection when I do use it, and it doesn't turn it off when it's done). So, I don't think that's the problem in my case, but I appreciate the reply.
((if this is in the wrong place or has been covered before, I apologize...))
Hello all.
I just became the new owner of a family member's Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T). Already owning and tinkering with two xperia Ion's I wanted to have a little more freedom and experience Kitkat on the GS3.
I had no experience in unlocked bootloaders and all that, so I figured that I would let the Cyanogenmod Auto-Installer do the work for me and install CM11 on my device.
It worked great initially! No problems whatsoever aside from minor glitches here and there. As soon as I started installing some more apps and Xposed modules, I noticed that things were getting odd.
Eventually, my phone wouldn't connect to google's play services whatsoever. Despite countless resets of the phone itself and my modem/router, nothing seemed to help. Flushing the cache and dalvik didn't help either, nor did a factory reset. The issue kept coming back.
Thinking that perhaps another rom wouldn't have the problem, I installed C-Rom (which was based on 4.4.4 KK). It ran BEAUTIFULLY! It is sure one hell of a rom. But then, not too long after I had everything installed and running the way I wanted it to, it had the same errors as before.
I don't know how to explain the error other than the phone just generally messing up. I don't recall it ever having those issues on stock, but then again, it wasn't my phone on stock, and the first thing I did upon receiving it was put a custom rom on it.
But the error can only be explained as a general f***-up of the entire OS. Commands run brutally slow (I will launch the flashlight and it wont turn on until seconds, even minutes later. Alternatively, text messages take eons to send and receive, which I am positive is not an error on the AT&T side of things). Then, whenever I try to download or install an app from the play store, the application will download partially and then stall for what feels like eons. Some of the applications just stop there, and some I will find installed on the device some 30 minutes later. Not to mention that the signal icons on the quick setting tiles are all turned orange for some bizarre reason. Another bizarre issue is that no matter what, I can never launch the terminal to execute an htop, logcat, or anything! The terminal just stalls and eventually crashes, while it worked fine before.
I've checked online for errors similar to this, but haven't found anything that has helped the phone. Anyone out there who is willing to give this a crack or just point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
benhofb said:
((if this is in the wrong place or has been covered before, I apologize...))
Hello all.
I just became the new owner of a family member's Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T). Already owning and tinkering with two xperia Ion's I wanted to have a little more freedom and experience Kitkat on the GS3.
I had no experience in unlocked bootloaders and all that, so I figured that I would let the Cyanogenmod Auto-Installer do the work for me and install CM11 on my device.
It worked great initially! No problems whatsoever aside from minor glitches here and there. As soon as I started installing some more apps and Xposed modules, I noticed that things were getting odd.
Eventually, my phone wouldn't connect to google's play services whatsoever. Despite countless resets of the phone itself and my modem/router, nothing seemed to help. Flushing the cache and dalvik didn't help either, nor did a factory reset. The issue kept coming back.
Thinking that perhaps another rom wouldn't have the problem, I installed C-Rom (which was based on 4.4.4 KK). It ran BEAUTIFULLY! It is sure one hell of a rom. But then, not too long after I had everything installed and running the way I wanted it to, it had the same errors as before.
I don't know how to explain the error other than the phone just generally messing up. I don't recall it ever having those issues on stock, but then again, it wasn't my phone on stock, and the first thing I did upon receiving it was put a custom rom on it.
But the error can only be explained as a general f***-up of the entire OS. Commands run brutally slow (I will launch the flashlight and it wont turn on until seconds, even minutes later. Alternatively, text messages take eons to send and receive, which I am positive is not an error on the AT&T side of things). Then, whenever I try to download or install an app from the play store, the application will download partially and then stall for what feels like eons. Some of the applications just stop there, and some I will find installed on the device some 30 minutes later. Not to mention that the signal icons on the quick setting tiles are all turned orange for some bizarre reason. Another bizarre issue is that no matter what, I can never launch the terminal to execute an htop, logcat, or anything! The terminal just stalls and eventually crashes, while it worked fine before.
I've checked online for errors similar to this, but haven't found anything that has helped the phone. Anyone out there who is willing to give this a crack or just point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It sounds like you're the modules you're installing are crashing your system. I'd suggest you do a clean flash of w/e rom you wanna rush (you seem to like C-rom) and run it clean for a few days. You can install apps and such but don't restore system apps and don't install modules.
If it runs fine after a few days, you can cherry-pick the modules you wanna use (make sure they're made for the sammy phones). Install one or two, test for a couple days and so on. You'll eventually find which one is messing with your system (if that's actually what's causing the problems).
All seems to be well now. I've isolated the problematic app after slowly restoring all my app data one at a time. I have since moved to a different rom (SOKP) and everything is going running smoothly! Surprisingly, it wasn't Xposed causing the issue, but a market app that displays system info similar to conky on Linux computers. Once I installed it, the system just crapped out. Signals dropped, the terminal froze, and none of my apps seemed to work properly. But once I uninstalled the app and reset my phone, all was well.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Curiosity got the best of me this morning and I updated to the latest Google Maps update (v 9.6) from 9.3. Well, upon opening, whenever I try to locate my position, I am prompted to "improve location accuracy" by turning on wifi. I can click cancel but the prompt returns EVERY time I try locating my position. Google Maps literally is unusable in this manner unless I turn on wifi.
