Did my Wi-Fi always on?

[WSAD]

I didn't use my phone much, only about 1 hour SOT per day and I only turn on Wi-Fi when I needed, the rest of time I always keep it off, but today I checked my battery status and saw this



As you can see, my Wi-Fi bar show a straight blue the whole time even when Wi-Fi is off. It didn't make any sense.

Anyone know wht happened to my Wi-Fi and how to fix it?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Did my Wi-Fi bar always on?

Welcome to Android Central! Go to Settings>Wi-fi, tap Menu>Advanced, and turn off "Scanning Always Available"

 

[WSAD]

Re: Did my Wi-Fi bar always on?

I already turned it off a long time ago.

 

[Javier P]

I think it's just a glitch in the battery stats after Lollipop. My phone does the same sometimes and I haven't found a reason or a fix.

 

[WSAD]

I think it's just a glitch in the battery stats after Lollipop. My phone does the same sometimes and I haven't found a reason or a fix.

Did this hapened on Kitkat?
I don't know much about Kitkat because I updated my phone to Lollipop right after I bought it.

 

[B. Diddy]

Also, does it go away after a reboot?

 

[Javier P]

No. For me that happened just after Lollipop. For others reasons I've wiped the cache partition a couple of times after the update and it didn't change anything. I've checked my battery stats now and after being on mobile for a couple of hours the WiFi bar is on all the time. I sort of gave up trying to fix or even understand that glitch

 

[WSAD]

Also, does it go away after a reboot?

Yeah, after I restart my phone the wifi bar is gone (I didn't use wifi at that time) but just 1 or 2 hour later it turn blue again (I still didn't use wifi) and problem remain.
Maybe it's Lollipop bug like Javier P said

 

[Javier P]

I checked again. I left the phone on airplane mode for the night, you can see the gap in the cellular signal. And the WiFi bar is on all the time.

 

[WSAD]

Thanks Javier P, now I know it's not just me having this issue, but why Samsung didn't fix it?

 

[oneeyecarpenter]

I've posted in other threads on this issue, but what worked on my HTC m9, nougat 7.0, was to toggle Extreme Battery Saver on then off again. I tried everything imaginable too, at first.
Another idea that struck me, was what I did after updating to nougat. I had to Reset All App Preferences, in the app manager. This is like one step below a Factory reset. It takes time to readjust all permissions later, and not just user land apps, but system too. This is definitely something to do after a bad ota update.