I like many others have been experiencing problems with my GPS. The supposed fix for this requires you to turn off "use wireless networks" for location services. Whenever I attempt to turn this off, as soon as I return to the location and security screen in settings, both location sources are always enabled and checked. What can I do to disable these settings?
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Hi,
Just wonder if anybody is experiencing the same wifi fallback issue on the SGH-i727?
Basically, the phone doesn't automatically fall back to the previously added wifi network from LTE/4G when the screen is off. To get around that, I'll need to hit the power button once every time I enter the wifi range. When the screen is turned on by hitting the power button, I will see the 4G/LTE being replaced by the wifi icon very quickly. After that, it will then stay connected to the wifi network regardless whether the screen is on or off.
I was able to confirm this issue by monitoring the app traffic before and after I turned on the screen.
Without turning on the screen in the wifi range, the phone will stay on the 4g/LTE network forever even though the previously added wifi network is available.
I have already tried out different routers and it's still the same. SSID broadcast is on. I am thinking if there's a bug with the phone. Note that on my phone, my "Wi-Fi sleep policy" under the advanced menu of the "Wi-Fi settings" is always set to "never". Also, it's a stock ROM, nothing is modified at all.
This issue has never happened on other phones. What you think? Am I missing anything here?
After playing with it more, I noticed that the phone will never do the wifi handshake when the screen is off.
I tried turning off and on the wifi in the Wi-Fi settings. If I turn off the screen quickly before the phone gets connected to the wifi network again, it *will* remain unconnected until the screen is turned on again. =(
Did you go into the advanced wifi settings and change the wifi sleep policy?
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No, I didn't. I've never touched that setting. The "Wi-Fi sleep policy" is always set to "never".
My phone can still be connected to wifi when the screen is off, so it doesn't seem related to the "Wi-Fi sleep policy". The problem is only that it won't do any wifi connection handshake during screen-off.
Am I the only one having this issue? I guess that's more of a software issue rather than a hardware issue?
Have you tried the AT&T wifi app? It automatically turns off and on wifi as needed
No, that doesn't help.
Yes, I do realize I'm bringing back a thread from the dead, but...
I just got a Samsung Stratosphere (SCH-i405 -- a CDMA-1X/EVDO/LTE Galaxy S phone) and it does EXACTLY the same thing. It's ironic, on the Stratosphere they added a bit of fun that CONSTANTLY lets you know there's networks (which I had to disable), but it doesn't connect to the wifi networks I do have in there until I turn on the screen I guess that's just how it is; at least it doesn't kill the wifi once it IS connected.
If anyone knows a programmatic way to bypass this, I'd be interested, and I could write up a wifi app to implement the solution. I'm guesisng it's a behavior of the drivers though and would take some custom ROM or something to fix.
You could always try to use tasker for automatically connecting to the wifi using radio antenna or maybe can't remember if possible by identifying certain wifi spot.
I made three custom profiles for CM10 for when I'm home, out, or sleeping. However, when I switch to any profile, it will disable what I have checked off but when I go to another profile and that option is no longer selected to be disabled, it doesn't turn that option back on, or on in general. For instance, for home I have Mobile Data, Bluetooth, GPS,and Portable Wi-Fi hotspot disabled. If I go to Out, while has mobile data enabled, but WiFi turned off, it will disable WiFi but won't turn on mobile data. If I go back to home where WiFi is enabled, it won't turn WiFi back on. I hope I made my problem understandable, lol. Anyways, has anyone else been having this problem? And is this a known problem by the CM team? Or could it be something with my phone?
According to my better battery stats my WiFi is always running. Is this normal even when WiFi is turned off?
p4ranoid4ndroid said:
According to my better battery stats my WiFi is always running. Is this normal even when WiFi is turned off?
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By default yes. You can turn off WiFi scanning in WiFi > advanced > scanning always available.
If you turn it off location services won't work as well.
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Yes if you have "Scanning always available" enabled in the Wifi Advanced settings area. It's there in the setup when you first setup the phone and most people just click next next next and not read a thing.
So just go to settings - wifi - tap the 3 dots for menu - Advanced and disable it.
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How can I find out exactly which app/service keeps my wifi turned on all the time even when the phone is sleeping?
I updated my S7 to 7.0 samsung stock (G930FXXU1DQB1) and was monitoring battery usage with GSam Battery Monitor. In the graphs I can see that wifi always stays on, despite setting the "keep wifi on durign sleep" to "while charging" or "never" (I tried both) in settings > connections > wifi > advanced.
I also turned off location services, turned off "nearby device scanning", turned off "phone visibility".
I also checked most apps that I have installed which I could think could keep wifi on.
I also went in dev options > running services but didn't see many suspects.
Any ideas to pinpoint what keeps it on? Is there a better app that GSam that can tell me which app keeps wifi on?
okay fellas, I'm at my Wit's end about this and I really don't like this about Android pie but my Wi-Fi for some reason keeps turning on when I have EVERYTHING turned off! I have Wi-Fi said not to turn on automatically, I have location services turned off I just don't know what to do at this point and I'm really getting sick and tired of my wife I coming on when I don't want it on, is I very RARELY use wifi. I feel this is a gross invasion of privacy. my question is, do I need to root my phone and somehow disable something to get my Wi-Fi to stay off?
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okay fellas, I'm at my Wit's end about this and I really don't like this about Android pie but my Wi-Fi for some reason keeps turning on when I have EVERYTHING turned off! I have Wi-Fi said not to turn on automatically, I have location services turned off I just don't know what to do at this point and I'm really getting sick and tired of my wife I coming on when I don't want it on, is I very RARELY use wifi. I feel this is a gross invasion of privacy. my question is, do I need to root my phone and somehow disable something to get my Wi-Fi to stay off?
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Did you ever find a solution? I'm having the same problem since the Android 10 update
I am willing to guess that you both turned off > settings > Wi-Fi & internet > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi preferences > Turn on Wi-Fi automatically???
If you did, and it is still turning on automatically, then a NETWORK reset may be in order. Also, it may take a removal, or to "forget" a particular Wi-Fi address for it to stay off. Mine stays off, so I hope some of this helps.
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I am willing to guess that you both turned off > settings > Wi-Fi & internet > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi preferences > Turn on Wi-Fi automatically???
If you did, and it is still turning on automatically, then a NETWORK reset may be in order. Also, it may take a removal, or to "forget" a particular Wi-Fi address for it to stay off. Mine stays off, so I hope some of this helps.
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I had that off already, but I actually just figured out right after what went wrong; after I made a factory reset to install the Android 10 uprade, one program that I was using "Wifi password key show" reverted back to its default configurations, and they included a setting to turn off and on the Wifi upon turning off and on the screen.
It is confirmed to do it in Pie also. And on my new phone