Is there a program that allows me to dynamically change if/when the touch HD powers off, without me explicitly to into settings page manually?
scenario:
regularly, after i don't use my HD for say 2 minutes, the HD turns off automatically. However if I am connected to WiFi and using Live Messenger, when i leave my phone on the desk (while waiting for my buddy reply my Live messenger msg, i would like the phone to stay on (just backlight dim/off) so my WiFi doesn't get cut off and my connection to Live Messenger is alive.
I know in GSen/Gyrator, you can modify the behavior of the phone dynamically based on the application (when to rotate screen and when not to), is there such a program that will change the time-to-shut-off setting based on the running application?
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It's my understanding that the radio will go into low power mode when the screen is off, unless some program is doing something over the network in the background.
I assume that when something happens in the background, the radio will wait for a period of inactivity before it goes into low power mode. Does anyone know how long this is?
I set up openvpn, and it kills my battery when I leave it connected. The default keepalive messages are sent every 10 seconds, but are adjustable. I have a home automation/security device that needs to be able to send data back to my phone for alerts, which is why I'd like to keep the VPN up all the time. I'm trying to figure out if I can increase the keepalive time enough to give the radio time to sleep, but not enough to allow my NAT session through TMO's proxy/NAT devices to timeout, which will break the VPN and require a reconnect.
Too bad IPV6 isn't widely supported yet, since it provides encryption at Layer-3, and would negate the need for NAT.
I haven't looked into IPv6 from the T-Mo side of things (are there even any v6 apps on the phone? anybody tried to access a v6 site yet?) but you can get a free v6 tunnel endpoint for your home from places like SixXS.
I'm fully IPV6 enabled inside my home network (including Android), running dual stack. And I have a 6to4 tunnel with tunnelbroker.net.
Apparently Android does not support IPV6 natively on the 3g/4g interface yet. Once that happens, it will be possible to get on the IPV6 beta with TMO. Right now, you need a Symbian or Maemo phone.
I use Better Battery Stats and noticed that wlan_rx_wake is causing my N7 to wake up all the time. In 19 hours, it cause awake of 9.5 hours and the battery goes down by more than 45%.
Based on Google searches, it seems to be caused by the way the N7 Wifi card interact with the wifi router. Some suggested "fix" is to use static IP in the N7, but that's hardly a solution since I cannot do that when connecting to a Wifi router that I do NOT manage. I.e. office, school, Starbucks, etc.
So does anyone have any fix, or this is not fixable?
Do you have Wi-Fi set to turn off when the screen is off?
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Do you have Wi-Fi set to turn off when the screen is off?
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I have not, because:
1). I have GV app and if WiFi is PFF, then I won't be able to receive calls
2). My Galaxy Note have Wi-Fi ON even when screen is off and did not have this problem.
I also have it set to always keep wi-fi on during sleep in order to continue receiving notifications. I only lose 3 or 4% overnight, so I'm sure that is not the source of the problem. I don't use static ip. Have you tried using 'Wakelock Detect' to see which app is causing your wi-fi to keep activating? I think it is an app not your settings. Maybe trying to keep updating location services?
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I also have it set to always keep wi-fi on during sleep in order to continue receiving notifications. I only lose 3 or 4% overnight, so I'm sure that is not the source of the problem. I don't use static ip. Have you tried using 'Wakelock Detect' to see which app is causing your wi-fi to keep activating? I think it is an app not your settings. Maybe trying to keep updating location services?
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I do, but it's not accurate, showing only that Android Systems and Maps are using, say 10 minutes time but the "Awake" was for 3 hours. So I use BetterBatteryStats instead and that's where I saw the wlan_rx_wake taking 3 hours of the awake time.
I don't use static IP, I do use static DHCP, so it changes whenever I connect to a new Wifi AP.
Do you have the following running (these are CONSTANT background data sync)
- 4 GMail accounts (push)
- 2 Google Calendar sync
Just wondering if having too many Google accounts is actually the root cause of it.
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Just wondering if having too many Google accounts is actually the root cause of it.
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I suppose that is possible. I just manually sync my Gmail, but have google voice set up for notifications. Try turning off auto-sync one night and see if it makes a difference. If you're sleeping, you don't really need it.
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I suppose that is possible. I just manually sync my Gmail, but have google voice set up for notifications. Try turning off auto-sync one night and see if it makes a difference. If you're sleeping, you don't really need it.
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Where do I change this? I use the Gmail app and don't see this in Gmail --> Settings. If I go to Settings --> Accounts, all I see is to enable or disable sync completely.
So i've had the same problem where my galaxy s3's battery has just gone to 0 in ~10 hours and i finally found the fix for it, this is what's causing it for me and might be what's causing it for you to, anyhow i'm gonna go step by step with what i did to find the culprit.
I downloaded an app called Network Log and let it log some of my traffic, i quickly found that packets where beeing sent by 192.168.1.74 wich is not any android device but my main computer and there i found the source of the problem, i was then searching around and stumbled across this post, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25876666&postcount=3
I found this line in the post,
Q: Wakelocks "wlan_rx_wake" wake up my device constantly what I can do about it?
A: The problem is neither Android nor the kernel, but the router and the (Windows7) network. In the network properties, uncheck "IPv6", disable the service "IP Helper", "Shell Hardware Detection" and "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service", which provide ongoing Traffic. Then they scored again 98% of deep sleep.
