When connected to wifi at my home, the orange "download" arrow is always on. I've had this phone for 6 months with no issue, but all of a sudden this started happening yesterday (right after the phone also fried my external SD card). I have tried resetting the router, turning off all computers/devices in the house, and returning to stock/installing a new ROM, but it's always the same. I installed a traffic monitoring app and within a few minutes there has been 300+ KB of "system traffic," which doesn't exactly help me.
There's a few topics around XDA and other sites about this, but almost all of them are from the ICS days. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this on JB and if they ever found a solution.
Could you capture it in a screenshot and post it?
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Could you capture it in a screenshot and post it?
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Yes.
Hmm, wonder what that could be. And you say it doesn't go away? Even after a reboot or if you toggle wifi off/on? In Settings/Account, do you have any sync option that hasn't finished a sync? It would have an arrow going in a circle which means it needs to sync or there would be an exclamation mark. Basically, each option should just have the name on the left and either a checked box or unchecked box to the right.
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Hmm, wonder what that could be. And you say it doesn't go away? Even after a reboot or if you toggle wifi off/on? In Settings/Account, do you have any sync option that hasn't finished a sync? It would have an arrow going in a circle which means it needs to sync or there would be an exclamation mark. Basically, each option should just have the name on the left and either a checked box or unchecked box to the right.
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It does go away... kind of. Basically, the orange "download" arrow is showing about 80% of the time (I'd estimate 8 out of every 10 seconds). The green "upload" arrow appears briefly; probably half a second for every 10 seconds.
I've rebooted many times and turned wifi on/off many times. Nothing changes. Stock ROM, CleanROM, Synergy, etc... no difference.
In settings->accounts, I only have Dropbox (sync disabled), Facebook (sync disabled), and Google (all options either have checkmarks or no checkmarks; there are no rotating arrows or red exclamation marks).
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It does go away... kind of. Basically, the orange "download" arrow is showing about 80% of the time (I'd estimate 8 out of every 10 seconds). The green "upload" arrow appears briefly; probably half a second for every 10 seconds.
I've rebooted many times and turned wifi on/off many times. Nothing changes. Stock ROM, CleanROM, Synergy, etc... no difference.
In settings->accounts, I only have Dropbox (sync disabled), Facebook (sync disabled), and Google (all options either have checkmarks or no checkmarks; there are no rotating arrows or red exclamation marks).
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Do you think setting your wifi to a static IP address would affect anything? Also, do you mind taking screenshots at various points in the day using that wifi scanning app you used earlier? Maybe a screenshot every four hours then post them tomorrow or the day after you read this post so we can see if anything is constantly using up the most data. Another off the cuff suggestion, do you use Picasa Sync at all? I'm thinking this is either an app specific issue or something with your specific router.
Edit: Also, I never actually look at my download arrow when I'm connected to wifi. I just want to get that out there as well. I just stared at it for about a minute and my download arrow lights up once every 5 to 8 seconds when I have auto sync enabled. So if ten seconds pass, it will be unlit for roughly four to six seconds quite often. This should be a baseline I suppose to compare.
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Do you think setting your wifi to a static IP address would affect anything? Also, do you mind taking screenshots at various points in the day using that wifi scanning app you used earlier? Maybe a screenshot every four hours then post them tomorrow or the day after you read this post so we can see if anything is constantly using up the most data. Another off the cuff suggestion, do you use Picasa Sync at all? I'm thinking this is either an app specific issue or something with your specific router.
Edit: Also, I never actually look at my download arrow when I'm connected to wifi. I just want to get that out there as well. I just stared at it for about a minute and my download arrow lights up once every 5 to 8 seconds when I have auto sync enabled. So if ten seconds pass, it will be unlit for roughly four to six seconds quite often. This should be a baseline I suppose to compare.
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I could take screenshots periodically, but unfortunately the wifi scanning app only lists everything as "system data" without any specifics. I don't use Picasa Sync or anything like that, but I'm thinking it could be a router issue rather than an app issue.
