My dell inspiron 15r 5521 when it shuts down it'd screen goes off but the lights stay on for about three minutes when the screen has gone off the only way to completely get the lights to go off is to hold down the power button for like ten seconds I know it's not good for it but sometimes when I'm in a hurry I have to this computer is like three weeks old so what's wrong with it also how do I keep wifi on when closing the lid is there a registry hack for that? And what is fast boot
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The default "shut down" behavior on Win8 is to reboot the computer and then hibernate right before the login screen. This enables the "fast boot" you mention where the computer can be "started" (actually resumed) in seconds. The best solution to this is just never shut down (seriously, there's literally only a couple reasons to ever do this, and I don't think you're adding or removing hardware every time you run between classes...). Use sleep (suspend to RAM; near-instant both to suspend and to resume, draws a tiny bit of battery power but you can leave the machine that way for a week, usually) or hibernate (suspend to disk, takes a while - though it shouldn't be anywhere near 3 minutes - but then shuts down completely and uses no power at all). As a bonus, these methods don't require killing all your programs and starting them again, so you can resume exactly where you left off (even, for example, resume an interrupted download in most cases).
Disabling Fast Boot (look up how to do it, I'm not going to bother holding your hand all the way to the search box of your browser) would let you power the machine down more quickly, but will make bootup somewhat slower (though Win8 still boots up quickly). Disabling Hibernate will also disable Fast Boot, but I don't recommend disabling Hibernate unless you're seriously short on disk space (it reserves a "hibernation file" that is the size of your system RAM). In any case, it's probably just fine to move your computer while it finishes "shutting down" anyhow, though; no need to wait until all the lights are off (don't bang it against anything while the drive is spinning, assuming it's not using an SSD, but that's never a good idea anyhow).
As for leaving WiFi on while the screen is closed, the most likely only way to do that is to modify the Windows power settings to select Lid Close Action: Do Nothing (it will still turn off the screen, which will save a bit of power). However, this just leaves the computer running and will drain the battery almost as fast as using it. A few Win8 machines have a special low-power mode called "Connected Standby", which is similar to what smartphones and tablets do when in sleep mode, using more power than a full suspend-to-RAM but turning off almost everything else except the radios. If your computer doesn't already do this while in sleep mode, though, you're probably not going to be able to enable it; I believe it requires hardware support.
WiFi turning off when you close the lid is normal. Closing the lid *under default settings* puts the laptop into sleep mode. Sleep mode disables WiFi unless your device supports connected standby, which yours doesn't to my knowledge.
Advanced power plan settings will let you set it so that closing the lid does nothing. I would recommend creating a new plan if you want to do that.
Pausing downloads is exactly why I prefer torrents when available, sadly few downloads are available as torrents
torrents pause when you get disconected?
torrents break up downloads into much much smaller segments (few kb to 1mb max) and download each segment independantly. Lets say a 5mb file gets broken up into 10 half mb files instead. The torrent client will download them individually, if the internet gets cut midway through file 4, when you reconnect to the internet it still has files 1, 2 and 3 so still has 30% of the progress already. It can just continue from file 4. So yeah, torrents can survive internet disconnection, sleep, hibernate and even a complete system reboot (literally, shut down the machine, start it up 5 or 6 days later and you will be almost exactly where you left off). At the most you might be 1mb behind but as torrented files are sometimes a gb or more that is pretty insignificant. And even on a dial up connection 1 mb is not going to take long to restore.
For smaller downloads like a single MP3 track or a word document its not worth it. But I personally have an internet connection running at 100-200 kilobits per second, so if I want to download a 1.5gb linux distro the ability to pause the download is a huge benefit.
Sadly, few downloads are available as torrents, they are also peer to peer so that relies on a peer being available (basically rather than downloading the file from a dedicated server I am downloading various parts from different people who also have a torrent client and the same file).
Too many people also associate torrents with piracy. It is true that you can pirate movies via a torrent yes, but that doesnt make torrents illegal in any way. It is common for very large files to be offered as a torrent purely because of the pause/resume functionality. Most major linux distributions offer a torrent as a major distribution method.
My preferred torrent client is bit-torrent, heard a few recommendations for μTorrent.
Back ontopic.
Done a little more research. Pretty sure now that your system will not have Connected Standby so you are stuck with wifi turning off when you enter sleep mode. Chances are if you had it then it would already be enabled.
