What are you trying to do? If you want to measure power using wifi, then just subtract the screen power consumption numbers after two tests - one with screen in flight mode and one with wifi on.
Not sure if any point to this was ever made in this thread. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:06 PM, plnelson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Acquiring wifilock like this only makes sure the system does not shut >> down wifi. The actual wifi connection still goes through power >> optimizations once screen is off in the driver. >> >> This should not drop your connections, >> > > But it does. As I said, it sends a "FIN" packet - that's a request to > close the connection. The server responds with an ACK and.a FIN of its > own which Android ACKs. This is the textbook-standard way to close a TCP > connection, and it's initiated by Android when the display goes off. We > watch it all on our network sniffers and it's 100% reliable and repeatable. > > The Android device does *not* send a FIN packet as long as the display > stays on, no matter how long it stays on. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
