Many people are experiencing a bug in Lollipop where WiFi will remain turned on, even if it is turned off in Settings via toggle or quick toggles or in airplane mode. My guess is that this causes the ridiculous battery drain that people have by showing the WiFi state as connected to apps, which then trigger wakelocks in attempts to sync, resulting in high standby mode drain. Well, I think I may have found a solution, as this worked for me. Before this fix, I flashed clean from the factory images and I had the WiFi bug, so my issue was NOT due to leftover data from Kitkat.
1) Flash the KITKAT 4.4.4 factory image from Google's website. Note that this will wipe everything, including your "sdcard" partition (eg music, photos, etc) so have a backup!
2) Do a minimal amount of set up (skip past everything, don't sign in, etc).
3) Either Lollipop OTA update or sideload the OTA.
4) After updating, sign in.
5) Factory reset the phone by going into Settings > Backup & Reset > Factory Data Reset.
6) Sign in to your Google account and set up as normal.
Hope this works for people! It solved my crazy battery drain!
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How do you flash the KITKAT 4.4.4 factory image from Google's website?
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My network icons (WiFi, Cell Signal) used to turn blue (showing connectivity to Google). I tried XenonHD and decided it wasn't for me so I flashed back my Nandroid of the 4.1.1 OTA from kibmcz. For some reason, it seems that after flashing back, my icon never turns blue, even though I can connect to the Play Store, retrieve Gmail, receive Google Voice notifications, etc.
Any thoughts on how to restore this background connection to allow my network icons to turn blue?
I'm backing up (TB) and getting a Nandroid, then reflashing. I think it may be due to the device ID. This was the first time I chose to get the old device ID back when restoring from TB, instead of choosing ignore and keep the new device ID.
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I've never had issues with changing or not changing the device ID (I've done both over the course of trying out way too many roms). Any chance you accidentally restored some system or Google date with TB? That could cause some problems. In general, don't restore through TB unless there is unrecoverable data that doesn't really interact with the system (such as game scores). If you can restore the data from somewhere else (email from a server, etc) do that. Restore any apps that don't need their data restored from the Play Store (translate, browsers, etc)
Instead of reflashing the OTA, I decided to go with a CM10 (listed in signature). This time I selected "Ignore (keep the new device ID)" and this seemed to work. Coincidental or not, the only time this has been an issue is when I told TB to restore the device ID. Perhaps a TB bug? I'm not sure. I've always restore almost everything stored in TB and never had any issues, especially since I typically don't flash multiple ROMs. I usually stick to stock OTA.
Thanks for the reply, dvorak. I may start doing that if I switch ROMs and not just re-flash the same ROM.
I have 2 Google accounts on my phone; personal and work.
In my Google account settings, I have the chosen services to sync checked.
In data usage/menu/ auto-sync data is checked.
A few hours after I make sure all services to be synced are checked, they slowly start turning off by themselves one by one. All on at night, 75% turned off in the morning.
This have been happening since recently on 4.4.0. I did a complete factory wipe back to 4.4.0 and allowed stock upgrades to happen; both 4.4.1.and now 4.4.2.
I'm unlocked, rooted, using franco kernel r20 and moto-x dalvik patch on stock odex 4.4.2 ROM.
Starting today, Gmail will not sync regardless of sync settings. If I check email on phone, it's not marked as read on PC hours later. Also, 2 messages composed on phone today, not sent (stuck in sending mode).
I cleared cache of Gmail. No change.
This shouldn't be a leftover issue unless it's tied to some app. I am running on a brand new, untouched version of stock ROM (before I rooted and installed TWRP).
I've searched and searched. Only topic I can find is either Exchange sync issues or folks that had auto-sync data turned off.
Ideas?
angus242 said:
I have 2 Google accounts on my phone; personal and work.
In my Google account settings, I have the chosen services to sync checked.
In data usage/menu/ auto-sync data is checked.
A few hours after I make sure all services to be synced are checked, they slowly start turning off by themselves one by one. All on at night, 75% turned off in the morning.
This have been happening since recently on 4.4.0. I did a complete factory wipe back to 4.4.0 and allowed stock upgrades to happen; both 4.4.1.and now 4.4.2.
I'm unlocked, rooted, using franco kernel r20 and moto-x dalvik patch on stock odex 4.4.2 ROM.
Starting today, Gmail will not sync regardless of sync settings. If I check email on phone, it's not marked as read on PC hours later. Also, 2 messages composed on phone today, not sent (stuck in sending mode).
I cleared cache of Gmail. No change.
This shouldn't be a leftover issue unless it's tied to some app. I am running on a brand new, untouched version of stock ROM (before I rooted and installed TWRP).
I've searched and searched. Only topic I can find is either Exchange sync issues or folks that had auto-sync data turned off.
Ideas?
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The first thing that you do when you encounter a situation like this, is to remove variables. Those variables are franco kernel and the dalvik patch. Get rid of them and test again.
