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With .6, my battery is draining very fast. For example at night, I go into airplane mode and in 7 hours the battery goes from 100% to 65%. This used to be from 100% to 95% in 7 hours.
Needless to say that the phone now don't holds a day on normal usage, even when I don't use 3G. Before the update the phone used to last 3 days on a full charge!
What is up with the phone? I've checked active services and all, but could not find something unusable.
Odd, I thought mine had actually got better under .6.
I would loose approx 1% of battery per hour overnight, same after .6, although I doin't use airplane mode.
I unplugged my mini off charge around 9pm Wednesday, it's been used for calls, browsing, music playback and a few photos, as of now, 8am on Friday, the battery is at 50%
Admitedly it had a extra few minute on charge inbetween while I pulled a few photos off via usb, but no more than 5 minutes at the most.
Well, i don`t know if it is because of .6 update or launcher pro home screen, but my battery drains also very fast. It loses almost 35% overnight (3g, wifi off and phone in silent mode).
I don't use LP myself, Zeam all the way for me, but other than that, set up sounds similar, 3g/wifi off and in silent(not airplane) mode.
In the hour or so since my last post, the phone has been in my pocket on the way to work and it's only this second dropped to 49%
Simply get some system info app, I recommend Advanced Task Manager, tho not for killing processes at start, but for showing winch ones runs in background (all apps tab). Why? Some processes, like Gmail Disc Space, or other (3) google apps can be killed with no consequences, and not only that, but Quick Search Window / Download Manager / Checking Service / Preferences etc. When You start some system app, like Market, they get back running. So You can easily save battery at night, or wherever You want.
For more advanced users I recommend getting autostarts app, and turn off processes that are loading when phone is in standby, or screen is turned off - most of them are totally useless... No kidding. Quick tip: ppirate said that he switch the airplane mode on for the night, but thats only one thing. The clue is to switch off any updates on widgets, or apps (autostarts). Sometimes they trying to update even if theres no connection, and that consumes battery.
Last recommendation - turn back to .24, or .504. I really don't understand why people updated...
I run my mini @ 600-600mhz all the time, deleted all non essential apps, switch off autostarts for 3rd party apps, and some system apps, and I'm doing stuff that I mentioned above - battery is in excelent shape, and stands for two days of intensive use, or four days standby + calls/sms.
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Can you explain, wich system apps are safe to kill at startup?
I downloaded advanced task manager, and in idle it shows only three apps running:
go weather, juice defender (IMO doesn`t do anything, what it supposed to do), battery solo widget. All my updates are done manually.
I guess that apps that are safe for me to kill at start are: Google talk, since i`m not using it, SE Sync, timescape (might as well uninstall it, don`t use also).
And apps that i`m not sure of are: download manager, diagnostics tools and update service.
Finally, how can i downgrade to .24. Does it mean that i have wipe my phone and install custom rom or generic SE .24 rom?
For info, my phone is rooted and JIT enabled.
EDIT: So far I took my phone from wall charger approx 9am and for now (6pm) i have made few phone calls, wifi for about 1 hour and played abduction for like 15 min and my battery shows 57%, so i think by tomorrow morning my battery is dead:S
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Can you explain, wich system apps are safe to kill at startup?
I downloaded advanced task manager, and in idle it shows only three apps running:
go weather, juice defender (IMO doesn`t do anything, what it supposed to do), battery solo widget. All my updates are done manually.
I guess that apps that are safe for me to kill at start are: Google talk, since i`m not using it, SE Sync, timescape (might as well uninstall it, don`t use also).
And apps that i`m not sure of are: download manager, diagnostics tools and update service.
Finally, how can i downgrade to .24. Does it mean that i have wipe my phone and install custom rom or generic SE .24 rom?
For info, my phone is rooted and JIT enabled.
EDIT: So far I took my phone from wall charger approx 9am and for now (6pm) i have made few phone calls, wifi for about 1 hour and played abduction for like 15 min and my battery shows 57%, so i think by tomorrow morning my battery is dead:S
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Even my phone lasts a day max... After initial 2.1 update it was 2-3 days... After that 1 day max.. With 3g,Wifi,Data off... I think its due to low signal strength in area....
