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Last night I installed a few toggle widgets. First for auto rotation then for sound profiles then the Bluetooth one and in the end for Wi-Fi.
However after installing the Wi-Fi widget.. I noticed Wi-Fi would turn itself on without even asking my permission. This I noticed when I woke up today morning and saw an unexpected amount of battery drain. I immediately checked and the Wi-Fi was on. I remember correctly that I had switched it off in night (which comes under my daily habits after hitting the bed). Anyhow I immediately got rid of that widget by uninstalling but issue still persists.
Can anyone suggest anything to stop phone from turning Wi-Fi on itself?
Below is the app and my Wi-Fi's advance settings.
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By the way.. I must add.. My phone is totally stock. And I I have had no problems with any of the apps prior to installation of this widget.
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filthykid said:
Last night I installed a few toggle widgets. First for auto rotation then for sound profiles then the Bluetooth one and in the end for Wi-Fi.
However after installing the Wi-Fi widget.. I noticed Wi-Fi would turn itself on without even asking my permission. This I noticed when I woke up today morning and saw an unexpected amount of battery drain. I immediately checked and the Wi-Fi was on. I remember correctly that I had switched it off in night (which comes under my daily habits after hitting the bed). Anyhow I immediately got rid of that widget by uninstalling but issue still persists.
Can anyone suggest anything to stop phone from turning Wi-Fi on itself?
Below is the app and my Wi-Fi's advance settings.
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Sometimes apps like this can be a little flaky. I have HD widgets that I use to turn on my wifi and it can misbehave also. I have compensated by having a app that turns the wifi off at a particular time of day. You can also set it to turn wifi off when the screen is off. Other than that I would suggest looking for a widget that works better. There is a ton out there.
It was my bad that I downloaded this widget. I don't want to download some app to ''manage'' Wi-Fi setting off. I want to make it how it was prior this widget installation... Turning on and of myself. Is there any way.... Without the help of another app or widget
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I think i need to change KEEP WIFI ON DURING SLEEP option to Never.
Can anyone attach a snapshot of his advance settings in wifi option? Like i have attached above
I believe it's the "battery guru" app you have installed... that's primarily what it does, keep you on Wi-Fi as much as possible
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Emmmm.. You sure?
Because it started last night after I installed that widget. It "never" happened before that. :s
Can u post ut advance settings page's screenshot? Just need to match settings.
Pretty sure... it was happened to me, I noticed it after the learning mode was completely
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So far I think this was the cause.. Snapdragon BatteryGuru.
Go to the settings in BatteryGuru and turn OFF the "Manage Wi-Fi" option. It's been an hour I have turned it off and wifi hasn't turned itself on. Therefore, I believe this option was causing wifi to show up.
I remember a friend of mine turned this option ON (the same day when I installed that wifi toggle). I just realized that after reading QUIETLYloud's post. Thanks a bunch mate.
This will help people in future.
Hi there, I have this problem; my AT&T GS4 does not use the deep sleep state. I have made some research, and from what I understood, this problem has to be a result of any program that keeps triggering the phone to get awake.
So, I have the phone unlocked, rooted and ALL the sensors off, expect from gsm signal. With titanium back I have uninstalled the programs that I´ll never gonna use (mostly AT&T bloadware) and frozen the ones that I don’t want to use right know, but maybe by deleting them I would get into a problem (like S-Voice) or just because some day I would like to give them a try. Finally, there are the programs that I would like to keep, but I don’t want to let them make any cpu use while I am not using them. I used an application called Greenyfi, a good example of why this program is the best for the last propose, is the use of programs like google maps, in where I do want to use it, but, just when I open the app. Also, I used the app “Autostarts” to prevent applications to start after some events (like startup, state change, etc..)
With all that been said, I am steel not getting deep sleep, in any situation. I´am not saying that my battery life is bad, I think I can get easily 4-5 screen time use. But, by not getting into deep sleep, the phone is allways using the cpu at 384mhz, so the battery goes down in a range of 1.5 to 2 % per hour (10 hours of no use and 20% less battery).
SO, for you to see the problem better. I did a little experiment. Restart the phone, put it into flight mode and let it “sleep” for the night, the results are attached.
PD: Whatsapp isn’t the problem; I can froze it and still 0% deep sleep.
PD2: Sorry for the language, I forgot to change it.
Get BetterBatteryStats app. It'll tell you what's keeping your phone awake. Look for partial wake locks.
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Get BetterBatteryStats app. It'll tell you what's keeping your phone awake. Look for partial wake locks.