There are at least 7 devices usually connected to my router. Out of curiosity, I changed the router password to kick off all devices and just connected with my phone. The wifi downloading issue appeared to be gone, and it was closer to that baseline of "every 5 to 8 seconds" as you mentioned. Once all the other devices reconnect, the issue comes back.
Is it possible that some device on my network is causing the router to constantly send a signal to my phone? That's the only idea I have at this point.
I am having the same problem with my S3. The orange arrow goes off and on about every 3-4 seconds. Every once in awhile, the green arrow lights up too. I get horrible battery life on wifi because of this. I have tried wiping my phone, reinstalling a rom, and not installing any apps. The only thing I have installed, is Gmail and my Google account. I'm losing about 4% per hour when connected to wifi while the phone is sleeping.
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I am having the same problem with my S3. The orange arrow goes off and on about every 3-4 seconds. Every once in awhile, the green arrow lights up too. I get horrible battery life on wifi because of this. I have tried wiping my phone, reinstalling a rom, and not installing any apps. The only thing I have installed, is Gmail and my Google account. I'm losing about 4% per hour when connected to wifi while the phone is sleeping.
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I've tried everything as well with no change. Sometimes the orange arrow will literally never turn off and other times it will go on and off every few seconds. Battery does seem worse since this randomly started.
But it doesn't look like anyone knows a solution
You might have some apps or accounts at up to only sync when in wifi and that certain one might always be trying to sync but is failing. I do recall someone saying something from Google was trying to sync. Go to settings, accounts, and select Google and see if they are all syncing correctly.
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You might have some apps or accounts at up to only sync when in wifi and that certain one might always be trying to sync but is failing. I do recall someone saying something from Google was trying to sync. Go to settings, accounts, and select Google and see if they are all syncing correctly.
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I only have Gmail and Calender syncing in the Google account. Both are syncing correctly.
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I've tried everything as well with no change. Sometimes the orange arrow will literally never turn off and other times it will go on and off every few seconds. Battery does seem worse since this randomly started.
But it doesn't look like anyone knows a solution
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To answer your prior question earlier in this thread:
Is it possible that some device on my network is causing the router to constantly send a signal to my phone? That's the only idea I have at this point.
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Yes it is possible. I've read before that one's email app (not GMail but the generic one included) could also be the culprit. In some workplaces, sometimes a rooted users email could be the root cause of instability on the wireless network if it pings the server too often which could impact the network for others. I know this happens to you at home but yes, it is possible that one phone (or even yours) could impact everyone else's wireless in a similar fashion.
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I only have Gmail and Calender syncing in the Google account. Both are syncing correctly.
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Only thing I could suggest is to try setting your wifi as a static IP.
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has anyone else noticed that if you go to the battery usage on the S4G it shows the phone as always awake? check the graph. it's really strange!
perhaps this could be linked to some of our heat/battery issues? the phone is not sleeping correctly?
You have a rogue program that isn't shutting down. Now you need to figure out what it is.
When I had this it was VTOK since that program never shut off.
Go to Settings> Applications> Running Services and look at the times that everything has been running and try to figure out which one doesn't belong
HTC watch can be a culprit too
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xnifex said:
You have a rogue program that isn't shutting down. Now you need to figure out what it is.
When I had this it was VTOK since that program never shut off.
Go to Settings> Applications> Running Services and look at the times that everything has been running and try to figure out which one doesn't belong
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I practically uninstalled every application that had an associated service, disabled everything from startup that I could find and the issue persists.
The only way I can get it to not be always awake is if I disable data completely... not background data, or autosync, but all data. no 3G, no 4G, no Wifi, nothing.
As soon as wifi comes on, I get a "sync" circle in my status bar (despite the fact that all sync is disabled on my phone), and the problem returns. The only active connections are to Google IPs (as shown by a netstat from the terminal), looks like gtalk/market ports...
I'm stumped.
I'm going to update the market, see if that helps.
EDIT: it didn't.
Just an update:
Downloaded ATK from the market, there seems to be a lot running for a phone I just rebooted.
I killed everything one-by-one, none of them made the sync icon go away.
There was only one that I could not kill... Watch.
