Wifi is active the whole time my device is draining about a third of my battery. I have wifi pop ups off, always allow scanning off, wifi notifications off, and smart network switch off as well. I have no idea what is causing wifi to drain so much battery but if I could fix it the battery life would be amazing.
Does anyone have any clue how to fix it and or is anyone having similar issues?
I'm having the same problem. Any updates?
just turn of searching always for Wi-Fi.. and it's fixed.. it's no bug.. it's always so.. was also so on HTC and all other phones
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I'm having the same problem. Any updates?
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No updates yet, desperate for one though.
Alex-V said:
just turn of searching always for Wi-Fi.. and it's fixed.. it's no bug.. it's always so.. was also so on HTC and all other phones
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I mentioned in the original post that I have already done that and it hasn't changed anything.
strange than... I only saw this while this scanning is on.. write Samsung support.. or go into a store..
Yeah looks like it's going to have to come to that
Close the NFC
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Close the NFC
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Trying that now, I'll report back on if it helped or not.
Check if you have multicast enabled on your router. Disabled it on line and all my phones are now showing no wlan wakelocks
Got the same issue as well. I've now turned wifi off and it's gone fr 33% to 50?!
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I don't think that those stats are correct, what you should do is look at wake time, I get 50% drain from wifi yet the battery hasn't moved and the phone was deep sleeping
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Check if you have multicast enabled on your router. Disabled it on line and all my phones are now showing no wlan wakelocks
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I'm trying this now, I have also tried disabling NFC which didn't help.
BenF1 said:
Got the same issue as well. I've now turned wifi off and it's gone fr 33% to 50?!
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Its looking like this is a bug with the galaxy s6 edge at least because nothing seems to be helping the issue. I hope we can get a fix otherwise maybe expect it in a OTA update?
Here's mine, although it shows high drain from wifi I get good SOT
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Here's mine, although it shows high drain from wifi I get good SOT
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damn how do you manage to get five hours SOT with no charging in between?
This isn't a bug with Touchwiz or Galaxy S6/S6E. It is a known Google Lollipop issue on versions prior to 5.1.
Us Nexus 5 folks have been dealing with this issue until we got 5.1.
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optimummind said:
This isn't a bug with Touchwiz or Galaxy S6/S6E. It is a known Google Lollipop issue on versions prior to 5.1.
Us Nexus 5 folks have been dealing with this issue until we got 5.1.
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So how did you deal with this? Can root fix this?
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So how did you deal with this? Can root fix this?
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No. Just have to turn off Wifi when not using it & wait for 5.1.
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Ahh I see hopefully we can get that fix soon but I doubt it because I'm on Verizon
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This isn't a bug with Touchwiz or Galaxy S6/S6E. It is a known Google Lollipop issue on versions prior to 5.1.
Us Nexus 5 folks have been dealing with this issue until we got 5.1.
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I don't have this issue. I'm not rooted or anything. I keep wifi on at home all the time so I can get social media updates and etc. Getting good SOT and no Wifi Drain that can be alarming. [International Version]
Wifi battery drain - only on "enterprise" network, not home wifi
Wifi drain is ONLY on my Enterprise network, no drain on home wifi. The major difference is PEAP vs WPA for security.
Wifi enabled at my work (Cisco infrastructure)
EAP method EAP
The "downlink" arrow is ON continuously, and the battery drains to dead in less than 9 hours. Turn wifi OFF and use 4G (or be on home wifi) and battery is good for nearly 20 hours.
I'd be curious to know if those experiencing the wifi battery drain are noticing anything similar.
Best regards,
Richard
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on 2.3.3 frimware when i turn on wifi Battery be low very soon
how aboat battery on 2.3.4 frimware when wifi is turn on ???
Dude! 2.3.4 only just leaked! You'll need to wait a little while longer.
Anyways I'm seeing very little drops at the moment, but this always depends of what is running.
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on 2.3.3 frimware when i turn on wifi Battery be low very soon
how aboat battery on 2.3.4 frimware when wifi is turn on ???
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maybe it was not the wifi draining your battery but the wifi sharing bug..see your battery stats,,
nicpol7 said:
maybe it was not the wifi draining your battery but the wifi sharing bug..see your battery stats,,
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wifi sharing is off but wheh i turn on wifi battery be come low very son at 1 or 2 hour
bynam said:
wifi sharing is off but wheh i turn on wifi battery be come low very son at 1 or 2 hour
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A fully charged battery will not drop that quickly in two hours something is wrong .