Exactly, before update my phone reached even 4 days if not used often, but since the update, max is 1,5 days if i leave it on the table and don`t use it
EDIT: I think i finally solved my battery issue. I downloaded Watchdog Lite from the market to see wich widget or app takes a lot of resources at the background. For my surprise, my weather app (GO weather) took about 25% of cpu resources when running in background. Uninstalled it, installed another weather app and by now i fully charged my phone and since then (about three hours ago) it has gone from 100% to 98%. Before it was about 15% of loss.
So my suggestion is to download Watchdog and see if you have some programs that for some reasons take a lot of resources with the new update.
I really could not find the problem? Last weekend I took the trouble of doing a complete reinstall. Lo and behold! Still on the same charge after three days!
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My installed application list:
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I have exchange, yahoo and hotmail, of which only exchange is set to push from 8 to 5 and then everything else is set to manual.
Gmail and all other services (whatsapp, tango, viber... etc) are set to push all the time.
Brightness is set to auto and I have a jawbone era Bluetooth headset that is connected all the time.
I am running on official i9100JPKF3 with I9100XXKF1 as the modem.
I just want your advice and opinion and to share my application list and experience.
I would be very thankful and appreciative if you turn around and walk away if you think I shouldn't have opened a new battery thread and/or my post wasnt up to your standards.
Thank you in advance.
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1 hour 12 min screen time and so little battery left is a bit less than normal. I get around 4 hours of screen time before my battery dies.
There seems to be a huge amount of time where the screen is not on but the phone is wide awake, which means high battery consumption. If you're talking on the phone or listening to music at these times when the screen is on, then it's normal. If not, then there is some app or widget keeping the device awake.
try freezing "wifi sharing" as well. Not sure if that helps but i see alot of wifi battery use.
Thank you for your reply.
In the case of calls, it is only 30 min as indicated by the pic above.
I do not listen to music on my phone at all, neither I have many widgets, the only widgets I have are: Modern Clock, Google Search, Accuweather.com widget set to refresh every 3 hours, Month widget.
also I have the windy weather live wallpaper and it is set to refresh every 1 hour.
So you mean that is not normal for stock configuration?
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try freezing "wifi sharing" as well. Not sure if that helps but i see alot of wifi battery use.
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I am not rooted and do not wish to TBH.
however, I try to be connected to wifi for data as much as possible, as I have read somewhere that it does have better effect on battery than cellular data connection, that is why you see a lot of wifi.
One question please. How do you get the first screenshot ?
I can see wifi activity that suppose you have wifi enable all the time, is that right? As you can read, wifi sharing and other stuff around are battery consumers. You can read litening thread about this.
Other question, did you disable fast dormancy *#*#9900#*#* ?
And samsung apps disable notification even in wifi mode...
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One question please. How do you get the first screenshot ?
I can see wifi activity that suppose you have wifi enable all the time, is that right? As you can read, wifi sharing and other stuff around are battery consumers. You can read litening thread about this.
Other question, did you disable fast dormancy *#*#9900#*#* ?
And samsung apps disable notification even in wifi mode...
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Screenshot: Settings --> Applications --> Battery usage --> Click on the upper graph, to take the screenshot (in case this is what you are asking about) hold home then immediately click the power button.
I have read about process freeze and other root activities, which I am not interested in.
I have also read that fast dormancy has no real effect on battery life, have you tried it yourself and did it work effectively? what was the difference in your case?
Thank you for the samsung apps thing, I will try that and see.
Just to clarify, I am not complaining about battery life or anything, I am just sharing my experience to make sure that whether this is normal or I am missing out on anything.
Regarding the fast dormancy stuff, I have read this thread and got contradicting results that confused me (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111581&page=4) I did have the "data network stuck" problem, but after factory format and with a little over 44 hours of uptime, I still didn't face it. I am afraid it is going to pop up again if I alter this setting. besides, fast dormancy is a network feature, I will check with my provider to see if they support it or not, although I get H+ in most of the locations I have been in while using data.
Has anybody confirmed that wifi sharing is the culprit, or even Ms exchange emails?
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I think everyone was seeing wifi sharing showing up quite a bit under battery usage stats. It was using a good amount of battery on mine.
Wifi sharing, is there a way to disable it without root?
On another note, charging from 5% to full charge takes almost 3 hours and 45 minutes, is this normal?
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@OP- If you haven't already done then calibrate your battery with Battery Calibration app by Nema from Market.
For me it worked pretty well.
Regards.