... it also has a service that will not die either....
but if it's watch, surely someone else out there has the same issue?
HTC watch was the issue with mine, it took some time until i figured it out
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HTC watch was the issue with mine, it took some time until i figured it out
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it was. I disabled the account and rebooted a few times.... I'm good now.
very strange. And for some reason, when someone said "watch" I thought of a clock.... ha. that wasn't any help.
No, the video application. turned out to be the culprit. ffs.
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it was. I disabled the account and rebooted a few times.... I'm good now.
very strange. And for some reason, when someone said "watch" I thought of a clock.... ha. that wasn't any help.
No, the video application. turned out to be the culprit. ffs.
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great if else you could freeze it with titanium backup
I'm using Facebook for Android and people that posts pictures in the news feed all I see is an empty box and when I click on it, the picture tries to load and all i see is a black screen. If I go into manage applications and clear data/cache it usually fixes the issue but goes right back the next time I open facebook. Does anyone else experience this or know how to correct this issue?
Not sure what's going on. Mine's working just fine. Always has. The only issue I have is with opening notifications (sometime's requires a double tap or even a triple tap, and I don't get the same notifications as I do on my laptop). But as far as your issue goes, maybe try uninstalling and re-installing it? Could have possibly been a bad download, maybe. I've had that happen before. An app wasn't working right, so I took it off and then put it back on, and it worked fine.
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Not sure what's going on. Mine's working just fine. Always has. The only issue I have is with opening notifications (sometime's requires a double tap or even a triple tap, and I don't get the same notifications as I do on my laptop). But as far as your issue goes, maybe try uninstalling and re-installing it? Could have possibly been a bad download, maybe. I've had that happen before. An app wasn't working right, so I took it off and then put it back on, and it worked fine.
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I've had that double tap issue too!
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I just noticed that when I go to app settings from my computer I don't see that Facebook for Android is listed in there so maybe the permissions aren't set up correctly? Can someone please verify if the app is listed there or not?
I already tried to uninstall/reinstall no success.
The facebook app for android has always been a FLAMING pile of trash. It has gotten slightly better over the years, but not by much. It's about the only think blackberry has a step up on android with lol. It's always SOMETHING with that app. The latest for me is i will get notifications, but then when i click on the status or whatever that the update happened in, i have to hit refresh to actually get it to show what was posted. GARBAGE.
Yeah, the app its terrible. I've recently learned that deleting a post is possible, but only if you swipe the post left a certain way.
Regardless, I just use dolphin and go to the website directly using desktop UA.
Ever since i posted here about my issues Facebook has been running flawless
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Push notifications while phone is sleeping - are these commonly disabled by default in custom roms as a battery saving feature? I've tried Embryo 5.1, Majick-Wizz R3, and CM10 Alpha (all using the recommended kernels/radios, flashing using CWM Touch 6.0.1.2 v12.5), all seem to have the same "issue" where I don't get push notifications from things like Gmail or third party apps while the phone is sleeping. As soon as I wake the phone, the notifications come in.
I couldn't really find anyone on this forum or anywhere else on this issue, except for cases with the HTC Evo, which leads me to believe it's common knowledge whatever is causing this or how to fix it, but I'm new here and this is escaping me completely...
Thanks for any help!
I get push notifications for my email account all the time, and when I've tested other apps (Facebook, Twitter, news apps, etc.) they've always worked there as well. This is on several ROMs, including MW (all three releases), SkyICS 4.2F6 and CM9.
Are you restoring system data from Tibu, by chance? That's all I can think of from a practical perspective that would carry the problem across ROMs, but I'm not a dev and can't begin to guess at any potentially more difficult solutions.
I actually don't restore any data from anywhere except Google auto settings backup. These are all fresh installs.
Edit to add: the notifications seem to work until the screen has been off for 10+ minutes. Also they worked on stock rom.
Edit2: Looks like it may have to do with the WiFi. Made sure the WiFi policy was set to remain connected while sleeping, but that setting doesn't appear to be working. Disabled WiFi and let phone sleep for 10 mins and sent emails to test, and notifications worked.
