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I have selected to never keep WiFi on during sleep yet now the tablet continues to run the WiFi as you can see in the pictures. This has forced me to use airplane mode when I am on the go because otherwise the tablet just keeps WiFi on and burns the battery extremely quick. This has been a problem since I updated to 4.2.1. I am not rooted completely stock. A solution would be great because this sucks right now. I have tried clearing the cache in recovery but that didn't solve the problem.
I'm running the latest Paranoidandroid ROM and thought that was the problem. I can't yet post to that developer forum so I was just waiting for the next beta.
I guess it's a problem with 4.2.1 then.
-PMS
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I have selected to never keep WiFi on during sleep yet now the tablet continues to run the WiFi as you can see in the pictures. This has forced me to use airplane mode when I am on the go because otherwise the tablet just keeps WiFi on and burns the battery extremely quick. This has been a problem since I updated to 4.2.1. I am not rooted completely stock. A solution would be great because this sucks right now. I have tried clearing the cache in recovery but that didn't solve the problem.
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If you don't find a solution you may want to try DataEasyPro from the market. It kills both 3g and wifi as soon as the screen is off and then runs a user defined schedule to turn on 3g or wifi every now and the for a few seconds to keep you upto date with your social world. Works great. There is even a widget so you can turn off the schedule when you are downloading or updating from the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cb56.dataeasypro
PsychoMcSatan said:
I'm running the latest Paranoidandroid ROM and thought that was the problem. I can't yet post to that developer forum so I was just waiting for the next beta.
I guess it's a problem with 4.2.1 then.
-PMS
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I think it is a 4.2.1 problem. Its hard to say how wide spread it is though because I have only seen a handful of posts about this issue though. To me, this issue is unacceptable. I should not have to enable/disable airplane mode to conserve battery. Especially when the previous version of android prior to the 4.2.1 update handled WiFi sleep settings without a problem. Hopefully a fix will be here soon. My tablet used to have superb battery life without me constantly monitoring it. Now I feel like I have to keep double checking that I remember to use airplane mode so that I don't go to use the tablet and find a nearly depleted battery.
Dmwitz said:
If you don't find a solution you may want to try DataEasyPro from the market. It kills both 3g and wifi as soon as the screen is off and then runs a user defined schedule to turn on 3g or wifi every now and the for a few seconds to keep you upto date with your social world. Works great. There is even a widget so you can turn off the schedule when you are downloading or updating from the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cb56.dataeasypro
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This app shows as not compatible for me when I used the link.
jetguy35 said:
This app shows as not compatible for me when I used the link.
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I recommend automate it, I have a couple of rules set to turn WiFi of with the screen (with a 5min delay), then turn Wi-Fi back on when the screen turns on. There's plenty of other settings and rules to play with as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage
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In had the same issue. I found Google maps to be the culprit.
It defaulted back to location reporting.
Check Google now sync, maps and currents.
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It's not google maps itself, it's the android location service. It's always collecting data even if your phone or tabscreen isn't on. This is pretty anoying since google only let you choose between agreeing to run the service in the background or not using it at all. Stupid! How about collecting data only when the device is in use?
Same here. There is a bug report on Google about it.
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Ah this is interesting; as last night my battery was on 53% and I am sure I charged it fully previously...... Am on stock too but have rooted.
Might just switch the tablet off all the time for the time being.
I'm on stock rooted 4.2.1 and mine is fine. Strange.
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RKight said:
I'm on stock rooted 4.2.1 and mine is fine. Strange.
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WiFi turns off here also, which means its working as intended, what is strange is is it not working for some people, I'm also on stock rooted 4.2.1.
what is the OP using? Are there any apps installed/running on the OPs device that can keep the WiFi alive?
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jersonf said:
what is the OP using? Are there any apps installed/running on the OPs device that can keep the WiFi alive?
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I highly recommend using an app called Better Battery Stats. You can find the free version here on XDA. It'll tell you if there is an app causing a wakelock. I used it to troubleshoot my Rezound and I'm getting a solid 4-5 hours of screen on time with the extended battery on that because it helped me lock down the apps that were killing my battery.
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I'm stock rooted and mines don't turn off neither.
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Hmmm. Just checked PA beta 7 and it's doing it too. Wifi on always.
A custom kernel would probably fix that.
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I highly recommend using an app called Better Battery Stats. You can find the free version here on XDA. It'll tell you if there is an app causing a wakelock. I used it to troubleshoot my Rezound and I'm getting a solid 4-5 hours of screen on time with the extended battery on that because it helped me lock down the apps that were killing my battery.
