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I used juice defender a few times, but could not find any other feature besides the enabling/disabling of the wifi and 3g.
I found it not reliable, and I ended up doing this manually.
Does this app do anything else besides that?
Cpu throttling?
any other battery saving "things"?
Thanks
It *can* make a huge difference with just the default settings. However, recent updates seem to have really knackered it for some people.
It stopped working for me and would not work again, even after uninstall - reinstall, until my phone was re-rooted for some reason.
supposedly.
but what does it actually do?
Disable/enable wifi/data based on your criteria to save battery.
Problem is, wifi part is not really working for me.
Sometime JD won't enable wifi because "user disabled wifi" but i didn't disable anything.
I PMed the developer and he never answered.
Did i mention i bought ultimate juice and i shouldn't have because no fix means crap app?
I tried using it for a little while with default settings but after 2 days I found it drained my battery more, and my data would not always re-enable itself when the screen came on. Sometimes it would even put itself in airplane mode.
Hopefully someday it gets updated. A lot of people swear it works great.
yeah after reboot i'm having the same problem.. JD not working and shows error.. boring.. hope they fix it a.s.a.p
di you guys have any issues while wifi or 3g get enabled?
When i used it I had a lot of problems with wifi not connecting or 3G not connecting after I strated the phone.
thats why I decided to do it manually.
It seems to me this app is overrated, and it's name is tricky.
names seems like it does more than it actually does.
Yes, i have problems with WIFI when i use JD.
The app is good if you don't have a data plan as you don't have to keep wifi always on and waste battery.
The wifi policy to turn wifi off when screen is off doesn't help either because you won't get updates.
JD works fine about 70% of the time but when i see i don't get any updates for 30min then something is wrong and i have to turn wifi on manually because JD believes is disabled by user which is not.
As i said, i sent an email to developer and i was ignored.
It said connected in the wifi setting and it shows bars but it just won't load any website in the browser .. anyone got a fix for this?
I have the same issue. Tried different combinations of restarting wifi, turning on/off cell data, on/off wifi calling, etc... all with no result. I've also tried on different networks (both public and private)-- it'd start working for a while and then all of a sudden stop and never work again.
Seems similar to the problem here: forums. t-mobile.c om/t5/T-Mobile-G2x/G2x-WiFi-DNS-issue-not-the-4G-switching-one/m-p/831439 (sorry there's a new user no link restriction)
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
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It said connected in the wifi setting and it shows bars but it just won't load any website in the browser .. anyone got a fix for this?
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is it specific to the browser or can you not move any data?
Idk, whenever I have had problems connecting to the tmo network, which is a separate issue.. it was always that wifi calling was still on even tho wifi was turned off. Every time I had probs w/ data on tmo network, it's been wifi calling.. Your case seems to be diff tho.
Is it specific to just your network or all other networks? Try shutting off wifi, reboot... then turn it on again? Idk.. just tossing out ideas.
Some found the root cause and I am posting his finding as I do have the same issue and can reproduce the error:
I think I have discovered a new WiFi-related bug in the G2x's software. I have witnessed this occurring on my phone, and have also reproduced it on a store demo unit. I believe it is unrelated to the switching-to-4G problem people are having with the My Account app, since it occurs even if I have set up the Google account on first boot after a factory reset.
The details of the problem are:
- Every so often, the phone randomly gets stuck in a state where it is not able to initiate any new connections that are made using a DNS name. Attempting to navigate to a web site, h**p://w*w.google.c*m for example, will result in a generic failure message.
- However, attempting to connect directly to an IP address instead of a DNS name works perfectly. For example, navigating to 74.125.225.16 will work fine and will load the Google home page.
- When the phone is in this state, using a DNS lookup tool such as "DNS Lookup" from the Marketplace *will* work, even when using the default DNS server address that the DHCP server is giving the phone.
- The problem has occurred for me when data is off and WiFi is on. I do not know if data being off is a requirement, since this is the way I usually run the phone, so this may be coincidental.
- Switching WiFi off and back on again will *sometimes* work to solve the problem, but sometimes will not. When this doesn't work, switching WiFi off, then switching data on, then back off again, and then finally switching WiFi back on again will occasionally correct the problem. However, I have seen situations where none of these things worked, and the only way to get DNS working again was to factory reset the phone.
- I haven't figured out the exact pattern yet, but this issue seems to occur when the phone has been inactive for a certain period of time. I have often discovered that the phone is in this state upon waking up in the morning after leaving the phone on the charger overnight.