Reflash the firmware or wait for release of finished 2.3.4 as i understand this is only a test release .
jje
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wifi sharing is off but wheh i turn on wifi battery be come low very son at 1 or 2 hour
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Please check your battery usage info in the settings. There is a very well known bug related to Wifi Sharing eating your battery, even if you did not enable Wifi Sharing.
If your phone gets hot, and battery drains very quickly (in 1-2 hours), this is most probably related to the Wifi Sharing bug.
You can freeze wifi sharing if you have a rooted device, or you will need to check your battery usage info from time to time(mostly when you feel your phone becomes hot even when it stays in your pocket) and force stop Wifi sharing if it starts to show up.
Hope this helps
If this is not the case with you, I do not have a clue
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Please check your battery usage info in the settings. There is a very well known bug related to Wifi Sharing eating your battery, even if you did not enable Wifi Sharing.
If your phone gets hot, and battery drains very quickly (in 1-2 hours), this is most probably related to the Wifi Sharing bug.
You can freeze wifi sharing if you have a rooted device, or you will need to check your battery usage info from time to time(mostly when you feel your phone becomes hot even when it stays in your pocket) and force stop Wifi sharing if it starts to show up.
Hope this helps
If this is not the case with you, I do not have a clue
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thanks
i freeze wifi sharing on titanium backup but when turn on wifi battery be low at 2 hours
Hy all. Having problems with superuser after flashing darky's rom xxkg1. I don't have enough posts to post it in the dev section so I do it here. I get a FC when try to acces superuser. Do you know what the problem could be? I also reflashed supercore kernel and yet nothing. Thank you in advance.
L.E.: fixed that..just uninstall the program, restart, and install it again . Don't have to be too wise ). Now, another prob (damn I'm stupid): when I dial e.g. *#9999# won't get anything. Why is this? ty again
CC.
No one can help me? Please.
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I can't help you with your problem, but I HAVE to comment on this...
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I don't have enough posts to post it in the dev section so I do it here.
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This is the "Question & Answers" section and is the correct place for this thread. The Development forum is for people releasing development work and should not be used to ask questions. The reason you can't post in there till you have 10 posts is in the hope that you'll understand what the forums are for by the time you can post in there.
When you can, please don't post questions in the development forum.
Thanks, and good luck with your problems
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L.E.: fixed that..just uninstall the program, restart, and install it again . Don't have to be too wise ). Now, another prob (damn I'm stupid): when I dial e.g. *#9999# won't get anything. Why is this? ty again
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Don't you mean *#9900#?
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Don't you mean *#9900#?
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Was just an example. If I dial any mmi code, will get a message like: "mmi code invalid or inserted wrong".
Am I right that the new custom 2.3.4 ROM (Villain, Darky...) are not using a 2.3.4 Kernel only the 2.3.4 firmware and radio? So this might not improve battery life significantly since it is still an old Kernel.
The battery drain bug could therefore only be solved with a 2.3.4 Kernel.
I am new to Android, so are my assumptions right?
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Don't you mean *#9900#?
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Problem solved.
CC.
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I was using LiteningRom for a couple of weeks and when I saw 2.3.4, I tried to update ROM asap. But I couldn't even flash it with Odin as the whole process freezes in the middle...
Few hours later, I achieved installing a 2.3.4 ROM (Infusion) and I'm on it since yesterday. As far as I can see, there's absolutely nothing better in battery management : AOS is still in top of battery usage after moderate usage.
With my SGS, 2.3.4 had solved battery drain, it seems with SGSII it's not the same. But as Schindler33 said, maybe it's because of the kernel.
Wait for the official firmware to come out over kiss and then we can all see if battery life is improved.
Yep, it seems the leaked version is really NOT a final one ^_^
Hope the final will solve this battery drain
Mine is still dropping wifi after the update. I had made changes to the routers at my home and work and it had gotten better but it still does it. Saw it happen just after updating and a few times since. Did anyone notice an actual wifi drop fix from this?
Nope! I am still having issues.
Have you tried changing the wifi frequency to 2.4 from auto in wifi settings/advance ?
