Lately my SGS running Froyo 2.2.1 has started acting strangely. There is an annoying bug I've noticed and I wondered if anyone else had noticed it or found a fix.
In Wi-Fi settings I've set the time out to 14 seconds, using OCLF, then I set Wi-Fi sleep policy to "Never when plugged in". I've found that this increases my battery life by at least three hours.
Lately this setting has been switching itself back to "Never" and thus my battery life is reduced. Has anyone encountered this or know of a fix?
Back up data and try a factory reset .Undo lagfix first if any .
does OCLF work correctly on 2.2.1 check the faqs .
jje
Tried all that. I'm not using the lagfix component of OCLF as 2.2.1 doesn't need it IMO. I'm simply using the Wifi Timeout function, which does require Ext 2 Tools. All is compatible with 2.2.1.
I think I may have located the "bug". I recently installed Winamp and activated the wifi component of that. This of course requires wifi even in sleep mode if it is to enable playing of mp3 files over the wireless network. I've uninstalled it and will monitor.
..but are you sure this increases battery life....i mean if wifi is not enabled ordinary net functions are made by data phone network.....maybe your battery life time is related to some other thing ???
No, because I disable packet data when in a wifi network. There is still some gain in disabling wifi even if packet data is no disabled though as seeking a wifi signal does use energy. For this reason I also disable wifi when there is only packet data available.
I'm experiencing bad battery times when connected through wifi on networks such as at my university, using network logger I found that this is due to multicast traffic which is waking up the device. I've read that the N4 also has had this issue but they can filter multicast from waking up the device when screen is off through the file:
`/system/etc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini`
Does anyone know of anything comparable on the M7?
I'm running latest cyanogenmod 11M5.
This is for stock (rooted) Lollipop on g800F.
I turned-off WiFi.
I disabled High Accuracy location (set it on GPS only).
I disabled "Allow scanning" and "Network notofication" in advanced WiFi settings.
And yet, on Battery usage chart, the WiFi bar shows that it is on ALL THE TIME. What gives? Is this a bug in Touchwiz?
Did you disable Bluetooth as well? The same happens in airplane mode? My bet is the Wi-Fi/BT chip is the same, so you cannot completely disable just Wi-Fi...
Also, some app may have access to Wi-Fi and keep it one. Some anti theft apps like Avast are known to cause this...
Hi everyone
I have a profile that that kicks in every 30 mins from 8 am to 9pm, to sync my account. I have set it up to use wifi first, but if there is no wifi connection it will go to my mobile data instead.
Now here is the problem if my phone is on standby it always connects via mobile data regardless of a wifi connection is available. But if I am using my device at the time when the task runs then it will connect to wifi. I have checked my, keep wif on in sleep option and it is set to always.
Could anyone explain as to what this is happening?
Thanks in advance
What is your Android version?
I am currently using a custom rom called exodus which is currently based on marshmallow.
Check if Tasker is excludied from Battery Optimization and whether Wi-Fi is not deactivated while the phone is in sleep mode in Settings/Wi-Fi/Advanced/Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep.
yep tasker is excluded from battery optimisation and the allow wifi during sleep policy is always.
If you're turning wifi on with tasker action wifi turn on, try instead of that shell script "svc wifi enable".
Ok thanks, I will let you know the out come of this. I was using secure settings to enable Wifi as the command built in tasker, is not compatible from kitkat and onwards if I remember correctly.
I found out "svc wifi enable" command does exactly the same thing
Discovered I'm having the very same problem on cm13 and the batch jobs have been done by initialized mobile data. Finally found out a solution to initialize wifi instead of mobile data. I've no limited data plan, but wifi is more battery friendly.
taisto said:
Discovered I'm having the very same problem on cm13 and the batch jobs have been done by initialized mobile data. Finally found out a solution to initialize wifi instead of mobile data. I've no limited data plan, but wifi is more battery friendly.
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Care to share the solution?