- I have, however, found a method to reproduce the problem that seems to work fairly consistently:
1. Turn WiFi on, and data off.
2. Power cycle the phone.
3. When the phone starts up, start the browser and attempt to browse to w*w.google.c*m. It should fail.
4. Try to browse to 74.125.225.16. It should work.
Just wanted to get this issue in the forums to see how many others have been noticing the same thing.
I know that once the device has less than 10% battery it automatically turns the WiFi off to save battery power. Were the devices this was happening on have a low battery?
Fully charged. It even happens when pluged in with the charger.
My Wifi wouldn't even work if I froze it with Bloat Freezer. It has to run in the background for wifi to work. I found that Wifi can get really inconsistent with it disabled.
smartloom said:
Som
- I haven't figured out the exact pattern yet, but this issue seems to occur when the phone has been inactive for a certain period of time. I have often discovered that the phone is in this state upon waking up in the morning after leaving the phone on the charger .
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Same problem here. After about 30 minutes of being idle, as soon as I pick up the phone it tries to connect 2g/4g. The log are saying theres no connection, so it appears that wifi its going to sleep and not waking up so android is trying to connect 2g/4g
Really starting to be a pain
I have frozen the bloat, and I think the problem is getting worse.
Toggle airplane mode is a quick workaround to get wifi to wake up
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Same thing happened to me, I did 2 factory resets, and it seems it has been fixed, don't really know what causes it.
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This may or may not be related, but...
It looks like I found a hacky fix for the dns/wifi/4g bug: install "Set DNS" from the market.
Now when I go into market, and display my downloaded apps, it jumps from wifi to 4g then back to wifi as it should, fast.
Whether or not it should even do go to 4g is debatable, all I can say is my 2 Galaxy Tabs had the same behavior.
If everyones connectivity issues are really due to the DNS settings getting wiped out, then this will work around the problem until I/we find the location of the actual bug.
Would you guys having this problem also post it here?
http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards/general/lg/topics/g2x-wifi-problems
Thanks.
I figure the more people that post there, the more the chances are of LG fixing it quickly.
Work around:
enable airplane mode
reboot
enable wifi
wait a few seconds after the wifi connects, background crap stops
disable airplane mode.
The set dns app looks like a winner. Haven't tried it but that's what's
wrong.
The freezing and other suggestions are all useless crap.
Updates...
I did a factory reset and installed JuiceDefender (I don't know which one worked) but it seems to be all fine now... will update if things become problematic again
I've been having this problem as well. I've always been able to fix it by toggling WiFi off and back on again. I downloaded SetDNS and when it happened again last night I tried that and it worked great.
Glad to see it's a software problem and not a hardware problem.
same problem here. hopefully it won't happen in cyanogen mod
boylan said:
Work around:
enable airplane mode
reboot
enable wifi
wait a few seconds after the wifi connects, background crap stops
disable airplane mode.
The set dns app looks like a winner. Haven't tried it but that's what's
wrong.
The freezing and other suggestions are all useless crap.
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This fixed the problem, at least until the next time I reboot my phone
How do you use SetDNS? This software bug in G2X reboots my router (DGL-4500) sometimes.
Question bout SetDNS app
Does the phone have to be rooted to use the setdns app? I try to use it but it says "Cannot get root. App will not function."
Very strange, for the last couple of days I cannot connect to the android store/amazon store/facebook through wifi, it just says no connection [retry]
The browser works, but these apps do not (other do not as well) I have rebooted, restored from a previous backup, forced the wifi to forget, and tried it on two different wifi networks with no success...
Anyone seen this before, I really hate to do a factory restore
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Very strange, for the last couple of days I cannot connect to the android store/amae/facebook through wifi, it just says no connection [retry]
The browser works, but these apps do not (other do not as well) I have rebooted, restored from a previous backup, forced the wifi to forget, and tried it on two different wifi networks with no success...
Anyone seen this before, I really hate to do a factory restore
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Did you try clearing the data from those apps? Also, it might be a problem with your network blocking the ports that they communicate on. I would try from a different location and see if the problem persists
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I saw somewhere else on the forum (can't find link right now) to check your date and time. Sometimes when the battery is completely drained the time/date goes wacky and causes issues with secruity certificates.
Hope this helps.
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I saw somewhere else on the forum (can't find link right now) to check your date and time. Sometimes when the battery is completely drained the time/date goes wacky and causes issues with secruity certificates.
Hope this helps.
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Yep it decided to drain itself Sunday night (still don't know why) and that was the cause... the time was one hour behind but the date was wrong... didn't even notice that... and that fixed the problem
THANK YOU!
