I see, I would consider this a bug in that case, @paulakreuzer?
At least there still is a way to locate the setting if it is turned ON.
See my previous message:
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Iām no longer the gatekeeper for bug reports, there is now an official bugtracker. But as you can see in the first post this issue has already been reported there and was dismissed as an Android issue which FP canāt fix.
PS: Oh you were talking about the missing setting. Yeah that would be a separate bug. See if it hasnāt been reported yet and if not please report it.
Aha!
Ok thank you, I will check the list and see if I can add it.
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I had the same problem with the wi-fi constantly ON even if it was turned off.
I solved by searching for WiFi scanning and deactivating it.
I put the lenguage of my phone in english to find it, because in italian it has a different name and i couldnāt find it.
The issue of the battery drain has again been reported in the bugtracker, but with different description (not about Wifi, but about CPU)
https://bugtracker.fairphone.com/project/fairphone-fairphone-os-android-6/issue/63
Maybe someone can add it to the main post above
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If itās indeed the same issue, just with different symptoms, it will be rejected again for the same reason or marked as a duplicate and closed. If itās a different issue, then well, itās a different issue.
So either way it makes no sense to mention it in the top post of this topic.
Checked out the instructions and followed them where possible. Not all of the options are available on FP2 with Android 6. Still the wifi module is the top battery drainer, even though it is generally deactivated, except for FP updates.
Thanks for the guide. Iāve had this issue too. Iāve disabled āWi-Fi scanningā as you suggested. Iāll report back tomorrow.
Indeed, it was the WiFi scanning. Now battery use seems better. I assume an app was scanning for wireless networks in the background even with WiFi turned off. Thanks again.
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Hi,
I have been experiencing the same problems this week: battery drain that seems to be caused by Wifi even if it is supposed to be off (Wifi scanning was also off), phone hot on the back. I have seen this at least 4 days in a row. No big changes lately (update applied in July). The only thing I could think of was some new app. I suspect Chrome: I am on Fairphone Open and uses Lightning but I had to install Chrome to set up an app and I forgot to uninstall it right away after the set up.
Anyway, I uninstalled the 2-3 apps I had installed lately, I cleared the cache of all apps (via settings/storage), I made a battery reset (when my battery was empty) according to these instructions:
Today, the phone is not hot, no wifi shown in battery usage and it appears to be no battery drain.
I donāt know if it can help someone, as everything I did had already been advised on the forum, but I just wanted to give a positive feedback!
I donāt know if Chrome was responsible, but I like to think that to comfort me in using Fairphone Open OS 
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Thank you so much for this great tip! Finally I found that elusive setting. Now letās hope it makes a difference.
I received my Fairphone 2 only a couple of days ago with OS 17.11.2.
I experienced the Wifi battery drain issue and proceed with described solution by Tomās guide.
It worked partially and it needs an update:
STEP 11: the three dot menu in the ālocationā setting is gone, in order to find the āScanningā menu I had to use the search line in the main setting page (in italian, my language, goes under the name āricercaā¦ā)
After following the guide the situation got better but not perfect. sometimes the wify gets stuck on āactiveā even after turning it off.
It needs a reboot to actually go āinactiveā.
Any suggestions?
This looks like a BUG to meā¦
I think this is probably caused by G%Ā§$e:
G%Ā§$e collects your location data via connected wifi cells.
To avoid it youāll have to ditch G%Ā§$e and switch to FP Open OS or Lineage OS.
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How come I am not surprised by this newsā¦
Google is not stupid, it simply uses all options there are if it comes to collecting dataā¦
But as I am considering upgrading to Marshmallow I still have concerns about this āMarshmallow Wifi Battery Drainā issue.
Is changing the āturn off Wifi when asleepā option the only idea? Not really a solution as I think. So again a bug G$$gle donĀ“t want to realize.
I bought my FP2 phone 14 days ago and I had the same problems with battery drainage as described in these posts. Already wanted to return the phone to vendor. Than I also faced a camera issue (just saw artefacts on the screen) and reset the phone to factory defaults (via settings) twice.
Now I have Fairphone OS 8.01.1 installed and battery life seems to be fine again, with WIFI switched on all the time, positioning ādevice onlyā.
IĀ“ll keep a close eye on every new app which I will install and settings, I`ll make.
Get back to you if anything changes.
Hy everybody. I have a similar problem as mentioned above. Iāve followed all advice. Scanning is disabled, location as well, maps is forced to stop and wifi is switched off manually. But still I see that my battery is draining fast and the wifi is the biggest spender. Above 20%. Is there maybe a way to prevent apps from using wifi secretly?
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Same here! Did you find a solution? The battery drains switched on too quickly.
I followed all steps in the #batteryguide. After the Android bug ārecommendationsā the drain got a little better, but not the heat.
EVEN when the FP is switched OFF and charging, the CPU get pretty hot (when swiching on, checked at AccuBattery and it says 44 Celsius!
The battery is not even 6 months old and it doesnāt last a dayā¦
The FP CPU gets hot also just watching 1 video for a few minutes.
That it gets hot while charging quickly is usual, but does it also get hot during daily usage and have you used an app to check for excessive CPU usage? I once had the GMail app using a lot of CPU because of a problem with one of my e-mail accounts, but it could just as well be any other random app. I used āCPU Monitor Advanced Liteā to find out but there are other good apps as well mentioned in this thread.
Is it usual that the CPU gets hot when charging? The battery is not getting hot, what I would assume when charging SWITCHED OFF.
And yes, it also gets pretty hot during daily usage.
I checked and no App is extreme.
As I said before, Iāve already followed all steps in the batteryguide.
I sometimes have the experience as well, that the phone (the area of the SoC above the battery) gets hot when charging with the phone switched off. And in those cases it is not really charging, but sticking at about 5% . As soon, as I turn the phone on, everything is fine again.
The phone (as above) getting hot is not normal of course; if you are not doing some tasks that present the SoC with a heavy workload (like 3D-gaming maybe?).
That does not mean, that I myself donāt know this kind of behaviour. As I was not able to find any app or process responsible, I just turn off the phone, take out the battery for a short while and turn it on again.
Strange enough, it regularly happens in those cases, that I have to do it twice or even three times. So, there seems to be some really persistent process responsible in my case.
Itās a bit annoying, but fortunately a rather rare occurence for me (I would estimate less than once a month).