I am using litening ROM since v1.1
When version 1.5 was delivered, litepro rollbacked the delivery during one day or two days. Because, I was using v1.4, modem ke7 was the version I used and I tried to flash only the modem version to upgrade to the latest one (kf2). The benefit was important not only with data up but also when I put my phone in plane mode. But, I saw also a great improvement when I flashed the version 1.5 of litening with wifi sharing removed.
I don't really use data all day but for me with many samsung apps freezed with titanium backup (social, game, ... Hub). I have a great improvement with this rom. I will try to activate data and wifi all day tomorrow to see the battery impact.
without any custom roms, root related activities or any other warranty voiding stuff, do you guys still think that my battery utilization is abnormal with the amount of usage I have?
I have been experimenting with battery life and different scenarios, uninstalled Facebook, Twitter, Skype, fring and nimbuzz... However battery life didn't increase.
So decided to switch off data completely, and only work on wireless whenever available.
Looking at the screenshots below, i still see awake times with screen off, especially in the last periods...
My question is, how can I check what is keeping the phone "awake" while screen is off?
Thank you in advance.
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You can check it with Watchdog but it will also drain some battery. So use ATK, you won't have a non-synchronized Awake and Screen On bar.
Regards.
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Has anybody confirmed that wifi sharing is the culprit, or even Ms exchange emails?
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Ms-exchange is the one for me... I then switched to "Enhanced email" and it had fixed battery life quite good..
download CPU SPY from the market and see if your phone is going into deep sleep.
reset the timers, then one by one, change variables until you find the culprit.
I have Exchange email setup on my S2 with ActiveSync. Email pushes fine but I'm trying to use the Sync schedule feature in Email > Account settings.
My Peak schedule is set to manual and times are 8am-5pm. Peak days are set to Mon-Fri. I don't want email sent to my phone when I'm at work because I'm on my computer and don't need it.
My Off-peak schedule is set to Push. So Sat-Sun and non-wotk hours I should get push email. The problem is none of this seems to work. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
Any days on the Peak schedule are colored white. The other days (Sat-Sun) are black.
Do have this setup correctly? it seems like I get push almost all the time.
Mine behaves the same way (Android version 2.3.4 with build UHKG7). I reversed the times for peak and off-peak, i.e., push during peak and manual during off-peak hours in your case, and it seems to follow the off-peak setting all the time... Don't know why this is happening, but I am surprised that not many users report on this problem... Can't prove it, but it might have something to do with the use of 12/24 hour format in time setting?
I have the same problem.
I also have to set "roaming Data" on even though under the phone info it says that the phone is not roaming.
Mine seems to either push all the time or not at all. Annoying as I was the email to push during the working day and manually in the evening,
I'm surprised that this has not been reported more often.
I flashed to a 2.3.5 Frankenstien today and this made no difference.
spawn_e_git said:
I have the same problem.
I also have to set "roaming Data" on even though under the phone info it says that the phone is not roaming.
Mine seems to either push all the time or not at all. Annoying as I was the email to push during the working day and manually in the evening,
I'm surprised that this has not been reported more often.
I flashed to a 2.3.5 Frankenstien today and this made no difference.
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Regarding "... to either push all the time or not at all," would you please check whether you set "push" in your off-peak schedule? Thanks.
tzour said:
Regarding "... to either push all the time or not at all," would you please check whether you set "push" in your off-peak schedule? Thanks.
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If I set PUSH in the peak and off-peak, the mail will be pushed all the time regardless of schedule.
If I set peak to push and off peak to manual. It will not push when the peak schedule becomes active.
It seems I must have push on both on and off peak to get the mail to push.
If either is set to manual or the data roaming is off, it will not push.
When we select Peak Days in Sync Schedule, the days selected (for peak hours) should be in DARK; NOT colored white. Under the same peak/off-peak hours defined before, I DARKENED the days selected for peak hours and it works for both peak and off-peak schedules. Would you please try and see if darkening the selected days work for you?
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When we select Peak Days in Sync Schedule, the days selected (for peak hours) should be in DARK; NOT colored white. Under the same peak/off-peak hours defined before, I DARKENED the days selected for peak hours and it works for both peak and off-peak schedules. Would you please try and see if darkening the selected days work for you?
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This is correct. It messed me up a lot too, and Samsung should really do something about this. The only hint is that Saturday and Sunday are white by default, and those are usually Off-Peak dates for most people.