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\=LTE
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Have you tried changing the wifi frequency to 2.4 from auto in wifi settings/advance ?
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\=LTE
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Yes, I've tried all the tricks I've found. 2.4 only. disable bluetooth. disable nfc. best wifi performance. use wifi manager. At work I think it did get better when I completely separated the channels of our 2 wireless networks (2 and 10 I think, they're the only 2 within range) and set wpa2 AES only. Did the same at home. Went from dropping constantly to once in a while but still happens a lot. Other devices have no problems with wireless at work and home.
Mine still drops and my 3g also drops more and phone lags afther 4 apps are open
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Luckily i havent had the wifi issues but i dont think i have seen anybody yet that has had the issue fixed with the ota.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708492
That thread/app may help you guys out.
roids87 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708492
That thread/app may help you guys out.
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That's a different issue... unless that is constantly being tripped during other times on our phones. Our issue is at any time, doing anything or not, wifi drops, cell data turns on, then wifi reconnects.
Yeah I'm still having the problem. No ROM, mod or update has fixed it.
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That's a different issue... unless that is constantly being tripped during other times on our phones. Our issue is at any time, doing anything or not, wifi drops, cell data turns on, then wifi reconnects.
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That fixed my random WiFi drops. I still have mobile data drops like its going out of style, I just deal with that tho.
What hardware version are you guys on? Didn't they release a statement saying they would try to correct it with future device revisions?
I was finally able to connect to one WiFi that I wasn't able to before today after installing mean 1.4.
I'll update when I get in tomorrow to see if all the bad one go away.
Really happy with 1.4 so far. Almost as good as mikg 3.1 with better hardware.
Not fair really to mean as I have only played with it for about two hours or so.
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roids87 said:
That fixed my random WiFi drops. I still have mobile data drops like its going out of style, I just deal with that tho.
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I will give it a try then.
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What hardware version are you guys on? Didn't they release a statement saying they would try to correct it with future device revisions?
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I have 0003.
Reporting back. While I am able to connect to more wifi spots sadly I cannot at my work. Still has the bouncing issue (I believe that's what it was called).
Let's hope for a fix, 3g just doesn't cut it at my office.
Update didn't fix a thing for me. Still dropping WiFi left and right for me, depending on the router.
My Apple Airport Extreme at home works great with my phone. Stays connected all day. It doesn't like the Linksys router here at work. I can watch the connection drop 15 to 20 times a minute.
Bone stock. Even ran the new RUU.....no dice.
I need some assistance, I just flashed MeanROM 5.7 this morning and seem to be experiencing the same issue, a draining battery. It's like 8:30am and I unplugged about 6:30am. I'm currently at 77% with very light usage. I've sent maybe 20 text messages and spent maybe 10 minutes in various apps. My on screen time is currently 29 minutes. I have email set to sync every 4 hours, weather syncs every three hours, I created the MeanRom.opt file and set parameters for battery. Is there anything I can do to increase my battery life as I hear about others getting at least a full day out of their battery.
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I need some assistance, I just flashed MeanROM 5.7 this morning and seem to be experiencing the same issue, a draining battery. It's like 8:30am and I unplugged about 6:30am. I'm currently at 77% with very light usage. I've sent maybe 20 text messages and spent maybe 10 minutes in various apps. My on screen time is currently 29 minutes. I have email set to sync every 4 hours, weather syncs every three hours, I created the MeanRom.opt file and set parameters for battery. Is there anything I can do to increase my battery life as I hear about others getting at least a full day out of their battery.
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I get 30+ hours with almost 4 hours of screen on try turning off auto sync and whatever else is not neccesary such as GPS and IMHO changing to battery I tried it once and got horrible battery life you can also check Better Battery Stats and see if some rouge programs are running I know GN is a big battery killer also I always heard having wifi on as much as possible was supposed to save battery but.. I had mine on and it kicked the crap out of my battery I saw in BBS that wifi had almost 6000 wakelocks so I turned it off until I needed it then back off when done no more battery problems.
It's not uncommon to have mediocre battery life immediately after flashing a ROM...give it a day or two to settle and it should improve. That's typically been the case for me.