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Although my wifi is turning off I give thanks for pointing me in the direction of this app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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I was having the wifi on issue as well. Just bought my N7, stock 4.2.1 and not rooted. I followed the tip in point four of this post, which details a simple set up using Tasker, where the unit turns the wifi on and off after the screen turns on or off respectively. The reason for the 10 second delay as is detailed in the link, is to allow for the turning on of your N7 to check the time or other reasons, and then quickly turn it off without the wifi on task being activated.
the screenshot below shows my wifi being stuck on while in sleep mode, even with it set to be never on during sleep in the settings, and the change in behavior once the 2 Tasker profiles we set up.
Cheers
Those of you having issues, have you tried the "only when plugged in" setting? Not sure if it would really matter but that's what I use and mine turns on and off just fine.
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RKight said:
...have you tried the "only when plugged in" setting?
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Testing that now. Turned off Tasker, and set wifi to the "only when plugged in" setting. It's only been about 30 minutes, but so far it looks like it's behaving the same as before, as in keeping wifi on while in sleep. I'll Let it sleep for a few hours and see what the chart shows.
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EDIT: So I let my N7 sit for about an hour after switching the above mentioned settings, and you can see in the screenshot below that the wifi is staying on while the unit is not awake. I've set my Tasker profiles to control the wifi once again.
I know it may be fixed by a factory reset, but frankly I'm more than happy with the way Tasker handles the issue.
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so 6 months later, I am still getting this problem. However it seems only to be with the last update. The tasker method seems to be working well though.
Hi,
I've been having some really weird Wifi behaviour since 4.2.1.
I'm using stock Rom, rooted, and I have Wifi sleep policy set to "only when charging", so it should go to sleep when idle.
I think something is waking it up, not sure what. And it's struggling to go back to sleep (or at least this is what it looks like).
Attached is the really weird graph of the battery stats, you can see an example of how Wifi is switching on/off like crazy. Also attached BBS logs from idle. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Sounds like maybe a rogue app doing something to wake,maybe a sync issue.Try shutting off auto sync and see if it helps.
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So far no luck, but this was my assumption too. Any way to track down the rogue app?
Id maybe start with obvious ones like facebook and apps that have wifi permissions.I cant really say as I dont know what you using.Also if you are using an email client that accesses wifi to sync.
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I've found Wifi doesn't turn off for 5-15 minutes and sometimes NEVER since ICS. I personally use Tasker to turn off wifi at screen off, but Green Power or Setting Profiles Lite are two other options to do this, and actually do it.
IMO, if your device is going into deep sleep, it should be fine for battery and otherwise.
As far as the Wi-Fi behaving that way, look at Google maps, latitude and location reporting. They're the problems for me and I'm working on them as well.
Try diagnostic apps which tell you which app is using your Wi-Fi and check it out..
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Is anybody else having this same issue. I can turn on auto brightness in the notification shade and minute or two later, if that long, it unchecks itself. Any ideas what is causing this?
I was having this issue, no idea what causes it. Factory reset solved it for me.
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I have the same issue.
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Same here, and I really dont want to do a factory reset
So I'm on 5.1 stock and this is really annoying me now. Wi-Fi switches off randomly when screen is off. Wi-Fi always on is checked. Any suggestions?
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Is the battery saver option turned on? If so is it starting up to save your battery and killing wifi?
I'm also having this problem. My wifi is configured to aways on, I'm not using any battery saver and even initialized my device in security mode, but the problem continued, so it is not a 3rd party program problem. I even posted on official Motorola forums (and on a lot forums through the internet), but no one could help. I guess it is a bug on 5.1 because I didn't have this problem on 5.0.
I installed a program to solve this problem, but it needs to keep running:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roamingsoft.manager
Use the wifi repair option. This is the only way that I find to solve this problem. I hope they fix it on the next version.
Sorry for my english.
muiriddin said:
Is the battery saver option turned on? If so is it starting up to save your battery and killing wifi?
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Nope. No battery saver mode.
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Nope. No battery saver mode.
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I tried a few things to investigate this and without root on my device I'm potentially unable to get to logs that we could then compare. So since that approach didn't work, I have some environmental questions. Does the problem occur when you are carrying the phone in your pocket, or when it sits on a table unused for a period of time (or both). I'm trying to eliminate shaking causing the issue. You also mention that it happens with the screen off are you sure that it only occurs in that situation (that is a strange detail).
I can confirm this. It is as if the Wifi Always On setting did not work. When screen sleeps, 3G/LTE kicks in. When you wake the phone up, it'll go from 3G/LTE to Wifi. This has indeed arrived with 5.1, as 5.0 did not have the issue.