After using 6.0 for a day or so, I noticed that the WiFi was draining huge amount of juice from the phone, even taking the top spot on the battery chart. This seems to happen even if the WiFi is turned off.
http://i.imgur.com/X2YoNvv.png
So how can we fix this? Well, we'll have to go through bunch of settings to do so. It seems like Google deliberately hid this deep inside location settings. This is how we can "temporarily" fix this issue: Head to Settings -> Location -> Click those 3 dots at the top right corner -> Scanning -> Turn off both WiFi scanning and Bluetooth scanning.
Even with this "fix" I noticed that it keeps draining battery life for no reason, not as much, but the problem still exists. This shouldn't happen! Especially when Marshmallow was built around battery life improvements. The fact that this bug has been causing problems since M Preview #3 shows either Google "missed" this chaos of a bug (or) only cares about that juicy location data. This should be a straightforward-user-friendly option, not one that is buried behind buttons and menus.
It's not a bug, it's a feature
Had the same issue after flashing the factory image. So I flashed 5.1.1 again booted the phone then rebooted into recovery and sideloaded the 6.0 OTA. Booted the phone and preformed a factory reset. Now I don't have that problem.
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Had the same issue after flashing the factory image. So I flashed 5.1.1 again booted the phone then rebooted into recovery and sideloaded the 6.0 OTA. Booted the phone and preformed a factory reset. Now I don't have that problem.
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im currently having this exact issue.
I had same problem also tried disabling Wi-Fi scanning and automatically turning off Wi-Fi when idle but it did not give better results.
Just today i switched phone Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHZ only mode - this workaround seem to work, no drain any more.
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I had same problem also tried disabling Wi-Fi scanning and automatically turning off Wi-Fi when idle but it did not give better results.
Just today i switched phone Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHZ only mode - this workaround seem to work, no drain any more.
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Thanks for that. This actually sounds possible.
On the first day when I flashed 6.0 with OTA, I really felt that the battery life has extended.
Then I switched through a lot of settings and also ended up with 2.4 and 5 (auto) on wifi.
Disabling all wifi related options did not help at all....
Will try this out now. :good:
I'm having severe delays with my wifi on my N5 with 6.0. In speedtest I'm pushing over 90mbps on 5GHz band, but it takes over 30 seconds to load a webpage/ apps. It's not gradually loading it's almost like a stall. Then after the page or app loads instantly. Why is this happening? Is it a severe delay to the server? IDK wtf is going on... I don't have battery drain issues from the wifi this is a different issue.
Same problem... Scanning and wifi off! Wifi drain. At first sight problem only seems to manifest while no wifi available. Tried the 2.4ghz only and seems to reduce though not eliminate the problem...
DaimonPl said:
I had same problem also tried disabling Wi-Fi scanning and automatically turning off Wi-Fi when idle but it did not give better results.
Just today i switched phone Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHZ only mode - this workaround seem to work, no drain any more.
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Works indeed better.. Wifi disappears from the Battery Usage chart, but when it was supposed to went on idle while I put it away, draining started again it seems.
There is a fat bug in the Power-Management in Android M 6.0 final, if you ask me...
All, please check whether it is actually drain or merely incorrect reporting of battery statistics. Symptoms seem similar to this thread
Remember battery 'drain' is where the level is falling at an abnormally fast rate. If WiFi is merely appearing at the top of the stats, but your battery life is actually fine, then it's not drain.
You need to leave your phone over several hours, and take measurements. When investigating or troubleshooting, then logically change one thing at a time, and re-measure again over a long period of time for comparison.
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All, please check whether it is actually drain or merely incorrect reporting of battery statistics. Symptoms seem similar to this thread
Remember battery 'drain' is where the level is falling at an abnormally fast rate. If WiFi is merely appearing at the top of the stats, but your battery life is actually fine, then it's not drain.
You need to leave your phone over several hours, and take measurements. When investigating or troubleshooting, then logically change one thing at a time, and re-measure again over a long period of time for comparison.
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There is definitely a drain problem... because of Google Play Services not letting System into sleep mode and pulling constantly on Wifi...
That is how I think it comes to the problem.
Mine is now running smoothly, after I went into: Settings > Apps > Google Play Services (and maybe also Google Play Store) > hit menu ... > Deinstall Updates > Restart
If you go back into Play Store later on, it updates to the current version.
I also reseted the Network Settings... somewhere.
I tried what was suggested by others in this thread and din't have any luck. I posted how I solved the issue here:
reddit dot com/r/Nexus5/comments/3npesh/wifi_drain_persists_in_android_m_final_release/cvwo3x5
I did another modification. In Location settings I changed mode to device only (GPS).