Edit3: Tried disabling/enabling the WiFi sleep settings in various ways to see if a setting was stuck somewhere, to no avail... Flashed InstigatorX 6.3.4, no dice. It's definitely the WiFi going to sleep though. Confirmed that if WiFi is turned off, all works well. Also, upon waking the phone, it takes a few seconds for network connectivity to start working again (if WiFi is enabled). How do I get this setting to stick?!
Update: Ok, so I just reflashed with all of the Google backup stuff turned off, and tested, still not working.
I'm really running out of ideas here. It's not that I'm unwilling to try something, I just literally can't think of anything else to try...
EDIT: So I just downloaded an app for which the purpose is to keep WiFi awake at all times, and it happens that the app also checks your WiFi sleep policy setting for you. In my case, it told me that i had WiFi set to disable when the phone is sleeping (despite that not being the case). I suppose this fully confirms that the issue is the setting isn't sticking. I let the app change that setting for me then uninstalled the app, going to test throughout the day tomorrow. In the meantime, is there a relatively harmless way to manually check whatever configuration file holds this policy setting?
So I'm on Liquid pre-RC based on Cm10 now and it seems to be working intermittently. The only way I can get it working consistently so far is installing an app built for this purpose. Am I really the only one experiencing this issue with custom roms?
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I don't really have an answer for you, but I can at least tell you that you're not crazy. I have definitely noticed this happen where I will wake up my phone and instantly be hit with email notifications. However, it didn't happen every time like that. And to be honest, I think my push Gmail worked fine; it was my pull email that would do it to me. That was on CM9. I don't think I've noticed it happen since I've been on MW.
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alright, so i bought the nexus 5 month or so ago.
the issue i'm having:
i go in maps. say i'm rather close over berlin. i enter "Munich" in the seach bar. the "flyover" starts. however it doesnt finish over munich, it stops halfway through.
on my device its reproducable. no matter what destination i enter, the flyover just stops somewhere around halfway through, always at the very same spot. it i then go back to the search bar and tap on the "go" button again, the flyover continues, but still doesnt end. it takes me 3 times tapping on the "go"/"search" button until munich is visible. however it is still not centered. even after 5 further clicks its still not completely zoomed in.
this really bugs me. i dont use maps very often, but when i do i have to see this crap.
not quite sure if related, but i'm playing family guy lately. whenever you order a character to do something, the camera usually locks on the character while he walks to wherever he has to go. on my device, the camera just stops following him after a few seconds. seems the same/similar issue than whats going on in maps.
any idea what it could be? i really dont want to root and install a custom rom on the nexus 5 until google supports it.
i already cleared the cache, cleared the data and uninstalled all updates. in every version in every configuration this bug persists.
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alright, so i bought the nexus 5 month or so ago.
the issue i'm having:
i go in maps. say i'm rather close over berlin. i enter "Munich" in the seach bar. the "flyover" starts. however it doesnt finish over munich, it stops halfway through.
on my device its reproducable. no matter what destination i enter, the flyover just stops somewhere around halfway through, always at the very same spot. it i then go back to the search bar and tap on the "go" button again, the flyover continues, but still doesnt end. it takes me 3 times tapping on the "go"/"search" button until munich is visible. however it is still not centered. even after 5 further clicks its still not completely zoomed in.
this really bugs me. i dont use maps very often, but when i do i have to see this crap.
not quite sure if related, but i'm playing family guy lately. whenever you order a character to do something, the camera usually locks on the character while he walks to wherever he has to go. on my device, the camera just stops following him after a few seconds. seems the same/similar issue than whats going on in maps.
any idea what it could be? i really dont want to root and install a custom rom on the nexus 5 until google supports it.
i already cleared the cache, cleared the data and uninstalled all updates. in every version in every configuration this bug persists.
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First step I would try is rebooting your phone into Safe mode. If the problem persists then you can eliminate 3rd party apps from the equation. If it's fixed then you can assume one of your apps is causing the issue.