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ok, I did it, and BBS says that in partial wakelocks there is no major problem (20seg out of 1 hour the worst app). BUT, in kernel wakelocks, shows that "MSM_HSIC_HOST", is using the exact amount of time since the phone was turned on (1 hour). So, it has to be this. I´ve reading a huge thread of many people having a similar problem (mmsm_hsic_host been the process that wakes the phone most, but not using ALL the time, but considerable time (between 50% to 10). I ‘keep reading until I found a solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999368
Bro! I am so trying to get my s4 to not go into deep deep sleep, to be able to have a switch or click here button to be able to toggle that option would be the way for me to continue to use unlimited 4g tether because i was told to use hotspot vpn shield to prevent tim lee mobile from sniffing my data to see if i were tethering ! Although the vpn just told me that the application goes in to deep sleep (aka it turns off!) That's right folks the application turns off without you knowing until it's too late, so let see where to go from here. ??
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Bro! I am so trying to get my s4 to not go into deep deep sleep, to be able to have a switch or click here button to be able to toggle that option would be the way for me to continue to use unlimited 4g tether because i was told to use hotspot vpn shield to prevent tim lee mobile from sniffing my data to see if i were tethering ! Although the vpn just told me that the application goes in to deep sleep (aka it turns off!) That's right folks the application turns off without you knowing until it's too late, so let see where to go from here. ??
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Keep it plugged in and in developer options click stay awake and it should stay on when plugged in.
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Keep it plugged in and in developer options click stay awake and it should stay on when plugged in.
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sweet thanks bro! maybe i can just manually push the power button once to turn off the screen while charging to save on screen back light usage. or is this just possible in my imagination?
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sweet thanks bro! maybe i can just manually push the power button once to turn off the screen while charging to save on screen back light usage. or is this just possible in my imagination?
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Yes if you have developer mode to stay awake while plugged in and want to turn the screen off at any point just hit the power button to lock/shutoff the screen.
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well the hotspot shield vpn by anchors inc. makes thier app shut down when the phone goes into standby said the tech guy today because it still shut off.
so i suppose i need to prevent standby
ok i got to the bottom of this , hotspot shield vpn by anchors inc.are liars , the tether app auto prevents standby and i also i enabled the developer stay awake optiion. it turns out the application will turn off when no data is being sent for sometime and i have a feeling that it is in their favor for whatever reason otherwise the app would have an option to not shut off
now i was looking into getting termenal_ide to ping google every so often say every 3 or 5 minutes ,
i ran it and it was pinging like a mad man , more then once per second , i though i might get blacklisted for a false ddos
Since day 1, despite factory resets and freezing bloat, my LG G2 has experienced some *insane* wakelocks around NlpCollectorWakelock and NlpWakeLock. We're talking about 2 hours every 10 hours or so of uptime, basically destroying my battery life.
Now, the simple fix for this is to turn off Wifi/Mobile Network Location, voila, phone deep sleeps, life is good. Except this doesn't fly for me, because I still want to use Google Now, and I can use it just fine on my S4 without this insanity.
To get a little better insight, metric-wise, I pulled Velvet.apk from /system/app and self-installed Google Search straight from the market (essentially Google Now) so that I could keep tabs on it in Greenify.
Turns out Google Search was running as much as 200 times per hour and causing wake-up ~5-10 times per hour. I could practically refresh and just watch the count go up and up.
So on a whim, being rooted and a little bit of a risk-taker, I used Titanium Backup and uninstalled Google Play Services. Null. Gone. Kaput.
Then when I launched Google Now again, it requested I nab Google Play Services from the market. So I did. I installed, rebooted.
To my surprise, in the last five hours since doing that, Google Search has run 12 times, and woken up 12 times. Better Battery Stats is reporting NlpCollectorWakeLock at 2 minutes and 8 seconds for ~5 hours uptime, and NlpWakeLock at 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
Anyone else want to take the dive with me and see if this gives them as significant of a before/after as it did for me? My phone is deep sleeping like a champ now and I really hope this keeps up.
tl;dr: Uninstall Google Play Services from /system/app using Titanium Backup, launch Maps or Google Now and then re-install Google Play Services from the market. Reboot. See if location service related wakelocks drop significantly. Rejoice if they do. Lament further if they don't.
Well, I removed Google play services and installed via market this morning. I'm still seeing a ****load of NLP wakelocks, but on the att version I haven't figured out how to completely remove search. Could that be the issue?
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lastdeadmouse said:
Well, I removed Google play services and installed via market this morning. I'm still seeing a ****load of NLP wakelocks, but on the att version I haven't figured out how to completely remove search. Could that be the issue?
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Oops, I guess I forgot to mention that I also removed Velvet.apk from /system/app (LG's pre-installed Google Search), and reinstalled that from the market as well. Not sure if that is related.
I, too, have the AT&T version. I will run some more tests today. But so far today with 1 hour screen-on, I have an up time of a little north of 2 hours, with an estimated 60 hours remaining. Obviously that isn't realistic, but by this time before I would be seeing an estimated time of about 9 hours remaining and be sub-90% battery life.
