I just updated my project to 4.4 as well and I'm having the exact same issue with waking my device on either a timer or with a an external wakeup source. Was not seeing this behavior or the prior IDF version that I was on. If anyone could help out with this I would greatly appreciate it!

Yes that 100% fixed my issue. Thank you so much!

Hello, I am currently using the ESP32 (ESP-IDF v4.1) for a project and have been experiencing high sleep current consumption (~1.7mA) when I enter deep sleep without having used the BLE or WiFi radios. Whenever I do use either of these radios, I get ~.17mA during deep sleep which is much more accept...