Not really sure whats happening with the lights. In order on the laptops I have had access too (including my old inspiron) on shutdown the display would shutdown, then the fan would cut off and the lights would go out and that would all be within 2 or 3 seconds start to finish (usually the display > fan transition was longer than fan > lights). Never seen 3 minutes myself but I doubt the battery drain from it would be significant so I would perhaps ignore it as an odd quirk, perhaps keep an eye on it.
Yeah idk about lights staying on that long because I'm pretty technology savy and we have a 2011 inspiron that manily my syblings use and it dosebt have that problem but I guessing I'll just keep an eye on it but does anyone know of any hacks to keep Wi-Fi on.
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The wifi on thing is hardware. The system almost completely shuts down in sleep mode. It keeps a little bit on to keep the RAM active and a few other minor tasks but for all intents and purposes its completely shut down. Only if your device supports Connected Standby can it enter sleep mode and keep wifi on. But at the moment only intel clovertrail chips support it. I think the haswell may be getting it too.
There wont be anything like a registry hack to keep wifi on. Wifi off in sleep mode is a trait of all major desktop systems. The only major operating systems which do leave it on are probably android and iOS and they are movile systems which never go into a true sleep mode. They just dim the display and prevent user applications from being run (unless they are given explicit permission to run when locked).
If you really want wifi on when your lid is shut. Go into the power plan settings, create a new plan. Go into its advanced settings and there is a section about what action should be executed for various things like pressing the power button, sleep button (if applicable), reset button (if applicable) and closing or opening the lid of a laptop etc. By default close lid will trigger sleep mode. You can hit the dropdown box and set it to do nothing. Even when set to do nothing, when you close the lid the display will turn off. But otherwise the laptop will remain fully powered on, infact if you hook up an external keyboard, mouse and monitor the system is still usable. The battery drain will be almost the same as leaving your system idle for ages, but as the laptop wont be in sleep mode the wifi will remain on. Its worth looking through that menu anyway, I personally rebind the power button to enter hibernate
maybe the “fast boot” i
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I hate being the noob here, but fast boot does really restart system when shutting down?
I thought that it starts to shut down just like when not using it, but when only the kernel and drivers are still running, it hibernates those instead of a complete shutdown. This would make the black screen appearing after the 'Shutting down' message clear, as it is used when hibernating the system.
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It shuts down, rebooys and immediately hibernates. Then when you go to hit the power button to turn the system on it appears to boot ridiculously quickly because it only has to wake from hibernation. This might indeed cause the lights to stay on a little longer
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But then why do the system slow down if I don't do a full shutdown or reboot eg for 2 weeks?
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Is this really happen after Windows 7? I didn't restart my laptop and only use sleep mode since upgrade to Windows 7. I only shutdown or restart when Windows Update (sometime I force to not restart), software install, hardware fix.
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For me everything slows down after 1 week without full shutdown/reboot, just like on Win7. This is why I cannot believe that it really reboots when performing a hybrid-shutdown.
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What did you mean hybrid-shutdown? And what you did when you full shutdown/reboot?
I'm not experiencing the same issue on windows 8 myself
Hybrid Boot (that's the correct name for hybrid shutdown / fast boot) does not fully shutdown computer. The process is divided into two parts: log off all users and hibernate remaining system/kernel part. So if you have misbehaving drivers/services, then computer can become unreliable after some time.
When you restart computer, even with fast boot enabled, system goes to full shutdown without hibernation part, so this can temporarily resolve problems like above.
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When you restart computer, even with fast boot enabled, system goes to full shutdown without hibernation part, so this can temporarily resolve problems like above.
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Can we have a confirmation about it? Because I enable/disable fast boot all the time...
You r right if you don't want that problem disable the quick boot options in power management......
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A quick google on the issue brings this up
Windows 8 changes this by shutting down as far as closing the user sessions. At that point, instead of continuing and ending system services, and shutting down
Session 0, Windows then hibernates. This is called Hybrid Shutdown. The steps are shown below.
Click Shut down.
Windows broadcasts messages to running applications, giving them a chance to save data
and settings. Applications can also request a little extra time to finish what
they’re doing.
Windows closes the user sessions for each logged-on user.
Hibernate the Windows session.
Essentially a Windows 8 shutdown consists of logging off all users and then hibernating.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/olivnie/archive/2012/12/14/windows-8-fast-boot.aspx
A full reboot of windows 8 takes a lot more time than the hybrid shut down. When you reboot, the actual shut down procedure of windows 8 occurs, without cutting off power, ofc.
