I really like the chromecast so far, but the android app is killing me (well my phone).
Ever since I installed the Chromecast app on my Galaxy S4 My battery life is horrible. When I look at the battery stats Chromcast is always the highest by far (even more than screen). It apparently doesn't matter if I force close it either. I tried reinstalling it and that didn't help either. Unfortunately I can't keep this on my phone! Is anyone else seeing this?
I'm seeing the same thing, but my drain is not coming from the Chromecast app, but rather from Google Services.
If you're rooted you could try Greenify from the Play store, it'll identify background apps(and their memory usage) and you can select & disable them until you actually start it.
Play store link:
http://goo.gl/LSsNw
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Thanks, I will take a look at it.:good:
empirescrumble said:
I'm seeing the same thing, but my drain is not coming from the Chromecast app, but rather from Google Services.
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Yea its been a problem on the S4, now I turn it off when I can
The app doesn't do anything aside from getting it initially setup to connect to your wifi.
Are you saying its automatically starting up the app even after you've killed it the first time?
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The app doesn't do anything aside from getting it initially setup to connect to your wifi.
Are you saying its automatically starting up the app even after you've killed it the first time?
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Yes, it is very odd. The only other thing I can think of is that the battery status app (stock) is misreporting the app info and something else is killing my battery and chromecast app is being blamed ... I will try to dig around a bit more and see whats going on.
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I have selected to never keep WiFi on during sleep yet now the tablet continues to run the WiFi as you can see in the pictures. This has forced me to use airplane mode when I am on the go because otherwise the tablet just keeps WiFi on and burns the battery extremely quick. This has been a problem since I updated to 4.2.1. I am not rooted completely stock. A solution would be great because this sucks right now. I have tried clearing the cache in recovery but that didn't solve the problem.
I'm running the latest Paranoidandroid ROM and thought that was the problem. I can't yet post to that developer forum so I was just waiting for the next beta.
I guess it's a problem with 4.2.1 then.
-PMS
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I have selected to never keep WiFi on during sleep yet now the tablet continues to run the WiFi as you can see in the pictures. This has forced me to use airplane mode when I am on the go because otherwise the tablet just keeps WiFi on and burns the battery extremely quick. This has been a problem since I updated to 4.2.1. I am not rooted completely stock. A solution would be great because this sucks right now. I have tried clearing the cache in recovery but that didn't solve the problem.
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If you don't find a solution you may want to try DataEasyPro from the market. It kills both 3g and wifi as soon as the screen is off and then runs a user defined schedule to turn on 3g or wifi every now and the for a few seconds to keep you upto date with your social world. Works great. There is even a widget so you can turn off the schedule when you are downloading or updating from the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cb56.dataeasypro
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I'm running the latest Paranoidandroid ROM and thought that was the problem. I can't yet post to that developer forum so I was just waiting for the next beta.
I guess it's a problem with 4.2.1 then.
-PMS
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I think it is a 4.2.1 problem. Its hard to say how wide spread it is though because I have only seen a handful of posts about this issue though. To me, this issue is unacceptable. I should not have to enable/disable airplane mode to conserve battery. Especially when the previous version of android prior to the 4.2.1 update handled WiFi sleep settings without a problem. Hopefully a fix will be here soon. My tablet used to have superb battery life without me constantly monitoring it. Now I feel like I have to keep double checking that I remember to use airplane mode so that I don't go to use the tablet and find a nearly depleted battery.
Dmwitz said:
If you don't find a solution you may want to try DataEasyPro from the market. It kills both 3g and wifi as soon as the screen is off and then runs a user defined schedule to turn on 3g or wifi every now and the for a few seconds to keep you upto date with your social world. Works great. There is even a widget so you can turn off the schedule when you are downloading or updating from the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cb56.dataeasypro
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This app shows as not compatible for me when I used the link.
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This app shows as not compatible for me when I used the link.
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I recommend automate it, I have a couple of rules set to turn WiFi of with the screen (with a 5min delay), then turn Wi-Fi back on when the screen turns on. There's plenty of other settings and rules to play with as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage
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In had the same issue. I found Google maps to be the culprit.
It defaulted back to location reporting.