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Couple of reboots also helps
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I get 30+ hours with almost 4 hours of screen on try turning off auto sync and whatever else is not neccesary such as GPS and IMHO changing to battery I tried it once and got horrible battery life you can also check Better Battery Stats and see if some rouge programs are running I know GN is a big battery killer also I always heard having wifi on as much as possible was supposed to save battery but.. I had mine on and it kicked the crap out of my battery I saw in BBS that wifi had almost 6000 wakelocks so I turned it off until I needed it then back off when done no more battery problems.
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Thanks BD, will try turning off the autosync. Is there a way I can disable GN? It's rather slow.
Do u do anything else to get that type of battery life? I heard I shld keep 3g off until I actually nd it. What say u?
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premo15 said:
It's not uncommon to have mediocre battery life immediately after flashing a ROM...give it a day or two to settle and it should improve. That's typically been the case for me.
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Hey Premo, I have been having this problem with previous versions al well. I was told I shld keep 3g off until I use an app or svc which requires internet connectivity. What say u?
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Thanks BD, will try turning off the autosync. Is there a way I can disable GN? It's rather slow.
Do u do anything else to get that type of battery life? I heard I shld keep 3g off until I actually nd it. What say u?
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I have never used GN but I have seen members post there is a way to turn it off in GN settings and my 3g is always on unless I do hook into wifi for a few minutes, I only use wifi as needed.
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Hey Premo, I have been having this problem with previous versions al well. I was told I shld keep 3g off until I use an app or svc which requires internet connectivity. What say u?
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Yeah, that would help...wifi uses less battery than 3g too, so use that whenever you can. Just make sure the "Best WiFi Performance" option is disabled in wifi settings (it drains battery pretty aggressively).
You really shouldn't have to disable your data connection to get decent battery life though. Have you let the battery run all the way down? How many hours do you get on a full charge? Do you have the same problem with other roms?
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Hey Premo, I have been having this problem with previous versions al well. I was told I shld keep 3g off until I use an app or svc which requires internet connectivity. What say u?
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I never turn off my 3g. It seems that if it doesn't need data, that it isn't using the 3g. It's on but in a standby mode.
When I'm at home, it's connected to WiFi. Which will help some.
I do have my auto sync turned off too. If stops pinging for messages all the time.
What is GN?
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I never turn off my 3g. It seems that if it doesn't need data, that it isn't using the 3g. It's on but in a standby mode.
When I'm at home, it's connected to WiFi. Which will help some.
I do have my auto sync turned off too. If stops pinging for messages all the time.
What is GN?
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GN=Google Now
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GN=Google Now
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Oh, thanks.
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I know it has been a widespread issue with HTC phones that once the screen turns off the wifi goes into some sort of sleep mode. While this might save battery life it basically makes any real time notifications useless. I was using REGPON Wifi Keepalive app to try to mitigate this issue and thought it was working. But after awhile I was just still noticing never getting gvoice notifications on my phone at home since I'm always on wifi in the house. I've tried a variety of apps on the Play Store and none seem to work.
Has anyone been able to resolve this issue? I had sent HTC a message when I first found this issue but they were useless. I don't foresee a "fix" for this from them in the near future. Do the custom ROMs fix this issue?
synnyster said:
I know it has been a widespread issue with HTC phones that once the screen turns off the wifi goes into some sort of sleep mode. While this might save battery life it basically makes any real time notifications useless. I was using REGPON Wifi Keepalive app to try to mitigate this issue and thought it was working. But after awhile I was just still noticing never getting gvoice notifications on my phone at home since I'm always on wifi in the house. I've tried a variety of apps on the Play Store and none seem to work.
Has anyone been able to resolve this issue? I had sent HTC a message when I first found this issue but they were useless. I don't foresee a "fix" for this from them in the near future. Do the custom ROMs fix this issue?
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See this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089452
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See this
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Thanks! Once I get around to rooting my phone I will do this.
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Thanks! Once I get around to rooting my phone I will do this.
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Pretty sure in elegance Rom in armora installer you can disable it
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Over the past couple days I've noticed this as the top partial wakelock on my device. This seems to be at least partially coincident with info propagating across the internet about Google games. There is an apparent associated wake alarm, which ends in .Gms.
While these aren't insanely bad wakelocks, they are irritating to me as I'm not sure where they are coming from. The number of wake alarms from this is pretty aggressive... Previous to this maps was my most aggressive waker by a large margin, and this new one is twice as aggressive as maps.