I remember in the past, there's an option to disable it. But I can't find it anywhere.
To my horror, after I used Titanium backup to go back to v9.3, the prompt showed its ugly face upon first opening. It never did that before the update to 9.3. I had been running 9.3 for a while, since the updates after all take very long to cold start - I wonder if it's because I am still running the original 4.2.2 stock rom (I intentionally denied any OTA update). I've tried the following:
-clearing data/cache
-uninstalling/reinstalling 9.3
The prompt still shows on a cold start. I guess fortunately, if I hit cancel, v9.3 will then proceed to locate my location without further prompting. But I have to do this every time I open Maps now, which I didn't have to do before.
Any ideas/suggestions?
dashbored said:
Curiosity got the best of me this morning and I updated to the latest Google Maps update (v 9.6) from 9.3. Well, upon opening, whenever I try to locate my position, I am prompted to "improve location accuracy" by turning on wifi. I can click cancel but the prompt returns EVERY time I try locating my position. Google Maps literally is unusable in this manner unless I turn on wifi.
I remember in the past, there's an option to disable it. But I can't find it anywhere.
To my horror, after I used Titanium backup to go back to v9.3, the prompt showed its ugly face upon first opening. It never did that before the update to 9.3. I had been running 9.3 for a while, since the updates after all take very long to cold start - I wonder if it's because I am still running the original 4.2.2 stock rom (I intentionally denied any OTA update). I've tried the following:
-clearing data/cache
-uninstalling/reinstalling 9.3
The prompt still shows on a cold start. I guess fortunately, if I hit cancel, v9.3 will then proceed to locate my location without further prompting. But I have to do this every time I open Maps now, which I didn't have to do before.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
have you tried uninstalling it, turn on wifi, install it get a lock on your location, turn off wifi, then try the app to see if the popup comes back?
Just tried and nope, still the same I remember before the upgrade to maps 9.6, that prompt had a checkmark for "never ask again". I guess somehow the latest Maps version removed that checkmark. I am hoping that's a bug and not Google forcing people to waste their battery by turning on wifi so they can gather more data :-/
dashbored said:
Just tried and nope, still the same I remember before the upgrade to maps 9.6, that prompt had a checkmark for "never ask again". I guess somehow the latest Maps version removed that checkmark. I am hoping that's a bug and not Google forcing people to waste their battery by turning on wifi so they can gather more data :-/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm glad you posted this because I'm really surprised no one seems to know how to fix this. It's been bugging me a lot . As student on campus I don't like leaving on wi-fi because the connection comes and goes as I move around, I'd rather just use the mobile network.
The one workaround I found is just to double-tap on the blue location pin to zoom in manually. Not a real fix but it helps.
Hi
Apologies if I've done this wrong, but I've moved this thread from General--Couldn't think of another way to do it!
I started a similar thread in March, but only got one reply--from someone with the same problem. Perhaps someone has cracked it since then. I'm running an unrooted htc One M8 on Android 5.0. I've used JD plus for a number of years, but since upgrading to Lollipop the app constantly disables itself. I have uninstalled and reinstalled (on WiFi and data only) a number of times and also tried installing JD Beta--same result. I enable the app (balanced profile-no bells or whistles) go do something else and when I return the app is disabled. I found the following in JD FAQs:
JuiceDefender keeps disabling itself/all buttons are grayed out
Setup is now mandatory. JuiceDefender needs a successful completion of the Setup routine to work, there's no cheating around it; if Setup keeps failing, wait until you get to an area with strong reception before running it. If you don't have a data plan, or otherwise don't have mobile data working for some reason, please tap on Skip connectivity check when prompted.
Trouble is, I don't see any formal setup within the app. I just install it and enable it as I've done for years. Can someone point me at this mysterious setup function or otherwise suggest a way to get JD up and running as it should?
I've attached a log for those of you who can decipher them. Thanks in advance!
Attached Files
File Type: txt jdlog.txt - [Click for QR Code] (9.0 KB, 24 views)
Wi-Fi works with all existing, configured AP's. It can’t find new ones during scans. I was in a motel all last week and couldn’t detect the local Wi-Fi. I could manually add it and it would work. I don’t know when it started but it was working not too long ago and I haven’t made any major changes to the phone recently. I loaded Wi-Fi scan app and it detects and connects to mine and my neighbor’s AP's so I suspect it’s not the hardware. Settings look good. I disabled AppOps and unfroze anything that might be related. I can't boot to safe mode. I think it's because of exposed. https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/tool-samsung-xposed-safe-mode-disabler-t3652781
SM910V, rooted, 5.1.1
Thanks, Geno
I thought I'd bump this. The only thing I did since the original post is to TWRP the phone back to an earlier date before I set it up to my preferences. It worked there but there's to many custom setups to start again from there. The WIFI manager app does what I need and was quick and easy.