My biggest pet peeve with my tf700 is picking it up off the table only to find I have 10% battery left and that wifi ate it all.
Time and Time again I go into the advanced wifi settings menu 'keep wifi on during sleep' setting to either never or only when plugged in. The part driving me nuts is that the setting continues to set itself to always.
I'm running stock 4.1.1, how do I fix this?
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I have trouble downloading large files using this ROM since when my screen turns off, WIFI is also disabled. How can I change it. I've been looking in the settings but to no avail.
Edit: Found it...you have to click menu when in the WIFI Settings, then choose advanced.
Edit2: Wifi is disabled when screen is turn off even if the Wifi sleep policy is changed to Never.
Any ideas?
then that is some kind of bug. because setting wifi sleep policy to never should behave as such.
related note, setting wifi sleep to never greatly increases batteyr life, as said thru the forums, because back on 3g the data kills your battery much faster. so allowing wifi to stay on makes a huge improvement on battery.
for example if you leave wifi on overnight, you might lose 5% total. but if it switches back to 3g overnight, you might lose 20%.
is this bug confirmed?
me too have same problem with SuperAosp (i will test with other rom....)
At first I changed it to 'When screen turns off' because it seems pointless to have it running when the phone is just idle. I quickly realized it takes a while for it to wake back up so I set it back to 'Never'. I have to believe it also uses more juice overall having to establish and IP address each time when it reconnects, etc.
It seems to me that when I'm at home, where I only use Wifi, it's best to keep set to 'Never' and then when I leave, just shut wifi off entirely until I get back. Trying to save every aspect of battery life that I can...
If you use a different setting than default, have you determined it to actually save battery life in your situation?
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Kadin said:
At first I changed it to 'When screen turns off' because it seems pointless to have it running when the phone is just idle. I quickly realized it takes a while for it to wake back up so I set it back to 'Never'. I have to believe it also uses more juice overall having to establish and IP address each time when it reconnects, etc.
It seems to me that when I'm at home, where I only use Wifi, it's best to keep set to 'Never' and then when I leave, just shut wifi off entirely until I get back. Trying to save every aspect of battery life that I can...
If you use a different setting than default, have you determined it to actually save battery life in your situation?
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At home, I actually see it use enough juice to be the top user when the phone is sitting idle.
At work - I turn it off, it's just scanning eating power.
In other cases I set it to Never.
Note that on the Nexus S, setting it to other than "Never" could cause severe battery drain on some firmware releases - this doesn't seem to happen on our device though.
Hi guy, my wifi won't turn off when my Xoom is on sleep. I have set the settings of 'keep wifi on during sleep' both to 'NEVER' and 'ONLY WHEN PLUGGED' but nothing happens. Wifi stays on and keeps draining my battery life. I am running rooted with the latest version of nightly 62 and I've been having this issue since 55. I have reinstalled, flashed, factory reset, wiped my Xoom.
Is anyone else having this issue? What should I do?
From my experience, wifi stays on for a little while longer after device sleeps. However, some apps in background may trigger wifi back on again. So I turn off wifi when i go to bed. Actually i notice wifi itself will not drain much battery, 1-2% for 10hr. It's the host apps sucking the juice.
I am not an expert though.
OK i've also checked it out and as you said wifi turns off after some time. My main problem now is that my battery life won't last more than 3-4 hours on wifi.
I have posted my battery stats with use of web browsing and watching pictures on gallery...
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My main problem now is that my battery life won't last more than 3-4 hours on wifi.
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What do you mean "no more than 3-4 hours"? In your battery chart, you can get more than that even starting from 75% battery.
What I wanted to say is that I think my battery won't last more than 4 hours with wifi on and some serious usage.. from my stats as I can see I've been using it 5 hours but I only had screen on and browsing the web. I think there will be a huge difference if I am watching a movie or playing a game.. I don't have the time to check it now but I will post my results in some days..
