WIFI turns on and off constantly

[Zheyk]

I also opted for the temporal solution (disable wifi scanning) as I was getting scared abou that overheating I wrote before, however will keep looking for a definitive solution to this issue.

 

[arefin_sajib]

just disable google location scanning, off scanning from wifi advanced settings

 

[gabilondo]

Common man,that's easy:
1.Location/Improve accuracy.
2.Disable Wi-Fi scanning.
I have disabled Bluetooth scanning too.Problem fixed for me and a lot of users on a spanish forum.

 

[avivzamir]

how can i cancel the wifi scanning?
did it for the loction didnt do anything...

 

[jasonjennings]

I was worried the only one having this problem, I purchased the s7 from amazon, the international version, and was afraid it was defective. I am glad (kind of) it is happening to more than just me. I hope this is fixed soon.

 

[hkalltheway]

I had the same issue and the location accuracy fix worked for me. Thanks guys!

 

[yaro666]

yeah, me too, just wifi toggling on for 0,5s every few seconds. turning off location settings did a good job

 

[samuelaviv]

Randomly started for me today on a rooted stock s7, driving me crazy!!! Temporary fix works, hope it'll randomly get fixed, or at the very least the Nougat update will do it whenever they decide to finally release it.

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[toastido]

I had this happen last Friday. KILLED my battery. The WiFi icon in the quick settings pull down kept flickering on and off, but not connected and not in the menu bar.

I fixed it by rebooting into recovery and wiping cache, then booting back up. Hasn't done it since.

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[the_scotsman]

its not a fix at all . it dosnt scan for wifi , just turning it on and off non stop.
like pressing the light switch agin and agin

Actually it IS a fix. It's been discussed many times on here and other websites.

But you don't have to believe me.

 

[sstrunks84]

I just had this exact issue and disabled wifi scanning. I'd like a more permanent fix though. For what it's worth, I have the same firmware version as the other guy who posted a pic. I just flashed it to my S7 (regular) through Odin yesterday. What firmware version do you other guys have?

Baseband version: G930FXXU1BPJE

 

[Bogeyof]

Issue happened after update of android wear 2.0 and /or goggle play services. So I'm sure it's a goggle update problem...

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[shadowslayer1]

Common man,that's easy:
1.Location/Improve accuracy.
2.Disable Wi-Fi scanning.
I have disabled Bluetooth scanning too.Problem fixed for me and a lot of users on a spanish forum.

Disabling WiFi scanning did the trick for me

Before I tried that though, I killed a bunch of processes under "Google services" and it finally stopped. Never did narrow it down because I came straight here.

 

[Gary02468]

Disabling WiFi scanning did the trick for me

Same here, but then there's another problem: with WiFi scanning disabled, location-enabled apps such as Google Maps pop up a window asking to turn on Google location services (even though that's already turned on and there's a good GPS signal). And if I say yes, it then automatically re-enables WiFi scanning.

 

[foo25]

Had this happen last night. Reboot did nothing, but powering off and leaving for 5 mins before powering on seemed to do the trick.

 

[sstrunks84]

Wiping the cache partition from recovery mode seems to have fixed it for me as well.

 

[Gary02468]

Had this happen last night. Reboot did nothing, but powering off and leaving for 5 mins before powering on seemed to do the trick.

Wiping the cache partition from recovery mode seems to have fixed it for me as well.

Neither method worked for me.

 

[Phazonclash]

Nevermind, wrong thread

 

[Euge95]

It's the Google play services update

Mine was doing the same. It seems to be the Google play services update, just uninstall the updates of the Google play services and it will fix. Hope Google fix this soon

 

[VanillaDeath]

I am also experiencing this issue. I uninstalled Google Play Services updates which resolved the issue, but a large number of my apps won't start up without a newer version installed.