diff --git a/launchdarkly-android-client-sdk/src/main/java/com/launchdarkly/sdk/android/HttpFeatureFlagFetcher.java b/launchdarkly-android-client-sdk/src/main/java/com/launchdarkly/sdk/android/HttpFeatureFlagFetcher.java
index d8fd1e71..971335bc 100644
--- a/launchdarkly-android-client-sdk/src/main/java/com/launchdarkly/sdk/android/HttpFeatureFlagFetcher.java
+++ b/launchdarkly-android-client-sdk/src/main/java/com/launchdarkly/sdk/android/HttpFeatureFlagFetcher.java
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import okhttp3.Cache;
 import okhttp3.Call;
 import okhttp3.Callback;
+import okhttp3.ConnectionPool;
 import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
 import okhttp3.Request;
 import okhttp3.RequestBody;
@@ -62,6 +64,11 @@ class HttpFeatureFlagFetcher implements FeatureFetcher {
 
         client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                 .cache(new Cache(cacheDir, MAX_CACHE_SIZE_BYTES))
+                .connectionPool(new ConnectionPool(0, 1, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS))
+                    // We want a new connection each time, because keeping an idle connection alive
+                    // could cause an unwanted wakeup due to connection-cleanup network traffic if
+                    // it expires while the app is in the background. If we did not call
+                    // .connectionPool() at all, OkHttp would default to a pool of non-zero size.
                 .retryOnConnectionFailure(true)
                 .build();
     }