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I tried a few things to investigate this and without root on my device I'm potentially unable to get to logs that we could then compare. So since that approach didn't work, I have some environmental questions. Does the problem occur when you are carrying the phone in your pocket, or when it sits on a table unused for a period of time (or both). I'm trying to eliminate shaking causing the issue. You also mention that it happens with the screen off are you sure that it only occurs in that situation (that is a strange detail).
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Yeah it only occurs when the screen is off. The minute I switch on the screen I can see that it goes from mobile data to Wi-Fi even if Wi-Fi is on. Also, it is irrespective of where my phone is pocket or on a table top.
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I have a XT1094 (Moto X 2014) and have not noticed this. Based upon a post above you have the XT1095. We have the same Android version, just a different carrier version of the hardware. It sounds like when your device is going into one of the lower power states (the screen going off etc), the wireless is erroneously included in that transition. On my tablet I had a similar issue in that going to a lower power state would kill the sdcard which would then not properly reconnect when coming out of that lower power mode. If you prevented the tablet from going into that lower power state, the sdcard problem would not occur. Unfortunately the side effect was worse battery life in that case.
Do you have root on the device? If you do you might be able to do do a test similar to what I did on the tablet, however it would only prove the theory not solve the problem since worse battery life is an ugly trade off for a phone and the only way to actually change the sleep state transitions was to build a modified kernel that changed the sleep state itself (for my LG tablet one of the developers solved the issue and I just used the custom kernel provided)
Info on the "Sleep State" C-State is here https://plus.google.com/+PaulReioux/posts/9R8fjQdHDXD
For the tablet I had to disable the C3 (power collapse) sleep state, my post over there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57719782&postcount=138
No idea if this will help...
I have an XT1095 stock 5.1 un-rooted, and I do not have this issue. I remember reading a similar thread here when 5.0 came out, so this is not a problem specific to 5.1. I don't know what is causing it, but it is clearly not a universal problem.
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I have a XT1094 (Moto X 2014) and have not noticed this. Based upon a post above you have the XT1095. We have the same Android version, just a different carrier version of the hardware. It sounds like when your device is going into one of the lower power states (the screen going off etc), the wireless is erroneously included in that transition. On my tablet I had a similar issue in that going to a lower power state would kill the sdcard which would then not properly reconnect when coming out of that lower power mode. If you prevented the tablet from going into that lower power state, the sdcard problem would not occur. Unfortunately the side effect was worse battery life in that case.
Do you have root on the device? If you do you might be able to do do a test similar to what I did on the tablet, however it would only prove the theory not solve the problem since worse battery life is an ugly trade off for a phone and the only way to actually change the sleep state transitions was to build a modified kernel that changed the sleep state itself (for my LG tablet one of the developers solved the issue and I just used the custom kernel provided)
Info on the "Sleep State" C-State is here https://plus.google.com/+PaulReioux/posts/9R8fjQdHDXD
For the tablet I had to disable the C3 (power collapse) sleep state, my post over there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57719782&postcount=138
No idea if this will help...
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Don't have root. And have never rooted the device either. Somehow I'm just massively dissapointed with 5.1
Doesn't seem like a finished product at all. Battery life has plummeted from 3.5-4 hours sot easily to barely making it 3 hours
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Had this problem suddenly in 5.0 and continued in 5.1, the only fix was back to 4.4.4.
This has been posted before.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mot...d-5-1-bugs-t3075232/post61724472#post61724472
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/help/wifi-off-phone-idle-sleeping-t3053603
Here is the link to Motorola Forums that I've posted:
forums.motorola.com/posts/791e7e30c7
Hopefully this bug gets fixed in Android M.
Same problem that I'm getting. I'm sending mine back to Motorola and you guys can try that too to see if they can fix it. Apparently there's a speical dedicated team working on Moto X faults in Germany.
Anybody have any news?
Is there a way to fix this problem without going back to 4.4.4?
When it was Lollipop 5.0.1, It'd never happened before. As in the video (vimeo.com/135371515), after updating Lollipop 5.1, every time I turn on the screen, screen is dull for about 5 seconds then it becomes normal. I'm not sure if I describe it correctly or not, and I hope you guys can see the difference on the screen. It does not affect much in term of usage, but it's just annoying me. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Only way is to turn off adaptive brightness
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Sadman Khan said:
Only way is to turn off adaptive brightness
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Yeah, it works. Thanks
It'd never happened before when I turned on adaptive brightness on Lollipop 5.0.1.
Is it because of software or because my phone some how malfunction?
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Yeah, it works. Thanks
It'd never happened before when I turned on adaptive brightness on Lollipop 5.0.1.
Is it because of software or because my phone some how malfunction?
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Yeah, its a Sony software issue. And you are not alone. A lot of users including myself are experiencing it.
I also have the same problem after the update but it only occurs from time to time. And interestingly, screen awakes very quickly sometimes after the update.