Therefore, hybrid shut down aka fast boot has nothing to do with restarts.
I have a stock unrooted Verizon Galaxy S5. For several months my phone has been plagued by several issues at startup. Whether I reboot the phone or start it up after the battery has died, it always enters an odd state immediately after loading and seems to get stuck in this state for an undetermined and variable amount of time (anywhere from a few seconds or minutes to hours or even overnight).
While in this state, this is what happens:
1. Screen stays on. Once I unlock the phone, the screen stays on. The side button doesn't do anything to lock the phone or turn off the screen. Holding down the button, however, still triggers the power menu. The screen timeout never triggers, even though it should turn off the screen after 2 minutes of inactivity.
2. WiFi and Bluetooth turned off. Even if they were turned on before I powered down the phone, they are not enabled when the phone first boots up. I can manually turn them on but the WiFi will not connect to a network, even if one is available. It may show it is connecting to the network, but it gets stuck at "Checking the quality of your internet connection" and continues to use the 4G network for data connectivity. This happens no matter what WiFi network I am within range of, so it's not an issue with the network or router itself. If I am not near a network at all I will still experience the other problems of not being able to lock the phone, etc.
3. Startup applications don't load. I have Tasker on my phone, but it doesn't load and show it's notification bar icon.
Otherwise, I can use the phone normally and open applications, surf the web, etc. It seems that loading some applications and using the phone eventually causes the phone to exit this mode, but I haven't been able to find a single particular application or series of steps to fix the problem. If I power on the phone and don't use it that just seems to make it take even longer to fix itself.
Once it gets out of it's weird state, the WiFi connection will become active (it will turn on WiFi if I haven't done so manually already) and it will connect to a known network if one is available, the phone will lock itself or I can do so from the side button, and things like Tasker and Power Save mode will turn on.
I am stumped as to what could be causing this problem or how to fix it. It seems the phone may be doing some kind of check, maybe related to Knox, that hangs during startup and prevents certain things from working until it straightens itself out.
Any clues into what this problem is, what is causing it or how I could further analyze this problem and determine its cause would be greatly appreciated.
Never heard of or experienced these issues. May want to contact Samsung.
Have you installed any official updates from Verizon at any point? I've heard of phones having phantom problems like this after receiving a bad update. I would definitely contact Verizon if you did update at any point. If not then like BigBot96 said, contact Samsung about the problem.
My wife's Note 2 did something similar when the battery died. I had to factory reset. Her phone was rooted/unlocked & running a custom TW ROM, though. May I suggest doing a complete factory reset and Odin. Backup data to computer or external sdcard since this will clear the entire device.
Edit: After rereading OP's post it actually sounds like an app is hanging at startup which could cause this behavior. A logcat should tell you what's going on.
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So, I have been having some extremely frustrating issues with the WiFi on my 6P. I got my phone in January and I have been super happy with it except for this one issue. Since I got it, I was using the stock OS up until the April security patches came out. Before the patches, I had some issues, but the phone was still mostly usable. Especially after that update, however, I have been faced with two very irritating WiFi issues.
When my phone goes to sleep, the WiFi connection inevitably drops out. Sometimes, the WiFi will still be active but not associated, but it will frequently have also switched itself off completely.
I can only stay connected to a network for about 30 seconds tops. The connection will just stall out and then reconnect after several seconds.
In an effort to get better performance, I decided to switch from the stock OS to PureNexus (which I used and loved on my old Nexus 5) and I also flashed the ElementalX kernel. For the first few days, the WiFi performance was rock solid, but slowly it got worse than it was on stock to the point of being unusable now. Now, here's what I have already tried/checked:
The "Keep WiFi awake during sleep" option in the Settings app is DEFINITELY set to Always.
This issue is not specific to any one network. It had occurred on every network that I've used and on 2.4G and 5G networks (although it seems to be worse on 5Ghz)
I tried turning the band selection off Automatic and choosing both 2.4 and 5 only options, both just seemed to make it worse.
I've removed all apps that I installed and checked logcat for any app info that might be related to the issue. All I see is just normal stuff and then BAM! The wifi driver states that it disassociated from the AP.
I tried installing WakeLock to hold WIFI_MODE_FULL at all times. This hasn't made much of a difference with it disassociating while the screen is off.
Has anyone else experienced issues like this? I am to the point now where I might have to send in my phone under the warranty because I don't know if it's just detective hardware or what at this point. The fact that it worked well after a clean install would seem to suggest that it isn't, but the fact that it persisted across two different ROMs suggests that maybe it is.