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First step I would try is rebooting your phone into Safe mode. If the problem persists then you can eliminate 3rd party apps from the equation. If it's fixed then you can assume one of your apps is causing the issue.
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sorry, forgot to mention: i tried safe mode. problem still persists.
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sorry, forgot to mention: i tried safe mode. problem still persists.
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Have you tried different Locations settings? Does the same thing happen during High Performance, Battery Saver, and Device Only?
Only other thing I can think to try is resetting the phone to factory default.
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Have you tried different Locations settings? Does the same thing happen during High Performance, Battery Saver, and Device Only?
Only other thing I can think to try is resetting the phone to factory default.
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i have all locations settings turned off. but tried it with them turned on, still the same.
i suppose a factory reset is whats left to do... :/
i might as well root it, while i'm at it
I seen threads about thoughts of the update but I figured this thread to be more specific on the issues your experience on nought beta: bugs, freezes, force closes, lag, etc.
Posting issues or suggestions here will be useless to the Samsung team. To give feedback on the beta, just open the "Samsung Members" app and provide your feedback there. This way the team can actually address it.
Aside from standby battery drain, it's been pretty smooth.
Oh, the keypad sometimes can't keep up with my typing lol. That's about it.
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I am still getting the sound cutting out bug that was seen in Marshmallow.... ie; sound on YouTube videos, etc will play for a few seconds and then cut out to silence. Have tried all the "solutions" offered but it still happens.
*Very frustrating.
I have the battery drain problem too.
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I've reported this to Samsung member but in camera when you look at the last pic you took it shows last image of what you downloaded or received also. If you downloaded something after to took your last picture that is. Only pictures taken with the camera should be in here. Note 7 had this same issue.
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That is strange. Battery life on mine has been the best i have ever gotten with this phone.
Probably poor battery other than that running great
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That is strange. Battery life on mine has been the best i have ever gotten with this phone.
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Did you factory reset after the install?
Encrypted SD keeps popping up.
The "Clear All" button in recents is in a bad location (top right, better at bottom right)
Noticed that double tap AOD screen can wake the screen but only if you Dtap the notification or music playing. Suggested that we get full double tap anywhere to wake option.
Default e-mail does not have marked as read or delete options in notification bar.
Battery drain faster.
It may just be me but My Knox seems broken. I changed password and everything but on last attempt before lockdown but does not work.
All reported to Sammy except my Knox which may be a user error
I've had GREAT battery life, no drain.
Only issue is when I download an APK through Chrome and tap the notification to install then Package Disabler crashes. If I install it with Root Explorer it installs fine.
Android System battery hogging. Whopping 40%!
I average 8% an hour and have an average 5hr screen on time per charge cycle I think a lot of people some have some rogue apps
Battery life is much better! The main issue I'm having is no sound or vibration notification when I get a text. Sometimes I loose my data connection.
Looks like google voice doesn't work with the update. How do I report this ? I can't get any outgoing call to work through google voice
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Network mode 3g only.....
Then it should be 3g....
But it is connecting as 4g.....
I'm now getting a Wi-Fi connection problem. Just disconnects and reconnects. Kind of annoying
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Z51 said:
I'm now getting a Wi-Fi connection problem. Just disconnects and reconnects. Kind of annoying
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Go into the settings with for it to turn off, then manually turn it on. Also I recommend leaving it on as well as Bluetooth. There is a known bug with both of those and leaving them both on fixes the battery drain issue you will have if you try to turn them off and they keep automatically turning on/off on their own.
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Go into the settings with for it to turn off, then manually turn it on. Also I recommend leaving it on as well as Bluetooth. There is a known bug with both of those and leaving them both on fixes the battery drain issue you will have if you try to turn them off and they keep automatically turning on/off on their own.
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my battery drain issue seems to be gone.
I will however turn on the bluetooth to see if it helps/.
Haven't seen this posted, hopefully i didn't miss the post though.
When playing a game using the "Game Launcher", I always played with "No Alerts during Game" selected. But since I upgraded to the Nougat Beta, Facebook Messenger somehow still sends me messages even though it should be blocked.
Anyone else with this issue?