topic Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state in Z Series

In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

lchmiel — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:21:22 GMT

In "Settings | Power management | Battery usage | History details" WiFi is always reported as ON irrespective of its actual state. The bar related to Wi-Fi is always drawn as continuous, besides that sometimes WiFi is actually set off, or set on but currently not connected.

The power consumption of the phone is substantial. I fear that perhaps WiFi module is actually never switched off, but is only logically not receiving. If switched off it is repored as off by such applications like Network Info II, for example.

Any idea how to check why this happens?

Anyone noticed this problem too?

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

_alexdon_ — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:30:44 GMT

Have you tried to set scanning always available to off? You can find it in advanced settings.

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

lchmiel — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 20:14:23 GMT

It is set to "off" all the time.

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

_alexdon_ — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 20:50:16 GMT

Boot in safe mode and see if the same occurs.

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

lchmiel — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 08:32:12 GMT

In safe mode the problem does not occur, in normal mode it reoccurs. So, it is time to check which application does this.

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

lchmiel — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:55:10 GMT

I know the solution. It was "Viber" which kept the WiFi always on. After setting the relevant option in Viber to off the problem disappeared.

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

beboo — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:27:15 GMT

hello

i don't have viber

but the problem still exist

Re: In "Battery usage" WiFi always reported as ON irrespective of its state

lchmiel — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 06:45:55 GMT

So this is some other application. Try to boot in safe mode as Alexdon proposed in some previous post.

Besides, in Android 6 the state of devices like WiFi, GPS etc. in time can not be observed in the "Battery" option in the settings. Pity.