Check Google now sync, maps and currents.
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It's not google maps itself, it's the android location service. It's always collecting data even if your phone or tabscreen isn't on. This is pretty anoying since google only let you choose between agreeing to run the service in the background or not using it at all. Stupid! How about collecting data only when the device is in use?
Same here. There is a bug report on Google about it.
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Ah this is interesting; as last night my battery was on 53% and I am sure I charged it fully previously...... Am on stock too but have rooted.
Might just switch the tablet off all the time for the time being.
I'm on stock rooted 4.2.1 and mine is fine. Strange.
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I'm on stock rooted 4.2.1 and mine is fine. Strange.
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WiFi turns off here also, which means its working as intended, what is strange is is it not working for some people, I'm also on stock rooted 4.2.1.
what is the OP using? Are there any apps installed/running on the OPs device that can keep the WiFi alive?
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what is the OP using? Are there any apps installed/running on the OPs device that can keep the WiFi alive?
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I highly recommend using an app called Better Battery Stats. You can find the free version here on XDA. It'll tell you if there is an app causing a wakelock. I used it to troubleshoot my Rezound and I'm getting a solid 4-5 hours of screen on time with the extended battery on that because it helped me lock down the apps that were killing my battery.
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I'm stock rooted and mines don't turn off neither.
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Hmmm. Just checked PA beta 7 and it's doing it too. Wifi on always.
A custom kernel would probably fix that.
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I highly recommend using an app called Better Battery Stats. You can find the free version here on XDA. It'll tell you if there is an app causing a wakelock. I used it to troubleshoot my Rezound and I'm getting a solid 4-5 hours of screen on time with the extended battery on that because it helped me lock down the apps that were killing my battery.
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Although my wifi is turning off I give thanks for pointing me in the direction of this app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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I was having the wifi on issue as well. Just bought my N7, stock 4.2.1 and not rooted. I followed the tip in point four of this post, which details a simple set up using Tasker, where the unit turns the wifi on and off after the screen turns on or off respectively. The reason for the 10 second delay as is detailed in the link, is to allow for the turning on of your N7 to check the time or other reasons, and then quickly turn it off without the wifi on task being activated.
the screenshot below shows my wifi being stuck on while in sleep mode, even with it set to be never on during sleep in the settings, and the change in behavior once the 2 Tasker profiles we set up.
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Those of you having issues, have you tried the "only when plugged in" setting? Not sure if it would really matter but that's what I use and mine turns on and off just fine.
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...have you tried the "only when plugged in" setting?
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Testing that now. Turned off Tasker, and set wifi to the "only when plugged in" setting. It's only been about 30 minutes, but so far it looks like it's behaving the same as before, as in keeping wifi on while in sleep. I'll Let it sleep for a few hours and see what the chart shows.
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EDIT: So I let my N7 sit for about an hour after switching the above mentioned settings, and you can see in the screenshot below that the wifi is staying on while the unit is not awake. I've set my Tasker profiles to control the wifi once again.
I know it may be fixed by a factory reset, but frankly I'm more than happy with the way Tasker handles the issue.
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so 6 months later, I am still getting this problem. However it seems only to be with the last update. The tasker method seems to be working well though.
I'm facing a problem with the messaging app. It keeps my phone always awake. This issue is detected by betterbatterystats and a wakelock detector. My phone gives me around 4 hours of screen time but I wonder if I can get more? Anybody facing similar problem?
I run ES Task Manager to automatically kill apps that aren't being used every few minutes and I get about an extra half hour out of it
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kaborayyan said:
I'm facing a problem with the messaging app. It keeps my phone always awake. This issue is detected by betterbatterystats and a wakelock detector. My phone gives me around 4 hours of screen time but I wonder if I can get more? Anybody facing similar problem?
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go to the masseging settings and close everything about mms..i think this will help
kaborayyan said:
I'm facing a problem with the messaging app. It keeps my phone always awake. This issue is detected by betterbatterystats and a wakelock detector. My phone gives me around 4 hours of screen time but I wonder if I can get more? Anybody facing similar problem?