Thank you for confirming, Claimui. Now we can move on with this important function working
I should have remembered the hint that Sat and Sun came in while by default, but a smart phone shouldn't count on user's awareness as such when we were eagerly setting it up to make it work.
Hi.
OK I have been setting LIGHT as the peak days.
hhhhmmmmm.
Here's a shot of what I have now.
Hopefully Monday - Friday 07:30 to 16:30 Push. All other times Manual.
Lets see.
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Yup that should work.. You should know after 16:30 today or, to expedite (as I did), adjust Peak End Time to the next hour and see if it switches to Manual, then adjust the Peak End Time back to 16:30. I still use Manual in "While Roaming" to avoid excessive charges when travelling overseas.
I Played arund with this afterwards and it seems to work but if I change the schedule, I must sync manually to tell the server the change of times.
Is the "Push" function initiated by the exchange server or the phone. "Push" seems to mean that the server needs to know your schedule and thetrefore will require a sync to tell it of any changes.
Is this correct?
I am glad it works for you now.
You shouldn't need to sync manually after you change the times because the "Push" function (and other time periods) is stored in and initiated by the phone. Server is always there, the "Push" and other time periods only instruct the phone how often it should connect to the server to sync/check emails. After you set "Push" in Peak Schedule, for example, your phone "scans" the server very frequently, which can be seen by staying on the Sync Schedule and watch the little "spinning clock" goes on and off when your phone triggers the scan.
In looking to set mine 8:45 - 17:45 peak Mon to Fri then every 3 hours at weekend,would this be possible?
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In looking to set mine 8:45 - 17:45 peak Mon to Fri then every 3 hours at weekend,would this be possible?
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You are a precise person You can set the starting and ending times, but the period (every three hours indicated above) must follow the ones listed in the Peak/Off-Peak Schedules. The closest seems to be every 4 hours..
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When we select Peak Days in Sync Schedule, the days selected (for peak hours) should be in DARK; NOT colored white. Under the same peak/off-peak hours defined before, I DARKENED the days selected for peak hours and it works for both peak and off-peak schedules. Would you please try and see if darkening the selected days work for you?
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I'm happy to report it's working for me too! My peak days are DARK and time is set to push from 17:00-08:30 (so all night). It's now 18:00 here and I've been testing this all day. It's running like a champ
No push all day - perfect
Push started at 17:00 - perfect
tzour said:
You are a precise person You can set the starting and ending times, but the period (every three hours indicated above) must follow the ones listed in the Peak/Off-Peak Schedules. The closest seems to be every 4 hours..
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Lol i work 830 til 530 and like to see my personal email come through, weekends am not likely to be at a pc charging my phone!
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I'm happy to report it's working for me too! My peak days are DARK and time is set to push from 17:00-08:30 (so all night). It's now 18:00 here and I've been testing this all day. It's running like a champ
No push all day - perfect
Push started at 17:00 - perfect
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Great, Morfy50, and thank you for initiating this thread. Together we can now claim the case is closed
Mine is sorted!
The Dark days are work days.........Makes sense now
Background: I have Droid Razr MAXX (XT910/GSM) with stock ICS 4.0.4. I have noticed battery drains pretty much completely in 1-2 days with minimal use if I set Wifi to be always on while phone sleeps. The reason is very simple: phone almost never enters deep sleep and almost constantly sits at 300MHz with screen off. This is caused by very frequent rx_wakes. As I understand, wifi can maintain connection even in deep sleep, but phone needs to be awaken once wifi receives a packet (reason for rx_wake). I have analyzed my network and found that it was basically flooded with broadcasts - one of the APs had a stupidly implemented network device list function, which constantly pinged whole subnet and caused ARP flood. I could not remove that AP or turn that network device list function off, so I simply set DTIM of AP to 150. rx_wakes dropped by something like 85%, and now drain is around 10% per day with minimal use despite Wifi is always on.
I have made conclusion that Razr with stock ICS 4.0.4 can be brought from deep sleep by broadcast packets, which are present en masse in typical networks. In other words Razr doesn't have when to deep sleep in typical wifi network, and this causes huge battery drain. Other phones seem to have ability to filter broadcasts/multicasts in their Wifi implementations, and so they can avoid unnecessary rx_wakes. I.e. I have artificially caused ARP flood in network and tested friend's Samsung S3 with CM10. The result: S3 was 97% in deep sleep with DTIM=1, while Razr showed 0% in deep sleep.
