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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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[Q] [Help] Wifi drains battery even though turned off (Lollipop)

Hi everyone,
I am new here, and would like some help with my Nexus 5.
It is running stock rom and everything, Android 5.0.1 LRX22C
I am still setting up, so still using my old phone while I get all the mandatory apps on before i switch my SIM over.
I realised that battery seems to be draining rather quickly even it spends most of its time on just Wifi right beside the router. Cellular connection is not on. So one day I decided to turn it to airplane mode and see what happens.
As you can see from the attachment, WiFi was on all the time even though the phone was on airplane mode. I believe this is the cause of the battery drain. I did not turn WiFi on.
"Scanning always available" was turned off, and the top battery drainer is "Android system", but at only 1%.
(The screenshot was only taken after I reconnected Wifi and downloaded GSam, that explains the notifications.)
Does anyone know the cause of this? I'd prefer if I do not need to factory reset the phone as I am pretty much done setting up everything and I don't want to have to do it all again.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks!

If you go to 'Advanced' there should be an option called 'Keep WIFI on during sleep', click there and then click 'Never' or 'Only when plugged in'. Good luck.

I too had the same problem when i updated to lollipop but after some days of usage i found that in wifi under advance there was a new option scanning always available which was turn on. What this setting do is even if ur wifi is off the app can scan for wifi signals for the location. So if u want to keep ur wifi off just turn off that setting.

I already had it turned off, but the battery settings still reports WiFi as on. Weird thing is GSam says my WiFi is off, so I'm not sure what is the problem now.
It might be the Android System, reporting it uses even more battery than my screen now.
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Wifi always on problem on Android lollipop 5.0.2 On htc one e8

I m using htc one e8 Indian version after I get update lollipop 5.0.2, I m facing wifi always on problem.
Battery stats and history shows always on, but in reality I hardly use wifi. But It shows a strong green bar that wifi is on all the time.
Wifi background scanning is also off, but I still not able to fix this.
Please help me to get rid of this.
Before lollipop update I was not facing this kind of problem.

rishabhchawla said:
I m using htc one e8 Indian version after I get update lollipop 5.0.2, I m facing wifi always on problem.
Battery stats and history shows always on, but in reality I hardly use wifi. But It shows a strong green bar that wifi is on all the time.
Wifi background scanning is also off, but I still not able to fix this.
Please help me to get rid of this.
Before lollipop update I was not facing this kind of problem.
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I read on Elevate and xda only today, people owning M8 and M9 have seen a similar issue too last day. But I just saw my phone, and it's not there. I had patches of white too, for times when I wasn't on a wifi network. Try checking using a battery monitor app like GSAM, whether wifi is always on or not.

Battery history shows wifi is alaways on
Gsam app show wifi is not stwiched on at all. But Battery history shows wifi is on all the time. Problems that i m facing after lollipop update phone tends to heat more and battery life has also been degraded. So, where exactly problem is?

rishabhchawla said:
Gsam app show wifi is not stwiched on at all. But Battery history shows wifi is on all the time. Problems that i m facing after lollipop update phone tends to heat more and battery life has also been degraded. So, where exactly problem is?
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Well, after any software update, it's recommended to wipe your phone's cache. Or software reset the phone. Then give the OS a few days to settle. I wiped the cache, and my battery life has been at par with on Kitkat, and even better standby times. And no heating problems. The performance has only improved after Lollipop. Try doing one of these, or check on GSAM what's eating up the battery.

rishabhchawla
do you use any IM apps like Viber etc? please check its wi-fi policy settings, it seems that it set to always on, try to change it and then reboot device

Viber was the culprit
Thanks man!
Just by changing wifi settings in wifi solved the problem like magic.

I am facing the same problem. I do not have viber installed on my phone.
I've set everything to off just as stated by the OP:
Here's how it goes with my E8:
1. Fresh start of the phone, and I don't find the traces of Wi-Fi.
2. Once Wi-Fi is on either for using internet/ShareIt/others, it keeps showing as "On" in Battery history even if it is turned "Off".
3. Only solution is to restart the phone.
Please advise guys!
Thanks,
Vinay

[Solved] Wifi always on problem on Android lollipop 5.0.2 On htc one e8
vinay.habib said:
I am facing the same problem. I do not have viber installed on my phone.
I've set everything to off just as stated by the OP:
Here's how it goes with my E8:
1. Fresh start of the phone, and I don't find the traces of Wi-Fi.
2. Once Wi-Fi is on either for using internet/ShareIt/others, it keeps showing as "On" in Battery history even if it is turned "Off".
3. Only solution is to restart the phone.
Please advise guys!
Thanks,
Vinay
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I've found a way around it.
Turned on Wi-Fi and let the phone connect to a hotspot and turned it off after a few seconds.
The Wi-Fi radio completely turned off.
Guess, after using ShareIt, the app didn't turn it off the Wi-Fi properly.

Wifi automatically connects and disconnects in marshmallow

i hv karbonn sparkle v running android 6.0 having a problem that automtically connects and disconnects in a sec or minute..
i searched in other forums about battery drain in wifi nothing helps... is someone facing this in android one..????
what i done so far....
1. scanning off
2. factory reset
3. removed hotspot apps
currently running stock android 6.0 non-rooted
please help how to clear this wifi issue

Hi
Just one more thing you can try is remove connectivity service from battery optimization..
Settings-->Battery-->Battery optimization(from menu) select not optimize for Google connectivity services...
i found this as big improvement but for me wifi is still getting disconnected, even though my "Keep wifi on during sleep" settings are on Always..

Sanshis said:
Hi
Just one more thing you can try is remove connectivity service from battery optimization..
Settings-->Battery-->Battery optimization(from menu) select not optimize for Google connectivity services...
i found this as big improvement but for me wifi is still getting disconnected, even though my "Keep wifi on during sleep" settings are on Always..
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Thanks for ur rly Sanshis...
WiFi still disconnecting and battery drain quickly than before for me:crying:

me also facing the issue...plz someone help

WiFi tethering stops working after phone's screen turns off

Hello! I've been struggling with this problem for two months already. Basically, when I turn on WiFi tethering it works fine. I get high-speed transfers and well signal strength. However, hotspot becomes unresponsive shortly after screen turns off. Not a single ping can be received. I also noticed, that signal rate drops drastically shortly before it disconnects completely.
This issue stands to all devices I try to use with my OPO - laptops, smartphones etc.
I've already tried:
setting settings put global tether_dun_required 0 on ADB
changing hotspot WiFi frequency
changing hotspot SSID and password
changing battery mode
disabling battery optimization for "Android System" (sadly no Tethering app were found on the list)
I don't use any kind of battery savers. Nor of my Xposed modules should affect system in such a way. My Oneplus is running the latest CM ZNH2KAS3P0, however this problem had been present on previous ROMs already.
Any tips? Thanks in advance

Maybe....
Wifi -> Advanced Wifi Settings -> Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep ?

It's also set to Always, without effect

Encountered similar issue of WIFI from OPO mobile hotspot keep disconnecting. Troubleshot by putting the same SIM card in other phones where there was no such issue, so OPO is the issue here. Tried many suggestions but don't work, until I went to phone "Settings", then "Network & Internet", and lastly went for "Reset Wi-Fi, mobile & Bluetooth" to find this issue fixed finally!