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edklloyd

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Hello. Brand new M8 owner and simply love the phone. One thing that I am noticing is receiving notifications after the phone is idle. It appears that they come through once i wake up the phone. I have no powersaver mode on, wifi on during sleep is selected, no restrictions on background data, no daydream, sleep mode or anything else that i can think of set that would restrict data while idle. Anyone experiencing this problem? Is there any setting that I am missing? Thanks
 
Looks like I may have found the culprit. the "wifi optimization" setting in wifi advanced settings? would this cause wifi to go idle while the phone is not in use (sleeping). and should i have the "auto switch to mobile data" setting selected?
 
You have to be more specific about "which app" notifications aren't waking your phone up. It could be a setting in those app (s) or you need to check the notification settings on your phone. If an app requires data in order to notify you of an email or text and you don't have 3G/4G/WiFi on the app won't notify you until it connects to a data source.
 
i am receiving NO notifications when phone is idle/asleep. they work perfectly when phone is awake. all app notification and android notifications settings are set/active. it is something disabling wifi/data when the phone is set to idle/sleep
 
Did you check under WiFi settings to see if you checked the box to always keep WiFi on when the phone is sleeping?

So you aren't receving text messages either when the phone is sleeping? That's impossible unless you are actually still actively in the message of the person sending you the message. Text doesn't need data in order to work.
 
i am receiving text messages. i am not receiving notifications for gmail, facebook, cnn, weather, etc..... when the phone is idle. i am receiving sms fine, just not push notifications. make sense?
 
I definitely think it was the setting "wifi optimization" that sounds deceiving. it doesn't actually optimize wifi, it optimizes battery, therefore disabling wifi while sleeping/idle. if you don't have the "automatically switch to mobile data" selected, guess what? no way for push notifications to come in. sms comes in through 1x/3g if i am not mistaken so that would still come through.
 
edklloyd said:
I definitely think it was the setting "wifi optimization" that sounds deceiving. it doesn't actually optimize wifi, it optimizes battery, therefore disabling wifi while sleeping/idle. if you don't have the "automatically switch to mobile data" selected, guess what? no way for push notifications to come in. sms comes in through 1x/3g if i am not mistaken so that would still come through.
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If you are in a strong area for WiFi the optimizer shouldn't matter. If your text message notifications are coming in then it's not the phone. Either the apps you have downloaded are setup to flash the notification light a few times when idle then appear once you wake the phone. For the most part, I believe most apps are setup not to go off outside of blinking the notification light when the phone is sleeping. I would check the notification settings for those apps to see what they are supposed to do when you receive a notification. Try uninstalling then installing the apps one at a time and do a reboot.

I have an app that notifies me of potential dates. It usually blinks my phone when I have a message or something. The phone will only blink the light for so long. Then it's on me to check the phone and I'll see the notification appear in my notification bar.
 
all your saying makes perfect sense but not on the right track. all my notification settings in my apps are correct. when the phone is locked, they don't come through, the moment i wake up the phone, they all come through.
 
People grew weary of 5-10 apps going off. This is probably the more settle approach especially for new people not familiar with Android. Trying to make things easy I guess. Good luck.
 
@edklloyd - I think I'm seeing the same problem as you with my M8. When on my home wifi, my phone stopped pushing notifications in a timely matter. I would get emails 15-20 minutes late, or only when I woke the phone from standby mode. As a test, I unchecked the wifi optimization button, and it seems to make it a lot better. Unfortunately, it does make the battery run down slightly quicker.

One of the things another poster said to try was checking to see whether my neighbors had their wifi signals on the same channel. This could be eating the bandwidth for the signal, causing the htc to think of it as a weaker signal and not waste battery trying to keep the connection. Doesn't make much sense, as it should just default to 3g, but my tinkering seems to indicate that is the problem
 
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