Questions:
a) Does WL1285C used in Razr has an ability to filter multicasts/broadcasts or do some sort of offloading without waking the phone? I could not find free documentation from TI.
b) I have read that huge battery drain was introduced with ICS. Does anyone have any experience with Ginger Bread and wifi always on? Did it drain so much? Maybe filtering was turned off in ICS?
I won't directly answer your questions since I don't have enough knowledge of network managment, BUT as a power user I did find myself in such situation that broadcasts requests from apps did not let my device sleep properly, in such case I used the "autostart manager" included in the "ROM toolbox" app to disable by software many of the broadcast receivers that I found unnecessary, since then my battery drains were consistently lower so it worked for me :good:
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I won't directly answer your questions since I don't have enough knowledge of network managment, BUT as a power user I did find myself in such situation that broadcasts requests from apps did not let my device sleep properly, in such case I used the "autostart manager" included in the "ROM toolbox" app to disable by software many of the broadcast receivers that I found unnecessary, since then my battery drains were consistently lower so it worked for me :good:
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I suppose you are talking about app broadcasts in context of Android framework. My described problem isn't related to framework, but it is caused by network broadcasts/multicasts (network packets, which are sent to whole network/group of hosts).
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I suppose you are talking about app broadcasts in context of Android framework. My described problem isn't related to framework, but it is caused by network broadcasts/multicasts (network packets, which are sent to whole network/group of hosts).
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Nope, I understood that you were talking about app triggered network broadcasts, data packages or whatever you would like to call them
Maybe a screenshot explains better what I told you
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Actually an app must request multicast packets to be sent up the network stack, please see https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.MulticastLock.html
By default Android devices should not process multicast packets - perhaps you have an app which holds the MulticastLock enabled? I'd check if for example how DLNA components impact this setting.
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Nope, I understood that you were talking about app triggered network broadcasts, data packages or whatever you would like to call them
Maybe a screenshot explains better what I told you
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Yes, you are talking about Android framework, its event system and a way apps get notified about them by using Broadcast Receivers. That is high level inter-app communication, and not a low level (OSI level 2) network communication I was talking about.
Whatsapp have an annoying feature now - they show a notification saying that it is waiting for WIFI to backup. I wouldn't mind it so much, except I only have WIFI when I get home from work in the evening, so every time I unlock my phone I see a Whatsapp notification and I think it's a message.
The only option I see right now is to disable backup completely, or at least have it backup every week/month or so, but I don't want to do any of that.
I do have the option to disable notifications for Whatsapp completely if I long press the notification (but obviously I don't want to do that, as it will not show notifications when I receive messages).
Any suggestions? I'm using 7.0. Thanks!
TheeWolf said:
Whatsapp have an annoying feature now - they show a notification saying that it is waiting for WIFI to backup. I wouldn't mind it so much, except I only have WIFI when I get home from work in the evening, so every time I unlock my phone I see a Whatsapp notification and I think it's a message.
The only option I see right now is to disable backup completely, or at least have it backup every week/month or so, but I don't want to do any of that.
I do have the option to disable notifications for Whatsapp completely if I long press the notification (but obviously I don't want to do that, as it will not show notifications when I receive messages).
Any suggestions? I'm using 7.0. Thanks!
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This notification shows also to me, with the only difference that I'm under Wi-Fi and I don't know why the backup doesn't start automatically...
I've been getting this for around 2 months now and I don't know why, or how to fix it.
Every morning I wake up I see this notification from Whatsapp: Backup paused, waiting for WiFi.
I have tried the following:
- Change "back up over" from "WiFi only" to "WiFi or Cellular".
- Uninstalled and wiped cache/data and reinstalled Whatsapp.
with no success.
Whatsapp chat notifications arrive to my phone just fine with the screen off, no delay. I have no quiet hours set or anything like that.
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I've been getting this for around 2 months now and I don't know why, or how to fix it.
Every morning I wake up I see this notification from Whatsapp: Backup paused, waiting for WiFi.
I have tried the following:
- Change "back up over" from "WiFi only" to "WiFi or Cellular".
- Uninstalled and wiped cache/data and reinstalled Whatsapp.
with no success.