According to my previous battery graph do you see any problem or something less from what your Xoom battery holds? Does this battery drain seems normal to you?
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Hi guy, my wifi won't turn off when my Xoom is on sleep. I have set the settings of 'keep wifi on during sleep' both to 'NEVER' and 'ONLY WHEN PLUGGED' but nothing happens. Wifi stays on and keeps draining my battery life. I am running rooted with the latest version of nightly 62 and I've been having this issue since 55. I have reinstalled, flashed, factory reset, wiped my Xoom.
Is anyone else having this issue? What should I do?
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I think you'll find it will stay on for about 15 minutes. There is some setting in a system database (using a sqlite editor) that can be changed to bring this down. I doubt Wifi is what's draining your battery. Are you synching email via activesync or running other stuff in the background?
I am only using my yahoo mail from the EMail app. I don't know if it uses activesync. I have set it to check emails every 30minutes.
wifi not turning off
Edit: I found the wifi sleep option in ICS. Google sure did a great job of hiding it. See attached picture for anyone else having wifi staying on during sleep issues.
So there are three options
Keep WiFi on during sleep
1) Always
2) Only when plugged in
3) Never
What option to set if i want Wifi to turn of after some time of when phone sleeps. Previously i had set the option to 15 minutes but that option is not available in ICS and i m having a hard time understanding how these options work on my sensation.
Can anyone explain what each of these options do ?
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So there are three options
Keep WiFi on during sleep
1) Always
2) Only when plugged in
3) Never
What option to set if i want Wifi to turn of after some time of when phone sleeps. Previously i had set the option to 15 minutes but that option is not available in ICS and i m having a hard time understanding how these options work on my sensation.
Can anyone explain what each of these options do ?
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My guess:
1) Always: WIFI always on no matter awake or asleep
2) Only when plugged in: WIFI always on only when plugged to power
3) Never: WIFI will be off if asleep (my current setting)
That was it
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Edit: I found the wifi sleep option in ICS. Google sure did a great job of hiding it. See attached picture for anyone else having wifi staying on during sleep issues.
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Thanks, I had not seen the option to turn wifi off during sleep.
--Doug
Bear in mind that (irritatingly) applications can seemingly change this setting.
cspiby said:
Bear in mind that (irritatingly) applications can seemingly change this setting.
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For an app to change wifi sleep policy, it needs the WRITE_SETTINGS permission.
Hi everyone
I just flashed Android Revolution ICS Rom and I'm quite happy with that so far ! The only thing I cannot find is how to automatically disable the wifi antenna when the screen goes off...
Any help would be much appreciated
You can try in wifi setting and set wifi sleep policy to "screen off" out you can get Auto Airport Mode by Dan
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baseballfanz said:
You can try in wifi setting and set wifi sleep policy to "screen off" out you can get Auto Airport Mode by Dan
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It was there in HC but can't find it in ICS...
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It was there in HC but can't find it in ICS...
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Well I just took a look. Guess they changed it a round a little
In Settings under the WiFi, click on More and there's an "Airplane Mode" try that.
Or try Auto Airplane Mode (this is what I use and it work great)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blogspot.donkun3.autoairplane&feature=search_result
hit menu (3 dots in top right) when you are in the wifi menu hit andvanced then hit "Keep wifi on during sleep" and change to only when plugged in or never
mrevankyle said:
hit menu (3 dots in top right) when you are in the wifi menu hit andvanced then hit "Keep wifi on during sleep" and change to only when plugged in or never
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Wow... wouldn't have found it by myself
Thanks a lot !
I'm noticing the native setting for disableing wifi when sleeping is working poorly. It takes a while to turn it off and then when it restarts the service does not seminar to be able to obtain the IP address and I have to manually turn wifi off and then on again for it to obtain an address. Very strange because the auto airplane app has no such issues.