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Oops, I guess I forgot to mention that I also removed Velvet.apk from /system/app (LG's pre-installed Google Search), and reinstalled that from the market as well. Not sure if that is related.
I, too, have the AT&T version. I will run some more tests today. But so far today with 1 hour screen-on, I have an up time of a little north of 2 hours, with an estimated 60 hours remaining. Obviously that isn't realistic, but by this time before I would be seeing an estimated time of about 9 hours remaining and be sub-90% battery life.
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I have no velvet.apk in /system/app
I've been trying to get the market's search installed for the widget for days, lol.
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I don't have a velvet.apk either but I just did what you did aside from that. We'll see how things go.
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I have no velvet.apk in /system/app
I've been trying to get the market's search installed for the widget for days, lol.
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I don't have a velvet.apk either but I just did what you did aside from that. We'll see how things go.
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Weird! I wonder why I have/had a Velvet.apk.
Anyway, since my initial post, I've continued monitoring. My runs/wakes are WAY down, trending to about 1-3 per hour, down from a crap ton. My overall wakelock time is roughly 20 seconds per hour, or roughly 8 minutes or so per day, way down from nearly 2 hours/day before. My battery life has gone way up, I'm super happy.
will not uninstall
Tried to do the same with the Verizon G2 and when trying to uninstall this i get a message from titanium back saying it will reboot twice for this to complete, but upon first reboot it boots in to team win recovery? how do i get this complete its process because Google services is always the highest on battery usage on my phone.
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Tried to do the same with the Verizon G2 and when trying to uninstall this i get a message from titanium back saying it will reboot twice for this to complete, but upon first reboot it boots in to team win recovery? how do i get this complete its process because Google services is always the highest on battery usage on my phone.
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Huh, unfortunately I'm on the AT&T, so it is hard for me to comment.
When I did it via TB, it uninstalled in the same session, no reboot. No notification about rebooting twice.
Any other VZW users out there that can comment?
After an hour of idle time my time held awake by NLP wakelocks specifically is only three minutes, a far cry from the eight to ten I was seeing earlier. Will continue to monitor.
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lastdeadmouse said:
I have no velvet.apk in /system/app
I've been trying to get the market's search installed for the widget for days, lol.
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Do you have google search to uninstall in titanium backup? I'd try that if you can't find the APK. I had it in my /system/apps and did the uninstall in TB.
I already uninstalled Google search via TB, should I still see this velvet.apk?
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I'm on vzw and didn't have a problem deleting Google Play Services. Wakelocks are way down for me too since using the Play Store version. Good find. I was noticing very high wakelock on this for the last several days.
OP, what are your settings on these three pages?
http://imgur.com/a/jc8lo
I'm still getting a ton of wakelocks. Not as much time spent held awake but nowhere near as low down as 1-3 wakes per hour . In 1h48m of non-screen time (out of the past 2h23m), I've got NLPCollectorWakelock waking my device 82 times for ~4 minutes of time held awake and NLPWakelock waking my device **284**(!!) times for 3 and a half minutes of time held awake...
EDIT: just uninstalled an app called "LGSearchProvider.apk" using Titanium Backup. Perhaps this is the same thing as the velvet.apk you were talking about earlier by a different name?
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I already uninstalled Google search via TB, should I still see this velvet.apk?
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Nope, Velvet.apk was the /system/app's Google Search from factory.
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OP, what are your settings on these three pages?
http://imgur.com/a/jc8lo
I'm still getting a ton of wakelocks. Not as much time spent held awake but nowhere near as low down as 1-3 wakes per hour . In 1h48m of non-screen time (out of the past 2h23m), I've got NLPCollectorWakelock waking my device 82 times for ~4 minutes of time held awake and NLPWakelock waking my device **284**(!!) times for 3 and a half minutes of time held awake...
EDIT: just uninstalled an app called "LGSearchProvider.apk" using Titanium Backup. Perhaps this is the same thing as the velvet.apk you were talking about earlier by a different name?
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My settings match yours except I have Remote Wipe ability turned off, I still have my phone reporting a location to ADB, though.
Since my last post, I've seen a huge uptick in Google Search runs in Greenify (about 100 in an hour). However, only 5 wakes, and only 26 seconds of wakelock in that same hour. Will report more later.
I uninstalled the search, and Google play services, restarted, reinstalled, and restarted again. So far this is what I have is it normal?
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akong702 said:
I uninstalled the search, and Google play services, restarted, reinstalled, and restarted again. So far this is what I have is it normal?
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I'm not sure there. It looks like you just have some initial Audio wakelocks from maybe a music player or your start-up noise.
You should check Android System or Google Services for things related to NlpCollectorWakelock or NlpWakelock.
