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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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SlimSnoopOS said:
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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SlimSnoopOS said:
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).
Quacker said:
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.
lennie paz said:
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.
lennie paz said:
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.
So I just bought this SmartWatch 2 from Sony, as I won a €100 voucher that I could use on accessories and the watch cost €125 and I thought, "well, isn't €25 cheap for a (smart)watch?" :cyclops:
Enough with the background story however. I've only had a couple of hours to play with the device and it already froze on me FOUR times. This was only the case when I loaded an app, independent of the actual app that was loading. First it was the music player, then a notes app and finally the calendar twice. The latter freezing the device twice within two minutes. And that's when I decided I had to check XDA for this.
This cannot be normal. Have you had similar experiences? And have you solved it in any way? I'd love to know!
(also on a side-note: is there any word yet on the update I've read something about?)
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So I just bought this SmartWatch 2 from Sony, as I won a €100 voucher that I could use on accessories and the watch cost €125 and I thought, "well, isn't €25 cheap for a (smart)watch?" :cyclops:
Enough with the background story however. I've only had a couple of hours to play with the device and it already froze on me FOUR times. This was only the case when I loaded an app, independent of the actual app that was loading. First it was the music player, then a notes app and finally the calendar twice. The latter freezing the device twice within two minutes. And that's when I decided I had to check XDA for this.
This cannot be normal. Have you had similar experiences? And have you solved it in any way? I'd love to know!
(also on a side-note: is there any word yet on the update I've read something about?)
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Freezing the watch you mean? If so, no, I've not experienced that (well not for more than a few seconds while it tries and fails to load the app).
AlexOB1 said:
Freezing the watch you mean? If so, no, I've not experienced that (well not for more than a few seconds while it tries and fails to load the app).
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So failing to load an app is normal. All four times the device froze just for a couple of seconds with the home button not responding anymore. That was reason enough for me to long press the power button to reset the device. Do you suppose the device will respond again after waiting just a little longer? I figured, if the home button isn't responding, the device would be frozen and resetting it will fix the issue, at least temporarily.
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So failing to load an app is normal. All four times the device froze just for a couple of seconds with the home button not responding anymore. That was reason enough for me to long press the power button to reset the device. Do you suppose the device will respond again after waiting just a little longer? I figured, if the home button isn't responding, the device would be frozen and resetting it will fix the issue, at least temporarily.
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You'll get used to lags of a couple of seconds a time... Par for the course I'm afraid!
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You'll get used to lags of a couple of seconds a time... Par for the course I'm afraid!
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And with the lag, you don't mean the 'vertical loading stripes', do you? When freezing occurs, I can just see the top bar of an app with the actual name of the app, with just white space below. And then the screen dims slowly.
Has anyone downloaded and installed the new wireless update? Not sure why they changed to the Google messenger. Especially since Allo is due out soon.
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Installing now. Kind of a disappointing update, but at least we haven't been abandoned.
I didn't think Allo was going to do MMS/SMS, but I've seen conflicting reports.
It looks like the issues I had with background apps closing when clearing all apps has been fixed. I've got no apps running in the foreground yet can see Whatsapp, Fitbit, etc still running and I'm receiving notifications for them.
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It looks like the issues I had with background apps closing when clearing all apps has been fixed. I've got no apps running in the foreground yet can see Whatsapp, Fitbit, etc still running and I'm receiving notifications for them.
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You're right, my Garmin Forerunner doesn't disconnect when I do that now. Good catch.
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It looks like the issues I had with background apps closing when clearing all apps has been fixed. I've got no apps running in the foreground yet can see Whatsapp, Fitbit, etc still running and I'm receiving notifications for them.
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That right there is worth it. I'm installing it now.
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The issues with the background apps closing seems to have been fixed. Thank goodness. Now Tasker and pushover work when closed.
As for Allo, I haven't read anywhere that SMS and MMS are not supported. It does seem to suggest that end to end encryption is primary.
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I downloaded it and now my phone won't start up properly. It goes into a loop where it says android is starting and it is optimizing apps and then restarts back to optimizing apps over and over. I contacted Blu customer service and they said to hard restart mt phone. It doesn't work and my phone still does the same thing.
Since the update, it change the sms native to Google messenger and worts off it there is a bug, no notification at all on every sms program.
Do you have a link for this update?
-sent using this app on this device.
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I downloaded it and now my phone won't start up properly. It goes into a loop where it says android is starting and it is optimizing apps and then restarts back to optimizing apps over and over. I contacted Blu customer service and they said to hard restart mt phone. It doesn't work and my phone still does the same thing.
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It happened to me too!
pih1 said:
It happened to me too!
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I just hard re-set the phone a couple of times in a row and let the phone do its thing, optimizing the apps for 3 hours straight. The phone started up by itself and worked after that. Hope this works for you.
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I just hard re-set the phone a couple of times in a row and let the phone do its thing, optimizing the apps for 3 hours straight. The phone started up by itself and worked after that. Hope this works for you.
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How to hard reset ? I think I already did and did not work....
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How to hard reset ? I think I already did and did not work....
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Hold the power and up volume buttons for 10 seconds to re-set phone. A menu with options will come up, select using the volume up/down button. Select re-set phone option with the power button. I did it twice in a row.
turning wifi off
So when battery is around 20% the strangest thing happened, wifi just turns off when phone is locked, just when it´s locked. Anyone else having this issue?
Does anyone know where to get the v19? I had to perform a factory reset and it backed up to v16. When I do the update it now claims that my system is damaged.