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and i decided to look in to it, i started the "run" command in windows and wrote "services.msc" wich then boots up you services that's started by windows, after that it's pretty simple.
Find the line called Ip Helper and stop it after that right click it and chose properties and decided the start method as inactive, after that look up the "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service" and do the exact same thing there, this actually fixed it, my computer for some reason got stuck on sending useless packets over the network and was sending it to my galaxy s3 along with my mothers galaxy note 10.1 (no other android devices where seeing this thou for some reason) and after setting those 2 to disable i now have had my phone at 99% battery for over an hour with wifi active.
I do hope this helps and i'm gonna post this in the other wifi_rx_wake posts i can find.
Thanks for the info, really appreciated it! I will try that for my home computer, though I have a Mac (and a PC)
However, I think this won't fix the issue where I have my N7 connected to Wifi outside of my home. I.e. at work, I can't change other people's workstation settings.
I am curious what is it in N7 (or even Android OS) that makes it "respond" to certain network traffic generated by the router and/or workstation, causing it to keep waking up.
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Some suggested "fix" is to use static IP in the N7, but that's hardly a solution since I cannot do that when connecting to a Wifi router that I do NOT manage. I.e. office, school, Starbucks, etc.
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I know this is an old post, but I thought I'd just mention that you can change your N7 from dynamic IP to static IP manually for each Wifi network, without any need to change anything from your office/school/starbucks' router side.
Just go to Wifi settings, long press the name of the network, select advanced, and setup your static IP. It will remember it for that Wifi network in the future.
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I know this is an old post, but I thought I'd just mention that you can change your N7 from dynamic IP to static IP manually for each Wifi network, without any need to change anything from your office/school/starbucks' router side.
Just go to Wifi settings, long press the name of the network, select advanced, and setup your static IP. It will remember it for that Wifi network in the future.
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I wish I could. The way the Wi-Fi setup at my workplace is that I authenticate first and then it assign an IP address based on my user account and Mac address AT THAT TIME. If I change it, it no longer works. Some sort of security feature.
But having to assign static IP for EACH location is not only a hassle, it beats the purpose of DHCP.
Unfortunately, Google had been ignoring this problem, even though there are countless post on Google's own product forum.
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Just go to Wifi settings, long press the name of the network, select advanced, and setup your static IP. It will remember it for that Wifi network in the future.
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Thank you, that works on the Nexus 5, too! Was looking for that.
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I'm running the official BTU 4.3 release on my I9505
I've noticed two issues with 4.3
a) Wifi
From time to time, perhaps daily, my phone loses connection to my home wifi. I get a notification which says something about being disconnected -- don't remember the full text. When I click on it I get taken to the list of wifi networks and underneath my local wifi network it will say "Sign-in is required".
It may be working as designed - checking my newish BT HomeHub 5 I can see the PPP session recycled twice overnight. Oddly this was initiated by upstream admin according to the logs, not a vdsl failure.... since the hub will intercept pages when ppp is down it's possible this caused the confusion
b) Security policy
I sometimes see a notification that an app required access to system, but didn't have permission - yet when I click on the notification I get taken to a full list of apps -- how do I find out which one was trying to be naughty?
The WiFi problem can be quite annoying.
I think this is not an improvement over the previous functionality.
The idea seems to be that as soon you have to manually log in to a WiFi network Android switches to the cellular connection to make sure you are always connected.
The thing is that at my work place this means every time I get somewhat out of range of WiFi (elevator, toilet, staircase) and walk into range my WiFi stays disconnected until I remember to reconnect it.
I only have to actually sign in once a day, but as Android thinks it is a network you have to sign in to it will not automatically reconnect to that network.
Meanwhile the phone is using up my data allowance....
I haven't been able to get anywhere with this issue I've been having for a few weeks, so I figured I'd fire up my old xda account and see if anyone on here can help since this is a more techy crowd. I've searched and searched but I haven't found anything similar unfortunately.
Tl;dr I have to log in to my work's guest wifi every day, but I didn't before. Nobody else does. Auto connect is set to on, but it doesn't work like it used to/is supposed to.
Longer: I connect to a guest network at work every day that's meant for employee personal devices. (I use a homebrew VPN for this.) Before the issue started, I'd periodically (maybe once/month if that) have a notification when I arrived to sign in, and you click agree in a captive portal and you're on your way. Other than that it auto connects just like at home. A few weeks (?) ago however, I've started having to do this every day. If I'm disconnected for over roughly an hour (say if I leave and come back during the day) I have to do it again, and if I reboot my device I also have to sign in again. If I just toggle wifi on and off quickly then it automatically connects just fine.
Ordinarily this wouldn't be a huge deal, but where I work I basically get no cell coverage. I also have a couple tasker profiles that I've been using for years to do stuff (vibrate mode, silence media, etc) when I arrive to work, and these don't/won't trigger until I have a minute to log in. Ideally these would trigger as soon as I'm within range of the building, as I've been doing for years now.
None of my coworkers have this issue, everyone that I've asked all say their devices automatically connect just fine, as mine used to.
I'm assuming this is something related to my device. Because it happens if I reboot, but not if I quickly disconnect and reconnect, I'm imagining maybe something isn't being cached correctly?
If anyone can help me fix this I'd be very grateful!
Solved: dev setting for non-persistent Mac address randomization was on.