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Wi-Fi always turning itself on?? :(

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.

Wifi turns on by itself?

It seems that every time I plug my s4 in, it will turn on Wifi. Then when I turn Wifi off the phone tells me "unfortunately smcc service had stopped working". Is anyone else having this issue?
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I'm having a similar issue where it turns itself back on when it's turned off. This is happening even when it is not plugged in though I'm not seeing any errors when turning it off.

It is the Smart Mode located in Settings under Wifi.
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That may be it. I just turned it off. We'll see what happens. Thanks!!!!!!!
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crawrj said:
It is the Smart Mode located in Settings under Wifi.
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Ahhh! My brain fart has been sprayed with Lysol..! Thanks Crawrj!

If that doesn't work check for a setting called "Connection Optimizer." I haven't gotten my S4 yet but on other Sprint phones it is Settings > Mobile Data > Automatic Connections > Uncheck "Connection Optimizer"
It's supposed to intelligently determine when to turn wifi and 4g on and off. Connecting to wifi will save battery over mobile data so it is best to connect to it, that's probably why they have connection optimizer on phones.

crawrj said:
It is the Smart Mode located in Settings under Wifi.
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THANK YOU! After reading the description this does appear to be the culprit. And the longer you stay in one place(work) the more aggressive it seems to get.

ItsTommyGun said:
If that doesn't work check for a setting called "Connection Optimizer." I haven't gotten my S4 yet but on other Sprint phones it is Settings > Mobile Data > Automatic Connections > Uncheck "Connection Optimizer"
It's supposed to intelligently determine when to turn wifi and 4g on and off. Connecting to wifi will save battery over mobile data so it is best to connect to it, that's probably why they have connection optimizer on phones.
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It's not in 4.2 on our S4.
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Ya it took me a min to figure it out. It's designed to read your location and connect to wifi in areas your always connected to wifi. But if you wish to shut it go to too:
Settings > Wi-Fi > Smart Mode > turn off.
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Thanks for this. I thought I was going crazy for a minute with wifi turning itself on.

Gam3r 4 Life said:
Thanks for this. I thought I was going crazy for a minute with wifi turning itself on.
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Me too. Thanks so much for this. It was driving me mad. Up next: preventing it from disconnecting because it feels the wifi is too slow. UGH. Walking around my building there are good spots and bad spots. If I sit in a bad spot too long I am disconnected with no hope for auto reconnecting. Maddening.

intron1 said:
Me too. Thanks so much for this. It was driving me mad. Up next: preventing it from disconnecting because it feels the wifi is too slow. UGH. Walking around my building there are good spots and bad spots. If I sit in a bad spot too long I am disconnected with no hope for auto reconnecting. Maddening.
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I have similar situation but its with dropping 4g to 3g, so I know your frustration.

DUH
crawrj said:
It is the Smart Mode located in Settings under Wifi.
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Great info thanks.

Juice Defender vs. Smart Mode
I use the WiFi location-based trigger in Juice Defender instead of Smart Mode.
As I understand it, while Smart Mode tries to turn on WiFi for ALL of your common locations, JD can do this on a location by location basis. So, I don't like to be connected to WiFi at work, but I *do* at home. JD allows for this.
Sound right?
Thanks,
Eph

I have Smart Mode off - but Wifi still seems to come on at least once a day?
What else could be triggering this?

Aitch said:
I have Smart Mode off - but Wifi still seems to come on at least once a day?
What else could be triggering this?
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Not to sure. Happens to me once in awhile too. I'll go to turn on Hotspot and it says it needs to turn wifi off when I have Smart mode off. [emoji85] [emoji86] [emoji87]

[Q] Stock Rom keeps turning wifi on

I'm using the stock Rom and when I go to settings to disable Wifi, after the screen is off and I wait for a few minutes the wifi keeps turning itself on.
Anyone else experiencing this?
I'm not using juice defender or similar apps. Also my phone carrier doesnt add a custom APN that forces this.

nmuntz said:
I'm using the stock Rom and when I go to settings to disable Wifi, after the screen is off and I wait for a few minutes the wifi keeps turning itself on.
Anyone else experiencing this?
I'm not using juice defender or similar apps. Also my phone carrier doesnt add a custom APN that forces this.
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Go into settings/wifi/settings and choose wifi on always in sleep mode. Reboot the router and reconnect to wifi. If that doesn`t help you might try a data factoey reset.

gee2012 said:
Go into settings/wifi/settings and choose wifi on always in sleep mode. Reboot the router and reconnect to wifi. If that doesn`t help you might try a data factoey reset.
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Um... but he wants to turn it off...
If it wasn't a stock rom I'd say something like profiles.

nmuntz said:
I'm using the stock Rom and when I go to settings to disable Wifi, after the screen is off and I wait for a few minutes the wifi keeps turning itself on.
Anyone else experiencing this?
I'm not using juice defender or similar apps. Also my phone carrier doesnt add a custom APN that forces this.
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Do you use Qualcomm Battery guru? I also have this issue and I use it, so I think it is related to this.

glaudrem said:
Do you use Qualcomm Battery guru? I also have this issue and I use it, so I think it is related to this.
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+1. This
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Nope, I don't use any sort of app like that.

nmuntz said:
Nope, I don't use any sort of app like that.
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Hrm maybe pull a logcat after it turns back on to see what's triggering it's state.
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kbeezie said:
Hrm maybe pull a logcat after it turns back on to see what's triggering it's state.
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Hi,
I just tried this and I don't see anything suspicious. If I search for Wifi, I see it's being set to ON by ActivityManager or ConnectivityManager, it doesn't seem to come from an application.
I have attached a full log and a log searching for WiFi, maybe you can help me find something?
Very much appreciate it!!
Thanks!!!

Anyone? :angel:

wifi always on

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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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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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.

BACARDILIMON said:
You have to go into WiFi settings and select one of the other features in advanced settings
TWEAKED 2.5
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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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Location method problem

When I switch to 'Power saving' mode under Location method, my GPS is switching on too. But, Power saving mode is WiFi + mobile. When I switch off GPS, the whole Location thing is switching off.
I can't find something about this, so maybe someone has an idea?

choice2rejoice said:
When I switch to 'Power saving' mode under Location method, my GPS is switching on too. But, Power saving mode is WiFi + mobile. When I switch off GPS, the whole Location thing is switching off.
I can't find something about this, so maybe someone has an idea?
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Try resetting the phone by taking the battery out when on

Thanks, but didn't help. And I already have done a factory reset and formatting
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choice2rejoice said:
Thanks, but didn't help. And I already have done a factory reset and formatting
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Sorry I guess I misunderstood your question...
If you tap off the toggle that says GPS, yes that turns off all locations services... Is working as designed.

Really strange.
I got 3 options.
1. High accuracy (wifi+gps+mobile)
2. Power saving (wifi+mobile)
3. GPS only
You're saying, that option 2 is not existing?
It should only use wifi+mobile. NOT gps.
So it's not working properly. Before the update to NC9 firmware, it was working fine.
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Quoting you..... "When I switch off GPS, the whole Location thing is switching off"
Yes that is how it works, if you tap the GPS toggle from the notifications......
Now... for this..."When I switch to 'Power saving' mode under Location method, my GPS is switching on too" let me do some test and get back to you...

Well, yesterday I flashed back to the NC4 firmware and it's working again
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Flashed another NC9, and again the same problem. Guess that's why there are so few NC9 firmwares.
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