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ella69

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My M8 on wifi has been less than stellar recently. First noticed it on my home network, & now it's happening at my job on their guest network (which is secured). So, as a quick fix, I've gone in and turned wifi off. The problem now is, it won't stay turned off. Eventually, after 5min or an hour, it turns itself back on and connects to a saved network. I don't want to 'forget' the networks I have in my phone, but that seems like the only solution at this point. I've gone into the settings and turned off everything I could think of. Is there something i'm missing? TIA.
 
Are you using any sort of task scheduling software that might have settings to turn on the wifi? That's my best guess.
 
Yeah - thinking about it, what I mentioned only addresses the wifi staying on. That doesn't necessarily have to carry a battery penalty.

What did you mean by less than stellar wifi performance lately?

It hit me that maybe there's some further aspect here and don't want to overlook something.
 
For approx. the past 2 weeks, when I'm on wifi, things process very slowly. Usually apps like FB end up timing out when trying to refresh. If I'm web browsing (via Chrome), pages load at a snail's pace, with some timing out, depending on the page. As soon as I would switch from wifi to 4G, whatever I'd been doing, immediately started working normally (pages loading, pics loading, etc). So temporarily, I wanted to just turn off wifi until I had a block of time to do testing & figure out what the issue was. That's when the problem with the wifi being forced back on occurred.
 
I'm on Verizon. Here are some shots of my wifi settings. I thought I had everything turned off, but maybe i'm missing something.

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Here's the thing: The phone's processing is now slow overall. This past weekend, the 4G started doing the same thing as wifi. So taking all of that into consideration, the most likely culprit is an app I would think. And a recently added (or updated?) one, since these problems started about 2wks ago. What do you think?
 
Could be and easy to check.

Hold power to bring up power menu, long press power to get option to boot into safe mode.

That will block everything except the pre-installed apps.

Not always convenient but I think that you may try it overnight and see if your wifi behaves from there if daytime is a problem for testing. At least for the connection to wifi when that's supposed to be off.

You can also try GSam Battery Monitor to see if you have an app that's basically hogging resources.
 
Just passing and thought I'd jump in. I have a couple of settings different, only as it helped battery and stabilised my WiFi connection at home over night. I have Keep WiFi on during sleep set to Always and unticked WiFi Optimisation - maybe worth a try.
 
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