Yeah, I recently installed both in 4.4.0 right before the 4.4.1 update came out. At least that's when I noticed this issue happening.
I'll (un)do both.
Removed Moto X Dalvik patch by flashing stock system.img.
Sync still turning off automatically.
Just removed franco kernel (back to stock 4.4.2). Will have to wait and see.
Stock kernel and issue remains.
This is totally weird.
I have a few mods:
Center clock/battery % icon
36 dpi nav bar
4in1 reboot
All 3 of these mods are new versions. I still had the problem when on 4.4.0 with old versions of those 3 mods.
That's it. What in the hell can be making Google account services sync turn off? Does ANYONE have a clue on what might be happening?
This is interesting. Somehow, I have 2 N5s listed in my Google account. I only have 1. I never returned it or RMA or anything. Not sure why they're there.
Could this be an issue where my Google account is attempting to sync from a phantom device?
I mean, it does seem that the sync disappearing is more than just something on the phone, right? It's a stock phone with 3 mods (that shouldn't be related to syncing at all).
This problem has happened on 3 versions of Android.
Looks like a delete of all Google accounts and reinstall worked. Must have been a booger left over from something else.
Actually, not fixed. Still have services turning off sync.
Anybody? Please? Ideas?
It's probably Qualcom Battery Guru. It's trying to save your battery by turning off sync to certain services. Change the setting to let it use data whenever it wants.
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Elisha said:
It's probably Qualcom Battery Guru. It's trying to save your battery by turning off sync to certain services. Change the setting to let it use data whenever it wants.
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Holy chit! You got it! Of course, never even occurred to me. I just came from a Note 2 so I didn't have the Snapdragon CPU to use Battery Guru.
Thank you very much!
Hi All,
I did a factory reset to solve a problem, problem solved, but somethong happened to the mobile data.
Data connects, shows the connection, nothing comes through. No browsing, no data on facebook, nothing...
Wifi is working fine.
The data is not completely dead. Once in a while an app gets updated if I keep it on. Sometimes, it gets connected. But most of the time it does not.
Troubleshooting done so far:
1. Did Factory Reset agin and again.
2. Changed the SIM with another one, new one is also not connecting. My SIM is working on other mobile, nothing wrong with the SIM.
3. Reset all APNs, did manual APN settings.
4. Removed theSIM kept for 1/2 hour and put it back in.
5. Checked all setting that can possibly affect anything.
Do anybody have similar experience? Please help.
I am on Marshmallow, latest version of the firmware.
Bought the P20 a few days ago and realized that the phone has constant wifi activity even when leaving it idle. The two traffic flow arrows for wifi is always on. This constant network activity behavior does not happen when using 4G connection.
I have tried everything below without luck. Anyone having same issue?
1. Factory reset a few times without installing any apps except those that came with the phone. So I don't think the problem is caused by apps that are not bundled with the phone.
2. Used different wifi access points from different routers
3. Looked at the wifi data usage ranking in Settings and I suspect there is something irregular about Google Backup Transport. Searched around the Internet and people mention that this process/service is used for backing up app data, call records etc to Google Drive. So I went to Settings > System > Backup & restore > Google Account and see that under Active Backups everything is marked as "Waiting to backup". Used adb commands "bmgr fullbackup" etc. to manually trigger backup. The backups worked but the problem still exist. Even tried updating Google Play Services to latest beta version but no luck.
U solved it? i have the same issue.
Ever since I updated to Android 10, I can consistently recreate this issue. Any time I turn on my GPS, I will immediately lose mobile data, signified by loss of data service and by the exclamation point on the service/signal bars of the toolbar. A quick toggle of Airplane Mode will re-enable the data. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Did u have a factory reset before upgrading to Android 10?
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No, it was an OTA and I don't recall reading that being a requirement for the update nor it being an option. Was that an option for others?
I think I managed to find a workaround which doesn't involve a factory reset for the same issue on my OnePlus 6T:
Settings -> System -> Reset options -> Reset app preferences (this doesn't affect apps data)
Settings -> Apps & notifications -> See all XXX apps -> (3 dots in the upper right corner) -> Show system -> Clear storage and cache of the following apps:
Google Maps
Google Play services
Google Services Framework
LocationServices
Phone Services
Fused Location
Google Location History
OPMmsLocation
I wiped Dalvik cache in TWRP.
I'm not sure all steps are necessary but resetting apps preferences is the key one I think. It's going to reset the permissions of all apps but it's a good alternative to reinstall everything from scratch. The issue of the GPS fix in Google Maps hasn't come back for me since.
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No, it was an OTA and I don't recall reading that being a requirement for the update nor it being an option. Was that an option for others?
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It's not a requirement but for sure helps with 90% of problems like yours.
Most of the issues with bt, gps, mobile data etc can happen because of big updates and usually it helps to have a clean system.
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