I have just found out that:
(under GB) "Advanced > Wifi Sleep Policy > when screen turns off"
is NOT the same as
(under ICS) "Advanced > Keep Wi-fi on during sleep > never (increase data usage)"
It is supposedly to be the same thing but it is not.
As osho741 observed, it takes a very long time to turn off and most of the time it just does not.
I think this is one of ICS bug.
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I have just found out that:
(under GB) "Advanced > Wifi Sleep Policy > when screen turns off"
is NOT the same as
(under ICS) "Advanced > Keep Wi-fi on during sleep > never (increase data usage)"
It is supposedly to be the same thing but it is not.
As osho741 observed, it takes a very long time to turn off and most of the time it just does not.
I think this is one of ICS bug.
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It does turn off fine here after around 10 minutes but it takes at least 30 seconds to activate and connect.
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Is there any specific reason youd want to turn off the wifi during sleep? In my experience it doesnt drain enough battery to bother turning it off.
In my case with wifi on and a few apps running that uses wifi all the time, the tablet drains around 15-20% over 12h while sleeping.
That gives at least 2.5 days batterylife if you keep it sleeping... I cant imagine you would have to have it turned on (sleeping) longer than that. In that case you could just shut it down completely when youre not using it
you should give juice defender a try. it revolves around battery optimization, but it isn't a task killer, it just lets you make whatever setting you want concerning turning off services like wifi, bluetooth, etc.. its highly customizable, so you can set it to turn the wifi off entirely while its asleep, or to keep it off, while turning on in whatever time increment you set, long enough.
i have mine set so that the wifi turns off and stays off entirely when its in sleep mode, but if i have a online radio app like pandora or 8tracks running, then they override the sleep settings, and keep the wifi on when the screen is off.or, when i use certain apps that don't need internet to run, like kindle or certain games, the wifi automatically turns off and remains off until i close the apps.
i really like it and i think its made a huge difference in battery. Before if used it, my transformer would drain 15-20% percent overnight with the wifi left on. now, it drains maybe 2-4%.
Turning off wifi during sleep makes a huge difference.
It really saves a lot of battery for me.
And juice defender, while it might help, but on my phone, it causes a lot of wakelocks.
You can check this with bbs.
I have only noticed this issue since the OTA update to Jelly Bean, so am guessing it must be tied to that. In a nutshell, WIFI will not turn off when my Infinity goes to sleep (whether I push the button to manually put it to sleep or if it times out and goes on its own). I've tried setting the Wi-Fi>Advanced>Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep setting to "Only when plugged in" and "Never", but neither work. In fact, when I go back to check those settings after waking the unit back up the setting is always set back to "Always" even when I change it. I've toggled the sleep option in the Developer Options to make sure it is allowing the unit to sleep, and I've also disabled the Network notification function, and even set the Disconnect network during sleep option in the ASUS customized settings. None of these things are working, and no matter what I do the Infinity is now keeping WIFI going when asleep, which is really eating up my battery life. I also had issues with the unit auto-rebooting after the JB update, so last night I went ahead and did a factory reset, hoping it might take care of both issues. That seems to have fixed the auto-rebooting issue, but I'm still having this annoying issue with the WIFI. I use Juice Defender on my Galaxy Note to manage WIFI, so I figured I'd give that a shot on here, but it doesn't appear able to turn WIFI off either when the unit goes to sleep.
Is anyone else experiencing this sort of issue? Any thoughts?
The unit is rooted, but not unlocked, so running the stock JB ROM.
I had the same exact problem on my Prime, luckily its not present on my Infinity.
Anyway what I used to combat this issue is this app:
Auto Airplane Mode
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I had the same exact problem on my Prime, luckily its not present on my Infinity.
Anyway what I used to combat this issue is this app:
Auto Airplane Mode
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Thanks, I may check it out. I hate to have to use a workaround, but also hate having the battery drain while it's sleeping (and don't want to have to manually power off or turn off wifi, etc).