I never paid much attention to it but have recently noticed that this feature is constantly on and scanning. I have no option to turn it off (found under Settings/Wifi).
Anyone else noticed? Is this normal?
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This happened to me twice today, and started today.
The problem is I see togglewifi in my notifications which means wifi is turning on and has not connected. Then i see GPS icon trying to get a lock on. The wifi eventually connects and after a while GPS icon is gone.
Note: this only started today and task manager only has these programs running at the time: Hello aim, Market, Messaging, Weatherbug, Wall calendar, ToggleWifi and Task manager.
PS. GPS is off for weatherbug and I remember updating Skymap, HadyCalc, and shopsavvy today. It is annoying because it will drop my AIM connection from transitioning 3g to wifi.
Anyone have a solution?
It is ShopSavvy. It installed a service with the latest update. Apparently you can go into the settings and turn it off, but I just removed it because it pissed me off that it would do this without warning.
daveid said:
It is ShopSavvy. It installed a service with the latest update. Apparently you can go into the settings and turn it off, but I just removed it because it pissed me off that it would do this without warning.
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Thanks, It seems it is shopsavvy and I disabled it. However I'm with you that it irritate me a bit that they would turn on wifi even though I am connected through 3g.
Ditto on shopsavvy, thats a very annoying "feature" they added. It took me a while to figure it out for myself as i had just rooted my phone and was installing all my apps over.
WOW!!!
I thought I was going crazy...thanks, I'll get rid of shopsavvy and hope they ditch the feature, seriously how often do I find myself using the program in an area where it can get a gps fix anyways?
good find
i've been wondering about the wifi turning itself on, too.
thanks.
I been having the same problem thank god i found this post cause its been getting to me and i have been wondering if its effect the battery life. Well will disabling my location in shopsavvy fix this problems?
Yes, just be sure to reboot the phone once you have disabled it. I believe the developer posted on another forum that you need a reboot to get it to stop.
i noticed this too a while ago
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f12/shopsavvy-invasion-of-privacy-14189/
I was wondering what had happened. Just recently rooted and was hoping that it was not something pertaining to that.
BTW... I am new to the forum...
The plethora of information available as well as the minds associated with XDA is unreal! Thank you all for your insight!
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In the morning before I go to work I usually disable WiFi as I don't use it at work and would like to save a little battery. However, I've noticed that throughout the day, I'll check a notification and see that WiFi has turned on without me turning it on myself. I can't see any pattern or correlation that would match up with this. Does anyone know what would cause this? I factory reset last night (due to an unrelated issue) and it's still occurring. I only have a couple of extra apps installed, Falcon Pro and reddit sync.
i think power saving mode sometimes enables wifi when its available... not sure how often this happens or if thats even the issue you're having but check the power save mode settings... 3g and 4g use more power than wifi
fade2green514 said:
i think power saving mode sometimes enables wifi when its available... not sure how often this happens or if thats even the issue you're having but check the power save mode settings... 3g and 4g use more power than wifi
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I don't have the power saving settings enabled, and I don't see any setting that resembles that kind of behaviour.
So at some point while I was driving home from work WiFi enabled itself again (I didn't even touch the phone). I'm wondering if it may be S Beam causing it? I haven't actually used it but it's the only thing I can think of that would need to actually turn WiFi on. I may try turning it off tomorrow morning when I turn WiFi off and see if that stops WiFi from randomly enabling.
Galaxy S4 Wifi auto enable
Is there a resolution for this? I heard that on the S3 it would pay attention to what cell towers you are using and if it recognizes you are in an area where you have used wifi before it will enable and connect. This seems to be the symptom that I am seeing and it's bad for me. It keeps trying to connect to my work network because occationally I log on so I can access materials. but when I want to listen to Slacker Radio I can't because it's blocked. This is a cronic problem for my phone and I'm not able to find out how to disable it.
if you have got any battery saving apps delete them
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i noticed that the wifi doesnt turn off when the screen is off. i can tell because on my note 2 when the screen was and i turned it on the wifi icon was not there and a sec later it would appear and would say wifi connected. with the note 3 its always on. i already checked all the settings in the advance wifi settings and everything is correct. seems to be a software issue. i searched if anyone else also have it and noticed that the nexus 7 which is also running android 4.3 has a similar issue and wasn't corrected yet. i wanted to see if anyone here has the same issue.
Check the setting i have circled in the attachment.
Already checked that.
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Already checked that.
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Not sure then. Just fyi wifi being on while the screen is off is not draining your battery any faster.
Google search shows nothing for IPPolicy. I have no idea what is responsible for this wake-lock but it's wreaking havoc on my phone!
I've tried the usual factory restore to no avail. Some days it will be a minimal wakelock, others it will be 4-12 hours plus. What is the deal here? Wifi calling is enabled whenever I'm on wifi, and I'm connected to wifi a lot lately due to being home. Location services are set to device sensors only.
http://tinypic.com/?ref=2yu0zgk
Here's another shot of what is going on, it's referencing the phone.apk as using the service. I just rebooted my phone not too long ago so this doesnt show the wakelock ippolicy at full force but you get the idea. I have disabled wifi calling to troubleshoot and it does seem to stop, that was yesterday, but then today when I re-enabled wifi calling and checked, the wakelock was there again, however when I disabled wifi and wifi calling, and refreshed the WLD display, IPPOLICY was still growing in wakelock. So I really cant tell you what the deal is. And I have no idea how to track it down, but it's killing my battery. As you can see from the first image at the top, that 12 hour wakelock was while sleeping!! While on wifi all night.
Even with 20e update, WiFi calling is still causing this wake lock, anyone else see this?
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has anyone else seen this with stock OOS? when i pick my phone up after not using it for a while, almost every single time it can't connect to anything until the screen is on for a few seconds...as if it's needing to reconnect to the wifi. after a few seconds, everything is fine (as if it had finished connecting and now works). i have it set to keep wifi on during sleep, but it seems to be ignoring that setting...at least that's the only thing i can figure as to what's going on. i'm stock unrooted on oos 4.5.15.
is there anything i can do here? i love this phone in every way EXCEPT for the god-awful wifi performance. the wifi in general has gotten much better, but this one bug in particular is incredibly annoying...also, before someone mentions it, i've already changed my router out trying to fix this. i was having other wifi issues, so i upgraded to ubiquiti gear...hasn't resolved this particular issue.
edit: of note, i've also tried turning doze off to help fix this...but doze mode in general on this phone seems completely unreliable in pretty much every way. that didn't help fix anything either.