After all this is a community that people use to, find solutions to problems and to get the most out of their device. Which also help others who experience the issue for future reference.
Does anyone else know a solution to this?
HatchetEgg said:
Does anyone else know a solution to this?
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Do you actually wait for wifi to connect?
Does your phone do the low power screen off wifi thingy?
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Do you actually wait for wifi to connect?
Does your phone do the low power screen off wifi thingy?
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Yes under normal circumstances it takes about 20 seconds to connect.
No because for some reason my wifi will only switch on if the screen is on.
I also have uninstaled my custom kernel, but this issue still appears from time to time.
There's a setting in wifi connection settings that you can set to that says "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep"
This same setting is often repeated in battery apps like powernap, naptime, better battery saver etc.
Even though the wording is the same, I don't believe they are all touching the same setting so go find those apps if you have them installed.
Also, disable all native battery savers (including Samsung 2 or 3 different ones,, doze, battery optimization etc etc just to see if your problem goes away.... Which it will. At least you'll know though
I have the same problem with Wi-Fi connection.
I have a profile to turn Wi-Fi on and try to connect when certain conditions meet and the screen is off in that case.
It seems that the phone has difficulties turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to it when screen is off. Tasker does manage to turn Wi-Fi on but the phone somehow does not connect *reliably* in all cases.
Tasker is excluded from battery optimization, Wi-Fi on during sleep. I tried turning cpu on for a short time hoping that it will connect, but still no result.
The only possible solution might be turning the screen on briefly at that moment.
If anybody has a better idea, you are more than welcome to share!
alienyd said:
I have the same problem with Wi-Fi connection.
I have a profile to turn Wi-Fi on and try to connect when certain conditions meet and the screen is off in that case.
It seems that the phone has difficulties turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to it when screen is off. Tasker does manage to turn Wi-Fi on but the phone somehow does not connect *reliably* in all cases.
Tasker is excluded from battery optimization, Wi-Fi on during sleep. I tried turning cpu on for a short time hoping that it will connect, but still no result.
The only possible solution might be turning the screen on briefly at that moment.
If anybody has a better idea, you are more than welcome to share!
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I can certainly say that turning the screen on will enable wifi, as I have resulted to this as well. But unfortunately I do not know any other solutions to try.
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There's a setting in wifi connection settings that you can set to that says "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep"
This same setting is often repeated in battery apps like powernap, naptime, better battery saver etc.
Even though the wording is the same, I don't believe they are all touching the same setting so go find those apps if you have them installed.
Also, disable all native battery savers (including Samsung 2 or 3 different ones,, doze, battery optimization etc etc just to see if your problem goes away.... Which it will. At least you'll know though
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My Wifi is set to always "keep wifi on during sleep"
I'm going to resort to flashing stock rom again and see if that helps. As I am only using doze and amplify to save battery, all settings for that has been adjusted to the guide I found.
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My Wifi is set to always "keep wifi on during sleep"
I'm going to resort to flashing stock rom again and see if that helps. As I am only using doze and amplify to save battery, all settings for that has been adjusted to the guide I found.
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Before reflash, just disable xposed and see what you get... I will bet half of this soft taco I'm eating your problem disappears with greenify and or amplify. I'm not saying don't use them at all... Just make sure it works without them. I used to have some serious battery apps, but found after disabling, my battery was IMMENSELY better. And I had no config to deal with. But first things first... IT'S without a doubt, no question, a battery app setting or a system app that's being put to sleep that should be white listed
Running any Marshmallow rom on this phone always turns the wifi off after about 30 seconds of screen-off time. This is incredibly frustrating because it breaks any app I have running in the background that uses wifi. For example netflix on chromecast always loses it's connection and I cant control my chromecast because the wifi disconnected. It's also needlessly using cellular data while asleep.
I have checked all the wifi options and theyre all set correctly. There is a whole 10 pages of complaints about this on a simple google search with no real solution provided. You guys have any ideas?