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Need V19 link
I needed to do a factory reset on my Pure xl, so my version is v16 and when I try to update it says my system is damaged. I want to update, what to do ??
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So when battery is around 20% the strangest thing happened, wifi just turns off when phone is locked, just when it´s locked. Anyone else having this issue?
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Do you have "standby intelligent power saving" on under battery settings?
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Do you have "standby intelligent power saving" on under battery settings?
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I do, but it was never a problem before the update. It seems rebooting helps with this issue, and then it lasts for like 1 month and then happens again. And now battery lasts nothing! do you have this issue after the update?
Does anyone have a link to the update? My phone says system damaged when I try
I updated my GS7 from marsh to nougat 7.0 last week, since then I have experienced a unresponsive black screen multiple times, ussaly happens if playing music and turning off the screen, when hitting home or power to turn back on the screen stays black, the captive buttons have light up, but it takes 30 seconds of hitting the buttons for the screen to finnaly kick on, a few times it has done this just from locking home screen, no apps running, screen won't wake up! What could be causing this and what can I do to fix it. Any help is appreciated.
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I updated my GS7 from marsh to nougat 7.0 last week, since then I have experienced a unresponsive black screen multiple times, ussaly happens if playing music and turning off the screen, when hitting home or power to turn back on the screen stays black, the captive buttons have light up, but it takes 30 seconds of hitting the buttons for the screen to finnaly kick on, a few times it has done this just from locking home screen, no apps running, screen won't wake up! What could be causing this and what can I do to fix it. Any help is appreciated.
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Hi mate
You may have better luck asking in the right forum
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Hi mate
You may have better luck asking in the right forum
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Actually, I have the same issue, and I have the SM-G930F.
I updated yesterday to 7.0 via Samsung Smart Watch, then did a factory reset and even cleared dalvik cache.
Prior to that I ran rooted 6.0.1.
Any suggestions, what might be causing this? And any other solution than to factory reset?
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Actually, I have the same issue, and I have the SM-G930F.
I updated yesterday to 7.0 via Samsung Smart Watch, then did a factory reset and even cleared dalvik cache.
Prior to that I ran rooted 6.0.1.
Any suggestions, what might be causing this? And any other solution than to factory reset?
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if is happening while playing music try a different player to see if it makes a difference
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if is happening while playing music try a different player to see if it makes a difference
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I tryed a few diffrent players, it does it with all of them, Slacker, mp3 player, even YouTube Red, so can rule out a music app, I am running Nova launcher how ever I don't think it related to that. I have cleared cache and restarted and the problem still happend today... I'm thinking factory reset but really hate to do that, also thinking att store since they broke my phone with this update and still under warranty. Any other ideas?
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You may have better luck asking in the right forum
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Can you point me in the rite direction thank you.
va540area said:
Can you point me in the rite direction thank you.
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Hi mate
check my first post , click the word forum
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if is happening while playing music try a different player to see if it makes a difference
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It doens't just happen while playing music, afaik it happens randomly like when the screen is going to timeout or I shut the screen down via power button...
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It doens't just happen while playing music, afaik it happens randomly like when the screen is going to timeout or I shut the screen down via power button...
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Hi mate
What I would do is flash stock rom again using CSC files to reset all partitions , do not install any of my apps and observe the phone for a day or two ...if everything is ok start installing my apps.....if problem comes back...then the issue may be one of the apps
I was accessing chrome and all of sudden everything got minimized to home screen. I tried killing apps, restarted mobile, power off phone and start but no luck.
From any app I am in, if the touch screen has no touch for 2-3 secs , then it Will bring me back to home screen. However I am able to download apps from play store by touching screen continuously.
I am on latest update of cyanogen provided by one plus one. Any help is highly appreciated.
Compscho said:
I was accessing chrome and all of sudden everything got minimized to home screen. I tried killing apps, restarted mobile, power off phone and start but no luck.
From any app I am in, if the touch screen has no touch for 2-3 secs , then it Will bring me back to home screen. However I am able to download apps from play store by touching screen continuously.
I am on latest update of cyanogen provided by one plus one. Any help is highly appreciated.
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Tried factory reset?
Factory reset worked for the day
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Tried factory reset?
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Hi,
I tried factory reset (Without data). It only worked for the day. Today i realized that it has started doing the same thing again. After every 2-3 secs anything gets redirected to home screen. Battery doctor also is not killing apps and gets redirected to home screen. The mobile is not getting locked as well.
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Compscho
Compscho said:
Hi,
I tried factory reset (Without data). It only worked for the day. Today i realized that it has started doing the same thing again. After every 2-3 secs anything gets redirected to home screen. Battery doctor also is not killing apps and gets redirected to home screen. The mobile is not getting locked as well.
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Compscho
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You should not be using any apps like "Battery doctor", this might be the reason for this type of behaving of device.Please uninstall any other apps like this also.
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You should not be using any apps like "Battery doctor", this might be the reason for this type of behaving of device.Please uninstall any other apps like this also.
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I installed security guard. Post that its working fine. But will definitely try to remove it as well as battery doctor and similar apps to see if there is an issue.
Thanks.
Issue still persist
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I installed security guard. Post that its working fine. But will definitely try to remove it as well as battery doctor and similar apps to see if there is an issue.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I uninstalled all optimizing app. However, the issue came back. Now it is not getting solved even after installing them back.
Do you think it is an hardware issue?
It may be an issue with compatibility because if you're still using the stock cyanogen OS
You will still be at android 5.1.1 and the current version is 7.2.
I may be wrong though so don't take my word for it