# Android stays in wake mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923 "2017-03-06T13:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IgKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@IgKnight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/IgKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/1 "2017-03-06T13:47:26Z")
**What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened?** Since last patch on Android 7.1.1 the phone will stay in wake mode and not go to sleep unless I manually turn it off or force stop the app. If I manually turn off the screen then the next time i receive a notification it stays in wake mode. ---
**Author:** ![Zapan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zapan/32/3526_2.png) [@Zapan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zapan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/2 "2017-03-06T14:01:05Z")
It doesn’t come from 7.1.1 but from something that was done last week. My phone is on android 6, and don’t go in sleep mode since thursday or friday I would say; GoW is already an hell for battery life, so without sleep mode 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Venan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/venan/32/17175_2.png) [@Venan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Venan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/3 "2017-03-06T14:14:03Z")
same here, maybe this is the thing to blame 😒 : > [@Minor Google Play Update 2.2.009](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/minor-google-play-update-2-2-009/20760): > > We have just released a minor update on Google Play. This is version 2.2.009. It is not a required update, but you can update if you wish. There are no extra features to this update (so don’t worry Steam/iOS users), it mainly includes bug fixes specific to Android and removes some unnecessary permissions that the app was requiring. Any bug fixes relating to gameplay (such as spells) will be fixed in the next major update alongside the Steam/iOS release. ---
**Author:** ![Annaerith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/annaerith/32/13840_2.png) [@Annaerith](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Annaerith)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/4 "2017-03-06T14:46:09Z")
i didnt notice since i rarely play gow on mobile buf if thats the case then id also like it to be able to go to sleep mode like before thank you for putting this out ---
**Author:** ![Zapan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zapan/32/3526_2.png) [@Zapan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zapan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/5 "2017-03-09T16:12:41Z")
To add : GoW disable the wake mode even when in backgound task… My phone stay awake even if i’m not in GoW, but I did not kill the app… My fear is that like for the enormous and non-explicable batter drain, the developers don’t really carre about this problem 😕 ---
**Author:** ![peffsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@peffsi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/peffsi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/6 "2017-03-10T12:00:00Z")
Omg this has been driving me crazy for days. I thought there was something wrong with my phone until I figured out just now that GoW is causing it. As long as the game is running, even in the background, my phone will not automatically go to sleep at all. Even when it’s sitting at the lock screen. As soon as I manually kill GoW, my phone resumes going to sleep normally. I collect tributes every hour when I can, so it will be annoying to have to load the game and remember to kill it each time, just to restore basic hardware functionality to my phone… ---
**Author:** ![Annaerith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/annaerith/32/13840_2.png) [@Annaerith](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Annaerith)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/7 "2017-03-10T12:13:22Z")
all that i can help with for now is the apps im using to set up screen-off at certain times, so thats why i didnt notice gow disabling sleep mode: - Screen Off (from Cheetah Mobile) - it turns the screen off when you launch/click this app, does not require root - Phone Schedule (from Anton C.) - allows you to programm certain actions on the phone to be performed for you on certain hour/day on weekly basis (not a calendar form), does not require root, one of the actions it can do is launch an app for you (so you can launch Screen Off at certain hour and your phone will go to sleep) ---
**Author:** ![ZooKeeper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zookeeper/32/30875_2.png) [@ZooKeeper](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ZooKeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/8 "2017-03-10T13:04:54Z")
> [@peffsi](#): > > Omg this has been driving me crazy for days. I thought there was something wrong with my phone until I figured out just now that GoW is causing it. Lol. Me too! I kept checking my phone setting, even restarted it few times. ---
**Author:** ![peffsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@peffsi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/peffsi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/9 "2017-03-10T13:05:20Z")
Ah, to clarify, I can still put the phone in sleep mode if I press the power button. It just doesn’t auto-sleep after x seconds/minutes of inactivity. Those apps sound like they’d be useful if I couldn’t make my phone sleep at all. ---
**Author:** ![Annaerith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/annaerith/32/13840_2.png) [@Annaerith](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Annaerith)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/10 "2017-03-10T13:20:13Z")
its for when you forget to do it - they will do it for you 😛 ---
**Author:** ![IgKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@IgKnight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/IgKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/11 "2017-03-10T15:09:41Z")
I am kinda new to the forum, do the devs usually respond to let us know it is being worked on or is a wait and see what happens next patch kind of approach? ---
**Author:** ![Crow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/crow/32/44074_2.png) [@Crow](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Crow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/12 "2017-03-10T17:09:01Z")
I have said update , i have to manually turn off my screen when the game is in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Zapan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zapan/32/3526_2.png) [@Zapan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zapan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/13 "2017-03-31T13:56:12Z")
Corrected for me, since 3.0 👍 ---
**Author:** ![IgKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@IgKnight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/IgKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/android-stays-in-wake-mode/20923/14 "2017-03-31T19:25:48Z")
we did it! “Fixed a bug on Android where the device wouldn’t sleep if the game was open.”