Is anyone else seeing these? Anyone have any insight as to the source?
Screenies attached...
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Yes, same problem here but with a Nexus 4
It looks like that's caused by Messenger.
I can say for certain that it Might be caused my Messenger, as I do not have it installed ,and do not suffer that wakelock.
I do got a lot from Maps, but Greenify takes care of that.
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It looks like that's caused by Messenger.
I can say for certain that it Might be caused my Messenger, as I do not have it installed ,and do not suffer that wakelock.
I do got a lot from Maps, but Greenify takes care of that.
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What specifically is pointing you to messenger? You're referring to G+ messenger I assume. There haven't been any updates to G+ or messenger recently...
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What specifically is pointing you to messenger? You're referring to G+ messenger I assume. There haven't been any updates to G+ or messenger recently...
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No, but I have seen com.google.gms implicated in recent Google Play Services updates, in reference to the upcoming game center-thing Google is launching, so That could potentially have something to do with it.
DId you get rid of this wakelock. this error is not lettign my phone to sleep.
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DId you get rid of this wakelock. this error is not lettign my phone to sleep.
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No. It seems to have gotten slightly better with a different kernel, but still present. I'm still getting decent deep sleep and awake: screen on ratios... It isn't completely preventing deep sleep for me.
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No. It seems to have gotten slightly better with a different kernel, but still present. I'm still getting decent deep sleep and awake: screen on ratios... It isn't completely preventing deep sleep for me.
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I saw this wakelock first time on my phone.. i installed a new ROM today. I used this rom before also, but i never saw this wakelock. What you have done to reduce this wakelock
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I saw this wakelock first time on my phone.. i installed a new ROM today. I used this rom before also, but i never saw this wakelock. What you have done to reduce this wakelock
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Is been around for a few days... I think it is being caused by updates to background Google services, but I'm not sure. Since I don't know what's causing it, chasing it down by freezing stuff or using greenify odd going to take time. I haven't had that time yet. So I am living with it for now.
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Is been around for a few days... I think it is being caused by updates to background Google services, but I'm not sure. Since I don't know what's causing it, chasing it down by freezing stuff or using greenify odd going to take time. I haven't had that time yet. So I am living with it for now.
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ok, let me try different options.
I tried all the options given in Better Battery Stats app, to minimize gsf wakelocks and disabling maps. I tired these settings for the first time..
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ok, let me try different options.
I tried all the options given in Better Battery Stats app, to minimize gsf wakelocks and disabling maps. I tired these settings for the first time..
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Did it help? Just out of curiosity..
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Did it help? Just out of curiosity..
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yes,it helped after fully recharging and restarting the phone. now no more nlpcollector wakelock on my phone
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?
It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
wolfboy1984 said:
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?
It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
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Could be. I haven't had really any time to chase this yet. But for grins, I installed the app AutomateIt, which if I understand correctly takes advantage of some of those new Google features. I turned on a couple options in the app to trigger things "when in a vehicle". I subsequently saw more of this wakelock.
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Anyone fount out what is the solution ?
wolfboy1984 said:
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?
It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
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Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.
I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now
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Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.
I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now
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It may be battery friendlier than the old location services - it doesn't seem particularly drain inducing to me - but it is running on top of the old location services (I haven't noticed any reduction in wakelocks from them) so it does result in some additional drain.
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Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.
I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now
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It aggregates it from wifi, data and gps remember.
If you are using wifi - it will be there.
Keep your smart phones smart.
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It may be battery friendlier than the old location services - it doesn't seem particularly drain inducing to me - but it is running on top of the old location services (I haven't noticed any reduction in wakelocks from them) so it does result in some additional drain.
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Yeah, I was under the impression that it's kind of up to the apps to actually USE the new service. If they still go about things the old way then the new service doesn't help anything.
I posted the following on my own thread but I'll be moving my discussion here because it's pretty much the same thing.
I noticed recently that I have two Google related networking services running constantly. They are GoogleLocationService and NetworkLocationService. Are both necessary? I remember only one was there before the new Google Services update. I also have noticed an increase in Android OS under Battery usage and a slight decrease in battery life. I think the two maybe related. Anyone have some insight?
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I think the issue is that the old service and the new service are running simultaneously and is negatively impacting battery instead of saving like what was promised with the new service. Maybe we need to find a way to remove/freeze the old service.