So together:
- set WIFI to 2GHz only
- disable wifi scanning in location settings
- set location scanning to device only (GPS)
- set WIFI to automatically turn off in idle mode (advanced wifi settings)
WIFI is no longer main battery consumer (screen is now as expected). I'm not sure which of those is crucial but they all look like may improve things a bit (and together give big difference)
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I thought this was bugging me too. WiFi is top of the list in battery stats. But then I disabled ElementalX gestures (doubletap2wake in my case) and that improved things a lot. Even though WiFi is still reported as the biggest power user.
This may be just me and of course it could always be better, but it might be worth giving this a try.
I'm having his exact issue. It's with any resources I access through WiFi, from sftp to ftp to web data, internal and external lans, internet, etc. It's definitely a 6.0 issue. I had it on preview 3 as well, and it was bad enough make me downgrade at the time. Now the official release is out and doing the same thing, I'm REALLY hoping they can fix this soon. It's practically unusable if you don't have dial-up time to kill.
Check my previous post - it completely fixed problem for me
I've experienced the same issue, after a week from the ota update (week in which I had a great battery lifetime), the problem arose out of the nowhere, and after searching the web for a workaround, it seems that putting the wifi in 2.4 ghz only made the trick...
Really hope that google will fix this soon...
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There is definitely a drain problem... because of Google Play Services not letting System into sleep mode and pulling constantly on Wifi...
That is how I think it comes to the problem.
Mine is now running smoothly, after I went into: Settings > Apps > Google Play Services (and maybe also Google Play Store) > hit menu ... > Deinstall Updates > Restart
If you go back into Play Store later on, it updates to the current version.
I also reseted the Network Settings... somewhere.
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This is the only thing that worked fully for me. Getting it to 2GHz made it a little bit better but didn't actually solve it. Uninstalling updates from play services and play store solved it for good and I didn't have to flash 5.1.1 and ota update.
:good:Thanks eyesore!
Hello. I have this issue... I disabled localisation through WiFi and I have also done a network settings reset but the problem still persists (not too much as before -45%- but around 25%).
How can I solve?
My phone seems to be dropping the WiFi signal overnight. I noticed this because right after waking it up in the morning, the emails are getting synced.
There is also a high wakelock time for "net_scheduler", which I suspect has something to do with it.
I had no such problems running lollipop.
Any ideas how I could solve this?
I am using android 6 stock rooted with elementalx kernel.
Lownita said:
My phone seems to be dropping the WiFi signal overnight. I noticed this because right after waking it up in the morning, the emails are getting synced.
There is also a high wakelock time for "net_scheduler", which I suspect has something to do with it.
I had no such problems running lollipop.
Any ideas how I could solve this?
I am using android 6 stock rooted with elementalx kernel.
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I'm having this issue as well.
I had it with stock kernel and stock 6.0 as well as EX kernel and 6.0 cataclysm rom.
Did you ever isolate the issue? I'm spending too much time on this.. If I can't figure it out, I'm going to have to get a new phone since this sometimes happens at work, where I don't get calendar reminders for meetings and miss work emails.
Lownita said:
My phone seems to be dropping the WiFi signal overnight. I noticed this because right after waking it up in the morning, the emails are getting synced.
There is also a high wakelock time for "net_scheduler", which I suspect has something to do with it.
I had no such problems running lollipop.
Any ideas how I could solve this?
I am using android 6 stock rooted with elementalx kernel.
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That sounds like a Doze issue. You can configure certain apps to ignore it. The wifi dropping issue can be router/firmware related. For instance, on my RT-N66u, that would happen all the time with Tomato, but never with stock/Merlin firmware.
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That sounds like a Doze issue. You can configure certain apps to ignore it. The wifi dropping issue can be router/firmware related. For instance, on my RT-N66u, that would happen all the time with Tomato, but never with stock/Merlin firmware.
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I've configured every app to not be battery optimized prior without success. I also have an RT-N66U with Merlin, but this issue also happens at work. Also tried manually settings the frequency (which sucks because I use 5 at home and 2.4 at work.. so back and fourth)
I've noticed it will not automatically reconnect to a WLAN while the device's screen is off and locked after leaving it's proximity. For example, at work we have Cisco WAPs everywhere broadcasting the same SSID with the same settings. If I leave range of one, I do not reconnect to another unless I unlock my phone. Same goes with leaving my house, it will not reconnect when I get home unless I unlock my phone.
Issues here are very similar to mine. code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=190667&q=bluetooth&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
I'm going to try some AOSP roms here soon.
I appreciate your input, this issue seems to have been going on for some for a while with google fixing it.
I'm going to have to buy a new phone since I use this for work and need to get emails in real time. I'm afraid to get a Nexus 5x and get the same issue or other wifi problems.