Whatsapp chat notifications arrive to my phone just fine with the screen off, no delay. I have no quiet hours set or anything like that.
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Same thing here. Looking to disable them, entirely if possible. I have OP's issue as well. Probably going to just disable backups. Maybe we could use another app for backup and disable it in WhatsApp.
Dbptwg said:
Same thing here. Looking to disable them, entirely if possible. I have OP's issue as well. Probably going to just disable backups. Maybe we could use another app for backup and disable it in WhatsApp.
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In backup settings, just select ' Never'.
I have a similar but slightly different situation:
I prefer to disable WiFi and use mobile data all the time to save battery life (unless I need a lot of bandwidth for downloading apps or something) - normal mobile data plans in my country don't have data caps and you don't pay extra for using data.
So, with my phone on mobile data only, I have WhatsApp set to back up the data using either WiFi or mobile data. It invariably fails to do so every night around 4:20 am, "waiting for network" (don't know the exact English wording since my UI is not in that language).
The way I can reliably get WhatsApp to start backing up the data (that one time) is to momentarily disable mobile data and then re-enabling it. It's still a nuisance, though.
Go into whatsapp settings. , Then click on ...
Chats,*
chats backup,*
Backup google drive.
Change to, only when I tap.
There should also be a back up attempting bar that you can close out to get rid of the notification message. If it's not there then exit and return to that settings screen to see if it shows back up.
costnerx said:
Go into whatsapp settings. , Then click on ...
Chats,*
chats backup,*
Backup google drive.
Change to, only when I tap.
There should also be a back up attempting bar that you can close out to get rid of the notification message. If it's not there then exit and return to that settings screen to see if it shows back up.
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That is not fixing the issue.
It only disables your atomatic backup.
What If I want backup to run without tapping?
whatsapp needs google drive permissions
Had the same problem and have uncovered the root cause (for me anyway).
I was getting the "waiting for Wifi connection" to backup. I had auto-sync on, for weekly backup. And the notification would appear even if I was connected to wifi. Backup wasn't occurring. Annoying.
The problem was that whatsapp didn't have permission to write to my google account. But whatsapp didn't tell me this, it just gave the wifi error.
So you need to go to security settings on your google account, then see if whatapp has permission under "third party apps with account access".
In your phone, go to your whatsapp menu settings, chat backup and then press backup (i.e., now). Whatsapp will then ask for the appropriate permissions. It's weird that it doesn't ask for the permissions when attempting auto-backup.
This is quite old but I recently had the problem with "finished backup" and the only thing that worked out was going to notifications of the app in settings and turning off the backup notification category.
Nicolasdesouza said:
This is quite old but I recently had the problem with "finished backup" and the only thing that worked out was going to notifications of the app in settings and turning off the backup notification category.
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I just started having the same problem, fixed the same way. I immediately toggled the setting back on in the hope that the next time that notification comes up, they'll have fixed the bug.
Nicolasdesouza said:
This is quite old but I recently had the problem with "finished backup" and the only thing that worked out was going to notifications of the app in settings and turning off the backup notification category.
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I'm having this problem now (I get a notification about the backup and I want to get rid of it while still automatically backing up), but I do not have a backup notification category in the notifications section of my settings. Has anyone else faced this issue? I'm on android.
ifd444 said:
I prefer to disable WiFi and use mobile data all the time to save battery life
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Hemmm wifi drains WAY less battery than mobile data (you have an access point next to you, not a phone cell at kilometers of distance). You should make the inverse when you have a Wifi.
Back in-topic, I just switched to Android 12 and I get the "Backup done" notification everyday
massic80 said:
Hemmm wifi drains WAY less battery than mobile data (you have an access point next to you, not a phone cell at kilometers of distance). You should make the inverse when you have a Wifi.
Back in-topic, I just switched to Android 12 and I get the "Backup done" notification everyday
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Yes, that's what I'm getting. Sorry that this isn't an answer. Just felt that yours was more clear.
Quick6669 said:
I'm having this problem now (I get a notification about the backup and I want to get rid of it while still automatically backing up), but I do not have a backup notification category in the notifications section of my settings. Has anyone else faced this issue? I'm on android.
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Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > App Notifications > Notification Categories
(on a Samsung phone)
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Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > App Notifications > Notification Categories
(on a Samsung phone)
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Thank you. I was looking at the notifications section in the settings within the app itself. I do see this.