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1. turn off "Daydream" and "Glance" by setting--display
2. do not use "live wallpaper"
3. always use animations on "0.5" --settings--developer options
4. turn of "always awake" -- settings--developer options
5. set ur brightness low as possible
6. use apps kill app like "quickly recent app" and close all apps time to time.
7. turn off GPS and Data (when u dont need).
(For long life battery, use specific battery charger, lets the battery drained minimum of 4% then charge "if possible switch off the device and charge it".
Thank you all for your help. I had to freeze the stock messaging app using titanium backup to solve the battery drain issue. I'm currently using an alternative app.
kaborayyan said:
Thank you all for your help. I had to freeze the stock messaging app using titanium backup to solve the battery drain issue. I'm currently using an alternative app.
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Go launcher"s GoSms is nice ,simple, user friendly and easy to send msgs to many contact at once.
I think i just fixed it by stopping turning off service masseges like this
thebiggboss180 said:
I think i just fixed it by stopping turning off service masseges like this
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its not working for me............tell me solution
I'm having the same issue. The phome was okey during first 7-8 months, and this issue came. For now, I just open the app, go back and close it from recent apps when I detect the massenging app is opened. It works sometimes. ?
sdyakupitiyage said:
I'm having the same issue. The phome was okey during first 7-8 months, and this issue came. For now, I just open the app, go back and close it from recent apps when I detect the massenging app is opened. It works sometimes. ?
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Is it the stock messaging app on stock rom? If yes then just remove the damn thing, I also had this issue, tried everything I can think of then finally gave up and replaced it with textra.
Since receiving the 9.0.83 update I have massive battery drain. Anyone else notice this?
MrBrady said:
Since receiving the 9.0.83 update I have massive battery drain. Anyone else notice this?
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you just in reality not really said nor showed us your problem. ok, battery drain.. i have that. my battery drains when i use my phone.. understand? give us some more info, screenshots, etc.
simms22 said:
you just in reality not really said nor showed us your problem. ok, battery drain.. i have that. my battery drains when i use my phone.. understand? give us some more info, screenshots, etc.
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Of course - details are always better! Here are some screenshots. I just re-installed the system yesterday (from N release 3 to TuPac's Lite 6.0.1 ROM). Charged overnight and listened to a few minutes of music this morning. The rest of the time the phone has been idle.
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Of course - details are always better! Here are some screenshots. I just re-installed the system yesterday (from N release 3 to TuPac's Lite 6.0.1 ROM). Charged overnight and listened to a few minutes of music this morning. The rest of the time the phone has been idle.
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Looks similar to an issue I had, turned out it was an issue that Google play services was having trouble with system update feature. It started when I switch from stock to Pure Nexus rom the rom, and many others, does something to disable the update button in the settings app but in some cases Google Play Services holds a wakelock for it for some reason or another. The way I fixed it was wiping Google play services and uninstalling its updates and letting it start fresh. Also if you have the app "GasBuddy" installed it causes a bluetooth wakelock, it only shows up in kernel wakelocks as "bluesleep," looking for beacons at gas stations to send you ads.
StykerB said:
Looks similar to an issue I had, turned out it was an issue that Google play services was having trouble with system update feature. It started when I switch from stock to Pure Nexus rom the rom, and many others, does something to disable the update button in the settings app but in some cases Google Play Services holds a wakelock for it for some reason or another. The way I fixed it was wiping Google play services and uninstalling its updates and letting it start fresh. Also if you have the app "GasBuddy" installed it causes a bluetooth wakelock, it only shows up in kernel wakelocks as "bluesleep," looking for beacons at gas stations to send you ads.
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Thanks for the tip. No Gasbuddy installed. A few weeks back I had FiveStars installed (a purchasing points app) and it caused a huge Bluetooth wakelock. But that was removed a while ago and didn't affect Google Play Services.
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Of course - details are always better! Here are some screenshots. I just re-installed the system yesterday (from N release 3 to TuPac's Lite 6.0.1 ROM). Charged overnight and listened to a few minutes of music this morning. The rest of the time the phone has been idle.
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looks like its google play services updating itself or something. that happens every once in a while. best thing to do is to leave it alone for a day or two and it should "fix" itself after. but in a day or two, check your battery again just to make sure.