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Updates on my own report. For some reason Google Keep has shot to the top trending at 4 minutes/hour of wakelock time. I have no idea why, I'm not actively using it, or its widget. I'm greenifying it now to get rid of the noise.
Well, in 1h50m of uptime (30m screentime), according to GSam, NlpCollectorWakelock has kept my phone awake for ~6m. It's the only thing under Google Services that's kept my phone awake longer than 30 seconds. Nlpwakelock is virtually nonexistent, 9.8s of awake time.
edit: when i click 'manage' on GSam on the "Google Services" that's causing wakelocks it takes me to Google Bookmark Sync in particular. Coincidence? I froze bookmark sync since it's something I don't use anyways, we'll see what happens...I don't see how it could possibly be the culprit but you never know.
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Well, in 1h50m of uptime (30m screentime), according to GSam, NlpCollectorWakelock has kept my phone awake for ~6m. It's the only thing under Google Services that's kept my phone awake longer than 30 seconds. Nlpwakelock is virtually nonexistent, 9.8s of awake time.
edit: when i click 'manage' on GSam on the "Google Services" that's causing wakelocks it takes me to Google Bookmark Sync in particular. Coincidence? I froze bookmark sync since it's something I don't use anyways, we'll see what happens...I don't see how it could possibly be the culprit but you never know.
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Interesting. I hadn't gone that deep via GSam, I may do it now though just to see. Good call.
edit: Mine just takes me to Google Services, sad panda.
nlpcollectorwakelock is google services, not google play services for me...
I have the T-Mobile variant and wanted to confirm that OP's instructions fix the issue. My device started out with great battery life and one day suddenly took a dive thanks to this issue.
I used TiBu to uninstall Google play services and Google search (which turned out to be velvet.apk) and reinstalled both via play store.
Screen went back to bring number 1 battery drainer for me whereas before Google pay services was in the lead by a wide margin.
Thanks OP.
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OK so my battery was amazing for the first two weeks. Starting this week my GPS is running constantly and maps is draining my battery. I will clear all the apps and turn off location services and the GPS still kicks back on and location Services gets re-enabled. I cleared the app data for maps and I've done a few resets nothing helps. Its really killing my battery and I really don't want to do a factory reset. Any ideas? Its driving me crazy....
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OK so my battery was amazing for the first two weeks. Starting this week my GPS is running constantly and maps is draining my battery. I will clear all the apps and turn off location services and the GPS still kicks back on and location Services gets re-enabled. I cleared the app data for maps and I've done a few resets nothing helps. Its really killing my battery and I really don't want to do a factory reset. Any ideas? Its driving me crazy....
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Turn GPS on if it isnt already. Open maps and wait until it gets a lock on your location then switch away from Maps.
This has been a bug with Maps for forever now....if you open it but dont let it get your location before you close it, it wakelocks the phone. Once it gets a lock and you switch away from it, it seems to release the wakelock. Not quite sure why Google hasnt fixed it, as the G2 is the third phone Ive been on that has this issue.
That's weird. Ive had TONS of phones in the last couple of years and I've never seen it before this one..
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hi guys been using my data 98% of the day but it keeps saying my wifi is always on .anybody else get this , is there a solution?
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hi guys been using my data 98% of the day but it keeps saying my wifi is always on .anybody else get this , is there a solution?
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My Nexus 4 shows the same thing unless I actually turn off the wifi. I just leave my wifi on so when I come home it auto connects.
Weird minesays the same. I had my wifi off for at least 5hours
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You have to go into WiFi settings and select one of the other features in advanced settings
TWEAKED 2.5
Because your WiFi radio keeps actively searching for an active signal unless you turn it off.
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You have to go into WiFi settings and select one of the other features in advanced settings
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I believe the option in the advanced settings is "Scanning always available". If you turn that option off it should stop.
stesteste said:
hi guys been using my data 98% of the day but it keeps saying my wifi is always on .anybody else get this , is there a solution?
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Simple, because the WiFi radio is on.
I have found WiFi battery usage to be very odd on the Note, at least Note 1. I used to have it turn off on screen off (settings default), but that caused battery drain. I then used Llama (Location Aware Mobile App?) to turn it off when the screen was off after a minute. Still drained.
I eventually left it on all the time I was at home or work, and it was much, much better. I guess going on and off all the time was the drag, or caused another issue.
I then used Llama to turn it off whenever I leave home or work, and turn it back on when I arrive. Happiness achieved.
I just drag down the notification bar and hit the toggle. One less active app to hog memory and battery...
Then again I also turn off mobile data when it is not needed. That spares me a full 4 days, and that's just on the s3. Imagine how long a note3 would last... (I'll know when my order finally arrives...)
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Thanks for this! I thought I was going crazy earlier as I knew I switched off wifi!!!
Got to work and saw it on lol!
Always scanning mode now disabled!
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