Either way, I am at a loss and I've exhausted all the diagnostic skill that I have trying to fix this because it's so damn frustrating when you're in the middle of doing something and you can't stay connected for 30 seconds. Any help or ideas would be appreciated immensely!
My issue is the wifi connects but no internet message
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Is this with different Access Points or just at a particular wifi spot? I would factory reset the device, reboot your router, make sure you don't have any odd settings on your router like modified channel bandwidth, etc. If the 6p doesn't stay locked on, it's a hardware issue and I would do a warranty claim. My 6p wifi has been money since January with every ROM.
So I have the SM-G928T galaxy s6 edge+. It has a few issues, one being the wireless charging constantly pauses and then comes back and sometimes just stops all together. I fixed this with turning the daydream feature on. My BIGGEST issue is the Wireless! The wireless adapter CONSTANTLY turns itself off at random, then turns back on a few seconds later. This causes any downloads, updates, etc to fail.. I've read that I am not the only one with this issue, but so far no fix has been really found... I've gone into recovery and cleared the cache partition, made sure that smart network switch is turned off, keep wifi on during sleep is set to always (even though it shuts off while ACTIVELY using the phone). I've done a factory reset more than once, each time clearing cache partition. I've been told in several other places that it's my wireless router... This is NOT the case.... For one, I'm a network admin. If it was router issue, I would know it. Secondly, it happens no matter what network I am connected to. Public wifi, home wifi, corporate wifi, etc. All have the same result. The only thing I have not noticed is if it does it even when there is no network traffic on the device, mostly because I don't just sit and stare at my phone when I'm not using it.... Only notice it WHILE I am using it. My assumption though is that it's only happening when the device is USING the wireless connection. It is also important to mention that this is the 2nd device to have this issue. I thought it might be hardware issue so I exchanged it for a new one, and it also has this problem... Maybe I just have terrible luck....
Does ANYONE have any ideas on this?
All day today I have been having Wi-Fi connectivity issues. None of the other devices in my home are experiencing this. It is just my OnePlus 8 Pro that keeps dropping Wi-Fi and refuses to load games. While I'm on Facebook or any other app it refuses to load. It doesn't matter what frequency I am on or what channel I am on. It is not my service provider I have already called and asked. I think something is messed up. So is anyone else having Wi-Fi problems on the OnePlus 8 Pro?
Do you have a private DNS active?
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All day today I have been having Wi-Fi connectivity issues. None of the other devices in my home are experiencing this. It is just my OnePlus 8 Pro that keeps dropping Wi-Fi and refuses to load games. While I'm on Facebook or any other app it refuses to load. It doesn't matter what frequency I am on or what channel I am on. It is not my service provider I have already called and asked. I think something is messed up. So is anyone else having Wi-Fi problems on the OnePlus 8 Pro?
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Mine will only stay connected for short periods. If I put it down and leave it for a while 9 times out of 10 it's swapped me back to mobile data. I've reached out to OnePlus to see if it's a fault or a known problem they're working on.
This is actually happening to me as well. 10.5.8 stock rooted. I see that exclamation point next to the wifi signal sometimes and nothing else in the house is having issues.
Okay so this is what you have to do to fix the problem. Click onto your Wi-Fi and let it go into the settings then swipe up on your screen and go into the app info. Clear your cache. Turn your Wi-Fi off and back on and it should work just fine
I have a much better fix. Change your MAC privacy setting to "Use device MAC" and change from default "Use randomized MAC". Wa la I haven't had a drop all day. This has been driving me crazy!
It might actually be a really simple problem with a simple solution, just i need to see a screenshot with the diagnostics, or the troubleshoot from the device why doesn't it want to keep the connection steady. You can actually learn all these things related to the wifi and some little programming things really easily, it is not that tough, trust me. I took the cisco programming course from SPOTOclub.com, during this pandemic, and in one month i was already an expert in the wireless connection and the LAN and so on and so forth.
If you're having Wi-Fi connection problems or see an Wi-Fi icon with an exclamation point Wi-Fi problem, try the solutions below:
Make sure Wi-Fi is on. Then turn it off and on again to reconnect.
Make sure Airplane mode is off. Then turn it on and off again to reconnect.
Press your phone's power button for a few seconds. Then, on your screen, tap Restart Restart.If you don't see "Restart," press and hold the power button for about 30 seconds, until your phone restarts.