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looks like its google play services updating itself or something. that happens every once in a while. best thing to do is to leave it alone for a day or two and it should "fix" itself after. but in a day or two, check your battery again just to make sure.
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Yeah, I think you're right.
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Since receiving the 9.0.83 update I have massive battery drain. Anyone else notice this?
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There is an app in the playstore called 'Disable services.
You can disable the services you don't use/need.
In case anyone has this same issue, I think I found the problem and solution. The latest version of Google Play Services causes a massive wakelock on ROMs that are blocking system update checks.
Using the DisableService app I enabled the update service and the wakelock has disappeared.
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MrBrady said:
In case anyone has this same issue, I think I found the problem and solution. The latest version of Google Play Services causes a massive wakelock on ROMs that are blocking system update checks.
Using the DisableService app I enabled the update service and the wakelock has disappeared.
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I've noticed the GPS wakelock using GPS on my N5, my wife's N5X, and a buddy's 6P as well. Did you enable systemupdateservice in only Google Play Services or both GPS and Google Services Framework? Both were disabled for me... Thanks in advance!
kornball said:
I've noticed the GPS wakelock using GPS on my N5, my wife's N5X, and a buddy's 6P as well. Did you enable systemupdateservice in only Google Play Services or both GPS and Google Services Framework? Both were disabled for me... Thanks in advance!
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Just Google Play Services. I didn't think of looking in GS Framework.
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Hello all! New owner of the wonderful LG G6! I have a bit of a concern. I notice when I'm using wifi, the up/down arrows inside the wifi icon are always going crazy. The "down" arrow hits EVERY SINGLE second. But if I turn off wifi and just use LTE it stops.... I noticed this same exact thing on my previous phones, S7, J7 and now this. Anyone have an similar experience? I also notice that some people seem to have battery drain, I wounder if this could be the reason, as I seem to suffer the same drain. It's pretty horrible.
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Hello all! New owner of the wonderful LG G6! I have a bit of a concern. I notice when I'm using wifi, the up/down arrows inside the wifi icon are always going crazy. The "down" arrow hits EVERY SINGLE second. But if I turn off wifi and just use LTE it stops.... I noticed this same exact thing on my previous phones, S7, J7 and now this. Anyone have an similar experience? I also notice that some people seem to have battery drain, I wounder if this could be the reason, as I seem to suffer the same drain. It's pretty horrible.
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Something horribly wrong with the OS optimization of this phone. I always get the biggest battery drain as 'Phone Idle'. Much higher than the screen time.
This is the situation when I have even disabled most of the battery hungry apps like Google, Maps, Facebook, etc. This is really unacceptable.
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Something horribly wrong with the OS optimization of this phone. I always get the biggest battery drain as 'Phone Idle'. Much higher than the screen time.
This is the situation when I have even disabled most of the battery hungry apps like Google, Maps, Facebook, etc. This is really unacceptable.
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Try disabling volte and see if that helps with phone idle.
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Try disabling volte and see if that helps with phone idle.
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that's one of the first things I disabled. Also tried turning off location, AOD... no luck.
mattnash said:
you should find the exact app or process which drains data. install app from google play like 3g watchdog or data monitor and detect all processes to find the problematic one
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I tried 3G watchdog, it shows "OS Services" app is constantly downloading about 300KB every second or two...... what is "OS Services"?..........
after about 5 mins its already downloaded a total of 34MB.... It's not an app, it did this when I first got the phone and nothing downloaded to it yet
EDIT: Now I tried Data Usage Monitor and it just calls it "root"...... this is strange.....
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I tried 3G watchdog, it shows "OS Services" app is constantly downloading about 300KB every second or two...... what is "OS Services"?..........
after about 5 mins its already downloaded a total of 34MB.... It's not an app, it did this when I first got the phone and nothing downloaded to it yet
EDIT: Now I tried Data Usage Monitor and it just calls it "root"...... this is strange.....
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seems like something downloading for updates etc. have you tried wipe data/wipe cache ?
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seems like something downloading for updates etc. have you tried wipe data/wipe cache ?
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I've tried everything
try installing Netguard and disable all apps that you do not want to have net access.
It does not need root.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-netguard-root-firewall-t3233012
Does anyone have problems downloading with google play??
The problem happened around 3 days ago. I was trying to download something when it said "connection timed out, please try again after some time". After a few hours still I cannot load google play nor download anything
I have tried all the solutions possible for google play, service and framework ( clear cache, uninstall updates, remove accout, reboot, clear dalvik) but the connection only works in the beginning then after like 2 mins then "connection timed out" again appears.
For sure my internet connection is strong and I'm sure my ISP is not blocking google play because I can access it via web. What's weird is when I use a VPN, google play all of a sudden works flawlessly.. can anyone help me in diagnosing where exactly is the problem?
I have the same exact problem on my galaxy note 8!. My Google play store won't load anything if I'm on Wi-Fi or on cellular Data!!
But with the VPN it works!
I had a similar problems. I got the Samsung Disconnect Pro app when it was free. I installed that then had the same problems. Turned it off and everything was good. After a day turned it on and now working correctly.
ammar577 said:
I have the same exact problem on my galaxy note 8!. My Google play store won't load anything if I'm on Wi-Fi or on cellular Data!!
But with the VPN it works!
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wow wtf samsung!
liquidguru said:
I had a similar problems. I got the Samsung Disconnect Pro app when it was free. I installed that then had the same problems. Turned it off and everything was good. After a day turned it on and now working correctly.
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I don't have that app nor ever used it... so I wonder where my problem is coming from?
Try looking at your power options, it might be sleeping wifi (im presuming it happening on wifi). The VPN thing might solve it cause VPN usually does not sleep wifi properly
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Try looking at your power options, it might be sleeping wifi (im presuming it happening on wifi). The VPN thing might solve it cause VPN usually does not sleep wifi properly
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No its not in the list... thanks though
drmodify said:
No its not in the list... thanks though
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It's not something that turns up on the battery saving list, it's a power saving feature
under
Settings-->Connections-->Wi-Fi-->Advanced (top right hand corner menu)
make sure Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is set to always
if i recall moderate battery saving will switch this off
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It's not something that turns up on the battery saving list, it's a power saving feature
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Settings-->Connections-->Wi-Fi-->Advanced (top right hand corner menu)
make sure Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is set to always
if i recall moderate battery saving will switch this off
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for a minute there, I felt a glimpse of hope but...
Thanks again
I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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This is exactly what happened with me
bosshog187 said:
I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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What about installing unknown sources apps?
Because there's a lot of apps that I can't find in the playstore
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What about installing unknown sources apps?
Because there's a lot of apps that I can't find in the playstore
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Whenever I have apps like that I back them up to my Google drive and onece the phone is set up I reinstall those apps from the cloud.
bosshog187 said:
I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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But I didn't use the smart switch app. Like you I did a fresh install
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But I didn't use the smart switch app. Like you I did a fresh install
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Did you restore any data from Samsung cloud?
I'm still facing this problem. I didn't install apps that are not from Google play and I did not restore from Google or Samsung cloud. And I also did not use Smart switch. I love this phone but this issue is very frustrating to be honest
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What about installing unknown sources apps?
Because there's a lot of apps that I can't find in the playstore
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Did you restore any data from Samsung cloud?
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Nothing.
Anyway thanks for the inputs guys, I found the culprit and it has to do with an app I downloaded and installed outside the playstore coz it was not available in my country. Once I uninstalled it the playstore came back to normal.
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I'm still facing this problem. I didn't install apps that are not from Google play and I did not restore from Google or Samsung cloud. And I also did not use Smart switch. I love this phone but this issue is very frustrating to be honest
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I understand how you feel. I felt like that for a week. I hope someone will come up with asolution for you.
If you don't mind can you disclose what app was causing you issues, I'm deleting, restarting and clearing my play store memory hoping to solve this issue but no luck so far
ok long shot but try going into
Connections-->Wi-Fi-->Advanced (menu on top right)-->Wi-Fi control history
to see if there are any apps messing with your wi-fi
Thank you... the history is clear there is nothing. But that's probably because I keep restarting the phone. Now the Google play store home page won't even load